Rumble Fish

Rumble Fish
Rumble Fish
	Theatrical release poster by John Solie
Directed by	Francis Ford Coppola
Screenplay by	S. E. Hinton; Francis Ford Coppola
Based on	Rumble Fish; by S. E. Hinton
Produced by	Francis Ford Coppola; Doug Claybourne; Fred Roos
Starring	Matt Dillon; Mickey Rourke; Vincent Spano; Diane Lane; Diana Scarwid; Nicolas Cage; Dennis Hopper;
Cinematography	Stephen H. Burum
Edited by	Barry Malkin
Music by	Stewart Copeland
Production; company	Zoetrope Studios
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	October 21, 1983;
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$10 million
Box office	$2,494,480

Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the 1975 novel Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. The film stars Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Vincent Spano, Diane Lane, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Chris Penn, and Dennis Hopper.

The film centers on the relationship between a character called the Motorcycle Boy (Rourke), a revered former gang leader wishing to live a more peaceful life, and his younger brother, Rusty James (Dillon), a teenaged hoodlum who aspires to become as feared as his brother.

Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on his days off from shooting The Outsiders. He made the films back-to-back, retaining much of the same cast and crew, particularly Matt Dillon and Diane Lane.^[2] Rumble Fish is dedicated to Coppola's brother August.^[3]

The film is notable for its avant-garde style with a film noir feel, shot on stark high-contrast black-and-white film, using the spherical cinematographic process with allusions to French New Wave cinema and German Expressionism. Rumble Fish features an experimental score by Stewart Copeland, drummer of the musical group The Police, who used a Musync, a new device at the time.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Bryn Mawr Film Institute (10 August 2018). "New Illusion: THE OUTSIDERS, RUMBLE FISH, and Coppola in the early '80s". medium.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
^ Tsui, Curtis (2017-04-26). "10 Things I Learned: Rumble Fish". The Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2019-11-08.
^ The 1980s device is not to be confused with the 21st-century music licensing company of the same name. "Stewart Copeland interview excerpt". Rock World magazine. May 1984. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2013.

[mojo-1] Cite error: The named reference mojo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[outrumb-2] Bryn Mawr Film Institute (10 August 2018). "New Illusion: THE OUTSIDERS, RUMBLE FISH, and Coppola in the early '80s". medium.com. Archived from the original on 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2019-11-08.

[bro-3] Tsui, Curtis (2017-04-26). "10 Things I Learned: Rumble Fish". The Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2019-11-08.

[4] The 1980s device is not to be confused with the 21st-century music licensing company of the same name. "Stewart Copeland interview excerpt". Rock World magazine. May 1984. Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2013.

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