Francis Coppola's Notebook on 'The Godfather'

This is where AI would fail.

He had The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon in the background.

I finished reading the novel a couple of weeks ago. Probably my MOST tabbed and underlined and highlighted book (plus annotations on post its and a separate notebook for extra notes). My mom saw my copy and said, "why the heck are there so many tabs and notes?!" I told her, "the novel is THAT RICH". I should also just show her this video haha

That thing belongs in the smithsonian.

It wasn't an accident, Coppola actually put in the work. What an great inspiration he is for any young person.

TRAITOR TRUMP IS PUTIN'S LAPDOG 😂😂😂😂😂

it insists upon itself

If kids today spent a year at film school studying FFC the box office receipts globally would triple. I can only marvel at his endless industry, imagination and organization.

Thorough preparation and deep care for the source material were key ingredients in making the greatest film adaptation ever. Anyone working on an adaption really should take a big inspiration from the method Coppola presented here.

Legend hats off🙌🏻

to me, this is cinema.

What it takes to be great. Wow

They sell autographed copies of that notebook at his winery in Geyserville CA

Such level of commitment to just one page of Bible studying would have saved your life

L I T E R A L L Y : EVERY SINGLE THING HE IS DOING HERE - a dickhead in the film community will tell you “is stupid” or “not to do”. This is why I don’t listen to ANYONE about ANYTHING anymore!

and meanwhile he invented apple computer with steve!

Wow, he used an analogue Laptop. How did they manage back then.

So that was the making of a masterpiece, Amazing!

Great voice, love listening to him

A master explaining his process. You cannot put a monetary value on such a thing.

sometimes I get jealous I wasn't born Jewish. at least then I'd have a chance at success in this world.

His touch to a scene. The kitten, the gesture for a drink for the undertaker choking in his speech. Hagen walking down long corridors in search of the studio head, the baker's son-in-law, dressed as a hoodlum, walking down the hospital corridor.

yet today the entire scenario has slid down to such abysmal levels that some tucci nondescript idiotic scripts/films like song sung blue nothing there to bugonia crass crude psychotic or trying to be, failing in it... hamnet after giving me rsvp wanted me to wait when i went to see so i don't know what that is same mold most probably nothing worthwhile is being made which makes you either entertained, thoughtful and think over like so many classics have which you still want to see.. so what is entertainment ? its audio visual content which takes your mind of for that stipulated time from whatever you ae going through in life, it either makes you laugh [comedies' or intense emotional dramas interpersonal relationships and something telling you to hold on to certain hopes beliefs and thus you pass that time then getting back into your regular everyday routine...somewhat relaxed and hopefully with new entertainment layers, 'thinking over' what was being discussed [nonfiction shows] to have passed that time 'pleasantly' maybe it might make you think about your own muddled relationships emotions sorting them out , and giving you new ways means to sort them out.. happens all the time... influence of content with intentions always been there not merely entertainment but sometimes a little more, world's classics are full of showing what idiots of leaderships are and why they are failure till now.. only made by showbiz...nobody else.. from books of earlier times, philosophical mystical romance love positive effects to those deranged delusional grotesque in audios visual that's about it...

normal everyday regular creatives just intent on their work and making it well also. Not in cheapshits sudra delusional and drugs zone. every director has its own personal style of working as imagination unfolds in their minds reading the material... and it always starts with writing on pages whether old fashioned paper pages or new electronic ones.

Franky made a bible

My goodness the amount that could be learned from one video and apply it to modern filmmaking - the humanity has truly been lost in current cinema. Fortunately we have some greats alive and working, but you really don’t see this kind of work often.

5:03😁

Must be some weird Masonic shit in there . . .

Now when you see the film and wonder why is it so extraordinary, you know why. The enormous time and effort spent by Coppola in dissecting the book, made him understand each character and event to its minutest detail, and that's the commitment geniuses infuse in any project they take up and that's one of the main reasons you cannot replace a genius, for you cannot replace their commitment. That's also one of the reasons why in spite of all the money and technology a 'Benhur', 'Lawrence of Arabia' 'Vertigo' or 'Godfather' can never be remade.

He and Woody sure are from the same world

imagine if every adaptation got this treatment (but to see how much work this is, it makes sense that not all adaptations are like that)

4:08 this is jidysz

The Master. The god.

Incredible to watch and listen to a great mind

10:00 Paramount, if they had known: "Damn, we paid him for nothing for the script!" ; )

What I love about the move is..how he made you care so much about people that were total scumbags.

wow now I want to annotate my books

Some movies like Godfather 1 and 2 are simply amazing. Every single second of the movie could be turned into a still and works great as either a photographic work of art or could be painted. It's mind blowingly good.

Super insight into the making of a great movie.. Coppola knew what he wanted to do and knew what he was doing.

Hands down the greatest film of all times with #mocos being the worst film of all time

Great movie and great explanation.

Coppola spent more time planning "The Godfather" then most modern directors spend planning an entire trilogy.

Drop the gun and don't bump into the camera!

So Beautifully Creative. 🤗

boring movie

This 10 minutes video is complete film school !

My VHS had about 30 pages of his markup in a booklet. It was very nice and I wish I kept the book.

Always remember Francis Ford Coppola was born in Detroit.
He is Detroit greatness