Rumble Fish (1983) Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, & Nicolas Cage

<b>Book Vs. Movie: </b><br /><b>Rumble Fish</b><br /><b>The 1975 Novel Vs. the 1983 Movie<br /><br /></b>Rusty James is a 14-year-old kid in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who lives a troubled life in 1975’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Fish" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rumble Fish</a>, written by former teen sensation <a href="https://www.sehinton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">S.E. Hinton</a> who published her first work (the YA classic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Outsiders</a> while a freshman in college in 1967. <br /><br />James spends his days getting into fights, hanging out with best friend Steve, trying to find time for his girlfriend Patty, and, most of all, idolizing his older brother, The Motorcycle Boy. The events leading up to his time in the reformatory make up for the main action, and the audience sympathizes with a kid who can’t seem to catch a break. <br /><b><br /></b>The 1983 film was co-written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Francis Ford Coppola</a>. Simultaneously, he created The Outsiders adaptation, which would become a cult classic. With some of the same cast members (including <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000369/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Matt Dillon</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000178/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Diane Lane</a>) and the addition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mickey Rourke</a>, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nicolas Cage</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hopper" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dennis Hopper</a>--Coppola aims for a <a href="https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/4-french-new-wave" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">French New Wave</a> l