Godfather

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don's youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business. Show More • Rating: R • Genre: Crime, Drama • Original Language: English • Director: • Producer: • Writer: • Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 1972 wide • Release Date (Streaming): May 11, 2004 • Box Office (Gross USA): $134.8M • Runtime: 2h 57m • Distributor: Paramount Pictures • Production Co: Paramount Pictures • Sound Mix: Mono • Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1) I was roughly twenty years away from even being conceived when The Godfather came out. Growing up as a film nut, I often heard of The Godfather as possessing a sort of mythic status which few films made after 1955 possess. I first watched it back close to ten years ago as a 12 year old, never fully getting the story with the film falling into the "great film that I didn't appreciate" category until a month or so back when I got the Coppola restoration Blu-Ray and realized as an adult how fantastic of a film it truly was. The Godfather works so well because it isn't a film that kisses it's own ass on a variety of sub-levels. Fran...

W hen director Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter-novelist Mario Puzo released They took the figure of the ageing don as seriously as Lear, the careworn ruler of a secret American state-within-a-state. Stomach-turning flourishes of violence are juxtaposed with elaborate rituals of familial piety and respect, which generations of real-life criminals in the United States treated as how-to behaviour manuals for decades afterwards. These Italian-American gangsters do not complain about the bigotry heading their way, and are themselves casually racist and antisemitic. Extravagant gestures of romantic adoration and solemn respect for womenfolk are combined with casual sexual abuse; and women have to reconcile themselves to their role: a pretext for revenge. (A tour guide in Sicily once told me that the word “mafia” is taken from the Italian phrase “ non toccare ma figlia” – don’t touch my daughter – an explanation I have yet to see confirmed anywhere else.) There is a toxic chill to the film’s opening speech, from a local undertaker piteously demanding the Don take revenge on his behalf against two over-privileged white boys who have raped and disfigured his daughter. Many cannot forgive this film for sentimentalising mob violence with this fantasy rationale. Marlon Brando is as hypnotic as a cobra playing ageing gangster patriarch Vito Corleone, his cottonwool jowl-padding giving something extra to that unmistakable adenoidal wheeze. He is hosting a colossal family wedding f...

USA TODAY But the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's The Chairman of the Board was not a fan of"The Godfather," an opinion Sinatra made abundantly clear as Mario Puzo's 1969novel was being adapted for film. In a legendary blowup at Hollywood eatery Chasen's, Sinatra snarled, "Choke. Go ahead and choke" at Puzo, who was taking a meal break from writing the film's screenplay. The infamousconfrontation sparked the imagination ofMichael Tolkin, creator of"The Offer."The Parmount+ series about the making of"The Godfather" features a re-creation of the fracas. "The only story I knew about making 'The Godfather'was that Mario Puzo got into a fight with Frank Sinatra at Chasen's," Tolkin said of creating the10-part series."So Ihad five minutes in the show written, and I just needed nine hours and 55 minutes more to fill it in." The 25 greatest Oscar best picture winners, ranked: Sinatra's vocal rebukesimmered for years. "In many ways, Sinatra loomed over the 'The Godfather' productionfrom afar," saysMark Seal, author of " Even before the book came out, Puzo's publisherreceived a letter "from Sinatra's lawyers demanding to seethe manuscript," Puzo wrote in his 1972 essay, The publishers politely refused the request. When "The Godfather" was published,many assumed the novel's central Johnny Fontaine character–a hard-drinking, womanizing, past-his-prime crooner who turns to the godfather to revive his career with a movie role – was modeled after Sinatra. 'Sopranos' actors wri...