Reshoots & pickups

Francis Ford Coppola

They will always wait till the weekend to fire you because in their minds they feel that they'll be able to be a transition and the new director will come on a Monday and there'll be no loss of time. So I suggested on the Wednesday, why can't I go and I'll reshoot the scene with Marlon if you don't like it. I mean, it was his first big scene and even though he is such a great man, he's nervous about playing the role.

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Francis Ford Coppola

I myself fired four of who, in my opinion, were the traitors in my myths. It was sort of like The Godfather. I fired the assistant director. I fired a number of people as a preemptory strike on that Wednesday. And it threw Paramount and everybody in a total dither because, you know, they were going to fire me that weekend. And here I had gone and fired three, four people, and I went right upstairs and I reshot

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in the desert surrounding the plant, and second-unit pickup shots of the car chases were filmed in mid-May. According to Tom Mankiewicz, director Guy Hamilton had a prejudice against American automobiles and delighted in showing them crashing and breaking down. Mankiewicz remembers filming the chase scene. Now, those little ATVs were new, too. They were just about a year old, those little three-wheelers. I guess they're still very popular.

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They didn't see dailies. We saw the dailies. We had a little portable projector, and I'm not sure if we were able to run sound, so we just ran picture dailies just to make sure there were no serious problems or we would have to reshoot something. We'd usually get two or three days at a time and watch them together. Right.

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While he was making this, he had just shot the cowboys, and he actually had to go back and do some reshoots on the cowboys while making this. And that made him not a national treasure, but a national hate figure, because he was the long-haired outlaw who shot John Wayne in the back. And it was actually billed...

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