Francis Ford Coppola was a pretty intense dude during the ’70s. He damn near lost his mind while shooting Apocalypse Now in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a quagmire duly chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness. While shooting The Godfather Part II on location in Trieste, Coppola told Italian journalists, “To some extent, I have become Michael.” He’s a larger-than-life character, and it’s only fitting that he’ll now be dramatized himself.
Truth be told, I remember coming home one night late from work, and putting on the VHS of “Goodfellas.”
I got depressed.
And I remember my sister telling me, “wasn’t that great?”
Yeah, it was great all right…but all too real...