EPISODE 2. Directed by Coppola against winds, tides and mafia, this classic pulverized the history of cinema. Its production designer, Dean Tavoularis, remembers.
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” Lhe producers didn’t want Al Pacino. Neither Marlon Brando nor Diane Keaton. They didn’t want us to shoot in New York, or a movie that was set in the past. They found the photo too dark… Coppola had to fight to keep everything that made Godfather the masterpiece we still talk about today. Without Francis, these people would have destroyed The Godfather »… In a deep and rocky voice, the production designer and artistic director Dean Tavoularis, 89, does not mince his words. And half a century after the events, his memory remains intact.
On one of the walls of the Paris studio where he moved a few months ago with his wife, actress Aurore Clément, after years spent in California, there are two framed portrait photos: one of…
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