
The entertaining Tumblr site Ruin-A-Wish Foundation recently found a book page from a copy of The Godfather that apparently belonged to the film’s eventual director, Francis Ford Coppola. The (we assume, real, otherwise I don’t get the joke) page contains scene notes for the Academy Awards’ 1972 Best Picture winner, and they’re basically incredibly brief and sloppy insight into the mind of the man who created one of the greatest movies of all-time.
You can read the notes for yourself after the jump, and as an added bonus I also personally dug up the scene notes of Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg from Epic Movie.




James Caan was on Dan Patrick yestermorn, and everybody save Frank got a grand total of $35,000 for being in that movie. No back end, no royalties, nutin’. Well, a career because they were in it, but…
Do with that what you will.
Too bad Francis can’t use some of those grand notes to enhance the palette of his wines so they didn’t taste like Paris Hilton’s backwash.
Awesome. Do you have a copy of his notes on the script for “Jack”?
Re: banner pic–why was Vince Vaughn not invited to the wedding?
I kept expecting to see “a driving instructor that goes back in TIME for some reason”.
Wow, that’s really cool.
What’s The Godfather?
@Crap: To be fair that was $35,000 in 1974 dollars, which is like $36,000 today.
…and then a skeleton popped out!
I knew a guy who took notes like that once; with underlined words for emphasis, exclamation points, and written like he’s in a huge hurry. Like, is there someone standing there with a gun to your head, saying “write those fucking notes faster goddamnit!!” You’re a rich douche making a fucking movie about assholes with guns; slow down and write straight, it’s not like lives are at stake.
Anyway, he had a weenis.
Waittaminute — Is Mad Magazine still being published??
Are you sure these weren’t Nic Cage’s notes from his 7th grade English class?