Francis Ford Coppola wrote film history with “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now”. But the director is no stranger to major doubts.
Munich – Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola (82, “The Godfather”) used to have little confidence in his work as a director.
When his films were made, “there was more of a feeling of failure,” said Coppola in an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. “I was convinced that I would fail, I wasn’t sure what the outcome would be. Some people loved it, others thought it was all terrible. In my head I had failed and then I was offered opportunities to fail even more dramatically. That’s roughly my memory. “
Remembering Tom Cruise
Coppola has just released a new version of his 1983 film The Outsiders. It is the newly cut film adaptation of a youth novel that tells of two rival gangs. Tom Cruise, who Coppola noticed even then, plays a supporting role. “From my experience with the young Tom Cruise – later in life I didn’t meet him again – I can say that he really wanted to be the best.”
Even back then, Cruise did physically dangerous things in front of the camera: “For example, a handstand rollover over cars. At the end of the film there is a big fight between the two warring gangs, and then he knocked out an incisor himself because he thought that it was otherwise not authentic enough. As a total supporting actor, for a few seconds of film. ”Dpa
