Is "Rumble Fish" an experimental film in the 1980s youth film boom a success or a failure? What is the director's thoughts behind the black and white film?

From the 70's to the 80's. Director Coppola's ups and downs

Director Francis Ford Coppola, who was only 32 years old when the film was released in 1972, won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay for `` The Godfather .'' The following film, `` The Conversation '' (1974) won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. `` The Godfather Part II '' (1974) won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Design, and Best Original Score. ``Apocalypse Now Now,'' in which Coppola, who had obtained everything a Hollywood director wanted, devoted himself to madness, had a difficult time, and it was impossible to recover the production costs, which were much higher than expected. Everyone gave up thinking it was possible. However, when we opened the lid, it won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (now known as the Palme d'Or) and the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Audiences flocked to theaters and it was a huge hit. Instead of recovering his production costs, he ends up owning a lot of real estate and even constructing his own production studio.

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The experience of suffering in the exotic location of the distant Philippines in ``Apocalypse Now'' led to his next film ` `One from the Heart '' (1982) being produced on a small scale with full control at a Hollywood studio. I moved slowly. However, he goes to the extreme of completely recreating the city of Las Vegas in the nine photo studios he owns (even though Las Vegas is right next door), and the costs for art and lighting equipment skyrocket.

They also planned to turn their zoetrope studio into a state-of-the-art film studio capable of producing everything from shooting to editing, but the system was not mature enough to operate, and despite investing a considerable amount of money, they were unable to make full use of it. . Once again, the production cost was greatly exceeded and it was not a hit, resulting in Zoetrope Studio going bankrupt. Only huge debts remained.

The work he was hired to do to pay off his debts was `` The Outsider '' (1983). The film is based on the novel of the same name by SE Hinton, which depicts the lives of young people living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With Hinton as co-writer, the film aimed to create an orthodox melodrama for teens, similar to the modern-day Gone with the Wind .

The cast was all new at the time, including Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane. .

Shooting is going well. Coppola had read Hinton's other works and was drawn to one of them. It's not a group drama, but a small story of brotherly love. Coppola's ability to project his own admiration for his older brother, and the setting of an older brother who cannot distinguish colors, is unique, and may allow him to create a film with a unique style. It's a back-to-back movie that is like the two sides of "The Outsider." If The Outsider is a melodrama for teens, this is an art film for teens. Stirred by a new creative desire, Coppola approached the production of ``Rumble Fish'' with almost the same staff and in the same Tulsa location.

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