The Godfather

The Godfather is an American feature film from 1972 directed by Francis Ford Coppola. ' Godfather ' is English for 'Godfather', but that word was found not suitable in the context of the film. Therefore, the film was released in the Dutch language as the Godfather. The film is the first of a series of three and tells the story of Michael Corleone, head of a Mafia family from New York. The Godfather is based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo (also responsible for the screenplay). Main roles are played by, among others, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton.

The Godfather is considered one of the best movies of all time. The American Film Institute placed him in 1998, for example, in the list of best American movies of all time in third place. [1]  the film was a great success. It was the most visited movie of the year and was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, three of which he won theAcademy Award for best picture, best actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film meant the big break for the then unknown James Caan, Robert Duvall and Al Pacino. The film meant for Marlon Brando a comeback after years of flops and blew the gangster filmgenre new life in. Also the film parodied and quotedregularly.Especially the famous quote "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" is often imitated.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.It is the mid- forties. Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the head of the Corleone Mafia family New York. Traditions and respect are the key words in this world. The film begins during the wedding of Connie Corleone and Carlo Rizzi. The feast is in the garden of the complex of the Corleone family held. Because his daughter married on this day, can use old Sicilian, Vito Corleone, according to this day no refuse services.
 * 2 Cast
 * Arise 3
 * 4 Reception and impact
 * 5 awards and nominations
 * 5.1 Academy Awards 1973
 * 5.2 Golden Globes
 * 5.3 Grammy Awards
 * Sue 6
 * 6.1 Godfather Part IV
 * 7 video game
 * 8 Trivia
 * 9 external links

The first one asks the Don to a service is Bonasera. Bonasera has a daughter; formerly a beautiful girl. However, it is abused by two American guys. When the lawsuit were served for the perpetrators only sentenced to a suspended sentence. Bonasera found this no justice and said to his wife "for justice we must go to Don Corleone".

Meanwhile Michael Corleone arrives-the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone-at the party. He has a girl, Kay Adams, taken; no Italian. Michael has in the Second World War served in the Marines and has just returned from the Pacific. Michael wants nothing to do with the illegal practices of the family are dealing, unlike his older brotherSantino "Sonny" (James Caan).

One day drug Lord Virgil Sollozzo asks Don Vito Corleone to protection. Don Vito means, however, stuck to its old standards and values and is very against drugs. He refuses to Sollozzo's proposal going. His foster son and lawyer Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sonny find that the family should go on in there. Because Sonny at the meeting his mouth beyond talk, sees his chance to clean with Sonny as Don Sollozzo is to come to an agreement. That is why he is planning an attack on Don Corleone leaves his Office and: If the Don at a fruit stall does some shopping, he is shot by two Hitmen while his son watches helpless Fredo .

Don Vito Corleone discovered at this attack around Christmas. Sonny immediately wants revenge, but he does not yet know exactly how. At a meeting where the most important pawns of the family present, Michael says that he will be the one who will take revenge. Michael does this and he kills the men behind the attack: the corrupt police chief Mark Sollozzo and McCluskey. Michael flees to Sicily, where he falls in love with a girl named Apollonia Vitelli, and with her married. However, his wife is killed by a car bomb that was intended for him. Don Vito Corleone has since been restored and has peace with his rivals. Brother Sonny is betrayed by Carlo Rizzi, Connie's husband, and is, after he klemgereden, at a tollbooth is riddled, a scene based on the end of Bonnie and Clyde (1967). After a number of years as Michael return to New York he married Kay. After the death of Sonny Michael is the only one who can take over the leadership of his father. He says Kay that the family will be legally within five years.

After the death of his father Michael takes his role. During the baptism of his nephew, if Michael actually Godfather of Connie's second child is, he strikes his battle to seize power in the mafia world. While Michael is present at baptism, kill his people the main enemies of the family. These are the heads of the other of the "five families" in New York. These include Don Barzini, Tattaglia, Stracci, and Cuneo Don Don Don. Carlo Rizzi is also Connie's husband after baptism strangled, after he admitted has Sonny to have betrayed. As Kay Michael asks if he has anything to do with the death of Carlo, he says its not. He's lying. Kay is relieved, but then sees that the new caporegimes show their respects to Michael by his hand to kiss and to speak with him ' Don Corleone '. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Genesis<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Paramount had planned for a low budget to include a film version of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfathersuccess. The film was first offered to Director Sergio Leone, but he refused and made his own gangster film, the classic Once Upon a Time in America. Would Later admit that he regretted this decision Leone. Then they offered the film to Francis Ford Coppola, a young director whose Paramount thought he would be easy to control. Coppola wanted to make the film not at first, but with the assurance that it also should make The Conversation , did he tack.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Coppola turned out to be less easily than Paramount had thought, and Paramount has been to dismiss him on the point. He exceeded the budget and held itself not to the schedule. Paramount was also strongly opposed to some decisions of Coppola, including the choice for Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in the main roles. Pacino was relatively unknown at the time (even though he already had won a Tony Award, he had made only two films for The Godfather ) and bad came from the screen tests and Brando had for years had no hit more. His last film Queimada from 1969 was even a big flop. For the role of Don Vito Corleone Coppola also Laurence Olivier had in mind, but that was too ill.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Paramounts bought PBX Robert Evans had other people on the eye for the roles, including Ernest Borgnine and the Italian film producer Carlo Ponti for Don Vito Corleone and Robert Redford, Warren Beatty andBurt Reynolds for Michael Corleone. Later they decided that James Caan, which Coppola wanted for the role of Sonny, Michael would play. Eventually Paramount agreed with the choice for Pacino and Brando.Pacino had, however, also promised himself to another movie, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight by MGM. Release of the film to Pacino swapped him for another actor who was originally selected, Robert De Niro. De Niro, who auditioned for the roles of Sonny and Michael had done and had gotten the role of traitor Paulie Gatto, took the offer, and played the role that Pacino originally would play. By not playing in The Godfather could De Niro play the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part IIthe sequel, the role that earned him an Oscar and made him a star.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During preparations of the scenes Coppola had his actors improvise scenes that the film would not pick up. Also, he organized dinners at which the actors ate, drank and talked as their character.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It was filmed between 29 March 1971 and August 6, 1971. Along with his cameraman Gordon Willis Coppola decided to make a slower film and went so against the then reigning fashion of fast camera movements and quick installation in. On the other hand, he wanted a "tableau vivant"-style creation, with a stationary camera and shady interiors. ==Reception and impact<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film premiered on 15 March 1972 in New York premiere, and a week later in Los Angeles. In the weekend after the premiere in Los Angeles brought the movie in USA $ 5.264.402 on. In the first year that the movie turned it brought some $ 81.5 million in the United States, fourteen times as much as he took. It was the most popular film of the year and even of all time, until The Exorcist yielded $ 3 million more a year later.The film was re-released several times after that. In 1997 the film yielded some $ 245 million worldwide in theaters.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Today the film is considered one of the best of all time. Entertainment Weekly chose the best film, American Film Institute put the movie on the third place of the list of best American movies of all time. The film also is constantly in the top three of the IMDb Top 250. In 1990 was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

<p lang="en" len="456" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also the sentence "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse", regularly quoted and parodied by the American Film Institute, was chosen as the second best movie quote, after "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone With the Wind (1939).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Godfather is often seen as the film that revitalized the gangster genre. The film also enriched the genre with the idea of the mafia as a family with its own standards, similar to, for example, a Royal family, which favors them grants to people who are faithful and commits violence against their opponents. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Academy Awards 1973<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Godfather was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, three of which he won. Marlon Brando, who won the award for best actor, however, refused to come out of protest on the way Indians are represented in the film industry. He sent Sacheen Littlefeather the actress (incidentally no real Indian) to the ceremony to explain. Mario Puzo also was not present. The award for best screenplay was raised by his daughter Dorothy Ann Puzo. Three actors from one film are in the same category (best supporting actor) for a Oscar nominated. Coppola will find this a great compliment to the film. Nino Rota's music score was also nominated for an Oscar, but later had to be withdrawn because it was found that Rota had used music in all parts of the relatively unknown Italian film Fortunella from 1958. As a result, came the score not eligible for the prize.

===Golden Globes<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Grammy Awards<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Sue<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="232" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The sequels of this film are:
 * Best Film - Albert s. Ruddy (winner)
 * Best actor - Marlon Brando (winner)
 * Best Adapted Screenplay- Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola (winner)
 * Francis Ford Coppola- Best Director (nominated)
 * Best supporting actor - James Caan (nominated)
 * Best supporting actor – Al Pacino (nominated)
 * Best supporting actor- Robert Duvall (nominated)
 * Best costume design- Anna Hill Johnstone (nominated)
 * Best editing- William Reynolds and Peter Zinner (nominated)
 * Best music, original score- Nino Rota (nominated, withdrawn)
 * Best sound- Charles Grenzbach, Richard Portman and Christopher Newman (nominated)
 * Best picture, Drama (won)
 * Best Director-Francis Ford Coppola (won)
 * Best actor, Drama-Marlon Brando (won)
 * Best screenplay-Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (winner)
 * Best original score-Nino Rota (winner)
 * Best actor, Drama-Al Pacino (nominated)
 * Best supporting actor-James Caan (nominated)
 * Best original score for a movie or TV Special-Nino Rota (winner)

<p lang="en" len="522" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1977 Coppola edited the first and second film again until one film, called The Godfather Saga . ===Godfather Part IV<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From the mid- 1990s came the rumor to top that Mario Puzo was working on writing a fourth part.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="165" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  the film would have the same structure as part II. The story would go about Sonny's youth, combined with the current state of play after the third part; for the death of Michael Corleone. For the role of young Sonny was thought to Leonardo DiCaprio. However, Puzo died In 1999 making Director Francis Ford Coppola no longer interested showed in a possible sequel. In 2003, Andy Garcia still tried to convince film company Paramount Pictures to make this part.
 * The Godfather Part II (1974)
 * The Godfather Part III (1990)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2012 appeared the book The Family Corleone (English translation-the Corleone 's), by Ed Falco. He based this on the onverfilmde scenario by Mario Puzo that was released by the family of the deceased writer.This is only the story set in the 1930s. ==Computer Game<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006 a second game The Godfather 's come true. This game is called The Godfather: The Game. For this game, most original voices used (you don't hear Al Pacino). The game is produced by EA Games. Goal is that the player as a young man joins the Corleone family and must work their way up in the criminal circuit, until he finally the title of ' Don of New York ' has earned. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * When oranges to see in the film, the viewer take into account the fact that the persons in question ever be killed. Coppola has also once said that this would be mere coincidence. "The colour orange of oranges does it just right in dark shots".<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * The word mafia is not used once in the film, allegedly for fear of the real godfathers. Only in part III (1: 25: 18) Michael Corleone says about Licio Lucchesi, CEO of Immobiliare and brain behind the scam along with Archbishop Liam Gilday, the head of the Vatican bank: "That kind of lazy about for centuries in politics here. The true mafia."
 * The Godfather is one of the few movies where the sequel as just as good, if not better, is considered as the original. Both The Godfather and The Godfather Part II won the Oscar for Best Film, with which thetrilogy The Godfather-the only film series is where two films won the Oscar for Best Film.
 * The Godfather is the first film in which the title of the sequel simply ' II ' was added.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * Since 1991 is a Godfather-video game available. In 2006 there is a Godfather-video game released.
 * Brando wore no cotton in his mouth, but a special tool made by a dentist .<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * The baby who was baptized in the film is Coppola's daughter Sofia Coppola.
 * The movie Mafia! is a parody on among other things this movie, with Lloyd Bridges as Don Vito.
 * According to the rumors would only after the movie came out the real mafia "godfather" say against their bosses. Carlo Gambino was known as "the godfather of New York".<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]
 * The character of Johnny Fontane would be based on Frank Sinatra. The film From Here to Eternity in 1953 would the war film where Johnny in would appear. Sinatra also had a dip in his career. He plays a star role and deserves an Oscar. Fontane also wins an Oscar for the film where he plays. When Sinatra, who always denied to have had contacts with the mafia, has heard that the character based on him, he was furious.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="309" style="line-height:1;"> [source?]