Hidden Facts You Never Knew About The Godfather
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One of the very few films that continuously give us more & more hidden gems, The Godfather, after all these years still never fails to surprise us. While making this video, I kept getting blown away with how crazy all these "situations" revolving around this one film really were, it transcends the realm of just "great cinema", its just incredible.
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It's worth pointing out that Brando's decision not to learn lines was not born of laziness. It was a desire to say things as if for the first time.
In the 1978 Superman movie, when Brando is giving his farewell speech to his son before sending him to Earth, he is literally reading his lines off a card that is taped to the baby. 😆
@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 that's the funniest thing I've heard
The fight between Sonny and Carlo, Sonny’s stage punch where he clearly misses Carlo by a country mile
Yes - I've seen that missed punch many times and wondered why it was left in the final cut!
Not only that: when Sonny gets shot at the toll booth while sitting in his car, the front windshield is shot out. But then when he's shown lying dead on the ground, the windshield has been miraculously made whole again
@@tradewins Really! I never noticed that - good one!
A really bizarre and scary fact: Lee Strasberg who played Hyman Roth got a call from Myer Lansky (Roth was based on Lansky.) Lansky complimented Strasberg on his performance, but said he could have played the character a little more sympathetically. Strasberg was more than a little freaked out because his number was private. I guess it's lucky for Strasberg that Lansky liked his performance.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.
Hehe good point, notice how Roth never took THE SLIGHTEST GLANCE at the solid gold telephone in Havana?
@@tinafoster8665 Funny how few people notice that even though it's done squarely in the middle of the screen, not quickly or off to the side.
@@KC______ Michael did, he was staring right at Roth the whole time n noticed EVERYTHING, notice how to get Hyman Roth to tell the truth, OR conversely to SEE IF HE'S LYING to ask him about his HEALTH? EVERYONE has a weakness, senator Geary obviously it's women or girls, Batista obviously his was gold lol but there's so many clues to honcho- psychology in the godfather trilogy, like that Italian Corporate honcho that when you meet him he has FOUR MILITARY BODYGUARDS IN A FOUR POINT SECURITY detail, HIS weakness was security, which didn't help him since Tomasino's Man just used what was handy, n killed Luchese with his own glasses
@@tinafoster8665 No, I meant few people who watch the movie (notice what you pointed out in your previous message) not the actors in the flick.🤫.
The scene where Enzo was shaking was acting. That was a very deliberate move to show how calm Michael was under pressure compared to another civilian.
Good point, you'd expect a cake n pastry baker wouldn't be too familiar with mob standoffs lol
I've often wondered why Michael stared at Enzo's cigarette lighter when he took it to light his cigarette.
@@michaelwarren7962 yes it was an army lighter even tho Enzo was deferred, doing his "war effort" in his father's pastry shop. So how did he get an army lighter?
@@michaelwarren7962 I believe (take it with a grain of salt, it's just my analysis) that Michael wasn't looking at the lighter, but at his steady hand. I think he himself was astounded at how calm he was, considering the stakes and the situation.
I always take that scene as the moment of revelation, when Michael knows himself, and what he is.
@@michaelwarren7962 Marines.
I’ve seen this movie 20 times and this is the first time I ever noticed the Statue of Liberty in the background when they shoot the guy in the car out in the field and “ take the canolies”.
Same here.
I've been watching this movie for 15 years and I'm still learning new things about it. You've opened my eyes to the kicks in the face. Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
Everything about this movie is perfect
What about Sonny's phantom punch?
@@ectoplasmicentity I think Jason means that as perfect as one could expect with any movie
Facts about the Godfather, I cannot refuse
I try but each time I think I'm out. .....
Ha! 😁
sorry for late reply. wanna rest Hyungål
@@dwaynefriday6619 k0
Also the people at the wedding reception included the Buffalino family from Pennsylvania. Marlon Brando was drunk and went out and mooned the set which he was scared that it made them mad. He mentions it on one of his interviews.
😂 Brando really regretted it after
Sonny “camera” scene was gangsta as shit… he played that part great!
WOW. Just when I thought I knew all the secrets, you give me more!
A couple of corrections. The beating of Carlo only took one (not four) days to shoot. The production was on too tight a schedule to allow that type of indulgance for a two minute scene. They did use three cameras to shoot the beating. Stuntman Paul Baxley doubled for Gianni Russo in the wide shots. 2. Brando slapped Al Martino instead of yanking him by his hair (which is how it is described in the book) because Martino wore a toupee. 3. The actor who gets his camera broken by Sonny is named Joe Cirillo, who would later have a role on the CBS series Eischied. Otherwise, real good stuff here.
How did they not.edit the glaringly choreographed punch that misses Carlo's chin by a good six inches but Gianni Russo reacts as choreographed, as if really punched.
@@bigmarzu Good question. 1. Remember, ALL of the punches missed. The problem was not the punch, but Carlo snappng his head back at every one of Sonny's punches. Had Carlo not reacted it would have looked like a legitimate miss. 2. A rule of filmmaking is never film a fight from the side. Movie punches look best from behind or in front so that the distance is crushed. 3. Coppola clearly did not want to cut in the middle of the fight because it looks so real and had a lot of energy. The trade off is the "missed punch."
@@mandolindleyroadshow706 I've done all kinds of fight scenes onstage, and they are choreographed to the last detail and done at slow motion speed before even trying half and full speed. An actor has to sell it and the actor (non-gender specific-I'm not a fan of act-RESS) receiving the blow or slap or sword or strangle is in control, or should be. Russo was more than likely was doing just that, but someone's timing was off. Trust and timing. Many many years ago, I was playing Stanley in Streetcar Named Desire and there's a scene where Stanley slaps his wife Stella fairly hard. We did it in the round so it had to look authentic. After trying numerous options we decided to go for it. Doesn't mean I actually slapped her, but I took a full swing and Kathy, the actor playing Stella would catch the slap with her hand which a person would do as a defensive action. She had to catch it so close to her cheek and react as if really slapped. Her timing (and mine) had to be almost perfect and we had to trust each other completely. Not once did she catch it on her cheek and because I took a full swing, the sound my hand hitting her hand(cheek) was quite loud. In a movie, there's the luxury of editing scenes.
@@bigmarzu Yes, staged fights are difficult to choreograph. I tip my hat to you. A couple of notes about the fight scene in The Godfather. Gianni Russo has claimed that he broke a rib during the "fight." Very possible as they were going at "full speed." His injury implies they may not have been as cautious in rehearsing as they needed to be. But it is important to remember, Coppola was under the gun by Paramount to finish the film, and a scene that may have required a full day of shooting was shot in a relatively short four hours. Russo's injury claim is also strange since he was doubled in the wide shots by stuntman, Paul Baxley, the guy who is also tossed over the hand railing by James Caan, and the actor, as you say, "missed his cue.
@@mandolindleyroadshow706 I bow to your Corleone knowledge.
Moe Green's character was taken from a real person, whose name was also Moe, and who was also a minority partner, in the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
Also on Bugsy Siegel who was shot in the eye.
Moe Green was a composite character of Bugsy Siegel and Moe Dalitz, with a naming nod to Lansky associate Gus Greenbaum.
Marlon Brando’s voice was due to the son having an illness when he was young in Sicily which affected his speech. De Niro also conveys that in his acting when he plays the young Don Vito.
Wrong, just like this video. The real reason Marlon Brando used that voice was because in the book Vito was shot in the neck when he was younger, and Brando being the great actor he was came up with the idea to do his voice like that.
Wrong, just like this video. The real reason Marlon Brando used that voice was because in the book Vito was shot in the neck when he was younger, and Brando being the great actor he was came up with the idea to do his voice like that.
@@michaelhernandez8772 great point. Was he shot any other time other than the fruit stall because I remember he couldn’t talk properly when asking where Mike is? De Niro also used the soft husky voice and I read somewhere is was brought on after the illness he contracted when going to Ellis Island.
I always heard the voice was Brando's own creation and he accomplished it by putting cotton in his cheeks.
FINALLY! New facts, no editorializing, and someone who narrates with a normal voice! THANKS!
Sarcasm?
Bravo, bravo, bravo. Having not visited this channel before, I was expecting "facts" every fan of the book and film already know, like "Brando put weights on his stretcher" or "Paramount didn't want Al Pacino." But no! I knew none of this stuff. WTG. And may your foist child be a mmmmmasculine child! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Appreciate it Don Josh Max 🙌👑
Pacino's maternal grandparents came from Corleone
Lmao
I love all this.Keep it coming.
Joe Colombo was SHOT a few blocks away and was in a vegetative state until he died in 1978.
More than a few blocks away - Columbus Circle / S. Central Park (Colombo shooting) vs. Little Italy (Baptism) & 60 Centre Street(Barzini shooting) = Lower Manhattan
they were shooting the scene in the Ritz-carlton hotel (i think), its when Cicci shoots the boss in those revolving doors
I was just going to post something to that affect.
Love your videos :) only one thing, this mixing of music is nice at times and get's me kind of crazy at others.
In 1971 Joe Colombo was shot three times, but he did not die until 1978. The Godfather was released in 1972.
The Carlo gambiano fact holy shit
Excellent commentary!
Well, the scene with Martino who doesn’t know if he should laugh or cry is written in the book. Read the book, again, and again and again
I'm usually skeptical of Facts You Probably Didn't Know c ideas when it comes to things I've watched extensively, but half of these facts I did not know. Good job!!
Good info👍🏼
Well, I LIKE the narration.
And the music.
I was skeptical, I really didn’t know most of those facts
Interesting information. 👍
The mix of hop hop and old Italian music is throwing me off lol
Very good. Very accurate ;)
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No wonder James Caan absolutely nailed acting as a mobster 2:43
Still he was an odd choice for the role, I don't think that was what he auditioned for, I think Coppoloa originally wanted him to play consiglere. While he acted the role, he didn't look the role. Thats still one thing I can't get over in the film a Jewish German who doesn't look Italian or anything like his two brothers playing a mafioso. It's like a black guy playing the king of england.
@@ppumpkin3282 He looks like "a big Indian" to put into into Boardwalk Empire terms.
Robert Duvall is much closer to looking Italian than "a son-of-a-Falkenstein."
@@ppumpkin3282 I think Al Pacino originally screen tested for the Sonny role, too.
I hate the part where Sonny gets killed I like his role in the movie
great video. What film was the Joe Columbo shooting scene you featured from please ?
Marlon Brando was the one true LEGEND that redefined acting. Without Brando The Godfather would have merely been another great movie, and not THE best movie ever made.
I can't imagine any other actor playing Don Corleone.
earned my sub
“I was the one who tackled the shooter that killed Joe Colombo”
-Gianni Russo
I read on IMDB that James Caan was upset with F.F. Coppola because the final movie cut a lot of his scenes. At the premiere, Caan screamed at Coppola "Hey! You cut my whole fuckin' part out!" Caan claimed that 45 minutes of his part was cut.
Good work, man
Vito was inspired by Frank Costello, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci and Carlo Gambino all rolled into one
Ans vito genovese!
And
I owe to Jonah Goldberg this interesting tidbit. At the wedding, one of the guests asks Don Corleone to avenge the rape of his daughter. The Don points out that he never came to ask for his help before but relied on the American justice system, but the rapist got off (or got off light, I forget now). The guest pleads with the Don to kill the rapist, but the Don says, in effect, go ask America to avenge your daughter. The name of the guest was Amerigo Bona Sera, which means "Good night America" adumbrating the guests turning away from America and back to the "system" of the old world. Subtle, but profound.
Godfather is my all time favorite movie!
When Sonny breaks the camera he was destroying a very rare antique. Bad time to improvise.
Probably cost a small fortune 😂
After the major success of that film, it's probably worth more now in bits and pieces.
The camera belonged to the FBI. Sonny would have been arrested in real life.
@@colt4667 Absolutely!
@@colt4667 I think he was supposed to be a newspaper photographer.
Amazing Movie. It’s real in Sicily Italy 🇮🇹
Interesting facts
"Hello, Badabing..."
Sounds like a good name for a strip club...
Is this a real person narrating these videos or just a really good synthetic voice?
My take-away is this: there's a lot of improvising in movies.
I'm not so sure. I worked on a movie and with the writer standing right there, you dare not diverge from his masterpiece theater.
3:42 YOU CAN'T SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLON BRANDO'S EYES
I spent some time in Savoca and had gelato at Bar Vitelli, lit a.candle in the church where Michael married Appolonia..the town of Corleone looked too 70's so Coppola used Savoca brilliantly.
I was hit by the thunderbolt when Apollonia appeared on the screen.
Is there any relevance to the lighter used in the scene with enzo the florist? I’ve always noticed it lingers for a long time as Michael stairs at the lighter. Maybe I’m seeing things but always makes me think theirs more to it
I believe him staring at it is to make sure we notice that Enzo is shaking like a leaf and Michael is not. And Michael is realizing it too.
I’ve heard all sorts of stories about Brando reading cue cards and using teleprompters in his movies from the 1970’s up to his death, Does anyone know when he really started using them nonstop and depending on them?
I wouldn’t think they’d go all the way back to the 1950’s and were ever used in On the Waterfront for example.
Great question. I would like to know the same.
It's a shame because he could have been a contender instead of a bum.
@@heathwirt8919 😂
Bravo
“Take the cannoli” lol
I've heard that Marlon Brando didn't memorise his lines and used cards to read off of in literally every movie I know he's in
I watch the Godfather every year without fail and for the life of me I don't remember the "Baptism by Fire" scene..I better watch it again..
At first I was angry. Then I drank some coffee and got my sarcasm meter recalibrated.
I suppose it was called "Baptism by Fire" because the killings took place while Michael was attending the baptism of Carlo and Connie's baby.
I like how most of all this was improvised lol... get the canoli
I can't speak for its adherence to exact truth, but The Offer was hugely enjoyable for several of the Godfather fans in my family including me. It provides a ton of little details just like these videos and I'd definitely recommend it to friends as an entertaining series. It manages to make 10 hours of background to 4 hours of film (only #1 and a tiny bit of #2 are covered)
went to sicily weeks ago, taormina is way more established today but canicatti looks exactly like in the film.
You heard the one about the Chinese godfather? He gave them an offer they couldn’t understand
That view of that City where Michaels bodyguard said…. Corleone is actually, Cuenca, Spain :)
I really like this narrator and he sounds like the guy I heard on the Guiness book of world records tv show
I knew a few of them, but some others were pretty cool
To me it sounds like the narrarator from How it's made
A lot of those stories that are told in the autobiography Man against the Mob
What is this song you use in the back?
Big Hidden Fact: Don Vito was Tom Hagen's father. he was not "found." there is more than oblique reference to this when we learn Luca Brasi threw a living new-born baby into a furnace. Don Vito told him to kill the Irish mother and take the baby only if it was a boy . she had twins, a boy and girl Tom had a sister. i think Tom learned of this and was the one who left the curtains open in Michael's room for the assassination attempt. Don Vito was a terrible failure of a father, raising a son who would kill his own brother. the Don deliberately sent Luca to his death knowing that nobody would believe he would betray the Don. but the brain-damaged Luca would believe anything Don Vito said.
i'll give u one more, what hospital was used in the michael switching rooms so his father would'nt get shot again. ???? or i should say all the hospital scenes ??? clue it was near the street where they filmed all the deniro scenes? in godfather 2
I believe the exterior scenes of the hospital were filmed at the French hospital on 29th street and ninth avenue in Manhattan. So I’ll guess the interior scenes were filmed there as well. Quick fact. Babe Ruth was treated and discovered he had cancer at French hospital. I believe it’s an apartment building now though.
Call me Mr. Kelly Somehow I thought I’d read somewhere some of those hospital scenes were shot at a hospital in The Bronx,
But it could be I’m completely wrong and that’s just where it takes place in the story.
@@cha5 Could be. I know the exteriors were shot in Manhattan. If you google french hospital they also reference it.
Is that Lenny Montana in the picture with Gambino?
The Corleones had 2 captains. Everyone knows they weren’t a family and were nothing more than a glorified crew.
Compromise, Phil
@@stevezac_cptlpnshmnt Historically, Carmine always said that. Not Uncle Philly.
And neither had the makings of a varsity athlete.
That Pygmy thing in Jersey.
The music is so confusing...
The reason Brando slapped Al Martino was that he was meant to grab him by the hair - but Martino wore a wig, so Brando slapped him instead. It was not unusual for Brando not to learn his lines and to rely on cue cards - and sometimes an off-camera assistant feeding him lines into an earpiece. Brando did this on most of his movies (perhaps not in his early films but certainly from the GF forward), claiming it gave his performance greater spontinatity. I think he just couldn't be bothered.
Why is it two different songs at once it ether one would be fine but they make it hard to focus on the listening to the words
I heard George Lucas also edited and piece together the scene thats all cut up inside the hospital when Enzo is walking in
Difficult to watch because of what sounds like two different songs playing over one another in the background.
Why are there at least two music tracks playing simultaneously in the background - copyright issues? It makes me nauseous and the video just unwatchable.
Never really connected these two, but does anyone know if the strip club in the Sopranos being called Bada Bing is a reference to when Sonny says it in the Godfather?
Would be a pretty cool easter egg.
Apparently yes
Apparently no. Every Italian I grew up with said "Bada Bing".
@@josephpetrino1741 I saw an article once that said that the name was a reference to the movie among other things like tony drinking orange juice when he was shot just like how Don corleone was buying oranges when he got shot etc
@@jackmaguire3126 I don't know about that. I do know that it was a common expression in Brooklyn among Italian Americans when I was a kid in the 60's.
I'm sorry, the absolute clear winner is Michael Corleone. The Family had far more men, money, influence, intelligence and if need be, brutality. Tony Montana was powerful but he was a wild dog who lived for the moment and didn't plan ahead. Maybe if he hadn't betrayed Sosa he might have stood a chance. Plus, if he actually needed them, Michael could have called in reinforcements from other Families because a lot of them forbade drug dealing. Plus, I'd be willing to bet that Al Neri could have assassinated Tony all by himself. He was that good.
Oh yes Neri could handle Tony Montana AFTER Tony got rich, BEFORE, Tony was too unpredictable n on edge. Where the theoretical Corleone Family has ACTUAL business along with other things, Tony only has $$$ n NO upper level planners cuz he's too paranoid. Tony was lucky n ruthless, whereas Michael Corleone was FOCUSED n ruthless.
@@tinafoster8665 true :)
Montana's downfall was being unwilling to whack the kids. He stood a chance until then.
On the other hand, Tony's wife inherits the mansion (definitely a fixer upper; call the Property Brothers) after he died, but Kay gets nothing from Michael, having been divorced.
Clemenza and Tessio would have had thick Italian accents when they were in their fifties and sixties. Don Corleone's (Brando) accent is not very good either. I've known older Italian folks (just love 'em) and they never lose their foreign accent.
Wouldn't it depend on when they arrived in America? Vito arrived when he was just a young boy.
Maybe its just me, but its really annoying having 2 different songs play in the background, it fucks with my brain since theyre not in the same key
The picture of Frank Nitti is anachronistic. Nitti committed suicide (or did he???) happened much later.
But the real question is why Sonny improvise and break the camera in the first place?
When you attempt to critique the godfather , remember these too salient facts, that it is the best mob movie ever and the greatest film ever made. The screenplay, directing and character performances are on a higher plane than any movie ever filmed. The acting is so good you could have given a best supporting actor to castellano, cazale, caan or Duvall. Even brando was said to be shocked by the marvelous performance of the actor who played carlo. He had never been in a film before that role. The godfather was a perfect storm of creative brilliance that will never be seen again. Except in the godfather part two. This was the directing equivalent of Michelangelo painting the cistine chapel twice. Peerless and beyond compare.
Why are there two different soundtracks clashing, though? Otherwise it's enjoyable
I should be packing, but I am watching this instead
They shot the fighting scene over 700 times and they still left the part where Sonny misses his head by like 4 feets???
Maybe it was one of those exhausted, “fuck it! good enough!” moments.
I work in local 52 in set dressing..props..and special effects...Do you have any idea how how long 700 takes is lmfgao maybe 4 movies lololololol just know that it takes 16 hours to film roughly 2 minutes....Roughly ! Listen I'm not trying to say your wrong but maybe just a lil mis informed....ok pal !
Yeah you make my wife very happy Pauli
The name music from the background
Sandstorm by Darude
Grazie
It's not that from the video
Dude, use one background music. Both are awesome but not together
I feel weird when they say "leave the gun" in a mafia movie. I feel that's the opposite of what you want to do.
Read the book. There is perfectly explained (read for yourself, I’m not going to spoil your reading)
Music in the background plz???
Terrible
Don Corleone's Character was based on Carlo Gambino. And not Vito Genovese. The Character of Moe Green ( Alex Rocco, another Fellow Sicilian American ) was based on Bugsy Siegel. Godfather 2. It seemed that the Character of Hyman Roth was based on Meyer Lansky. But Meyer lived to be an old Man and died of natural causes. And as for Godfather 3. The Character of Joey Zaza was based on Joey Gallo ( Crazy Joey ). And also Joe Columbo. God Bless.
the overlapping music is obnoxious. One or the other. Not both.
Michael Corlione was never a made man. He never went through the ceremony after making his bones with Tatalia and McClusky.
Solozzo and McClusky.
How Could ANYbody Misspell 'PACINO'??!
The real don is Carlo gambino
Are you secretly a speak and spell?
I think some of these are made up. As if Enzo wasn't told to shake his hands in fear in stead of he was nervous to act. As if it wasn't written in the script for santino to break the camera and throw some money on the ground.
I could do without the background music
Good video but most of these are in IMDB
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According to Puzo he never met any real life Godfather! Movie glorified and humanize Mafia! Author, script writers producer , musician and some actors were Italians or real life Sicilians! They knew their stuff!
There are talks to reboot Godfather but it will be called Godmother. We will watch a new character (Michelle) ascend to the power.