he had to be ruthless, but he could be friendly. in other words, he was a complex hero. we re here in the nappa vally on a rainy day to interview francis ford coppola. now, he s one of greatest movie directors of all-time without any question. if you google the best movies of all-time, the greatest movies of all-time, the godfather is number one usually. i m going to make him an offer he can t refuse. but the godfather 2 is often on that list of top ten, and so is apocalypse now. so of the 10, 15 greatest movies of all-time this man has made three of them. i m really interested in talking to him for another reason. when i came to america first i was in college and i took a class, classics of american cinema. it was in some ways helpful for me because it gave me a sense of the culture and the country that i was now living in. and i wrote my final paper on the godfather, actually on the opening four or five minutes of the godfather, the first scene, and i had
very little about italian culture because anyone who knows italian knows don corlione was not possible. he was the most wonderful man and i came to love him dearly. also the book was so salacious and absurd story. i went from chapter after chapter about this girl who hin her private a doctor. a doctor who was having an affair with this girl who had certain anatomical problems. and ultimately i diagrammed every page. and i found within this potboiler this interesting story about america. and i was very intrigued with the buenes ares story because it really introduced you to the idea if you were a friend of a