Comments on: Francis Ford Coppola Disapproves http://www.filmjunk.com/2005/08/31/francis-ford-coppola-disapproves/ Blog and Podcast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sean http://www.filmjunk.com/2005/08/31/francis-ford-coppola-disapproves/comment-page-1/#comment-3338 Sean Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://209.123.84.9/spacejunk/2005/08/31/francis-ford-coppola-disapproves/#comment-3338 There was an interesting article about the making of the Godfather game and how EA is having trouble with their movie-based games in last month's Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/ea.html Regarding Coppola's comments, there's a few ways you can take them. I mean, first of all, the guy's pretty old, you can't expect him to understand video games. Has he even played it? Secondly, I don't think anyone expects the game to be "art" on the same level as his movies. I don't see how it's going to tarnish his work, it's a completely different thing. The movie was adapted from a book to begin with. Maybe some people though his movie was a "misuse of book" (I know a lot of people probably felt that way about Part 3). There was an interesting article about the making of the Godfather game and how EA is having trouble with their movie-based games in last month’s Wired:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/ea.html

Regarding Coppola’s comments, there’s a few ways you can take them. I mean, first of all, the guy’s pretty old, you can’t expect him to understand video games. Has he even played it?

Secondly, I don’t think anyone expects the game to be “art” on the same level as his movies. I don’t see how it’s going to tarnish his work, it’s a completely different thing. The movie was adapted from a book to begin with. Maybe some people though his movie was a “misuse of book” (I know a lot of people probably felt that way about Part 3).

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