Seeing someone do something stupid while driving their car or saying something they shouldn’t have is all subjective. What I think is stupid others may not. However, there are some things that we can’t deny as being stupid such as murder, assault and in this case an armed robbery. Honestly, I have never understood how someone could steal something from another person, let alone do it while wielding a knife, then tieing up four people before taking our computers, cell phones and other valuables. If I did that I don’t think my heart would stop beating for days afterwards and I wouldn’t be able to even look at what I had taken.
In this case, what I described above is exactly what happened at writer/director Francis Ford Coppola‘s office of Zoetrope Argentina. In the process of holding people captive and taking whatever they wanted they stole a backup device of which Coppola said had all the photographs of his family, all his writing. One piece of writing that was taken was his script for Tetro, a story about Italian immigrant artists set to begin shooting next year and starring Matt Dillon. Luckily he has backups, but as for the pictures and personal stuff the Associated Press quoted him saying, “If I could get the backup back, it would save me years — all the photographs of my family, all my writing.”
Tetro is slated to begin production in Buenos Aires next year and Coppola was quoted saying he will not move his offices out of Argentina, but he may have to move from the chic Palermo neighborhood to a Buenos Aires district where he felt safer.
Coppola has a new film, Youth Without Youth, set to release in NY and LA on December 14.
