counterculture. >> "patton" was a film about world war ii and connects with the greatest generation. it's also a film about reconsidering war and connects with the vietnam generation. >> you are just a god damn coward. >> and it is told with irony by this young screenwriter named francis ford coppola. coppola had his foot in old hollywood before that. he made a big warner brothers musical. >> i was very unhappy during the production, because you didn't get to cast, you didn't get to pick the art director, you didn't do the final postproduction and out of my frustration, one of the h highlights of the picture is a skinny kid that would come and watch what i was doing and became a friend of mine was the only one more ofless my contemporary and that was george lucas.