Rumble Fish 1983
Rusty James spends his time at the city hall billiards hall, waiting for his brother Motorcycle Boy who has been living in exile in California for years to return. The charismatic gang leader on a motorcycle has always been a role model for Rusty. The bike is back, but it doesn’t make Rusty better. Because the era of gang wars is ending and the world is no longer the world where two brothers grew up together. Both outside and inside! The motorcycle knows this, but what about Rusty? Of course, Francis Ford Coppola’s film, one of the two films he made for Zoetrope in the early 80s, Siamese Fish’s brother The Outsider, had only one common point, not only that they were both adapted from an S.E. Hinton novel. Besides addressing similar sociological themes related to youth, both films were like a parade of talented young actors who would be the stars of the future. By shooting this film in black and white, Coppola was creative both in terms of content and aesthetics.
