Exploring the Film, The Outsiders

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In films, film-makers make deliberate use of certain techniques to influence views to make a certain viewpoint. In the film ‘The Outsiders’, the director Francis Ford Coppola believes nothing gold can stay when it comes to teenagers. He believes that the strength and beauty in teenagers can never stay concrete because it is ruined by adulthood. In the film Coppola shows and represents two groups, the "socs" and the "greasers". "Soc" is pronounced like society, and means just that: money, nice cars, nice homes and a bright future. "Greasers" are the poor kids from the bad side of town with no future and no real hope. Coppola explores how cultural assumptions underpin the ways in which teenagers are represented in films. There are three key factors that Coppola uses to this effect in the film: a well-built plot, strong vocabulary and various motifs. For the duration of the film he uses the colour gold to support the fact that teenage years are something to be treasured. At the beginning of the film, the music lyrics restate the word gold, the opening tittles in gold and a golden su...

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