In an attempt to sort out their differences, the film's producer arranged a meeting with Joseph Colombo who revealed that he had one simple request. “They demanded that he [Albert Ruddy] delete all mentions of 'mafia' in the script,” author of The Godfather Effect, Tom Santopietro, said.
What word was intentionally omitted from The Godfather?
At the request of the American Civil Rights League, all reference to the names Mafia or Cosa Nostra were eliminated from the films. In addition, Joseph Colombo, the real life boss of the Colombo crime family didn't want Coppola to use the names “Mafia” or “Cosa Nostra” in the film.
A civil-rights league ensured the words "mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" were excluded from the film. With concern that the film would portray harmful Italian stereotypes, the Italian-American Civil Rights League held a rally in 1970 to protest and halt the production.
In 1971, The New York Times reported that Ruddy removed the words mafia and la cosa nostra from the film's script, which was written by Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola.
👀 It was supposed to be: "Take the. cannoli.” Instead, Castellano improvised the line and. made it "Leave the gun, take the cannoli" — based on a. suggestion from his wife!
"Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." — Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). The Godfather Quote.
Shortly afterwards, on July 29, 1955, Vito dies of a heart attack in his garden while playing with his grandson, Michael's son Anthony. In the novel, his last words are, "Life is so beautiful."
He met his end while playing with his grandson, in a scene where it becomes gradually clear that Vito's health is failing rapidly. The movie sets him up as the best character up until then, thus making it very sad indeed to see Vito collapse and breathe his last.
“You see, The Godfather is more entertaining. Godfather II is this study, this personal thing for Francis [Ford Coppola],” Pacino continued. “Godfather I, I saw it recently, it's always got two or three things going on in a scene. You're always in the story, you're going.
Luca Brasi : Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.
In the opening scene, a man asks Don Corleone for vengeance after two men raped and beat his daughter. Ethnic and racial slurs are heard, as well as some profanity, including the "N" word. The movie also depicts Italian American culture in a sympathetic but crude and stereotypical light.
Before Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson was in the running to play Michael Corleone in The Godfather. But why did he turn down the iconic role? The Godfather is one of the most acclaimed and beloved movies of all time, which is arguably best remembered for its impressive ensemble.
There's a scene in "Godfather II" where Vito Corleone is in his dimly lit apartment worried about his son Fredo. Fredo has pneumonia and is being tended to by his mother and a nursemaid using a glass tumbler with a flame underneath. The thought was it would suck the illness out of his tiny body.
From a naive & stoic war-hero, Michael becomes a cold, heartless and vengeful mafia don. The tragedy for Michael is that he couldn't escape the inevitable doom of succession, despite his prior knowledge.
Immensely talented and powerful, he is undone by tragic flaws: his insatiable desire for vengeance, which creates a web of violence and recrimination that he cannot escape; his illusions of omnipotence, which blind him to the fact that achieving legitimacy is impossible; and his sense of being perpetually at war, which ...
Luca Brasi is Don Vito Corleone's personal enforcer and the only man Vito himself fears. While slow-witted and brutish, Brasi is fiercely loyal with a reputation as a savage and remorseless killer.
Even people who aren't familiar with the film can recognise Marlon Brando's weary, wheezy Mafia boss, Vito Corleone, and his favourite son Michael, played by Al Pacino.
Coppola was dead set on directing Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in what would become their first major film roles, as well as the more established screen actors Robert Duvall and James Caan (who was originally considered by Paramount for Michael Corleone).
Critics and scholars have long debated the meaning of “Leave the gun, take the cannoli”. Some say it refers to keeping violence and negativity in the past — take only the “sweet” things with you into the future. Perhaps, but the movie only gets bloodier after that scene. A lot bloodier.
"What are you worried about, if I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already." Sollozzo is one heinous character, but he wears it with style. He's also well-spoken and makes the audiences think. Yet, he delivers one of the more underrated lines of the movie.
Its fame started when its name was linked to the name of the mafia Family in the American movie saga “The Godfather.” In fact, the Corleone family does not exist. It is a cinematographic fiction.
