Video: The Outsiders
This 1983 flick is one of those movies that I've always wanted to watch. Why? Here's the cast list: Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. Wowie! Oh, and the main character, C. Thomas Howell (who?) Plus it was made by Francis Ford Coppola, so it was sure to induce tears (hello Virgin Suicides), which is often a good thing.
The movie is great - the battle of the Greasers and the Socs (said like an abbreviation of socialite). It's kind of one of those snapshot type movies - not much explanation of who these people were before these events, and not much follow up. I really, really liked it. Even beyond seeing all those hot men in their younger versions.
Coppola actually treated the different groups of actors differently during filming - great rooms for the socs, basement rooms for the greasers. I'm sure that helped add to the tension necessary for the big rumble scene. Rumble! Any movie that has an actual rumble has to have some merit.
I think it has a good message, too. I need to read the book to make sure that I was getting what I was supposed to out of the movie.
If you haven't seen it yet, you should. Especially if you want to see lots of cute boys and maybe cry a little.
Randy: You can't win. You know that, don't you? It doesn't matter if you whip us, you'll still be where you were before, at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones at the top with all the breaks. It doesn't matter. Greasers will still be greasers and socs will still be socs. It doesn't matter.
posted by Brenna @ 5:00 PM
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