KC//CRIMSON
6/30/2008, 11:27 AM
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Plot
This synopsis is of the 1983 original release. The movie begins with Ponyboy wondering about how to write the story (or the whole movie) until he begins with the beginning of the novel, followed by the credits. After the credits, the scene shifts to when Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny sneak into a drive-in theater and seat themselves behind two Soc (pronounced "sohsh") girls, Cherry and Marcia. Dally starts flirting with the girls and refuses to leave them alone until Johnny tells him to back off. Dally leaves, and the girls ask Ponyboy and Johnny to sit with them. Later, the boys are walking the girls home when their drunken boyfriends catch up to them in their Mustang. Bob and Randy are itching to fight, but Cherry defuses the situation by asking Bob and Randy to take Marcia and her home. Johnny and Ponyboy go to a vacant lot and end up falling asleep. When Ponyboy goes home, Darry is upset with worry and, during the confrontation, hits Ponyboy. Ponyboy runs from the house back to the vacant lot and wakes Johnny. They go to a nearby park to cool off.
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At the park, Ponyboy and Johnny are confronted and harassed by Bob, Randy, and their friends. The Socs try to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, but flee after Johnny draws his switchblade and stabs Bob to death.
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Ponyboy and Johnny seek help from Dally, who gives them a unloaded gun, money, and directions to an abandoned church in Windrixville, where they are to hide out until Dallas comes to retrieve them.
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Ponyboy and Johnny cut off their hair to make themselves less recognizable, and Ponyboy bleaches his hair blond with peroxide. The boys pass the time by smoking cigarettes, playing cards, and eating baloney sandwiches. Ponyboy also reads to Johnny from a paperback copy of Gone with the Wind and shares the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay with him. Ponyboy confesses that he never quite understood the poem.
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A week later, Dally comes to visit the boys and takes them to get some hot food. Dallas tells Ponyboy and Johnny that Cherry is willing to stick up for them to the authorities. Johnny says that he and Ponyboy want to go home and turn themselves in, which upsets Dally. Nevertheless, he starts the drive back home, by way of the church to get their small amount of stuff.
Ponyboy and Johnny return to the abandoned church to find out the church is on fire. When they hear the cries of children trapped inside, Ponyboy and Johnny both run in to rescue them. They get all the children out safely. Ponyboy escapes the inferno, but a roof beam collapses and falls on Johnny, who is still inside. Dally immediately moves to rescue Johnny. Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny are taken to the hospital. Dally has minor injuries in his arm, and Ponyboy is basically unhurt, but Johnny is in critical condition with severe burns and a broken lower back. Darry and Sodapop reunite with Ponyboy and, as the brothers hug each other tightly, Darry cries openly, (something he hadn't done in years, not even at his parents funeral) relieved that Ponyboy is alive. Johnny asks for a new copy of Gone with the Wind to replace the one lost in the fire.
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The next day, Ponyboy is resting at home when Steve and Two-Bit come over. They show him a newspaper article that calls Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally heroes for rescuing the children in Windrixville, and that Johnny is being charged with manslaughter for killing Bob. Even though Randy and the other Socs had admitted that they had been the aggressors, and that Ponyboy and Johnny were only defending themselves, Bob's death at Johnny's hands has sparked the call for a gang fight, or a "rumble," from the Socs.
The day of the rumble, Randy seeks out Ponyboy and admits that he does not want to fight in the rumble, nor will he, because he feels that no matter what the outcome, nothing would change. He has grown weary of all the fighting, is ready to leave town just to get away from it, and wanted to tell someone who he felt would understand how he feels.
Dally breaks out of the hospital to join in the rumble. The rumble begins, ending with the Greasers victorious. As the Greasers revel in their win, Dallas and Ponyboy rush to the hospital. Dally tells Johnny about the Greasers' victory, but Johnny doesn't seem interested. Dally then tells Johnny that he is proud of him, which fills the younger boy with happiness. Johnny looks over at Ponyboy and tells him to "stay gold," and with that, Johnny dies. Completely heartbroken, Dally flees from the room.
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Ponyboy returns home to tell the rest of the gang that Johnny is dead and that Dally ran off. The gang is worried about what Dally might do, and their worry becomes alarm when Darry receives a phone call from Dally, who had robbed a convenience store and was now being pursued by the police. He tells the gang to meet him at the vacant lot. The gang races to the vacant lot to intercept Dally, but they are too late; Dally is already surrounded by police officers. He pulls out an unloaded gun, in the hopes that he will be shot to death by the police. His plan succeeds in front of his horrified friends. The novel explains that, after losing Johnny, Dally lost the will to live.
Days later, Ponyboy is flipping through the copy of Gone With the Wind that Johnny had left behind and finds a letter from Johnny, addressed to him. Johnny's letter explains that the phrase "staying gold" in the Frost poem means to never lose the appreciation for the things one finds wondrous when one is young. He urges Ponyboy to tell Dally about it. The film ends with him writing the opening line of the film, which is also the first line of the novel: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home...
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Production
Francis Ford Coppola never actually wanted to make a movie about teen angst. What changed his mind was a middle school class, great fans of The Godfather, wrote to him about making a sort of gangster film, except about The Outsiders. When he read the book, he was moved and not only directed the film, he also adapted Rumble Fish into a movie the year after, again with Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Glenn Withrow.
Dallas falling out of his seat at the drive-in was unplanned.
The actors playing the Socs were put in luxury hotel accommodations and given leather-bound scripts, while the Greaser-actors were put on the ground floor and received tattered scripts. Coppola is said to have done this to create tension between both groups before filming. The cast played pranks on each other and the hotel staff during the shoot. Years later, Tom Cruise met someone who worked at the hotel, and when he discovered that it was the same hotel where he and the rest of the cast had stayed, his first words were, "I'm sorry."
Francis Ford Coppola went to arbitration unsuccessfully for the writing credits of this film.
Two-Bit's fascination with Mickey Mouse, as shown in a later scene in the film, was thought up by Emilio Estevez, who approached the character as a "laid back, easy-going guy." This could also be a reference to a deleted scene (not included on the DVD) where Ponyboy tells Cherry about Sodapop's horse riding career and love for a horse named Mickey Mouse. The scene was also intended to highlight that Sodapop's having already suffered some heartbreak before his girlfriend leaves him, as well as the brothers' own sense of loss, but Coppola cut it because he felt it slowed the film's pace down.
The film was shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The drive-in is the Admiral Twin, still going strong in 2008.
Filming Locations Link - http://www.theoutsidersbookandmovie.com/FilmingLocationsAndInfo.html
Coppola filmed The Outsiders and Rumble Fish back-to-back in 1982. He wrote the screenplay for the latter while on days off from shooting the former. Many of the same locations were used in both films, as were many of the same cast and crew members.
The credits are shown at the beginning of the movie in the style normally found in a published play.
Actors:
Patrick Swayze
Date of Birth: Aug. 18, 1952
Age during Filming: 30
Character of 'Darry' age: 20
Rob Lowe
Date of Birth: March 17, 1963
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Sodapop' age: 16
C. Thomas Howell
Date of Birth: Dec. 7, 1966
Age During Filming: 16
Character of 'Ponyboy' age: 14
Ralph Macchio
Date of Birth: Nov. 4, 1961
Age During Filming: 20
Character of 'Johnny' age: 16
Matt Dillon
Date of Birth: Feb. 18, 1964
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Dallas' age: 17
Emilio Estevez
Date of Birth: May 12, 1962
Age During Filming: 19
Character of 'Two-bit' age: 18
Tom Cruise
Date of Birth: July 2, 1962
Age During Filming: 19
Character of 'Steve' age: 16
Diane Lane
Date of Birth: Jan. 22, 1965
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Cherry' age: 16
Leif Garrett (Bob)
Date of Birth: Nov. 8, 1961
Age During Filming: 20
Character of 'Bob' age: 18
Gailard Sartain (Jerry)
Date of Birth: Sept. 18, 1946
Age During Filming: 36
Tom Waits (Buck)
Date of Birth: Dec. 7, 1949
Age During Filming: 33
The Outsiders' Movie Premiere Held In Tulsa
Article from Tulsa World News and Channel 6 KOTV Tulsa/2005
Tulsa looked more like Tinsel town Thursday (Sept. 8, 2005) night for a red carpet movie premiere. A new extended version of the 1983 cult classic "The Outsiders" made its debut Thursday night at the AMC.
Hundreds of fans showed up to catch a glimpse of some of the stars and the author, Tulsa-native SE Hinton.
Hinton says Tulsa was the only choice when it came to shooting the movie, as well as the premiere. "One reason why I know Francis wanted to come here to, is because Tulsa was so supportive, supportive of me and the book. And he talks in his commentary about how everybody was friendly. Everybody was helpful.”
Ralph Macchio who played Johnny Cade in the movie: "I got to be in the movie. I got to work with one of the finest directors of our time. I got to play the part I connected with. And here I am and it's 2005 and the book still resonates."
The extended version is 22 minutes longer than the original and has a new beginning and new ending. There is also a new hipper soundtrack. Before the screening, the trio drove around Tulsa revisiting locations used in the movie.
The movie's director, Francis Ford Coppola couldn't attend the premiere, but he did provide his world-famous wine for the reception.
Plot
This synopsis is of the 1983 original release. The movie begins with Ponyboy wondering about how to write the story (or the whole movie) until he begins with the beginning of the novel, followed by the credits. After the credits, the scene shifts to when Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny sneak into a drive-in theater and seat themselves behind two Soc (pronounced "sohsh") girls, Cherry and Marcia. Dally starts flirting with the girls and refuses to leave them alone until Johnny tells him to back off. Dally leaves, and the girls ask Ponyboy and Johnny to sit with them. Later, the boys are walking the girls home when their drunken boyfriends catch up to them in their Mustang. Bob and Randy are itching to fight, but Cherry defuses the situation by asking Bob and Randy to take Marcia and her home. Johnny and Ponyboy go to a vacant lot and end up falling asleep. When Ponyboy goes home, Darry is upset with worry and, during the confrontation, hits Ponyboy. Ponyboy runs from the house back to the vacant lot and wakes Johnny. They go to a nearby park to cool off.
http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/1d463847-5883-46d3-9041-d57a3ca4137c.jpg http://www.patrickswayze.net/outsiders6.jpg
At the park, Ponyboy and Johnny are confronted and harassed by Bob, Randy, and their friends. The Socs try to drown Ponyboy in a fountain, but flee after Johnny draws his switchblade and stabs Bob to death.
http://www.chucksconnection.com/outsiders/outsiders02.jpg
Ponyboy and Johnny seek help from Dally, who gives them a unloaded gun, money, and directions to an abandoned church in Windrixville, where they are to hide out until Dallas comes to retrieve them.
http://www.chucksconnection.com/outsiders/outsiders03.jpg
Ponyboy and Johnny cut off their hair to make themselves less recognizable, and Ponyboy bleaches his hair blond with peroxide. The boys pass the time by smoking cigarettes, playing cards, and eating baloney sandwiches. Ponyboy also reads to Johnny from a paperback copy of Gone with the Wind and shares the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay with him. Ponyboy confesses that he never quite understood the poem.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e36/PoetShadow/PonyandJohnny-Sunrise.jpg
A week later, Dally comes to visit the boys and takes them to get some hot food. Dallas tells Ponyboy and Johnny that Cherry is willing to stick up for them to the authorities. Johnny says that he and Ponyboy want to go home and turn themselves in, which upsets Dally. Nevertheless, he starts the drive back home, by way of the church to get their small amount of stuff.
Ponyboy and Johnny return to the abandoned church to find out the church is on fire. When they hear the cries of children trapped inside, Ponyboy and Johnny both run in to rescue them. They get all the children out safely. Ponyboy escapes the inferno, but a roof beam collapses and falls on Johnny, who is still inside. Dally immediately moves to rescue Johnny. Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny are taken to the hospital. Dally has minor injuries in his arm, and Ponyboy is basically unhurt, but Johnny is in critical condition with severe burns and a broken lower back. Darry and Sodapop reunite with Ponyboy and, as the brothers hug each other tightly, Darry cries openly, (something he hadn't done in years, not even at his parents funeral) relieved that Ponyboy is alive. Johnny asks for a new copy of Gone with the Wind to replace the one lost in the fire.
http://www.chucksconnection.com/outsiders/outsiders04.jpg
The next day, Ponyboy is resting at home when Steve and Two-Bit come over. They show him a newspaper article that calls Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dally heroes for rescuing the children in Windrixville, and that Johnny is being charged with manslaughter for killing Bob. Even though Randy and the other Socs had admitted that they had been the aggressors, and that Ponyboy and Johnny were only defending themselves, Bob's death at Johnny's hands has sparked the call for a gang fight, or a "rumble," from the Socs.
The day of the rumble, Randy seeks out Ponyboy and admits that he does not want to fight in the rumble, nor will he, because he feels that no matter what the outcome, nothing would change. He has grown weary of all the fighting, is ready to leave town just to get away from it, and wanted to tell someone who he felt would understand how he feels.
Dally breaks out of the hospital to join in the rumble. The rumble begins, ending with the Greasers victorious. As the Greasers revel in their win, Dallas and Ponyboy rush to the hospital. Dally tells Johnny about the Greasers' victory, but Johnny doesn't seem interested. Dally then tells Johnny that he is proud of him, which fills the younger boy with happiness. Johnny looks over at Ponyboy and tells him to "stay gold," and with that, Johnny dies. Completely heartbroken, Dally flees from the room.
http://media.movieweb.com/news/08.2005/outsiders.jpg
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/artman/uploads/outsidercast.jpg
Ponyboy returns home to tell the rest of the gang that Johnny is dead and that Dally ran off. The gang is worried about what Dally might do, and their worry becomes alarm when Darry receives a phone call from Dally, who had robbed a convenience store and was now being pursued by the police. He tells the gang to meet him at the vacant lot. The gang races to the vacant lot to intercept Dally, but they are too late; Dally is already surrounded by police officers. He pulls out an unloaded gun, in the hopes that he will be shot to death by the police. His plan succeeds in front of his horrified friends. The novel explains that, after losing Johnny, Dally lost the will to live.
Days later, Ponyboy is flipping through the copy of Gone With the Wind that Johnny had left behind and finds a letter from Johnny, addressed to him. Johnny's letter explains that the phrase "staying gold" in the Frost poem means to never lose the appreciation for the things one finds wondrous when one is young. He urges Ponyboy to tell Dally about it. The film ends with him writing the opening line of the film, which is also the first line of the novel: When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home...
http://www.fast-rewind.com/outsiders1.jpg
http://www.zoetrope.com/images.cgi?image=still&type=full_size&id=29
Production
Francis Ford Coppola never actually wanted to make a movie about teen angst. What changed his mind was a middle school class, great fans of The Godfather, wrote to him about making a sort of gangster film, except about The Outsiders. When he read the book, he was moved and not only directed the film, he also adapted Rumble Fish into a movie the year after, again with Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Glenn Withrow.
Dallas falling out of his seat at the drive-in was unplanned.
The actors playing the Socs were put in luxury hotel accommodations and given leather-bound scripts, while the Greaser-actors were put on the ground floor and received tattered scripts. Coppola is said to have done this to create tension between both groups before filming. The cast played pranks on each other and the hotel staff during the shoot. Years later, Tom Cruise met someone who worked at the hotel, and when he discovered that it was the same hotel where he and the rest of the cast had stayed, his first words were, "I'm sorry."
Francis Ford Coppola went to arbitration unsuccessfully for the writing credits of this film.
Two-Bit's fascination with Mickey Mouse, as shown in a later scene in the film, was thought up by Emilio Estevez, who approached the character as a "laid back, easy-going guy." This could also be a reference to a deleted scene (not included on the DVD) where Ponyboy tells Cherry about Sodapop's horse riding career and love for a horse named Mickey Mouse. The scene was also intended to highlight that Sodapop's having already suffered some heartbreak before his girlfriend leaves him, as well as the brothers' own sense of loss, but Coppola cut it because he felt it slowed the film's pace down.
The film was shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The drive-in is the Admiral Twin, still going strong in 2008.
Filming Locations Link - http://www.theoutsidersbookandmovie.com/FilmingLocationsAndInfo.html
Coppola filmed The Outsiders and Rumble Fish back-to-back in 1982. He wrote the screenplay for the latter while on days off from shooting the former. Many of the same locations were used in both films, as were many of the same cast and crew members.
The credits are shown at the beginning of the movie in the style normally found in a published play.
Actors:
Patrick Swayze
Date of Birth: Aug. 18, 1952
Age during Filming: 30
Character of 'Darry' age: 20
Rob Lowe
Date of Birth: March 17, 1963
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Sodapop' age: 16
C. Thomas Howell
Date of Birth: Dec. 7, 1966
Age During Filming: 16
Character of 'Ponyboy' age: 14
Ralph Macchio
Date of Birth: Nov. 4, 1961
Age During Filming: 20
Character of 'Johnny' age: 16
Matt Dillon
Date of Birth: Feb. 18, 1964
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Dallas' age: 17
Emilio Estevez
Date of Birth: May 12, 1962
Age During Filming: 19
Character of 'Two-bit' age: 18
Tom Cruise
Date of Birth: July 2, 1962
Age During Filming: 19
Character of 'Steve' age: 16
Diane Lane
Date of Birth: Jan. 22, 1965
Age During Filming: 17
Character of 'Cherry' age: 16
Leif Garrett (Bob)
Date of Birth: Nov. 8, 1961
Age During Filming: 20
Character of 'Bob' age: 18
Gailard Sartain (Jerry)
Date of Birth: Sept. 18, 1946
Age During Filming: 36
Tom Waits (Buck)
Date of Birth: Dec. 7, 1949
Age During Filming: 33
The Outsiders' Movie Premiere Held In Tulsa
Article from Tulsa World News and Channel 6 KOTV Tulsa/2005
Tulsa looked more like Tinsel town Thursday (Sept. 8, 2005) night for a red carpet movie premiere. A new extended version of the 1983 cult classic "The Outsiders" made its debut Thursday night at the AMC.
Hundreds of fans showed up to catch a glimpse of some of the stars and the author, Tulsa-native SE Hinton.
Hinton says Tulsa was the only choice when it came to shooting the movie, as well as the premiere. "One reason why I know Francis wanted to come here to, is because Tulsa was so supportive, supportive of me and the book. And he talks in his commentary about how everybody was friendly. Everybody was helpful.”
Ralph Macchio who played Johnny Cade in the movie: "I got to be in the movie. I got to work with one of the finest directors of our time. I got to play the part I connected with. And here I am and it's 2005 and the book still resonates."
The extended version is 22 minutes longer than the original and has a new beginning and new ending. There is also a new hipper soundtrack. Before the screening, the trio drove around Tulsa revisiting locations used in the movie.
The movie's director, Francis Ford Coppola couldn't attend the premiere, but he did provide his world-famous wine for the reception.