Talia Shire (playing Connie Corleone) is his sister. Having his father write some of the music for this film, alongside the famous Nino Rota, breathed life into the thwarted career of Carmine Coppola. This film has major episodes involving the young Vito Corleone, his mother, father, and brother, and Vito’s children, Connie, Fredo, even the deceased Sonny and of course Michael, the focus of all three Godfathers, and his wife and children. He sees even the murderous Corleones as, above all, a family. The “business” invariably affects the family.įamilies fascinate Coppola. The Godfather, Part II, as I read it, says that doesn’t work. The closing door of the final scene, shutting Don Michael Corleone’s wife Kay out of her husband’s office said it all. The first Godfather arrived at a solution for the entrepreneur, criminal or not: you keep your business family and your family family separate. Bo-o-o-ring! This is a sequel that adds to its predecessor. Nowadays, in the 2000-teens a sequel means that Hollywood is mining one or another of its franchises based on comic books or young adult adventures or tv series. Three hours and twenty minutes-this film is a sequel to end all sequels.
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