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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by S.E. Hinton and Francis Ford Coppola...
These films mark returns to prominence by directors who have been working in movies for at least a quarter of a century. But where are the Japanese equivalents of Spielberg and Lucas, Coppola and Scorsese-younger directors who can revitalize the box office and the art form? Some are locked into the industry's tradition-bound system of slow advancement, where experience is rewarded but rarely offered. "This brutal apprenticeship has long controlled the Japanese studio system," notes American Writer-Director Paul Schrader, who will soon go to Japan to film a biography of Novelist Yukio Mishima. "I think...
After graduation in 1966, Lucas worked as an assistant to Francis Coppola, who was directing Finian's Rainbow. Coppola, who remains a friend, later helped him find backing for his feature, THX 1138 (1971), a chilling look at a futuristic world in which people live underground and numbers have replaced names. American Graffiti came next. Its success persuaded 20th Century-Fox to invest money in Lucas' strange script about chirping robots, Jedi knights and a form of hocus-pocus called the Force...
Author excellent story, ably presented by screen-writer Kathleen Knutsen Rowell and director Coppola, sensitively explores the pressures which a tradition of delinquency and a riddling class structure put on youth Broken homes, severe wounds. Murder and tragedy come as brutal but regular doses of hard living rather than critical plot developments. With emotional and physical hardships so commonplace, any period of healing is only a restless interlude before the next spat of marauding violence. When Johnny (Ralph Macchio) sleepily confides. "I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me at least he knows...
...film's major fault, in fact, is that the young actors don't control more, Coppola captures a few too many brilliant orange sunsets and displays too many young faces against sharp, blue skies for a movie otherwise rugged and right. Although The Outsiders is a refreshing departure from the pretentiousness of Apocalypse Now and One From The Heart, the director could still stand to trim his tendency towards the grandiose. In a movie about youth. Coppola seems to have been tempted to the epic limitlessness of Steven Spielberg's E.T. Carmino Coppola's sappy score and the overly brilliant...