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More unsolicited thoughts on The Outsiders a New Musical.
Tw: mention of suicide in some of the last paragraphs. If you've read the book/watched the movie, ya know.
Contains spoilers for all forms of The Outsiders (book, movie, and musical). All spoilers are below the cut.
I figured out why some of the songs in the new Outsiders musical didn't make as much sense.
They changed several plot points!!!
Most aren't egregious and I'm cool with them, but there are a couple they got me some kinda way.
(This is based if the plot synopsis on Wikipedia. It could be wrong but it's all I've got cause im a broke pleb).
In Chronological Order:
Obviously there is no Steve. Personally don't care either way. Like him and Soda's platonic relationship, particilarly what we see in the movie, but otherwise I understand why it was easier to cut his role.
Johnny only got jumped a week before the musical (but then Justice for Tulsa sounds weird because Cherry suggests Johhny killed because of how Bob treated him and she implies that he was hurt a while ago...? IDK man. Not to big a gripe but it's just weird).
Grease got a Hold is essentially a ritual initiation because Ponyboy survived getting jumped (they skip his getting saved by the gang by having Pony get knocked out) so him surviving makes him a Greaser? I don't understand and frankly I would've preferred slightly less deviation from the source material here but again, I don't mind this change, it's all down to preference.
I almost don't like how much of a main character Darry has become? Like I like him in the adaptation, but I feel like his upgrade came at the cost of the downgrade of Soda and Two-Bit. I love both those characters and from what I've read/heard they both had there roles reduced, Soda it seems almost severely. But typical middle child shit I guess. Again, he could have a lot of speaking bits because I'm going off a couple synonpses and the cast album, but man I miss him. And Two Bit. I hope that they at least had him and Pony together going to visit Johnny. That's one of my favorite parts of the book and movie.
They add a scene between Johnny and Dally where Dally sees Johnny outside his house. I'm out of order here bit it's the night before the Drive In. Johnny says he's afraid to leave because his dad could kill his mom? Interesting take on that relationship but okay. I do love this scene personally.
I don't know if we get the Two Bit and Marcia fling. It didn't get mentioned in the plot synopsis so I won't comment further.
The addition of Ponyboy going unconcscious during the first fight means I get a two nickles meme about Ponyboy blacking out during fights in this musical.
There's no Randy?!?!? @annacatbeth13 said he got cut for the Broadway run and I'm sorry. He is a hella good character and even though his movie role is reduced, he's so good. I kinda feel like the musical suffers by having only Cherry as the oposition to Soc POV when you've got minimum of Pony and Johnny verbally against the Greaser POV and Darry is very much contrary in action during the book/movie and verbally here.
B/c there's no Randy a lot of Bob and Randy scenes are just Bob and Soc scenes.
I'm sorry, the fact that the guy who plays Bob plays the cop that investigates Bob's murder is sending me. MF rolls up like "yeah, I didn't just die here. This is fine" and everyone rolls with it. It's show business, I understand, but I feel like if I saw this show in person I'd notice and I'd lose it.
Also, I'm gonna note here that Brent Comer played Paul in La Jolla and now plays Darry. Ironic. Speaking of Paul and Darry as much as I don't like them removing Randy using Paul to fill his role as Bob's friend works quiet well. However, isn't Paul 20? And wasn't Bob like 17 or 18? I have questions that I'm not sure I can answer so I'm just gonna assume they were friends in high school and Paul stayed local for college.
I also don't know if they end up going to the Dairy Queen? Like the synopsis says that Dally comes up to see them and that it's Pony's discarded cigarette that starts the fire... but then the kids show up out of nowhere so where the hell did they come from? This entire incident is assumedly spoken so all I've got's the synopsis.
I was told again by @annacatbeth13 that Randy sang Hopeless War with Cherry and Pony and dammit, they took out that entire thing and that is such a catalyst for Ponyboy seeing the world in shades of gray like Cherry mentions in Hopeless War and I'm... I'm sorry. It just feels kinda wrong. I understand why they had to cut him but dammit it doesn't mean I'm not sad.
Everything in the hospital feels rushed. It does seem like they cut the Two-Bit taking Pony to the hospital bit (which makes sense, still sort of makes me mad). It also sounds like they upped Johnny's charge to first degree murder!! Like that doesn't make sense to me. He didn't premeditate shit. I honestly don't even think you could get second degree murder to stick. They then just mention and drop the charges in like the same song? Or in pretty rapid succession because it seems like the cut the juvenile court and Darry having to be checked on by the state storylines. Again, I understand having to strip a musical down to be a bit more barebones because of time contsraints but, like, if Fiddler can have four different plot lines within the same family, you can have the main issue, the sibling fight, and the Pony/Cherry/Randy bit. It's only three plotlines. I don't know why this makes me so mad but it does and IDK why?
I love Trouble. I love Darry in that song. And Dally. But also... Pony in the book and movie has been in multiple rumbles. It is mentioned in greater detail in the book and I don't know how I feel about them making Ponyboy so innocent. Like. He was never innocent, in the book and the movie. Everyone just thought he was? Again, simplifying for time constraints but I do miss it.
I like what they did with Paul. He's always felt very flat, more of a mirror to reflect Darry against same as Steve reflected Soda and Cherry/Randy/Johnny reflected Pony. But I do like the sort of righteous indignation they gave this version of Paul. It gives him that little bit of motivation to convince me that he should be at the rumble, despite being 20. Because in the book we get told that Darry is there specifically as the leader of Pony's "gang" but we don't get told why Paul is there so it feels odd. The musical does rectify that, which I kind of like.
However, I have to say I love Dally and Johnny's relationship in this musical. Just based on what I've seen they made it the most clear and concise interpretation of all versions of this story. Both songs where Dally talks to Johnny he refers to him as little brother, which cements that relationship and helps us understand why he eventually snaps. Which I will be talking about but I cannot give enough praise for their relationship.
I also cannot give enough praise for Cherry. I don't know exactly what they did, and they really ramped up Cherry's invovlement because she had to take some of Randy's place but they did such a good job with her. I like how they put her in the middle of all the conflicts (mostly with the Justice for Tulsa number) and I think seeing how she reacts really cemented this version as my favorite. I think they manage to get across that she actually does care about Johnny and Pony as people. All the other versions she comes off as pitying them which I don't like because it feels fake. And I understand why Pony doesn't like her. I kind of like that her relationship with him extends to her giving him Johnny's clothes because she starts volunteering at the hospital. I think that also helps humanize her too.
Alright, this is the most egrious change, in my humble opinion. They change how Dally dies. I think that him commiting suicide is necessary to the story, but in the musical he JUMPS IN FRONT OF A TRAIN!! You could argue that this is because a train killed the Curtis Parents (as seen in the complete novel edition of the movie) and you could argue that it's a symbol of death or of constancy for the Curtis' as they lose people to trains (technically Pony and Johnny are taken away to Windrixville via train). However... I think it still would've made more sense to stick to Dally dying via suicide by cop. It seems like they cut the Dairy Queen scene and if they did they probably cut Dally carrying a heater, which then makes the suicide by cop not work so they have him jump in front of a train... but that still feels out of character to me. I could be wrong, but when Pony talks about how Dally would go, he says Dally would die young and violent and angry. Him jumping in front of a train doesn't tell me he was angry. It tells me he was depressed. While you still get desperation, it's sad desperation. Not the angry desperation that you get with him doing the suicide by cop.
It would not surprise me in the slightest if they choose not to use Dally's original death because of the police discourse in the media. I want to say now that I have several cops/ex-cops in my family and from what they have told me, if someone pulled a stunt like what Dally did in the movie/book, they would be forced to shoot. It becomes a kill or be killed situation because they don't know if the gun is loaded. Now, the offending officer would be tried later on for manslaughter or related crimes but probably acquitted because they couldn't have known (in the movie it's debatable because the gang yells that the gun isn't loaded, but the police still probably wouldn't have listened). I think that the writers probably wanted to avoid having that controversy drum up. I can't blame them, still pisses me off.
All that being said, I do like this adaptation. But of the three versions of this piece of media, it's my least favorite. Love all the songs, love what characters we do have, and this is by far my favorite Cherry and my favorite portrayal of Johnny and Dally's relationship, but I don't like what they did to Dally in the end. No hard feelings against anyone who likes this or the creatives behind it, but it's just not my favorite and I don't know how faithful I would consider this adaptation.
#the outsiders#the outsiders 1983#the outsiders the complete novel#ponyboy curtis#the outsiders musical#the outsiders a new musical#outsiders musical#sodapop curtis#darry curtis#two bit mathews#steve randle#johnny cade#dally winston#outsiders randy#bob outsiders#cherry valance#marcia the outsiders#comparision#book vs movie vs musical
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Remember the scene in the movie when ponyboy and sodapop cuddle in bed and contemplate life in Tulsa? Yeah me neither. That scene was in the book, which is probably why it sounds familiar, and they filmed it in the movie but cut it last minute in fear of the “homophobic allegations” (they’re BROTHERS but it was the 80’s ig). The movie with this deleted scene, along with a few other deleted scenes, is called “The Outsiders: The Complete Novel” or “The Outsiders: The Complete Version” and u can find it on youtube for free!!! It’s cut up into scenes but it’s very good video quality with little blurs. Just search up the title and bam!
There’s also the option of renting it on prime video but why rent when u can free?
#the outsiders#the outsiders the complete novel#the outsiders the complete version#the outsiders movie#ponyboy curtis#sodapop Curtis#just two bros dreaming of a better world#the outsiders novel#reblog to save a life
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Johnny: ‘ever wanna talk about your emotions, Dal?
Dally: No.
Pony: I do.
Johnny: I know Pony.
Pony: I’m sad.
Johnny: I know Pony.
#the outsiders#outsiders 1983#outsiders#outsiders novel#outsiders the complete novel#johnny cade#dallas winston#ponyboy curtis#outsiders meme#vine
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When Johnny writes to Ponyboy, telling him to keep looking at sunsets, telling him that there's still good in this world, telling him to "Tell Dally. I don't think he knows," but Dally's dead! and Johnny's dead! And who listens to greasers anyways!
But then Ponyboy picks up a pen and starts telling Dally. Starts telling all the Dallys of the world about the good they don't know yet--that they've seen, but don't understand yet. About boys who run into burning buildings, about boys who give up scholarships to take care of their little brothers, about boys who cover for each other and take care of each other like their parents never did.
And as Ponyboy writes this story into a circle, ending with the beginning, he's fulfilling Johnny's exhortation to stay gold, to learn the meaning of the poem, to keep looking sunsets, to stay with the wide-eyed wonder of a kid at dawn. And with the cyclical nature of this story, Ponyboy is going to be 14 forever because he's in this story and this story never ends.
And Johnny--who said sixteen years ain't long enough--Ponyboy's giving him more time. Every time this story starts over, Johnny's still alive, Johnny gets another week, Johnny can struggle and fight and run and save and learn that there's still good in this world because the story keeps starting over---
*screams*
#Did the Outsiders musical cast recording come out yesterday and dunk me back into the Outsiders again?#Did I just re-watch the theatrical release of the film#cobbled together with all the deleted and alternate scenes I could scrounge up#because I couldn't find a copy of the complete novel release?#well yeah obviously#the outsiders#ponyboy curtis#Johnny cade#dally winston#s. e. hinton
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Seeing that one post going around that's just basically 'say if you ever read fanfictions that are better than published books' and it's like, yeah of course there are some that are better, because some people are genuinely good writers, but also there are good books too, and then seeing people say things like, 'I have never read a good book I only prefer fanfictions' and it's just?? Seek out some books? There are so many different kinds, for so many different things. It just sounds like you're reading for an easy serotonin boost than really engaging with the work.
People who write books and people who write fanfics have one thing in common: they write. They are doing the act of writing, and each person is going to have different styles and come at it with different experiences. Also, if your favorite fanfic writer comes out with an original work that's not just filing the serial numbers off, will you read it? Or are you only there because they're writing your favorite characters from another piece of media (which might even be from a book?). Speaking as a fanfic writer who is happy when people compliment my writing, please read some books I'm begging. Not everything is from booktok.
#shrimpy rambles#I am probably looking into this too hard but sometimes people are weird about fanfic#it's this amazing thing but also they will never read anything outside of this author's portfolio that is not about their fave m/m ship#I also just think you become a better writer by reading from different things#which includes novels that aren't just YA#I just also really like some old classic novels like the scarlet letter and edgar huntly which are not perfect but fascinating to me#and I have also definitely read completely awful novels too#but I think you learn something from them still#anyway this is also a reminder to myself to read more books because I've been slacking#I love fanfic and I love writing it but that wouldn't have happened if I never read books#even those outside my favorite genre#read some books plz
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techno and his relationship to dehumanization is SOOO important to me .
#All of my fics are about this. Yes even the superhero ones.#“All of my fics” as if I have more than 3 .#I’m including wips in that. .#Okk. .#So like 4 fics actually.#Like secunit!technoblade is OBVIOUS. He was created to be a weapon and finds it deeply uncomfortable being HUMANIZED.#Because the trappings of human life are foreign and novel to him .#Secunit!techno is to historians what palaeontologists are to anthropologists.#I don’t know if thst makes sense.#but the hunger games one is ALSO about dehumanization. OBVIOUSLY. but jts a different flavour . Technoblade is a person.#Hes so completely human that its almost painful.#But his mental illness and the things his society has made him do have made the people around him think him a monster.#No matter who he used to be when he could hide his hallucinations and paranoia. No matter how many people he helped. It wasn’t enough.#Something important to me about techno is that hes always seen himself as an outsider to humanity.#Whether it be Hybrid-whatever technoblade or piglin technoblade or completely human streetrat technoblade.#What often is defined as What Makes Us Human is neither afforded to him nor expected from him.#I’m actually always thinking about the hungergames au. Actually. I want to write it so bad.#(Guy who hasn’t even decided what the theme or the pov or the tense or the plot will be)#rat.op.tag#rat.fic.tag
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One thing that I think muddies the water re: SQQ acting like a buffoon is that he’s much more physically expressive in the donghua? In a very comical and memorable way, like chugging the medicine he tries to give Luo Binghe when the system is about to doc him points, noticing it’s for external use only, and then visibly fainting in front of Ming Fan and Luo Binghe. He’s much more of a clown, and it’s mostly in good fun, even if it’s not accurate to the book. Thinking about it more, my ideal adaptation would have SQQ properly maintaining his immortal facade at all times, but also include an expressive chibi version of himself acting out his inner thoughts and yelling at the system constantly. Only the audience would see his flailing, and also probably SQH when he’s introduced. Also! Showing him get more expressive with Binghe as book 3 goes on and he lets out more of his real personality around him.
that's a really good point about the donghua! I'm charmed by how SQQ is in the donghua because he's such a fucking loser (affectionate) but it definitely isn't very accurate to the novel. tbh the difference between SQQ's inner monologue vs outward appearance/actions is one of the things that makes it hard to adapt from a written form! having a little chibi SQQ to express his inner thoughts is an option, or hiding his expressions behind his fan or waiting until he's alone to scream into a pillow or something lsdkjflksdjf it's tough! it's really one of those things that works best as a book, which is such a shame because GOD i want to see so much of it visually
also him being more expressive with Binghe as their relationship develops is really good :') especially post-canon! Binghe complains that SQQ smiles more at other people, can you imagine what it'll be like once SQQ starts letting more of those walls down and fully grins at him while teasing him? I think Binghe would just straight up short circuit for a second
#asks#anonymous#thinking about them play fighting/flirting in book four.......#they're so cute#but yeah capturing the cool master facade while also conveying his inner thoughts is so hard outside of any medium other than written#i yearn for a live action adaptation but that would suffer the most tbh#unless they use a LOT of voiceover?#idk i feel like you can't really do scum villain without his inner monologue in there#if it's all detached from his inner thoughts then it's a completely different story#see: the way the tone completely changes when sqq is no longer narrating after the self detonation scene#i feel like with mdzs and tgcf you can get away with having less of wwx or xl's inner monologue#you definitely miss out on some stuff due to the things they don't say out loud#but the story and tone don't fundamentally change when you pull away a bit#sqq's voice is KEY to the tone of svsss#idk. it's interesting to me#i love this novel about writing novels that really can only be in a written form
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I’m on episode 71 of the orv webtoon. so he’s literally just been dissociating this whole time huh
#But he’s not completely out of it obv I’m just being a bit hyperbolic#But yeah. WILD.#Interesting that none of the renouncers have a similar dissociative state from being aware of the 4th wall#I get why they dont have the same exact ability bc dokja getting smthn extra from having read all of twsa makes sense#& random ppl shouldnt just have shit like. bookmark these guys powers teehee!! I just mean specifically dissociating in this way#ALSO more interesting when u remember that one renouncer who became a character I.e. got a character profile#Dokja: has the 4th wall ability. the ability to view his own actions from an outsider pov. like he’s Out of the story looking in#renouncers: don’t. are also the only real world people that can become characters#other real people: presumably they can’t become characters?? (if they can or can’t I don’t want to be spoiled)#But Also they act like npc’s/get a mental block when told about all this being from a fictional novel#What does it mean…. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEEEEAANNNNNN…#going post#orv
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Lineup of all of the characters that appear long enough to need a visual representation of them in the game lol
#I added a few people that you can randomly run into around town (like at the inn or in the forest or etc) and have very short conversations#with just to kind of flesh out the world a little more in a more natural-ish seeming way. Like nobody in the main cast would really#have much reason to talk about the actual city you're in or anything. Since most of them havent lived there that long anyway.#But if there's a ''city inspector'' that you can run into whilst he's writing up notes examining the local inn. then maybe there could be a#few dialogue options with him where you can ask about things like that. since he would know more about the area as an offical Government#Worker or etc. Optional of course. since I have to be so wary of my natural inclination to lore dump lol and am trying extra hard to make i#all stuff thats easily avoided/skipped. But for the people like ME who deliberately choose to exhaust every possible optional dialogue#option and explore every single inch of the world and try to collect as much information as possible - then there are a few extra places to#do that. Though obviously not all of them just give exposition for like 15 paragraphs blandly. Some you don't really learn anything from#and it's kind of just.. random flavor to make the non-shop map locations more ''lived in'' feeling. Like the random#little girl you can talk to in the park doesn't bizarrely start reading out the wikipedia description of some War that happened 10 years ag#or whatever. she's just complains about school a little and asks if you've tried the nearby ice cream cart treats and etc lol#ANYWAY..#some of the art is so so evil but I'm not going to spend 800 years trying to clean it up and update it. whatever the hell mess I sketched#out in 2018 or whatever is just what I'm keeping lol... it is what it is#One of the many trials of the whole 'briefly work a few months on something and then abandon it almost entirely only to pick up work#on it literally like 4 - 5 yrs later and now you must contend with trying to decipher whatever weird shit you did years ago' experience lol#Also given the population breakdowns of the world in general I think there's an unrealistic amount of jhevona in this lineup since#they're a much rarer species to just see out and about anywhere but.. it IS a global trading center type area. and the game#takes place in the north (the country of Asen. near the coast. for the maybe 2 or less people who actually keep up with my worldbuilding#enough to know where that is lol (the same continent as Navyete (where the avirre'thel live)) and there's a decent concentration#of nothern jhevona only a short ways away so... tee hee..I shall pretend it makes sense and not merely me just wanting#to represent more of that species because I think their lore is interesting lol#I MEAN also realistically there would NOT be a human here because humans are extremely isolated species that don't even know the rest#of the world exists really and human territories are extremely protected from the outside world but... of course it's like.. well we need#at least One of them to be there for the Optional Lore. Same with the Ythrili. But at least those are like.. PLAUSIBLE.. not nonsensically#outlandish. If I had a Verrucalt or something in there THEN that would be truly lore-breaking almost lol#ANYWAY.. rambling that only means anything to me because nobody else knows what I'm even referencing but hbjh#also I think my character designs are so funny in the sense that I really do just love to do the same thing over and over again ghbjh#wow... random asymmetry and belts and arm straps and high collars where the neck is completely covered?? you dont say..how novel
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I'm so lost in the sauce on my durge that I kinda forget there's supposed to be a video game attached sometimes tbh
#usually when the character completely takes over the game in my mind it's a moment of 'hm maybe I don't actually enjoy this game'#but I don't actually feel that's what's happening here I just think I'm That Excited.#I think a lot of it is having a character outside of an original story who doesn't exist in isolation#like. who has a web of relationships outside of just canon characters that I'm invested in and have been from so early#and we can keep building. by god we can keep building.#I also just haven't had so much fun on a totally new character in fucking forever and it's awesome#while there are definitely some novel aspects (paladin) I have also called them like. the Greatest Hits of everything I've ever done.#woag. fallen angel coded pure idealist imperfect victim Dex/Cha assassin knight with a unique personal relationship with the divine#and the most important backstory characters aren't trapped in the backstory#this rules.#rambling#balthazar is a self indulgent character as well but this is SO self indulgent. healing to the middle schooler in my heart.#and covered in blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Defendant not guilty. At this time, I will place him in the custody of his older brother, Darryl. This court is adjourned.
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel | dir. Francis Ford Coppola | 1983 / 2005
#The Outsiders#The Outsiders: The Complete Novel#my gifs#Darry Curtis#Sodapop Curtis#beginning middle and end of the court hearing#I never noticed that Darry winks at Ponyboy in that first shot <3#I'm going to redo these once I get a better file to make gifs from#but in the meantime here ya go#original post#Outsiders meta#kinda sorta in the tags 🤷♀️
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The reason I’m having trouble writing the second chapter of my recent Hugo-pastiche Les Mis fanfic is that, every time I try to write Jean Valjean in the style of Victor Hugo, the chapter just turns into an overlong agonized inner monologue of spiraling self-recriminations and self-loathing. and then the story never moves forward. :P
Originally I’d actually hoped for this entire fic to be a short comic, but I changed it to prose after realizing that most of the comic’s script was just Jean Valjean’s inner monologue and yet somehow all that inner monologue was still not enough to feel like anything even close to resembling something like the characterization of Hugo’s Jean Valjean.
This is why it’s so much easier to write Javert. Javert canonically hates thinking and will not do it. It makes everything so much easier
#we need more characters who deliberately refuse to have an inner life#it makes them so much easier to write#Les mis#I don’t pretend I’m writing Valjean completely ‘in character’ or w/e#but it has taken me Years to figure out how to write him in something that even resembles his narrative voice in the novel XD#years! and a couple older fics that I have very mixed feelings on now#especially wrt Valjean's characterization#Javert is an easy character because once you realize he doesn’t think and has an authority kink he’s p easy to write#but Valjean is actually like a genuinely complex little guy#and there are so many contradictions and nuances in the way he thinks that its difficult to get a solid read on him#especially we spend a lot of the book viewing him 'from the outside'#and to the people around him he's often mysterious and unreadable
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me and francis ford coppola, on the theatrical cut of The Outsiders:
#finally watched the complete novel#I was not prepared#even though i'd seen a lot of the cut scenes on youtube the whole thing all together was such a superior experience#it makes me so mad the theatrical cut exists 😭#the outsiders#those greaser boys
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I’m pretty sure they make these exact faces in the movie too lmao.
I absolutely lose my mind every time because pony’s just “he’s stinky and he’s mean and my brother has way more manners and looks than him.”
“Yeah manners maybe but… dally 😳”
#the outsiders#outsiders 1983#outsiders#outsiders novel#ponyboy curtis#johnny cade#dallas winston#outsiders the complete novel#Johnny shows him a picture and it’s the ‘I’m finding it’ meme lmao#judging your taste in men apparently#meme#outsiders meme#Jally
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Here's the full cut of the movie for free if you are interested 🫶
https://archive.org/details/the-outsiders.mp-4
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there are times where i wish i could go back and rewatch certain movies again! for example i would give anything to watch the outsiders for the first time again. granted i was about 8 years old when i watched it, so i didn’t understand the concept per say? but i remember loving it so much. same with the karate kid 1&2! i remember loving those movies so much as a kid, so much so, that my dad bought the dvds for me as a birthday present! it was just a good ole time
#probably would convince myself to not write fanfics where i was johnny’s cade sister but anyways!#i was so jealous of my friend when she got the complete novel version of the outsiders on dvd#STILL WANT IT BTW#the complete novel is the best version imo
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