We remember the best phrases from movies written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, talent of the seventh art, a fundamental filmmaker.
Francis Ford Coppolawhose middle name is due to his father’s gratitude to the car magnate Henry Ford, was born on April 7, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. son of the musician Carmine Coppola and Italy Coppolawho worked as an actress before emigrating to the United States, discovered her love of filming at the age of nine, when polio forced her to stay in bed for almost a year and her only outlet was some puppets and a Super 8 camera.
Sponsored in its beginnings by the necessary Roger CormanCoppola debuted in partnership with the horror feature film ‘dementia 13‘, but it didn’t take him long to turn his cinema to a constant search for the somewhat more dramatic self. Founder of American Zoetrope with his colleague george lucasboth longed for total independence from major studios when it came to throwing themselves into an artistic project as huge as the shooting of a movie.
“The big hope for me is that now that these little 8mm VCRs and stuff, some people who wouldn’t normally make movies are going to make them. And, you know, suddenly one day some fat girl from Ohio is going to be the new Mozart, he’ll make a beautiful movie with his father’s little handheld camera and at last all this professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever and become an art form. That’s my opinion.”
Although it was relevant for the Academy since in 1971 it won the Oscar for best original screenplay together with Edmund H North for ‘Patton‘ (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970), when he really achieved glory was a year later with the premiere of ‘The Godfather‘ (1972), a fundamental work that gave him another statuette as a screenwriter and that, three years later, would win him the third, along with those corresponding to best director and film, for ‘The Godfather: Part II‘(1974)’.
“I feel that, at a certain moment, you have to go back to the beginning again. The best thing for me at this point in my life is to feel like a student again and make movies with the eyes I had when I first got excited.”
Member of the already mythological club of friends that includes george lucas, steven spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Ron Howard Y Robert Zemeckis, Francis Ford Coppola He was one of those responsible for the paradigm shift between classic and modern cinema. Many of the phrases in his films have been to blame for this to happen and, for this, we have compiled some of ‘dementia 13‘ (1963), ‘The Godfather‘ (1972), ‘The conversation‘ (1974), ‘The Godfather: Part II‘ (1974), ‘apocalypse now‘ (1979), ‘The street law‘ (1983), ‘Cotton Club‘ (1984) and ‘Self Defense, by John Grisham‘ (1997). Which one do you prefer?
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