This is the one most people remember....
Posted on 11/13/2014 2:52:52 PM PST by Borges
A piece of American cinematic history is for sale again.
The Staten Island estate where “The Godfather” was filmed is back on the market for $2.89 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I had no idea either about the personal information of each character. I will also be reading up on that is really cool.
Just posting from what I saw on another site, nasty one!
Coppola not getting any younger. Needs his touch
Ps. My grandfather imported Olive oil from Sicily. But he didn’t get involved in the rest. Lol
This is the one most people remember....
That was no heart attack.
Make them an offer they can’t refuse!
It looks like what they did was to make a wall through the street to make it appear as though the street was actually the driveway entrance to the house. I don’t know how they did the wedding scene, though, I doubt that yard would have fit on a half acre lot. They must have used a different location for the wedding.
I like 3. Yeah the incest plot is creepy and weird, plus of course featuring the director’s daughter makes it creepier, and she can’t act. Would have liked Duval but he wanted too much. What I really enjoy though is watching Garcia’s character change from Sonny’s kid (all hot emotions) to Micheal’s kid (all cold calculations), while watching Micheal finally pay the price for rotten bastard he is. That’s really good stuff. And all the call back, not just the simultaneous hits, but Zasso getting hit during the same festival Vito killed that boss and got on his path, and tons and tons more. If you pay attention to the callbacks you can actually “see” the next trilogy, 3 is telling you it’s just going to keep going like this, new bosses, new cars, same actions, same backdrops.
Now, that’s funny right there...
The daughter has a classic Italian look, but I agree no acting chops. It was creepy, but at least they had Michael and the family telling him to knock it off. And the ending did the typical Hollywood payback.
I like your examples.
Staten Island isn't Manhattan. Location, location, location, as they say.
I wonder if they've left anything inside to match the way it was during the filming of the Godfather movies. I ask because I was in Sicily this spring on a tour, and of course, the bus had to stop at the bar where Michael meets Apollonia's father. It was closed for renovations, but the tour guide said that it had prospered greatly as a tourist attraction after the movie. I wonder if any of that happened on Staten Island... but I doubt it.
My understanding is that interior shots were done in a studio.
Someone upthread said the owners of the house had some of the rooms remodeled to match the appearance in the movies.
No, Staten Island isn’t Manhattan. But it’s closer than Scarsdale or Bronxville, making for an easy commute, and it’s more fashionable than it used to be.
That’s really not a very high price for such a house.
LOL!
The camera adds 20 pounds.
Wow! That is a tiny lot. During the dotcom boom of the late ‘90s, people in the DC area and suburbs started building McMansions on their postage stamp-size lots or building additions to their homes that just ate up all the personal space between homes.
I must have been thinking of Scarface - lol
I was once threatened by a mobster.
He used to be a physicist.
He made me an offer I couldn’t understand.
In the book, Vito’s mansion was in Long Beach, a few miles south of where I grew up.
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