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In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola's film of S.E. Hinton's novel struck a great chord together with audiences, capturing the intense feelings of being caught between childhood and adulthood, and not belonging anyplace. Decades later, Coppola has revisited the film and reintegrated 22 minutes of character-enriching footage, counting a new beginnning and ending extra true to the book. A rousing new rock-n-roll soundtrack featuring six songs from Elvis Presley and other music greats do this new version of The Outsiders one of movie history's excellent rediscoveries.
No one was surprised when Francis Ford Coppola revisited Apocalypse Now, but his overhaul of The Outsiders raised a few eyebrows. Here was a modestly successful film better remembered for its Brat Pack cast than its Oscar-winning director, but The Complete Novel succeeds in delivering extra of S.E. Hinton's young adult classic to the screen along together with Coppola's epic vision. The story remains the same: The working class greasers and wealthy Socs ("Socials") of Tulsa, OK, circa 1966, are at war. Despite the bigger names in the cast--Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe--the friendship between C. Thomas Howell's Ponyboy and Ralph Macchio's doomed Johnny is still the focus. If anything, Tom Cruise, as an obnoxious greaser, provides the least promising performance, while Matt Dillon (Crash) as the unpredictable Dally and Diane Lane (Unfaithful) as the stunning Cherry offer a taste of the mature work to come. Aside from 22 minutes of restored footage (counting a prologue and epilogue), which add heart and grandeur, The Complete Novel consists of several new rock and roll tracks, much by Elvis Presley. In the end, the revamped Outsiders still plays like a cross between Rebel Not including a Cause and The Last Image Show--and this's a good thing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold   2010-08-05
By C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
The Outsiders, based on the novel by H.E. Hinton, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is an awesome film. Though the novels of H.E. Hinton are targeted to a teen age demographic, they are somewhat deeper than the average teenster fodder. They are deep, with characters that are at once greasers, and sensitive enough to quote Robert Frost poems by heart. Then there are the socs (pronounced so-shuz), the rich kids who attend social gatherings at the country club, when they're not drunkenly water boarding much smaller greaser kids that they outnumber two-to-one. The socs are not all bad, though. For instance Cherry Vance (Diane Lane) is not only scorchingly hot, she has a soft spot for Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell), and would almost fall for his friend, Dallas (Matt Dillon) if he wasn't such a jerk. Ponyboy has the soul of a poet in the body of a greaser. See Thomas Howl. Howl, Thomas, howl. It is amazing how well he carries the film when you consider all the young talent this film is packed with: Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe (as Ponyboy's brother, Soda Pop, in his film debut), Emilio Esteves, Patrick Swayze, Tom Waits, and Ralph Macchio. While Howell is the lead, Ralph, as Johnny, is a close second. He is just a kid, but he's a young kid with an old soul. Though you might say that the other actors I mentioned all went on to bigger and better things, this may have been the zenith of Howell and Macchio's career. It is like the Robert Frost Poem that Ponyboy quotes: Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Or, in the last words of Johnny to Ponyboy, "Stay Gold." That was also the title to a great song that Stevie Wonder wrote for the film. It is a great Wonder ballad, with orchestration that may have been provided by Francis' brother Carmine, who did the music. Carmine Coppola was the dean of the Art Department when I went to San Francisco State--quite a flamboyant character who affected purple velvet capes, like he was some kind of Art Vampire. He was also Nicolas Cage's father. Another Coppola factoid is that Sofia Coppola played the young street urchin who tried to spare change Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny. Bottom Line is that The Outsiders is an amazing film that combines lyrical moments with the dramatic intensity of a clash of cultures: Greasers Vs. Socs. Meet you at the rumble, but remember, stay gold. One From the Heart (1982) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Waits was Trumpet player Rumble Fish (Special Edition) (1983) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Matt Dillon was Rusty James, Tom Waits was Benny, Diane Lane was Patty The Cotton Club (1984) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Diane Lane was Vera Cicero, Tom Waits was Irving Stark St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Rob Lowe was Billy Hicks, Emilio Estevez was Kirby Keger Soul Man (1986) C. Thomas Howell was Mark Watson Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Matt Dillon was Bob Too Much Sun [VHS] (1990) Ralph Macchio was Frank, Jr. Point Break(1991) Patrick Swayze was Bodhi The Ed Wood Collection - A Salute to Incompetence I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) Leif Garrett was Cruiser Cop #4 Magnolia (1999) Tom Cruise was Frank T.J. Mackey ----------------- Johnny: Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. =======================
Video On Demand is NOT the Complete Novel version   2010-08-02
By Roger A. Knopf (Menlo Park, CA United States)
This review (and accompanying 3 stars) is really about the Video On Demand version - the top reviews and the link to this page from the DVD page for The Outsiders: The Complete Novel may lead you to believe that's what you get when you rent it. Its not, it is the original, shorter version lacking the 22 additional minutes. It would be nice if Amazon would make the longer version available via VOD, and they really should drop the link that implies you can get that version via VOD until they do as it is misleading.
The way a film should be revisited!   2010-07-28
By jblyn (Maryland, USA)
I wasn't sure what was going to occur when I plopped the 1st DVD containing the "special edition" of THE OUTSIDERS into my player and settled back to watch. I wasn't wild about APOCALYPSE REDUX, Francis Coppola's recutting of his classic APOCALYPSE NOW. On that one, I strongly felt that there were a LOT of good reasons why things were removed from the original version in the first place, and most if not all of them should never have been reinstated. Happily, this is not the case with THE OUTSIDERS. Here, Coppola has followed practically to the letter the plot threads of S.E. Hinton's original novel and, in so doing, given us a great movie in place of a good one. First of all, there is more of an established build-up of the characters and their setting. When Ponyboy Curtis, the "greaser" who is the primary character in the story, gets harassed and attacked by the "socs" on his way home from the movies and subsequently rescued by his fellow "greasers," you get the picture of how things stand between the "haves" (the socs) and the "have-nots" (the greasers), plus you meet and get to know all of Ponyboy's inner circle right away; his two brothers Darry and Sodapop, Johnny, Dallas, Two-Bit, Steve and the rest. This goes a long way to giving the viewer much more empathy for what Ponyboy and Johnny go through, and it furnishes some pleasant surprises as well. Rob Lowe is an actor often dismissed as a lightweight, but this version of THE OUTSIDERS shows how good he really could be. As Sodapop, one of Ponyboy's two older brothers, Lowe shows a sympathy and depth as the middle brother trying to be conciliator between Darry and Ponyboy when they fight with one another. In fact, every single actor here gets further flexing of their wings in this version, and it works terrifically. However one feels about Coppola's father Carmine's orginal score, the replacing of most of it with 50s and 60s rock'n roll throughout the film dramatically changes the feel of it...to my mind, for the better. Coppola explains that his father's original score was there to give the film a "Gone With The Wind" texture, in keeping with the way the Margaret Mitchell novel surfaces throughout THE OUTSIDERS (movie AND book) as one thing that has an impact on Ponyboy and his friends and family. Fine as a theory, but that original score felt downright soupy at times, and it was a little like getting hit over the head with how SIGNIFICANT certain scenes were supposed to be rather than letting the audience figure that out. The rock 'n roll gives the movie more of a sensibility like BLACKBOARD JUNGLE and other "misunderstood youth" pictures of the 1950s and 1960s, and it works really, really well. It makes "Stay Gold," the theme song by Carmine Coppola and Stevie Wonder, stand out just that much more at the start and end of the film. The abundance of extras on the 2nd DVD are mind-boggling and a treat for cineastes everywhere, but the main jewel in the crown is this restored movie, one that gives "director's cut" a good name. Nicely done!
outsiders   2010-07-26
By Steven M. Wolf (new york)
this is a great movie for young teens . no graphic violence like the movies now a days. but it can still keep them interested in the characters. i recommend it for the whole family , it shows how everyone , regardless of where they come from , can get along if they just try.
Same as it ever was....   2010-07-16
By Bradley V. Forment
I was a huge fan of all of S.E. Hinton's books as a teen, and I recall how much my friends and I loved this movie when it came out. Recently, I heard that one of my favorite musicians, Mr. Tom Waits, had an appearance in this movie. So, it was time to order a copy of the dvd and check it out. Sure enough, Ol' Fleabags did play the part of Buck Merrill and had almost a full minute of screen time. I was surprised how much I still enjoyed the story, and how many young actors who would go on to much larger projects were in this. Yes, there is overacting galore, but the feeling of youth maintains.