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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2011 at 07:21
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:


Clerks


This.
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Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Bildungsroman, that's the literary term.


I said that yesterday.  Do keep up! Wink

Looking at the wiki page, some Bildungsroman novels have been made into films, some include:

The Kite Runner
Jane Eyre
Sons and Lovers
David Copperfield
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Of Human Bondage
To Kill a Mockingbird
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (as a BBC Adaptation)
The Swiss Family Robinson


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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:


Clerks


This.
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Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:


Clerks


This.

I wouldn't really call Clerks a coming of age movie. There's no real life lessons learned and no real loss of innocence. I would argue that Clerks 2 has more of that. Both are some of my favorite movies.

I would think Good Will Hunting is the best argument for a coming of age movie not taking place in one's early teens, which I generally think most movies of these type fit.


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 ^ I should see Good Will Hunting again, I wasn't so impressed with it the first time (though I am a Damon fan, The Talented Mr Ripley, Bourne Identity)

Anyone know a cult film called Bless the Beasts and the Children ?;  Bill Mumy and a pack of misfit kids run amok in the California hills on a mission to set a heard of Buffalo free.  This is weird '70s coming-of-age at its most disturbed and dark, kinda like Last Summer or Badlands but with much younger kids.




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Dead Poets Society is one I've grown to like more .. and another neat rarity is 1964's The World of Henry Orient with Peter Sellers as a conductor and the object of two teenage girls' infatuation until they nearly wreck his high society lifestyle.  Beautiful score from Elmer Bernstein. 
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My favorites are:

  1. This is England
  2. Spirited Away
  3. City of God
  4. The Motel
  5. La Haine
  6. Superbad
  7. Half-Nelson
  8. Adventureland
  9. Harold and Maude
  10. Breaking Away
I don't think the coming-of-age genre has disappeared or gotten worse: I think it's just been adapted into other genres. In the movies I've mentioned, for example, it takes the form of a fantasy movie and two crime films, but they're still at their heart movies about young people coming to terms with their man/womanhood. In fact, in that light, I'd say that the '00s was maybe the best decade for CoA films there ever was. 
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Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

I don't think the coming-of-age genre has disappeared or gotten worse: I think it's just been adapted into other genres. In the movies I've mentioned, for example, it takes the form of a fantasy movie and two crime films, but they're still at their heart movies about young people coming to terms with their man/womanhood. In fact, in that light, I'd say that the '00s was maybe the best decade for CoA films there ever was. 
that could be true-  I guess it's hard not be most impacted by the films seen in one's youth, whenever they were actually made
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by 40footwolf 40footwolf wrote:

I don't think the coming-of-age genre has disappeared or gotten worse: I think it's just been adapted into other genres. In the movies I've mentioned, for example, it takes the form of a fantasy movie and two crime films, but they're still at their heart movies about young people coming to terms with their man/womanhood. In fact, in that light, I'd say that the '00s was maybe the best decade for CoA films there ever was. 
that could be true-  I guess it's hard not be most impacted by the films seen in one's youth, whenever they were actually made


Very true. One of my other favorite coming of age movie's that I just barely left off the list is Francois Truffaut's Small Change. 
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Ghost World
Jim; I always felt like the end suggested the characters were dead, which made the title make sense..did you get that too or was I just imagining? (I know the comic book but never really read it)
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Ghost World
Jim; I always felt like the end suggested the characters were dead, which made the title make sense..did you get that too or was I just imagining? (I know the comic book but never really read it)

1. Omg yes Heart
2. I dunno k Shocked Wacko
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Points: 13229 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2011 at 04:27
There are many such films that were adaptations from books:
 
The Lord of the RIngs
Great Expectations
All's Quiet on the Western Front
Harry Potter
Tom Jones
 
And many others...
 
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Billy Liar (1963) directed by John Schlesinger from an adaptation of the Keith Waterhouse novel
Look Back In Anger (1958) directed by Tony Richardson from an adaptation of the John Osborne play
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2011 at 06:55
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by colorofmoney91 colorofmoney91 wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:


Clerks


This.

I wouldn't really call Clerks a coming of age movie.
Me either, still I love that movie. LOL
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Points: 7026 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2011 at 07:40
I think that My Life as a Dog fits in here. An excellent children’s movie for grown-ups – that’s extremely Swedish.
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