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...this was determined at a post-preview meeting Coppola held with his editors and his friends at a restaurant called, with looming irony, The Butcher Shop. "Would you believe this?" Coppola laughed at one point. "It's just like college, doing a play: Johnny Cazale acts in it, Elly does the sets. And Bob," he added, turning to Paramount Executive Robert Evans, "Bob is the rich kid whose father will print up the programs...
...Coppola and his party left in a private plane for San Francisco, where the final cutting was to be done...
Several weeks' work was compressed into a few days. Coppola now confesses himself "bored to death with gangsters," but adds that "right under the surface of this film is a loose metaphor for America itself. Like Michael, we all have blood on our hands." The director also stoutly maintains that Godfather II marks his last game of sudden death...
...Never, never, never again will I work under such chaotic conditions," Coppola, told TIME'S Leo Janos. "If I had three more months on this one, I'd have a great film...
...casually the Method. Those for whom the Studio and the Method are synonyms of indulgence will be surprised by Strasberg's thorough, precise approach to his role. "A lot of actors, every time you shoot another take of a scene, they do the same action differently," says Francis Coppola. "Not Lee. He always did the same thing. He told me, 'You break your leg, you always break it the same way.' " "For me, it was a lark," reports Strasberg. The idea of casting him in the part came from Al Pacino, his former student. Getting his mentor...