![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With this extended version of the film clocking in at around two hours, the first is spent largely on building the characters among the Greasers, notably Ponyboy (C. The film largely lives with the greasers a pseudo-familial group largely of teenage kids whose own parents are either dead, abusive or simply indifferent to them. The Outsiders is set in early 60’s small-town Oklahoma, where gangs of ‘Greasers’ and ‘Socs’ (from the poor and more affluent sides of the town respectively) are often getting in fights. I should note up front that this viewing of The Complete Novel was my first ever watch of The Outsiders, so I can’t speak to comparisons between the two cuts, though I would be interested in seeing the roughly 90-minute original, because this version definitely has, among other problems, some pacing issues. Now, this cut has been restored for 4K and Blu Ray, following a brief cinema re-release. Francis Ford Coppola has always had great respect for the books he has adapted to screen, almost always granting the authors a possessive title (Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, etc) so it was probably little surprise that, in 2005, he added 22 minutes to the overall running time of The Outsiders to create ‘The Complete Novel’ cut.
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