Posted on 04/12/2012 10:21:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Agree on the GF III. After watching the second time I found it to be pretty good. Sophia Coppola’s “acting” was what made that movie unbearable!
LOL, I’m a girl!
It would be interesting to make a movie that further elaborates on how Vito got to where he has, II only scratched the surface, but you don’t see how he went from the neighborhood boss to the head of a large organization.
Held Over 3rd week!
Held over 5th week!
Held Over 9th week.
Held over 14th week!
I remember it made it up to 28 weeks!
Here is a news story about the Godfather house in Staten island from 3yrs ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfwSNLJ1sKk
You can also find on Google earth:
40° 36’ 24.3” 74° 5’ 53.1”
Plus he was nailing Meryl Streep in her prime.
And I always felt that Cazale’s performance blew away everybody else’s in the Godfather movies...the character of Fredo probably had the widest range of any of the characters, most others were for the most part, one-dimensional, compared to Fredo.
Leni
He had quite a run. Every movie he was in won the Academy Award. That is something. When you watch the Deer Hunter, remember he was dying at the time, but still hit it out of the park.
Your affinity for Sonny Corleone have anything to do with a certain physical trait that he had, per the book.
He was probably upset because Al Martino's character, "Johnny Fontaine" hit a little too close to home.
1) "Make him an offer he can't refuse" was plagarized from an early 1930's John Wayne (as Singing Sandy) two-reeler. The bad guy is buying up all the ranches through intimidation (for water rights). Faced with a stubborn owner, he tells his henchman to "Make him an offer he can't refuse."
2) TGF ruined half a generation of Italian guys in the NYC area. They all thought they were Sonny, even if they were more like Al Bundy.
3) I grew-up around the corner from Carlo Gambino, the capo who was the model for Corleone. He lived on the water in Massapequa (Club Drive). Jerry Seinfeld grew up two blocks over and Alec Baldwin about a mile away. Joey Buttafucco was on the scene too.
I knew dozens of guys whose dads were "heavy fathers". I knew guys whose dads were kidnapped for ransom, murdered or just 'disappeared'.
Every 'father' I knew was a loser, all a bunch of ignorant assholes who got what they wanted because they we willing to go right to violence. That violence is about all that's accurate in the movie...the rest is a fairy tale.
I thought so, I was just having some fun jesting. LOL Aloha from Maui
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“I knew dozens of guys whose dads were “heavy fathers”. I knew guys whose dads were kidnapped for ransom, murdered or just ‘disappeared’.
Every ‘father’ I knew was a loser, all a bunch of ignorant assholes who got what they wanted because they we willing to go right to violence. That violence is about all that’s accurate in the movie...the rest is a fairy tale.”
In that regard, would you say that “Goodfellas” is more accurate? I got a lot more sense of what you describe from that movie.
I have friends, who are either from New York or profess to be “cultured”, who still haven’t seen either of the movies. I find that incredible.
Thanks very much it brought back lots of memories. The Norton’s and my family go back a long way. Ellen the wife and my dad dated. Ed and my dad used to run around together. The son Ed was just getting ready to go off to Villanova when I was there and had a 1953 Corvette he was trying to put in shape.
I disagree...it doesn't come close to Belushi's "darting eyes" in Animal House.
What exactly did he do to help Hyman Roth and Johnny Ola set up the attempted hit on Michael at the Lake Tahoe house?
Who left the curtains open in Michael's bedroom, allowing the two gunmen to know when Michael was in there, so they could open fire? Fredo?
Who killed the two gunmen that were found in the drainage ditch after the attempted hit on Michael? If it was Fredo, how did he manage to quickly kill the two heavily armed men, when he was so ineffective against the men who gunned down Vito Corleone at the fruit stand in the first Godfather movie? How was he able to get to them before anyone else?
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