The Conversation - Screenplay

by Francis Ford Coppola

Original Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola

159 pages, Unknown Binding

Published November 22, 1972

About the author

Francis Ford Coppola is a five-time Academy Award-winning American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher, and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied theatre. He earned an M.F.A. in film directing from the UCLA Film School. He is most renowned for directing the highly-regarded Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and the Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read for fans of the film. This was an early version of the script which includes some extra scenes (Goes into the backstories of Harry owning his building, and his troubled niece) and extra dialogue, all of which provide some interesting insight to Harry, or at least Coppola's development of that character. While it's fun to have the extra details, and to imagine those unfilmed scenes, ultimately these things were best left out in a movie that is successful because it is so secretive and sparse.

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starts interesting, but in the middle I lost a bit of focus. Probably the movie is better. Still and interesting subject.