sound is cheaper than images

sausage making

timorous

"Saigon. Shit. I'm still only in Saigon. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was here, I wanted to be there; when I was there, all I could think of was getting back into the jungle. I'm here a week now, waiting for a mission, getting softer. Every minute I stay in this room, I get weaker, and every minute Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger. Each time I looked around the walls moved in a little tighter."
—Willard in Apocalypse Now [1979]

heavy

 

[Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license]

Senator Pat Geary: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.

Michael Corleone: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

The Godfather, Part II [1974]

Italian Alzheimer's

"You forget everything but the grudge."
- Francis Ford Coppola

“I remember sitting with George Lucas ... and we were full of dreams,” said Coppola. “We talked about the amount of money we would want to have someday—enough to have a Ferrari and have everything, but not so much that people would hate you and kidnap your kids—a lot but not too much. We decided it was $20 million. Now George has $6 billion.”
- Francis Ford Coppola here.

a place to stay in Belize

http://www.coppolaresorts.com/about-us/news/tag/belize

Willard: I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.

organized crime

"In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster." Mark Seal's Vanity Fair piece here.

Earlier references to Puzo here and here. Evans here. Coppola here.

like crap through a goose

George C. Scott [1927-1999] rejected the Academy Award that he won for this role.

Capiche?

Francis Ford Coppola fought to cast Brando.

Mario Puzzo's account of writing The Godfather here.

ethos

La Lancha, Peten, Guatemala. Photo source here.

"If I don't succeed, I will be destroyed. You should always reach for something you can't quite grasp."
- Francis Ford Coppola [born 1939] made the dreadful Godfather: Part III to save himself; he had already slid into bankruptcy and was losing his winery. Part of his income now comes from destination hotels he owns: La Lancha Resort in Guatemala and Turtle Inn and Blancaneaux Lodge in Belize, which share the same website.  

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" 
- Robert Browning [1812-1889]

An earlier reference on this blog to Francis Ford Coppola here.