How The Godfather was made | Francis Ford Coppola | WOBI
2012 ж. 7 Нау.
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Francis Ford Coppola gives a behind the scenes look at The Godfather.
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Francis fought for more than just Marlon Brando. The executives didn't want Al Pacino neither. Thank you Francis for fighting for your vision, you created a master piece
The takeaway is to trust your intuition and stick to it.
He made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Hahahahaha was funny 🤣
I will copy and share in FB WOW!!
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Goodone my friend
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the Godfather without Marlon Brando would Had not been the Godfather!
What would it have been, 'Revenge of Bambi'?
@@yankee2666 man you are hilarious!
It's quite interesting because if he would've never acted in it then you wouldn't have said it 🤔😂
seriously you are so right with your comment, I could have never pictured anyone else playing that part!
Any Brando film sans Brando woulda been nothin'. He was a contenda. He was a somebody, that Brando!
Pacino himself was against the idea of casting him as Michael since he thought the role too big for him. Coppola did it and the rest is history.
do you think The godfather part 2 is better than before?
I saw on " Center Stage" when James Caan was on, that originally Pacino was going to play Sonny, and Caan was gonna play Michael. And I also saw an audition video where Deniro auditioned for the role of Sonny.
Yes, I think Godfather II is the best of trilogy. Period.
Mike Robbins if Marlon didn't want the role, Robert De Niro could play Vito Corleone in Godfather 1 though
Coppola's first choice for Michael, according to Mario Puzo, was Robert Redford.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Marlon Brando several times on the phone, I was friends with Christian Brando his first born, I befriended him when he lived in New Hampshire. We would work in his garage building my camping trailer or going out to get something to eat, we just hung out. Christian would be busy welding and the phone would ring so I'd answer it, it was Marlon. I would say oh let me get Christian and Marlon would say well Ray lets talk awhile my son has told me a lot about you. There I was talking to the greatest actor and it was no big deal he was very charming and we had some laughs. I also had the pleasure of meeting some of the Brando family when they visited NH.
Wow, You are lucky man! You met a legend.
Now, that's a very interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
Ray Downes awesome stuff man👍
Ray Downes do u have an instagram ? you seem very interesting person
RESPECT MY AUTHORITY who you talking to?
Only a Marlon Brando was able to pull it off where viewers of the movie were actually feeling sympathizing for a mob boss & routing for him to succeed
Alex M. Rooting*
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Yes, Brando was that good in every sense.... that He pulled it off smoothly... 'Very Smoothly!
@Mike Cap Don't act hard, you old Softy
Bullshit the movie has the protagonist as the mob and their inner lives and family thats why we were rooting for the mob not just becuz of brando
Amazing story. That's just how genius works. Coppola knew Brando was the guy, and was ridiculed for it until everyone had to shut up and just put down the money. And it paid off handsomely.
First they ignore you then, they laugh at you then, they fight you then, you win.
Both Marlon Brando and Al Pacino owe their parts in The Godfather to Coppola’s dogged insistence and incredible vision. The world would have missed out had those roles been dispensed to other actors.
It well could have been De Niro as Sonny or Martin Sheen as Michael...that would've been really weird
This is my favourite film with my 2 favourite actors. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino
Wen Al meets people he doesn't know he says , "Hoo harr you."
And Bob DeNiro on II
@Junior Mafia you mean Rob DeNiro ;)
Shadow Wolf Lmao Bob is short for Robert
More than that...Freedo. Brilliant
All these years later Brando is still the gold standard
The casting of this film tells you that if History has to be made, it just creates itself...Nobody can stop it...not even the producers...
True!
Thank u Francis F Copolla , for showing the world that Marlon Brando still had a place in cinema history .
Francis was the man. And Brando followed up The Godfather, with Bertolucci's, Last Tango in Paris, another major acting feat.
We have a lot to thank Coppola for. Kudos to him for sticking to his guns and not letting anything or anyone deter him from casting Brando. This just goes to show that if you believe something is right, fight for it, no matter what anybody else says.
in my opinion Marlon Brando made up for at least 50% of the movie success
At least.
Al Pacino & Daniel Day-Lewis are the greatest actors I've ever seen. I've also never seen a better crime-drama than 'Heat' or 'The Godfather Part II'. Let's be honest, Marlon was a great actor but he was only truly special in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' & 'The Godfather'. His overall catalog of work doesn't even compare to Pacino, DDL or De Niro.
SereneVendetta yes But Marlon being considered the best actor of all time form just The Godfather says something legendary about him
@@NevxrBackDown that's a bit harsh. He was awesome in On the Waterfront and the Wild One
Yes
How amazing is this interview
Man, I always thought Marlon Brando was Italian.
@array s there are all colors in Italy!!
Brando 'became' as Italian as Al Pacino and John Cazale, for that film. He's that good. James Caan, was no slouch either.
Bro you need to get out more..!!
his last name is definitely Italian.. maybe his parents or grandparents were italians.. just as martin scorsese, bob de niro and many others
@@waynej2608 Yeah James Caan was awesome
Coppola's accent sounds like he's been living in Italy for the last 30 years.
No - you'll hear the same inflections in every borough of New York
Marlon Brando, whatever his personal problems, was a genius as an actor and Coppola knew that, better than the bean counters did.
Unbelievable movie with amazing casting Marlin Brando; Al pachino; Robert Duvall and so on.Each and every actor justified the characters. A brilliant work and a masterpiece by Francis Capolla.
Truth be told, the studio was right and Coppola was just lucky. Brando was box office poison for many years by the early seventies. He made bomb after bomb for 15 years prior [Sayonara was his last hit] and Mutiny on the Bounty was one of the biggest flops of the 60's. He also had tons of demons and was not reliable. Personally, I think his performance is very phony and it is evident that his mouth is stuffed with cotton. I think Anthony Quinn would have been a far superior choice.
@@richardmayora1289 you have an interesting point -Anthony Quinn may have given a more realistic take on Don Corleone , the fact is its Brando in there and he does a decent job
@@richardmayora1289 if you read his autobiography you'd realize why he had so many flops later on.. He never took himself and his career as an actor seriously, he always said I started acting while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life and I kept at it because acting afforded me the amount of money and in as little time (and effort) which no other profession could..... He also wrote that he used to earn enough money to last couple of years, then would just make himself busy doing stuff that he really wanted to do (travel the word , meet interesting people, read all kinds of books and bed as many women as he could ) and when money dried out he'd come back, call his agent, his agent would gather all the scripts that were available that time and Marlon would chose the ones he liked the most (or which paid the most).... Rinse and repeat.... His autobiography is a very good read even if one is not a fan of him the actor, brando the person was fascinating and at least in his autobiography he comes across as very honest.... Doesn't hide any shortcomings of his...
I still remember in the 1980`s as a young man being astonished at seeing A Streetcar named desire for the first time, Marlon Brando`s portrayal of Stanley was not even Acting, It transcended Acting, It was just Behaviour, He was like a wild Animal at ease in his environment, The most Naturally gifted Actor in Cinema History no Question.
I never get tired of hearing that story.
before Brando acting was something,and after Brando acting became something else.
There is only One genius actor Marlon Brando.
Al Pacino ain't too far off.
RIP
@@GameVids321 Marlon Brando is the godfather of all post WW2 actors. Pacino is one of his actor son's. Just like Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson. Pacino, de Niro, Hoffman and Nicholson were/are legendary, but Brando was and is the one, the only, the greatest of all time.
Only genius can make this comment
+enigma 1982 Agreed. I include Sidney Portier, Denzel Washington and Andy Garcia.
Daniel day Lewis talked of the great actors who came before him. he said Brando was the god of all of them
when did he say that ? Would love to read it too
Another total boring twat, couldn't tie Marlon's shoes.
Exactly he was the god ... father
@@rashidrashman8018 WTF!? You really believe that.
Wayne j .. Hmm yes that's why i said it, I've also worked with the pretentious lovie..🤔
What I get out of intervier: How much Marlon Brando liked the role of Vito. He put up that much effort in the testing. I think he knew it was a testing.
the transformation of Pacino from a young kid out of college into a man of towering responsibility was a monument to his acting ability. You could actually see the growth and maturing in his persona. Remember he was fairly new to this. Yet the scene when he was in downtown New York with his girlfriend shopping and sees the newspaper of his dad's assassination attempt was one of the last scenes filmed for the whole movie. After having to grow the character into a timeline of maturity he was required to go back and forth depending on what scene was being filmed, and regress his persona for what would be apparently early scenes in the finished movie. Scenes are never filmed in the sequence you see in the finished product, and this extreme example would have taxed any veteran actor to pull off as well as Pacino did!
brando n pacino both were not choice of production house bt it was francis n the result all we know
ya he saw panic in needle park. my favorite ending with nights of cabiria and third man
Bob Evans made production very difficult; nearly impossible
@Ed Norton yes, yes.. he and James Deen.
One of the masterpiece movies..
I can listen to this story over and over!
Mr. Coppola - A man who has achieved something.
There is no question of Brando's genius
BRANDON THE BEST ACTOR EVER, PERIOD.................... MY GRANDFATHER CUT HIS HAIR IN 1956 IN HAVANA , CUBA.........
it's brando
Toby Espino W😳W Now That’s a story
Toby Espino BRANDON IS GOOD BUT ALSO JAMES CLAM AS SONNY AND AL PAGRINO AS MICHEAL NEED TO BE PRAISED TO
@@JoshMaxPower Robert Mullal was excellent as Tom. Diana Keston should have won best supporting actress for her role as Michael's wife.
Did he ever say how he cut it ? Like what hairstyle
He should've been called "Marlon 'Mystery man Brando". Great actor and a great advocate for the rights of indigenous, native Americans. Number 1 actor in my book.
Marlon Brando is the greatest actor ever. I love him so much
i like how he mimic that puffy voice
Don Vito has a big impact in my life, he is my personal hero and I want be like him when it comes to family..my future house i’ll design it like the theme of his house with a poster of him...
"Are you an assassin?" "No, Godfather. I am Bonosera, the undertaker." "You are neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to ask me a favor on my daughter's wedding day."
He proved his worth.
I didn't realize Marlon was so young when he made Godfather.
All things considered--and I'm 66 and saw my first 'grown up' movie at age 5!--the greatest acting I've ever seen on screen is Brando. He wasn't consistent but when he was brilliant he was beyond comparison.
The best movie ever made just got the blu rays today can't wait to see them
the electric guitar version was done by Guns and roses on various live DVDs. I'm surprised they never mentioned it.
Love listening to Mr. Coppola talk while watching the film on CD. He had to wade through so much stupidity, it's amazing he was able to pull it off.
Brilliant editing nice video
Thanks
Thank you very much sir for giving us this epic of a lifetime , I feel life is incomplete without the God Father movie . I still remember those 2 days watching the complete parts of the movie without leaving my home . Hatsoff
Thanks to ALL who brought us this CLASSIC 💞✌️👍🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🐕
Brando was great but pacino carried those movies through! He was superb! Absolute natural ❤️❤️
I think Marlon Brando was born only to play Don Corleone in Godfather
I WATCHED this movie in Salisbury in 1974 I was 17 as,an exchange student from Thailand, I liked it very much,
Brilliant!!
I have had this movie in my mobile. Every time its on the tv I watched. There are rare movies which you can watch anytime the story telling is phenomenal.
Watching Marlon getting angry, breaking things get my heart racing so fast. So wild and so *************** .................... I hold my palm on my chest It was beating very fast!
Francis trusted his vision. Now we love the movie and all the actors selected by Francis.
I should say Marlon Brando was born to play this role, he was a perfect and no one else ever could play that role.
Marlon Brando was a brilliant man. I don't know what his "behavioural" problems were but, from all his interviews that I have seen he seemed like a very humble guy, way ahead of his time. He was often looked down upon by some of the Hollywood big shots because he used to speak about the discrimination minorities had to face, specially Red Indians and black people, to the point that he didn't accept his Oscar and instead got boo-ed by the audience. A great man and a phenomenal actor really. I had always hoped to meet him someday when I first watched The Godfather in 1997.
My favorite movie! Can watch it over and over.
What a great actor. I never knew that Brando developed his own character for the GF role, and the result is far better than anything they would have devised another way.
No one can fit in his shoes.....merci, ana maria
Most sophisticated movie of all times... The greatest movie character ever created. The genius of Coppola and Brando .. HE is VITO CORLEONE
sanch Sanchayan Hell yeah
More Sir more, I could watch this sort of stuff all day.
One of the greatest Movie ever made!
When i watched this movie when i was 20 I didn’t know Brando was vito until later in the movie
Coppola should be awarded noble prize for the discovery of the Godfather...
marlon as Don Vito is ICONIC
Amazing, without lot of words!!!
Thank you Francis Ford Coppola. My fav movie of all time. Brilliant script and acting, it’s all about the human tribal condition.
thank you wobi... thank you coppola/paramount pictures... for your natural eyes for genuine talents of arts...for recognizing and acknowledging marlon brando as a natural born artist in the america film industry...
I made this video when I was working for WOBI-HSM. Turned out pretty good!
Brando is one hell of an actor.
I wonder which movies made in 2019 will be discussed 30 or 40 years from now?
Maybe the Irishman
John MDM parasite, once upon a time in Hollywood, and Dolemite is my name
Definitely not the marvel garbage
Boyz in the hood
@@randywhite3947 Parasite,1917,Joker,The Lighthouse.
Brando. A true cinematic GIANT!
Thank you for the epic movie
so insightful.
Genuis Marlon
I love this movie and i love Marlon Brando as much as i love this movie, and Francis Ford Coppola i thank you for getting Brando into the movie.
Cant picture Godfather without Marlon...He owned the film...
One of The Greatest Film Ever Made!!!!
Wow....just wow 🙌
My favorite film
Some other scene, I watch almost every day..🥳
Amazing film. 🖤
Fascinating.
I love this story.
Greatest. Movie. Ever
That was outstanding.
Amazing....
Man, they dont make movies like this anymore. Director and actors with this much creative freedom is unheard of nowadays. Now actors are lucky to get any preparation or rehearsals, especially in the big budget movies. Big shame, because we lost a lot of the heart these classics have.
One of the best books and movies ever made !
This is bloody fascinating...really...
#paramount epic wow what a phenomenal outcome. #bestpicture #francisfordcoppola #alpacino #robertdeniro #marlonbrando ❤
Wonderful story!
Mr. Brando changed my world
Godfather is no doubt the best movie I've ever seen.
I think The Godfather was,is and will be the most influential movie of all time.
Marlon Brando is not I repeat is not the greatest actor that ever lived. He is, one of many greatest actors that ever lived.
Godfather is a masterpiece to the history of cinema ever has...
amazing history.
Great story.
People always credit the greatness of the actors in the movie but sometimes we forget about the Mastermind himself
Thats why Mr Coppola is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time
The godfather is my favorite movie ever