Interview Francis Ford Coppola talked about life, loneliness, death

Interview sound received by Francis Ford Coppola in June 1996 which is known for handling numerous masterpieces such as the movie "Apocalypse of Hell" and "Godfather" series is published on YouTube. In the interview, he talked about the way the director thinks about life and loneliness, and imagination game about death that was hiding at the time.

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The movie starts from where Coppola talks about "death". "Life goes so fast, the important thing is not how long to live, but how much quality you have lived a good life.Albert CamusThe book "Happy deathIt is also the theme of. There are people who die young, but some of them die happily. Because they accomplished what is worth comparable to life, "Coppola said.


Continuously, Coppola remembers "When I was a child, I knew that mosquitoes with a lifetime in 2 days knew that my life was only two days. Of course, mosquitoes are my life I do not know anything about that, I guess this is life. " After that, the story goes forward to the game on "death" Coppa coach was hooked at that time.


Imagine that the game will get on the elevator where electricity disappeared, "I will die before I get to the first floor." When the elevator begins to go down, the wife and children appear on the head of Coppola's head, and as the first floor approaches, the feeling of "I am still alive" is stronger. When the elevator arrives at the first floor and the door opens, the interior of the elevator is illuminated and I realize that "I am still alive!"


In the last part of the interview, Mr. Coppola told the idea of ​​loneliness. From a certain person, "I understood what is at the bottom of your movie.Thinking to your movie is" loneliness. "Godfather is a movie depicting loneliness. One aspect of loneliness is with family and others It is happiness to share, to eat rice with a family member, to drink alcohol with other people, which may be perceived as "lonely" for a particular person, but it is originally a happy thing. " It is said that Mr. Coppola said "may be so!"


Mr. Coppola said that he liked to stay alone in the room alone when he was a child, and no friends. However, in fact I really want friends and talk about "I do not like it" at that time.