POTD: A Page Of Francis Ford Coppola's Handwritten Notes For 'The Godfather'
This gets filed not under 'new stuff' but under 'whoa, awesome stuff!'
Those who know their Godfather history have heard of the super-notated novel and script copies that Francis Ford Coppola employed to make the film. (The same sort of highly-notated scripts that a great many directors use, of course.) You may have seen images of the detailed pages in a documentary about the film here and there. But here's a huge scan of one page from Mario Puzo's novel, complete with a great many notes by the director. If you're looking for insight into how someone turns one piece of work into something as enduring as The Godfather, this isn't a bad place to start.
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