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Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. 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. 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 is dedicated to Coppola's brother August. He made the films back-to-back, retaining much of the same cast and crew, particularly Matt Dillon and Diane Lane.

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.Ĭoppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on his days off from shooting The Outsiders. The film stars Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Vincent Spano, Diane Lane, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, and Dennis Hopper. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. It is based on the 1975 novel Rumble Fish by S. The song talks about the former gangs, as mentioned in the book.Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. In 2012, Green Day released the album ¡Uno!, which includes a song named 'Rusty James'. In the book, Rusty James is a tall 14 year old kid in Junior High School with dark red hair and Hershey brown eyes. In the film, Rusty-James is played by Matt Dillon. The book was adapted to film and directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. Rusty James is a fictional character in author S. JSTOR ( March 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).

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