This time my group watched The Godfather. Like the other two of Coppola's films that I have seen, I tend to like it. The acting is, like we noticed in The Art of Film 1, to Coppola's perfection. The quality of the film is very good for an early 1970's film and the story is superb.
I looked at a Roger Ebert review from Rotten Tomatoes. Ebert states that the film leads you into the Corleone family and "we tend to identify with Don Corleone's family not because we dig gang wars, but because we have been with them from the beginning..." Although, like the two other Coppola movies I have seen, The Godfather tends to start slow. It seems to build up to the climax. During this rising action we grow on the Corleone family. We feel like a part of their family, without the quick attitudes and guns.
But the real story, according to Ebert is not the guns fights or money, but the way the youngest Corleone son, Michael starts in on the family business "while revising his old-fashioned ways..."
So while I was watching The Godfather, I realized that one; I should watch more Coppola films and two; what such a great impact family has had on me and the people around me...I know I didn't really talk about that in the paragraphs above, but it seemed like a good way to end...
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Oh my good god did it start slow. I hated this movie until finally got to the meat and then realized the bread was not worth the barely appetizing center. (metaphor for sandwich...did you like that) I found myself not relating to this family as much as you apparently did and was yet agian disappointed with Francis
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