Released in 1983, Rumble Fish, Francis Ford Coppola’s follow-up to his adolescent coming-of-age film The Outsiders, follows the travails of young misfit Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a disaffected, alienated teenager from a broken home, prone to violence and rash behavior, and his complicated relationship with his legendary, aloof brother known as the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). Coppola’s aesthetic is a dramatic one, utilizing techniques of film noir and German Expressionism to showcase both the harsh world of adulthood that Rusty James fears entering and the lonely, colorless world of the Motorcycle Boy, which he cannot fully engage Continue reading...
