Its a damn shame they didn’t use Mario’s restaurant in the Bronx, which is the place in the book where Michael shoots McCluskey. Unfortunately, the food is nowhere near as good as it was when Puzo used to eat there.
(LC putting a gun to his head.)
/sarc
I thought the third one was awful tho I saw it again recently and it was not as bad as I thought.
I once attended the trial of a state mafia boss. He looked just like someone out of the movie, even had a carnation in his lapel. During the trial there were numerous characters constantly coming in and out of the courtroom who also looked the part.
BTW: Fortunate Pilgrim is a great novel. I remember that it was out of print for several years. I picked up a used copy from a vendor on the UWS several years ago.
Fascinating read.
The book is more believable than that story...
It would have been a very different picture.
The studio was constantly trying to dump Pacino. Supposedly Coppola shot the film from the end to the beginning to insure Al was not dropped. Pacino early on was not confident but as the shooting went on he found his feet. I think Hollywood does glorify the mafia but the characters, the acting, the story and the production were outstanding.
The first 2 Godfathers, Apoc Now and The Conversation prove that Coppolla is a very good director.
"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." Don Corleone, in The Godfather ... truer words...
Good book.
There is no book for the second movie. It was a screen play. A lot of the material is covered in the Godfather book though.
The officially liscensed sequels by Winegardner aren’t very good at all.
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So that's why he wrote the script for Superman: The Movie!