“Is that what they mean by trauma-bonding? Hahaha.” “I never had siblings or went to summer camp, so for me it was a bonding experience,” she added.

She noted in an email interview, “It was frightening to see and realize many violations of psyche and boundaries such as honey all over my toilet seat, something terrorizing written with my lipstick in the mirror, Vaseline on every door handle, and just when you think it’s safe and you can finally sleep that night, your bed is short-sheeted!” Then there was the time after working 17 hours straight, Howell was looking forward to a nice hot shower only to turn on the faucet “to get into the shower and somebody pointed out so it hit me right in the face with cold water before I could get into the shower.”ĭiane Lane, who played Cherry, a sweet Soc who was the object of Ponyboy’s affections, was thrilled to be included in the pranks. “I stumbled into my hotel room ready to go to sleep and literally everything in my hotel room, from a penny to my bed, had been turned upside down.” The inner sleeves feature extensive notes by Daniel Schweiger on the history of the film, the soundtrack and an insight into the Coppola father and son partnership.“I remember one early morning, probably having worked all night,” Howell said. Stevie Wonder co-wrote and performed the song that plays over the credits, ‘Stay Gold’, which is included on this release. The result is epic and romantic, a return to a golden age of Hollywood film composing which suits the stylised and epic cinematography, becoming darker as the characters fulfil their tragic destinies.

The plot focuses on the rivalry between two gangs of teenagers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one poor (Greasers), the other wealthier (Socs).Ĭoppola’s ambition was to achieve the widescreen scope ‘of a teen Gone with the Wind’, and he asked his father, Carmine Coppola, to score the soundtrack. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio and Diane Lane) many of whom came to be known as the Brat Pack, defining a genre of 80’s films. Hinton’s successful 1967 novel of the same name, using a young cast of rising stars (C. Francis Ford Coppola’s coming-of-age drama The Outsiders (1983) adapted S.E.

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