Vito Andolini was twelve years old when his father, who had fallen out with the Sicilian mafia, was killed. Since the mafia is also hunting for his son, Vito is sent to America. There he changes his surname to Corleone - after the name of the village where he comes from. Young Vito goes to work at Abbandando's grocery store. At the age of eighteen he marries, and in the third year of marriage he has a son, Santino, whom everyone affectionately calls Sonny, and then another - Frederico, Freddie.
Fanucci, a gangster who extorts money from shopkeepers, places his nephew in Vito's place, leaving Vito without a job, and Vito is forced to join his friend Clemenza and his accomplice Tessio, who are raiding trucks with silk dresses, otherwise his family will die from hunger. When Fanucci demands his share of the money raised from this, Vito, having carefully calculated everything, kills him in cold blood. This makes Vito a respected man on the block. Fanucci's clientele goes to him. In the end, he and his friend Genco Abbandando founded a trading house for the import of olive oil. Shopkeepers who do not want to stock up on their oil are taken care of by Clemenza and Tessio - warehouses are burning, people are dying... During Prohibition, under the guise of a trading house, Vito smuggled alcohol, after the abolition of Prohibition he switched to the gambling business. More and more more people works for him, and Vito Corleone provides everyone with a comfortable life and protection from the police. They begin to add the word “don” to his name, and he is respectfully called the Godfather.
Time goes by, the Corleones already have four children, and their family is raising an orphan and street child, Tom Hagen. Sonny, at the age of sixteen, begins working for his father - first as a bodyguard, then as the commander of one of the armed squads of the mafia along with Clemenza and Tessio. Later in family business Freddie and Tom enter.
Don Corleone is the first to understand that it is necessary to take politics, not shooting, and that in order to protect his world from government interference, criminal groups in New York and throughout the country must stick together. Through his efforts at a time when external world The Second World War is shaking, inside the American underworld there is calm and complete readiness to reap the benefits of the rise of the American economy. Only one thing saddens the Don - his younger son Michael rejects his father's care and volunteers for the war, where he rises to the rank of captain, and at the end of the war, again without asking anyone, he leaves home and goes to university.
The actual action of the novel begins in August 1945. Don Constance's only daughter, Connie, gets married. Don Corleone doesn't really like his future son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi, but he appoints him to the position of bookmaker in Manhattan and makes sure that the police reports drawn up on Carlo in Nevada, where he used to live, are seized. Faithful people at the same time deliver information to the Don about legal gambling houses in Nevada, and the Don listens to this information with great interest.
Among the other guests at the wedding is the famous singer Johnny Fontaine, he is also the godson of the don. Johnny's life with his second wife did not work out, his voice is disappearing, he is having troubles with the film business... What brings him here is not only love and respect for the Corleone family, but also the confidence that the Godfather will help solve his problems. And indeed, the Don arranges for Johnny to be given the role for which he subsequently receives an Oscar, helps with family affairs and lends money sufficient for Johnny to become a film producer. Fontaine's paintings are wildly successful, and the Don makes a big profit - this man knows how to profit from everything.
When Don Corleone is offered participation in the drug business together with the Tattaglia family, he refuses, since it goes against his principles. But Sonny was very interested, which did not hide from Sollozzo, who conveyed this proposal to Corleone.
Three months later, an assassination attempt is made on Vito Corleone. The killers manage to escape - the weak-willed Freddy, replacing the don's bodyguard, is numb and cannot even pull out a machine gun.
Meanwhile, Hagen is captured by Sollozzo's men. Having told Tom that Don Corleone has been killed, Sollozzo asks him to become a mediator in negotiations with Sonny, who will now become the head of the family and will be able to sell drugs. But then news comes that, despite five bullets, the Godfather survived. Sollozzo wants to kill Hagen, but he manages to deceive him.
Sonny and Sollozzo begin endless negotiations. At the same time, Sonny “evens the score” - the informant Sollozzo dies, Tattaglia’s son is killed... These days, Michael considers it his duty to be with his family.
One evening, upon entering the hospital, Michael discovers that someone has recalled Tessio's men guarding the Don's ward. This means Sollozzo will now come to kill his father! Michael quickly calls Sonny and takes a position at the entrance to the hospital - to hold out until his own people arrive. Then police captain McCloskey arrives, bribed by Sollozzo. Furious that the operation failed, he breaks Michael's jaw. Michael bore it without attempting to retaliate.
The next day, Sollozzo conveys that he wants to enter into negotiations through Michael, because he is considered a harmless weakling. But Michael is filled with cold hatred for his father's enemies. Having agreed to negotiate, he kills both Sollozzo and Captain McCloskey, who is accompanying him. After this, he is forced to flee the country and hide in Sicily.
The police, taking revenge for the murder of the captain, suspend profitable activities that are carried out in violation of the law. This brings loss to all five families of New York, and as the Corleone family refuses to hand over the killer, the underworld begins to internecine war 1946
However, when through the efforts of Hagen it is discovered that McCloskey was a bribe-taker, the thirst for revenge in the police’s hearts subsides and the pressure from the police stops. But five families continue to fight the Corleone family: they terrorize bookmakers, shoot ordinary servants, and lure people away. The Corleone family goes into martial law. Don, despite his condition, is transported home from the hospital, under reliable protection. Freddie is sent to Las Vegas to come to his senses and familiarize himself with the situation in the casinos there. Sonny runs the family affairs - and doesn't in the best possible way. In a senseless and bloody war with five families, he manages to win a number of individual victories, but the family is losing people and income, with no end in sight. Several profitable bookmaking outlets had to be closed, and Carlo Rizzi, thus left out of business, takes out his anger on his wife: one day he beat her so much that Connie, calling Sonny, asks to take her home. Losing his head with rage, Sonny rushes to intercede for his sister, is ambushed and killed.
Don Corleone is forced to leave his hospital bed and become the head of the family. To everyone's surprise, he calls all the families of New York and family syndicates from all over the country to a meeting, where he makes a peace proposal. He even agrees to take up drugs, but on one condition - no harm will come to his son Michael. The world is concluded. And only Hagen realizes that the Godfather has far-reaching plans and today’s retreat is just a tactical maneuver.
Michael meets a beautiful girl in Sicily and gets married. But his happiness was short-lived - the Barzini family, which from the very beginning stood behind Sollozzo and Tattaglia, causes an explosion in Michael’s car with the hands of the traitor Fabrizio. Michael accidentally survived, but his wife dies... Returning to America, Michael expresses his desire to become his father's real son and work with him.
Three years pass. Michael marries an American, Kay Adams, who was waiting for him during his exile. Under the guidance of Hagen and the Don, he diligently studies the family business. Like his father, Michael prefers to act not from a position of strength, but from a position of intelligence and resourcefulness. They plan to move business operations to Nevada, completely switching to a legal position there (a person who did not want to give them his territory in Las Vegas is killed). But at the same time they are developing plans for revenge on the Barzini-Tattaglia alliance. Having partially retired from business, the Don appoints Michael as his successor, so that in a year he will become a full-fledged Godfather...
But suddenly Don Corleone dies, after his death Barzini and Tattaglia violate the peace treaty and try to kill Michael, taking advantage of Tessio’s betrayal. But Michael proves that his father's choice was correct. Fabrizio is killed. The heads of the Barzini and Tattaglia families are killed. Tessio is killed. They kill Carlo Rizzi, who, as it turned out, on the day of Sonny’s murder, deliberately beat his wife at the behest of Barzini.
Upon learning of Carlo's death, Connie rushes to Michael with reproaches. And although Michael denies everything, Kay suddenly realizes that her husband is a killer. Horrified, she takes the children and leaves to live with her parents.
A week later, Hagen comes to see her. They have a terrible conversation: Tom describes to Kay the world that Michael has been hiding from her all this time - a world where you can’t forgive, a world where you have to forget about your affections. “If Michael finds out what I told you here, I’m finished,” he finishes. “There are only three people in the world whom he will not harm: you and the children.”
Kay returns to her husband. Soon they move to Nevada. Hagen and Freddie work for Michael, Connie remarries. Clemenza is allowed to leave Corleone and start his own family syndicate. Things are going well, the dominance of the Corleone family is unshakable.
Every morning Kay goes to church with her mother-in-law. Both women earnestly pray for the salvation of the souls of their husbands - two dons, two Godfathers...
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| Russian name | Godfather |
| original name | The Godfather |
| Genre | drama gangster movie |
| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Composer | Nino Rota |
| Producer | Albert Ruddy |
| Operator | Gordon Willis |
| Screenwriter | Mario Puzo Francis Ford Coppola |
| Actors | Marlon Brando Al Pacino James Caan Richard Castellano Robert Duvall Sterling Hayden Al Lettieri Diane Keaton John Casale |
| Budget | $6-7 million |
| Fees | $268.5 million |
| Company | Paramount Pictures |
| Time | 175 min. |
| A country | USA |
| Year | 1972 |
| Next movie | The Godfather 2 |
| imdb_id | 0068646 |
"Godfather"(en The Godfather) - gangster drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola. A film adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, published in 1969. Slogan: “An offer you can’t refuse.” Considered the best gangster film by the American Film Institute and one of the best films in cinematic history. Consistently ranked in the top five of the top 250 films according to a reputable website IMDB.
The film received three Oscar awards: best movie, best adapted screenplay, best actor (Marlon Brando) - and another 19 different awards and 17 nominations. It also ranks second in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list of the best films in the history of American cinema, published annually by the American Film Institute, behind only the film "Citizen Kane".
Filming took place over four months in mid-1971. The premiere took place in March 1972 (March 11 or 15). With a small budget of $6 million, the film grossed $268.5 million.
Plot
The film "The Godfather" is a crime saga that tells the story of the New York Sicilian mafia family Corleone. The film covers the period 1945-1955. The action of the film begins to unfold in the summer of 1945 during a festive reception in the house of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in honor of the wedding of his daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). At this time, Don Vito is the head of the Corleone mafia clan, known to everyone as the “Godfather,” and the family’s personal lawyer. O. consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) accepts congratulations and listens to requests from friends and partners, which they express, knowing that “not a single Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter’s wedding day.” Meanwhile, the Don's beloved youngest son Michael (Al Pacino), a World War II hero, honestly tells his friend Kay Adams (Diane Keaton) stories about the "peculiar" profession of his father and those around him, but assures her that "this is his family, but not himself."
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Mario Puzo
Godfather
Vito Andolini was twelve years old when his father, who had fallen out with the Sicilian mafia, was killed. Since the mafia is also hunting for his son, Vito is sent to America. There he changes his surname to Corleone - after the name of the village where he comes from. Young Vito goes to work at Abbandando's grocery store. At eighteen he marries, and in the third year of marriage he has a son, Santino, whom everyone affectionately calls Sonny, and then another - Frederico, Freddie.
Fanucci, a gangster who extorts money from shopkeepers, places his nephew in Vito's place, leaving Vito without a job, and Vito is forced to join his friend Clemenza and his accomplice Tessio, who are raiding trucks with silk dresses, otherwise his family will die from hunger. When Fanucci demands his share of the money raised from this, Vito, having carefully calculated everything, kills him in cold blood. This makes Vito a respected man on the block. Fanucci's clientele goes to him. In the end, he and his friend Genco Abbandando founded a trading house for the import of olive oil. Shopkeepers who do not want to stock up on their oil are dealt with by Clemenza and Tessio - warehouses are burning, people are dying... During Prohibition, under the guise of a trading house, Vito was engaged in smuggling alcohol; after the abolition of Prohibition, he switched to the gambling business. More and more people work for him, and Vito Corleone provides everyone with a comfortable life and protection from the police. They begin to add the word “don” to his name, and he is respectfully called the Godfather.
Time passes, the Corleones already have four children, and their family is raising an orphan and street child, Tom Hagen. Sonny, at the age of sixteen, begins working for his father - first as a bodyguard, then as the commander of one of the armed squads of the mafia along with Clemenza and Tessio. Later, Freddie and Tom enter the family business.
Don Corleone is the first to understand that it is necessary to take politics, not shooting, and that in order to protect his world from government interference, criminal groups in New York and throughout the country must stick together. Through his efforts, at a time when the outside world is being shaken by the second World War, inside the American criminal world there is calm and complete readiness to reap the benefits of the rise of the American economy. Only one thing saddens the Don - his youngest son Michael rejects his father’s care and volunteers to go to war, where he rises to the rank of captain, and at the end of the war, again without asking anyone, he leaves home and goes to university.
The actual action of the novel begins in August 1945. Don Constance's only daughter, Connie, gets married. Don Corleone doesn't really like his future son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi, but he appoints him to the position of bookmaker in Manhattan and makes sure that the police reports drawn up on Carlo in Nevada, where he used to live, are seized. Faithful people at the same time deliver information to the Don about legal gambling houses in Nevada, and the Don listens to this information with great interest.
Among the other guests at the wedding is the famous singer Johnny Fontaine, he is also the godson of the don. Johnny's life with his second wife did not work out, his voice is lost, he has troubles with the film business... What brings him here is not only love and respect for the Corleone family, but also the confidence that the Godfather will help solve his problems. And indeed, the Don arranges for Johnny to be given the role for which he subsequently receives an Oscar, helps with family affairs and lends money sufficient for Johnny to become a film producer. Fontaine's paintings are wildly successful, and the don makes a big profit - this man knows how to profit from everything.
When Don Corleone is offered participation in the drug business together with the Tattaglia family, he refuses, since it goes against his principles. But Sonny was very interested, which did not hide from Sollozzo, who conveyed this proposal to Corleone.
Three months later, an assassination attempt is made on Vito Corleone. The killers manage to escape - the weak-willed Freddy, replacing the don's bodyguard, is numb and cannot even pull out a machine gun.
Meanwhile, Hagen is captured by Sollozzo's men. Having told Tom that Don Corleone has been killed, Sollozzo asks him to become a mediator in negotiations with Sonny, who will now become the head of the family and will be able to sell drugs. But then news comes that, despite five bullets, the Godfather survived. Sollozzo wants to kill Hagen, but he manages to deceive him.
Sonny and Sollozzo begin endless negotiations. At the same time, Sonny “evens the score” - the informant Sollozzo dies, Tattaglia’s son is killed... These days, Michael considers it his duty to be with his family.
One evening, upon entering the hospital, Michael discovers that someone has recalled Tessio's men guarding the Don's ward. This means Sollozzo will now come to kill his father!...
Michael quickly calls Sonny and takes a position at the entrance to the hospital - to hold out until his own people arrive. Then police captain McCloskey arrives, bribed by Sollozzo. Furious that the operation failed, he breaks Michael's jaw. Michael bore it without attempting to retaliate.
The next day, Sollozzo conveys that he wants to enter into negotiations through Michael, because he is considered a harmless weakling. But Michael is filled with cold hatred for his father's enemies. Having agreed to negotiate, he kills both Sollozzo and Captain McCloskey, who is accompanying him. After this, he is forced to flee the country and hide in Sicily.
The police, taking revenge for the murder of the captain, suspend profitable activities that are carried out in violation of the law. This brings a loss to all five families of New York, and since the Corleone family refuses to hand over the killer, an internecine war begins in the underworld in 1946. However, when through the efforts of Hagen it is discovered that McCloskey was a bribe-taker, the thirst for revenge in the hearts of the police subsides and pressure from the police stops. But five families continue to fight the Corleone family: they terrorize bookmakers, shoot ordinary servants, and lure people away. The Corleone family goes into martial law. Don, despite his condition, is transported home from the hospital, under reliable protection. Freddie is sent to Las Vegas to come to his senses and familiarize himself with the situation in the casinos there. Sonny manages the family's affairs - and not in the best way. In a senseless and bloody war with five families, he manages to win a number of individual victories, but the family is losing people and income, with no end in sight. Several profitable bookmaking outlets had to be closed, and Carlo Rizzi, thus left out of business, takes out his anger on his wife: one day he beat her so much that Connie, calling Sonny, asks to take her home. Losing his head with rage, Sonny rushes to intercede for his sister, is ambushed and killed.
Don Corleone is forced to leave his hospital bed and become the head of the family. To everyone's surprise, he calls all the families of New York and family syndicates from all over the country to a meeting, where he makes a peace proposal. He even agrees to take up drugs, but on one condition - no harm will come to his son Michael. The world is concluded. And only Hagen realizes that the Godfather has far-reaching plans and today’s retreat is just a tactical maneuver.
Michael meets a beautiful girl in Sicily and gets married. But his happiness was short-lived - the Barzini family, which from the very beginning stood behind Sollozzo and Tattaglia, causes an explosion in Michael’s car with the hands of the traitor Fabrizio. Michael accidentally survived, but his wife dies... Returning to America, Michael expresses his desire to become his father's real son and work with him.
Three years pass. Michael marries an American, Kay Adams, who was waiting for him during his exile. Under the guidance of Hagen and the Don, he diligently studies the family business. Like his father, Michael prefers to act not from a position of strength, but from a position of intelligence and resourcefulness. They plan to move business operations to Nevada, completely switching to a legal position there (a person who did not want to give them his territory in Las Vegas is killed). But at the same time they are developing plans for revenge on the Barzini-Tattaglia alliance. Having partially retired from business, the Don appoints Michael as his successor, so that in a year he will become a full-fledged Godfather...
But suddenly Don Corleone dies, after his death Barzini and Tattaglia violate the peace treaty and try to kill Michael, taking advantage of Tessio’s betrayal. But Michael proves that his father's choice was correct. Fabrizio is killed. The heads of the Barzini and Tattaglia families are killed. Tessio is killed. They kill Carlo Rizzi, who, as it turned out, on the day of Sonny’s murder, deliberately beat his wife at the behest of Barzini.
Upon learning of Carlo's death, Connie rushes to Michael with reproaches. And although Michael denies everything, Kay suddenly realizes that her husband is a killer. Horrified, she takes the children and leaves to live with her parents.
A week later, Hagen comes to see her. They have a terrible conversation: Tom describes to Kay the world that Michael has been hiding from her all this time - a world where you can’t forgive, a world where you have to forget about your affections. “If Michael finds out what I told you here, I’m finished,” he finishes. “There are only three people in the world whom he will not harm: you and the children.”
Kay returns to her husband. Soon they move to Nevada. Hagen and Freddie work for Michael, Connie remarries. Clemenza is allowed to leave Corleone and start his own family syndicate. Things are going well, the dominance of the Corleone family is unshakable.
Every morning Kay goes to church with her mother-in-law. Both women earnestly pray for the salvation of the souls of their husbands - two dons, two Godfathers...
USA
Filming took place over four months in mid-1971. The premiere took place on March 24, 1972. With a small budget of $6 million, the film grossed more than $250 million.
Plot
The film "The Godfather" is a crime saga that tells the story of the New York Sicilian mafia family Corleone. The film covers a period of years. The action of the film begins to unfold in the summer of 1945 during a festive reception in the house of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) in honor of the wedding of his daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Giani Russo). At this time, Don Vito - the head of the Corleone mafia clan, known to everyone as the “Godfather” - and the family’s personal lawyer Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) accept congratulations and listen to requests from friends and partners, which they express, knowing that “no one a Sicilian will not be able to refuse a request on his daughter’s wedding day.” Meanwhile, the Don's beloved youngest son Michael (Al Pacino), an eminent naval hero returning from World War II, tells his friend Kay Adams (Diane Keaton) funny stories about his father's criminal activities, assuring her that he himself is not like his family.
Among the invited guests at the celebration is famous singer Johnny Fontaine (Al Martino), Corleone's godson, has arrived from Hollywood to ask Don Vito for help in landing a film role that will revive his fading fame. Johnny says that the head of the film studio, Jack Woltz (John Marley), will not give him the role, to which the don replies that he will “make him an offer he cannot refuse” and sends Hagen to California to fix the problem. Jack Woltz harshly tells Hagen that he will never give the role to Fontaine because he ruined the rising movie star Woltz raised. The next morning, Woltz is horrified to discover in his bed the severed head of his favorite horse, which he recently purchased for $600,000, and gives the role to Fontaine.
After Hagen's return, the family meets with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo (Al Letteri), supported by the rival Tattaglia family. He offers Don Corleone to finance the import of heroin, as well as provide political and legal protection in this matter. But despite great amount Corleone refuses the money that can be received from this deal, explaining that his political influence would be jeopardized if he were involved in the drug trade. But the don's eldest son, Sonny (James Caan), expresses a different point of view - he advocates cooperation with the Tattaglia family and approves of the Corleone clan's participation in drug imports. Don Vito, seriously angry about his disagreements with his son in front of a rival family, makes a sharp remark to Sonny in private, and then sends his better man Luca Brasi (Lenny Montana) investigates everything regarding the Turk.
Shortly after refusing to support Sollozzo, an assassination attempt is made on Don Corleone, during which he is shot several times. Meanwhile, Sollozzo and Tattaglia kill Luca Brasi and kidnap Hagen in order to convince him to persuade Sonny to agree to the deal offered to his father. An angry Sonny refuses to consider the case and gives the Tattaglia clan an ultimatum - either he surrenders Sollozzo to him, or the Corleone family goes on the warpath. The Tattaglias refuse and instead send Santino proof of Luca Brasi's death.
Michael, viewed by the other families as a "civilian" not involved in the "crowd business", visits his father in the hospital and is surprised to find that no one is guarding the Don. Realizing that a second attempt may be made on his father, he moves him to another room, while he remains to watch the door. With the help of the baker Enzo, who feels indebted to the Don, he poses as the Don's guard on the hospital porch and thereby misleads Sollozzo's men, who drive up to the hospital to kill the Corleones. Soon the police arrive with the corrupt Captain Mark McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), who breaks Michael's jaw in response to accusations of connections with Sollozzo. Immediately after this, Hagen appears with guards for Don Corleone and takes Michael home.
After a failed assassination attempt at the hospital, Sollozzo requests a meeting with a representative of the Corleone family, with Captain Mark McCluskey acting as his bodyguard. Michael volunteers to go to the meeting. At first, this statement greatly amuses Sonny and the rest of the older members of the family, but Michael convinces them of his seriousness and claims that the murder of Sollozzo and McCluskey is in the interests of the family: “It’s nothing personal. It's just business." During the meeting with Sollozzo, Michael goes to the toilet, where he takes out a hidden revolver, and upon his return kills him and McCluskey. For safety, he leaves for Sicily while the Corleone family prepares for war with the “five families” united against them. In Sicily, Michael lives under the protection of Don Tomasino, an old friend of the Corleone family. There he falls in love and marries a local girl, Appolonia Vitelli (Simonetta Stefanelli), who dies while trying to start a car containing a bomb intended for Michael.
Corleone Family: Michael, Don Vito, Sonny, Fredo
In New York, Don Corleone returns home and is surprised to learn that it was Michael who killed Sollozzo and McCluskey. A few months later, in 1948, Sonny beats up Carlo Rizzi for hitting the pregnant Connie and warns him that if it happens again, he will kill him. An angry Carlo conspires with Tattaglia and Don Emilio Barzini (Richard Conte) to kill Sonny. Carlo beats Connie again to provoke Santino. An enraged Sonny rushes home to his sister, and Tattaglia's men shoot him right in the car.
Instead of taking revenge for the murder of his son, Don Corleone organizes a meeting with the heads of the “five families” in order to end the war. He says that its continuation will not only lead to ruin and a threat to everyone's survival, but also that its end is the only way for Michael to return home safely. Having changed his principles for this, the don agrees to support Tattaglia’s case regarding the import of heroin, provided that it is controlled and the drugs are not sold to children.
Michael returns from Sicily. In 1951, more than a year after his return, he meets with his former girlfriend Kay and asks her to marry him. At that time, since after the death of Sonny, the don practically retires from business, and the middle brother Fredo (John Cazale) is completely incapable of management, Michael is actually the head of the entire crime syndicate, but he promises Kay to make his father’s business completely legal within five years.
Also, during the film adaptation, many episodes from the lives of other characters were cut. For example, the film did not show Johnny Fontane's failures with women and his problems with his voice; the story of Santino's love affair with Lucy Mancini and his street hooliganism as a teenager; the line of Dr. Julius Segal, who restored Michael’s facial bones damaged during the fight with McCluskey, and Fontaine’s voice are completely absent; development of Jack Woltz's pedophilia.
According to the book, Michael explains his determination to Sonny by saying, “They made it private by shooting in the street. Population is not a business, it’s personal,” but in the movie he responds with his father’s motto: “Nothing personal. It's just business."
The film significantly reduced the character arcs of some of the characters. The roles of Johnny Fontaine, Lucy Mancini, Rocco Lampone and Al Neri were reduced to a minimum (the latter two do not say a word in the film). Dr. Julius Segal, Genco Abbandando and Dr. Tazzi from Sicily are completely removed from the film. Also in the book, Michael and Kay have two sons, but in the film they have a son and a daughter.
The novel and the film also differ in the fates of Michael’s bodyguards in Sicily, Fabrizio and Calo. In the film adaptation, both survive, but in the book, Kahlo dies along with Appolonia in a car explosion, and Fabrizio is killed along with others during the “baptism scene.” Fabrizio's murder was cut from the film, but photographs of the scene exist.
The ending of the book differs from the end of the movie: in the movie, Kay herself suddenly realizes that Michael has become like his family, and in the book, Hagen told her about all the affairs of her husband. During the "baptism scene" in the film, all the heads of the Five Families were killed. In the novel, only Barzini and Tattaglia were killed.
Mario Puzo himself wrote the script for the entire film trilogy, so he was aware of all the discrepancies.
Cast
- Marlon Brando - Don Vito Corleone: The head of the Corleone mafia clan, known to everyone as the “Godfather.” Formerly his name was Vito Andolini. He is the father of Sonny, Fredo, Michael and Connie; adoptive father of Tom Hagen. Carmella Corleone's husband. Native Sicilian.
- Al Pacino - Michael Corleone: The youngest son of the Corleone family, recently returned from World War II. The only one of all Don Vito's children to attend college. Initially, he did not want to have anything to do with the affairs of his family. Its metamorphosis from soft young man to the ruthless boss - key story line film.
- James Caan - Santino "Sonny" Corleone: Eldest son of Don Vito and Carmella Corleone. During his father’s life, he was actually the second boss of the family.
- John Casale - Frederico "Fredo" Corleone: Middle son of Don Vito and Carmella Corleone. Of all the brothers, he seems to be the most nondescript and weakest figure in terms of character.
- Robert Duvall - Tom Hagen: Adopted son of Don Vito. Acting Consigliere, due to the illness and then death of Genco Abbandando.
- Sterling Hayden - Captain Mark McCluskey: Corrupt NYPD captain collaborating with Sollozzo.
- John Marley - Jack Voltz: Head of a film studio in Hollywood.
- Richard Conte - Don Emilio Barzini: Head of the Barzini family.
- Alex Rocco - Moe Green: Longtime partner of the Corleone family. Has a chain of hotels in Las Vegas.
- Al Letteri - Virgil "Turk" Sollozzo: Drug dealer involved in importing drugs. Associated with the Tattaglia family.
- Victor Rendina - Philip Tattaglia- Head of the Tattaglia family.
- Tom Roskvy - Rocco Lampone- a militant under the command of Clemenza, who took the place of the murdered traitor Paulo in the family. Future caporegime of the Corleone family.
- Diane Keaton - Kay Adams: Michael's girlfriend, and later wife and mother of his children.
- Talia Shire - Constance "Connie" Corleone-Rizzi: Youngest child And only daughter Don Vito and Carmella Corleone. Married to Carlo Rizzi.
- Giani Russo - Carlo Rizzi: Connie's husband. Becomes a partner of the Corleone family and subsequently betrays Sonny.
- Al Martino - Johnny Fontane: Famous singer. Godson of Don Vito.
- Morgana King - Carmella Corleone: Don Vito's wife. Mother of Sonny, Fredo and Michael, and adoptive mother of Tom Hagen.
- Richard Bright - Al Neri: Michael's bodyguard. Later becomes the Corleone family lawyer.
Artistic value
The film was considered significant in the United States and around the world. . Coppola's direction, combined with the performances of outstanding actors and an excellent script, ensured the film's success among film critics and ordinary viewers. We can say that there is a lot of violence in the film, but in in this case it's just artistic medium to reflect the director's vision and to create the appropriate atmosphere in the film. The main drama of the film lies in the tragedy of Michael Corleone - a young man, a war hero, whose life and even soul is broken under the pressure of family interests. His transformation into a cruel and treacherous godfather represents one of the most skillfully depicted metamorphoses in the history of world cinema.
Awards and prizes
1973 - Oscar- Winner in categories:
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- National Board of Review Award for Secondary Fiction male role- Al Pacino (shared with Joel Gray, who played in the film “Cabaret”)
- Grammy for music
- "David" Donatello" in Italy for the best foreign film and special award actor Al Pacino
- Included in the National Film Registry in 1990
Notes
Links
- "Godfather"(English) on the Internet Movie Database website
- 100 years of The Godfather. Significant dates (Russian)
- The plot of the film "The Godfather" (English)
- The Godfather trilogy
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