Rusty James: What do you think California's like? Like all that shit in the movies. Blondes walkin' around, The Beach Boys, palm trees, the ocean. How was the ocean?
The Motorcycle Boy: I didn't get to the ocean.
Rusty James: No?
The Motorcycle Boy: California got in the way.
Rusty James: California got in the way? I thought California was on the coast.
Rumble Fish (1983)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon
Genres: Drama
The Motorcycle Boy breaks into the pet store and begins to free all the animals while Rusty-James begs him not to and cries. The Motorcycle Boy tells him to take the cycle he has parked outside and go to the ocean. The Motorcycle Boy takes the rumble fish to the river, where he plans to put them. Rusty-James follows him, only to hear a gunshot. He rushes up tyo the river to find that the Motorcycle Boy has been shot and killed by Patterson, the cop. Rusty-James picks up the dying rumble fish and puts them in the river. He is about to be arrested when he punches out the window of the police car. Patterson tells the police to let him go and he flees as everyone in the neighborhood begins to crowd around the Motorcycle Boy's dead body. The last shot is of Rusty-James standing in front of an ocean beside a motorcycle.
Evan Raufbold
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