The Godfather-Art Life and Lives
Added 2023-09-19 01:00:02 +0000 UTCGrab a cannoli and some drawing supplies! It's time for another Art Life and Lives! In this one we're talking about the making of the Godfather.
In my last Art Life and Lives about Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, I talked about the inevitable failure that comes with the territory in art.
I recently read Leave the Gun Take the Cannoli by Mark Seal about the making of the Godfather. And while there is a lot of interesting stories in that book (film history, the mafia, the tension between art and money) I found the stories of Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola inspirational for dealing with failure.
Mario Puzo wrote the novel the Godfather when he was 45. $20,000 in debt, addicted to food and gambling, a failed writer with no one in his life who believed in him, he once laid in a gutter, vowing that he would one day rise above this failure.
Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed the Godfather. His main passion and goal was to make personal films. He was disillusioned with the Hollywood studio system and tried to start his own studio. Within a few years his studio was failing, he hadn't been able to put out any films through it, he owed more than half a million dollars, and his wife was pregnant with their third child.
Both of these guys found the Godfather through their failure.
**Sorry about my voice in this video. This was actually the first thing I recorded when I was recovering from covid. It was like an hour of straight talking which I probably wasn't really ready for.
I really enjoyed making it though. I hope you enjoy it.
Have fun.
Goodnight Sweeties.
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