American Graffiti Intro FFC

[@williammoeglin6191]

I was in Plainview, Texas when "American Graffiti" hit the movie theaters. I was just out of the Air Force and Vietnam, going to school on the G I Bill to be a Court Reporter. I got my driver's license in 1963 and was already a "car guy" before that. Grew up in East Texas street racing and going to the drag races at nearby race tracks. Man, it was a great time growing up in the early '60s. Hot cars were a real deal, especially "Hot Rods" like Milner;s coupe and Falfa's 55 Chevy Gasser. And, don't forget the music. The "Oldies" still rock today, just like the cars! Grew up listening to "The Wolfman," too. I lived it and loved it and "American Graffiti" showed the world what it was like to those that missed those wonderful days. "Where were you in'62?"

[@paulinaz9386]

my humble opinion, American Graffiti is the best movie to encapsulate a period of time EVER!!!!

[@georgeshotrodbarn2113]

The movie came out when i was fifteen and it changed my life forever i fail in love with hot rodding and still have three hot rods today. i was kicked out of school at fifteen and was heading to a bad life but after seeing the movie i went to work to buy a car and knew nothing about cars but became a mechanic and worked as one for forty-two years. thanks, your work does change people lives. when i left the movie house i was so pumped i had never felt so good.

[@christopherwalton5445]

Me too...I was hooked for life after seeing that movie

[@joelonzello4189]

John Milner's Deuce Coupe 😉. Hung out at gas stations friends worked at back in the 70's....

[@bradzimmerman3171]

@@joelonzello4189 yes hanging out at the gas station is a fact of life for a lot of us (pissed off girl friends just learned to except it) race friday night "fix" for Saturday night

[@johnalarcon5006]

Thats awesome !!!! infact mr Lucas went out with a family friend when they were in high school he dated her and she was lynn matoza , sadly she passed away in the mid to late 90s , they both grew up in modesto . One day i want to take my dads 69 chevelle and go cruise mc Henry

[@johnalarcon5006]

@@joelonzello4189 Actually the actor the played jon Milner went to newport harbor high school where my brother works today

[@Neil-ru7kw]

Sir , deepest respect for you , not only for what you have given us , but, being a car guy , for preserving that part of American car history , that is your Tucker ! I'm 74 and watch my American Graffiti DVD t least 3 times a year since they were available for sale . Before that , it was my vhs , which still works ! Take care and ❤ to You , Neil .

[@johnpharis8498]

I was born in 1972.... In my teens I fell in love with everything hot rods and drag racing. I remember seeing American Graffiti in my early teens and John Milner and his yellow 1932 five window coupe became my heroes... I spent my teenage years and some of my young adult years trying to be as fast and as cool as John Milner. I'm 50 years old now and the movie STILL makes me want to cruise, and drag race... A timeless movie that I will always love.

[@calvinballew5411]

Last movie I saw before I left for bootcamp at a drivein in Memphis. Left the following morning for Parris Island. The year was 1975. Good times...great memories.

[@kevinbarrett9615]

American Graffiti is one of my all time favourite films and I saw it in a theatre in Toronto when it came out. The sense of nostalgia that comes over me watching this is always so powerful, it is a time that is lost never to return. 1962 was the last year of innocence before the Kennedy assassinations and all that followed. Sometimes I wish that night cruising around would never end.

[@user-db8xe1yq3u]

One of the best films of all time

[@williamrapp8243]

One of my favorite movies. Great soundtrack. Love the 58 Impala.

[@jamespadgett1557]

Saw it when it first came out in 73. The soundtrack was excellent. My favorite movie…

[@joedipiza1090]

Francis Ford Coppola is the Greatest! And such a Down to Earth Guy.

[@janjones4536]

great guy==great movies

[@jamesblair9614]

Hands down my favourite movie. Hard to believe that when we saw it the year it was released, it was depicting the world as it was only about ten years earlier, how much the world had changed in those 10 years. Think about it, it would be like seeing a movie now about what life was like way back in 2012, I don’t think I would hardly notice, other than Covid.

[@martitinkovich4489]

I don't think I'd notice if it was depicting 1992.

[@theodorepetine7562]

Great movie brings back fond memories of the good ole days

[@97VobraOwner]

"Paradise road... " still gives me chills.. Best -

[@NVRAMboi]

= "Green Onions" in my head.

[@dangarrison3503]

Except for houses on one side, it still looks the same. I've loaded hay out of that field. It's not Paradise rd, nor is it near Modesto. But I smile when I think of Milner beating Falfa.

[@bilovalencia5463]

I can't imagine this movie by any other name. True Classic!!!

[@chrismechanic6164]

I can't remember how many times I went back to see this movie when it opened. Loved it!

[@LivingOnCash]

Still my all time favorite movie. I was 17 in 1973 when it came out and have watched it over 100 times since. It's the reason why I have my 3 window '34 coupe (I know Milner's was a 5 window Deuce) highboy but I have a 392 Hemi in mine.
Whenever I feel nostalgic about my youth I watch it and reminisce about cruisin' and the great times we had.

[@robertgreggo4345]

I was living in a small town called Exton Pa. when this movie came out. I had a '55 Bel Air with a worked 337 cu in. My buddy and I picked up some cold beer and went to the local drive-in . I had so many guys and girls coming over to check out the car and to ask me to start it for them it was un real. I loved that car and in retrospect wish I never sold it. Really good memories.

[@woodyw6891]

I wonder what Falfa had in that wicked ‘55.

[@757optim]

"You should get down on your knees and thank this young man". Very perceptive. I am thankful for the movie.

[@pappabob29]

Not to even mention "The Godfather", because of my construction background, I became a instant fan of Mr. Coppola the first time I visited his first winery at Rutherford in the Napa Valley. Then called "Neibaum Coppola" to honor the founder, it was, and still is, absolutely amazing what he did to the original Chateau/winery. Built in the same period as the Culinary Institute (then "Christian Bros") his repairs, modifications, and updates, honor and preserve its stature and history. Such a glorious place to visit and soak in its history. He's done so much more to it since then. I feel he's the modern day "Walt Disney" in his visionary perception of how things should be done and look. Always the "no shortcut" absolute best possible job method EVERY time.
Met him more than once at the site and he's remarkably approachable. 👍👍👍

[@danieljohnstone6805]

The movie that changed my life went to it in a small town theater in 1973 greatest movie ever great cast and sound track

[@jeffcarpenter396]

That's just the best damn hotrod movie ever produced period with the two wickedest cars

[@centralbears3010]

American Graffiti is a must watch for every American; especially a car guy. I remember exactly where I was when I saw the film - its one of those moments; The green mile is another, forest gump, etc.. Thanks for making it happen; this makes me proud to be an American more so than the government these days.

[@jeremiahdane3021]

I was born in 1986 and from the time I was old enough to stand on a milk crate and see into an engine bay I've been addicted to the sound of an angry V8 screaming at the world in violent defiance. I first saw American Graffiti at 12 and it shook my world. These stories of a time past told by family, when predatory muscle cars prowled the streets in search of a victim were suddenly brought to life in color! It has since that fateful day stuck with me and fueled my passion, to recreate those childhood memories of choppy roars, spent race fuel, hot tacky rubber and high anticipation of the next few moments in time when the bulbs go green and time stops.....then it's done as quickly as it began. This movie is and will forever be in my opinion the best on screen depiction of the age of steel animals. Thank you Mr. Lucas for giving the world this gem and thank you Mr. Coppola for refusing to let the film fail. You both have changed car culture in so many ways and all for it's betterment.

[@godsowndrunk1118]

American Graffiti was life changing for me.....I was 16 and it introduced us to cruising....not long after , any town of sufficient size, had a Cruising street (s)..... with lots of fun for all.....

[@BackToGraffiti]

Love hearing Francis' perspective on the creation of the film :)

[@pack-wr6nq]

The Wolfman Jack/Curt radio station scene is one of the greatest scenes ever filmed.....

[@rayisland23]

Just got my driver's license and I drove my friend's to see "American Graffiti ". All these years later I still watch it on DVD , good times.

[@DavidSmith-so3mg]

Love the movie then and still love it today

[@buxxbannerspov30]

I saw the movie when it came out...I was in the Army...I could not believe how much the country had changed from 1962 to 1972...

[@kevinmcgill9065]

The Beatles shifted America's sadness from the Kennedy assassination. American Grafitti shifted our social consciousness of Viet Nam.

[@dangarrison3503]

I've seen that movie more times than I can count, know it line by line. I'm fortunate to have cruised McHenry in Modesto and drove Frates rd in Petaluma.

[@williamcampbell4137]

They certainly got the title right. Great acting, cast. Everything worked.

[@freemenofengland2880]

I saw it when I was 16 in the summer I left High School for Engineering College, so it is always going to be massively nostalgic for me, even if I chose the motorbike route, rather than hot rods.

[@kimmorrison9169]

What a great movie AG was. Saw it in Phoenix AZ early 1974 when it came out. The soundtrack of original songs and the hot car sounds were wonderful and still are today.

[@bbkingwasthegreatest711]

So many films have a hero who vanquishes his rival, something like Milner thrashes Falfa then punches him in the face, the typical plot the studio wanted. This is a night out in early 60s America. And the actors, Lucas picked all unknown actors who all went on to have great careers he knew talent when he saw it, I just love this film.

[@ericheine2414]

I think Easy Rider was the first film that had a really incredible soundtrack. The songs in Easy Rider and the music Easy Rider inspired are also very iconic.

[@freemenofengland2880]

Agreed, completely different time period, but similarly epic impact.

[@Daniel-S1]

One of the best films ever. Saw it on TV as a kid and had to wait decades to get it on DVD and then blu-ray.

[@rogers68vette81]

My brother and I watched it 4 time's the first day it came. In San Jose at Stevens Creek movie theater. It was freaking badass. The day before we went to see the movie, the guy down the street from us had a 55 Belair for sell for $750.00, it was one of the fastest car's in town
The next day after we watched the movie that 55 went up to $2.000.
That's the day prices went up due to this great movie

[@kenreeve6549]

#wonderful film thank you from a 67 yr old hot rodder in France

[@weaton25]

I loved the film its something that cannot be don today old cars were cheap to buy and you could swap engines with not to much work things that normal people could do in there garage and not need a fortune to do it that has all gone today everything is computer controlled good old days I am pleased that I was alive then I would not want to be young today.

[@russkester7006]

I went to the theater 14 times to see it, yeah I'd say it was a winner.

[@nedaCFilms]

I wish the younger generation could’ve experienced what is was like to live in the era of American Graffiti, Hollywood Knights and Dazed and Confused. Generation X was the last to live it. By the ‘90s it was dead. The ‘50s and the ‘80s were very similar decades. The ‘80s mimicked the ‘50s I think. My channel is a time warp to those days #MuscleCarTimeMachine

[@dangarrison3503]

I grew up in a small farm town in California , graduated high school in the 80s. Still have a hot rod.

[@daDurvis]

went to see every nite it was playing when it came out in my town and still watch it a couple times a year

[@thamesvan]

Just the best film,ever!How many lives did it change;John Milner you are the baddest

[@jimsweikata5571]

"I ain't nobody dork" luved the movie. I was a teenager in the '50's. You got called out and raced for a beer.

[@jaya.0069]

And if by chance it turned into a rumble, you fought and that was it! No breaking out a gun or knife like the droopy drawer clowns do today!

[@ronniec8038]

Good film for sure. A true American Classic.

[@RebelsInc969]

My all time favourite film as a kid I watched this over & over again one summer

[@rodbrock4759]

Great movie, I've watch it many times.

[@willstansbury3747]

My very favorite movie of all time I can tell you what's going to happen before it happens this is how I grew up and still cruisin to this day in my 1968 mercury cyclone

[@dougdier3104]

And lm also still cruzin in my 68 big block impala custom 2 dr ht, my first car in high school in 1976

[@curtisharrison4837]

Iconic American classic. Enjoy while you're young, or you want enjoy.

[@Saltydoggdetroit]

Still one of my favorite classic movies

[@BCBtrucks64]

love the movie , have it on my foxtel watching list right now it always there ready to watch when i feel like it , few people have said to me i should of been born in 1950 and grow up in the 50's and 60's

[@colinvanful]

im freaking english and yup it was the best film i ever saw :)

[@martitinkovich4489]

I saw it in the Detroit area w/ my younger brother after it had been running for nearly a year. I was 10, my brother was 8 or 9. Weird coincidence, we saw it in a small theatre just off the corner of Harrison and Ford in , i think, Garden City? We loved the movie. If anybody's from that area they would remember the name of the theatre and whether that was Redford or Garden City.

[@adamweston4152]

The greatest movie for me, I will always love this film and if anyone has not seen it then i highly recommend you watch it.

[@mikewerner3797]

One of my favorite movies ever!

[@cbumpus]

Lucas's best film! Portraying americana the best! More than a movie!

[@larrycatuzza8289]

your winery is on are bucket list. great intro Thanks FFC

[@brucesimpson7169]

It was a true story for me. I will never forget those warm summer nights down for the service one by one till i was alone with my high school group talking endlessly about vietnam. Then they all left while i stayed and dealt with my loneliness.I dont see how they found the balls to sign up but they had to in a sense because so they took a bus ride out of town which changed their lives considering they had no scholarships or jobs. Their parents couldnt afford anything. Joining up and serving was a must. The only way out of the misery was the service and so no one stayed. They wouldnt take me. I cried from loneliness. I would drive the streets and see no one i knew.

[@michaelwebb3893]

I've been watching this movie as least once a year every years for the last 30

[@bobsmithsonrealtor]

I've heard so many stories about successful films that the studio executives hated and didn't want released.....apparently the execs know nothing about movies! Hated A.G. and wanted it changed? How do they get into such powerful positions knowing nothing?? Amazing. I just had to vent!! Great movie!!!

[@edwardjnarrojr3135]

Loved seeing this film in the seventies

[@rogerholloway8498]

Thank you for the invitation, we may just do that one day!

[@iknklst]

Love your Malbec, competes with some of the best I have ever had.

[@joelw.948]

Beautiful coupe

[@mahealanihawaii9830]

I love the movie enough that I have a 55 Chevy belair black drag car in my shop that I will love forever.

[@jonasthemovie]

Alfalfa’s engine sounds were used in Smokey and the Bandit since the -77 Trans Am did not sound good enough.

[@janidenny534]

BEST MOVIE EVER.

[@steveboor8614]

❤Semper Fidelis. USMC. God bless America 🇺🇸.

[@Spacejunk63]

Epic American film... Period.

[@onazram1]

I just finally bought the movie...

[@rebelsnappingturtle]

Universally loved movie

[@ronnorman1367]

This dude is totally f****** awesome he told it how it was man totally digged it

[@cashmoney7660]

Loved the movie then and afterwards bought the two LP soundtrack album

[@TheCecil64]

Sounds Fantastic

[@chrisc8697]

Greatest car movie!

[@williamoxendine6121]

I love it brings backs memories

[@Tiffany.1970]

Universal after filming this cool movie they tried to sell the 5 window coupe for 1400 dollar's but no one wanted it straight away but eventually it sold after falling into disrepair 😢

[@TCougar1]

Best movie ever made, at least in my book

[@automotiveaddiction428]

My favorite movie...I no where a 32 ford is sitting in a barn...1 day I hope its mine.gonna have to sell alot of stuff to get it.

[@lilorbielilorbie2496]

I can remember taking the backlot tour at Universal Studios after the movie came out they had Milner's Coupe the 49 Merc. and I think one other car from the movie sitting out front for sale and nobody wanted them. I think Milner's car had sign in the window for something like $1500.00 If I only had a time machine I know exactly where I would go and what I would buy when I got there.

[@perry92964]

it goes without saying the movie is a master piece so im going to comment on ffc's wine it is really good i have a bottle of 2017 merlot in my cabinet right now to be drank for a special evening

[@HAMRADIOJOE4178]

GREAT MOVIE

[@stacycollier7134]

It might be low budget but it's high quality great movie thank you for sharing your video sir

[@lonniem9728]

The greatest movie ever made

[@CaydensDaddy91]

Yes it's still a damn good movie today in 2022

[@willsummers1245]

I wore out 3C d's watching that movie best movie ever made !!!

[@paulsto6516]

I wore out a video tape. Waring out 3 cd's? ... Now THAT's a tall order!

[@rabfallon4507]

That's the car well after the film. when they gave it a refresh, they put mirrors on .

[@michaellachapell3455]

I love that car!

[@pauldashwood2897]

Great stuff .

[@paulapplegate7167]

One of my top movies of all time!!!!

[@anetajohnson8446]

i loved this film, because it was like someone filmed my teenage years! Then played all the r &r music. though the citys were differant, the things we did were the same. T wo things on the agenda every weekend, "CARS" and Girls! Unless you had the money to go to College, The Draft hung over your neck like a evel omen! unless you were gung ho for the military. Can you remember how many fine young men died in the NIXON war? How many girls ended up marrying the football jock, while your heartwas broken. if you had to do it over again what would you change???/

[@jaya.0069]

WRONG! Nixon ended the war, LBJ gets the credit for escalating it to the living hell it was! Do your homework before posting!

[@robertgreggo4345]

@@jaya.0069 Relax Jay, someone got a fact confused...so what...go finish your martini..

[@jimsmirh2406]

I want the Milner coupe.

[@andrewknapp3587]

Thank You

[@594bolt]

"Stand by for justice!"

[@johnguglielmino3177]

Who is the one Mamaluke who gave it a dislike

[@rustynails9659]

Is that the car from the movie

[@burtbenz9964]

Ffc. And Lucas r owed big buy the big 3 4 promoting the love 2 the yunguns

[@davesnothereman7250]

Certainly the car you want when some punk in a black 55 pulls up and throws you some revs... damn you fiberglass bodied deuce coupe!

[@johnwasham7113]

Yes it is and dam Netflix does not play it I like all old movies