![]() ![]() ![]() Today RUMBLE FISH is not an especially well known film, but it is highly prized and loved by those who have seen it. It is shockingly avant-garde in its black and white cinematography, sparse scene-blocking, and use of symbolic and elliptical storytelling techniques. ![]() The resulting film is quite different from anything Hollywood could have expected. Coppola stated that it was his “reward” for completing the difficult OUTSIDERS shoot. For many, it is one of the definitive movies and perceptive movies about the teenage years.ĭuring the shoot of THE OUTSIDERS, Coppola and Hinton, who was on set as the film’s technical adviser, began writing a script for an adaptation of “Rumble Fish.” The idea was to make it as a low budget art film on many of the same locations with some of the same actors. Much like the book, it was a medium-sized hit that continued to exert its influence over several decades. His first Hinton adaptation was THE OUTSIDERS (1983). Hinton with Matt Dillon, her favorite actor, and star of THE OUTSIDERS, RUMBLE FISH, and TEXįrancis Ford Coppola became a major admirer of Hinton and her works. ![]()
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