๐๐ก๐ง. ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ฃ๐ ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐๐๐ข ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ – ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ’๐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ – ๐๐ฎ๐ (๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐ญ๐ต๐ณ๐ฌ)
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, an American film director, sits next to his production team partner and fellow American director, GEORGE LUCAS.
COPPOLA – โI think it’s a sort of salacious, trying-to-make-money kind of book.โ
LUCAS – “It’s going to be a mafia movie. A film about gangsters.”
COPPOLA – โI just don’t see the point of making a movie about an Italian mob family.”
LUCAS – “Listen, Francis, we’re going broke. They’re gonna chain the door since we can’t afford to keep paying the rent of the studio. And you have to do this, we have no other alternative. We need the money.”
COPPOLA – “Ah. The hell with it. Let’s make a movie. But I want Pacino as the son. Brando as the don. Caan as the brother. Any my sister as the sister!”
LUCAS – “Okay, okay.”
COPPOLA – “And for Christ’s sake! I need more than two and a half million for a budget!”
๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐๐ฅ๐ – ๐๐ก๐ง. ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก – ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ ๐๐ช๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ – ๐ก๐๐๐๐ง (๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ต, ๐ญ๐ต๐ณ๐ฏ)
CLINT EASTWOOD stands at the podium.
EASTWOOD – “And best picture goes to…Albert Ruddy, Gray Frederickson and Francis Ford Coppola for the Godfather.”
Director STANLEY KUBRICK stands and applauds.
KUBRICK – “The Godfather was possibly the greatest movie ever made.”
Coppola smiles and turns to Lucas.
COPPOLA – “Well, looks like we’re making another one.”
They laugh. Coppola walks towards the stage to accept his award.
๐ฅ The Godfather will be recognized tonight at the 94th annual Academy Awards for turning 50!
๐ฌ The film changed Hollywood because it finally changed the way Italians were depicted on film. It made Italians seem like more fully realized people and not stereotypes. It was a film in Hollywood made by Italians about Italians. Previously, it had not been Italians making mobster films featuring Italian gangsters.
๐ฝ๏ธ It won Oscars for best picture, actor (Marlon Brando), and adapted screenplay, and was also nominated for 3 best supporting actor awards (James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Al Pacino), as well as director, editing, costume design, sound, and musical score.
๐๏ธ The book and movie were recognized for its historical value by the Smithsonian Institution.
๐ฟ Who you rootin’ for tonight?
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