Take into account Francis Ford Coppola. After masterminding such irrefutable classics as The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and the Godfather sagas, he boldly tackled the teen genre with The Outsiders – and simply as boldly fell on his face. Standing once more on his personal two toes, he summarily slapped the dust off his breeches and proceeded to journey over Rumble Fish (a.okay.a. The Godson). Though his second jaunt into the world of adolescent angst was a dangerously moody piece with moments of heartrending magnificence, it lacked the constant genius of his earlier works.
I mean what on Earth is the …