Previous episodes of this series dealt with unique works each of which consists of film extends to a date, or a particular linked to the story of history. But here we are looking at various work being composed of three integrated movies, and dive into the history in the form of a metaphor, and wraps around to form a family saga to come back on the other hand to the subject of topics: power. Here "The Godfather" in three parts, after the "intolerance" and "Aldarah Potemkin" and "Gone with the Wind" and "Citizen Kane" and "Seal VII" and "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Seven Samurai" and "2001 A Space Odyssey" In Waiting for a final loop.
"... It is, in the end of the story of a family matter, the story of a father and his sons, the story of power and succession ... and that, in and of itself is a great subject, the condition that exclude the remaining whole. I think that the whole thing will not result in a successful business, but also will produce a film also good. " This was, literally, what the young director did not exceed thirty years of age, in 1970, when he was preparing to make a film about the Yakuza, if it turns into a film about America, about the family, about power, about aging and death, and it becomes with time, Bdzoah the first two, at least, one of the most important cinematic works in the history of the seventh art and most powerful.
He trilogy "The Godfather," by director Francis Ford Coppola, the film that revived the thirties American movies about gangs and mafia, in the external form, as revived Shakespeare, in essence. However, try to find in the whole movie dialogues, the three-volume, the word "Mafia" or "Kozanostra" or "Camorra" - all terms to refer to the US organized gangs of assets and links the Italian - and the reason is simple: Since the company "Paramount" announced The project, moved the Italian - American lobbyists, most of which is subject to the influence of the "Mafia", threatened to oppose promising. It was Frank Sinatra, in the background of some of that move, as there is in the story of the role of the singer up to the peak under the auspices of those gangs, singer Johnny Fontana, who came like Bsinatra, and for us to imagine what it thought of the latter.
Based on this pressure, it carried the "mafia" gangs in the name of the movie "families." This was in the interest of the film, more than they ever dreamed company "Paramount" or dream Coppola, much more. So that this change, the nominal transfer of the whole work into gangster movie, to Vdhaih Shakespearean wide, jumped America and composition, and her life, to the front of the film. This was not abstract in the film. Because we have to wise up to the first inter dialogue in which, since the opening of the first scene in the first part are: "I love America," a fired Bunacera, which Sntban immediately he was speaking to The Godfather Vito Corleone, asking him to take revenge on those who raped his daughter, and Msttrda: "... America is that I made my fortune. I educated my daughter's true that as an American." Through this sentence camera moves toward Corleone sitting in the half light, to reveal that he does not like Bunacera, but the leader of its weight can not refuse a request from Mostagir him. Thus, the viewer finds himself the center of the film, but the center of the interlocking relationship between America and the values of immigrants. Between modernity and originality. But what we anticipate things here? What we are not saying that from now on all of this, later came on the project. So that the films as "The Godfather" What could have made up in the same and take all the connotations of just? He had to have his own myth, and his story outside the film that revolves around him, before he became the great work that we know.
Perhaps the first manifestations of this myth that the company that produced and bought his rights since he was a novel does not have any great success, she wanted him first to have a film a small, small budget, and in the light of the failure that was achieved more than a film about the Mafia in the late sixties of the twentieth century. The company contacted as Bkopoula, through his friend, producer Robert Evans, was a wish to refuse. He has already rejected. But things, while troubled, summoned him back, because on the one hand, many of the other directors refused to contest the adventure, including Richard Brooks and Costa-Gavras, hand in front of the seriousness of subject became aware of Paramount that by choosing a Italian name director for several reasons, most notably to keep up with the Italian lobbyists - US. Hence, while Coppola returned to the project returned reluctantly and set conditions, he was the most difficult on the company, his insistence that Marlon Brando plays the role of godfather. What? Brando? Company officials shouted, adding: But the star is over and no longer have a place at the box office ... then it's tough. But Coppola insisted Jarah and the Mario Botso, the author of the story and co-writing the script. At that time Brando was the forty-seventh. And replaced as a miracle after filming pleased Brando do experience, in contrast to a company that tried to maneuver a student of Coppola's action to Brando experience, and is confident that this would be rejected out of pride technical expectations. So, what were seen demo scene Brando even a miracle occurred: The Godfather will be no Robert Redford, and Laurence Olivier. Nor any another star of the nominated company.
Stars of the studio Representative
At that time, the beginning of 1971, was still talking about "The Godfather" in the first part. And was barely a thought that there would be a second part. And "Paramount" itself was believed that one million dollars spent by the film, which is the capital but throw it in the trash. But the film is back and it cost five times. Today we know that revenues exceeded the million percent, in less than two years, encouraged immediately to experience the second part.
But all this was still in the unseen Day began shooting. The truth is that Coppola before he had completed filming each episode, coming mostly representatives of the film, either from direct family and the middle and either "a studio representative" center "approach", which was driven by Lee Strasberg, who will play a remarkable role in the second part. This was also a departure from the Paramount rules. But again found the same company keep pace with Coppola has dropped in her hand ... liquid of who can choose James Caan and Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, and especially Al Pacino, who was not only almost unknown at the time, but that the pictorial experiment carried out in front of Coppola It was terrible. But something hidden, making Coppola, insist on it. It is a new company fell silent. But its leaders were in their hearts waiting for the opportunity to catch at first slip Bkopoula and replaced. Who? Baalaa Kazan. Indeed, what that was first seen footage and photography show that runs at the slowest than expected and that the costs will rise, even been contacted Bkasan ... just considering that getting involved with Brando may have been, that Kazan is the only one capable of taming Brando and filmed. But here's a small miracle came third: Brando refused to anyone anywhere Coppola solutions.
And so it was that the yield on the company, and monitor into a film depicting the sadness. They multiply and Budget and the scenes in which the accumulation of cans. And press, as they crash the whole work breaks.
Today, when we see this complete work in three parts, we will be difficult to realize why it was that all about? Allam and positions the company was negative to this extent? And why is the press the film crash before the completion of any section of it?
But the important thing is that Coppola was able to accomplish the first film, which came small Kaloajubh: that rather than be a movie about black and violent gang life, here is a great film about power and succession. Coppola was able to say, commenting on the film, since the film was completed, it was "a metaphor for America and composition, Shakespearean sense of the word." Although some mocked his words at the time, today we know that "The Godfather" - in three parts, with the disparity in value between the part and the other - is really one of the deepest meditations art of cinema, in history. Perhaps the most powerful thing in which he knew how to express that date through intimate family story. But also, and especially, by drawing a climate that severe phase privacy of American history, but the perspective from the outside and the inside at the same time, the ritual and realistic look together. Perhaps the best expression through Coppola about all this until one day he said, "my heritage Italian helped me a lot in the development of this work accomplished. From the beginning, I took the decision to make this film loaded with all kinds of Italian Catholic rituals."
America in Totrutha
In this context, we can see today how the "Godfather" Kknaah about America, knew how to contain the quiet moments and moments of tension loud at the same time, completely Kalimadh that coincide and intersect Montegea even, with the massacre. And just like the conflict that is going on inside Michael Al Pacino, who is the most American among the sons of The Godfather, to the point of associate Balomirkah Kay Diane Keaton and hide them all practices since the resolution of command, following his visit to his father in the hospital, and taken the decision to inherit the family and manages its affairs. The truth is that "The Godfather" in the three parts together, such as busy this amazing diodes: concordance between America and Sicily, Michael marriage of Italian countryside between Belle, will kill a car, then of the US gestures after his return. Concordance between moral Vito Corleone and his work as a leader for "family." Between state law and the law of gangs. Between moments of tenderness and moments of violence. But that bilateral become, structurally, the subject of the second part the whole, as a delightful part since its inception in two directions: on the one hand diving in the long time to regain the biography of Vito Corleone, since he was a youth rebels in his village in Sicily, until his arrival in America and his involvement in the world of organized crime He played a role in the second part of Robert De Niro, who was in turn a beginner, as it was the turn of students, "a studio representative", an alternative to Brando, who in terms of raising the price too much, after he was like "The Godfather" First of charge almost, and on the other hand seemed , older, larger than play a role that he was a youth. If, on the one hand diving "The Godfather," the second in the beginnings of Corleone, in the time that followed the march of his son Michael, has become godfather climb in the way of power and crime, it is that he wants to live an American life pure, but the death of his brother, Sony, and the death of his father, and the fact that The other brother, the weakest figure that instead of inheriting leadership course. Important to Michael, who was since the ends of the first part of the violence has shown what refrained him and his father, will increase Ghosa in more and more violence, he will destroy his life with his wife, "the American," Kay. The second part is this. But more than that, too. So that Coppola, Mario Botso - the owner of the novel and its supplement - a follower, Shakespearean side to one degree seems to me sometimes, it's in front of one of those works by Shakespeare retracing the history of the bloody power trading in the sixteenth century Britain.
If, while we in "The Godfather" I may follow us watching for life Godfather Vito Corleone and his relationship with his family, and his control is gradually on the capabilities of organized crime, under the "professional ethics" certain, we are in the second part we follow how they saved by Michael Corleone "family" - stakeholders concerned literal and figuratively - from disintegration to become the new Godfather. The most striking here, is that Coppola made between "The Godfather" and the first "Godfather" Second, one of the most important films "Conversation" starring Gene Hackman. Here in this movie, which was filmed in 1974, Coppola eating another aspect of power, in the most subtle: secure the continuity of the road eavesdropping on others and find out what all the plotting its own. Here, too, the power seems Emtemvsalh articulation "Family" in "The Godfather," and that was the manifestation of that come into play. The truth is that Coppola himself was in need of a "conversation" the great success achieved outside the United States, "Palme d'Or" at the Festival "was" for that year to make up the misunderstanding which had been received by the "Godfather" I, on the part of cash left was dominant, Fanflt let loose suicide film from hostile attitudes to America's very primitive and surface, the film misunderstood, abused and penetration into the depths. But only temporarily, so that this same criticism, since the emergence of the "Godfather" the second, then the "Godfather" third then twenty years, all of the tripartite mode, and "bilateral" by it in a very advanced position. This has been partly right cash. Today, as we all realize that the three parts, even if they are receiving because divisive, form a single whole, in terms of the essence of the subject. But also in terms of adding them to the language of cinema.
About a third less quality
If the "Godfather" the second in 1974 also may seem easier to implement and convincing than the first, it, too, and in the eyes of many critics prefer technically, as the representatives of Coppola key they had Odhawwa smoothest discourse with the theme, not to mention that Coppola, thanks to mass success for "The Godfather" first, then the cash for "Conversation" had become more freedom in dealing with the theme, brighter in his language film. It is here if he had made the celebrations detailed points in the film, especially from the funeral of Mother Corleone a basic watch, it was significant that this part concludes on Michael in absolute unity and if we are here in front of a dictator "Autumn of the Patriarch" for Garcia Marquez.
The truth is that "The Godfather" Part III, who won in 1991 - came weaker than its predecessors to some extent, because of fabricating the theme, perhaps because Coppola had started to get tired of that whole story, but he also came accordance indispensable for the conclusion of the tripartite Indeed, Michael has become Now an old man, and sinking more and more, in his unit. But here Anaaish through the synthesis of binary, the primary component on Oprah ceremony sings the daughter of Michael the role of Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis, which would later become the filmmaker who excel through two films, "The Virgin commit suicide" and "lost in translation," while the other race on the plan huge financial process with the Vatican - against the backdrop of a power struggle mention quite a power struggle within the "families" Italian - American! Here, too, family celebrations, but also Michael-seeking absolute respect - any legitimacy of absolute power - through its relationship with the Vatican, while rivals plotting a conspiracy against him, during the opera gala. This event takes a long time part of the film. It is not slow on the weakest in this work, it is even stronger as a condition to forget it and complete the two big key for the two parts of the "trilogy" remains one of the greatest achievements the art of cinema. One of the strongest forms of presence Shakespeare and Shakespearean concerns in the seventh art in the history of this art. Even though we know that Shakespeare has nothing to do this work, either closely or from afar>
Francis Ford Coppola
In the sense of meanings it is Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in the city of Detroit from parents Aatalia originally a real godfather. On the one hand "the godfather" Hollywood cinema that emerged with innovative generation "beards" since the beginning of the seventies of the twentieth century emitting new blood and vitality in the ashes of cinema was dying along with De Palma, Lucas and Spielberg and Scorsese. It is on the other hand, Lord family and the son of the people, clustered their lives are all about cinema and music: his father Carmine musician, and his mother Italian actress, and his son Roman director, and his daughter Sofia director, as his wife has made a film distinct from the film "Apocalypse Now," which was during filming son Last was a photographer.
Francis entered the cinema through the early experimental films, then through the opportunities afforded to it in Roger Corman films cheap cost. Then wrote a series of scenarios received turnout like "Is Paris burning?" And "Patton" and "The Great Gatsby", before he began to achieve his films, respectively, of the "Tonight is definitely" in 1961, passing through the "Damancia 13" in 1961 as well, down to a qualitative leap in "You're a big boy now," 1966 pursued with most movies became signs in the history of cinema, most notably the "folk Rain" in 1969, then "The Godfather 1" in 1972 in "conversation" in 1974 and "The Godfather 2" in "Apocalypse Now" in 1979 which is one of the most important films made about the Vietnam War and the war in general, though quoted from a novel by Joseph Conrad, it takes place already in the Congo. Then came the film - which Ovelsh disaster, "one of the Heart" in 1982 "Rumble Fish" and "Cotton Club" and "Peggy Sue marry" down to "Bram Stoker - Dracula." Today, Francis Ford Coppola, in the sixty-fifth year-old is preparing to make the film "Megalobolis"
