"Using the diary recollections of Coppola's wife, the late Eleanor Coppola, who was also disconsolately aboard and feeling thoroughly shut out of the alpha male chatting and joshing, Fischer shows our three dishevelled deities dizzied and stunned and even weirdly depressed by their staggering global acclaim."
"Coppola had created an authentic American masterpiece in The Godfather and legitimised the whole idea of sequels and franchises with his masterly follow-up The Godfather Part II. Spielberg had just sent the whole world shark-crazy with Jaws."
New Hollywood emerged in the 1960s and 70s as a revolutionary period following the collapse of the old studio system, energized by French New Wave cinema, American counterculture, and industry innovation. Multiple books examine this era through different lenses: Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls explores the decade's egos and excess; Harris's Scenes from a Revolution analyzes five 1968 Best Picture nominees to understand American cinema's cultural moment; Fischer's work centers on November 16, 1977, when Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola flew to Washington DC for a White House reception honoring the film industry. Despite their extraordinary global success—Coppola with The Godfather films, Spielberg with Jaws—these young demigods experienced unexpected depression and disorientation amid their staggering acclaim.
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