*All facts stated here are from IMDB*
*Bold is my input*

• In the poster for the film, the Greasers are shown laughing as Johnny (Ralph Macchio) is smirking. This was a candid shot, taken during the photo session in which the actors were supposed to look tough at the camera. What happened was that Leif Garrett (who played Bob) was approaching the food table off-camera, and a stagehand (who didn't know who Garrett was) said "The food is for the talent (meaning actors)," and Macchio sarcastically said, "Yeah, it's for the TALENT!" This comment cracked up the cast, and the photo was used.

• Francis Ford Coppola wanted Matt Dillon to spend a night in jail to 'understand' Dally a bit better. Matt refused, saying, "No way, Francis, how about you go spend a night in jail?"

• When Dallas falls out of his chair at the drive-in, it was completely accidental, and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) looks briefly at the camera while laughing.

• During filming, Rob Lowe asked S.E. Hinton, the original author of 'The Outsiders', what happens to Sodapop Curtis. The author responded that Sodapop is drafted to Vietnam and dies there.
No! Not Sodapop too! S.E. Hinton is as bad as Rick Riordan!

• After Matt Dillon auditioned for the part of Dally, director Francis Ford Coppola went up to him and told him, "You can go home now." Dillon thought he didn't get the part and called his agent and told him he didn't get the part. Later on, it turned out Coppola sent him home early because he already knew he was going to cast him as Dally.

• During filming, the actors playing the Socs were given leather-bound scripts and were put up in luxury accommodations, while the "greasers" were given battered paperback scripts and had to stay in the ground floor of the hotel, as director Francis Ford Coppola wanted to create tension between the two groups.

• Out of the main cast, all the kids were in their late teens, the exceptions being Patrick Swayze, who was 31, and Ralph Macchio, who was 21.

• In the rumble scene, the first punch is given to Ponyboy. C. Thomas Howell recalls that the hit was real, and it knocked him out cold on set.

• S.E. Hinton wrote the original story when she was fifteen years old, and finished it when she was sixteen.
Now that's life goals.

• While Ponyboy and Johnny are best friends in the novel and film, C. Thomas Howell recalls often not getting along with co-star Ralph Macchio, saying he was very serious and professional. He remembers a specific argument dealing with him wanting to beat his high score on Pacman and Macchio demanding they rehearsed their lines. Their differences could be attributed to the fact that Howell was only fourteen and Macchio was twenty.

• Diane Lane said that during the scene with Cherry and Ponyboy talking before the rumble said that C. Thomas Howellwas making funny faces at her when the camera was only showing her face which made it hard for her to concentrate and not laugh. During the commentary almost 20 years later, she reminded him of that and he responded (referring to director Francis Ford Coppola) "Francis told me to do it."

• Teenagers Matt Dillon and C. Thomas Howell both had to learn how to smoke for their roles as Dallas and Ponyboy.

• Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise were childhood friends before the film and showed up to the audition together. Both received starring roles.
They were also both in Mission Impossible, although Emilio Estevez played a minor role and Tom Cruise played the star.

• The hat that Two-Bit finds in Johnny's yard belonged to a crew member behind the camera who lost the hat when a large fan accidentally blew it off his head.

• In the scene where Dally threatens the nurse in the hospital with Two-Bit's knife, the nurse is played by S.E. Hinton, author of "The Outsiders" novel.

• According to writer S.E. Hinton, the boys caused quite a bit of trouble in the hotel they were staying in during the three months of filming. One particular incident she recalled in an interview was the night they filmed the fountain scene, where Bob (Leif Garrett) is attempting to drown Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell). Later on, the six other boys jokingly mocked this scene in the hotel's lobby fountain, playfully trying to drown each other. Hinton states the hotel had the fountain removed within weeks.

• Matt Dillon and Diane Lane dated briefly during filming.

• The knife that Two-Bit uses in the film is a Filipino Balisong. In many parts of the world, it is more commonly known as a "butterfly knife".

AND FINALLY...

• Nicolas Cage auditioned for a role in the film.
Well okay then. That'd be interesting.

A/N: I wanted to post another chapter because the last one was pretty small, and come on, how could I pass up a chance to tell everyone about how Nicolas Cage auditioned to be in The Outsiders? That would've been pretty weird. And also the whole Sodapop thing. REALLY, S.E. HINTON? I SWEAR, YOU'RE AS BAD AS UNCLE RICK!!!!!!!!!
I also put that picture of a beluga painting at the top because...well...I just really like belugas and I think that picture's adorable. I mean, look at it. The beluga is definitely thinking 'Ugh, I don't get paid enough.'
Belugas for the world! :)
~Orange_Elephant a.k.a. SCR