Movie Review - Godfather

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The Cast Includes : Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan, Diane Keaton and Sofia Coppola (cameo)

Running time of the movie is 175 minutes and i guarantee every guy will enjoy this movie to the core.

The Movie is rated "R" by MPCC for the violence and use of offensive language.

Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo.

This movie is an adaptation of a book The Godfather By Mario Puzo himself which explains why this movie has made it to the top of the 100 must see movies of the century.

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Marlon Brando (may he rest in peace) delivers one of the most memorable performances as Don Vito Corleone, (The Godfather), who heads one of New York's leading crime families, offering favors to those who ask with respect in return for a favor somewhere down the road.

 He pulls strings from morticians all the way up to police, judges, and politicians.  The good times for his family begin to turn sour when the trafficking of narcotics begins to infiltrate organized crime, which Don Corleone wants nothing to do with.   The hit is put out for Vito, who is considered a dinosaur in his ways, but the job is botched and now vengeance pulls the family together in respect and defense of the fallen Don.  His sons try to keep the family together, and the business as well, while also seeing to it that those who disrespect the family pay for it with their dear lives.

Brando plays Don Vito, not as the country's most dangerous criminal, but as a caring family man who does what he does in protection and not out of avarice.  The scariest realization comes when we realize we actually have come to care for this man who has murdered and bribed his way to power, and the conflictions within us only serve to bolster what a well-developed and brilliantly portrayed character he is.   The rest of the cast is just as fine.

Although Pacino would come to be known as one of the best actors in the business, most memorably when he cuts loose, one can also see how equally fine he is when having to contain himself, and in no other role does he say so much from utter silence as he does as Michael Corleone.  You can see the aloofness to the family business in the opening wedding scene, to the resolute vengefulness when Don Vito is gunned down, to the cold-hearted businessman he would later become, and all the while we know these things without having to be told. 

The Real credit goes to Francis Ford Coppolla for his vision and flawless directorial instincts.  Although the film is a long three hours, there is so much detail that it's astonishing how he was able to fit so much in, while also taking time to for poignant moments like the wedding, the baptism, and a moving death, while also ingeniously incorporating them all into the main themes of the film. 

The Godfather is filmmaking at its best, and is recommended for adults seeking an intelligent drama with depth and emotion.  Like the classics of Ancient Greece and Rome, this is a tale on the level of the gods and mortals, and we can only but sit and watch as the titans battle for supremacy.  This Coppola's epic derived from the book by Mario Puzo is  a story for the ages.

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