@chrisfilms84 i don't know, most of the time you don't see the people who really control things only 'public figures' like presidents who say nice things.
@Bluedeanie : THAT was good. They've squeezed all the juice out of the vampire genre that CAN be squeezed, in the '80's--I'd love for someone to prove me wrong, as one of my nicknames is "The Vampire Killer". ;])
Yeah, when that fat girl has made that great movie, then his prediction will be correct. Right now, however, no such art has been produced. It's only a matter of time.
hahaha I love how he says "professionalism" like he didn't just make a $20,000,000 movie in the Philippines shot on 35mm with the biggest actors in the world at the time....I doubt he would've even considered making Apocalypse Now had he not had the finances....I love him and his movies, but I don't like how all the huge industry pros downplay the role money has in filmmaking....sure you can make a great short film with a little handycam...but it's not getting very far w/out the money.
@Nivekohgr86 He predicted the fact that inexpensive cameras will make film making a more obtainable art form. The inexpensive camera's already existed in 1991. Which in turn will end the professionalism and make film makers feel much less confined. FYI the correct form of "there" would be Their. As in Their own. Stupid
There was no prediction here. He just expressed a hope. And anyway his hope was about movie making, not about movie delivery. YouTube is a movie delivery system. This video is poorly titled.
i care because who ever posted this doesn't deserve that crap. lighten up man, do you really think the guy who posted this was trying to lie or mislead us. he just made a little mistake. It is kinda clever how he has linked what Francis is saying to the Youtube era. Good work my man!
And to answer your question I don't really think the poster intended to be misleading, but when someone is careless in naming a video it affects all the people who watch that video. So yes, Mr. Sarcastic, I think I am doing good work when I say what needs to be said.
The title advertised a prediction. I watched it expecting one. I heard none. I felt misled. I know I'm not the only one. I never said it was a bad video, but it should have been called something like "YouTube grants Coppola's wish" or something. When someone is careless in naming a video it affects all those who watch it. So yes, the poster does deserve to read what I posted and it isn't crap. And yes, Mr. Sarcastic, I think I am doing good work when I say what needs to be said.
I think it's a little off, but the gist is there. Coppola hopes (hoped) or believed that the business aspect to the art of film will be diminished with the progression of technology. Not sure it's quite happened yet. You still need talent, and not just the equipment.
this was predicted by dudes like Postman and McLuhan (among every other trend that has ever happened in media - including the internet and cell phones) long before Coppola was rehashing their ideas to a larger audience.
Thank you Francis for inventing You Tube! I watch your videos all the time...check out mine!...people say I look a lot like you (when you were younger).
I predict that a fat girl from Ohio is going to make a movie about Francis Ford Coppola, put it on YouTube and then Francis is going to sue her. She'll then become depressed, gobble too much Haagen Dazs and blow up like Ralphie May on a Cheetoes only diet. And before you know it we'll see the fat girl as one of the 62 hosts of The View where she'll be interviewing Francis Ford Coppola who will say to her, "I really liked your movie, but you owe me money. Glass of wine?"
yup ... spielberg and clooney and jim jarmusch and chris columbus and halle berry and dave chappelle and bob hope and paul newman... i think they were all fat girls in ohio once upon a time
really........schoenberg, britten, debussy, beethoven, and the list goes on and on. Me personally i think that Benjamin Britten was a better composer than mozart.
Well anyone who's dumb enough to listen to Schoenberg is probably dumb enough to think Britten is better than Mozart. Remember most of Beethoven's stuff is stolen from Mozart, and if it hadn't of been for his advancements in composition none of the music we listen to today would exist.
although not necessarily the best director, in my view, he has held the right attitude to film. he once said that 'the less expensive a film is, the more ambitious it can be'. Unlike money-sponging idiots like spielberg and george lucas, coppola recognises film as an art form - which it is - and instills his experience and feelings into his films.
Unfortunately, this was taken out of context. If you watch the whole segment, Coppola is discussing how everyone someday will be producing meaningless videos and saturating video media. This part is not included in this particular clip. Having said this - I think it is a stretch that he predicts YouTube. The basic idea of a large amount of video media being distributed is there.
its all in context and if you'd seen hearts of darkness then you'd know that he means every word he said. granted he didn't predict youtube but what he did predict is a distribution medium that allows a fat kid with a 8mm video camera to showcase their work.
what he's talking about is this, cinema is art, you don't need a major in waves and optics, or a masters in literature to make a film of worth, of substance. all that matters is the voice of the creator, the artist.
@protrend He is not predicting YouTube. He is commenting on everyone shooting on video. It was a time when film was the only real choice. But with the advent of Hi-8. At this time, HD was non-existent. He did not predict the internet, nor Youtube. This new Youtube generation are a bunch of ignorant nutty kids, living in delusions funded by daddy's wallet.
The only foresight I see is his daughter's success. She is a great filmmaker, one of a few left who get it.
@protrend You are really drawing from the left side of the brain, there, cap. I saw all of Hearts of Darkness, and what Coppola is wishing for IS what YouTube represents for so many thousands, millions of unaffiliated artists worldwide. It was a wise and brave sentiment for a filmmaking so firmly ensconced in the system to make at that time. And he was dead right.
What are you talking about? That doesn't sound like YouTube at all. YouTube is all about VBlogging, not movie-making. Sure, fat girls in Ohio are making, quite possibly, works of art, and they are even putting it on YouTube. But since the success of YouTube, I don't think there's been a boost in student film-making.
The reason being because there is no incentive; why bother investing your own hard-earned cash, time and effort into a work of art when some dude can point a camera at his face, talk about how much he hates his parents and that'll get ten fold many views.
Coppola is the only guy from his generation with any integrity. While Scorsese, Lucas, Pacino and De Niro are happy hunting down paychecks and doing films with an eye for profit, Coppola is pursuing his interests as a filmmaker at his own expense. Say what you will about Youth Without Youth, but at least it has integrity.
er still hav'nt seen anything on youtube that I would consider "art" could someone point me in the right direction? Youtube just seems to be full of idiots trying to get famous for being mediocre
Just what I thought! I have seen lots of funny shit on youtube - and musicvideos, documentaries, interviews, stand-up comedy and classic cartoons ripped from TV. But of "original material" I haven't exactly stumpled upon that fat girl from Ohio, who is the Mozart filmmaking just yet!
That's because youtube promotes all the stupid shit. They don't search deeper into the library to find the stuff that people actually put thought into making.
Well, youtube don't have to do the "searching into the library" for you - isn't that the point of mr. Coppola? That people can watch what THEY want to watch - not to pick from a narrow crowd pleasing selection defined by "the industry"?? I very rarely watch "promoted" videos - as you say, they're usaully "stupid shit"! I use the search and the "related" function. I still haven't found the Mozartesque master piece. And youtube's "promoted" selection isn't to blame.
From what I understand about Coppola, he always knew video technology would become simplified and inexpensive. He was making great use of video and computer technology throughout his career and felt it was just a matter of time that film would be rendered impractical and obsolete to the independent film makers of the future.
"They" did. Lucas was using computers to record camera movements and by the mid 80s Coppola employed the infamous Electronic Cinema System, combined with developments by Lucas for post production utilizing microcomputer control over video tape and/or video disc player/recorders to create video rough/fine cuts and edit decision lists which subsequently matched back to video masters or film negative. This early "multimedia" application enabled Coppola to shoot and edit films simultaneously.
it's a prediction of the emerging independant film movement, where you have movies like Once that are shot on dv handicams and edited with cheap software. It's exciting to think that filmmaking will become like painting. Imagine if a camera was as cheap as a paintbrush?
PaganiniGoGo, yes I've met him. I can tell you truly, Francis loves to teach, titillate, inspire the differences in everyone, he loves the silence between the beats, I cannot beging to tell you what he knows, and how he continues to expand on what he knows about making movies. Julia Danielle
I just watched this film for the 2nd or 3rd time the other day. I've never understood why he just abruptly gets up and leaves the interview like that....
Francis got up and walked away like that cause he was done. If you ever have the pleasure of meeting him, you will be amazed at his sensitivity + realness.
it is a prediction of the future evolution of expression through film. not an online collection of "fat kid falls over" videos and GTA IV mission walkthroughs.
Television is DEAD...YouTube rules now and will in the future. VIACOM is terrified that their days are over. That is why they sued YT....they want to know what people watch on YT. YT will become what everyone watches.
through the advent of personal film recorders (8mm cameras then, digital camcorders now) the whole art form that is film could be democratized and opened to anyone. And then it could finally be a true art form, like painting or writing, or music. If you have an instrument, you can play music. If you have a pen, you can write. If you have a paintbrush, you can be the next Van Gogh. Film making, he implies, will experience a renaissance through technology and freedom for the individual filmmaker.
He's saying that what he calls the "professional" attitude in filmmaking, meaning the studios and the producers and the stars and the whole film production establishment, is an elitist and limited system for make movies. The only reason that it was and (still is) the way almost all movies were made is because making a good film is almost impossible for an individual. There are too many elements, and the whole production industry did raise the standards PRETTY high. And what he imagines is,
In this clip he predicts prosumerism. YouTube falls under that category. So in a way he did predict it. But then again, prosumerism is a common trend so his prediction isn't that special.
actually, in a way he did predict youtube. he said that people who normally wouldn't make films will start to make them with home video cameras (8MM). he also said that this advent of filmmaking will forever destroy professional filmmaking. if you take a look at the quality of films today (in contrast to pre- youtube films), you'll see that he's right.
i think not every one can be a filmmaker, and Youtube is a great think to make someone express their feelings, but real filmmaking is something for those who know it and appreciate it not just any body,
well, anyone can know it and appreciate it. its just whether or not they chose to. saying not everyone can b a filmmaker is completely and 100% wrong. like he said, its an art form, and art is self expression, making what YOU want to make. so yea, actually, anyone can make a film. especially with the availability of the tools nowadays.
Apocalypse Now, The Godfather parts 1 & 2, The Conversation - all great movies and all from the 70's, the greatest decade in movie history. Even if Coppola never makes a decent movie again, it won't matter, he still made Apocalypse Now. At least he can say that.
Mentioning "Dracula" in the same sentence as "Apocalypse Now" is like comparing horsecrap to filet mignon. AN is a great, classic, amazing film. Dracula, on the other hand...how could you like that junk? One of the worst, most forgettable films of all time.
i think it has more to do with,--though not limitd to, the 'leveling' affect o technlogy. 'super8' at the time, if understood, probably is the 'youtube' of given time--providing the proper forum.
"I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience."
Sure, but Sturgeon's Law ("Ninety percent of science fiction is crud, but that's because ninety percent of everything is crud.") holds true. YouTube has made it easier for the untalented to get stuff out there just as it has for the talented. The thing is, with the pie being SO much bigger, the bit that is good is also going to be bigger. The hard part is digging through the giant pile of crud to get to the few gems. Remember that Coppola also invented electronic editing. He's a genius.
Good, eloquent reply. I understand the tenet of the 10/90 ratio. I embrace Coppola wholeheartedly, and in fact, only on what is my probably 19th viewing of AN (yes,including two of Redux, which is just two powerful shorts disjointedly shoved into AN), have to wonder, if he was normatively celebrating a meritocratic mass forum of filmmakers like YT, would he have been as enthused about the crap that becomes viral while visionaries go languishing? He'd probably be sad...
It's a new media, and new media have always brought art both high and low. Personally, I ignore all promoted YouTube content and disdain anything "viral". But there are a huge number of filter sites like Video Sift that allow me to see really great stuff on a nearly daily basis. Compare that to the likelihood of seeing something great on TV. The viewer's job is more difficult, but the rewards can be great.
I think it fits enough in that people one day will have an outlet to let the world see their work, no matter how awful or poor of budget they might be, someone will see it, someone will like it and maybe someone will want to pay to see more and more art from that person can be made and more people can be in wonder
close enough gyedc. jesus christ, you gotta splice every point on youtube and pick fight everytime. are you a lawyer? if so fight your battles at the bar, if not then take the bar and bore the world there.
Your response is not really related to this video clip/comments, frankiepop - in fact your reply sound a tone redundant (much like your spelling/grammar). Exactly where else do I 'splice every point' & pick fights? You don't sound terribly bright to me and here's some advance: get out of your bedroom, stop watching TV, learn something for real & get a life before YOU bore the world. Deal?
sorry, gyedc, i obviously touched a nerve and you're very hurt. If I would have known how sensitive you are, then I would never commented. I apologize. poor, gyedc. :-(
'Francis Ford Coppola Predicts Youtube' is a little ignorant in its titling. I doubt he was referencing an online-video-file-sharing network website, but rather the rise of film maker movements like Dogme 95 & cost effective compact HDV video cameras etc. Interesting take on it though.
Coppola just said, dont judge a book by its cover. He is living proof of that. For example, that boring librarian might want to fuck your brains out - "assume" means = makes an ass out of you and me.
P - Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in "The Godfather" trilogy, says the Oscar winners have become "apathetic.meaning there assholes know.
No, really, he was serious and he was dead-on. And, like, twenty years ago, too! Ken Russell said the same thing around that time - with the advent of cideorecorders there was no reason that EVERYBODY couldn't be an artist.
You probably mean that he predicted Vimeo since there you can find way more art video content.
echorse 4 weeks ago
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Really, Mr. Coppola? Professionalism and artisticicism depend on money that some just don't have to create a Godfather now?
scrtg 1 month ago
Wow
Jaguwar1804 2 months ago
bro, you think you've owned Capolla?
TheJonathankang 2 months ago
epic !
coolzerofly 4 months ago
He predicted WAY more than YouTube. He predicted the rise of the independent filmmaker.
tdkt160 5 months ago
@tdkt160
"He predicted the rise of the independent filmmaker."
In 1991? Just some 102 years too late, then. (The Jewish-American movie oligopoly is a rather modern invention.)
negermord 3 weeks ago
great segment from coppola. it's wasted on you ape types, though.
emceewhiterabbit 7 months ago
Well... I do not think he meant what youtube is. Youtube has very little art on it nowadays.
ZachariasClub 8 months ago
It's Strange What Draws Attention
These Days. -
chrisfilms84 9 months ago
i hate artists
bonkswa 9 months ago
@bonkswa What Else Runs America? -
chrisfilms84 9 months ago
@chrisfilms84 i don't know, most of the time you don't see the people who really control things only 'public figures' like presidents who say nice things.
bonkswa 9 months ago
FFC was right. And now we got famous cats playing pianos.
Swinefeld 11 months ago
If only he could have predicted how shitty Dracula was going to be
Bluedeanie 1 year ago
@Bluedeanie : THAT was good. They've squeezed all the juice out of the vampire genre that CAN be squeezed, in the '80's--I'd love for someone to prove me wrong, as one of my nicknames is "The Vampire Killer". ;])
buzzclick500 1 year ago
i remember this quote when i was a kid. way rad.
chadtur 1 year ago
Fred is that little fat girl from Ohio!
TheReverandOfFunk 1 year ago
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There are idiots out there in suburbia, too.
I want Professional movies. YOU are a professional that's why we like The Godfather.
Shut the F up and make your wine, fatso.
endgammer 1 year ago
endgammer 1 year ago
He didn't predict anything wtff
raccoon989 1 year ago
Yeah, when that fat girl has made that great movie, then his prediction will be correct. Right now, however, no such art has been produced. It's only a matter of time.
dcolby5 1 year ago
would hardly call youtube outputs forms of art
hotvision 1 year ago
@hotvision : What would you call it? I call it the "ultimate vehicle of free expression", and its timing of arrival couldn't have been better.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
what he did was not predict youtube but a lot of independent filmmaking due to the easy availability of cameras
93johnk 1 year ago
I better pork up and move to Ohio to make it... oh yeah, and chop off my dick too.
alanconocuna 1 year ago
Yes. And then no one will make money out of art. They will all eat from the dumpster....
miguelbaptista 1 year ago
Who is this guy?
brianpadraic 1 year ago
@brianpadraic ur joking no? :o
directed godfather, patton, apocalipse now , dracula and some other movies
spotlessmindpt 1 year ago
@brianpadraic haha good one!
93johnk 1 year ago
I think his prediction was more about Vimeo than YouTube.
joejumps4fun 1 year ago 2
hahaha I love how he says "professionalism" like he didn't just make a $20,000,000 movie in the Philippines shot on 35mm with the biggest actors in the world at the time....I doubt he would've even considered making Apocalypse Now had he not had the finances....I love him and his movies, but I don't like how all the huge industry pros downplay the role money has in filmmaking....sure you can make a great short film with a little handycam...but it's not getting very far w/out the money.
kramer893 1 year ago 3
Yes I'm sure Coppola had in mind fat middle American housewives filming themselves singing or videos of dogs humping.
Arthur5041975 1 year ago 4
unless big guys in big corporation dont want to make huge profit, ''elitism'' and ''professionalism'' and ''talent'' will still exist
RadioheadaphexZappa 1 year ago
he didn't predict youtube, he predicted inexpensive cameras for people to make films of there own, stupid
Nivekohgr86 1 year ago
@Nivekohgr86 He predicted the fact that inexpensive cameras will make film making a more obtainable art form. The inexpensive camera's already existed in 1991. Which in turn will end the professionalism and make film makers feel much less confined. FYI the correct form of "there" would be Their. As in Their own. Stupid
Beatmeup66 1 year ago
his thoughts were that filmaking can truly become an art form forever
BeyondLame 1 year ago
Youtube an "art form"? Yeah, right.
chahill79 1 year ago
it's not his hope. it's an observation,which qualifies as a prediction.
you don't have to specifically state "i predict..."
you can argue semantics all day, he predicted exactly what happened,intentionally or unintentionally, idiot. you moron.
zackhanscom 2 years ago
Why did this grumpy old man change his last name to Flarsneegle?
nardeldarf 2 years ago
There was no prediction here. He just expressed a hope. And anyway his hope was about movie making, not about movie delivery. YouTube is a movie delivery system. This video is poorly titled.
you12bme 2 years ago
Oh shutup.
RogueTone 2 years ago
who cares dude.
i rarely say this but, get a life.
simdogz41 2 years ago
I care because I don't like being misled and lied to. Do you? And anyway why do you care what I post? Maybe ~you~ should get a life.
you12bme 2 years ago
i care because who ever posted this doesn't deserve that crap. lighten up man, do you really think the guy who posted this was trying to lie or mislead us. he just made a little mistake. It is kinda clever how he has linked what Francis is saying to the Youtube era. Good work my man!
simdogz41 2 years ago
And to answer your question I don't really think the poster intended to be misleading, but when someone is careless in naming a video it affects all the people who watch that video. So yes, Mr. Sarcastic, I think I am doing good work when I say what needs to be said.
you12bme 2 years ago
The title advertised a prediction. I watched it expecting one. I heard none. I felt misled. I know I'm not the only one. I never said it was a bad video, but it should have been called something like "YouTube grants Coppola's wish" or something. When someone is careless in naming a video it affects all those who watch it. So yes, the poster does deserve to read what I posted and it isn't crap. And yes, Mr. Sarcastic, I think I am doing good work when I say what needs to be said.
you12bme 2 years ago
@idontwant2beu
You're inability to grasp context or common sense for that matter is amusing at the least. Keep on trolling, you whore.
kzero70 1 year ago
I think it's a little off, but the gist is there. Coppola hopes (hoped) or believed that the business aspect to the art of film will be diminished with the progression of technology. Not sure it's quite happened yet. You still need talent, and not just the equipment.
Capt777harris 2 years ago
this was predicted by dudes like Postman and McLuhan (among every other trend that has ever happened in media - including the internet and cell phones) long before Coppola was rehashing their ideas to a larger audience.
jono4422 2 years ago
Thank you Francis for inventing You Tube! I watch your videos all the time...check out mine!...people say I look a lot like you (when you were younger).
marcosuavefilms 2 years ago
I predict that a fat girl from Ohio is going to make a movie about Francis Ford Coppola, put it on YouTube and then Francis is going to sue her. She'll then become depressed, gobble too much Haagen Dazs and blow up like Ralphie May on a Cheetoes only diet. And before you know it we'll see the fat girl as one of the 62 hosts of The View where she'll be interviewing Francis Ford Coppola who will say to her, "I really liked your movie, but you owe me money. Glass of wine?"
lambent77777 2 years ago 4
i didnt hear youtube come out of his mouth
boogiebuddy01 2 years ago
some little fat girl.... or the numa numa man
fuddyboi 2 years ago 2
Coppola was right. I've been looking through youtube profiles, there are a lot of fat girls from Ohio.
springbok86 2 years ago 139
LOOOOOOL
stickhrk 2 years ago
I dont what to say, your comment just made me laugh and still am laughing thanks .
nomione1 2 years ago
@springbok86
LOL
MillaHead 1 year ago
yup ... spielberg and clooney and jim jarmusch and chris columbus and halle berry and dave chappelle and bob hope and paul newman... i think they were all fat girls in ohio once upon a time
BruinFilm13 9 months ago
Don't say shit! That's rude!
DeafFret 2 years ago
GEEZUS KRIGHST! I almost forgot I was on Youtube. I need a vacation.
nrobnas43 2 years ago
Anthony Burgess predicted digital clocks and satelite TV.
filmfanatic99 2 years ago
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Some little fat girl becoming the new Mozart?
No! That will NEVER happen! Not even in the face of Armageddon, that will never happen.
Mozart is the best one and only genius of music humanity is ever known.
aydingol 2 years ago
really........schoenberg, britten, debussy, beethoven, and the list goes on and on. Me personally i think that Benjamin Britten was a better composer than mozart.
ThePercussionMaster 2 years ago
Well anyone who's dumb enough to listen to Schoenberg is probably dumb enough to think Britten is better than Mozart. Remember most of Beethoven's stuff is stolen from Mozart, and if it hadn't of been for his advancements in composition none of the music we listen to today would exist.
Sunderlanding 2 years ago
apocolypse now was a sick ass movie
wrestlemanfan1 2 years ago
although not necessarily the best director, in my view, he has held the right attitude to film. he once said that 'the less expensive a film is, the more ambitious it can be'. Unlike money-sponging idiots like spielberg and george lucas, coppola recognises film as an art form - which it is - and instills his experience and feelings into his films.
markors13 2 years ago 4
Unfortunately, this was taken out of context. If you watch the whole segment, Coppola is discussing how everyone someday will be producing meaningless videos and saturating video media. This part is not included in this particular clip. Having said this - I think it is a stretch that he predicts YouTube. The basic idea of a large amount of video media being distributed is there.
protrend 2 years ago 38
its all in context and if you'd seen hearts of darkness then you'd know that he means every word he said. granted he didn't predict youtube but what he did predict is a distribution medium that allows a fat kid with a 8mm video camera to showcase their work.
what he's talking about is this, cinema is art, you don't need a major in waves and optics, or a masters in literature to make a film of worth, of substance. all that matters is the voice of the creator, the artist.
pope1870 2 years ago
@protrend But people do produce meaningless videos and saturate video media.
billiamFTW 1 year ago
@protrend Erm... Your statement of meaningless videos being produced by everyone equals youtube exactly?
bierbuik 1 year ago
@protrend He is not predicting YouTube. He is commenting on everyone shooting on video. It was a time when film was the only real choice. But with the advent of Hi-8. At this time, HD was non-existent. He did not predict the internet, nor Youtube. This new Youtube generation are a bunch of ignorant nutty kids, living in delusions funded by daddy's wallet.
The only foresight I see is his daughter's success. She is a great filmmaker, one of a few left who get it.
kubrickzghost 1 year ago 4
@protrend You are really drawing from the left side of the brain, there, cap. I saw all of Hearts of Darkness, and what Coppola is wishing for IS what YouTube represents for so many thousands, millions of unaffiliated artists worldwide. It was a wise and brave sentiment for a filmmaking so firmly ensconced in the system to make at that time. And he was dead right.
Nikatsu 10 months ago
@protrend The context is pretty obvious. He is not talking about meaninglesness of it, he is hoping for it to happen. Listen carefully.
ertzuiop123 4 months ago
@protrend 'meaningless videos saturating video media' -- sounds exactly like youtube to me. :p
joffeloff 1 month ago 3
And Borges predicts internet...
Read El Aleph and Ficciones.
lagazzettadellotano 2 years ago
how is that predicting youtube?
shanster48 2 years ago
So "Chocolate Rain" is the new Citizen Kane? And Scarlett of "Scarlett Takes a Tumble" is a modern day Mozart?
bigpunholla 2 years ago
What are you talking about? That doesn't sound like YouTube at all. YouTube is all about VBlogging, not movie-making. Sure, fat girls in Ohio are making, quite possibly, works of art, and they are even putting it on YouTube. But since the success of YouTube, I don't think there's been a boost in student film-making.
Neonman78 2 years ago
The reason being because there is no incentive; why bother investing your own hard-earned cash, time and effort into a work of art when some dude can point a camera at his face, talk about how much he hates his parents and that'll get ten fold many views.
Neonman78 2 years ago
did he have to say some little fat girl? LOL
QuietGiantProduction 2 years ago
really shows how far we've come with political correctness
thisisatrollaccount 2 years ago
was joking on that comment
QuietGiantProduction 2 years ago
Coppola is the only guy from his generation with any integrity. While Scorsese, Lucas, Pacino and De Niro are happy hunting down paychecks and doing films with an eye for profit, Coppola is pursuing his interests as a filmmaker at his own expense. Say what you will about Youth Without Youth, but at least it has integrity.
adorimbo 2 years ago
ravishing
STm0vies 2 years ago
er still hav'nt seen anything on youtube that I would consider "art" could someone point me in the right direction? Youtube just seems to be full of idiots trying to get famous for being mediocre
simmy3000 2 years ago 4
Just what I thought! I have seen lots of funny shit on youtube - and musicvideos, documentaries, interviews, stand-up comedy and classic cartoons ripped from TV. But of "original material" I haven't exactly stumpled upon that fat girl from Ohio, who is the Mozart filmmaking just yet!
Kalle72 2 years ago
That's because youtube promotes all the stupid shit. They don't search deeper into the library to find the stuff that people actually put thought into making.
trumpcardfilms 2 years ago 4
Well, youtube don't have to do the "searching into the library" for you - isn't that the point of mr. Coppola? That people can watch what THEY want to watch - not to pick from a narrow crowd pleasing selection defined by "the industry"?? I very rarely watch "promoted" videos - as you say, they're usaully "stupid shit"! I use the search and the "related" function. I still haven't found the Mozartesque master piece. And youtube's "promoted" selection isn't to blame.
Kalle72 2 years ago
Mozartesque masterpieces?
DUH CHOKLIT REIGN DUDE!
JoeNostalgiaReturns 2 years ago
haha yeah I know
codykingo 2 years ago
From what I understand about Coppola, he always knew video technology would become simplified and inexpensive. He was making great use of video and computer technology throughout his career and felt it was just a matter of time that film would be rendered impractical and obsolete to the independent film makers of the future.
scrutewb 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that they didn't use computer technology in film during the 70s.
Lazarus171 2 years ago
"They" did. Lucas was using computers to record camera movements and by the mid 80s Coppola employed the infamous Electronic Cinema System, combined with developments by Lucas for post production utilizing microcomputer control over video tape and/or video disc player/recorders to create video rough/fine cuts and edit decision lists which subsequently matched back to video masters or film negative. This early "multimedia" application enabled Coppola to shoot and edit films simultaneously.
scrutewb 2 years ago
Brilliant.
Roxaboxanne 2 years ago
Dude!
Francis Ford Coppola looks exactly like my 8th grade band teacher!!!
and my band teacher was hella cool!
Acti0nReplay 2 years ago
MAYBE IT WAS HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
Lazarus171 2 years ago
youre awesome francis ford coppola!
lovelyspringweather 2 years ago
Hey, who you calling fat, Francis?! ;)
How did you know about my "little father..." ? 0:18 How'd you know he was short??! (The Bell & Howard was average-sized)
thewomandirector 3 years ago
brajvag
puffinman 3 years ago
I thought Obama is the great HOPE?
endgammer 3 years ago
endgammer (1 year ago) Marked - He needs to predict his next date with shaving cream and razor blade
ufis567 (1 year ago) Reply - LOL!!! That is seriously the funniest comment i've ever read on the internet
endgammer 3 years ago
"Somebody tell Francis I am that little Fat Girl"
lol
staunch911 3 years ago
A little utopic, but awesome anyway.
Cthulhugoat 3 years ago
He's right. There r geniuses out there in suburbia. All they need is an audience.
rubber4532 3 years ago
There are idiots too out there in suburbia.
And what makes you thinks he was talking about a SUBURB in Ohio?
I want Professional movies. HE is a professional that's why we like The Godfather.
Shut the F up and make your wine fatso.
endgammer 3 years ago
Somebody tell Francis I am that little Fat Girl
Psqwall 3 years ago 4
I AM!
Bitch.
BitchErica1 3 years ago
but.....
88jester 3 years ago
But what type of art? Abstract visuals or something with a real story?
CTM1978 3 years ago
well, he wins again. god damn it COPPOLA!!!
mopman1337 3 years ago 5
it's a prediction of the emerging independant film movement, where you have movies like Once that are shot on dv handicams and edited with cheap software. It's exciting to think that filmmaking will become like painting. Imagine if a camera was as cheap as a paintbrush?
bscherer08 3 years ago 2
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FUCK the Independent film movement. I want Hollywood movies!! Stick that paintbrush up your arse!
endgammer 3 years ago
PaganiniGoGo, yes I've met him. I can tell you truly, Francis loves to teach, titillate, inspire the differences in everyone, he loves the silence between the beats, I cannot beging to tell you what he knows, and how he continues to expand on what he knows about making movies. Julia Danielle
LoveCarrizozo 3 years ago
Visionary
spiderziggy 3 years ago
I just watched this film for the 2nd or 3rd time the other day. I've never understood why he just abruptly gets up and leaves the interview like that....
levanyzzuf 3 years ago
Francis got up and walked away like that cause he was done. If you ever have the pleasure of meeting him, you will be amazed at his sensitivity + realness.
LoveCarrizozo 3 years ago
you've met him?
paganiniGOGO 3 years ago
its hardly a prediction of youtube - at all
it is a prediction of the future evolution of expression through film. not an online collection of "fat kid falls over" videos and GTA IV mission walkthroughs.
pjsingleton21 3 years ago 5
lol!
iwao72 3 years ago
Classic.
XanderTown 3 years ago 2
that is so not the way youtube is
Stimor 3 years ago
not youtube specifically, but low production cost to high revenues ratios such as the blair witch project...
good quote. Heart of Darkness is a great documentary
buddh1stpr13st 3 years ago 6
ha predicted youtube, what a joke.
there will always be room for professional filmmaking for people who like quality storytelling.
Jeffp2k5 3 years ago
I don't agree. Most of youtube is garbage. The art is in the theatres.
BrotherlyBesties 3 years ago 2
BrotherlyBesties..So How about the Theater's piece; shoot through the Video camera and uploaded on YOUTUBE?
By the Way,You're a Strange one!Knowingly coming around to YOUTUBE to immerse yourself in GARBAGE...ha..ha.
I like Garbage....Nice.
groovingsoul 3 years ago
i love that he said some little fat girl
Aphasia17 3 years ago 5
OMG...he really his right.
QuietGiantProduction 3 years ago
Television is DEAD...YouTube rules now and will in the future. VIACOM is terrified that their days are over. That is why they sued YT....they want to know what people watch on YT. YT will become what everyone watches.
DouglasUrantia 3 years ago
Gutenburg made everyman a reader......camcorders and YT made everyman a film producer/maker/distributor. This IS the future. Count on it!
DouglasUrantia 3 years ago
the fact that this video is on youtube is hilarious
seanist 3 years ago 4
Wouldn't exactly say he predicted youtube but he definately knew what was coming
simplelife88393 3 years ago 4
through the advent of personal film recorders (8mm cameras then, digital camcorders now) the whole art form that is film could be democratized and opened to anyone. And then it could finally be a true art form, like painting or writing, or music. If you have an instrument, you can play music. If you have a pen, you can write. If you have a paintbrush, you can be the next Van Gogh. Film making, he implies, will experience a renaissance through technology and freedom for the individual filmmaker.
shrunkenhead145 3 years ago
He's saying that what he calls the "professional" attitude in filmmaking, meaning the studios and the producers and the stars and the whole film production establishment, is an elitist and limited system for make movies. The only reason that it was and (still is) the way almost all movies were made is because making a good film is almost impossible for an individual. There are too many elements, and the whole production industry did raise the standards PRETTY high. And what he imagines is,
shrunkenhead145 3 years ago
In this clip he predicts prosumerism. YouTube falls under that category. So in a way he did predict it. But then again, prosumerism is a common trend so his prediction isn't that special.
AllyourbasicGerrard 3 years ago
He did not predict utube,he predicted stuff like Blair witch project
amazingIndians 3 years ago
fat girl in ohio...
THEOogalieBoogalie 3 years ago 2
lol, that made me giggle too
obliviouspet 3 years ago
Coppola is a brilliant man. Usually a good director makes 1 masterpiece in his whole life, Coppola made at least 3.
clown1905 3 years ago 4
4: The Conversation.
plastique45 3 years ago 3
actually, in a way he did predict youtube. he said that people who normally wouldn't make films will start to make them with home video cameras (8MM). he also said that this advent of filmmaking will forever destroy professional filmmaking. if you take a look at the quality of films today (in contrast to pre- youtube films), you'll see that he's right.
jwp1092 3 years ago
actually he didn't, because youtube is a joke.
cottonear 3 years ago
i think you need to re-name this clip.
he predicted innovations such as consumer dv that enables virtually anyone to make a film.
youtube is simply a platform or gallery in which 'fat girls from ohio' can showcase their work.
he didnt predict youtube, spaz
FilmBrat 3 years ago 3
i think he predicted the blair witch project lol
lcf218 3 years ago 4
i excactly thought as you said.
viswas777 3 years ago
lol...brilliant.
zackieboy 3 years ago
i think not every one can be a filmmaker, and Youtube is a great think to make someone express their feelings, but real filmmaking is something for those who know it and appreciate it not just any body,
Mo7ammaD87 3 years ago 2
well, anyone can know it and appreciate it. its just whether or not they chose to. saying not everyone can b a filmmaker is completely and 100% wrong. like he said, its an art form, and art is self expression, making what YOU want to make. so yea, actually, anyone can make a film. especially with the availability of the tools nowadays.
XoSs 3 years ago
Apocalypse Now, The Godfather parts 1 & 2, The Conversation - all great movies and all from the 70's, the greatest decade in movie history. Even if Coppola never makes a decent movie again, it won't matter, he still made Apocalypse Now. At least he can say that.
sltr00per 3 years ago
Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Woody Allen are my Heroes. They're visionaries
rtms1988 3 years ago
Francis Ford Coppola is a genius.
Apocalypse Now, and Dracula are great films.
He has inspired me in my movie making endeavours.
drdrtfehytf 3 years ago
Mentioning "Dracula" in the same sentence as "Apocalypse Now" is like comparing horsecrap to filet mignon. AN is a great, classic, amazing film. Dracula, on the other hand...how could you like that junk? One of the worst, most forgettable films of all time.
paxpaul 3 years ago
Dracula has lots of good, beautiful historical archeytpal images, amazing scenes.
And John Waites as Renfield, "I must wait for the mawster.", that wasn't too bad.
Dr Seward reaching greedily for the Victorian cocaine and morphine mix dripping from the syringe while another needle, the phonograph needle.
Beautiful photography, smart chapterial pacing.
drdrtfehytf 3 years ago
maybe you should have listed Apocalypse Now, The Godfather and The Godfather Pt 2 instead of Dracula.
s50538 3 years ago
hahahaha this is a hilarious conversation
ellegaunt 3 years ago
drd, I completely agree with the genius comment. He's always been ahead of his time. Great Post, kahrohseh.
1hitwonderthemusical 3 years ago
Hey, thanks
drdrtfehytf 3 years ago
Coppola didn't invent electronic editing and he doesn't come close to predicting youtube in this clip.
tblissyt 3 years ago
i think it has more to do with,--though not limitd to, the 'leveling' affect o technlogy. 'super8' at the time, if understood, probably is the 'youtube' of given time--providing the proper forum.
ffzappe 3 years ago
Spielberg said the same thing!
"I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience."
Whimplash 4 years ago 3
Okay... how does one separate the art from the shite? 'Cuz the latter seems to be getting the more hits.
howelldrake 4 years ago
Sure, but Sturgeon's Law ("Ninety percent of science fiction is crud, but that's because ninety percent of everything is crud.") holds true. YouTube has made it easier for the untalented to get stuff out there just as it has for the talented. The thing is, with the pie being SO much bigger, the bit that is good is also going to be bigger. The hard part is digging through the giant pile of crud to get to the few gems. Remember that Coppola also invented electronic editing. He's a genius.
postingoldtapes 4 years ago 4
Good, eloquent reply. I understand the tenet of the 10/90 ratio. I embrace Coppola wholeheartedly, and in fact, only on what is my probably 19th viewing of AN (yes,including two of Redux, which is just two powerful shorts disjointedly shoved into AN), have to wonder, if he was normatively celebrating a meritocratic mass forum of filmmakers like YT, would he have been as enthused about the crap that becomes viral while visionaries go languishing? He'd probably be sad...
howelldrake 4 years ago
It's a new media, and new media have always brought art both high and low. Personally, I ignore all promoted YouTube content and disdain anything "viral". But there are a huge number of filter sites like Video Sift that allow me to see really great stuff on a nearly daily basis. Compare that to the likelihood of seeing something great on TV. The viewer's job is more difficult, but the rewards can be great.
postingoldtapes 4 years ago
Thats fantastic
ninelivecat 4 years ago
I wonder what he thinks of this today.
antdude 4 years ago
I think it fits enough in that people one day will have an outlet to let the world see their work, no matter how awful or poor of budget they might be, someone will see it, someone will like it and maybe someone will want to pay to see more and more art from that person can be made and more people can be in wonder
sserpent21 4 years ago
COPPOLA IS A BEST FILMMAKER EVER.
CRAZYCITYGUY 4 years ago
sounds like stevie ryan aka littleloca is that girl, but shes not fat and shes from victorville.
dw988 4 years ago
close enough gyedc. jesus christ, you gotta splice every point on youtube and pick fight everytime. are you a lawyer? if so fight your battles at the bar, if not then take the bar and bore the world there.
frankiepop 4 years ago
Your response is not really related to this video clip/comments, frankiepop - in fact your reply sound a tone redundant (much like your spelling/grammar). Exactly where else do I 'splice every point' & pick fights? You don't sound terribly bright to me and here's some advance: get out of your bedroom, stop watching TV, learn something for real & get a life before YOU bore the world. Deal?
gyedc 4 years ago
sorry, gyedc, i obviously touched a nerve and you're very hurt. If I would have known how sensitive you are, then I would never commented. I apologize. poor, gyedc. :-(
frankiepop 4 years ago
Do you actually have anything interesting to add to this video clip then...?
gyedc 4 years ago
'Francis Ford Coppola Predicts Youtube' is a little ignorant in its titling. I doubt he was referencing an online-video-file-sharing network website, but rather the rise of film maker movements like Dogme 95 & cost effective compact HDV video cameras etc. Interesting take on it though.
gyedc 4 years ago
Coppola just said, dont judge a book by its cover. He is living proof of that. For example, that boring librarian might want to fuck your brains out - "assume" means = makes an ass out of you and me.
PrinceMustDie666 4 years ago
in the new today
P - Francis Ford Coppola, who directed Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in "The Godfather" trilogy, says the Oscar winners have become "apathetic.meaning there assholes know.
oaklandcamysoil 4 years ago
in a way he is right in his prediction,
for example "blair witch project"
Ionisus 4 years ago
No, really, he was serious and he was dead-on. And, like, twenty years ago, too! Ken Russell said the same thing around that time - with the advent of cideorecorders there was no reason that EVERYBODY couldn't be an artist.
bootpig1 4 years ago
bullshit you have to know math and scienece and alot of money to make a film that dam good, i cant even make a good film with my fathers camera.
Silencer111 4 years ago