Reel Adventures 8 - Part 1

It was another very special night at R.W. Norton Art Gallery for Reel Adventures 8, The Godfather!

I gave a talk that was in two separate parts. Here is part one:

You can break into directing in Hollywood a number of different ways. You can get your break after a big success directing on Broadway. You can act your way into it like Clint Eastwood, Greta Gerwig or Kevin Costner. You can be a successful producer, cameraman, director of music videos, TV or nowadays even an influencer and get a shot. Or like Francis Ford Coppola you can break through as a writer.

Coppola first got into the gates of Hollywood because of his skills as a screenwriter.

Today, what I’d like to do is focus on the adaptation process of film, and more specifically compare and contrast what’s in Mario Puzo’s Godfather novel versus what ended up on screen when Puzo and Coppola adapted the book into the first Godfather film.

We’re going to focus on one particular scene and after this video and the next round of trivia I’ll come back to take a look at it with you.

In the meantime, please enjoy this short video of Francis Ford Coppola sharing a few words about making The Godfather:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDLlEXDWhQOEfxFPEBBomCcKUxoZMh1B/view?usp=sharing