to this day, i maintain that ralph macchio as johnny cade was one of the best castings ever done for a film adaptation.. just sublime from conception. my eyes would have lit up upon seeing the audition
i like to imagine that ponyboy finds and picks matching flowers for the gravestones of johnny and dallas, because he knows that johnny was the only thing dallas ever loved.
the outsiders, dir. francis ford coppola / "ribs", lorde / @liam-alexander-winston / us against you, fredrik backman / "he was a friend of mine", rolf cahn / quote incorrectly attributed to winnie-the-pooh, a.a. milne