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Filmmaker Coppola is not happy that Boris Johnson is a fan of ‘The Godfather’
- The prime minister said in July that his favourite piece of filmmaking was the “multiple retribution scene in ‘The Godfather’.”
- Coppola, who wants Britain to stay in the EU, said Brexit looked like it was heading for a disaster more reminiscent of ‘Apocalypse Now’
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Filmmaking legend Francis Ford Coppola is not impressed with Boris Johnson’s love for his bloody 1972 gangster classic “The Godfather”.
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The Brexit-backing British prime minister told The Daily Mail newspaper during his successful leadership challenge in July that his favourite piece of filmmaking was the “multiple retribution scene in ‘The Godfather’.”
The comment turned into a social media meme after Johnson expelled 21 of his own MPs – including Winston Churchill’s grandson Nicholas Soames – from the ruling party for straying from his hardline Brexit stance.
Coppola, who wants Britain to stay in the EU, told London’s Financial News that Brexit looked like it was heading for a disaster more reminiscent of the 1979 war film “Apocalypse Now”.
“The Godfather seems to be the favourite film of modern history’s most brutal figures, including Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gadhafi and others,” he told the news site by email.
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