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DIRECTORS | Francis Ford Coppola
57. Francis Ford Coppola (director, screenwriter)
Mario Puzo’s THE GODFATHER Part Two First Draft Screenplay Prepared July 4th 1973 [by] F.F. [Francis Ford] Coppola
Vintage original film script. Beverly Hills: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Plain wrappers, brad bound, 165 pp., xerographic duplication. Light stains to wrappers, overall near fine. In a quarter morocco clamshell case.
This first draft screenplay of Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece – arguably, one of the greatest of American films – is unfinished. As Coppola himself explains in his preface to the screenplay:
”NORMALLY, I’D LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FINISH THE ENTIRE DRAFT, AND THEN MAKE REVISIONS BEFORE LETTING ANYONE READ PAGES. SINCE IT’S MORE IMPORTANT THAT I PUSH ON TO COMPLETE THE DRAFT, I’VE NOT GONE BACK [TO] FINESSE ANY OF THESE PAGES: THEY ARE ENCLOSED PURELY AS AN ACCOMMODATION TO PARA- MOUNT TO SEE THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECTED FILM, AND FOR SCHEDULING AND BUDGET PURPOSES. SO PLEASE READ THIS AS A WORK IN PROG- RESS...”
Remarkably, given the complex and innovative structure of the narrative, this detailed first draft is fairly close to the completed film, as if Coppola had the entire movie in his mind – knew exactly where it was going and how it would end – but hadn’t yet put it all on paper.
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$1,850.00
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