Rumble Fish

Dammit Hudson, now I'm going to have to go watch it again. :kali:

It's been years, but IIRC, it's worth another look.

But to answer your question, I don't think so. He was his older brother, no? I think he is referenced that way, but like I said, it's been awhile. Are you thinking that he was some sort of iconic image he was trying to live up to? Or a symbol that he was trying to become, maybe based on some amalgam of what he thought a kid like him could amount to?
 
I'll have to see if I can pick it up in the next couple of days and watch it. Lord knows it won't be on TV.
 
J.R. Hudson said:
Is it possible that The Motor Cycle Boy is a figment of Matt Dillon's mind ?
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No....

I'm glad all of a sudden people want to discuss Rumble Fish, a majorly unappreciated film, but let's not make it into The Sixth Sense.

The father interacts with him, the cop kills him, and everyone talks about him....

I'd say he is pretty real.

Even so, time to pop it in the DVD player and watch it again...have been craving some Rumble Fish for a while now.
 
Tom Waits is hilarious in this. I've been watching a lot of lesser known Coppola lately. Although a lot of them are flawed they all have some awesome stuff in them. Particularly, One From The Heart. So many cool lighting tricks and trick scene changes without cutting. I'm looking forwad to Youth Without Youth. I heard there is no camera movement in the whole movie.
 
Rumble Fish is a little gem. Mickey Rourke is really good in it.

I also think Stewart Copeland's score/soundtrack is underappreciated too.
 
and its Copeland's first film score.
yeah, conversation is probably my favorite coppola. that and apocalypse now.
 
If you want some great insight into Coppola, go out and get Hearts of Darkness. The DVD also includes Coda: Thirty Years After, another Eleanor Coppola making of movie...this time it's his newest one, Youth Without Youth. It also shows where he was in the 70s and where he is now.

Oh yeah, in answer to your question, he's real.
 
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