It's impossible to imagine the world without the movies of Sofia Coppola, and I think that's a very good thing. Her work has such emotional power and nuance; I'm always happy to hear when she has a new movie out or something is screening. Recently, she was at The Academy Museum in LA, showing The Virgin Suicides, which is an awesome movie that put her on the map. But we may not have had that movie without one big risk. Let's dive in. Sofia Coppola's Risky MoveIf you're ever in LA, you gotta go to the Academy Museum, it's an awesome spot to see movie history, and to me, it's the best movie theater in the world. At the recent screening of Virgin Suicides, Coppola opened up about her career and the movie that launched it. Coppola said that she didn't always know she wanted to be a director. She initially went to art school, exploring a variety of interests without settling on just one. Her whole life had been spent on film sets, so she just got away from it all. It wasn't until she made a short film that she realized filmmaking was the perfect medium to combine her passions for photography, music, and design.But then she knew she had to make a feature... The idea to adapt Jeffrey Eugenides' novel "The Virgin Suicides" came to Coppola after she fell in love with the book. She began writing a screenplay as an experiment, driven by a desire to...
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