RE The Godfather:
Even though Pacino played a huge role in that, I don’t really relate him to the Coreleone character. Marlon Brando, immediately “The WIld Ones”, and Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar Named Desire, and even Terry Malloy in “On The Waterfront”.
I enjoyed the Godfather trilogy immensely when it came out. But even there, the message seemed different than what the Sopranos was bringing.
Just my interpretation. Different people see things differently.
I don’t even think of it as a Trilogy. The third film is best forgotten.