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🪡 🎥 The making of #TheGodfather — some facts, clips & the challenges of getting #MarlonBrando #AlPacino for their now critically acclaimed performances.
Paramount didn’t want #MarlonBrando. With Coppolas insistence, Brando finally landed the part after a number of screen tests and even an arrangement for Brando to personally post a bond to cover any potential costs incurred by any possible poor on-set behavior.
#Coppola handed #Brando tape recordings of a 1950 investigation into organised crime that featured real-life mobsters, including Joseph Valachi. Vito’s mumbled drawl was drawn from Valachi’s own speech. It was also Brandos idea to make Vito Corleones face look like a “bulldog”.
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#TWOLOVERS quizá sea la mejor película de #JamesGray, director de la reciente #AdAstra.

Por numerosos motivos (tanto artísticos como contextuales) pasó desapercibida en varios países, a pesar de sus HALLAZGOS.

Hoy toca #HILO de este particular autor y su contenida obra ⬇️⬇️ Image
#JamesGray es un autor muy CONTROVERTIDO.

No en vano, sus dos últimas películas han causado una CONFRONTACIÓN entre crítica y público poco habitual.

En efecto, #AdAstra y #ZLaCiudadPerdida fue amada por la mayoría de los CRÍTICOS y odiada por casi todos los ESPECTADORES. ImageImage
Simplificando mi reflexión, entiendo que la mayor parte de la culpa la tiene el MARKETING.

#AdAstra (2019) se vendió como un cruce entre #Interstellar y #TheMartian: AVENTURAS y SCI-FI; cuando se trataba de un VIAJE INTROSPECTIVO y ESPIRITUAL del personaje de #BradPitt. Image
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The artist is Icarus. It is dangerous to fly so high, to dare so much -- yes, they can fail and plummet spectacularly. Francis Ford Coppola is an artist. Yes, he made some real shit. He had a run of films that were genius; he had a run of films that prostituted his talents.
It's complicated. THE GODFATHER was a studio assignment that ended as great art. The later corporate films were literally recompense for earlier artistic endeavors. But he's an artist. The moneymen, the suits, have no love for the artist.
They never want another period like the 1970s where the lunatics (the artists) were running the asylum. Spielberg, Lucas, and Cimino almost guaranteed that those days were over. Then there was a revival of the cinematic artist in the 1990s centered around the likes of Miramax.
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