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Francis Ford Coppola’sMegalopolisis in cinemas now and seems to have divided audiences. While the filmmaker funded the magnum opus himself, he reportedly had to struggle to get it released due to prominent distributors stepping away from the movie. However, the film finally managed to get a wide release but has not fared well.
One of Coppola’s best films remains the classicThe Godfather, which gave him his second Oscar for his screenplay, which he adapted from Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name. While Coppola was reportedly attracted to the themes and the setting of the story, he was apprehensive about its sleaze and decided to cut it out of the film.
Francis Ford Coppola’sThe GodfatherSignificantly Differed From The Book In One Aspect
Going through huge battles to make a movie the way he wants to is not new for Francis Ford Coppola. The filmmaker famously had a disastrous production onApocalypse Nowand his latest filmMegalopolisfaced several hurdles before getting made. Even his best filmThe Godfatherhad a lot of issues during production especially due to his feud with the studio.
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While celebrating its 52nd anniversary earlier this year, Coppola recalled the circumstances in which he got the job and how he first came across Mario Puzo’s crime novel. Despite not being interested in the Mafia, Coppola reportedly gave it a go due to the Shakespearean themes of development and tragedy in the story.
However, he reportedly had one problem with the way the story was presented in Puzo’s novel. He said (viaBBC),
To me originally, and anyone who remembers the original Godfather book, it had a lot of sleazy aspects to it, which of course were cut out for the movie, and I didn’t like it very much for those reasons.
These ‘sleazy’ bits included a vivid description of Sonny Corleone’s sxual escapades and producer Jack Woltz’s pdophilia.
Francis Ford Coppola’sThe GodfatherWas Its Commentary On The US’s Power Dynamics
The opening line ofThe Godfatheris as famous as any of the popular dialogues from the film which have become pop culture staples. It begins with the character Amerigo Bonasera telling ‘I believe in America’ to Don Corleone as he recounts the horrific r*pe of his daughter. Themes of the immigrant experience in America are rampant in the story.
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Francis Ford Coppolawas reportedly attracted to this part of the story and believed it to be an allegory of how th USA functions on the world stage and how it uses its power. He compared Michael Corleone to the growth of the country itself. He said (via BBC),
It seemed to me that Michael Corleone in the first Godfather, like America, started really with some ideals, freshness, and although he came from Europe, as America really was born out of Europe, there were these new ideals and new directions which was so inspiring.
The filmmaker reportedly made many parallels to how the country had operated on a global stage and how it had turned itself into a superpower and dealt with other emerging nations.
The Godfatheris available to stream on Paramount+.
Nishanth A
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
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