

Burum) as if Orson Welles took over both Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause and Don Siegel’s Crime in the Streets but infused them with F.W. It’s a beauty of black and white cinematography (by Stephen H. And there’s those brightly colored rumble fish in the pet store…įrancis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish presents and ponders these dreamlike feelings of teenhood as an expressionistic mood piece – a reverie that feels of this world and out of this world but so rooted in an emotional truth that it, at times, feels Shakespearean. And then listening to that older brother even if he doesn't understand half of what he says. In the case of Rusty James who is sometimes not the smartest (but not dumb), and oftentimes intensely poetic – we see it in movement, in words, in the way he looks at his surroundings: his drunken dad’s apartment, his girlfriend’s intelligent beautiful face and his older brother’s odd, sad, sleepwalking swagger. Dreamy and crazy and banal and violent – in action or in mind – melodramatic and real and hormonally addled. Once you hit the teen mark in life – what a beautiful horrible time that is. Time waits for no one, and he won't wait for me – The Rolling Stones The day Rusty-James' world comes apart, the Motorcycle boy isn't around to pick up the pieces.Hours are like diamonds, don't let them waste When he gets in over his head, the Motorcycle Boy has always been there to bail him out.

Rusty-James isn't book-smart, he relies more on his fists than his brains. Actually though, what he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. He's even proud of keeping up his reputation. Rusty-James is the number one tough guy among the junior high kids who hang out and shoot pool at Benny's.

This edition includes a new and exclusive Author's Note. Hinton, whose novels are as relevant as ever, exploring sibling relationships, the importance of role models, and the courage to think independently. Annotation: Rumble Fish is a trade PAP from the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E.
