Godfather III to get a DIRECTORS CUT, coming back to cinemas
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OmegaK2099
Gettin' It In
Is there a downside to seeing more Coppola on the big screen? 
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She looked as cute as they could make her but she was far from bad.
Is there a downside to seeing more Coppola on the big screen?
Coppola wasn't the same director after Apocalypse Now. Filming that movie fukked his head up. He still made good movies, but nothing to the caliber of anything before Apocalypse Now.
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AnonymityX1000
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When Duval and then Ryder dropped out they should have thought twice about this third movie or fell back and recast Winona's part especially.
It's deeper than that. Running American Zoetrope was equally impactful to Coppola's change of outlook in general. He tried to make a radical move away from financial constriction and it turned into even more extreme financial constriction. I personally still think that the fallout from that led to him becoming a director-for-hire, and also what led to Godfather III (which I think is awful).
Highly doubt I will see this. I will probably read reviews and peripheral information that comes out regarding it: catalyst for it, who's personal motivations were involved, etc. That will be interesting without a doubt. There's a bit of a Welles-ian stink to all of this, I think.
AnonymityX1000
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Before that she was just known as the person who ruined Godfather III so yeah I was especially happy she was able to redeem herself in a different arena than acting.Sofia gave us Lost in Translation, so I try to let that god awful performance slide
ShaDynasty
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Coppola is working on some sort of epic movie atm that he thinks will be his defining film.
AnonymityX1000
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Cool looking forward to it. Any idea what it is about?
@phillycavsfan how did filming Apocalypse Now fukk his head up? What happened? Can you break it down? I never watched that film before but now i am intrigued.
There's a great doc about it - Hearts of Darkness - but basically the filming was a complete catastrophe. Horrible weather, skyrocketing costs, so many script changes that Coppola basically started writing it as he filmed, Sheen getting a heart attack, Hopper coked out of his mind, and Brando - earning a million a week - refusing to learn his lines and trying to improv everything. At one point he singlehandedly stopped production because he couldn't think of anything to improv and wouldn't read from the script. All of this of course happening in the middle of the Filipino jungle.
His wife recorded his phone calls, and he confesses to slowly losing his mind.