Francis Ford Coppola

How is the futility and hypocrisy of war and bureaucracy explored by Joseph Heller and Francis Ford Coppola in Catch-22 and Apocalypse Now respectively? Catch-22 authored by Joseph Heller and Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are critically considered two of the finest examples of contemporary anti-war literature and cinema, despite neither being explicitly against the concept of combat as such, but rather, both opposing the bureaucratic absurdity that war inevitably entails.…

The film The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, produced by Albert S. Ruddy and it’s a classic film from 1972. The families of the Godfather are getting into a new drug and political trade, facing hard challenges and obstacles that come their way. The Godfather passes away and Michael the Godfather son becomes the leader of the family. Michael then hire men to shot five different family leaders which help solve all the problems. The movie uses Close-up shots because the director…

Sound designer and faithful collaborator Walter Murch was contacted by Coppola before the beginning of the shooting and touched more than one aspect of the film both during the shooting and the post-production; among his work on the film are the scene were the boat is patrolling on the river and stopping a Vietnamese boat (he felt like the viewers needed to see what the boat was doing in Vietnam when they were not carrying Kurt to his destination) some of the editing of the movie, but it most…

1969, it is the best-seller book in the history of the United states. This novel narrated a series of stories after Michael became a Mafia. Mario Puzo affected by the story of Italy Mafia when he was growing up. In 1972, Puzo cooperated with Francis Coppola - American director, screenwriter, producer, adapting the novel The Godfather into a movie. It was acted by superstar Marlon Barndo and won the forty-fifth Oscar Award for best film. During the process of adaptation, there are also some…

The Godfather is one of the most critically acclaimed and respected movies ever created. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, this film focuses on Michael Corleone; a boy born into a New York crime family. As the film progresses, Michael goes through a metamorphosis where he changes from isolating himself from, “the family business”, to running it. While there is evidence of this change throughout the film, it is best revealed how committed he was to his family in the baptism scene. This scene…

director Francis Ford Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness but set in the jungles of Vietnam. While some critics found the film mostly muddled, most agreed that it was a powerful and important examination not only of America's military involvement in Vietnam, but like Conrad's novel, a disturbing treatment of the darkness potentially inherent in all human hearts. "Apocalypse" means the end of the world, as when the earth is destroyed by fire in the Bible. As the film's title suggests,…

block that lasted three years. Hinton broke the block by writing two pages a day, which led to her next novel, That Was Then, This Is Now. She has since written various other novels and many different awards. The Outsiders remained popular, and Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie based off of the book in the 1980’s. The book The Outsiders is both similar and different to the movie version, but…

The Godfather is a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Gordon Hugh Willis. It is a film of the gangster genre because it involves mafia and has different aspects that will suggest and show why it is in reality a gangster genre film. The Godfather is a film that involves a family who is in the mafia and they are called the Corleone family. Which is going to show how the life of the main character would change and now it would center around the mafia lifestyle and becomes known as the…

What makes a family “family,” is depended on the sacrifices you’re willing to make, even if it means death. As cheesy as it sounds, this is what I perceived the message to be in The Godfather: Part II by Francis Ford Coppola, but in the Cinema, the main protagonist Michael Corleone loses what matters the most to him, Family. You get to see him and his household collapse due to his obsession of the family business and you get to view this through great angles this flick has produced. The sequel…

James Berardinelli, movie reviewer at reelviews.net, noticed the beginning, and end of The Godfather Part II is reminiscent of the first film, which in his opinion is a fantastic decision by the director, Francis Ford Coppola. (Berardinelli) Berardinelli says that Coppola ends the film with a jaw-dropping exclamation point. (Berardinelli) Personally, I agree with this statement as the ending of this film is spectacular, and leaves you with an impression for the ages. In the first movie…