The Outsiders
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
A legendary director adapting a bestselling novel with a cast of soon-to-be A-list movie stars? How could you not be on board with this? As it turns out, Chris & Donna's love for S.E. Hinton's book made it hard to get into this when they were kids. And Carlos was so unfamiliar with the whole thing that he thought this movie might be about vampires. So we really had no idea how this was going to play for us.
Topics include: how a librarian from a small school in Fresno, California helped get this movie made, the new cut of this Coppola released in 2005 and how it fixes a lot of the film's major issues, why the theatrical version was trimmed so excessively, some theories about why the performances are a little hammy, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the outsiders? |
| 0:06.5 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.2 | And today we're revisiting The Outsiders. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting The Outsiders. The Greasers and the Sosers were two very real cliques at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, |
| 0:59.0 | during the 1960s. The greasers were often vilified by the faculty and other students, but a 15-year-old |
| 1:04.9 | sophomore named Susan Hinton had a different way of looking at the conflict. In her own words, |
| 1:10.4 | someone should tell their side of the story, |
| 1:12.7 | and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge. Hinton began writing |
| 1:17.9 | what would become her first novel, The Outsiders. It would be finished the following year and |
| 1:22.6 | hit shelves when she was still just a freshman in college. But the publisher had made one suggestion. |
| 1:28.5 | Susan Eloise Hinton became S.E. Hinton, so is not to alienate male readers or reviewers. |
| 1:35.0 | For her part, Hinton actually didn't mind the change. |
| 1:37.8 | It allowed her to keep her personal and professional lives separate. |
| 1:41.1 | And this strategy worked. The Outsiders was an enormous success. To this day, |
| 1:45.5 | it remains a staple of many junior high and high school English curriculums. And one of those |
| 1:50.6 | schools that the novel found its way into was the Lone Star School in Fresno, California. |
| 1:56.0 | There, librarian Joe Ellen Masekian was struck by the fact that her 13-year-old son, who she couldn't get to |
| 2:01.9 | read anything, was devouring this book. And it wasn't just him. It had caught on with a lot of the |
| 2:07.4 | students. And so she was the one who decided the outsiders should be a movie. After polling the students |
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