Francis Ford Coppola influences

The great glimpse you can get of Francis Ford Coppola influences comes in "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," a 1991 documentary film about "Apocalypse Now" that draws on his wife Eleanor Coppola's film and audio recordings during the shooting of the said movie in early 1976 and '77, and her marvelous 1979 book, "Notes." Whether you preview him as a tortured poet, an ostentatious showman, a martyr or an ogre, it's impossible not to get caught up in Francis Ford Coppola influences drive to overcome disasters, political and theatrical and to push his movie to the finish line.

No matter how desperate Coppola's statements, no matter how eccentric his MO, he's vastly more engaging than the normal precocious millionaire (he was, at the time, in his late 30s). Coppola wass going all out for art, and persuading hundreds of people to take the plunge with him. The film project seems insane because he isn't trying to fulfill his inspiration he's trying to locate it and execute it at the same time. Yet even when Coppola's ambition grows to megalomania and his film begins to fall apart, his zeal and risky attitude are as elating as they are dismaying. He's in the gambling tradition of American entrepreneurs, there is not a single corporate-like censor in his consciousness (or apparently in his corporation, Zoetrope).

The excitement comes from watching Coppola go out on a limb; the heartbreak comes from seeing him saw it off behind him. You feel you are seeing, in extremis, the same creative force that generated the "Godfather" films and helped shake American movies out of their 1960s doldrums. About francis ford coppola on directors.

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