I love how Coppola always gives love to William Friedkin, reminding folks what a giant talent he was. I am prejudiced as Coppola and Friedkin are my two favorites from the New Hollywood era. Their dinner conversations must have been fun to overhear.
It's revealing when he says that the cut of Star Wars he saw didn't have the music. George Lucas should get down on his knees and thank John Williams every day for that score. Yes, the effects were ground-breaking, but to this day I can tell you exactly what's going on in that movie at that moment just by hearing the music cue.
There's gonna be a documentary about John Williams' life on Disney+ in november, I very much agree with you on John Williams' music, wish I could see a live concert of his.
@@damiantirado9616 both things can be true (and are). Coppola is a hack who got lucky a few times but whose body of work is mostly bad. Lucas was a genius arthouse filmmaker who wasn't very good at traditional screenplays, so his friends, wife, and editors did a lot of work helping him get Star Wars in much better shape than he alone would have left it in.
Brian De Palma well & truly destroyed the original novelization of Stephen King's 'Carrie' with his movie version which was cast the same time as 'Star Wars'. Not faithful to the source material, maybe DePalma should've been more concerned about his own film choices than his peers? At least Lucas had his own story & idea.
Well as Spielberg said in the aforementioned documentary, the reason probably the other directors weren't impressed was because it lacked the special effects, music and was cutting to world war 2 flying fights
@@yojoono I know it needed some more tooling but just before they were talking about this in that interview they were talking about Megalopolis being “in a different key” and that’s why it’s not connecting with some critics and audiences. I’m making a dumb joke.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq*”How ‘How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit’ Was Saved in the Edit”. You can’t forget the extra “How” in ”How ‘How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit’ Was Saved in the Edit”. Otherwise I’ll have to save your comment in the edit.
Let's just call that screening what it was, a concept screening. George got back from the UK and ILM hadn't done jack to move the project along. They had like one good special effect shot. ILM really added a lot to the movie but they were also just a bunch young 20 somethings partying all the time. It also didn't help that almost no one took George's script seriously. I'm surprised the movie was even made. And that it turned out to be amazing and a touchstone to everyone's lives.
Yeah Lucas can thank Fox's Alan Ladd jr. and Fox President who approved Star Wars. Both protected him from shutting it down. But George also was flawed many ways and didn't understand how big budget move making work, also directing imo wasn't his strongest skills.
He should’ve showed an early cut of Megalopolis to De Palma, he’d have surely yelled at him like he did with Lucas when he showed off Star Wars for the first time
I agree. It insists upon itself. I can’t even get through it. I tried on three separate occasions and I get to the part where Harrison is talking to the teal guy and I can’t even understand what he’s saying without the subtitles. It’s like he’s speaking another language.
He showed them an unfinished work. What did he expect? Having said that, I think we are beyond lucky that Lucas stepped down from the directors chair on Empire and Jedi. He’s more a producer and an ideas man.
A lot of people get it wrong the original cut for Star Wars wasn’t terrible because of the half finished effects and lack of music but it was mostly an issue of pacing and editing as explained here ua-cam.com/video/GFMyMxMYDNk/v-deo.htmlsi=HIeJFrZHV8rQXtWx
Am embarrassed to admit how many times I've watched The Godfather movies, one & two in particular. Frankly, I've probably lost count! Worse still?! Can't wait to watch them again! 😁😁😁
Yeah try watch any "epic" movie without music, Jack and Rose at the front of the titanic screaming "I'm on top of the world" with only sound of giggling and waves. Any period movie where a leader holds a speech before charging into enemy troops. Without music you'd go, who's this jackass. I've watched enough movies I can feel it, which is why B movies are so great. They're honest, there's no pretentiousness or bullcrap. Particularly great when they've dubbed over the dialogue, then you don't get the "heavy breathing acting" or slurred dialogue. why good animation is easy to watch as well, they're rarely pretentious and always well voiced.
@poposterous236 I didn't try and justify anything. I simply said that there is no point saying one person over another is bad in Hollywood, because, they are all bad. Pick anyone in Hollywood at random, and they are either friends with a PDF, defended a PDF, or they are a PDF.
Anybody that doesn't believe the truth of what Coppola is saying should go watch the clips of Darth Vader before James Earl Jones' voice was dubbed onto the character. The scenes are terrible by comparison.
Spielberg and Lucas are just much better directors. Most of Copula's movies are bad. He's just coasting on that Godfather rep that was all the actors the cinematographer and Puzo. Everything of his that's decent was written by some great writer and he just managed not to screw it up. He's not as bad as Scorsese though.
@@redrick8900Lucas is a terrible director lmao. He made one great movie and that’s it. Coppola made 3 of the greatest films If all time in the span of 7 years
@@barkley8285Lucas has American Graffiti, which is also great. Coppola has 4 great films, but he has some great underrated films as well, like Rumble Fish.
That Star Wars CUT was sooooo bad in a literal sense. Only Steven Spielberg said it was good and he admired the ambition and vision for what George wanted to make. Again you have the daily’s of Star Wars interconnected with real WW2 footage…. TERRIBLE
Francis Ford Coppola acknowledges and praises Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg (and William Friedkin, may he rest in peace) in this video clip. However, even after all these decades of interviews about the New Hollywood era, he once again apparently neglects Brian De Palma. Much less does Coppola acknowledge the indelible, incalculable influence (pardon the alliteration, lol) of De Palma’s films from the 70s, 80s, and 90s; Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface (1983), Body Double, The Untouchables (1987), Carlito’s Way and Mission Impossible (1996), to name a few. How peculiar that a director responsible for a series of gangster films does not acknowledge another director responsible for several gangster films. I'm reminded of something Paul Williams once lyrically evoked: "Winter comes and the winds blow colder/ Well some grew wiser you just grew older/And you never listened anyway and that's the hell of it."
It's misleading to lump Lucas and Spielberg together w Coppola - they may have hung out together, but their work represents a resounding backlash against what Coppola, Scorsese, and Co were trying to achieve
@@NEAZ24 ?? What a bizarre response. This backlash is common knowledge. A lot has been written about how Lucas and Spielberg changed the direction of Hollywood, shifting it to escapist entertainment, and to focus on children and young audiences
That's not true. Coppola produced Lucas' first movie, THX-1138 and is the one who convinced Lucas to make a comedy rather than another artsy film and Lucas made American Graffiti.
So I read all the comments, and there isn't really a lot of butt hurt Star Wars fans as you put it. Also as a former Star Wars fan I must say the days of it being a proper cult are sadly gone. The fandom is heavily divided and watered down these days.
Im really good at cooking steaks. But sometimes i fuck up and overcook them. This is what FFC did with megalopolis. Interesting movie, botched production and release. 🤷
I haven't seen the movie, but from everything I've seen and read about "Megalopolis", it looks a lot riskier and more challenging than a science-fiction blockbuster. Coppola basically made a $100 million art film. The likelihood of failure is much higher.
And Coppola still thinks of Star Wars as "twerp cinema" according to Peter Biskind's book(Easy Riders, Raging Bulls). I can kind of see his point, as I think Lucas was a more interesting director before he made Star Wars.
Star Wars was terrible. Its just that there are so many people whose lack discernment that terrible things can easily become huge successes. Its like a guy winning the lottery, he doesn't have to be smart. In fact, your odds of winning the lottery are better if you aren't smart.
The huge issue with star wars is its plot convenience and illogical scenes, yes, it's entertaining but have many amateurish mistakes (the stormtrooper hiting his head is Ed wood). star wars fans forget or pretend to ignore that the original cut has no CGI and Jabba is a guy, so use your logic and accept the truth. that's the movie coppola is talking about
To Me , A Non American , Young Man , I consider Star wars as Terrible Movie. The Script is Very weak.... Why Luke is Sad For Obi Vans Death ⁉️He wasn't sad about Death of his Uncle and Aunt.... And , I'm Your Father Scene is Like a Soap Opera 🤮
I love how Coppola always gives love to William Friedkin, reminding folks what a giant talent he was. I am prejudiced as Coppola and Friedkin are my two favorites from the New Hollywood era. Their dinner conversations must have been fun to overhear.
Popularity doesn't make a film great; greatness doesn't make a film popular.
It's revealing when he says that the cut of Star Wars he saw didn't have the music. George Lucas should get down on his knees and thank John Williams every day for that score. Yes, the effects were ground-breaking, but to this day I can tell you exactly what's going on in that movie at that moment just by hearing the music cue.
There's gonna be a documentary about John Williams' life on Disney+ in november, I very much agree with you on John Williams' music, wish I could see a live concert of his.
Actually John Williams' music was the only thing that satisfied George Lucas when making Star Wars.
There were no ground breaking effects
@@meciocio I saw movies in and before 1977. Yes, they were.
@@claudioforjan1743 Cool!
The ones that are disrespecting Ford Coppola I can guarantee most of them are less then 35 years old 😂
It's sad how everyone is using this to bash Megalopolis once again.
Exactly, and this clip doesn't even mention Megalopolis
Megasuckscockalis
And none of them saw it. If all the generic internet trash talk translates into ticket sales, the movie would have been a hit.
People are idiots
They are also responding to the title and not he statement: that what they saw was worryingly unfinished at the time.
I saw the final cut of Megalopolis and thought it was terrible
HA I just shit myself that was tooo good
😂
Oh wow you showed him. I’m sure you’re stilling on your gross couch looking like jabba the hut.
It was true that the first Star Wars cut was terrible
@@damiantirado9616 both things can be true (and are). Coppola is a hack who got lucky a few times but whose body of work is mostly bad. Lucas was a genius arthouse filmmaker who wasn't very good at traditional screenplays, so his friends, wife, and editors did a lot of work helping him get Star Wars in much better shape than he alone would have left it in.
Spielberg was the only one who liked the early cut and knew it was going to be a success. He was proven right
And now his films are a dated commercial footnote.
@octagonseventynine1253 how?
Empire of the Sun by Spielberg... not nearly talked about enough among most beautiful pieces of film.
People forget they saw a version with only like 8 min of special effect and no edit cuts.
only 2 effect shots were done, a laser turret on the death star trench run and R2 and 3POs escape pod
Brian De Palma's reaction to Star Wars was even more savage.
Why isn't there any blood spitting out of people when they get shot and what is that force sh*t!?
He rewrote the crawl at the beginning
Star Wars is infantile garbage.
Brian De Palma well & truly destroyed the original novelization of Stephen King's 'Carrie' with his movie version which was cast the same time as 'Star Wars'. Not faithful to the source material, maybe DePalma should've been more concerned about his own film choices than his peers? At least Lucas had his own story & idea.
@@DragonflyII I think Carrie is great.
Was it terrible or was it just “in a different key”?
It was really rough, you can check out the documentary "Empire of Dreams". It goes over the making of the original trilogy.
Well as Spielberg said in the aforementioned documentary, the reason probably the other directors weren't impressed was because it lacked the special effects, music and was cutting to world war 2 flying fights
@@yojoono I know it needed some more tooling but just before they were talking about this in that interview they were talking about Megalopolis being “in a different key” and that’s why it’s not connecting with some critics and audiences. I’m making a dumb joke.
Lmao
Steven Spielberg saw the same cut and said it was amazing.
Yes . I too saw How how Star Wars was saved in the edit was saved in the edit.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq*”How ‘How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit’ Was Saved in the Edit”. You can’t forget the extra “How” in ”How ‘How Star Wars Was Saved in the Edit’ Was Saved in the Edit”. Otherwise I’ll have to save your comment in the edit.
He was like the only one
He did not quite say it was amazing, but he was the only one that understood what Lucas was doing and its immense potential.
@@shadowraptorpitalion5869 ha
and then said "HOLD MY BEER" let me direct and release MEGALOPOLIS!
Let's just call that screening what it was, a concept screening. George got back from the UK and ILM hadn't done jack to move the project along. They had like one good special effect shot. ILM really added a lot to the movie but they were also just a bunch young 20 somethings partying all the time. It also didn't help that almost no one took George's script seriously. I'm surprised the movie was even made. And that it turned out to be amazing and a touchstone to everyone's lives.
Yeah Lucas can thank Fox's Alan Ladd jr. and Fox President who approved Star Wars. Both protected him from shutting it down.
But George also was flawed many ways and didn't understand how big budget move making work, also directing imo wasn't his strongest skills.
He should’ve showed an early cut of Megalopolis to De Palma, he’d have surely yelled at him like he did with Lucas when he showed off Star Wars for the first time
Hail to the King.
Star Wars isn’t exactly masterpiece acting, it’s just fun action.
More than fun action...dear troll
0:57 What's the name of the Capra film?
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
@@jdey1989 Thanks, I'll watch it!
@@Jonatan-Sidvallme too
Wonder if he ever saw an early cut of megalopolis?
Exactly! He just churned out a giant turd.
Any early cut of a movie is worse than the finished product.
And what have you done?
When Coppola recommends you should see a movie, you should see it. :)
I agree. It insists upon itself. I can’t even get through it. I tried on three separate occasions and I get to the part where Harrison is talking to the teal guy and I can’t even understand what he’s saying without the subtitles. It’s like he’s speaking another language.
🤣🤣🤣
He showed them an unfinished work. What did he expect?
Having said that, I think we are beyond lucky that Lucas stepped down from the directors chair on Empire and Jedi. He’s more a producer and an ideas man.
To Live and die in LA is a Friedkin masterpice!
Nope The Sorcorer 1977
@@jimcameron1234 both films are.
i would love to see the workprint of Star Wars just to compare the difference.
A lot of people get it wrong the original cut for Star Wars wasn’t terrible because of the half finished effects and lack of music but it was mostly an issue of pacing and editing as explained here ua-cam.com/video/GFMyMxMYDNk/v-deo.htmlsi=HIeJFrZHV8rQXtWx
Francis looks like a guy that lost his glasses.
What's Megalopolis about?
about gigantic lollipops
Late stage capitalism
Am embarrassed to admit how many times I've watched The Godfather movies, one & two in particular.
Frankly, I've probably lost count!
Worse still?!
Can't wait to watch them again! 😁😁😁
Its no Megalopolis thou
Goes to show just cause you make great mob movies doesn’t mean you know shit about science fiction
Yeah try watch any "epic" movie without music, Jack and Rose at the front of the titanic screaming "I'm on top of the world" with only sound of giggling and waves. Any period movie where a leader holds a speech before charging into enemy troops. Without music you'd go, who's this jackass.
I've watched enough movies I can feel it, which is why B movies are so great. They're honest, there's no pretentiousness or bullcrap. Particularly great when they've dubbed over the dialogue, then you don't get the "heavy breathing acting" or slurred dialogue. why good animation is easy to watch as well, they're rarely pretentious and always well voiced.
Demon🔥
Didn't this guy protect a pdf file? The guy that directed Jeppers Creepers?
Bud, its hollywood, every other person there is a pdf.
@@mikesmithz Bullshit!
Was about to comment this.
@@mikesmithz doesn't justify anything bud
@poposterous236 I didn't try and justify anything. I simply said that there is no point saying one person over another is bad in Hollywood, because, they are all bad. Pick anyone in Hollywood at random, and they are either friends with a PDF, defended a PDF, or they are a PDF.
He seemed to like the prequels though because Megalopolis took a lot of influence from them.
Anybody that doesn't believe the truth of what Coppola is saying should go watch the clips of Darth Vader before James Earl Jones' voice was dubbed onto the character. The scenes are terrible by comparison.
They all thought it was terrible, except Spielberg because he has imagination.
The early cut wasn't just unfinished, it was apparently rather slow and dull. Look up a video called "How Star Wars was saved in the edit".
If so, I don't think it's necessarily that he has "imagination" but that he's more similar to Lucas than he is to any of the other Movie Brats.
Spielberg and Lucas are just much better directors. Most of Copula's movies are bad. He's just coasting on that Godfather rep that was all the actors the cinematographer and Puzo. Everything of his that's decent was written by some great writer and he just managed not to screw it up. He's not as bad as Scorsese though.
@@redrick8900Lucas is a terrible director lmao. He made one great movie and that’s it. Coppola made 3 of the greatest films
If all time in the span of 7 years
@@barkley8285Lucas has American Graffiti, which is also great. Coppola has 4 great films, but he has some great underrated films as well, like Rumble Fish.
That Star Wars CUT was sooooo bad in a literal sense. Only Steven Spielberg said it was good and he admired the ambition and vision for what George wanted to make. Again you have the daily’s of Star Wars interconnected with real WW2 footage…. TERRIBLE
Everyone who saw the early cut thought it was terrible.
Except for Steven Spielberg.
That's not by chance.
Earned that profit percentage point.
@@luisrizo8813 lol
Probably help him make a few films. XD
Francis Ford Coppola acknowledges and praises Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg (and William Friedkin, may he rest in peace) in this video clip. However, even after all these decades of interviews about the New Hollywood era, he once again apparently neglects Brian De Palma. Much less does Coppola acknowledge the indelible, incalculable influence (pardon the alliteration, lol) of De Palma’s films from the 70s, 80s, and 90s; Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Scarface (1983), Body Double, The Untouchables (1987), Carlito’s Way and Mission Impossible (1996), to name a few. How peculiar that a director responsible for a series of gangster films does not acknowledge another director responsible for several gangster films. I'm reminded of something Paul Williams once lyrically evoked: "Winter comes and the winds blow colder/ Well some grew wiser you just grew older/And you never listened anyway and that's the hell of it."
You are right. Brian De Palma is one of my favorite directors of all time.❤❤❤
It's misleading to lump Lucas and Spielberg together w Coppola - they may have hung out together, but their work represents a resounding backlash against what Coppola, Scorsese, and Co were trying to achieve
That's not true. You just made that up.
@@NEAZ24 ?? What a bizarre response. This backlash is common knowledge. A lot has been written about how Lucas and Spielberg changed the direction of Hollywood, shifting it to escapist entertainment, and to focus on children and young audiences
All 4 of those filmmakers re-pioneered the epic, and I don’t see their particular distinct styles as being at odds with one another.
That's not true. Coppola produced Lucas' first movie, THX-1138 and is the one who convinced Lucas to make a comedy rather than another artsy film and Lucas made American Graffiti.
Utter shit.
This video gave me a rash on my undercarriage. Any advice?
Undercarriage?
Look at all the butt hurt Star Wars fans. What a cult.
So I read all the comments, and there isn't really a lot of butt hurt Star Wars fans as you put it. Also as a former Star Wars fan I must say the days of it being a proper cult are sadly gone. The fandom is heavily divided and watered down these days.
What are you even referring to, no one is butt hurt here 😂
@@fledgling5616 Read the thread.
Haters are a cult too, just in the opposite direction.
@@thereccher8746 dumb.
Im really good at cooking steaks. But sometimes i fuck up and overcook them. This is what FFC did with megalopolis. Interesting movie, botched production and release. 🤷
I saw Megalopolis and it was terrible 🤣
Did he bang his head before making megalopolis
I haven't seen the movie, but from everything I've seen and read about "Megalopolis", it looks a lot riskier and more challenging than a science-fiction blockbuster. Coppola basically made a $100 million art film. The likelihood of failure is much higher.
Coppola made some great guns but Megalopolis was awful.
And Coppola still thinks of Star Wars as "twerp cinema" according to Peter Biskind's book(Easy Riders, Raging Bulls). I can kind of see his point, as I think Lucas was a more interesting director before he made Star Wars.
Star Wars was terrible. Its just that there are so many people whose lack discernment that terrible things can easily become huge successes. Its like a guy winning the lottery, he doesn't have to be smart. In fact, your odds of winning the lottery are better if you aren't smart.
The huge issue with star wars is its plot convenience and illogical scenes, yes, it's entertaining but have many amateurish mistakes (the stormtrooper hiting his head is Ed wood). star wars fans forget or pretend to ignore that the original cut has no CGI and Jabba is a guy, so use your logic and accept the truth. that's the movie coppola is talking about
Godfather Part 3 IS Bad movie
STAR WARS IS TERRIBLE!
Too bad he couldn’t have the same eyes for Megalopolis.
There's a 4 abd 1/2 hours directors cut apparently.
@@Story2ScreenMovieReviewPodcast well its not gonna be like ROTK for sure
Not as bad as the final cut of the prequels.
Hahahaha megalopolis hahahahaha!
Star Wars ruined cinema
I saw Coppolas Dracula and it was terrible
Old directors shud retire...and not blow 120million of their own money..... Tarantino is right....leave when ur at the top
Who fn cares?!
wow ok well i’m not surprised a mob movie director who hasn’t worked in 20 years didn’t like star wars 😂
Pay attention. He said he didn't like the first cut, not that he didn't like the movie.
@@jon8004 When does he say that he liked the movie?
@@redrick8900 He didn't but he never said he did.
He’s not just a mob movie director and I like Star Wars, Coppola is one of the best directors ever.
He never said he didn't like the film. He said he saw a rough early cut and it wasn't looking good at the time.
Star Wars is terrible.
To Me , A Non American , Young Man , I consider Star wars as Terrible Movie. The Script is Very weak....
Why Luke is Sad For Obi Vans Death ⁉️He wasn't sad about Death of his Uncle and Aunt....
And , I'm Your Father Scene is Like a Soap Opera 🤮
oh how pretentious
And here ladies amd gentlemen is an utterly stupid comment made by self independent and pretentious new commer that only watches marvel crap
It was saved in the edit
As is every movie.
Then you need to study the process of filmmaking because you have no clue what a rough cut even means
It was saved in the edit