{"id":21738,"date":"2019-03-10T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T14:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21738"},"modified":"2019-03-10T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T14:32:17","slug":"mario-puzo-francis-ford-coppola-and-the-godfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21738","title":{"rendered":"Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola and &#8220;The Godfather&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z031019godfather50th_intro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Francis Ford Coppola has written a new introduction for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0399103422?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0399103422\">the 50th anniversary edition of Mario Puzo&#8217;s The Godfather<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/books\/2019\/03\/05\/the-godfather-book-50th-anniversary-foreword\/?utm_content=link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=D651141C-3F78-11E9-8F33-D7BB4744363C\">Entertainment Weekly has posted it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new intro is worth a read for fans of the book or movie.\u00a0 Here are a few tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coppola didn&#8217;t want to direct <em>The Godfather<\/em> until his second reading of the novel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of Don Corleone&#8217;s most memorable lines were really spoken by Puzo&#8217;s mother!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puzo advised Coppola to never associate with real gangsters! (Which leads to an interesting &#8220;encounter&#8221; with John Gotti.)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puzo didn&#8217;t like the idea of Michael having Fredo killed.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was Talia Shire (Adrian in <em>Rocky<\/em>!) who came up with the idea of Michael&#8217;s wife having a secret abortion and then telling him.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Coppola and Puzo wanted the third film to be called <em>The Death of Michael Corleone<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/books\/2019\/03\/05\/the-godfather-book-50th-anniversary-foreword\/?utm_content=link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=D651141C-3F78-11E9-8F33-D7BB4744363C\">\u00a0Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s post<\/a> is worth a read and so is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0399103422?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=0399103422\">Puzo&#8217;s novel<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Ford Coppola has written a new introduction for the 50th anniversary edition of Mario Puzo&#8217;s The Godfather and Entertainment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21739,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21738\/revisions\/21739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}