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...main strength of Francis Ford Coppola's new film The Outsiders is the way it subtly captures this particular human misery. His punks are "greasers" in Tulsa. Oklahoma in the 1960s, and their hangouts are playgrounds and drive-ins instead of subway stations. But the outward toughness and underlying sorrow is the same. By following the agonizing predicaments of three young greasers, the film confronts a startling yet age-old reality many adolescents finding themselves inexplicably cast in on-good roles, reflexively challenge authority because it's the only thing they know. One after-noon for Tulsa's greasers trio...
Violence is the main current running through The Outsiders in the never ending battle against the preppy, comfy Tulsa "socs" (socialites) But what distinguishes this story from others in the adolescent never-do well genre is its poignant examination of the energizing as well as debilitating aspects of the greasers lives...
...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...
...greasers' turf is the north side of Tulsa: the socs occupy the south. But The Outsiders' sensibility is operatic enough to make the film into another West Side Story. From its first frames, when Stevie Wonder croons a pop ballad over images of suburban sunsets, Coppola sets the tone of poetic realism, Hollywood style. The greasers, with their sleek muscles and androgynous faces, display a leonine athleticism as they move through dusty lots or do a graceful, two-handed vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they...
...loss to Cal-Irvine quickly evened the Crimson's then-young record at 1-1. An easy win over Tulsa followed by a loss to USC kept the team's mark at .500, as the Crimson prepared to meet perhaps the hardest blow of the trip, UCLA...