THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) I First Time Watching I MOVIE REACTION
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The Godfather: PART II (1974) Reaction
Vito's popularity in the underworld is on the rise, while his son, Michael's career is swinging downwards. In order to redeem himself, Michael must fight his enemies, including his own brother.
THE GODFATHER OF CINEMA!!!
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lol. I was yelling at you the entire time… DeNiro is Don Vito Corleone!!
Me too
@ 19:20 ... Clemenza needed to hide his guns and Vito happened to live next door to him. Clemenza wanted to thank him. And that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I never bought Bruno Kirby as Clemenza because he had a soft voice
When young Vito came back for Don Ciccio, one of their friends (the one who introduce him) was Tomassino. Tomassino, much older obviously, helped Michael in Italy when he killed the police officer and Sollozo. If you remember, Tomassino walked always with a cane due to a limp. That limp was produced because of the shot on the knee when he was young, in that moment when Vito murdered Ciccio.
"Do you ever think about your Italian wife?"
In the director's cut, there is a scene where Fabrizio (the Sicilian bodyguard that kills her) is blown up by a car bomb.
Michael was alone at the flashback of his father's suprise party and at the closing scene of the movie. It always makes me cry.
Also, Fredo was the only one supported him joining the army.
Michael always kept himself separate from the family. He always felt hollier than thou and superior to the family. He was the most Americanized of the family, that's why he was so keen on marrying Kay (a non-Italian).
Michael's paranoia and rage was triggered by the death of Apollonia. Her death is the definite turning point in the change of his personality. He doesn't come out of it until Part 3.
Good point. The same can be said the night Mike's jaw was broken by Capt. McCluskey.
@@alonenjersey You still see Mike joking around with Apollonia before she dies by trying to teach her to drive. A deleted scene from Part 1 shows him joking with Kay while they lie in bed before he meets Apollonia. You don't see Michael laughing or joking with anyone anymore after that until Part 3. The casting of Sofia Coppola in Part 3 mirrors the innocence of Apollonia to shut Michaels rampage down. Simonetta Stefanelli and Sofia Coppola were not trained actors. Francis Coppola is on record for instructing both women to not act in their roles, but to be themselves to represent their purity as innocent bystanders in Michael's life.
@@erwinquiachon8054 Yes. I saw that, and all the delated scenes from both films. Good observation on your part.
He thought he was out…then they pulled him back in 😂
@ 35:04 ... pay attention ... Michael only has one mother, Vito Corleone's wife. Michael has a son, Vito Anthony Corleone and a daughter.
This might be the first time that the prequel concept was ever used in mainstream cinema.
Frankenstein series was a trilogy.
The first prequel dates back to 1921, with the classic German horror film “The Golem: How He Came Into the World” a prequel story for the 1920 popular film "The Golem."
@ ... @ 35:54 ... Wow! You really need to watch these movies again!
IAt the start of the movie, Vito Corleone was born in 1901. Lost his Father, Brother & Mother. Went to NYC. Had children (Sonny, Fredo & Michael) and became the new Don)
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Don’t forget the daughter Connie as well.
The movie is both a prequel and a sequel.
Exactly.
You know when you hear FLIPPIN HELL!!! it´has impacted Calypso.
Damn.. You saw the timeline, noticed the jumps in time, and only realized the film was showing Vito's rise as well as Michael's term as Don when it hit the Intermission 😂😂.
That velociraptor screech at 13:17--I want that for my text notification! 🤣
The one at 5:33, after the donkey-goat incident, is good too. :D
Her humour is on point today!
1974 was such a great year for film. The Best Picture nominees that year were LENNY, THE CONVERSATION, CHINATOWN, GODFATHER PART 2 (which won) and THE TOWERING INFERNO. Such a great lineup, and Francis Ford Coppola directed 2 of these (GODFATHER PART 2 and the equally amazing THE CONVERSATION).
This was a year where a tie for Best Picture would’ve been justified IMO (for me it’s a tie between GODFATHER PART 2 and CHINATOWN (I consider CHINATOWN to be a perfectly executed movie)).
I'm a Chinatown lover--but wow, you're right; what a great year for film.
34:17 That IS the Michael Corleone, but it isn't 1917 in that scene. In 1917 we see a newborn Sonny crying on the rug that Vito and Clemenza stole from the "friend's" house. Some time after, we see a very young Fredo (1-2 years old?) have pneumonia, and when we see the family sitting on the stairs, Sonny is I would say 5 or 6, and Michael looks like he's a newborn, making the year something like 1922-1923, a very common birth year for American soldiers during WWII.
- Robert DeNiro, like Marlon Brando, won an Oscar for playing Vito Corleone...only DeNiro won Best Supporting Actor for the role.
- The young Clemenza is played by Bruno Kirby, who is better known for his comedy roles like Lt. Hauk in Good Morning, Vietnam, Jess in When Harry Met Sally, and Ed in City Slickers.
- Hyman Roth was played by the legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg, one of Al Pacino's heroes and teachers at The Actor's Studio, and he took the role at Pacino's suggestion, earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
- 35:06 - I was laughing at you trying to figure it out. This film tells two stories, Vito's rise to be the Godfather, and Michael's attempts to become legitimate, and not able to do so. So...DeNiro is playing the young Brando. The three kids on the stoop are Santino (Sonny), Fredo, and Michael. They did a "miniseries" of the two films on American TV when I was a kid, and even released it as a VHS boxset, that went in chronological order...Young Vito (DeNiro) in Part 2, Vito (Brando) & Michael (Pacino) in Part 1, then Michael in Part 2. They cut it so each night was a two-hour installment (with commercials) for a week long event.
That was great. I think the whole country watched.
I am glad she did a full reaction of Part 3 on her Patreon.
It's a story of two Godfathers. One places family above all else and died happy. The other ruined his family and ended up alone and dejected.
Part III is not as acclaimed as the first two and rightly so, but it is an interesting tale of an older Michael realizing his past mistakes and striving for redemption. It is worth watching once.
Ultimately, none of the sons were the perfect heir to Vito. Fredo is a given. But neither Michael nor Sonny could fill their father's shoes. Sonny was an absolute terror to everyone outside the family, while Michael became a terror to the family itself.
Unbeknownst to the actor playing the landlord, Coppola had a nail placed in the door of Vito's office so he couldn't open it to leave so his struggle to open the door was real.
Robert De niro plays young Marlon Brando in the film.
Mr. De Niro did a wonderful job playing the 23 to 31-year-old Vito Corleone.
I love when you finally figure out they're just stealing the rug! lol :)
Part 3 is more of an art film than the first two. It uses a lot of metaphor/symbolism and does an outstanding job of relying on Shakespeare's King Lear as a model to complete the story. People who don't like art films or Shakespeare usually hate Part 3. If you watch Part 3 like an art film and understand King Lear, you'll love Part 3.
If you watch Godfather 3, I suggest you choose Coppola's much-improved edit, now called "Godfather Coda." It's rearranged from the original theater release and, IMO, significantly better. It's not as good as the first two, but the re-edit is worth watching.
I prefer theatrical myself but coda is good also
@@rxtsec1me too. The ending in the theatrical cut is vastly superior to Coppola’s new edit. Why he chose to cut the flashbacks of Michael dancing with his daughter, Kay, and Appolonia made me mad because it was so important to his character to reflect upon the women he lost. And cutting out his death altogether…why
Michael and Fredo hug called the one of the greatest moment of cinema history, so everyone cries at that moment, you are not alone
My grandfather came to New York from a town right near Corleone Sicily in 1908, through Ellis Island and settled on the Lower East Side (Little Italy) like everyone else in those days. He was involved in importing his family olive oil to NY. That's where my mother was brought up--she walked those same streets as a girl--the family eventually moved first to East Harlem and then to the Bronx, where I grew up. All the atmosphere in this story is right on the money. And yes, I agree, it's all better than GF I---which was almost an impossibility, but the scale and scope, the contrast between Vito's rise and Michael's tragic arc, are so brilliantly done.
Thanks so much for sharing this story of Italian immigrants. My Dad's family made it to Ellis Island in 1920, six years before he was born. Somehow they ended up in Pittston, Pa. Rest in peace, Pop.
You hit the nail on the head!!! Michael missed keeping the family together first.
Thanks Calypso! Like most people, you are gpoing to need to watch the movie 2-3 more times to put everybody together from the old days to 'current." Luckily, these are such good movies, it is great to sit through them and see different things every time.
Now you are ready to see the last part, Godfather part three. For me, it´s not a masterpiece as these first two, but it´s a great film and a perfect ending.
If they just would have paid Duvall the money he wanted
The last time we see Kay in each film, the door is being closed on her.
Woody Allen and other friends of Diane Keaton (Kay) used to prank her by closing the door whenever she was in a doorway.
Clemenza wasn't in the movie because the actor who portrayed him, Richard Castellano, wanted more money than Coppola was willing to pay him. Castellano had been the highest-paid actor in the first Godfather.
The man Connie was with in the first 1958 scene is named Merle Johnson. He was portrayed by Troy Donahue, whose given name was Merle Johnson.
34:09 I can't believe she missed that..
If you think Robert Duvall was good in this, you really should see him in Lonesome Dove. Both Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones have said they consider the 4 part Western their finest work. Angelica Huston has also said it is one of her favorite parts. Another really great reactor, Madison Thames, watched it last year and really enjoyed it.
Please do consider reacting to Lonesome Dove and adding to your already great work.
An appreciative fan. 😀
Wow, you guessed everything correctly! Most people have to see this film more than once to figure out what's going on with Michael and Roth....but you had it all figured out right away! You caught everything, certainly more than I did the first time I saw it. (admittedly, I was, like, 11, so I can be forgiven!). Your reaction to seeing Robert De Niro was priceless. Definitely subscribing!!!!
Michael almost certainly remembered Apollonia; he was genuinely, deeply in love with her. I always got the feeling that he married Kay because it was IMPORTANT to him to have a wife and family, and Kay would be a quiet, easily-manipulated partner.
Also, Kay represented the American Dream, from a WASP New England family, which was very much the headspace Michael was in during and immediately after the war. He wasn't supposed to get his hands dirty in the family business. Michael can't reconcile his two halves into a cohesive whole. His dream of going legitimate sours, as does his socially "legitimate" marriage.
My ears are now destroyed and it was pretty funny that it took u so long to find out that De Niro is Vito 😂 but ur reaction was still great
Michael wanted the Senator in his pocket. So, that whole scenario was arranged.
A tip off is that Al Neri is seen in the bathroom wiping his hands---people miss that. Killing the prostitute is actually one of the most sinister acts committed by the Corleones.(at least that we know about)
The business is the family. In mafia terms that’s what it means
They also have loyalty to Vito because it was their father. If Michael had inserted his children he would have the undying loyalty they had for his father.
Michael inherited 2 capos wanting to leave. A brother who betrayed him. A sister who hated him. Besides the enemies, he had to work through that also.
Frankie Plantangeline was played by actor/playwright Michael Gazzo whose play HATEFUL OF RAIN won a Pulitzer Prize.
Pentangeli-
Respect, apart from the timeline, you understood pretty much everything else quickly the first time you watched it, which I didn't manage quite so well the first time I watched this.
Of course he remembers Apollonia - her murder devastated him. I believe we're supposed to understand that she was his true love; not Kay. He was back for more than a year when he contacted Kay again, and who knows how long he stayed in Sicily after Apolonia's death. Part of what hardened him and fueled that quiet, slow-burning rage in him was his guilt and heartbreak over her (I believe).
Many people feel that Part 2 is better than Part 1 because you get Vito's backstory. The ending is so sad as he has lost everyone except for Tom.
Are you actually confused that part of this movie is a flashback of The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone, who was played by Marlon Brando in the first movie? 😂
She eventually got it
Wow I honestly don't know how she missed that. I actually never thought being confused of that was a possibility. They even said Vito Corleone when he was a kid arriving at Ellis Island.
@@daron85 if you watch the whole video you see she got it
@@rxtsec1 I watched the whole video and saw that she figured it out. My point was I'm shocked it took that long.
@@daron85 show some grace. What's the point in saying that. At the end of the day she got the movie which is all that matters
"Merle" was played by early 60s heartthrob Troy Donahue who went to military school with director Francis Coppola and whose real name was Merle Johnson.
Michael was born later than what was portrayed. They didn’t give you a timeline.
13:09 don't Forget Watch the deleted scenes of The Godfather Saga. I recommend you also the novel & the film The Sicilian of Mario Puzo & Michael Cimino
Great reaction 💯 😁😁
Yes, this is better than the first movie. Great reaction.
Good lord! The man offering Vito the rug was the same man that threw the bag of guns to Vito through the window - Clemenza as a young man! He's repaying the favor by "gifting" him the rug, which, yes, was stolen. You're going to have to pay better attention! You're killing us!
You picked on on Freddo's betrayal right away! Nice! Even though you missed the significance of the past time line.
The Senate hearing was based on real life. The US Senate had hearings into organized crime in the country after a Mafia hit man (represented by Cici) confessed and spilled the beans on the Mafia. That was the first time Pele learned about the Mafia and oaths of silence.
Hyman Ruth was also loosely based on a Jewish mob leader, Meir (sp?) Lansky. And of course, the mob trying to forge a partnership with the corrupt Cuban government was true (until Castro came to power as depicted on New Years Eve.
The fact that they had a partnership with Battista was one of the reasons the people backed Fidel Castro.
The kiss was the Sicilian Kiss of Death. That’s why Fredo didn’t want to ride with Mike. That was a crazy scene because with the kiss he’s marking Fredo for death. You don’t mark someone for death and then say you’re still my brother I didn’t really mean to mark you for death ten minutes after doing it lol.
Morgana King, who played Mama Corleone, refused to get into the casket for the wake scene so the woman in the casket is Coppola's mother wearing a wig.
Why did she refuse
@@mo2k638 Don't know but I guess she was freaked out. Getting in a casket it kind of goolish.
34:00: Finally! A partial epiphany!
Dig it*...
Really cool reaction
Like Star Wars, The Godfather I and II were one big script that was chopped up. This is why it was so good.
Greatest trilogy ever
The party near the beginning of the film 6:57 was shot mostly at Lake Tahoe. It is located on the border of Nevada and California in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It is one of the most beautiful lakes in the west.
I lived and worked in Reno Nevada for ten years and was fortunate enough to travel many times to the lake. I miss being able to make the drive around the lake and enjoy the scenery.
you need to watch these movies several times to to understand all the time frames, etc.
After this one, you're going to start seeing request for "The Freshman." Please. No spoilers, but Marlon Brando had a lot of fun making fun of himself and it also has my favorite Penelope Ann Miller character. "An 'A!' That's what my FATHER said!"
I don't think Michael ever lost trust in Tom. I think in his effort to become legit, he sent Tom to be the lawyer in chief of the casinos that he was trying make the casinos more ore less clean, leave behind the dirty protection and other business in New York, but when he realized there was a mole inside his compound, he didn't even go to his actual brother, he went directly to Tom.
No, you're right: Most people consider Part 2 to be the best movie in the trilogy. Part 1 is one of the bewst movies of all time. Yet Part 2 manages to stand heads and shoulders above it. Part 3 is a perfectly good movie, it just isn't on the insane level that the first two are. People were disappointed by it because of staggering expectations, and so it has a worse reputation than it deserves. I'd say it's an essential watch, to get the full story of Michael Corleone.
Another reason I like your confusion at the beginning is that it proves that you are going into this viewing without any outside info to get you ready. Most reactions to Part 2 are fake because I can tell they asked around about what to expect before they watch it to avoid looking very confused. It was fun to see you confused because your reaction was closer to how people reacted to Part 2 when it was first released to the cinemas in 1974. In 1974, the audiences didn't have anyone telling them what to expect. A lot of people in 1974 forgot that Don Corleone's first name in Part 1 was Vito. Part 1 doesn't use the name Vito very often. Part 1 usually has people calling Marlon Brando's character "Don Corleone", not "Vito".
I love her reaction to Carlo at 51:31 LOL
Part 3 is waiting for you😊
Nah. She's on a perfect GF high. Walk away a winner
@@MrAitrainingNo, more reactors need to watch all three movies. Part 3 is not as good as the other two but it is not a bad movie.
The Godfather: Part 2 is considered as one of the best sequels of all time, it’s both a prequel and a sequel, I think you should watch The Sopranos at some point, and I still can’t wait for you to watch & finish the rest of Season 4 of Stranger Things before Season 5 (final season) comes out next year
A young Vito is portrayed in this movie. You see how he became the Don.
Should have re watched the first one first
Hey.. Even if you don't make a reaction video.. Atleast make sure to watch it in your own time.. The Series called "The Offer".. It's a biographical series about the making of "The Godfather".. And my God.. The drama behind the scenes are almost as intense as the scenes.. It's a must watch..
to see Vito and Mike's complete revenge watch The Godfather Saga, all the movies with the cuts added back in in order
Your confusion is justified. America changed _so_ fast in the 20th century, entire worlds were born and then just dissolved. There have been dozens of wildly different Americas in just 150 years. Vito's world is not Michael's world, and neither are modern America's world, but Michael's is far more familiar.
I use to live near Lake Tahoe. A beautiful place.
35:48 Yeeeeees, precious, Robert De Niro plays young Don Vito Corleone, a k a "The Godfather", in the flashback scenes in this movie, just as Marlon Brando played the older Don Vito Corleone in the first movie. It is indeed the same character. xD
Part 1 and part 2 should be watched 3 times each and then watch part 1 followed by part 2. All the details that you missed will click.😁
I liked the first one better
There's so many details in this movie that it's impossible to name them all, but one I like is how you can see young Clemenza (who will wind up quite fat in his older days) really packing away the pasta and meatsauce and bread in the scene where Vito says he will handle Fanucci. :)
I'm not sure how or where you got so lost. Not trying to be mean saying this, but, I've never seen anyone not understand that they are looking at flashbacks of Vito Corleone ( Michael's father) as a young man in the early 20th century - telling the story of how he got started. They're telling two stories, flashing back and forth - Vito's beginning and Michael's reign as Don - how on earth could you be hoping that Robert De Niro (Vito) would be working with Michael?
That's what I was saying. Mind boggling. This is a first.
Great reaction - I think the thing w Michael is that he doesn't really believe in this role he's playing, being the Godfather - remember, these films came out at the height of the Counterculture, so many in the audience would have understood the sense of him as someone who'd been trying so hard to escape this life, only to get sucked into it - so IMO Michael wraps this role around himself like a shield, and locks everyone else out - and his manner has this insincere aspect to it, in a way I think he doesn't fully understand
- he moves thru this like a bulldozer, digging himself in deeper and deeper, and isolating himself further along the way - Pacino compared Michael to Shylock from Merchant of Venice, another role he'd just played, saying both characters were in a way locked into their own terrible momentum
Part 3 was never part of the plan when these films were made - in fact, Part 1 was meant to be a standalone, but w Part 2 at least the Vito sections were still taken directly from the book, and the film managed the miraculous feat of filling out the rest of that story and expanding on the first film
- but IMO Parts 1 and 2 are like a single larger story, and they stand apart - so in my mind it's best to treat Part 3 as something entirely separate, like a kind of footnote, instead of a successor to the first 2 masterpieces; it's not on their level - Coppola was an entirely different kind of filmmaker by the time he made it - many disparage Part 3, but I think it's a respectable film in its own right, but it just pales in comparison
Regarding films to watch next, I made some suggestions w the first film, re other films that had fed into it, that Coppola was responding to - and also other great films of that time - so at this point I'll list a few films that seem like worthy successors, and also capture some of the same quality as these films: Scarface, Once Upon a Time in America, Goodfellas, and The Funeral are IMO the best films to follow along these lines, and each in a way is a kind of response to the Godfather Saga
- The Rainmaker was Coppola working w another popular novel, and has some of the humanity and intricacy of these films - another beautiful film that achieves this is The Yards, by James Gray, one of the few films to successfully emulate 70s Coppola on its own terms - two other magnificent and overlooked gangster classics include Miller's Crossing and Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad
Huh, i never noticed the monogrammed sheets when Kay is laying in bed, just before the shooting.... MCF
Super super reaction
Do you remember when Tyrion in season 2 of GoT when he told Pycelle, Varys, and Littlefinger three different stories on marrying Marcylla? GRRM was inspired by Michael Corleone’s version (the OG) when trying to find the traitor when writing his book of the event. 😊
@33:55 ... the timeline moves to the important events... unless you want to watch a 10 hour movie.
The godfather has a lot of undercurrent themes. Firstly, part-2 is a better movie than part-1, which is like saying this rolls royce is better than the other rolls royce.
One subtext in this, is the difference in trajectory of Vito and Michael and the main difference is Vito had a supportive & devoted wife, while Michael had friction with Kay that ripped him apart from the inside.
As just a perfect a movie as the first.❤❤❤❤
I’ve always wondered if Kay was telling Michael the truth. Was she saying she had an abortion to just get away from him?
The robert DeNiro character is a young Vito Corleone, the character played by Marlon Brando in GF1.
Good call on the Hyman Roth back stab
Don Cheech created a mighty weed empire with Don Chong.
@ 56:40 ... Those kids didn't pop out of nowhere. The stork brought them. (That's what my Mom told me.)
Frank being strangled was Roth. Not Michael
the questions:
Who opened the drapes?
And what did Fredo do to help Roth?
Fredo wasn't smart enough to help someone kill Michael. It doesn't matter who opened the drapes because that assassination attempt on Michael and Kay was one of the most unrealistic scenarios of anything in all three films. With all of the armed guards on the Tahoe estate, we are expected to believe that all of those guards would allow anyone to stand about 40 feet from Michael Corleone's bedroom window and fire their machine guns without interruption for about 10 seconds straight? That is very bright and loud muzzle fire in the middle of the night that could be seen at least 100 yards away.
You were so confused because Dinero was playing Brando 😂😂😂
Funnier when people think De Niro is Dinero.
@@erwinquiachon8054 🤣🤣😂 I was speaking should have read it
I’m not getting into a car with anybody who just gave me the kiss of death, especially not from Michael Corleone lol
WOW, I can't believe you were so clueless.
Awesome reaction of my favorite The Godfather movie!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊
You need to rewatch everything. You are completely confused. Di Niro is young Brando.
No, she got it sorted out eventually.
Great reaction like always, this is the finest example of when a sequel is superior to its predecessor. The Godfather Part II is one of the best films of all-time. A masterpiece. It's that simple. And some fun facts about this movie, Robert De Niro spent four months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect of Italian in order to play Vito Corleone, and he only speaks eight words of english during the movie. Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro are actors winning Oscars for playing the same character, no wonder that this movie won six Academy Awards, and it is the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. An extra had the guts to improvise an important moment in the movie. During a scene in which Vito talks with Signor Roberto while walking down the street, a neighbor jumps in to greet Vito. The actor was Carmelo Russo, who was an extra and who was not supposed to talk. Coppola wasn't happy. It stayed in because De Niro found it endearing, a moment that showed the locals respected Vito and gave the scene an added texture. Keep up the amazing work.
You gave a perfect synopsis! I first saw GF in 1972 when I was 22 years old. It took me 50 years and rewatching via these reaction videos for me to understand the difference between Vito and family vs Michael and how he destroyed his (OK I am slow). BTW, GFIII is a disappointment. It was made 20 years later hoping to cash-in with a GF trilogy. It was very disappointing to me and many others. If I knew then what I know now, I would not have watched GFIII, as it doesn't hold up to the standards of the two originals.
35:27 And......nevermind! Have you actually made your way through 1 1..5 of the "Godfather" story without realizing that he's not named, "Don" Corleone?? Vito Corleone IS "Don" Corleone. A "Don" is a boss or leader. Did you actually think that everyone in these two movies that were referred to as, "Don" were actually named "Don (Donald)"??? I give up.
...??? What movie are you watching???