89 21 Play trailer 1:16 9 Videos 99+ Photos Crime Drama Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger. Director Francis Ford Coppola Writers Mario Puzo Francis Ford Coppola Stars Marlon Brando Al Pacino A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. Director Francis Ford Coppola Writers John Milius Francis Ford Coppola Michael Herr Stars Martin Sheen Marlon Brando Robert Duvall See production info at IMDbPro RENT/BUY search Amazon Add to Watchlist Added by 597K users
'The Godfather' A Historical Curiosity that Proved Instrumental for Our Filmmaking Education
Francis Ford Coppola says Marlon Brando was a genius United Archives/Getty Images When speaking to GQ about his equally incredible career, legendary director Francis Ford Coppola opened up. CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD "Marlon Was as Dead as Could Be": How Brando Beat the Odds and Became the Godfather He was the only actor Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola could imagine as Mafia. Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 - July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist. Francis Ford Coppola (right) directing Marlon Brando (left) in The Godfather (1972).
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W hen director Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter-novelist Mario Puzo released The Godfather 50 years ago, the mobster had already been a stock figure in film for half a century. Their genius. For Rolling Stone's Last Word interview, Coppola opened up about why Marlon Brando is one of his heroes, how he almost invented the smartphone and how Apocalypse Now helped turn him into a world. For Fareed's latest special series "Extraordinary," Francis Ford Coppola explains how he cast Marlon Brando for his iconic role in "The Godfather." On Saturday, Aug. 20, don't miss an hour. It's too much." "In terms of Dennis Hopper," Coppola concluded, "God knows what he was doing.". Apocalypse Now Final Cut is available on Blu-ray and 4K HD now. Francis Ford Coppola discusses the.
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A brief scene in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now referenced the acclaimed director's first Hollywood link to the celebrated actor Marlon Brando. Although Coppola was known primarily for his masterful directorial efforts in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, he was also a skilled screenwriter, getting some of his first career opportunities as a co-writer for notable films such as 1970's. The studio thought Marlon Brando would be a problem on set and thought of him as "toxic," according to The Hollywood Reporter. But Coppola made a strong case for the actor by going to his house.
Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando on the set of The Godfather. (Photo: Paramount Pictures) The Godfather celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. The crime classic is often regarded as one of the greatest American films ever made, if not the greatest. But the movie had a famously troubled production, under the direction of relatively. Both Puzo and Coppola wanted Marlon Brando for the title character of Vito Corleone, the family patriarch and the ruthless leader of a crime syndicate. Paramount Pictures firmly opposed.
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Marlon Brando, playing Kurtz in Apocalypse, was one such actor. Coppola said that while he met Akira Kurosawa and Federico Fellini, among a dozen other "geniuses" in his life, "Brando is in. Marlon Brando died on July 1, 2004. Now in the aftermath of the tenth anniversary of his death, it is time to acknowledge what has been overlooked: that our foremost American actor had a mind. By Susan L. Mizruchi, Contributor Professor, Author of
Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work Jul 15, 2014, 10:06 AM EDT | Updated Sep 14, 2014
