{"id":1827,"date":"2011-09-13T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/risabg.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-11-07T10:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:40:59","slug":"the-godfather-francis-ford-coppolas-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/13\/the-godfather-francis-ford-coppolas-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather: Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is enlightening.<a href=\"http:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cn_image.size_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1832\" title=\"Coppola on the set of The Godfather\" src=\"http:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cn_image.size_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Godfather: The Wedding Scene\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cn_image.size_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cn_image.size_-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Not only as a student of the movie, which I will always be. But as a creator, a director, a filmmaker&#8230; this reminds all of us that this pure enthusiasm and total commitment to a vision is what determines our true success. I watch this and remember that if I have passion for something, a commitment and a vision, if it&#8217;s something I truly believe in, something that inspires me, that I &#8220;get&#8221; in my head, heart and soul&#8230; there&#8217;s a pretty good chance that it will engage others and find its place. And maybe if the stars align it&#8217;ll also find some external success. Whatever the outcome, this is what fuels us; it&#8217;s how we do our best work, our truest work. Good work builds more good work. And that kind of architecture is what builds a career. That is our success.<\/p>\n<p>I also love that Francis isn&#8217;t afraid to take from former filmmakers &#8211; Kazan, Hitchcock&#8230; We have permission. It&#8217;s useful. We&#8217;re students and teachers of each other&#8217;s art and process.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look:\u00a0<a title=\"The Godfather: Francis Ford Coppola's Notebook\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/awce_j2myQw\" target=\"_blank\">The Godfather: Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s Notebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Coppola-en-El-Padrino-The-Godfather-1972.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1834 aligncenter\" title=\"Coppola on set of The Godfather-1972 - Horse Head in the Bed\" src=\"http:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Coppola-en-El-Padrino-The-Godfather-1972-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Coppola-en-El-Padrino-The-Godfather-1972-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Coppola-en-El-Padrino-The-Godfather-1972-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is enlightening. Not only as a student of the movie, which I will always be. But as a creator, a director, a filmmaker&#8230; this reminds all of us that this pure enthusiasm and total commitment to a vision is what determines our true success. I watch this and remember that if I have passion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42,34,41,43,37],"tags":[44,47,45,46],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-directing","category-film","category-film-history","category-filmmaking","category-talent","tag-coppola","tag-directing-2","tag-filmmaking-2","tag-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risabg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}