The Godfather 1972

1. The Godfather is an incredible American epic crime film, released in 1972. This motion picture was directed by an Italian American gentleman of the name Francis Ford Coppola.  The Godfather was known as being the highest grossing film of its time. Coppola collaborated with a famous writer named Mario Puzo. The amazing writer, Puzo, was well known for writing a best-selling novel that was named after a mafia dynasty. The novel was based on one of the mafia family (The Corleone). The all-time American gangster film earned itself ten Academy Awards Nominations and won three Oscars:  Best picture, Best Actor by Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, and Best Adapted screenplay. Unfortunately, Brando refused to accept the award.  The Godfather was also the $134 million box-office hit.  The other seven nominations included: for Best Supporting actor by James Caan, Robert Duvail, and Al Pacino. Also, Best Director, Best sound, Best film editing, and Best costume design.

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The article named “The godfather” 1972, written by film site. The movie review starts off by acknowledging this film as one of the greatest American gangster films of all time. The epic film is one of the oldest but greatest films during its era and continued to carry on its positive reputation till today. This partial gangster film re-invented the typical gangster genre, by elevating the classic Hollywood gangster film to a much greater level by portraying the criminal/ gangster theme as a tragic hero. The article continues on by mentioning the film’s wonderful photography, choreography and its excellent story plot.  The Godfather is an insightful illustration of violence, power, honor, obligation, corruption, and crimes in American.

 3.  The  article by film site relates to the screening by the first honoring the film for its incredible work in portraying the famous mafia family ( The Corleone) as America’s best gangster  film. In class we discuss how this partial film influenced the auditions to naturally take (The Corleone family) side rather than any other mafia affiliated families. The audience grew a sense of loyalty towards the Corleone because we as the audience got the opportunity to better know and understand the family. Even though the audience knew what the Corleone family men did as a business was wrong, we defended them and view the mafia family as good. The article describes how the film impacted the audience and how this gangster criminal figured film was portrayed as a tragic hero.

4. I must say this was the first time I saw the Godfather and I truly loved the film. My favorite character is Michael Corleone played by Al Pacino. What I found interesting was how he first started out in the film.  Michael did want to be involved with the family business. But after his Father (Don Vito Corleone) was shot, he took upon the best role as a loyal family member and made it his duty to protect his family and become involved. The transition from the boy we thought wouldn’t be part of the killing, violence, and crime turned out to be the next Godfather. I loved every moment of this film. I also enjoyed how director Coppola decided to use several different types of lighting to build a stronger effect to each scene. I found this film to be very creative and scripts writing very daring.  This film was very bold and illustrated what it takes to film a prefect gangster movie.