Posted on 11/25/2010 6:22:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Thans-Great link. I have been tossing and turning over an opening I have to give at trial in a very complex case. Every cell in my body is screaming to simplify it and make it short despite the pressure to cover everything. I am cutting my opening down to 10 minutes after reading the link-thx (i am sure the jury will thank you as well)
I too thought Hyman Roth was a great character. I even stole one of his lines (actually a line about him) when talking about my Father. Daddy had some heart trouble when he was 28 but lived to be 90.
I told a friend that Daddy had been dying of the same heart attack for the last 50 years.
Very much appreciated. As thanks, just remember my 15% commission as a finder's fee for locating great quotes and succinct speeches! :-)
Another little known fact:
The highest-guaranteed-paid actor in The Godfather was:
Richard Castellano (Clemenza)
ROTFLMAO!!
I hadn’t thought about that before, but you’re right!
First Don Vito gets shot outside the fruit market.
Next he dies with the orange in the garden.
Must of had something against oranges! :)
I got a lot out of also reading the book and reading the screenplays online. Probably for reasons of getting the length of the films down, some scenes were cut. In some cases, the dialogue and events in those missing scenes helps fill in a few gaps here and there in understanding the whole story.
I had never thought about it but you are right.
Now that I think about it, Michael had two henchmen. The really rough looking one who wore a hat and was killed by the Cuban officer and the smoother one you saw most often in Nevada.
BTW, I think “The Godfather” is quoted more than just about any movie ever made.
Cool - didn’t know any of them... thanks for the post.
The film was almost ‘Sergio Leone’s Godfather.’ What an amazing film that would have been.
Yeah, the third one didn’t have the appeal of the first two...but I think in retrospect it wasn’t as awful on its own.
Of course, in comparison to the first two, it didn’t hold a candle.
Frankly, I thought Part II was better than the original.
I told a friend that Daddy had been dying of the same heart attack for the last 50 years.
And since this thread was started by none other than Nick Carraway (of Great Gatsby fame), another great Hyman Roth line was this (while watching the Notre Dame-USC game in his modest Miami home):
"I've loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919."
The Gatsby gonnegtion [sic] is Meyer Wolfsheim, a doppleganger for Rothstein of the Black Sox scandal.
Pacino only made 35 grand for the first one? Astonding. He MADE the movie. (I know. He was a relative unknown)
Anthony Quinn would have been good in the Brando role.
Don’t like Brando. Never did.
James Caan is SUPER HOT in the Godfather, he’s perfect in that part. I always feel he never gets enough credit for it.
The glorification of stupid.
It's quite possible that the idiom "bada bing bada boom" become part of our lexicon via Caan in the role of Sonny.
You always had a thing for guys that get killed at toll booths, right?
Yeah you are right after 2 classic movies everything afterwards is anti climactic..
,I did like the second but the first one had set the characters up for you made it just a pleasure to watch the second one....
Trilogies i have watched over the years my top list....
Lord of the Rings.
Matrix.
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
Red Riding.
Yeah you are right after 2 classic movies everything afterwards is anti climactic..
I did like the second but the first one had set the characters up for you made it just a pleasure to watch the second one....
Trilogies i have watched over the years my top list....
Lord of the Rings.
Matrix.
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
Red Riding.
At the 72 Academy Awards (back when there was some class and patriotism in Hollywood), Durante and others . . all they could talk about was The Godfather, which had just come out.
What are you talking about?
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