The Godfather I (1970)
The Godfather II (1975)
The Godfather III (1990)
Le Parrain 1ère partie ( 1970 )
Le Parrain 2e partie ( 1975 )
Le Parrain 3e partie ( 1990 )
"I would make him an offer he can not refuse. " Mythical sentence out of the hoarse voice of the Godfather Vito Corleone: the beginning of a long story recounting the whole story of the Corleone family from Italy and with it the genesis of any one time.
The Godfather Trailer
Francis Ford Coppola realizes the ultimate mob movie, faithfully based on the homonymous book by Mario Puzo, he chooses to decline in 3 parts, and this, in almost 20 years, the first episode being released in 1972 and the last in 1991.
The director decides to break away from other Mafia movies by focusing on realism and the importance of its atmosphere and its characters, so much so that the saga has barely aged, having lost none of its atmosphere and its special charm. The director presents the Corleone Sicilian family in a very credible. As far as I am concerned, the Godfather is presented very differently from the usual Mafia bosses often offered. In this film, it is more exuberant and violent. The transcript and customs peculiar to the Italian origins of the family is also reproduced well.
The Godfather trilogy is the birthplace of the birth of a bunch of young actors, from which stars, such as Robert Duvall, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino became well-known. All this shows the extent of their talents. But how can we not stop from Dante Al Pacino, who embodies, through all its ambiguity, its doubts, its suffering and remorse the role of Godfather? The performance of De Niro, embodying a stunning young Vito Corleone, is also to highlight and also earned him an Oscar for best supporting role, not to mention the young and attractive Andy Garcia who provides a brilliantly performance in the movie. If the film is mainly explode Pacino, especially the role he offers his life to Marlon Brando, it makes all the intense scenes where he appears, receiving unparalleled charisma, the role is immeasurable and will enter the character in the pantheon of cinema.
Paradoxically, the trilogy has beautiful end, it is fascinating from beginning to end and exciting each time, the cold murder, mafia meetings, family conversations and organized crimes in succession with a class and a sense of transition impeccable.
The plot is a pretext for numerous trips to the film to vary his sets, it rises from New York to Las Vegas via Cuba and Los Angeles, not forgetting Sicily Provence, all this complemented the sublime music of Nino Rota, which gives the film a classic stamp everything Italian.
Coppola is shaping the evolution of his characters, giving the contrast of their greed for power between ascent and decline. Thus the life of young Vito Corleone we have told in parallel with that of his son Michael, to emphasize the dark legacy left by the patriarche. He thus better ascertain the gross evolution of the character of Michael Corleone, whose life is traversed by the specter of his own inevitable fate. Once it is set in the world, despite his attempts to escape, it is unchangeable. Coppola evokes the fate of blood and its deterministic aspect, we can escape his destiny? The work leaves little room for doubt.
The Godfather behind Scene: Marlon Brando's Oscar win for The Godfather
Coppola also deals a powerful theme. It is the essence of the motivations of each character, all to protect their interests so paranoid with absolute distrust everything and everyone. With the theme of power, the family also occupies an important place in the narrative, as it is throughout the story, or even within the reasons why different people want to see grow them. As if destiny is preordained, it is not necessarily for everyone and may attract envy.
The Godfather Music
The filmmaker does not merely tell the story of this criminal family, he also portrays that a whole century, the history of the city of New York, the Italian immigration to the advent of Little Italy , through the birth of the mafia system and the emergence of capitalism.
Throughout history the New York mafia evolution is also transcribed directly and explicitly through the various meetings of Mafia bosses who over the years, changed the way they invested. Thus we move from small shops selling weapons, and then to markets the drug penetrates the streets, casinos and gambling establishments became fashionable in turn, ending with the emergence of markets through financial investment, the whole transfer system is exposed here.
The American filmmaker is managing all of these themes with a peerless mastery, through the chaotic evolution of the Corleone family he managed to fashion a gigantic fresco surreal and modern is the final transcript of a piece of the American history, all this supported by a gallery of actors and a unique gift of exceptional staging. The Godfather trilogy ranks, thanks to its history, its ambience and context, in which the film could succeed better, and since its inception. Coppola offers us the most excellent film.
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