'Rumble Fish' (movie)

Last night I watched 'Rumble Fish' for the first time. It is a 1983 movie by Francis Ford Coppola about two brothers. It's got diners, motorcycles, girls, love, fights, male bonding, and so on. It's shot in black and white (inspiration having been drawn from German expressionist movies), and it's full of symbolism.

Why mention it here? Because as I was watching it, I thought that if the Gaslight Anthem had written/made a movie, this would have been it.

Not to mention it stars just about every single famous actor ever!

Who's in it?

JoshRaymond wrote:

Who's in it?

JadedGoober7 might be carried away a bit here, but the following are in it:

Matt Dillon
Mickey Rourke
Diane Lane
Vincent Spano
Nicolas Cage
Dennis Hopper
Laurence Fishburne
Chris Penn

So, I watched this last night because I saw this topic and it was wiiillld. Really just "cool."

Ever seen The Outsiders?? SoS GA reminds me of that movie. It also has an outstanding cast:

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The Outsiders is noted for being the breakout film of many future stars. The movie earned C. Thomas Howell a Young Artist Award, became the first Brat Pack movie (with Rob Lowe and Emilio Estevez cast as supporting Greasers), and further established the careers of Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish.

Daire wrote:

Ever seen The Outsiders?? SoS GA reminds me of that movie.

Thanks. I'll watch it. I see both 'Rumble Fish' and 'The Outsiders' are based on novels by S.E. Hinton.

You should read the book Rumble Fish. And The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton is a great author. There's a couple more books that are mainly about the same things as Rumble Fish and The Outsiders. They're called "Tex" and "That Was Then This Is Now". Sorry, I read waaaaay too much.

stepsandnumbers wrote:

You should read the book Rumble Fish. And The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton is a great author. There's a couple more books that are mainly about the same things as Rumble Fish and The Outsiders. They're called "Tex" and "That Was Then This Is Now". Sorry, I read waaaaay too much.

I came to this thread to post this exact same thing. S.E. Hinton is definitely one of my favorites. She's beyond badass.

Daggar Slade wrote:

stepsandnumbers wrote:

You should read the book Rumble Fish. And The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton is a great author. There's a couple more books that are mainly about the same things as Rumble Fish and The Outsiders. They're called "Tex" and "That Was Then This Is Now". Sorry, I read waaaaay too much.

I came to this thread to post this exact same thing. S.E. Hinton is definitely one of my favorites. She's beyond badass.

Yeah! Glad you agree!

The Outsiders is one of my favorite books. I've read it a bunch of times and it still gets to me. I read alot of SE Hinton's books when I was younger haha

Cool.

Will check out the movie, Francis Ford Coppola is always pretty good.

Will check out the author too. I love books that were turned into movies.

Outsiders-is one of my favorites too...I think the Outsiders movie is one of the best adaptations of a book (ever), how many times do you see a film and think, the book is so much better...not the case here, stays really true to the novel, it prob. didn't hurt that s.e. hinton was a consultant on the film...it also amazes me that she was about 16 when she wrote the outsiders....

I just read Rumble Fish in a single sweep in the train yesterday, oh how I love books about fucked up kids = )

Just looked at the IMBD and Tom Waits is in it! Awesome!

I haven't seen Rumble Fish in many years. I love it. Need to break it out again for sure.

Jay wrote:

Just looked at the IMBD and Tom Waits is in it! Awesome!

Yeah, he plays a minor role as barkeeper =)