It didn't quite matter so much, though, because that film was more
about a generational conflict, a fear of growing up that's shared between the generations, and the way such attitudes are just a means of covering up insecurities and apprehensions about oneself.
From «Gigi» to «The Last Detail», from «Star Wars» to «Wall Street», from Training Day to just
about any recent Al Pacino vehicle («Scent of a Woman», «Donnie Brasco», «The Devil's Advocate», The Recruit), storylines which involve a young man's initiation at the hands of an older father figure into the ways of the world have proven irresistible to filmmakers, combining elements of Oedipal
conflict, the crisis of masculinity and the
generational gap in a neat coming - of - age package.