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Francis Ford Coppola
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Enrolled in UCLA Film Program aged 21
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Aged 21 he also worked
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For Roger Corman
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Aged 30
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Formed American Zoetrope
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Aged 32
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Won Academy Award for Best Secreen play Patton
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Aged 55
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Considered Patriarch of the film school generation
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Before Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather
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Many other directors (12) had turned it down
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Coppola almost
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Lost his job in the first few weeks of filming
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FFC alway envisioned
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Brando as the Don
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Brando's opening scene
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One of the most dramatic in scene in movie history
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FFC "for me the toll both scene inspired by
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Dean Tavoularis and Arther Penn's Bonie and Clyde"
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FFC "why not have my father get his break
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So he can write the music"
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All films by FFC before The Godfather
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Lost money!
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12 other directors
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Turned down The Godfather before FFC offered it.
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FFC almost fired
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5 times
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Gordon Willis
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Director of Photography
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