Francis Ford Coppola: Maybe the Downloaders Are Right

In a new interview , acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola takes a extremist stance on government issue of downloading , copyright , and artistic production : Maybe the student download picture show and music are right , he says . possibly we artists should n’t get make up .

Coppola , director of Apocalypse Now , the Godfather trilogy , and many more critically and commercially successful films , now mostly pretend his money from his wine-coloured business organisation , granting him a fiscal independency that many directors essay but few ever find . He ’s also Nic Cage ’s uncle . And an unexpected ally of digital downloaders . Here ’s what he said toThe 99 Percent :

We have to be very cagy about those affair . You have to remember that it ’s only a few hundred years , if that much , that creative person are working with money . creative person never got money . Artists had a patron , either the loss leader of the state or the duke of Weimar or somewhere , or the church , the Bishop of Rome . Or they had another job . I have another job . I make films . No one secern me what to do . But I make the money in the wine-coloured manufacture . You work another business and get up at five in the morning and drop a line your hand .

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This idea of Metallica or some rock n ’ roll Isaac Merrit Singer being deep , that ’s not of necessity going to occur anymore . Because , as we enroll into a new long time , maybe art will be free . perchance the student are right . They should be capable to download medicine and movies . I ’m going to be shot for say this . But who articulate artistic creation has to cost money ? And therefore , who says artists have to make money ?

In the sure-enough days , 200 years ago , if you were a composer , the only way you could make money was to travel with the orchestra and be the conductor , because then you ’d be paid as a musician . There was no transcription . There were no record book royalties . So I would say , “ render to unplug the estimation of cinema with the mind of making a living and money . ” Because there are ways around it .

It might be easy for Coppola , who has already found great succeeder in and out of the Hollywood organization , to take such a radical stance , but it ’s refreshing to see such a well-thought-of creative person ask the hard question nonetheless . Hopefully he gets seated next to that vaunter from Metallica at a dinner company sometime soon . [ The 99 PercentviaKottke ]

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