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She is fully aware that Kilgannon, a former football pro, has incurred so much brain damage that he's practically a child but insists upon sticking with him. Along the way, she has a variety of offbeat experiences with such eccentrics as a snake-farmer Tom Aldredge and a widowed traffic-cop Robert Duvall. An unexpectedly violent turn of events, triggered by the traffic cop's troubled daughter Marya Zimmet , leaves Natalie virtually back where she started. Director Coppola was still laboring under the influence of the French New Wave in The Rain People; there are so many flashbacks and flashforwards that soon even the actors don't know where they stand.
Yes, it's an example of youthful cinematic excess, but there's a streak of genius in The Rain People that is impossible to miss. Coppola based his screenplay on his own short story "Echoes. Shirley Knight as Natalie Ravenna.
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By the late s, Francis Ford Coppola had made a name for himself as a screenwriter on several big-budget films, and had directed a couple of quirky features--a low-budget horror film for Roger Corman's American-International Pictures, Dementia 13 , and his UCLA masters' thesis film, the goofy comedy You're a Big Boy Now The studio was pleased with Coppola's speed and efficiency, and even though the film was a flop, the studio agreed to finance his next project.
Unhappy with his lack of control on Finian's Rainbow , Coppola decided to make a smaller, more personal film that he would write and direct, The Rain People Upset by a confrontation with a journalist, Knight was crying when Coppola saw her and he said, "Don't cry, I'm going to write a film for you. Natalie Ravenna is not sure she wants to be a mother, and not sure she wants to be married.
She impulsively gets in her car, and begins a cross-country odyssey of self-discovery. She picks up a hitchhiker James Caan , a former football player whose career ended when he suffered a brain injury during a game. In Nebraska, the two have a fateful encounter with a widowed motorcycle policeman Robert Duvall. Coppola filmed The Rain People entirely on location, traveling with a caravan of five cars plus a refurbished minibus to carry equipment.
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Among his crew were associate producers George Lucas and Mona Skager, both of whom would become key players in his production company. Lucas also directed a "making of" documentary that gives a fascinating glimpse of Coppola's guerrilla filmmaking style. He went on the road without a completed screenplay, inserting incidents that they stumbled upon in their travels, such as a parade in Tennessee, and constantly revising the script.
He also relied on improvisations by the actors to help him shape scenes. Shirley Knight had trouble working in such an unstructured environment, and she and Coppola had some arguments about it.
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Nevertheless, she gives a superb performance as the conflicted housewife. In spite of the difficulties of filming on location, Coppola finished The Rain People on schedule and slightly under budget. Energized by the experience, the director became determined to make his films away from the Hollywood movie factory. He set up his own company, American Zoetrope, in San Francisco in late , with Lucas as vice-president and Skager as secretary-treasurer.
The Rain People is a film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Alongside Shirley Knight, leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom . James Caan in The Rain People () James Caan and Shirley Knight in The Rain People () Robert Duvall and Shirley Knight in The Rain People () .
According to Variety , "Writer-director Francis Coppola, scrutinizing the flight of a neurotic young woman and her efforts to assist a brain-damaged ex-football player, has developed an overlong, brooding film. Often lingering too long on detail to build effects, he manages to lose character sympathy. They'd rather do interesting things and make provocative observations than try to outflank John Ford on his way to the Great American Movie. But it did not perform well at the box office.
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Over the years, however, it has acquired a cult status as an early feminist film for its provocative treatment of a woman seeking her own identity. And even though it was not a success, Coppola's next film as a director, featuring two of the actors from The Rain People , Duvall and Caan, would be a blockbuster: Francis Ford Coppola Producer: Bart Patton, Ronald Colby Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, based on his story, "Echoes" Cinematography: Blackie Barry Malkin Art Direction: