"I realized I wanted to make a movie about youth and belonging - belonging to a group of people with whom you identify and feel real love," Coppola wrote. The novel surprised Coppola, who said he made "bold connections" with the material. I've gotten all these letters over the years asking (where certain scenes were) and I think Francis had gotten them as well and gotten embarrassed - so he wanted to get it back together like it's supposed to be." "It was a shock to me to see the theatrical cut of the movie, because we'd filmed the whole book. "I'm very excited," Hinton said during a recent interview at the Renaissance Hotel. Oklahoma native Hinton is understandably pleased with the cinematic rebirth of her most enduring work.
Whole plotlines are re-integrated, actors' roles beefed up and Carmine Coppola's score axed in favor of a rock-centric, period appropriate soundtrack. 8 world premiere in Tulsa and a limited theatrical engagement in New York City) with 22 minutes of footage restored, as well as re-mastered picture and sound. The end result, The Outsiders: The Complete Novel, will be released on DVD Tuesday (after its Sept. "After hearing 'Where's the rest of the book?' for so many years, I decided to cobble together a version more closely aligned with the novel for a screening for my granddaughter and her class."
"In the rush to distribution, aspects of the story were edited out," Coppola wrote in June. Filmed on location in Tulsa, the film was embraced by fans, albeit with reservations. Moved by the students' request, Coppola indeed translated Hinton's 1967 work to the silver screen in 1983 (another of Hinton's books, "Rumble Fish," was adapted by Coppola on the heels of "The Outsiders"), populating the cast with a veritable who's who of up-and-coming stars. Hinton's timeless novel about wayward youths, "The Outsiders." TULSA - It's been nearly a quarter century since California school librarian Jo Ellen Misakian wrote director Francis Ford Coppola a letter on behalf of her students, beseeching him to consider adapting S.E.
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