{"id":963,"date":"2007-09-05T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/05\/coppola-discusses-youth-without-youth\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T13:01:02","slug":"coppola-discusses-youth-without-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/09\/05\/coppola-discusses-youth-without-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Coppola discusses Youth Without Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Francis<\/a>Francis Ford Coppola<\/a> recently sat down with Harry Knowles<\/a> to talk about his latest film Youth Without Youth<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

They discuss a lot of things, including Coppola’s 8 year absence from the big screen and his return to making more personal films.<\/p>\n

Here is an exceprt where they discuss his approach to making the film:<\/p>\n

Harry: How did you come to the material, YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH?<\/p>\n

Coppola: I had been working for a year that period, when I was working on MEGALOPOLIS, during the so-called 10 years when I wasn\u2019t doing anything, I was a little preoccupied on this script I wrote that I had made into an extremely ambitious project, that it was very difficult even to get feedback on it, given the fact that the sort of notes I would get would be related to the projects\u2019 financial or pop-value.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want that kind of narrow movie feedback, because I was trying to write a script that was even more ambitious than that. it\u2019ll grow up after a while\u2026 I sent it to a friend that I had known in high school who was a young woman who became a great [tape blurs here] \u2026at the University of Chicago and she read my script and gave me some notes, from a broader literary or intellectual perspective, which is what I wanted. That\u2019s what I was trying to do and in the course of it, she sent me a lot of quotes from Mercea Eliade, who was this professor and thinker from which I learned a lot of stuff. And she had a lot of quotes relative to a couple of the themes I was playing with related to the consciousness of MEGALOPOLIS and I became curious of the story that these quotes had come from and I managed to get it. It wasn\u2019t easy to get. When I read it, I just said \u201cwell, here I go. I\u2019ll just retell everybody and I\u2019ll just write this and go off on my own and use my own dough and just make a film.\u201d \u2026instead of being you know, stuck with this MEGALOPOLIS project which after the events of September 11th, 2001, I just didn\u2019t know how to continue with it.<\/p>\n

Harry: Is that what happened to it? Was when 9\/11, it\u2026<\/p>\n

Coppola: It made it really pretty tough\u2026 a movie about the aspiration of utopia with New York as a main character and then all of a sudden you couldn\u2019t write about New York without just dealing with what happened and the implications of what happened. The world was attacked and I didn\u2019t know how to try to do with that. I tried.<\/p>\n

Harry: When do you think that you could revisit that material?<\/p>\n

Coppola: I have abandoned that as of now. I\u2019m now going to\u2026 I plan to begin a process of making one personal movie after another and if something leads me back to look at that, which I\u2019m sure it might, I\u2019ll see what makes sense to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I saw Youth Without Youth last week and I’ll write something more substantial about it soon, but in the meantime read the full interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Official website for Youth Without Youth<\/a>
\n> Full AICN interview with Coppola<\/a>
\n> Francis Ford Coppola at the IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Francis Ford Coppola recently sat down with Harry Knowles to talk about his latest film Youth Without Youth. They discuss a lot of things, including Coppola’s 8 year absence from the big screen and his return to making more personal films. Here is an exceprt where they discuss his approach to making the film: Harry: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}