S1.E1

A Seat at the Table

Episode aired Apr 28, 2022
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1h 8m

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8.2/10

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Colin Hanks and Miles Teller in The Offer (2022)

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Al Ruddy gets the job of producing an adaptation of the bestselling novel "The Godfather" for Paramount Pictures, but rising crime boss Joe Colombo has a different fate planned for the film.Al Ruddy gets the job of producing an adaptation of the bestselling novel "The Godfather" for Paramount Pictures, but rising crime boss Joe Colombo has a different fate planned for the film.Al Ruddy gets the job of producing an adaptation of the bestselling novel "The Godfather" for Paramount Pictures, but rising crime boss Joe Colombo has a different fate planned for the film.

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8/10

The Making Of The Greatest Movie Of All Time

One episode in and I'm hooked. I didn't expect that. I thought this would be cheesy and sophomoric.

The casting is just outstanding. Matthew Goode has Bob Evans down to a 'T.' I don't know much about Al Ruddy, so Miles Teller had a blank canvas, but I like what he's done with it. Dan Fogler IS FF Coppola. Burn Gorman captures the highly eccentric Charlie Bluhdorn. The only portrayal I'm not liking, and this also surprises me, because I like the actor, is Giovanni Ribisi, as Joe Columbo. Ribisi is playing a stereotype as opposed to a character.

If you are a big Godfather fan the 'inside baseball' stuff is particularly satisfying. If not, then you're probably not a big movie fan and this series might not be for you.

DJM26
Apr 28, 2022
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Trivia
In the scene where Albert S. Ruddy visits the Zoetrope editing suite to convince Francis Ford Coppola to co-write and direct his film, a man, uncredited, walks through behind Coppola; he is later seen sitting on a couch in the background with a young woman (and another man, seen from the back) as Ruddy and Coppola continue to talk. This "walk through" man is clearly George Lucas, the woman is likely Marcia Lucas or Gloria Katz, and the other man is probably Willard Huyck, all of whom were friends and acolytes of Coppola circa 1970.

Goofs
They didn't just come up with Coppola directing, but he was their 8th choice after Sergio Leone, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Yates, Richard Brooks, Arthur Penn, Costa-Gavras, and Otto Preminger were all offered the position and declined.

Quotes
Albert S. Ruddy: Bob Evans? I'm Al Ruddy. I want to talk to you. You got a minute?
Robert Evans: I'm pretty sure we don't have a meeting this morning. But then you knew that, didn't you? How'd you get on the lot?
Albert S. Ruddy: It ain't exactly Fort Knox.
Robert Evans: Fair enough. So what can I do for you, Mr. Ruddy?
Albert S. Ruddy: It's about what I can do for you. I want to produce for Paramount.
Robert Evans: You know, you told a good story once. It was ballsy of you to walk away from Hogan's Heroes.
Albert S. Ruddy: So you do know who I am?
Robert Evans: I know who everybody is, kid. Do you know what a producer does, Mr. Ruddy? He does everything he has to do to get his picture made the way he wants it made. Now, what makes you think you're qualified to do that?
Albert S. Ruddy: You know, I read an article on you in Variety. It said you started out selling women's slacks and doing bit parts in movies. You still figured it out.
Robert Evans: [Smiling] Don't call them bit parts when you're kissing somebody's ass! I worked with Jimmy Fucking Cagney, my friend. Toe to toe! So: unknown computer guy creates CBS's hit comedy about Nazis. Go figure.
[pause]
Robert Evans: All right, Mr. Ruddy. I'm a sentimental guy, you remind me of me, and you caught me on a good day. Let's set a lunch, Mr. Ruddy. And talk about your future.