When I first watched Coppola's The Godfather Part III I struggled mightily to comprehend how the great director had gone so wrong in his casting of the part of Michael's daughter, Mary Corleone. I think I'm pretty good at casting for the stage and I knew that I just couldn't have made such a mistake, so how could an out-and-out genius like Francis Ford screw up so badly after the monumentally brilliant casting of the the first two films in the trilogy.
Having watched most of the excellent documentary Sofia Coppola and The Godfather Part III Disaster I think I know a lot of the answer now. And I think, in a curious way, it wasn't anyone's fault. Least of all the highly talented-but-no-real-actress Sofia. Happily it looks like the disaster didn't leave any of those involved with any lasting trauma.
Maybe monumental mistakes can be good for us? Hope so, especially since I've made my fair share; but happily not quite on this scale; and, very happily indeed, not so publicly.
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