Another force—God—will be the one to decide the final
scene to the movie of his life, but the Almighty is likely to be more merciful and
less fickle than Hollywood producers or even American filmgoers to daring, passionate,
complicated Francis Ford Coppola.
No matter the disappointing response to his latest, if
not last, film this fall, the sci-fic epic Megalopolis, Coppola is assured
a place in film history for, if nothing else, The Godfather Saga. His reception of Kennedy Center honors virtually certifies that.
Two speakers at yesterday’s ceremony helped to explain
the enormous risks that alternately raised his career to undreamed-of heights
and threatened to bring it asunder.
George Lucas: ““Here’s the thing: When you spend
enough time with Francis, you begin to believe that you can jump off cliffs
too.”
Al Pacino said the filmmaker was ready to break the
first rule of Hollywood: Never put your own money in your movie projects.
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