Coppola 's Apocalypse Now 1979.
Coppola seemed interested in them too.
Coppola is also a published author.
I always wanted to work with Coppola.
Now Coppola is a really interesting character.
Eventually, Coppola's daughter Sofia Coppola was cast in the role.
Coppola doesn't need to stretch his fortune out for 60 years.
Coppola considered all this and then decided to go his own way.
Coppola just asked if he could come over and film a“makeup test.”.
At their meeting, Brando told Coppola he thought the Godfather should look“like a bulldog.”.
When Coppola hit upon the idea of making it a metaphor for American capitalism,
Coppola later stated that the horse's head was
delivered to him from a dog food company;
Coppola was nominated as best director, and he
and Puzo won the award for best adapted screenplay.….
Coppola also had someone in mind to play the character of the Don's youngest son,
Michael Corleone.
Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now(1979)
reflected the moral confusion that the war had caused in the US.
Coppola first gained international critical attention for his screenwriting talents,
earning an Academy Award for 1970's Patton.
Nicolas Kim Coppola(born January 7,
1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director and producer.
He produced the soundtrack for FrancisFordCoppola's 1981 film OnefromtheHeart,
and subsequently made cameo appearances in several Coppola films.
Through his father, he is a nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and of actress Talia Shire,
The scene in the movie is the first take that Coppola had done, and is in fact genuine.
Francis Ford Coppola invested $7 million dollars of his own
money in the movie after it went severely over budget.
To get the movie made, Francis Ford Coppola had to come to certain agreements with different groups of Italian-Americans.
He, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented Martin Scorsese with his first ever
award for Best Director, for The Departed(2006).
Francis Ford Coppola had each of his parents,
his sister, two of his sons, and his daughter appear in the trilogy.
After witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Star Wars,
director Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start his own religion.
Coppola's breakthrough came with The Godfather(1972),
a brilliant, enormously successful, muscular adaptation of Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel of the same name.
When Coppola hit upon the idea of making it a metaphor for American capitalism,
however, he eagerly agreed to take the helm.
As a child, Coppola was a mediocre student,
but he was so interested in technology and engineering that his friends nicknamed him"Science".