The Outsiders<\/em> That Will Stay Gold<\/strong><\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n1. THE BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY A TEENAGER.<\/span><\/strong>
\nS.E. Hinton was Susan Eloise Hinton, a 15-year-old high school student in Tulsa who had grown bored with the trite plots of books targeted to her demographic. \u201cMary Jane wants to go to the prom with the football hero \u2026 didn\u2019t ring true to my life,\u201d Hinton told The New Yorker<\/em>in 2014. So she decided to write a more authentic look at teenage struggles. When she finished, she handed the manuscript to a friend\u2019s mother, who had contacts at a book agent in New York. Editors suggested she go by \u201cS.E.\u201d so readers could infer a male author was responsible for the testosterone-heavy characters. It has sold more than 14 million copies.<\/p>\n4. COPPOLA KEPT THE \u201cGREASERS\u201d AWAY FROM THE \u201cSOCS.\u201d
\n<\/span><\/strong>In The Outsiders<\/em>, the Curtis boys are part of a clique of \u201cGreasers,\u201d lower-income Tulsa residents in perpetual conflict with the socials, or \u201cSocs,\u201d the sweater-sporting affluent kids. To perpetuate that rift, Coppola divided the actors in Tulsa according to their fictional social status: the Socs got better rooms, more spending money, free room service, and leather-bound scripts.<\/p>\n8. HINTON HAS A CAMEO.<\/strong><\/span>
\nAlthough Coppola\u2019s production company, Zoetrope, was so low on funds at the time of optioning The Outsiders<\/em> that they could pay Hinton only $500 of her $5000 rights fee, the author was friendly with the director and agreed to shoot a cameo. Hinton appears in the scene where Dallas (Matt Dillon) is being looked after by a nurse. Hinton also had cameos in other adaptations of her work, including 1983\u2019s Rumble Fish<\/em> (which Coppola also directed) and 1982’s Tex<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Rose and Mental_Floss present 12 Facts About The Outsiders That Will Stay Gold. Here are three of my favorites… 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15573,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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