Wow. Turning a conventional gangster movie into a variety of social metaphors.
leave the gun....take the cannolies
Hmmm...as I recall, Michael Corleone’s daughter was assassinated and he croaked of Diabetes on some Sicilian farm while overwhelmed with guilt over the murder of his brother. Hardly rewarded - did the author watch the movies??
At least the Family were Americans. Not so for the DemocRats of today.
Yes. Rank and base.
Piece of garbage movie.
Come on, no spoilers, please. Some of us haven’t seen it.
“What if you could lord over a thriving business empire while having the people you don’t like strangled with piano wire?”
I’m not a Clinton....
I still love da Godfadda........parts one and two. Third was a dud IMHO. Reprobates and murderers that should turn people off but if the acting is good as it was in the first two movies, you relate to the characters TO A POINT! Somehow you pull for the bad guys.......I must be nuts..........sigh
In any time when people perceive injustice in the law, these stories surface.
Before it was the mob, it was Tammany Hall, and before that the Liberty Boys.
Back when the Weimar Republic was losing its grip, you had "Threepenny Opera" (Bert Brecht being his usual subversive self) and "M" (the amazing movie with Peter Lorre as the child murderer that the police can't catch, so the underworld goes about it).
As far back as the Roman Empire and the Norse Edda, people wrestled with this idea of alternative justice. The Greeks probably did too but "Antigone" is not quite on point.
Old hat reworked as if it is something new. No perspective.
In my lifetime there are only 3 movies I watch over and over. The Godfather, Jaws and Running Scared.
The Godfather Trilogy are among my all-time favorite movies and I still watch them all the way through.
“Now, we’ll put in a call to your office in the morning...saying you decided to spend the night at Michael Corleone’s, in Tahoe, as his guest...and all of this will go away.”
I was expecting him to say that if The Godfather had been made 10 years later, the politically correct types and the anti-defamation leagues would have creamed it for its misogyny and racial stereotyping.
This is an interesting commentary. I’ve heard it said that the movie gives a litany of advice to men that can be applied to everyday life.
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
“You can’t be careless. Women and children can be careless.”
“Never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking.”
“We have to have a little bloodletting every ten years.”
“It’s not personal. It’s business.”
The first movie was made with heavy budget restraints. The studio was not sure the movie would sell. The second was not so it is much more lavish and it ran so long.
NBC once aired the movies re-edited into chronological order. You catch several things that way that were not caught in previous screenings. I don’t watch many films a second time but this one I have probably watched 4-5 times.
Over 50 Posts and no mention of The Sopranos?
Everything you need to know about Life is in the Godfather.
As for me, I will never go Fishing on Lake Tahoe with a guy that works for my Brother.
I loved “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II” (didn’t care for Part III.) In Godfather Part II, however, I’ve never quite understood exactly what Fredo did and did not do in betraying Michael. When the attempt was made on Michael’s life in his bedroom, who left the curtains open so the gunmen would know when Michael was in the room? Fredo? If so, how could he not know there was going to be a hit? Immediately afterwards, with men and dogs searching every inch of the compound, who got to the gunmen first and killed them? Fredo? Given how ineffective he was in Part I when Vito Corleone was gunned down at the fruit stand (fumbling with the gun, dropping it, and so on) it just doesn’t seem plausible that Fredo quickly found the gunmen and very efficiently killed them both before anyone else could get to them. If someone else killed the gunmen, how did that person avoid detection by all of the men searching the compound?
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CHAIRMAN: We have your sworn affidavit that you murdered on the orders of Michael Corleone. Do you deny that confession, and do you realize what will happen as a result of your denial?
FRANKIE PENTANGELI: Look, the FBI guys promised me a deal. So I made up a lot of stuff about Michael Corleone ‘cause that’s what they wanted—but it was all lies—uh—everything. And they kept saying—Michael Corleone did this and Michael Corleone did that—uh—so I said “Yeah, sure, why not?”
SENATOR #2: Mr. Corleone, would you kindly identify for the committee the gentleman sitting to your left.
TOM HAYDEN: I can answer that. His name is Vincenzo PENTANGELI.
SENATOR #2: Is he related to the witness?
TOM: I believe he is in fact his brother.
QUESTADT: Will he come forward and be sworn, sir?
TOM: Senator, this man does not understand English. He came at his own expense to aid his brother in his time of trouble.