Extended interview: Francis Ford Coppola on "The Godfather" and more
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- čas přidán 12. 01. 2023
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I met Coppola at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. He took the time to talk to me and I had the opportunity to thank him for all his wonderful films. He was the nicest gentleman, took his time to have a conversation with me. I broke the ice by telling him my middle name was Francis, I got a laugh out of him. What a great experience.
Wow, how nice!
Merv amazing story. Francis has contributed so much. He is a great artist and human being.
Was just there on Thanksgiving. Was he giving a speech or something? Or just there for a fundraiser?
Is your middle name named after Coppola?
Coppola used to come into the Trieste Cafe in North Beach here in San Francisco in 1970-71 and sit by himself writing on a yellow legal pad for hours on end day after day. One day I just happened to sit next to him and started small talking about nothing in particular and he mentioned that he was working on a screen play for a movie and he asked me what I thought of as a movie idea about a mafia families
experience of living in America etc;? I told him I thought that had already been done during the 1930's with Edward G. Robinson, George
Raft, Humphrey Bogart etc; and he said "not like this", "I said good luck with your movie" but I thought to myself that he was just another
North Beach wanna-be poet, screen writer, novelist etc; that frequented the cafe scene in North Beach. It turned out that the script that
he was working on was for The Godfather which turned out to be not just another gangster movie.
prove it
Francis Ford Coppola… virtuoso, gift from the cosmos… privilege to have come of age during this epic historical period. Best wishes, health, joy and wellbeing… 🥂
He is one of the greatest Cinema Directors of all times. I hope (and I pray) He'd be able to finish shooting "Megalopolis". That 'd be such a great ending to a wonderful Cinema Career 🎥🎥🎥
Coppola is my FAVORITE filmmaker, for decades. LOVED and still love "One From the Heart."
I also loved the series "The Offer" about the making of.
Thank you for recognizing the brilliance of One from the Heart. Amazing film that far too few people have seen.
The Offer was great!
Made a delivery from his apartment in San Fran to his winery/mansion in Napa, car collection was immaculately in order. Didnt get to meet the gentleman but I was impressed by his style of living.
Great interview with Francis ford Coppola 👍
And now Coppola is well into his 80's & directing his most ambitious movie yet! Most people who are fortunate enough to reach that age, are in retirement & nursing homes, Coppola is on-set applying his craft with the same vigor & energy he had all the way back in the those early years. Yes, he moves a little slower nowadays, but he hasn't lost any noticeable degree of intellectual prowess or attention to detail. There's just some people who defy the trappings of old age (William Shatner, John Williams, Clint Eastwood, & Harrison Ford come to mind) & continue to contribute quality work with a passion for life.
Also, Talia Shire hasn't aged a day since GF3! There must be some strong genes in the Coppola DNA!
he sure has aged well, hasn't he?
"The Most Important Critic of Cinema is TIME"
Francis Ford Coppola.
Madone...Jimmy looked frail in this interview. His performance is absolutely unforgettable. The death scene is poetry in motion. Francis at the end of the interview was moving.
It's amazing how many great films had troubled productions - The Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Bonnie & Clyde, The French Connection, Star Wars, Jaws, etc. Every one of them was predicted to be a flop upon its release.
Love Francis Coppola and The Godfather Movies , The best ❤️👍 love Gemstones 💎💎💎 also
This is such a great interview... or maybe I just appreciate the candor and vulnerability of FFC.
The Offer on Paramount+ about the making of The Godfather is a great show. How many great movies were never made because of studio pencilnecks?
Great movie! Excellent movie! Totally rewatch able!
There is also an excellent interview of Coppola taking about the making of The Godfather on the NPR radio program Fresh Air.
Nice to see James Caan was in pretty good humor so close to his passing on.
Absolutely one of the top five movies of all times Godfather and Godfather part 2!
The fact that they were making him cut things out of the script instead of letting this directorial genius work is maddening
Hurts to see one of my heroes (and his other famous colleagues) in his twilight years, but what a run. I love that he in recent years so openly talks about this, releasing the Godfather Notebook, etc.
Coppola's first major film was Finian's Rainbow a musical from 1968. It starred Fred Astaire in his last dancing role and Petula Clark who sang beautifully. The movie was dated even at it's release, but the beautiful music and scenery make it worth watching.
This is classic. The nice people of Hollywood. Especially Francis
Great interview. However, whoever edited this together should have put it in order and removed the geology/natural history report. Several sections of the interview were repeated, and then interrupted.
RIP James Caan
Just love this man. No b.s., and a lot of courage.
Wait....if Paramount wasn't going to let Coppola shoot the scene with Brando and the grandson....then how were they going to depict Vito's death in the final film? Were they just going to cut to the funeral scene?
The Godfather is a great film. Ive seen it many times. I always thought that Mario Puzo was a mafia contact of some kind-a snitch, an F.B.I. guy and he was telling stories about things he really witnessed. I was very surprised when I learned he made it all up!
Godfather 1/2 greatest movie's ever made
#2 Being the greatest of the two. imho
R.I.P James Caan😢
I like the way Jack Lemmon gives the Italian pronunciation for "Mario Puzo" when awarding the Oscar. The "z" sound in Italian sounds more like "ts". The Harvard educated Lemmon obviously spoke some Italian and was attuned to exact pronunciation .
Happy 85th Birthday Francis Ford Coppola
My husband loves The Godfather. I think it appeals more to men than women. But as a storyteller myself, I admit that the subject matter, the personal lives of mafia men, was compelling.
"Janice S" should relate to mafia movies/shows :)
Nick Cage’s uncle!
This is my favorite movie.
This video has one of the funniest "Most Replayed" graphs I've seen 😅
If and when Jane Pauley retires from this program, I hope Tracy Smith takes over....she is very talented!
Hello Mr. Coppola, how's your resort in Belize coming along? Belize is a very special place on Earth.
I am absolutely puzzled why you would chop your stories up now. And then on top of that when you go to the second part of the first story, you repeat part of it taking up valuable screen time. Is this kind of thing a way to make money to repeat things rather than to interview people for longer periods of time? It really wrecked you show
Of course I & II are absolute classics. But why did they even bother with III?
I think you should change your names for minerals that are good for you or should be an SOP for naming manner
I love Outsiders:The Complete Novel,Tetro,His wife Eleanor did the best documentary ever.Heart's Of Darkness:A Filmmaker's Apocalpyse:)just he facts...
Robert Duvall is in The Pale Blue Eye,that great new gothic supernatural thriller from Scott Cooper:)...
Amazing
22:03 for Francis Coppola taking the longview of history. The edit of him adjusting/biting his lip suggest SO MUCH more left on the cutting room floor as it were.
I never saw them losing
James Caan didn't even sound like himself man so sad to see. May he rest in peace!
21:00 “Son of the Godfather”😂😅😂 oh Francis kills me🎉😊 love him👏👏👏👏👏
Great director
Most Excellent ¿
"I should be shot for doing that. I really should be." omg francis
💞
Coppola and Lucas went from almost going bankrupt to directing The Godfather and Star Wars. Quite a comeback. Sounds like Coppola's still making nice royalties off of Apocalypse Now too. Coppola DID bankrupt his company in the 1980s though. Somehow that didn't come up. 😆
He's talked about that many times over the years. One from the Heart was an expensive failure, needed money, so was cajoled into GF III.
Businessmen what do they know about ART? Diddly-squat that’s what.
Rip Gavin Robinson 1936 2023
You see where the computer kind of messed up on the world
Minerals for diamonds and minerals for food
What’s the difference
Wait... Vito's death scene was cut out of the script? How were they planning to depict his death? Were they just going to cut straight to the funeral?
Tired of folks sugar coating the mob, ignoring how many children are exploited( tortured). It's an ugly world.
The blonde interviewer is under qualified for this job .😮
Come to brazil
Test of time. C A S A B L A N C A
One of the Maestros behind the camera - not many like him remain. The Godfather trilogy is deserving of all the accolades but my personal favorite is Dracula. My dad took me to see it when I was a teenager - we were into all the horror/mystery stuff and just between the two of us massive fans of film - I just remember how that movie in a theater with the sound pumped was just an absolute audio visual experience. The score is unforgettable.
Francis also gets best bottle of Malbec for me 😂 it’s crazy good wine for a modest price point
He told her you should ask people in the birthing people to verse human trees
Not sure Brando was really in "top physical shape".
So Russo is there is Oliver Lindig the bus driver He’s related to grandpa. Grandpa looks like daddy
Doesn’t speak
Jerry play grandpa
His run from '72-'79 is untouchable, though GF II and III were contrived (nice office/restaurant in the old Sentinel building in San Fran too).
yes, we call it the Coppola bldg; been there drinking his wine a few times and have seen him going upstairs to his office!
I disagree Godfather 2 is a more richer film it complements Godfather 1 by continuing the story. Sure Godfather 3 was rushed and not well thought of but still it has a place among the plethora of the series.
OK well that’s great
Thanks for this. So interesting that he IS embarrassed for having the started the sequel trend - I think in the long term will be viewed as the worst of Hollywood.
Why must you protect victor salva?
Did you know there was human trees when you wrote lion witch and the wardrobe
No
James Caan Reso as well. Oh he plays Russo
Hey so as him
Should I get the other version of Russo after
Or send it so I can see it in my map cover up everything I did or not doing it
Oh well too
Money minerals or money Life
Can we all these people are like someone else and I was like I’m a realist Meadowlawn nothing
And then he told the planting people to plant
11:04 The "remastered" scenes from 2022 look like crap. Soft, lost all of the deep blacks, and too washed out. Now it looks like an HD CZcams video
He's had an odd film career as a director. His legacy is based on 4 masterpieces: 2 Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation. The rest of his films range from okay to good.
Meh..such a cheap shot there. Wow. But that we all could have one tenth of his courage and genius.
To dismiss the Godfathers and Apocalypse in such a cavalier fashion.
May as well dismiss Lampedusa, Tolstoy, Moravia and Pasternak -- and Victor Hugo too, why not?
A lasting legacy not much different from that of others whose better contributions left a significant mark: Orson Welles; M. Cimino; P. Bogdanovich; B. DePalma, D. Lynch and others, not to mention S. Ray, Ozu, Ophuls, Renoir and Lubitsch.
She daddy if you just tell the truth you can tell Jerry what characters who played
Bonus.
Reading about Jeepers Creepers would have you change your mind about this man.😢
🆒💙🆒💙🆒💙🆒💙🆒💙🇺🇸🇮🇹!!!!!
Computer out that the fire
So any thing that’s called a mineral is valuable
So is there an actual grandpa character at the JFK grandpa Linda
Grandpa Linda. Linda play grandpa oh she can no. But she was
She supposed to switch him JERRY
I know the first experience with
It was in a packaging that look like chocolate milk
That’s the stuff that’s gotta be fixed that’s what you have SOP’s
So I’ll ever played Rousseau and Rousseau shot JFK accidentally
Oliver played Russo played Oliver
What is the bus driver got on the bus
And I think he was confused because they change the direction the mayor of Dallas change the direction
And he grabbed a gun from probably Vince over his dad
Just so they could get the scene done
I have a feeling they might win real people
And right around the back because he was definitely shot from the back
Because it you can’t ricochet a bullet from his chest to the other guy I like that it Hass to come from the back and then through the guys body into the other guys chill
Do you do it on purpose
No yes she did it on purpose
Russo.
the book is real trashy and Coppola turned it into screen art
How many IT when eating Rubys thinking if they’re good for
Nope how come you guys say nope what is that more letters
NOPE. Oh so you could add to let people know that you got it yay
That they got it
He is electronics
In the Rhodies
Oh my God in the world
Why is there wasabi so people won’t eat avocado
Did you know that he was really going to get killed
No
Is that really a star stone
No yes no
He sounds like a Russo
There’s a plane to park
BYOF is bring your own friend. He said bring your own flashlight
Should we bring your own friend
Linda still on with his
A lot
Lucille Ball your phone
WASHED UP.
Grandpa know that
Same thing for wasabi
Why would you make it look like avocado
Avocado supposed to be the best thing for
So you make wasabi look exactly like avocado
Guess what I did
And they did it on purpose
First time ever had sushi was in batter
Is it a restaurant that they keep changing
They changed it in the country restaurant it was Italian restaurant bars
I want phone it was a sushi rush
I guess that’s the target for the world is a dude whatever this restaurant
Yes 100% is
Probably if I go in there
Anyway so I get the sushi roll on that this big old slab of avocado sitting right no so I stuck the whole thing in my mouth
And they were just waiting for me to do it
I tried to hide it
w
Hi I was appointed at I mean Clint playing what’s his name now
Who shot them
Russo. From the back
Side. How did it ricochet on to the guy in the car
Governor mayor
Not possible
If he shot from the side how old is ricochet off his chest one minute they’re saying it went through woman and into the other guy
Yeah also the bullet went through them and went to the guy in the front seat
I can’t do that from the side
So there’s two gunman
Vince he shot from back
Fired her iPhone
So I heard her phone
the thing all young film makers should take out of this is...grow a beard
I guess it’s good if you mix is soy sauce with deserve her
No