Here’s a weird turtle shirt designed by the director of The Godfather, and you’ll never guess what it’s for!

Not only is Francis Ford Coppola a 5-Oscar-winning director, to whom we owe enduring classics like The Godfather 2 or Apocalypse Now, he’s also the inventor of the t-shirt! You read that right, in 2005, a film director-producer patented an outfit that is truly unlike any other!

Do you know Coppola’s black and white film?

A true businessman, Coppola has his own websiteWhere you can find everything: pasta plates, picnic boxes, olive oil, glasses, corks, a Le Parrain hat, obviously wine, since “FFC” is also a winemaker, but not this famous T-shirt that seems to have remained. No market patent state.

This object is here:

If you don’t understand this strange design, know that you are looking at the back of the shirt and the numbers correspond to places that you can point to your friends so that they can scratch the exact spot of your itch. The script might be, “Scratch me in P8!” And your friend can perform carefully.

At least you have to know the T-shirt by heart, the location of the letters “TROPICS” and the location of the numbers on the turtle shell!

in the accompanying text patent What did the media get? AtlanticIn Coppola’s hand we can read:

You may find it very difficult when the itch is hard to reach, such as on the back.

And sometimes it’s impossible to describe exactly where you want to scratch, as the filmmaker further points out: “These instructions might include: ‘Can you rub me down?’ To the left… no, the second one to the left. Now below. Right, no, no, you’ve gone too far, go back to the left.” This situation can happen to healthy people with good dexterity, as well as people with limited flexibility, such as people with spinal injuries who cannot bend or twist in a certain direction.

Coppola’s next movie is called Megalopolis and it’s already shaping up to be an event!

Sure, there are already things to scratch like backscratchers, but there’s clearly nothing to scratch by hand and precisely, if Francis Ford Coppola is to be trusted, and this t-shirt accordingly answers a real demand.

Unfortunately, it looks like it never made it to market (and probably never will).

If you’re more interested in filmmaker Coppola than inventor, he’s currently finishing Megalopolis, the monumental film he’s been wanting to make for nearly 40 years, and which has everything on paper to open another Cannes Film Festival with a bang. May 2024. Continue!