francis ford coppola

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Mario Puzo, The Godfather novel Released half-a-century ago, The Godfather remains an integral and ageless work of art. Based on the bestselling novel by Mario Puzo and directed…

“The bullshit piled up so fast in Vietnam, you needed wings to stay above it.”- Capt. Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen). On May 10 1979, Francis Ford Coppola finally edited down over one-million feet of film to give us his Vietnam War epic…

“I was seduced by World War Two and John Wayne movies”     -Anonymous Veteran in Mark Baker’s Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There (1981), p. 12. On June 23rd, screenwriter and Vietnamese War…

The Godfather is full of shit. And piss. And semen, lots and lots of snot, bits of brain and skull, and, of course, plenty of blood. In the original Godfather novel, Mario Puzo has a strange need to follow nearly every moment of high drama…