THE GODFATHER (1972) | 12 Facts You (Probably) Didn't Know
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- Why Did Frank Sinatra Try to Get Filming of The Godfather Stopped? Why were real-life mobsters on set during filming? Why Did Coppola Have to Fight the Studio on Multiple Fronts?
These are just some of the little known Godfather facts that we cover in this video. Let us know what you think in the comments...
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Is the five hour cut out there somewhere? Just started re-reading the book and would like to see the long version.
I think the closest thing out there to the “full cut” is The Godfather Saga
@@BitesizedSpoilers I thought of that, I've seen it. I'm only up to page 53 and there are are already some extra things only hinted at in the movie. it has been a few years since I've read the book and I'm taking a little more time now.
The closest would be "The Godfather Saga" just like our pal Bitesized Spoilers mentioned here on this read 👍👍 .... ( by the way I recommend it ) 😊
@@BitesizedSpoilers That had Michael blowing up Fabrizio in a car, which was sweet.
This would be the only 5 hour movie I'd ever watch and it would have my attention from start to finish.
The CAST, ACTING, and WRITING for THE GODFATHER is unmatched! It’s the best movie of all times with the best acting of all times! Every person in this movie was the RIGHT PERSON, in the RIGHT PART, doing the RIGHT THING!! 🔥🔥🔥
Cant wait till Sunday, The Godfather marathon is on tv.
1. New that.
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5. Did not know that (I love America)
6. Knew that. (Easy)
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The Greatest movie in cinematic history, by far. Absolutely flawless from the get go
Totally subjective and riddled with directorial flaws.
@@stefanjoseph2605Name a better movie that no one can criticize
Marlon Brando's reading his line off of q cards was a method he followed. He believed that it allowed for spontaneity, since he was experiencing the lines as if he was thinking them for the first time. You cannot argue that the method didn't work.
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The best movie ever made would of not been the same if Brando had not been the Godfather. It is still a movie the never grows old or tired. It is truly a classic movie. It was a perfectly cast movie as well. Thank godness that Coppola had the vision to make it the way he wanted. He is truly one of the top 5 directors ever. And, that is saying alot...
My all time favorite movie to this date.
I wish the 5 hour version would be done. That would be quality binge watching for sure. The deleted scenes from the TV version were great. Not a weak link among them. The scene with Genco on hid death bed really gave Vito a different persona when Genco begs Vito to stay because death would be frightened by the appearance of this man.
I also wish they would put in the scene when Michael walks into a pizza place with a shotgun and kills Fabrizio.
Get your hands on the chronological version. It has most deleted scenes, but the pizza place scene I heard was gone.
Good job. As a Godfather savant I knew most of this but it was well presented and edited. Good luck with the channel.
Thank you!
It's funny to hear "James Bond" was trying to give Ms. Littlefeather the Oscar. That was Roger Moore, who played Bond during the 1970s.
Caan might have said he watched mobsters on the set to pick up subtleties, but Caan's was lifelong close friends with Andrew "Mush" Russo, who was a capo at that time and ultimately became the boss of the Columbo crime family. Russo and Caan died a few days apart last year.
The budget constraints on the movie led to a few accidents (Caan hitting Gianni Russo (Carlo) with the stick he threw at him) and ad libs staying in the movie. When Don Corleone implores Johnny Fontaine to "act like a man" the laughs from Brando, Al Martino, and Robert Duvall stayed in the movie. It's been said Don Corleone's death scene was ad libbed as well, as was brushing something off of the Solozzo character's pants during their meeting.
ETA: Richard Castellano's salary demands meant Clemenza's character was re-made into Frank Pantangele. I don't know if Castellano considered his decision to be a mistake, but his career went nowhere beyond a bomb TV show ("The Super") he decided to take on instead.
I’m glad you got my James Bind joke. A few people have mistaken this as an inaccuracy on my part - It was actually my attempt at humour. Unlike other James Bond actors (except George Lazenby), I couldn’t name another Roger Moore movie apart from the Bond movies. Maybe that’s a bit harsh, I’m sure he made loads, but I don’t know them and that is what I was kind of joking about.
Sachsen Little Feather was Mexican,
Her family blew the whistle on her years later..
So, she was Elizabeth Warren before Elizabeth Warren was Elizabeth Warren? 😂
@@Frankie5Angels150Pretty much, except people didn’t laugh at Marie Cruz when she faked being Native American at the time. Anyone with a brain knee Warren was full of crap
I was just 15 when I saw The Godfather. I could not tell my Sicilian Nonno that I had actually gone to see it. He despised it because of the negative way it portrayed Italians. He would have been disappointed with me greatly.
What's a "Nonno"?
Grandfather
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Google is your friend! 😂
Great one BS, this movie still is a Masterpiece- Love the editing
The acting and screenplay in this film is outstanding.
Each actor compliments each other with their performance.
Add the time element cars and dress you get an outstanding film.
I love your content... keep it coming!
Thank you! Will do!
I've seen the Godfather maybe 100 times - I love it!
I always thought Al Pacino managed to get some height from his hat.
Y'know, fun little moviemaking tricks.
Well known he wears lifts and camera angle magic does the rest
I've done several locally produced movies, and with the exception of the current project I'm working on, I've always been the tallest actor on the set. I'm only 6'2", but when the next tallest actor is 5'8", it makes me look freakishly tall. I've gotten very good at not standing straight and leaning on door jambs
The money Coppola made from the Godfather movies he used to make "Apocalypse Now".
Nice
Nicholson would have been a disaster. Jack's great at what he does but subtle isn't in his repertoire.
I ( lol 😂) agree M J 👌🏻
"Sacheen Little Feather" was NOT Native American. He real name was Marie Louise Cruz. She was Mexican.
.. and your point is ...
...but Marlon Brando DID refuse the "Oscar...", right??
@@johnmoreno7664 That she was a fugazi
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@@johnmoreno7664 The point is that even in protesting the degradation of American natives he degraded native Americans by choosing theater over reality. That makes her dressing nothing more than a costume. It’s hilarious.
Que cards actually help from reshoots which cause the studio less money I would think that wouldn’t be “hard to work with” 🤷🏾♂️ but I’m not in movies
The video is great, guys!
I am shocked and pleased my man Clemenza , i.e. Richard castellano, was the highest paid actor.
Perfect michael Miller respect 🙏
The best movie ever.
Great Video
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vid. Where do you stand on the WGA and SAG-AFTRA industrial action?
Thanks!
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Whenever studio heads figure into a story, they're always the venal, short-sighted, stupid ones.
my Dad was the foreign location specialist for the Godfather part II and all the scenes in Cuba were shot in Panama
That’s interesting because all the online sources say it was Dominican Republic… 😬
@@BitesizedSpoilers I just spoke with my mom who was also there and she said that I misspoke and yes it was in Dominican Republic
it still is entertaining.
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Don´t anyone here ever make the mistake of coming under the impression that Brando would've been incapable of memorizing his lines, If you doubt his capabilities then I refer you back to his rendering of Marc Antony in Julius Caesar (1953) or Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) movie as well as the stage production previously.
Cool
At those oscars it took 9 people to stop john wayne from going on stage to show how a man(less than a man actually) treats a woman that opened her mouth. If it was from what she said his beef would be with brando. Dont kill the messenger, those words she spoke were needed to be heard.
Except that never happened.
9:23-Marley thought that he was being visited by The Ghost of the Mafia Present.
I have the CD of all the movies and still watch every time in comes on tv I seen it 100s of time. I still stump some fans that claim how many times they have seen and they can not tell me what the horse's name or when is Don Corleone birthday.
Littlefeather wasn't even a native american it turns out. 😒
Turns out Littlefeather wasn't actually a native American, so played got played.
Bad move by Brando , it kind of hurt his film career from that moment on
@@rafaelramirez1507
That's too bad, because Brando's sympathy for the Native Americans was very noble of him, while too many people (especially WHITE PEOPLE) still believed in the stereotypical Hollywood portrayals of Indians as simple-minded, drunken fools, or as bloodthirsty "savages" who enjoyed attacking wagon trains and scalping white pioneers.
The backlash against Brando for refusing his Best Actor Oscar for "The Godfather" not only hurt his career, it hurt a cause that he sincerely believed in.
It's sort of like what happened to Jane Fonda when she personally visited war-torn North Vietnam in the 1970s because of her opposition to the decade-long Vietnam War. At the time, a lot of people began turning against the war, protesting against it, demanding that the United States and South Vietnamese Governments start negotiations with the government of North Vietnam right away, because too many American soldiers were being killed or wounded in a war that they didn't know how they got into, a war that people were arguing wasn't "our war," that didn't directly have anything to do with us, that was destroying a small and weak country that never did anything to us, that was killing or wounding innocent people, including women and children, and that was dishonest, illegal, unconstitutional, immoral, corrupt, and greedy (they felt that the war was only being fought to benefit the Military-Industrial Complex).
Thus, people started to sympathize with the anti-war protesters, which they earlier dismissed as just crazy hippies who were "high on dope," or professional "troublemakers" who deserved to be jailed or shot, or as "America-haters" who should leave the country. (They used to shout at peace demonstrators things like "America, love it or leave it," or "Go back to Russia!" They also accused them of being Communists or Communist sympathizers.)
However, when Jane Fonda went to North Vietnam, there was no sympathy for her, for she went beyond protesting the war by becoming a propaganda tool for the Communist North Vietnamese, rooting for them to shoot down American war planes, telling American prisoners of war that they were fighting a losing battle, that they didn't know what they were fighting for, and even making radio broadcasts saying that the P.O.W.s were being treated well by the North Vietnamese. But, when the soldiers came home, they told everyone that they were NOT being treated well in captivity, that they were repeatedly beaten, flogged, tortured, etc, by their captors, whereupon, Ms. Fonda called them "liars and hypocrites."
It's no wonder that people considered Fonda's actions and words to be acts of treason against her own country, and why graffiti "artists" drew or painted things on walls like "Hang Jane Fonda, Traitor!"
Again, while Fonda saw her trip to North Vietnam as a humanitarian mission to end the war, allowing herself to be used as Communist propaganda hurt her cause, not to mention her career.
Now I gotta' watch Godfather 1& 2 again.... Marlon Brando is the ONLY person who could have played Don Corleone... Loved these movies. Not a fan of 3
I am not a fan of Marlon Brando's movies, but I do believe The Godfather has been his greatest performance. He has been around for a long time so I don't really believe that because he read from cue cards would be such as big a deal as his other behaviors on movie sets. The opening scene is an excellent one that leads the audience onto the family business. It would be nice to see the 5 hour movie. I'm glad they used Pacino as Michael. He had a fresh face and believable as the son who was being kept out of the family business. Of course a different actor would bring a different interpretation of Michael. So glad they did not go with Warren Beatty. I've seen his other films. He was ok in Bugsy but not sure he would bring that innocence Michael starts off with. Lenny Montana did a great job in his part. I did not guess he was a real "family" member. James Bond is Roger Moore. Hard to believe the announcer did not know that.
Some good insight here!
P.s. I know who Roger Moore is. It was an attempt at humour since everyone remembers him as James Bond.
@@BitesizedSpoilers Oh, sorry I didn't catch that. I won't take it so serious next time. Interesting information you provided. Thanks.
Favorite Scene, From the beginning line of " I believe in America" all the way to the last line of "Don Corleone".
Fun fact... You didn't know I'm probably the only 47 year old in the world who has never saw any of the Godfather movies movies
My wife is 45 and hasn’t either. I don’t know how we are still marries
@@ryanm4013 😂😂🤣🤣
Never liked Brando ,but Pacino ? whoever was the one who suggested his role was a genius
You do not like Brando? Interesting . I too loved Pacino, always have. Just curious (not picking a fight) what was it about Brando you never liked? I am referring to his acting style and influence and nothing else.
And he was VERY new at that time. After I learned that, my respect for him as an actor skyrocketed
@@stella3265 well Daniel , since you put it that way ... he was a very good actor , his presence as a performer impacted a great deal amongst all involved in practically all the films he starred in .... but his lifestyle outside of his movie performances was the opposite
There's a great video here on UA-cam. Apparently they REALLY didn't want him at first but because he had such great chemistry with the actress who played Kay outside of the movie, he auditioned multiple times before they ultimately gave in
@@rafaelramirez1507
Inability to separate an artist from its art form, seems rather juvenile?
Your limited mind, of any free thinking, is most challenged in the world of mediums.
Paramount were penny pinchers - bet they felt completely stupid for interfering and not having faith in the cast and director. Then Coppola makes the sequel even better. The third was ok but no way near as good though it had some memorable lines - “right or wrong this is not what I wanted” and “just when I thought I was out they pull me back in”
The actor who played Johnny Fontaine, Al Martino, was the first person to get a UK number one single.
So basically, the execs know nothing about movies and almost ruined this masterpiece. Got it.
The Only thing I Didn't Like about the Movie was making Michael out to be Soft but He Fought in the Pacific in the Marine Corps!!!!
Are you off your rocker? Richard Castellano “more well-known and highly regarded than Brando, Caan, Duvall”? I’ll give you Pacino, but not the other three. Brando was probably the most famous film actor in the world in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Castellano was a character actor and very few moviegoers knew him by name. And still to this day. You owe those three a retraction.
Brandon used cue cards for years, became difficult to deal with as well
No one doubts his talent, but his personality…????
@larrywest538 Brando was a world-class flake whose approach to method acting sometimes led to delays and disruptions. It almost seemed like "being difficult" (a euphemism for being hungover and unprepared, to being a moody jerk) was supposed to be part of being a great actor back at that time.
Brando messed up big time. He used a fake Indian
Lucca Brassi hesitated while he was reading his lines to The Godfather because Marlon Brando have been messing with him all through the movie so when they did that scene Marlon Brando had a piece of paper on his tongue a little note and it read "fuck you", on the Note and he stuck his tongue out and let Luca Brasi read it. Lucca was trying not to laugh in that scene!
I guarantee it’s probably more then 12
Was the fish in Luca’s vest a real fish?
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Thank 4 your question? How do you, Yanks, how do you look on us, the €Uropeans?? For my generations, the USA were liberators from Nazism an communism...
Lol 😂
@@karoltomis5704
As ungrateful eurotrash, for the most part.
Sylvester Stallone dont get a extra part on the wedding scene becouse his look was not italian enough!
Rumor has it that Sly got to play Talia Shire's husband in some other movie 4 years later.
@@radicalross7700
That’s a Rocky claim at best!
Lenny Montana was a wrestler with a friend of mine’s mother
Obviously this guy didn’t watch the Offer
Out of the 12 items on the list, I knew 8 of them. Only four were new to me.
Littlefeather wasn't Native American, she was an actress pretending to be Native American.
Only Paco
#2 is wrong Richard didn't come back because of pay it was because they wanted to pait him a rat in GF 2
Hey.....I heard that the REAL reason that fat Clemenza wasn't in the sequel is due to the fact that he and his girlfriend wanted to write all of his dialogue. Francis Ford Coppola explained to him that they already had a finalized script for Godfather II, but the actor wouldn't agree to speaking his lines from the script........so, that fool was dumped from the film. What a Bozo......
@3:35 “Infanous”? Are you sure you understand what that word means?
I have no idea what “infanous” means. Please explain…
@@BitesizedSpoilers I assume you are being sarcastic, but infamous would be something that is known for being well known for reasons that go against common standards of decency or colloquially as "bad" (e.g. FDR referring to Dec 7 as "a day that will live in infamy"). I dont know what standard you are applying to refer to the opening scene as "infamous". Even the movie studio that pressured Coppola to omit or modify the scene would not have judged so harshly. Other than that one minor gaff, the video was very well done. BTW, this is not the first time that I have heard a YT narrator use that word incorrectly either.
And in the end we find out that Littlefeather wasn't Native American afterall
James Bond?
In the Godfather I liked Marlon Brando better than Michael! I didn't like the idea that Michael has Fredo killed, that was his brother! I understand that Fredo did do something wrong but Michael could have at least disowned him! I was also annoyed with Michael that he forgets all about Kay and marries that woman when he was in Italy!
The way I see it in Michael’s mind Fredo posed a huge risk to the family that had to be eliminated. Disowning him wouldn’t be as simple as it sounds either. He does that and it just sends Fredo straight back into the arms of his enemies.
@@Neww-ku3xp yes, Fredi revealed his true colors in the encounter when he exploded at Michael. He could and would do great harm to Michael and the family if left alive. It really was not a difficult decision
@@dondajulah4168 Yes, he had to take out Fredo.
the " INDIAN " little bird or little feather, or what ever her nickname was, , was not a Real, Native! look it up, her family came forward an apologize on behalf of her BS claims,
The horse’s head is a prop. Think about it…
Also, I worked with the man who made it.
According to literally everyone who was there, it was a real horse’s head from a nearby glue factory.
You are a liar.
It was real. It came from a nearby slaughter house where horses were being destroyed for dog food.
What is your source for this because literally everyone on set who was there has disagreed with you. Sorry, but your a no body so I’ll believe them
This is good news. I was born in 1972. I never have heard of it.
Wow! ... hope you enjoyed it like I did Matthew, first time I saw it was in 1998 , and it blew me away , but "The Godfather part II" blew me away even further 🌟 🌟 👍👍
@@rafaelramirez1507 Part II was so much better.
The Horses head was acquired from a dog food factory
Unfortunately his grand Oscar moment was fake. The so called native girl was actually mexican. Sort of makes a mockery of his political stance.
I love Sonny, I feel that he should have taken over not Michael!
I dont think a corpse would make a very good boss of a crime family, but other than that, yeah.
Castellano was not more well regarded than Brando. Get real.
so not true
Nicholson would have been a great Michael.
But he's not Italian that's why he turned it down.
Did not like the movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!