While Mario Puzo’s book “The Godfather” isn’t usually mentioned in the canon of the Great American Novel, Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation is unquestionably one of the Great American Movies.
In the 10th-anniversary edition of the American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Movies list, “The Godfather” was second only to “Citizen Kane.” However, Coppola’s reputation as the premier auteur of the 1970s was not yet established when he made “The Godfather.”He had directed four other films in the ’60s, but none of them were on the level of the four classics he would helm in the ’70s: “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” “The Godfather Part II,” and “Apocalypse Now.” Paramount…The post Why Francis Ford Coppola Was Nearly Fired During The Godfather’s Production appeared first on /Film.
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