What Happened to Francis Ford Coppola?
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The conversation with Francis DID actually happen. There were about 50 people there, we all got to ask questions about filmmaking, and I did ask a question and said "hi Francis." And the advice about the one-word theme is something he really said.
I'm tired of defending your deep connection to the man. When people demand proof of your newfound fraternity, I tell them to buzz off with their cheap, shallow starfucking.
I'm also commenting to confirm that our lunch plans are still on Thursday. I bumped Ridley, so I think you really should honour our plans as a good friend would.
9:50 I wanna hear that Ford v ferrari discussion
I am totally on board with the
“drink-along”
concept for Willemites. I drank rum with this video
SLAINTE!!
You forgot to say Mickey Rourke when you discussed the talent that Francis has discovered. Sorry. I am a big Mickey Rourke fan.
Referring to Lucas' 'secret films', might you consider Red Tails and Strange Magic as the types of films he was talking about?
The sentence "Francis Ford Coppola is the Dom Toretto of Hollywood Filmmakers" is one that I bet Patrick has been dying to put in a video
So good.
@@bettyreads222 Ya love to see it
And it's totally true.
@@Tetsuito I wouldn't doubt it
Years ago I stumbled on a Howard Stern interview with Marc Coppola, nationally-syndicated radio DJ, Francis' nephew, and Nick Cage's brother. And I remember Howard saying something like "In any other family you'd be the top dog, but you're kind of the underperformer in yours."
So have we entered into Patrick's own Imperial Phase, with our willingness to go along with more and more outlandish, coconut-fueled depravity?
On that line of thinking, he says that Francis "always went harder than he had to." Same could be said for Patrick. And we love it.
I wonder if this isn't more a matter of Patrick opting to not go imperial, and to instead mine a creative middle ground. Like being the Elbow of music videos instead of the Coldplay.
"and like everything in Michael Jackson's past, deserves to be investigated thoroughly"
Christ
“Could basically do whatever he wanted”
DAMN
Just an incredible paragraph
Is so true. "Leave Me Alone" is the only song from him I've kept on my playlist. Just can't justify the others. Dude was messed up from the beginning, no doubt, but he hurt others too.
I was a kid when _The Jackson 5ive_ cartoon happened (and yes, that's how they spelled it). I will never not love the music of The Jackson Five.
They have , multiple times I don't think anyone was ever put under a microscope like he was
“Wait, I didn’t finish reading the subtitles!”
God these videos are so great
Jacob, I appreciate your concern, but it is unnecessary. You have nothing to worry about. Not only am I "okay" I am living life to the fullest. I could not be better if the heavens themselves opened their pearly gates and a thousand trumpets heralded me into the great beyond. I am truly in ecstasy. A life such as this is something that one strives for. I hope someday for you to find what I have found here. Now if you will excuse me, I have a video about my close, personal friend Francis Ford Coppola to finish.
If anyone is interested in what it said.
This almost rewrites history. Imagine if Star Wars flopped and One From The Heart had succeeded, the last 40 years of the film industry could've gone completely different.
I'd say the American film industry would become more decentralized, and there'd be way more baffling passion projects.
There's a good chance that hollywood now wouldn't be so focused on making franchises, sequels and remakes. I for one, would be happy if the film industry turned out this way.
Mcu would be alternative
Star Wars was referenced in nuclear defense. Id daresay world history would be different if SW flopped.
It only could have flopped if the audience wasn’t ready for a fantasy sci if action movie. The context of culture for that decade was ready for something and Star Wars delivered that. Wether we like it or not.
There's a movie where Nicholas Cage and Jim Carrey co-star, and the entire set remained intact long enough to film the whole movie?
Probably because they were still young, unknown and replaceable
I'm pretty sure that if you watch it on Bluray you can see the teeth marks on everything.
Only film in the criterion collection?
My criterion collection laserdisc of Bram Stoker‘s Dracula directed by my boy Francis Ford Coppola begs to differ
Much of it is likely due to the potential cost and studio unwillingness to license many of his other films.
That Tucker, Speed Racer, Ford v Ferrari triple feature idea is goddamn galaxy brained.
I did it shortly after this video came out, and it _was_ good!
"Is... SPEED RACER the best movie ever made... ?"
Yes.
I, unironically, adore that film.
Emile Hirsch and Susan Sarandon alone have made me avoid that movie like the plague. But I've heard things. I'd love to love it, but for them. Love Cloud Atlas. Long live the Wachowski Starship.
@@andrewklang809 I get avoiding Hirsch but why Susan Sarandon?
Need to get around to watching that one. I rarely hear about it, but whenever I do it's someone claiming it's awesome.
@@RelativelyBest It's hard to really explain that movie, you will be blown away by what it is, cause it's something really different and special.
The fact that Francis Ford Coppola still hangs around Oklahoma, and especially Oklahoma City Community College (cause Gray Frederickson, one of his classic producing partners, is the dean) rules. Also apparently my music theory teacher claimed to be the composer of the Coppola wine commercial jingle, and kept calling Coppola "Francis". Pat, you gave me vivid music theory flashbacks.
Better the college than the high school.
I’m about to go to OCCC’s film school, I’m really excited!
ok, was anyone gonna tell me that Nic Cage is Coppola's nephew, or was I supposed to hear that in a Patrick H Willem video essay myself?
I found out about it on Wikipedia last week and it blew my mind
Cage is his stage name, His real last name is Coppola. He changed it to avoid nepotism.
@Polymath Poor boy is gonna have some serious self-worth and identity issues with that kinda name though, I'm quite sorry for him.
Thought it was common knowledge by now...?
I’ve known for 20 years
To me, the most interesting thing Coppola said about Rumble Fish, is that he wanted to make an art movie for young people. He wanted to make an arthouse, experimental film that would appeal to teenagers. To get them thinking about movies as art, I guess.
Don't forget about another Coppola: Jason Schwartzman! without him the 2002 song "California" by Phantom Planet probably wouldn't exist.
Was that the tucker movie guy? I thought that was William Hurt.
Caliiiifooornnnniaaaaa
I’ve always known that Jason was FFC’s nephew but I didn’t realize until recently that he’s Talia Shire’s son
Should also be mentioned that Francis and George helped support Akira Kurosawa's big comeback in the 80s by producing Kagemusha. Also helped produce Paul Shraders masterpiece Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters.
young Jim Carrey and Young Nick Cage could have been the perfect comedic tag team.
Jim: Moooc
Nic: Yeahhh
Jim: kiiing
Nic: yeahhh
Jim: biiiird
Nic: yeahhh
@@motor4X4kombat exactly, perfect lol
"Next video will be about Austin Powers"
No one:
Me: Yeah baby, yeah!
Charl’s blazing eyes above the city made me actually fall out of my chair laughing. This is what true art looks like.
Patrick is a genius. Sure, Coppola helped "discover" Keaton, Lane, Pacino, Cage, Dillon, Fishburne, Swayze, Macchio, Estevez, Cruise, et al. But Willems brought us Charl. All hail Charl!!!
It was the IRL subtitles that did me in...
Mark my words: years after George Lucas has passed, Criterion will put out a collection of all the small films he has made in secret since selling off Star Wars and it will be a wonder!
I gotta give Patrick special props: He frames Lucas as a reluctant "one-trick" blockbuster director better than Lucas himself does. I LOVE the Original Trilogy, but I still feel bad it hijacked Lucas' other ambitions. Don't know why he couldn't have pursued them after '83 Jedi (granted, Howard the Duck WAS a big gamble). But he had time. I woulda loved to have seen the crazy $#!+ he coulda put out between '83 and '99.
It still makes me sad that when Spielberg, Howard and Zemeckis politely declined the Prequel gigs, Lucas didn't go to the next tier down of directors.
@Mitch Lang From what I understand, that's almost precisely what Lucas was aiming for when he started writing The Force Awakens.
@@andrewklang809 Nothing like replying years late to a comment on a video I just watched.
I'm not so sure one can lay the blame squarely at the feet of 'Star Wars' (or maybe I'm just defending my favourite trilogy of movies ever :p). Lucas himself has said in interviews that his primary focus during the 1980s and early 1990s was to raise his children. I would have loved to see him indulge his weirder, more experimental muse after 'Star Wars', but can't help but deeply respect his decision to prioritise his familly. (It also doesn't hurt that he and his companies made MAJOR other valuable contributions to film during that decade.) What I'm really curious about is whether there was any internal tension between returning to 'Star Wars' with the prequels or doing other projects, and what tipped the balance in favour of the former.
@@Rain-King I will ALWAYS bear a grudge against Lucas for trying his damnedest to burn the theatrical Star Wars Original Trilogy forever in favor of his stupid CGI'ed Special Editions, despite the fanbase vehemently begging for a proper HD version, but that aside, he seems like a decent dude. Very anti-(Hollywood)-establishment, very creative, very gutsy. A very New Hollywood guy.
I can understand everyone he knew begging out of doing the prequels (anyone would have done them better, I agree with above that someone, anyone, should have taken over), because who would want to put their reputation up against the mighty OT. Once he conceded to doing it himself, Lucas was both lazy and too comfortable/pandered to during production. Like he just wanted to get it over with, again not caring how a half-assed production would tarnish his earlier triumphs. And that's his fault too. He seemed to have checked out very early.
But he then took Disney's money and gave it all to charity. He could so easily have sold out, built his own Xanadu (Citizen Kane reference) and told the world to eff off. But instead he took all he already had and gave away the Star Wars billions, just to be rid of it. If only he had done so twenty years earlier, his professional reputation could have remained unsullied.
i don't where all this Charl stuff is going but i feel like it might be a framing device to get the viewer to watch Speed racer...
Well, I am planning to finally watch it this weekend. So it kind of worked.
Everyone should watch that multiple times
Feels more like a ploy to get everyone to watch Cast Away again (or maybe Ed, Edd n Eddy if he really wants to surprise us), if anything.
I think it's fair to argue that both Patrick's whole channel as well as Blank Check are framing devices to get viewers/listeners to watch Speed Racer
Francis and George need to collaborate on a new THX 1138 using all the skills and knowledge they have pioneered over the decades.
I didn't realize how many Coppola movies I haven't watched. The whole 80's period is mostly a blindspot for me. Time to remedy that. Incredible content, easily my favorite TH-camr.
Francis Ford Coppola making The Outsiders: I’m gonna give the girls and the gays what they want
and then I am gonna make another movie with the same cast but now with alienation. Truly an internet man.
Oh right, like ANYone's ever found Patrick Swayze attractive.....................
I’m kinda stunned you think Coppola invented storyboarding. I know anything pioneered by animation artists has to be dismissed or at least minimized as much as possible, the prevailing attitude within studios being that if these so called “filmmakers” had any real talent they’d be working in live action. We expect Andy Serkis to misunderstand marketing for actual contribution, but Coppola invented storyboarding? Bich please.
Man Imagine if Lucas decided that Zoetrope was the place for Star Wars instead of going entirely independent. George would have a bunch less pressure to wear multiple hats in empire, more actual collaborators to mitigate his unilateral decisions, and safe hands for the series so I wouldn't have eaten his career as much. And Coppola would have had a nice cash cushion so he could afford to fail a bit and the banner to attract investors. Star Wars would have funded a ton of independent films; possibly enough to foster another entire generation of more auteur New Hollywood directors.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that young Jeff Bridges’ face looked weird and plasticky long before TRON: Legacy
Holy shit
Bruh
Lol, "young".
Also, any movie that he's cheery in, he's stoned out of his mind. The only movies he does where he isn't stoned are ones like Iron Man, where he's pissed off. He apparently has immediate withdraws and gets irritable when he isn't high.
Yep he's only looked human and normal in his old age with his wrinkles and shit. The beard helps too.
I actually bought a bottle of director's cut and discovered two things:
1: For expensive wine, it's not that expensive.
2: I hate red wine, and ended up using it to add to a broth I made for beef stew. That was some damn good, chocolate-tasting stew.
Beef stock + red wine =/= chocolate. What else did you put in that brew?
You put me in mind of Carl Weathers in "Arrested Development" with that second one!
@@andrewklang809 it’s chocolate flavoured red wine because he’s insane
well usually mass quantities of items are sold at lower prices for a higher return than expensive items at low quantities
George Lucas was a co-director for Red Tails! That was a huge passion project personal to him, although I can forgive you for forgetting about it.
Oh it was a story that need to be told (of the Tuskegee Airmen) the movie was terrible!
About "Jack": I suspect he earnestly made that movie for his fatherless grand-daughter, just like the dedication says. And maybe he's just a great granddad, and someone let slip that he was just like a 10-year old trapped in a grown-ups body and how nice that was, when her own father, Gian Carlo, sadly died so young and before she was born.
So many directors, as they age, want to make movies for their children/grandchildren. It's tempting, must be especially so for those who typically put out R-rated fare. I'm SOOOO happy Scorsese made Hugo. Which he also said he made so he could show one of his films to his grandchildren. It's a lovely film, visually gorgeous and full of heart. It's clear he made it with all of his heart, and it couldn't be seen enough.
*I* care about the wine stuff, Patrick.
The fact that Jim Carey and Nicolas Cage being in the same film is something I wasn’t aware for all my life kind of upsets me , seriously how did I miss this .
I know!
I watched this yesterday and the interview of Lucas has really stuck with me. He's so sad, as someone who's made art in the past, but doesn't really in the present, I think I really get what is eating at him. I truly hope he says "fuckit, I've got all this money, I'm just gunna start making things again." Say what you will about Star Wars, but it's hard to deny that it has brought SO MUCH joy to the world, I think it's father deserves to not be filled with regret later in life. I'm rooting for you George.
I just saw this segment of his interview today. He says something about "I have had this massive success after this detour (Star Wars) of 30 years. I just want to fail at things for the rest of my life (finally)". It is as if he had no choice but to take responsibility about this mounstruous and out of control creation of his that he had no intention to create in the beginning, nor could foresee the repercusions of.
He go himself chained to this artistic monster and got rid of his real dreams. His success came at the expense of his real desires and creative freedom.
Things come always at a price, and despite everything, Coppola has been able to obtain that freedom at the cost of success. Who feels better at the end of their journey though?
Tsk, tsk, tsk Patrick... you can't reference Achtung Baby / Zooropa, but play a snippet from The Joshua Tree :P
I was wondering about that.
I love the idea of "George Lucas' Underground Hollywood," in which he's filmed a half-dozen or more fully produced movies using big name actors, that nobody's ever heard of because he made no attempt to show them to anyone. Only the cast and crew know the movies they were in even happened.
So you're telling me that if Coppola hadn't hired family to work on his films, then I wouldn't have the iconic Nic Cage quote "NOT THE BEES!" in Wickerman? Very well, Coppola. Carry on.
Hey, we also got Face/Off.
We have all been blessed!
I secretly worry that something is going to be revealed about Patrick that's going to make the whole "he's steadily going crazy" storyline be a lot less funny.
I openly worry that you're worrying about that
N.A. Fat you know? At least Patrick is aware they are cringe. It’s an extra that you might like or not, but his videos are 100% concentrated on film analysis and having fun. Doug walker, in the other hand, just makes skit videos he thinks are funny and label them as “reviews” and nothing else.
Yeah the joke about being "alone and childless" cut a bit deep, tbh.
You do realize that the persona he takes on these storylines is a fictional one, right?
@@rafaelandrade7627 I do. I absolutely do.
33:03 I agree with him. Marvel movies range from a strong 5 to a light 7. There's no real reason to get whipped up in a frenzy over something mediocre to passable.
Adding to the thing about the drop off, one of the most gut punch quotes I've ever heard was from William Friedkin. People call and want to talk to me about what I made. No one wants to know what I want to make anymore.
DID Coppola really pioneer storyboarding or did he just popularize for live action the same thing the animation industry (particularly Disney) had been doing for decades?
So funny thing about The Outsiders and Rumble-fish, my dad was in both of those movies as an extra. During the Rumble at the end of the Outsiders, he was a greaser. And honestly i never saw the other film.
It just occurred to me that you COULD do a separate video about Sofia's work, and it too would have merit.
Broey Daschenel has a great video on Sofia which is as of yet the best video essay about her on YT
I do wish we got more films by George Lucas like the ones he made in film school. He seemed like such a cool and experimental guy at the time
I don’t know, he’s done so much for pop culture with video games that basically popularized western RPG, just by making movies and creating a creative environment for EU writers. Not to mention his work in television such as The Clone Wars and Young Indiana Jones which are both critically acclaimed prequel tv shows before Better Call Saul. I mean he may have left film making, but he made an entire environment for people to be creative.
Early Vintage George Lucas is my favorite filmmaker. I love how in his early days he talked about editing by feel, and that certain images juxtaposed together create a feeling you wouldn't have expected going in. I hope he gets that sense back of editing by feel instead of schematic.
Never realized how many on Coppola's films I saw growing up. My mom was Italian and any movie made by an Italian was good
Gotta take a shot. Patrick brought up Speed Racer.
Oh god I literally cannot wait for that Austin Powers video
Happy to see you here Simon! 😊
One can also attribute his casting his daughter as helping her decide/realize she can't act well & go into directing instead where she excels at
Wish the Dracula part has more time spent on it. It's innovative and old fashioned at the same time (for when it came out). That said, I hope to god there is a version out there that tweaks special effects since in HD some of them have their trick clearly broadcast on the screen (the shadow that acts on its own is probably the stand out example). Now there is not a lot of that, but still - cleaning up the few didn't-age-well effects would be fantastic.
It you want to hear Patrick (and Matt and Jake) talk at length about Dracula I highly recommend listening to his podcast "Can't Get Enough of Keanu". One of the episodes is all about Dracula. They recorded it around Halloween too.
Patrick probably didn't want to delve to deeply into it since it was already covered in The 90's Dark Universe video
11:43 The defining factor between Coppola and Lucas.
I have respect for Lucas, but a long-held love for Coppola.
For the first 5 minutes of this video my phone was in nighttime gray-scale mode, and I just thought it was a creative choice on Patrick's part...
Lolololololol (like seriously I laughed way to hard at this)
Anyone excited for his daughter's movie about Bill Murray and Rashida Jones
@@johnmiltonkeynes but Bill Murray, tho
I'm sorry but, as much as I know FFC cares about his family, his nepotism really irks me the wrong way even in the best of cases. It just feels like taking the opportunity away from someone who isn't related to one of the greatest directors of all time.
@@pegasusdrive12 dawg what did u expect. Most people would do that in that scenario. As far as the new SC movie I heard it was mid.
Not really interested in the lives of the wealthy they don’t really represent the people who actually go to the movies.
I've seen it last week, as it already released in my country.
What I am looking forward to is his grand daughters movie "Mainstream". Going to see that one next week.
Me. I'm a big fan of Sofia's work.
Your videos are so watchable and comforting, even if I don’t know anything about the subject I still watch.
Lacey was first!
4:53
*Nic Cage is Francis' nephew but that's splitting hairs and the guy is a phenomenal actor.
†Also I need to add that this is shaping up to be my favourite of the 'Wine Trilogy'.
‡Got further in, you mentioned point 1. Disregard the first part of the first entry, but not the second.
Is Nic Cage a phenomenal actor? I'd say he's a phenomenal meme and a mediocre actor who shines only when used in a role written to be over-the-top (Raising Arizona, Leaving Las Vegas, and Adaptation.) or when the whole movie is bonkers anyway (Face/Off, Con Air). The one exception is maybe Moonstruck, although it should be noted that three actors were nominated for Academy Awards for that movie and he wasn't one of them.
Also, there is no way FFC should get credit for discovering him, that should go to Martha Coolidge who pulled his headshot out of the not-handsome-enough pile for Valley Girl and cast him in the lead role.
Wait Nicholas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's Nephew?
Am I the only one just now learning this?
No, there are others who don’t know.
It took me a while to realize that Jason Schwartzman was a Coppola (son of Talia Shire)!
I do wish we got more films by George Lucas like the ones he made in film school. He seemed like such a cool and experimental guy at the time
It's weird that that experimental attitude just wasn't there in the Prequels except for a self-defeating attempt at documentary-style flatness.
@@blokey8 Things had changed by then
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 agreed. It's just going to be forever weird to me that those films were so perfunctory in so many ways - and why, when Spielberg and others refused, Lucas didn't pitch those just a little way down the food chain. Obviously Rian Johnson polarises like nothing else, but that balance of individual spark, experience and willingness to collaborate (he worked together with some of the tie-in novelists) seems to me like what Star Wars needed.
Or even just someone who could be a safe pair of hands like Favreau... which would have meant Martin Campbell back then?
@@blokey8 when making the original Star Wars, Lucas needed help to tell a good story as he put more emphasis on the experimentation and special effects when making the film at the time. He was able to create a philosophical tale of good and evil thanks to the creative assistance he got. With the prequels, however, George just let his creative freedom get to him
@@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 Yep. And it's telling to me that lots of great character beats in the other two trilogies came from the actors and the filmmakers welcomed them (for example, Daisy Ridley suggested Phasma's helmet breaking and it was Domnall Gleeson's idea to have Hux nearly pull a gun on Kylo), while the PT had little room for that.
Can’t tell if it’s nepotism or just that his family is crazy talented
A little from column A and a little from column B?
In the before times, the long long ago, your one joke was that you weren't funny. And then lockdown and shit got weird. Im so glad you've shaken off that idea because as its faded away, these videos are funnier and funnier. This is so hilarious. I don't know why but seeing the backside of diegetic dialogue text that isn't being spoken is genius, and I didn't think anything would be funnier then the line about MJ. Hats of and glasses raised to you and Charl
I think stuff like the red sky coconut shows Patrick's storytelling is getting too good for TH-cam.
I REALLY hope this becomes a regular thing on this channel where you go through and study a director's entire filmography. Like a film version of Mic the Snare's Deep Discog Dive.
Did Max Reebo appear in Captain Eo? If so, then that makes it part of the Star Wars universe
Coppola lost years of his life fuguring out if he wanted to be a tycoon or an auteur , but what downed his the most was stooping to direct a John Grisham movie, The Rainmaker feels he never really became an auteur. “Woody Allen sits down, writes the script, goes out and makes the movie, one after another. He would never do a Grisham book. His career is the one that I most respect. I always wished that I could have done that.”
That's too bad, because Rainmaker is the best Grisham movie and it's not close.
EDIT: Patrick, it's better than The Firm, sorry
@@ImJustHereToWatch14 Agreed, and I rate _The Client_ ahead of _The Firm_ as well.
@@dwc1964 it was my first exposure to Grisham and I was the same age as the main character, so I can't be objective about The Client, but I don't think anyone would claim Susan Sarandon was anything but excellent
@@ImJustHereToWatch14 the main character reminds me of a relative when he was that age, in a lot of ways that make it poignant to me - not that he was ever in any sort of situation like that at all, but I could picture him as that kid.
And of course, Susan Sarandon is outstanding as always, as is Tommy Lee Jones, and I liked the way they played off each other.
And let's not leave out the legendary Ossie Davis. And the whole rest of the cast is great as well.
Wait. Wait. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...
The Rumble Fish is the ONLY Francis Ford Coppola movie in the criterion collection? Not The Godfather, not The Godfather Part II, not Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and not Apocalypse Now?
That...doesn’t feel right.
There should be more, but Rumble Fish does in fact, fucking rule.
@@elibigler1905 I’m not disagreeing. But...the ONLY one? Rumble Fish is the ONLY artistically significant movie he’s made, according to the Criterion Collection?
There is something called rights and major studios have the rights to all those movies that you listed it's also why other movies like lawrence of arabia or citizen kane aren't in the collection either they just make the studios way to much money.
And here I was thinking Hammett would synch the spot in the Criterion Collection.
@@nickgreene1096 Ah. Checks out. Still sounds funny to say, y’know?
i am sure lucas has made a bunch of stuff he never published which were just him playing around with ideas and maybe not more than home videos but now i want to believe he keeps releasing some super niche art films under a false name and we will only find out once he dies. Is that plausible? I know some popular writers have done that but a film would need to involve more people so idk how plausible it is you could direct movies and release them under a false name and no one would realize it (when you are as famous as lucas anyway)
You're all here lamenting and romanticizing Francis Ford Coppola's career, while I'm still thinking about the fact that Nicholas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew
I understand that Coppola only cast Sofia in "Godfather III" because Wynona Ryder was originally cast in the role but had to withdraw. Sofia, the story goes, was a last-minute replacement.
Also, pronunciation-wise, the Japanese name "Eiko" (as in "Eiko Ishioka") rhymes with "fake-o."
P.S. I appreciated Pat reading the colorfully worded descriptions of the wine he was drinking. I think phrases like "hints of chocolate and rutabaga" are intriguing.
The studio also forced Keanu Reeves onto him for Dracula. They refused to back Johnny Depp for Harker due to his lack of box office draw, and Christian Slater said no.
The Achtung Baby/Zooropa comparison is beautifully apt. I've written about both films at length, but this is the best and most succinct way of putting it. :)
I don’t get why most of your videos DONT have a “The Weird Shit” segment.
"Because it was the 80s and sh!t like that happened back then" - AMAZING 😂
This is really the best YT channel about cinema. So entertaining and insightful at the same time. Patrick's analysis are always very accurate and are manifestly fueled by a phenomenal love of cinema. Not to mention the craft that is top notch. As an aspiring cinematographer I greatly appreciate the efforts put into the technique. And he is the only YTuber whose fictional bits I actually enjoy. Overall I've become more and more addicted over the years to his work. Those are the videos I'm eagerly waiting to see and delighted to see appear on my YT homepage. Patrick is doing an incredible work and should be rewarded or something. I want this guy to get recognition. Can't wait to see his film. If I was living in the States - I'm a Frenchman - I would love to work on his future film projects. I'm sure those will be very interesting.
Do you have a video where you go into detail about Ford v. Ferrari being about filmmaking? Thanks.
Going waaaaaay back, but you know who else was fantastic at casting actors? Elia Kazan. He directed the star making turns for Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Warren Beatty. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Just a huge amount of talented actors appeared in his films before they made it big - everyone from Andy Griffith to James Woods. Plus nearly one-fourth of all Academy Award winning performances from 1945-55 came from actors appearing in his movies.
I'm from Mendoza, Argentina. And yes I'm drinking local wines with you while watching.
Yum, any Malbecs?
Okay, now I REALLY wanna see a movie about how Coppola started the '70s at the top while Lucas was at the bottom and within a decade Lucas was at the top and Coppola was at the bottom.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is part of the Criterion Collection. It was on laserdisc but still part of the collection nonetheless.
The comparison that you mentioned between Lucas and Francis is really interesting. Lucas sadly does seem bitter and uninterested about filmmaking. Talking about tucker and how it possibly reflects on Coppola's failures but still having positive outlook on life is really uplifting.
A few random observations and musings...
1. Coppola and Lucas also kicked off Kurosawa's latter-day golden period, as co-producers of Kagemusha. And the battle scenes lighting is eerily similar to many takes in Dracula.
2. My favorite Coppola 80s movie has to be Rumblefish. I screened it at a cultural center, one of the younger audience members said at the end "Now I know where Sin City came from", what an astute comment.
3. Lucas went all-in on Howard The Duck and lost spectacularly, but his ownership of a percentage of Star Wars plus ALL of its' franchising allowed him to stay independent. He could have done independent films, he just "never got around to it" and blames Star Wars for it, even as he did NOT work on the franchise for something like 12 years.
4. A friend who headed customer relations for a luxury hotel on the Mexican coast had Coppola as a guest several times. She said Francis was the nicest, most generous famous person she has ever met. And it shows in his interviews and auditorium talks here on TH-cam. I just wanna give this wonderful man a great big fat hug and thank him for the gifts he has given to our lives.
I like Charl's new haircut in this one.
For those who are french speaker, I highly recommend the youtube channel "Le ciné-club de Mr. Bobine" wich did an entire video about the connections between Tucker, Speed Racer and Ford VS Ferrari, and their report to the hollywoodian industry
Just imagine the alternate universe where zoetrope Studios produced The Empire strikes back.
Makes me sad to think about how Star Wars ruined George Lucas artistic career...
Especially since we don’t really have any more evidence if he was a good director aside from THX-1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars (1977).
"The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting exactly what you want" - Oscar Twain, probably.
@@pavarottiaardvark3431 that sounds stupid
You know what they say. Money talks.
You are basically TH-cams Hideo Kojima I feel. Strange meta stuff, great production values, interesting topics while having one core topic it all evolves around, quirky in your very own way, you make absolutely fantastic videos... but it seems like you just want to make movies.
... damn I'd watch a PAtrick H Willems movie in cinema.
Wow. The George/Francis comparison is really cool. They're like broken reflections of each other. I did not expect that in this video. Well done!
I enjoyed this. Can't think of anything, so there's the algorithm comment from me.
Oh here's something: that part about him having family reminded me how envious I am of a time where having kids seemed like a good idea, and the future was something positive.
I procrastinated from my Skillshare course on productivity with Thomas Frank to watch this and Thomas ends up being in the video.......
Theory:
Patrick was so upset about the Jane Austen video bombing that he came up with the extended story about him going insane and the final lesson will be basically insulting us just because we did not watch that video (or non male centric content)
This is a good theory but don't you mean the little women video? ;)
This is a great theory!
You should make you reading the conversation script a patreon goal
This may be common knowledge, but Nicholas Cage is actually Francis Ford Coppola's nephew.
"'Captain EO'" ..... may be the most watched thing Coppola has ever made. That's weird...."
Weirder than "Popeye" being the most-watched thing from Robert Altman?
Wow I didn't realize the outsiders was directed by coppola
Wow, I didn’t know he “directed” an episode of Saturday Night Live!
Can we get an hour of just Patrick stoically playing the concertina?
I'm just here for the wine segments, honestly.
I'm not but at the same time I won't complain; it would just be sour grapes.
“Francis Ford Coppola is the Don Toretto of Filmmakers “
- Patrick
23:53 seriously, when they make the Behind The Scenes Movie, they need to add in on how Anna Genovese helped out in the beginning and how the studio was pressured by the actual mafia.
I hope I am not the only one who wants to see a full video on Speed Racer, because I'd kill for it
He made one a while ago!
Peggy Sue Got Married was filmed at my high school. As such, I am obligated to bring that up everytime someone talks about Peggy Sue Got Married
I want a Star Wars film directed by Coppola.
Good God, what would that look like?
I’ll do you one better: Francis Ford Coppola & Rian Johnson working together on a Star Wars trilogy.
@@comixproviderftw_02 A gritty war film with crime world undertone based in the year 1 or 2 after Return of the Jedi:
A Rebel scouting unit crash lands on a jungle planet, one of the most remote under control of what is left of the Empire.
They have to make their way through the jungle by foot and its hostile indigenous life, and eventually up a river on a boat all the way to an Imperial base where they plan to steal a transport to escape the planet.
On the way their way they discover a secret about the commander of that base, an ex-Rebel commander (ex leader of Cassian Andor) who was thought to be dead by the Alliance!!!
He had killed the real Imperial commander as he was on his way to his new remote assignment, and he has been impersonating him ever since (which was his initial assignment. But something went very wrong and he turned mad.
Being so remote from the decrepit Empire allowed him to become more of a ruthless and tyrannical warlord with his own rules rather than tried to conform to Imperial.
Some of the local underworld/crime world is in conflict with the Imperial force, some of them support and profit from collaborating with the Empire.
The rebels then change their "simple" escape plan to an abduction plan as this ex-Rebel commander knows to much about the rebellion.
Worst case, they have eliminate him.
The rebels try to get some of the crime bosses to help them with the lure of getting rid of the Imperial presence off the planet, and back under their control.
As they finally get close to their goal, they discover why he got mad: the planet hides an old Sith temple with artifacts, the ex-Rebel commander was Force sensitive and got influenced by the Dark Side as he entered and handled some of the artifacts.
@@IsaacV24 Sure, why not?
Imagine Coppola Revenge of the Sith. I like the actual one we got, but it would be so awesome to see Coppola’s version
Coppola making Revenge of the Sith would be amazing
Why oh why are these 40 minute EPICS free TH-cam videos and not in theaters?
Patrick, while watching the credits I noticed... is "patreon Nacho Vigalondo" also "director Nacho Vigalondo"? That would be really cool.
I love these focused, passionate videos of yours.
I’ll admit it: I was one of the five who wanted to hear about The Rainmaker
Ha! Ha! What a weird and shameful fellow you are! You've ought to be displeased with your self!
Same here!
Also, what’s interesting is that the actors Coppola worked with would go on to star in comic book movies,
Diane Lane - Man of Steel, BvS, Justice League
Nicholas Cage - Ghost Rider 1&2, TTG to the Movies, Into the Spiderverse
Jim Carrey - The Mask, Batman Forever, Kick-Ass 2
Mario Puzo wrote the 1978 Superman!