In recent times, Boyhood (2014) is one the best examples to understand the coming of age genre. It traces the journey and life of a boy from age six through eighteen. Since this movie has been shot over a period of eleven years, the concepts of growth and life are brought out quite realistically as we can see the actual growth of the actors over the course of production. Interestingly, director Richard Linklater, during the making of this film, incorporated real life experiences of the actors as they grew through the production period. Linklater developed the script and screenplay of the film through the production, developing the next sequence according to the previous year's footage and incorporating the changes in the actors themselves in order to be be true to the requirement and essence of the film.
Historical coming-of-age films have become especially popular in the post-war period. Johnny Tremain (1957) tells the story of a Revolutionary War-era silversmith's apprentice. Most of these stories are set no more than 20 years prior to date when they were first produced.
The reason I chose these two examples was that they both belong to a different time period. Therefore, the style and method of shooting these both films are very different as well. Johnny Tremain is a 1957 movie where the setting of the story which is during the war era is giving direction to the characters growth. On the other hand, 'Boy Hood 'which has been evolving around the character himself, has been shot more through the perspective of the boy allowing his growth throughout the movie to define the setting and the progression. Overall both these movies have been classic examples of two different kind of movies falling under the same genre.
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