In adapting the book with Puzo, Coppola had a darker, ultimately more profound take: "I looked at it as the story of aking with three sons." It is pulp fiction turned into opera, an epic of gangster patriarchy, of family, of America itself. And also I made them out to be good guys except they committed murder once in a while". Fingering the story's irresistability, Mario Puzo's best-selling novel was, the author considered modestly, "A great combination, the family story and a crime story.
Not since Warner Brothers' crime cycle of the 30s had the underworld so captured the public imagination.
People are still cheering scene after scene in one of the greatest American films ever made, and committing chunks of dialogue to memory - like the goons in TV's The Sopranos who adore Godfather impersonations and businessmen like Tom Hanks' bookseller in You've Got Mail who explains to Meg Ryan that The Godfather is the font of all wisdom for the modern man. I cheered inwardly at scene after scene." He perked up when Frank Capra wrote to him, claiming it was, " Out of this world. He had only been given the film after a lengthy wish-list of veterans including Otto Preminger, Elia Kazan, Fred Zinnemann and Franklin Schaffner turned it down. At the time the director, Francis Ford Coppola, was holed up in a hotel writing the screenplay for The Great Gatsby, a job he took to relieve his financial problems because he believed in his movie. Shortly after its premiere in 1972 Variety reported, "The Godfather is an historic smash of unprecedented proportions". It made stars of Pacino and Caan, won Oscars for Picture, Screenplay and Brando, in a triumphant comeback. It was the first event movie of the 70s, the one multitudes queued up to see, the one whose dialogue, characters and imagery instantly became ingrained in the collective consciousness. Eventually he inherits his father's mantle as syndicate big shot and family head, the film ending with a chilling shot of the door closing on his uncomprehending WASP wife as Michael Corleone receives the homage "Godfather". When his father is gunned down, however, he commits murder and is inextricably bound by ties of blood, heritage and "honour" to a course of vendetta and power ruthlessly maintained through fear. It already aired on HBO, and the network will show it again later this month, but you can watch it anytime on HBO Go or HBO Now.A son returns from war and doesn't want to get mixed up in the family business: organised crime. You can check out a brief trailer for The Godfather Epic above. These are the scenes that begin The Godfather Epic, since it tells the Corleone family's story in chronological order, ending with the rise of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). The Godfather Part 2 features a number of flashbacks to Vito Corleone's (Marlon Brando) life as a child and young man (Robert De Niro) in Sicily and in New York City's Little Italy neighborhood. HBO's edition is the entire uncensored, uncut package in high definition with 5.1 surround sound. The combined runtime of the theatrical versions of The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 is 377 minutes.
You can see a rundown of The Godfather Epic's bonus scenes on The Godfather Trilogy, a fan site.Ĭonsequence of Sound reports that a censored version of The Godfather Epic aired on NBC in 1979 a reduced 386-minute cut was released on VHS in 1981 as The Godfather 1902-1959: The Complete Epic. This version of The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part 2 (1974) also includes some additional footage that weren't present in the original theatrical releases of both movies, and runs for a total of 424 minutes. HBO brought back a rarely seen cut of the films this week called The Godfather Epic, which edits the two movies into chronological order in a single seven-hour film. Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather films are towering works of cinema - or at least, the first two are - and now you can watch The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 in a whole new way on HBO.
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