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Instead, director and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola drags his audience on a fragmented, flat voyage through the JAZZ age cinematically unjazzed...
...Coppola and fellow screen writers Mario Puzo and William Kennedy present a mixture of fact and fiction as they center their story on Dixie Dwyer (Richard Gere), a coronet player, who becomes entangled in racketeering riff-raff after he saves the life of arch- mobster Dutch Schultz. The Dutchman hires Dyers to entertain his mistress Vera Cicero (Diane Lane), and the two, unfortunately for the Dutchman fall in love. Vera, however, sticks with the mobster because of his promise to buy her her own nightclub. Meanwhile back at the ranch. Dixie's brother Vince becomes embroiled in New York...
...COTTON CLUB Directed by Francis Coppola Screenplay by William Kennedy and Francis Coppola...
...millions, and even a couple of new stars-Richard Gere and Gregory Hines-but Puzo's script wasn't working. Enter Francis Coppola. He had once made a movie called The Godfather, from Puzo's novel, with Evans overseeing the production, and they all made pots of money. But now Coppola was deep in debt and willing to write Cotton Club for $250,000. Coppola loved his script; Evans thought it read like a PBS documentary. And so, while casting continued for roles that hardly existed and sets were built in a Queens studio...
...here, my children, is where things went from chaos to crisis. The first week of shooting, Gere refused to show up until he had a contract. As costs ballooned, money ran short. Seven weeks into shooting, in a contract dispute with Evans, Coppola walked off the set and flew to Europe; the cast and crew missed their paychecks and refused to work until they were paid in cash. And in exchange for a quick $15 million from the film's distributor, Orion Pictures, Evans relinquished his control over the movie. By the spring of 1984, Evans was suing everybody...