![]() ![]() Michael doesn't trust even Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) with the secret that he plans to assassinate other family heads. Much is said about trusting a man's word in the movie, but honesty is nothing in comparison with loyalty. Did he mention Appolonia to her? These specifics are insignificant to the story. After the death of Appolonia and his return to America, he seeks out Kay, and finally, they wed. His turning point comes when, by moving his hospital bed, he saves his father's life and whispers to the unconscious man: "I am with you now." Michael hides in Sicily after killing the crooked officer, where he falls in love with and marries Appolonia (Simonetta Stefanelli). Michael is not part of the family business as the film opens, and plans to marry a WASP, Kay Adams (Diane Keaton). The title's irony is that it comes up to refer to the son, not the father. And note how the "mistaken" phone call of a woman establishes the pit in which Sonny (James Caan) is assassinated: it's done so conveniently that you have to go back through the events through finding it out. Notice how it is said to the undertaker "someday, and that day may never come, I will ask you for a favor." and how, when the day comes, the favor is not violence (as in a traditional film) but the wish of Don Vito to spare his wife the sight of her son's mutilated body. Notice how Johnny Fontane 's request, the failed singer, pays off in the scenes in Hollywood how his tears set up the shocking moment when a mogul wakes up in bed with what is left of his racehorse. Subtly, the writing is designed to set up events later in the film. "The Godfather" screenplay does not follow formulae except for the classic structure in which power passes between generations. It's a virtuoso stretch of filmmaking: Coppola brings so artfully his large cast on stage that we are at once drawn into the world of the Godfather. Most of the main characters should have been introduced by the end of the wedding series, so we will learn important stuff about their personalities. It is Vito Corleone's daughter's wedding day, as the day goes on, there are two more scenes in the darkened study of 'The Godfather', interspersed with scenes from outside the wedding. ![]() The movie's first shot was inside an obscure, shuttered room. The real world is replaced by authoritarian patriarchy, in which the Godfather flows power and justice, and the only villains are traitors. That is its secret, its charm, its spell it has ever since shaped the Mafia's public perception, differently. The story takes inside views of the Mafia. Corrupt is the only police officer with a significant vocal role. No victims of racket robbery, fraud, or protection. No women had become trapped in prostitution. There was not one single actual civilian victim of organized crime during the film. Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) emerges as a sympathetic and even admirable character this lifelong professional criminal does nothing which the audience can disapprove of during the entire film. The story by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola 's story is a brilliant conjuring act, inviting to consider the Mafia in its terms entirely. That's why the audience sympathizes with those characters who are essentially evil. "The Godfather" is told in a closed world, entirely.
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