I had no idea when I was 15 that it represents the circle of life. I get asked all the time what the poem means. “People tell me it’s their comfort film, or they have a Stay Gold tattoo, or they used the Robert Frost poem for their wedding vows. Today, “I still get letters about ‘The Outsiders’ because it’s required reading in a lot of schools,” Coppola told the Guardian. Howell (left), Coppola and Rob Lowe on the set of “The Outsiders”. I was very moved by it.”Ĭoppola began shooting the flick later that year, and in 1983 “The Outsiders” hit theaters and became a profitable hit - now a cult classic. … And I read it, and I was very touched by the book because it showed how young people really have such strong feelings. “ fact that these kids had voted for me to do their film meant for sure I was going to read the book. Coppola on the set of “The Outsiders.” Corbis via Getty Images “These children had voted that I should take their favorite book and make it into a film,” Coppola said, recalling the contents of the package he received all those years ago from librarian Jo Ellen Misakian, containing some 10 to 15 pages of signatures from her seventh- and eighth-graders. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age classic “The Outsiders,” which they asked him to please make into a movie. A librarian at the city’s Lone Star Elementary School had asked the children there for their favorite book and flick-maker, and they’d voted on Coppola and S.E.
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While wallowing in the monetary and emotional fallout the movie left him with he received - as if by fate - fan mail from Fresno, California. Director Francis Ford Coppola on set giving instruction to C Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio and Matt Dillon between scenes from the film “The Outsiders.” Getty Images “So it was stupid of me to do, but nonetheless I was depressed and I had lost everything and I was facing a bankruptcy,” he said. The $26 million flick, about a couple’s rocky Las Vegas anniversary getaway, grossed just $600,000 and Coppola pulled it from its limited theater run after just one week in hopes of giving it a wider release later but instead sent it directly to home video. “I was very depressed at the time,” he told the publication of the period after his 1982 film “One From the Heart” proved a critical and financial failure. In an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment “The Godfather” director, 82, vulnerably recounted just how bad a state he was in before a piece of mail pulled him out of his funk. Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola has admitted he was out of cash and hope when an elementary school class’ letter brought him out of the depths and inspired him to make “The Outsiders,” he revealed while promoting a new 4k Ultra HD release of the movie. Val Kilmer continues his incredible career Keanu Reeves says he’s married to Winona Ryder ‘under the eyes of God’ ‘The Offer’ trailer: Dramatic teaser goes behind scenes of turbulent ‘The Godfather’Ĭhris Evans to play Gene Kelly in upcoming movie