THE PATH TO PARADISE

In this definitive account of Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American filmmaking, if not the entire world, through his production company American Zoetrope, the author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M., and The Big Goodbye, who has been a New York Times bestseller, returns with the book that has become the definitive account of his dream.

His most wonderful dream is American Zoetrope, the production business that he established in San Francisco years before his enormous success, when he was just thirty years old. Francis Ford Coppola is one of the greatest American dreamers, and American Zoetrope is his most glorious dream. By utilizing the experimental and communal utopia that Zoetrope proposed, Coppola made an effort to reinvent the entire filmmaking process. Now, more than fifty years later, in spite of several obstacles, the goal of the visionary director continues to be attained.

This is most evident in the development of the film that he has been working on for decades, Megalopolis, which is the climax of his utopian ideas. An incredible picture is woven together by Sam Wasson, who was granted complete and unrivaled access to the archives of Francis Ford Coppola. He also conducted hundreds of interviews with the artist and others who have worked closely with us. Coppola, who is charming and bright, is prone to seeing life and art through the lens of family and community.

He suffers from restlessness, recklessness, and a desire to keep pushing the boundaries of the spectrum. The tale of Zoetrope is also the story of Coppola's wife, Eleanor Coppola, and their children, as well as the story of personal lives that are inextricably linked to creative passion, as this is made abundantly obvious by Wasson. The narrative traces the varied routes that Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, who was one of Coppola's co-founders and a former apprentice, took, as well as their disparate perspectives on the relationship between art and business.

This is a narrative that is intrinsically linked to the production of Apocalypse Now, which is considered to be one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic works that has ever been attempted, as well as to what Coppola discovered in the jungles of the Philippines when he was on the verge of a razor's edge. It wasn't until this exceptional book that the tale, which was already the stuff of legend, was recounted in its entirety.

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