The hero of the novel, Dean Moriarty, is based on their friend Neal Cassady, an ex-convict and a Casanova of astonishing energy.

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Based on the novel by Jack Kerouac, it stars Garrett Hedlund as the free-spirited Dean Moriarty and Kristen Stewart as his wife, Marylou.

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As Dean Moriarty, a character based on Neal Cassady, Garrett Hedlund, a twenty-eight-year-old Minnesotan, is physically alive, and often naked, with a husky bedroom voice.

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And far from escorting the girls into the place, Dean Moriarty was already racing across the street with his huge bandit's thumb in the air yelling, blow, man, blow.

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Or Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty.

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