21/04/2010

1983: Rumble Fish

Coppola's film about a juvenile delinquent trying to emulate his older brother suffers from a wildly lacklustre script and, to a lesser extent, a phoned-in performance from Harry Dean Stanton Dennis Hopper. Yet it's sort of enjoyable for its 1980s aesthetics: Filmed in black and white except for the fish, the frames depict a dirty, run-down neighbourhood, but in a squeaky-clean way: I bet all the dust you see onscreen is designer dust. (6) A better treatment of this kind of topic by Coppola is Outsiders.

2 comments:

Teen Dreams said...

Errr, you mean Dennis Hopper?

LemmusLemmus said...

Oh. Indeed. Corrected. Thanks.