[central_va]

Brando, thankfully, had very little to do with the film, and it would have been significantly improved had someone else been cast in his role.

Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.

The only mis cast person was Sonny, James Caan did not do a great job IMO.

[FredZarguna]

The script is almost a complete mirror of Mario Puzo's novel, which was most certainly not written with Marlon Brando in mind.

As for the rest, he sucked in The Godfather and he sucked in pretty much everything he did after 1962. What he did before 1962 was spotty, at best; have a look at Viva Zapata! sometime if you want to see some of the most howlingly bad acting. EVER.

[ek_hornbeck]

Did you know they cast Brando as the Don before the script was written. The part was written for him with him in mind.

I don't think that's true. Laurence Olivier was originally cast in the part, he even learned to mimic the speech patterns of Italian-American ghetto English quite well to do the role. I don't remember the details of why he was replaced by Brando, but Olivier was Coppola's first choice.