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Production[edit]

Filming

March 29, 1982 - June 1982

  • Coppola, who's filming The Outsiders in Tulsa, Okla., will start directing Rumble Fish there as soon as The Outsiders is finished. He'll use the same crew and some of the same cast members. Both movies are contemporary youth dramas based on novels by S.E. Hinton.[1]


Release[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Chris Chase (1982-05-21). "At the Movies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-08-18.

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Hinton has allowed her carefully preserved secrecy to be penetrated for the release of a recut version of Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film of "The Outsiders" on DVD, on Sept. 20 by Warner Home Video. The film will have a limited theatrical run nationally and is opening in New York on Sept. 9. She has rarely spoken publicly or in interviews. Shot on location using real locations from the book like Jasper Park, where Bob nearly drowns Ponyboy, and Johnny stabs Bob to death. "The Outsiders" featured young actors on the brink of fame, among them Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez. Mr. Dillon also starred in the movies of "Tex," directed by Tim Hunter, and "Rumble Fish," also directed by Mr. Coppola. In a telephone interview, Mr. Coppola said he recut "The Outsiders" to be truer to the book, and retitled the new version "The Outsiders: The Complete Novel." he has restored an early scene in which the Greaser characters are introduced one by one as they are set upon by Socs. also restored a scene in which Sodapop comforts his brother, Ponyboy, in bed. It was cut because, though innocent, early audiences snickered. He replaced some of the symphonic music composed by his father, Carmine Coppola, who died in 1991, with songs by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Van Morrison and others. "I realized the Hollywood score was holding back the film," Mr. Coppola said. "I had my father's feelings to consider." He did keep "Stay Gold," the theme song inspired by Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and written by Carmine Coppola and Stevie Wonder - and sung by Mr. Wonder.[1]

Released in 1983, the film did well enough at the box office, but critics were largely unimpressed, even contemptuous. a school librarian wrote to Mr. Coppola and, on behalf of both students and faculty, asked him to turn Ms. Hinton's unvarnished adolescent musings into a film. In 1982, he complied and shot a movie he would describe as "a 'Gone With the Wind' for 14-year-old girls." less than a month after production ended, he began working on a second adaptation of one of her books, "Rumble Fish." After opening today in New York (September 9, 2005), this edition, now rather lugubriously titled "The Outsiders: The Complete Novel," is to be released on DVD. Fans of Mr. Coppola and of tender male beauty are encouraged to see the film the way it was meant to be seen - as bigger than life and more beautiful. [2]

  1. ^ Dinitia Smith (2005-09-07). "An Outsider, Out of the Shadows". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  2. ^ y Manohla Dargis (2005-09-09). "Coppola Pays a Return Visit to His 'Gone With the Wind' for Teenagers". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
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