The Godfather
by Robbo
Posted on 26 April 2021
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The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s best-selling 1969 novel of the same name.
The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton.
The story, spanning from 1945 to 1955, chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
The Godfather is a masterpiece of film-making, thoroughly deserving of it’s reputation.
It has often been criticised for glorifying the mafia and making us sympathetic to characters who should be abhorred for the life they live and the acts of evil they commit, but it’s hard to watch this film without rooting for the Corleone family who are the lesser of many evils.
The Godfather is an epic, spawning two sequels of differing quality, and is overall the best film about the mafia ever.
This is on my top 10 favourite films, a must watch.
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