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Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”


"IF FOUND--Please return to Paramount Pictures"

To alleviate his anxiety, Coppola made a notebook that combines his notes on Mario Puzo’s novel with his thoughts on tone, character, and historical context. We can tell when Coppola gets excited over a scene because his notes become more dramatic: arrows shoot from the text, exclamation marks line the margin, colors appear. Here, Coppola isolates the images and tone that will animate his scene: the blood splattered on the waiter’s white jacket, the way time slows down, the fork “frozen mid-air.”

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