Posted on 10/31/2024 10:15:43 PM PDT by Texan4Life
“The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced that Coppola will presented the award — the institution’s highest honor for a career in film — during a gala tribute ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.
The AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute special will air on TNT, with encore presentations on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
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Me too. When you’re of Italian descent, it’s required viewing :)
Unfortunately, Coppola fully supported Victor Salva in tarnishing and destroying the lives of any children that brought charges against Silva for child molesting...and he was guilty.
Coppola went on a smear campaign against the children and their families.
Salva directed Jeepers Creepers, which I liked a lot...until I realized he was getting off on the ending and getting off on all the boys tortured in Jeepers Creepers II.
A great director Francis is, but hard to forgive him for what he did for Salva and against those boys and families...essentially bankrolling him,
To quote Coppola...“You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small — Victor was practically a child himself”
Salva was 30 and the boy was 12.
Again, I LOVE The Godfather I and II. They were breathtaking in that I learned what humans could do to each other and how deceitful and cruel they could be...if pushed..and even if not pushed.
I think I was 13 when I first saw it. I’m 56.
He’s a genius. At least I think so. One can be a geninus and a monster.
And a lifetime achievement means....lifetime...and in that lifetime he did the horrible thing I mentioned above.
Awards for directing are one thing..anything that includes the world “lifetime” is another.
Plus he cast his daughter for GFIII!! :)
Have a good one!
Would GF3 have been a better film if Winona Ryder had stayed on as Mary Corleone and Coppola had been willing to pay Robert Duvall to reprise his Tom Hagen role? It might have been.
One of my minor peeves is that something weird happened with Al Pacino’s voice in the ‘80s/’90s. He took on this kinda weird barky voice with a semi-Southern accent, which was fine in movies like “Scent of a Woman” or really anything where he’s playinga “new” character. But it’s not Michael Corleone’s voice.
Coppola has made some great movies, but as far as I’m concerned he makes some of the best wine that’s made in America. You’ve got to try Coppola Claret. You’ll agree. Just my $0.02. :-)
It would have been better, but not good, I don’t think
You are right about Al. His whole demeanor changed,..he also seemed like a man of 75 instead of the 50ish he would have been.
And Puzo died, that was that. He wanted infighting between Tom and Mike and finally, betrayal.
Also...Vincent was aborted in the book...kinda hard to show upp 30 years later.
I know guys in that life...since I was a kid...I never met ONE who had regrets or a reckoning...and I knew guys that diverted plans to go to college or start legit businesses...like Mike...and they had no regrets either.
They are good men to family and some friends...but they are criminals...scary ones...and remorse and reflection are not high on their list of virtues.
i found it hard to believe.
OK, I’ll shut up now :)
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