The movie adaptation broke director Peter Weir's international career, and the symbols and tropes of his work of cinema have proved as culturally haunting as Lindsay's tale of picnicking schoolgirls who vanish into a mountainside on Valentine's Day, 1900.
Ultimately, mentorship plays such a big role in breaking directors that successful male directors tend to reach the helping hand to guys who remind them of themselves.
Lloyd was a distinguished teacher, ground breaking director, producer and champion of playwrights.
Formidable and occasionally terrifying, he berates, belittles and besmirches Mr. Bulger, and, in a paroxysm of rage, breaks the director's nose with a cane.
And though earlier this week the White House claimed that the FBI was still investigating Porter when the story broke, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that that the feds had closed the investigation and that the White House had been told about the allegations.
It's even rarer for just-trying-to-get-a-break directors in their 20s.
"We're recruiting these people into a profession that's broken," said Susan Bianchi-Sandirectortof of United American Nurses, the country's largest nurses' union.
"I think at this point there's no reason not to think that Commissioner Daines is genuine in his concern and that he really wants to fix what's broken," said Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers in New York City.
Greengrass made it happen with a canny mix of known, unknown and completely inexperienced actors, all of whom had to be broken into the director's very particular filmmaking style.
It's proving that a director is a director is a director, breaking out of what is perhaps Hollywood's most restrictive ghetto.
