THE GODFATHER (1972) Movie Reaction Part (2/2)! | Marlon Brando | Al Pacino | Francis Ford Coppola
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- Achara & Steph watch Francis Ford Coppola's best adaptive film of all time, The Godfather. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo, about Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando - Apocalypse Now & Superman (1978)) who wants to hand over his mafia empire to his youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon, The Irishman, Scarface (1983) & Heat).
We wanted to provide all we could by splitting our reaction into two parts.
This film is directed by Francis Ford Coppola & it also stars: James Caan (Elf, Misery, & Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, Father of the Bride & Something's Gotta Give) & Robert Duvall (The Apostle, The Judge, Jack Reacher, The Road, & Deep Impact).
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The way the movie is filmed it feels like you are just watching "real life" - no camera, no acting, just real people in the middle of their drama - the effect is seamless and timeless.
Its all about the acting
It's also the writing -- this is what's called a "loose" script, where not every line of dialogue exists solely to move the plot forward. There are entire scenes of random, irrelevant conversation that isn't important to the plot but really lets you feel like they are real people having real conversations.
@@charlize1253yeah I know right, all the dialogues with Vito are written like this, they are hyper realistic
@@charlize1253 I'm not sure that's entirely true. Most of the script is either propelling the story forward, or revealing key information.
@@terrycullen3302 So you think it was important that Clemenza taught Michael how to cook spaghetti with sausages? And right before Michael shot Solozzo, it was important to know that Louis' restaurant served the best veal in the city? And Michael and Solozzo talked in Italian for 4 full minutes with no English subtitles, that drove the plot?
Vito: "I never knew until this day that it was Barzini all along."
At the Meeting of the Five Families, Don Emilio Barzini sat at the end of the table and was clearly in charge.
Vito Corleone and Philip Tattaglia sat facing each other. Vito watched Tattaglia's and Barzini's every move.
Tattaglia kept speaking to Barzini for assurance and guidance. He never spoke to Vito directly.
Vito knew then that Barzini was behind EVERYTHING.
There was a lot of subtext and reasoning going on in Vito's mind. He knew this war could not have been Tattaglia's doing. He called every family head there to asses who among them was the brains behind it and, as you said, who would take charge of the meeting and look most comfortable, as though this was "part of the plan". He also wanted to cool off the war till Michael was firmly in place as the new head so that when the "baptism" happens, there is no doubt about the Corleone family's future or a crisis of leadership. Of course, if Michael had died before then, the Corleone family was lost anyway and Vito would have burnt the whole forest down with him. The deal he made with the 5 families was essentially, "leave my successor alone so that he can blow you all away and take over the underworld."
Like Vito said, "Tattaglia's a pimp. He could have never outfought Santino."
Tattaglia was not a big time Don. His racket was prostitution, and not gambling and unions. He was weak.
@@AdityaKaul-dm8fk Don Barzini sitting at the head of that table is the textbook definition of “celebrating too early.”
@@Wired4Life2 tbf he thought he'd won already. Vito was on his way out and the only son who showed any wartime talent was dead. He never counted on Michael being a threat. Vito played them all.
Unfortunately for Barzini he was a man not very good at concealing his feelings and intentions at moments of perceived triumph- recall also his unseemly smiling and preening at Don Vito's graveside service, holding court with supplicants as though it was his coronation party, Michael staring daggers all the while.
You ladies are going to be blown away by De Niro's performance as the young Vito Corleone in part 2.
It will answer so many of your queries about how he became so respected as well as feared. Can't wait to see it.
Don’t ruin it! LOL
@@spinner3906 People call it the best sequel ever made, but it's also the best prequel. That seems to be fairly well known. If anything, it's even more incentive to see the rest of the story.
Another asshole who gets a cheap thrill out of giving spoilers.
@@flarrfanfunny to say about a film this old, but no spoilers lol still a lot of people who know nothing about it. One and Two are just incredible pieces of work. Of course they may have seen Part II already and being embargoed for later youtube release
that 1 is my favorite
The baptizing is so iconic, it’s my favorite scene in the whole movie
Did you know that Sophia Coppola was the baby being baptized?
@@aaronhusk What? and came back on the 3rd? Amazing.
@@flexorcist30 She was also background kid in part II.
The Godfather is one of the greatest films ever made. It’s so epic, so well acted, and so well written! It’s a masterpiece!
even simply calling it a masterpiece is an understatement.
I loved the quote where Michael acknowledges the intelligence of trying betray him. “It’s the smart move. Tessio was always smarter.”
Michael Corleone has one of the greatest character transformations of all time! He starts out as a good man who wants to have nothing to do with the family business, to aiding them because he has to he has to, to running them because he wants to.
Brando delivering "Look at how they massacred my boy" with that brow gets me everytime
Brando, as Don Vito, learning the fate of Sonny at the Causeway was THE best piece of acting ever on screen. it's raw, yet subtle..it's just SO friggin' REAL.
Duvall is so underrated! He was such a great actor for so long
The Godfather is by far one of the most well-respected pieces of cinema to ever be released. I wish I was watching it for the first time lol
The 1970s (and late '60s) were an amazing time for American cinema. Directors had a huge amount of control to tell the stories they wanted to tell, and they got to explore dark themes that they couldn't address directly before. Coppola, Scorsese, Lumet, Friedkin, Altman, Polanski, Kubrick, Roy Hill, and Peckinpah all made classics during that time that set the gold standard for movies. The Godfather is a perfect example of this.
Exactly. What Roger Ebert called "the Golden Age of the Hollywood art film."
Don’t forget Lucas lol. One of Coppola’s friends.
@@Rock-n-Rolla369 I left Lucas and Spielberg off my list because A) I didn't think they were overlooked (if anything, they take up all of the oxygen in the room when it comes to discussions about filmmakers from that time), and B) their movies don't share the same dark tone with the movies of the other filmmakers on my list tend to have. Lucas and Spielberg are both truly great filmmakers, but they're kind of outliers with regard to that generally cynical, somber zeitgeist.
However, I probably should have included Ashby, Forman, Cassavetes, and Bogdanovich. And arguably if I can include Polanski then I could also include Allen in spite of the creep factor.
And then came this hack with his box-office popcorn movies named Steven Spielberg
@@michaelbuhl4250Spielberg and Lucas ended the golden age of artful filmmaking, although Spielberg would turn to it years later. As for Lucas, he just westernized the Japanese samurai movie.
There's a scene written in the book where Kay is converting to Catholicism and she asks Mama Corleone why she goes to Mass every day.
She tells Kay it's so her husband won't go to Hell. Puzo made it clear that the wives knew what their husbands were about. Kay may have denied it, but she knew.
Indeed....the novel's final scene has Kay in church and praying for Michael.
That scene was filmed but left out of the final cut. It was a smart move; the shot of Kay being "shut out" was magnificent.
True about the film ending being so perfect. Kay's face watching Al just close the door on her.
One of the (many many) things to love about this movie is how it's all apparently focused on the men in the foreground, but it always shows the effect on the women around them. No accident that it starts with the story of the undertaker's daughter being assaulted and beaten, and ends with that tragic shot of Diane Keaton (and the other women in between). The storytelling is so rich.
"Does he just want an heir?" Nailed it! Most don't see that, but he's about to become head of the family and he knows he needs to have his own (family) _now_
Unfortunately for Kay, she really loved him and got sucked into it. And in those days at her age, they'll start calling her an old maid
BEING A GRANDPA IS AWESOME!!!!! I have 4 grandchildren. We play music together and I let them record their own songs in my studio. They call me Papa.
The Don knew it was Barzini because he insulted him at the meeting. Remember the undertaker mentioning money at the beginning of the film? Barzini said almost the exact thing, knowing it was an insult.
Brilliant!
oh man You girls now MUST see GODfather part 2, some feel its even better than Pt1. its done in a different way BUT it uses more of the OG Novel and Pacino really takes over and should have won Best Oscar , just an amazin set of films and special thumbs up to Achara who talked of the cinematography by Gordon Willis-His work on the first two Godfather films turned out to be groundbreaking in its use of low-light photography and underexposed film, to show those sepia tones. amazing that he never received an Oscar Nomination for either film
Steph genuinely screaming while watching the movie is my new favourite thing!! 😂❤
Knowing you will do part 2, please be aware there was a re-edit done for television that puts everything in chronological sequence. Avoid it at all costs. Get the original theatrical edit. You'll understand once you've watched it. Great reaction, one of you very best. Your comment on the very first scene at the wedding tells you all you need about why this is so great a film. One scene tells you everything about the character of Don Vito. Many other directors couldn't have done that with an entire film. Looking forward to part 2.
Agreed. The mere idea of taking the scissors to Godfather 2 is sacrilege.
THe advantage to watching the Godfather Saga is that they added some cut scenes that did give some useful information.
Casting is everything in this movie. Cinematography and direction is a master class in filmmaking.
When I see someone do a reaction I always watch if they see what happened during the scene where Michael and the Baker are outside the hospital. When the the baker tries to light his cigarette and he can't because his hands are shaking really bad, Michael then lights it for him and then looks at his own hands and notices he isn't shaking at all. I believe that's when he knows he is built for the family business.
That final shot is absolutely brilliant. What an ending.
Darkness and Shadow: The best example of this is when Tom Hagen is first talking to Jack Woltz.
Tom's head is exactly half in the light and half in the dark. A wonderful shot that shows the Good/Evil paradox of the Corleone family.
This was a fantastic reaction. I hope you two return together to react to Part II. Michael Corleone is definitely a character that’s unforgettable, and Al Pacino is indistinguishable from the character, imo. It’s one of my most favorite movies. I know you’ll love Part II as well. Thanks for an enjoyable time!
The era of about 1971 to 1979 is filled with an abundance of some of the greatest films in American history. Directors, writers, actors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, production designers, composers (many working together repeatedly) - all were of a caliber rarely equalled. The quality of their work (and without reliance on computers) and the depth of the stories being told is still unsurpassed.
The baptism scene was such a brilliant and beautiful piece of moviemaking. Michael settling scores was epic
Great reaction CinePals! Can't wait for you ladies to react to the Godfather pt. 2!
Hopefully sooner than later....
"Look how they massacred my boy" is the best line in combo with delivery ever. And it is the best meme. No one can change my mind. It is just pure diamond encrusted gold. Basta.
26:37 - When the final credits role...and the immediate reaction is "OH MY GOD!!"...now THAT'S a movie!
Some of my favorite moments in the film are the subtle but so damn powerful acting moments from Marlon Brando - in the hospital when Michael tells him "I'm with you now." and, without saying a word, he smiles and cries - or when Tom tells him that it was Michael that shot Sollozzo and, again without saying a word, the expression on his face drops and you can just fell how devastated he is...or when Tom tells him that they shot Sonny on the causeway...
Several of the actors had fantastic moments of expressing themselves without dialogue:
Kay's naiveté at the wedding reception.
Sollozzo's look of anticipation when talking to Luca Brasi.
Bruno Tattaglia's look of pure evil when they're killing Brasi. The cigarette hanging out of his mouth was a great touch.
Michael and Apollonia's mutual look of "getting hit by the thunderbolt".
Michael's intense stare during the baptism.
Carlo's look of pure terror when Michael confronts him about Sonny.
Genuinely, this is one of the smartest, most satisfying reactions I’ve seen to this movie. Well done.😊
Well said. It's what I was thinking.
I was 10 when my mother took me to see this in the theater. She took me to a lot of "adult" movies at a young age if they were actually good movies. I just wanted to say that it's a kick to see two young people - especially gals - appreciate this masterpiece so enthusiastically. It's great to know we can share that across so many years.
I first watched this movie 25 years ago. Part 1 and 2 are the greatest movies ever made.
15 minutes screentime was enough to show the best acting performance ever by Marlon Brando. The god of all actors. Even the real Mob invited Marlon for dinner to honor him ... Indeed the most highly master acting also for the rest of the Cast.
Pacino has a great scream 😂🤣 You really get too see it in Heat and especially in The Devil's Advocate! 😊
It is ni surprise the movie is well-acted, when you have Marlon Brando, Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Talia Shire etc etc. Some of the finest actors of their generation (and any generation) directed by a master. Now you MUST watch Part 2. There are many who consider Part 2 a better movie, if that is even possible.
I've watched this movie 30 times at least and I never get tired of it. You'll love part 2 as well. Some people say its even better
Best movie reaction video that I have seen on here. You both reacted like viewers, not movie critics. You didn't talk over the scenes or over-analyze. You responded like we all did when it came out in '72. Masterful acting by Al Pacino here, btw. And the writing and direction, the music, the whole production...*mwah*. Best movie ever made.
🌹🌹 Ladies, you are amazing!
Thank you for your fantastic reactions to this Iconic film! This diamond of world cinematography has been the most loved film for millions of men for generations! This movie is really a pure perfection for men! And I'm so glad you saw this gem and responded so wonderfully, thank you! 🌹🌹
" You aint seen nothing yet baby!" Woooooo Godfather II quite literally DEFINES that expression 😳 L F G
Michael has a fantastic arc.
25:35 - I first saw The Godfather probably when I was in Junior High in the early 80's, renting it on good old VHS tape and watching on our 19" tube TV. Years later in the early 90's I finally saw it in a theater - I think it must have been 1992 and they were celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the film. The theater was packed and I could tell that most people in the audience hadn't seen it before. During that climactic scene, when Kay asks Michael if he killed Carlo...and there's that LONG pause...and Michael looks Kay right in the eye...and the audience was dead silent waiting for his answer and Michael says..."no"...let me tell you, the entire audience audibly GASPED. It was so awesome! The entire weight of the whole film came down to that one moment, and his answer is barely even audible, and still people gasped. What a movie!
Brando wore a custom dental device to give him the jowls. The cat in the first scene was a stray that lived on the studio lot. He wandered onto the set when they were filming the scene and they decided to make him a star!
Here’s how cool Marlon Brando was with the minute details of acting: In the meeting of the five families, when he says ”Tattaglia lost a son, I lost a son”, Brando the actor thinks about the fact that Vito has been bed-ridden for months, so he makes an ever so slight grimace of pain when he shifts in his seat, because he figures the guy has haemorrhoids. (Either that, or Brando himself had them for real, but I'm betting on the former).
Good observation, but I'd put money on real hemorrhoids. 😂
I always love the scene of Vito going out like Tommy Cooper while his grandkid's laughing at him. You're going to flip out over the second one.
The guy playing the piano in the montage scene is Carmine Copolla...Francis Ford Copolla's father. He appears in cameos in all 3 movies and wrote some of the music. He also received an Oscar for his contributions to the score of the second movie.
Watching this movie on a really good LCD TV or even better an OLED TV is so awesome. The cinematographer used shadows and lighting so masterfully to drench so many scenes in darkness or shadows.
The famous last shot is great for many reasons, but mostly because it's misunderstood.
The door closing on Kay is meant to be seen as her being shut out, but oddly it is Michael who is now shut in, away from the rest of the world.
He was so open in the beginning, and now he is a prisoner of his own making.
"I NEVER WANTED THIS FOR YOU."
If only Michael had listened to the Godfather.
One of my favorite moments in this movie is when Vito is talking to Michael in the garden and trying to PREPARE him for what's coming!! In the conversation Vito says he had hoped that one day Michael would be the one holding the strings, like a Governor Corleone or Senator Corleone, and Michael responds by saying "just another pezzonovante", which is Italian slang for"Big Shot"!! It's more meant in a disparaging context!!😮😮
I think Michael KNEW, even MORE than VITO, what class of human politicians WERE/ARE!!!😮
Good point. It reminds me of the scene where Kay says, "Politicians don't kill people." To a man who served in a world war.
There's a great duality between Vito's and Michael's character. They have so much in common, witt, inteligence, decision making, reading between the lines, yet Michael has become a full villan in the end. Vito never crossed that fine line. They also represent the shift in the society, whereas Vito represents the old guard, gangsters but with morals and high sense of honour, Michael is more calculated and even more abitious than his father.
I don't even have to say much about this movie, it's perfection. Great reaction. On to Part II!
I watched the godfather movie for the first time last week and now I'm obsessed it's already on my top 3 best movies of all the time now I'm reading the book and it's even better
Another great reaction. Thank you ladies. Can’t wait to see you react to Part 2. Some say it’s better than the original.
I so enjoyed watching your reactions. I wish I could see this movie again for the first time. Just amazing. Bravo.
The car bomb was meant for Michael. Fabrizio asked Michael if he was taking his wife with him, and he said "No."
Fabrizio then put the bomb in the trunk. Sadly, Apollonia decided to get in the car and start it up.
It's been 50 years, and I still weep for Apollonia. 😪
Apollonia would have made a better wife in the long run.
Technically, the father didn't break the treaty by retaliating, it was his son Michael, which was his and his son's plan from the start. And technically, Michael didn't kill Carlo with his own hands, he did order it. It's all semantics, but in their minds, they kept their word. An underrated scene was outside the hospital when Enzo's hands were shaking so much he couldn't light his cigarette. But Michael calmly lit it for him and then stared at the lighter. At first, I thought the lighter was a clue about who ordered the attempted hit on his father. But then I realized Michael was looking at his hands and the fact they were steady showed him he actually was cut out for this life and took after his father. I would guess that was the moment when the idea of succeeding his father as head of the family popped into his head.
Can’t wait to see you guys react to the second movie! It’s the best in the trilogy! It’s both a prequel & sequel in 1
You are the first reactors I've seen that understood the impact of seeing Marlon Brando as the Godfather for the first time and the impact of the first scene. At the time this movie was made the novel was super popular so there was a lot of anticipation for the movie. Everyone knew Brando was cast as the Godfather but pre-movie release shots of Brando as the Godfather were kept from being released. So when the movie came out there was a lot of anticipation to see Brando as the Godfather and we hear him before we see him. But when we see him it was a transformation as Brando was much younger than the Godfather and had his jaw altered by mouth pieces to give him a "bulldog" look. It was great movie making.
I know y’all are expanding the channel, but it’s really been great to get the 2 of you back together for a reaction. My favorite pair and the reason I started following y’all. You both get what makes movies so great, your insight is so great.
I've always wanted to re-watch The Godfather with someone (watched it alone on my laptop way back in college). This is the closest thing to it. Thank you! 🙏
Hey...it was really fun watching this review with you guys doing it. An all time classic film, of the greatest in the age of cinema, great job Achara & Steph.
I absolutely love your reaction to this movie. Very respectful and you picked up on a lot of the plot points. I really hope you two do more old classics!
This is the greatest movie of all time.
Just want to say that you guys did a great reaction. Most people are not able to appreciate more serious films and always have to make jokes or something all the way through. You two have good commentary together and I look forward to seeing your reactions to similar types of films in the future.
This movie is astonishing. Brilliant.
The way the door closes on the last shot like it's a curtain in a theatre. The Godfather series takes many of its creative cues from theatre and opera.
It is one of the best final shots in all of film history.
Francis Ford Capolla's absolute classic The Godfather 🤘🏻🎬💯👌
"Woww! A moovie!" Exactly.
Read somewhere. This film was edited into a 2 part tv series & was broadcast over 2 Sundays! I think it was New York or some other big city where most buildings ran out of water at the same time on both Sundays! This was because the whole city turned on their flushes after using the loo during the only commercial break in each part! No one even moved from their place while the movie was running!
I said it before I said it and, This movie is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love this reaction. You two were so invested. Cant wait to Godfather 2
Marlon Brando won his 2nd Oscar for this
My favorite part of this movie is when the godfather's mustache transitions into a tree. Lol
Thank you for this reaction. I hope these two return for Part II.
Great reaction! I absolutely cannot wait for The Godfather, Part 2!!
That pause before Michael said 'No' lasted so long! Neither Steph nor Achara would disturb that moment by talking during it!
My favourite piece of trivia for this film is that, according to the wiki, the cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray Francis Ford Coppola found while on the lot at Paramount. The cat was not originally called for in the script, and the cat with its purring muffled some of Brando's dialogue, and, as a result, most of his lines had to be looped
Quite a few websites list various metaphors for the Cat, and the Don
Really nice reaction and commentary ladies. This is a very rare case of an amazingly great movie having a sequel that might just be better than the first film. No spoilers from me, but I will say don't wait too long to watch #2, while this one is fresh in your memory. Already looking forward to watching the two of you watch #2. You really were so insightful and wonderfully reactive with this film. The acting in this one was so inspired, and in the midst of a film full of great performances Brando stood head and shoulders above the rest. When Brando went to read for the part he decided to put tissues in his cheeks. He was so impressive one short reading was all it took. They then had a dentist make an appliance to give the same effect.
Fantastic, fantastic reaction. If you really want to appreciate Brando's performance, go look at clips from the other two movies he did the same year: "The Nightcomers" and "Last Tango In Paris". First off, he looks nothing like Don Corleone, he has long blonde hair, 40's, super good looking guy. Secondly, every performance/character is COMPLETELY different. One is a Scottish psycho killer and the other a tortured, bereaved middle-aged American having a wild affair with a French girl. The scene of him at his wife's coffin is one of the most intense pieces of acting I've ever seen. When you see those movies (or just parts of them), you really can appreciate even more how crafted Don Corleone is. (And of course.......it's his early work to check out after The Godfather. "A Streetcar Named Desire" changed the entire game of acting, and "On The Waterfront" followed it up (along with "Viva Zapata" and a string of other great movies). Very easy on the eyes too! The reason Brando had such gravitas in The Godfather is because he really WAS the Godfather of acting to all those young actors.
I know Part 3 isn’t looked at the same as 1&2 but I still think it’s underrated and worth a reaction. It completes Michael’s arc
The final scene is so chilling - stark reminder Michael was the protagonist not the hero.
Michael is the perfect example of a character that constantly evolves
There was a lot of subtext and reasoning going on in Vito's mind during the five families meeting. He knew this war could not have been Tattaglia's doing. He called every family head there to asses who among them was the brains behind it and,who would take charge of the meeting and look most comfortable, as though this was "part of the plan". He also wanted to cool off the war till Michael was firmly in place as the new head so that when the "baptism" happens, there is no doubt about the Corleone family's future or a crisis of leadership. Of course, if Michael had died before then, the Corleone family was lost anyway and Vito would have burnt the whole forest down with him. The deal he made with the 5 families was essentially, "leave my successor alone so that he can blow you all away and take over the underworld."
Right there at the end, when Clemenza says, "Hello, Carlo," you know; you just know. I believe that in the book you can find out that Clemenza was Sonny's godfather. So Clemenza got to take care of business.
Loved your reactions. Now you have to see the greatest sequel and prequel ever made Godfather 2
Can’t wait to see you two react to the second movie! It carries on Michaels story as the don but also shows Vito’s origins and you see a move more ruthless side to the calculated man you’re introduced to in the first film.
Great reaction. I’ve always loved you and other reactors talk about it being 3 hours long. But when it ends you just want more. Definitely need to watch part 2. Both movies are 1A and 1B on my top 5.
Amazing reaction to the best film ever made, IMO! You two make a great team!
Great reaction!!! Really glad that you all took your time through the movie and split it up into two parts. Hope you all do the same with Godfather Part 2!!!
Part of the greatness of this movie is the writing: this is what's called a "loose" script, where not every line of dialogue exists solely to move the plot forward. There are entire scenes of random, irrelevant conversations that aren't important to the plot but lets you feel like you're watching real people that you know.
Like when Clemenza was giving Michael a cooking lesson. It added depth and realism to the story.
This was a very insightful review of this movie! Really nice job 🙂💯
"Hey Mikey, why don't you tell you that nice girl you love her?" 😂😂😂
If you want to really trip out, now watch Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface. They are both crime boss figures, but polar opposites when it comes to their personalities, and he COMPLETELY embodies both of them. The man can act his ass off.
You two are my favorite reactors! Keep going!!
There's a scene that got cut out of Don Corleone's 1st Consigliere ( Jacko ) being visited by him while on his deathbed, that you must see !! A riveting scene !!!
Talia Shire is a brilliant actress. She is completely different as Adrian in Rocky.
Michael, being a soldier had knowledge of strategy and the understanding to kill when needed to. He remains calm and in the scene when Moe Green(Bugsey Segal who was shot in the eye in real lifel) is 'going off' on Michael, Mike just sits there in silence and allow the guy to reveal information such as, that Barzini was his behind it all.
The singer who needed out of his contract is the construct of Frank Sanatra. Marlon Brando got his voice sound from hearing the voice of the real mobster Frank Costello. The guy who played Luca Brasi was not an actual actor but part of the 'mob' crew watching over the filming and the Mario Puzo thought he might be a good fit for the part. His death scene was epic, with the eyes bulging and everything.
The only other time I heard the name of Apolonia is in the 'Purple Rain" movie, so I always wondered if that is where Prince got the name from. This is an epic movie.
As a second generation Sicilian guy from the Bronx, I can assure you that it's pretty realistic, including Sicily. Corleone is a town very near to my grandfather's home town--it looks just like that. Most of the NY scenes were shot in various NY locations, and I've been to some of them.
love this reaction hope you guys do part 2 just as good if not better and my favorite line is if your enemy's then they will become my enemy's and then they will fear you and oh who's being naive kay
i want to advocate for part III
as the capstone.
7:56 ANOTHER great scream! I love these two reactions. Can't wait for Godfather 2.