#THE OUTSIDERS MOVIE#

In 'The Outsiders,' he's required to do little more than standard ' Rebel Without a Cause' behavior. In ' Tex' he played a three-dimensional character, complicated and convincing. This is Matt Dillon's second outing in material by S.

#THE OUTSIDERS MOVIE#

Nothing that happens in the movie seems necessary it's all arbitrary. The thin narrative material for 'The Outsiders' only adds up to a movie of 90 minutes, and even then there are scenes that seem to be killing time.

The problem with seeing characters in a highly stylized visual way is that it's hard for them to breathe and move and get us involved in their stories. He seems to be struggling with some sort of fixation on the contrived Hollywood sound stage look of the 1950s there are scenes in which he poses his two heroes against a lurid sunset and bathes them in backlights so improbably reddish-orange that the kids look like Gordon MacRae in 'Oklahoma!' Thomas Howell) are convincing enough, the story isn't - and neither is the way Coppola sees it. He gives them money and tells them to hop a train out of town.Р”Р„lthough the two scared kids ( Ralph Macchio and C. The two greasers who did it run immediately to Dallas Winston ( Matt Dillon), who is the town's ranking adolescent hood.

The greasers try to pick up a soche's girlfriend at the drive-in, there's a fight later that night, and a rich kid gets killed. It's about class warfare between rich kids (the 'soches') and poor kids (the greasers). 'The Outsiders' is based on a well known novel for teenagers by S.