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.