His parents were killed in an automobile accident just eight months before The Outsiders story takes place. He lives with his oldest brother, Darry , who is 20 years old and has legal custody of him and his other brother, Sodapop , who is Sandy was portrayed by Lynne Hatheway in The Outsiders film , but her scenes were deleted.
The Outsiders has a circular structure, as it ends with the same words as it begins, with Ponyboy telling the story of being jumped by Socs after leaving a movie. However, by writing the story of Dally, Johnny, and the rest of the gang, Ponyboy aims to prove that his friends are worth remembering. The word " greaser " originated in the 19th century in the United States as a derogatory label for poor laborers, specifically those of Mexican or Italian descent.
The term was later used to refer to mechanics. I read an article where he was quoted as saying the cigarettes used were real, and sometimes it was hard not to inhale. Matt Dillon, on the other hand, really did smoke. The film is notable for its avant-garde style with a film noir feel, shot on stark high-contrast black-and-white film, using the spherical cinematographic process with allusions to French New Wave cinema and German Expressionism.
Spouse s Jane Stuart m. The film was shot on location in Tulsa , Oklahoma. Scenes in Blackburg, Kentucky, the fictional town at the base of the mountain, were filmed in Millvale. They married in and have three children, Julia and Daniel and kate. The Outsiders Wiki Explore. Wiki Content.
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History Talk 0. During the commentary almost twenty years later, she reminded him of that and he responded referring to Francis Ford Coppola , "Francis told me to do it. Hinton was a part of every aspect of filming. She stated in several interviews how much she loved the boys that were cast to make up her gang of greasers.
Since almost all of them were teenagers and away from home with no adult supervision, she claims that she became a mother figure for them on and off-set, and fondly remembers them calling her "Mom". During the restored dinner scene where Sodapop runs away, Sodapop is seen with a piece of paper at the table. According to the novel, it is a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend Sandy, whom he claimed he wished to marry.
Sandy had cheated on Soda and gotten pregnant, so she moved to Florida to live with her grandmother. According to writer S. Hinton , the boys caused quite a bit of trouble in the hotel in which they were staying during the three months of filming.
One particular incident she recalled in an interview was the night they filmed the fountain scene, where Bob Leif Garrett is attempting to drown Ponyboy C. Thomas Howell. Later on, the six other boys jokingly mocked this scene in the hotel's lobby fountain, playfully trying to drown each other.
Hinton states the hotel had the fountain removed within weeks. Rob Lowe 's film debut. He had also auditioned for the role of Randy Adderson, though it was not by his choice. Lowe certainly did not want to play a Soc in a movie about Greasers. He even considered lowering his performance level for Randy's audition so he would seem like a better fit for the Sodapop role. In the scene where Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit are walking to Johnny's house, a hat flies into the scene.
Two-Bit picks it up and says, "Look! I have a new hat! The hat belonged to one of the camera men, who lost the hat when a large fan accidentally blew it off his head. Francis Ford Coppola had said to the cast earlier that he did not want to stop rolling, no matter what, so the hat is still in the movie.
During the rumble scene, Tom Cruise was accidentally socked in the jaw and needed dental work the following day. The Tulsa dentist has a picture of him and the young actor together in his office.
He had a small role as a messenger boy that was cut. Coppola remembered Estevez and gave him a bigger role in this film. While shooting a particular scene, eighteen-year-old Matt Dillon was continuously goofing off.
Frustrated, Francis Ford Coppola swore at him and called him an "airhead" on-set. Hinton convinced Coppola to apologize and Dillon to cooperate. Coppola ended up growing so fond of Dillon that he cast him in Rumble Fish , which was also adapted from an S.
Hinton novel. The actors pulled some pranks in the hotel where they stayed while shooting this movie. Several years later, Tom Cruise was introduced to someone who said he worked at the hotel in which Cruise and the rest of the cast stayed while they shot this movie.
The first thing Cruise said when he heard that was, "I'm sorry". During the drive-in theatre scene, Ponyboy can be seen shivering several times and the actors' breath are shown a few times. This was due to it only being around thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit 1.
In the fight scene on one of the days they were filming, it was raining, but the next day it wasn't. So Francis Ford Coppola brought in rain towers and fire houses to create fake rain, and the worst part was that it was only around thirty-two degrees. The actors were freezing. Some of the then-unknown members of the cast did not get along with Leif Garrett , who at the time was by far the most famous member of the cast.
Over thirty minutes was cut before release, due to movie executives fearing it to be too long, and a chance of upsetting fans of the book, making the movie ninety-one minutes. The film takes place in Rob Lowe turned eighteen years old during filming. According to Lowe, the other boys mercilessly played pranks on him all day on his birthday, such as Saran Wrap on his toilet seat, and filling his hotel room with fire extinguishing foam.
The letter jacket that the Soc is wearing as he challenges Darrel is the letter jacket from the high school that author S. Hinton attended. To help the cast establish the actor's rapport and to block shots, Francis Ford Coppola spent two weeks during production, shooting the entire movie on videotape before he began using film.
It's believed to be one of the first times that technique was incorporated into a film schedule. While that footage rarely turns up, Ralph Macchio had a similar experience in , when John G. Avildsen shot rehearsals for The Karate Kid on a home video camera. Nicolas Cage auditioned for the role of either Darry or Dallas.
He did some method acting for the part by locking himself in a room for two weeks, drinking beer and staring at a photograph of Charles Bronson , hoping that the physical and mental attitude of playing a thug would rub off on him. At this point, Cage was so fed up from all his hard work, which ended up being in vain, that he walked away from the project.
Hinton looking back on the film in "I have so many incredible memories of that time, it was just magical to see everything come together, and we had had a lot of fun probably too much on-set with the boys, many who were just getting their acting careers started, and yes, I am in contact with all of the actors and Francis Ford Coppola. Instead of private meetings with actors for specific roles, Francis Ford Coppola would herd up to thirty of them into a room at one time and ask them to sift through the different parts.
In addition to the twenty-two minutes of restored footage in the "Complete Novel" DVD, there are additional scenes that were not included, such as: an extension of the "walking home" introduction where the Socs accost Sodapop and Steve at the DX station, and Darry throws some debris from the roof of a house at their car as they drive past him this extension also includes more narration by Ponyboy ; an alternate introduction to Johnny where his mother chases him out of the house with a broom, only to be stopped by Two-Bit, who rushes to Johnny's aid; additional footage of Ponyboy and Johnny at the church where they hide from some people riding on a horse; additional footage where Ponyboy and Darry have a fight only to be walked out on by Sodapop; and an extended morning scene following the church fire where Ponyboy awakes and urges Sodapop to wake up, echoing the words he heard Darry say in his dream at the church, "Rise and shine".
Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze did their own gymnastics stunts in the scene leading up to the rumble. Two-Bit's real name is Keith. In a recent interview about The Karate Kid Ralph Macchio was asked what was his favorite character that he has played he said "Johnny from The Outsiders because that was the role I really wanted and I booked it, Johnny has a special place in my heart.
They have one daughter together. It wasn't until 's "A Walk on the Moon" that Lane's career really took off. After that, she went on a real run, starring in "The Perfect Storm" in , and then "Unfaithful" in In her personal life, she began dating Josh Brolin and married him in They were together until February Bob is one of the socs who fights with Johnny and Ponyboy and almost drowns Ponyboy, leading Johnny to stab and kill him in defense.
He dated future "Desperate Housewives" star Nicollette Sheridan for five years on and off until Garrett, who began using drugs when he was just 14, went through extensive periods of legal troubles throughout the '90s and s. He hasn't released an album since , nor a single since In , he appeared on "Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Dalton, who was 18 at the time, played Randy, one of Bob's friends who refuses to participate in a final rumble between the socs and the greasers, claiming it won't change anything. It was his debut film role. After the film, he appeared in "Red Dawn" alongside some of his "Outsiders" castmates. He also had an uncredited role in "Soul Man" alongside C. Thomas Howell.
Dalton took a year break from acting between and , before returning to appear in "The Stolen Moments of September. In , he wrote his first screenplay, "To Protect and Serve," which starred "Outsiders" co-star Howell. The year-old's first film was "The Outsiders," but she wasted no time appearing in iconic '80s films after, such as "Valley Girl," "Real Genius," and "Revenge of the Nerds.
She retired from acting in — her last role was in "Permanent Record. Meyrink left behind acting to instead teach it — she founded the Actorium , an acting school, in Vancouver.
But it wasn't until that Swayze really popped off — that year, he starred alongside Jennifer Grey in "Dirty Dancing," which remains iconic. Julie Newmar" in He also had an iconic "SNL" appearance in , and he was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in , a year after his "Outsiders" co-star Cruise was bestowed the title.
He was married to Lisa Niemi from until his death in Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January He continued to work while getting treatment, appearing in the film "Jump! He died in September
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