SYNOPSIS:
The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The story spans ten years from late 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the life of the Corleone crime family.
The Godfather is
considered by many to be the greatest movie ever made. It was initially ranked
as the third greatest film in American cinematic history (behind Citizen Kane
and Casablanca) on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list by the American Film
Institute. It has now been re-ranked number two under Citizen Kane, with number
three being Casablanca. It is also the top movie on Internet Movie Database's
Top 250 list, as well as Metacritic's top 100 list and Rotten Tomatoes' all-time
best list.
Two sequels followed, The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Godfather Part III
in 1990.
CAST:
Marlon Brando
... Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino
... Michael Corleone
James Caan ...
Santino 'Sonny' Corleone
Robert Duvall ...
Tom Hagen
Diane Keaton ...
Kay Adams
Talia Shire
... Connie Corleone Rizzi
AWARDS:
This movie won the best picture academy award in 1972. Marlon Brando won the best actor academy award for his epic role as Don Vito Corleone. Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola won the best adapted screenplay award.
TRIVIA:
Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog", so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the screen test. For actual filming, he wore an appliance made by a dentist. Brando's mouthpiece is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.
Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster Frank Costello. Marlon Brando had seen him on TV during the Kefauver hearings in 1951 and imitated his husky whisper in the film.
Marlon Brando
did not memorize most of his lines and read from cue cards during most of the
film.
Body count: 18 (including the horse).
A video game version of the movie was released in march 2006.
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