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"Patton" (new twodisc DVD)

Posted by rico (A) on June 24, 2006 at 08:07:18

Francis Ford Coppola provides the strangest commentary I have ever heard during the film. He wrote the original script which was then held up for a number of years. When director Franklin Schaffner came on board he hired writer Edmund H. North to revise and flesh out the original script. Both Coppola and North got story and screenplay credit, but Coppola had nothing to do with the actual film making. There is a long explanation at the beginning about how unusual and unpopular the opening speech was (Patton in front of the enormous flag before the credits) but hen there are long periods of non commentary punctuated by mis-rememberings and guesses and apologies for not being there, etc. Coppola did a tremendous amount of research and he constanly reminds us how accurate the lines and incidents are. I did learn a few things along the way.

The film, BTW, is still wonderful, more so in this first time ever anamorphic transfer. Director Schaffner made good use of the widescreen Dimension 150 film process. And Gerry Goldsmith's score is evocative of the "I have been here before" theme of the film.

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