Tag: Francis Ford Coppola

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

We read to know we’re not alone.

Although that particular truism is often mistakenly attributed to the author C.S. Lewis, it was actually William Nicholson who wrote those words in his 1989 play “Shadowlands”, a story about C.S. Lewis.

Indeed. The power of words. And perhaps many of us out here in the interwebic blogosphere write to know we’re not alone as well.

Especially during times like these.

We use words to comfort and curse, to encourage, to promise, to teach, buy, sell, debate, learn, manipulate, lie, share, seduce, pray, preach, promote, warn, and even survive.

In the aforementioned play, “Shadowlands“, there is another quote that many now reading this may also find relevant to our times:

….pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

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THE HORROR! THE HORROR! (PART THREE)

In Part One and Part Two of this article I detailed the decades of propaganda, false flags, and misinformation campaigns used by the Deep State to gain power and control over the U.S. government. When war or a financial crisis is necessary to keep the profits flowing, events will be steered to such an outcome. With the latest financial plundering operation running out of steam, the Deep State is pushing the world toward global conflict.

If at first you don’t succeed with a false flag gas attack, try try again. Knowing a vast swath of the American populace is incapable of critical thinking or able to discern between fake news and factual events, the Deep State and their media lackeys unquestioningly promoted the story of children being killed by a sarin gas attack by Assad. The photos of rescue workers helping victims without gloves immediately invalidated the narrative, as the rescue workers would be dead if they handled sarin gas victims without protective gear.

The faux journalists, pretending to be neutral observers, did not question this blatant lie. They did not ponder why Assad would commit such an idiotic atrocity when he was clearly in control of the battlefield and on the verge of defeating his American funded rebel enemies.


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Inside the making of ‘The Godfather’: 5 things you may not know

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Francis Ford Coppola’s notebook reveals his thinking about legendary gangster film

Courtesy Paramount Pictures. “The Godfather Notebook” (Regan Arts), Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando in a scene in the 1972 film “The Godfather.”

 

Movie director and winemaker Francis Ford Coppola does not make many public appearances. But earlier this week, Coppola made an appearance at the Castro Theater in San Francisco to discuss the publication of “The Godfather Notebook,” a reproduction of a notebook that served as his guide while directing the 1972 Oscar-winning movie, “The Godfather.” The book, published by Regan Arts in New York, made its debut this week.

Coppola fashioned his notebook after the “prompt book” concept he learned as a theater student, and it ended up being “a kind of multilayered road map” for him to direct the film, he said, noting that the movie’s script “was really an unnecessary document for me.” It is full of Coppola’s typed and handwritten notes, with characters, scene lists, outlines and thoughts on adapting Mario Puzo’s 1969 book of the same name into film.

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