Custom image of Ralph Macchio as Johnny Cade in The Outsides
The Big Picture Actor Ralph Macchio is best known as Karate Kid’s Daniel LaRusso, and has spent most of his career playing the part. Before he began his role as Daniel, Macchio starred in the 1983 classic, The Outsiders, as tormented Greaser Johnny Cade. Johnny is a tragic character in every sense — a young man who has suffered domestic and peer abuse, often lamenting about the hopelessness of life, and all at such a young age.
As a victim of abuse, Johnny carries a lot of trauma with him, as well as a switchblade wherever he goes. A violent confrontation ends with Johnny killing one of his Soc rivals, and he and Ponyboy flee for their own lives. While in hiding, they witness a church fire with children trapped inside. Johnny is a hero as he rescues the children, but suffers severe burns and a broken back in the process.
‘The Outsiders’ Was Ralph Macchio’s Big Break The Outsiders was Ralph Macchio’s first major movie role, and propelled him to fame only a year before 1984’s Karate Kid. He had previously starred in one season of the television series Eight is Enough, but the work was nothing like what he was about to encounter when working with Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola notoriously pushed boundaries with his young cast to get the results he needed.
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