Films
Film adaptations of The Outsiders (March 1983) and Rumble Fish (October 1983), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola, established the careers of many film stars, such as Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, and C. Thomas Howell. Also adapted to film were Tex (1982), directed by Tim Hunter, and That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), directed by Christopher Cain.
Hinton herself acted as a location scout, and she had cameo roles in three of the four films. She plays the nurse in Dally's room for The Outsiders. In Tex, she is the teacher who is surprised by the caps going off in the type writers. She also appears as a prostitute propositioning Rusty James in Rumble Fish.
The only film script adaptation Hinton wrote of her own work was for Rumble Fish, which she co-wrote with Coppola.
In 2009, Hinton portrayed the school principal in The Legend of Billy Fail.
Read more about this topic: S. E. Hinton
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“Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to society’s porous face.”
—Marjorie Rosen (b. 1942)
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
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“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)