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Embrace the Grass
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MARIO PUZO, the author of the Godfather books, was brought on to write the screenplay for the 1972 adaptation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
The only problem was that he had no idea what he was doing as he had never written a screenplay before. He struggled with the structure and format, but worked closely with Coppola to refine the script.
After Puzo won two Oscars, he decided to buy a book on screenwriting to properly learn more about the craft.
In the first chapter, it said “Study Godfather I”.
~ From “History Cool Kids”
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I have seen a boy of two years old, who had been kept in London, taken out for the first time to walk in green country. The season was winter, and everything was wet and muddy. To the adult eye there was nothing to cause delight, but in the boy there sprang up a strange ecstasy; he kneeled in the wet ground and put his face in the grass, and gave utterance to half-articulate cries of delight. The joy that he was experiencing was primitive, simple and massive. The organic need that was being satisfied is so profound that those in whom it is starved are seldom completely sane.
The two-year-old boy whom I spoke of a moment ago displayed the most primitive possible form of union with the life of Earth. But in a…
