We have started a new tradition at our house. Each Saturday night, one of us picks a movie and we all watch it together. Now, we have four different takes on the movie that we can talk to death. At our house, we all have very strong opinions. It also gives us an opportunity to see a movie we may not have ever watched otherwise. Have fun trying to figure out who picked which movie. Movie night!
1972 | R | Amazon/Vudu/Netflix | Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall
Music by: Nino Rota
Runtime: 2 hrs 57 minutes
Budget: $5 – 6.5 Million
Box Office: $245 – 286 Million
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The Godfather. Have you seen it? Can you believe that I hadn’t?! I had seen parts of it over the years, (the wedding, Vito playing with his grandson in the garden, the baptism) but I had never sat and watched this film in all of its glorious entirety.
I have to say that I think this is one of my favorite films to date. I’ve seen a lot of movies, but this one……it is truly magnificent.
In case you haven’t seen it and don’t want anything spoiled for you, 😕 , instead of giving you the plot, I’ll give you five fascinating facts about the movie instead.
- Paramount pictures did not want Marlon Brando to play Vito Corleone. Can you imagine?
- The cat was a stray. It’s purring was so loud during filming that they had to dub some of Marlon Brando’s lines into the movie later.
- The horse’s head was real. Come on, that’s not a spoiler! Even if you haven’t seen the movie, you know there is a scene with a horse’s head, right?
- Al Pacino actually had his jaw wired shut for part of the movie. Yikes.
- Lenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi, was so nervous during his scene with Marlon Brando that it took an entire day’s shoot to get one take, which still had flubs. So, Francis Ford Coppola added a new scene of him rehearsing lines so that it would seem like he was simply nervous to talk to the Godfather.
If you haven’t seen this film, I insist that you watch it tonight! Seriously. It’s that incredible.
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