The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:00:04 ◼   ► the comparable number 323 October 2060 [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to the [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► uncomfortable i'm your host Jason smell [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► we're here to talk about a classic film [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► i've had this on my list for more than a [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► year now i really wanted to talk about [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► the Godfather from 1972 winner Best [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► Picture considered by many one of the [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► finest motion pictures ever made i [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► really like it a lot and I want to talk [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► about it with some interesting people [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► let me introduce those people to you now [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► from the heartland from indiana mr. [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► David jail or hello there someday and [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► this day may never come [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► nevermind not an Italian also joining us [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► Joe rosenstiel hello [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► I not a full-blooded Italian da coming [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► back for the first time in 315 weeks but [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► it's like it was yesterday [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► mr. John grouper hello welcome back [TS]

00:00:59 ◼   ► hello good to have you here [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► I don't have a don't have a joke I had [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► you on my list for the Godfather wanted [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► to talk talk with you about the [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► Godfather non-italian per se but I'm [TS]

00:01:07 ◼   ► glad you're here and yes full-blooded [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► Italian finally there's one it's john [TS]

00:01:13 ◼   ► siracusa hello I'm more than happy to [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► bring my novel olive oil voice and [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► guinea charm to this podcast even though [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► I can't say olive oil voice but it's [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► very difficult to say it is we're [TS]

00:01:24 ◼   ► getting out of the olive oil business [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► I I before we get started because I [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► traditionally what I'll do is I'll walk [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► through the the plot and people can [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► chime in with the things that they like [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► and don't like about it but I before we [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► get going to talking about what happens [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► in The Godfather I wonder if there's [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► anything that I that if anybody has the [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► opening statements / say about about [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► what about this film that we watched [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► this three-hour long epic about [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► organized crime in America in right [TS]

00:01:52 ◼   ► after the war I have a statement about [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► the opening but I don't have an opening [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► statement so if anyone has an opening [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► statement there you go first and then I [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► can do my statement about the opening [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► i'll just say I think I'm pretty good on [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► this but there's a chance that I might [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► make a mistake and a tribute to the [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► Godfather certain scenes from The [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► Godfather to simply because yeah here's [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► why twofold [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► I believe that it is the greatest like a [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► quote-unquote sequel to a movie ever [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► made because the Godfather feels like a [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► standalone movie and combined they feel [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► like two parts of a whole [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► and mess that up with like the coppola [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► restorations where were you [TS]

00:02:29 ◼   ► you can watch it all edited [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► chronologically and right i'm pretty [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► sure i know what's the godfather and [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► what's the godfather to but there's a [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► cheap there's a chance I might start [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► going to start talking about Las Vegas [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► or something and you'll have to correct [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► me the very first time i saw it was in [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► like 1983-84 when NBC brought the [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► Godfather's saga television and they did [TS]

00:02:49 ◼   ► exactly that was in chronological order [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► and it was lovely and it wasn't until a [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► few years later when it came out on on [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► DVD and I said that and just watch them [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► properly and I went ok [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► that version was really good this is a [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► masterpiece each each of the two movies [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► separately first time i saw it was the [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► complete epic i believe is what it was [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► called on via the complete not hand it [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► was uh it was great but that happy and I [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► think the movies probably you know they [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► they work better as to excellent movies [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► instead of this giant thing because you [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► get the benefit of hindsight when you [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► get to see what happens in part to [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► knowing what happens in part one and you [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► don't get that when robert de niro [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► appears for the first long part of the [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► movie before we get to see Marlon Brando [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► but it has messed up my conception of it [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► to where every time i watch The [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► Godfather I think to myself is that in [TS]

00:03:41 ◼   ► this movie or is it that in part two and [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► i have to remind myself [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► oh you know Moe Greene is in part one [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► but Fredo in the boat is not in part one [TS]

00:03:51 ◼   ► so it's it's complicated but it's not [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► just you John you which a Godfather [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► movie [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► no one's going to get confused with [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► these once my way I didn't bullying now [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► John circus would you have a statement [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► about the opening of the movie the very [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► beginning I believe in america i believe [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► is how do i do but we actually have [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► before i get onto that I'm i did get [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► exposed unfortunately at a young age to [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► the terrible chopped-up US version of [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► nautica which is called warriors of the [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► wind or something but i'm glad to say [TS]

00:04:22 ◼   ► that I was never exposed to any of these [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► chronological recutting of the Godfather [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► I saw the first movie is on the second [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► movie not even know these recut things [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► existed until many many years later i've [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► never watched one I can see how they [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► would work and it would be fun and kind [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► of a good response type thing [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► but i like them as two movies yeah i [TS]

00:04:40 ◼   ► think if I think it's worthy it's a war [TS]

00:04:42 ◼   ► it's a fun thing to watch as long as you [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► keep in mind that that's not that's not [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► the me know that's not the work that's [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► the special that's like the trade that [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► the big oversized Library Edition where [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► they where the author is you know [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► bundled two of their books together it's [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► like weird it's like a fan at it because [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► like they don't I mean I don't know what [TS]

00:05:00 ◼   ► to do with the audio and everything [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► soundtracking I know that it's this kind [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► of a sameness to them but just they're [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► just two different movies and I don't [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► see how you can cut scenes them together [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► and not have another looking like a fan [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► at it which is again a fun thing to look [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► at after you've seen the movies proper [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► yeah i agree i agree definitely watch [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► the godfather so opening statement about [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► the opening yes they were about the [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► opening so I've never taken a film class [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► or anything but I would imagine the [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► godfather is a great thing to watch for [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► film class because it's one of the few [TS]

00:05:29 ◼   ► sort of great movies you know these [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► movies that are always like the top 10 [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► and like you said are a lot of it is one [TS]

00:05:34 ◼   ► of the best you know hollywood movies [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► ever made that comes right out in the [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► very first scene in the movie and tells [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► you like for your paper later the themes [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► of the movie not in some text by [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► actually having a person can talk to you [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► the first line of the movie when the [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► screen is black there are no pictures on [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► the screen to distract you to say okay [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► class get out your pads and paper ready [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► i believe in America that's an important [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► enough line we're going to say it with [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► nobody on the screen so you can write [TS]

00:06:03 ◼   ► down all right I believe in America and [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► he goes through the whole thing of like [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► you know I raised my daughter that why [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► did you come to me why didn't you go to [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► the police but they just laying out for [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► you on the table and yet i think if you [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► asked the majority of the the world has [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► seen this movie [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► what are the themes of the Godfather [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► they won't be able to tell you and it's [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► so funny because yeah this is like one [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► of the few sort of high art fancy [TS]

00:06:26 ◼   ► highfalutin movies and everybody loves [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► it just comes out and tells you so I [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► love this opening scene for it's sort of [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► like subtle trolling of the public and [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► and it's sort of pandering to film [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► students and making it just such a [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► perfect object lesson and that it hits [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► you over the head with it but you're [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► just too wrapped up in the movie that [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► you don't even see it most of the time [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► yeah it's it's it's laying it all out [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► for you in that first thing it's a [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► breathtaking foreseen we got we've got [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► the guy [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► who is his uh his uh daughter has been [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► what it was she been with she would [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► issue assaulted was she raped before I [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► forget exactly what it was she was [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► beaten because she had refused [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► damn yeah she kept her honor but she [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► kept her honor but was beaten and will [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► never be pretty again he says they broke [TS]

00:07:07 ◼   ► her nose and all those things ready and [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► he's asking for for revenge he wants the [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► godfather to have his guys kill the [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► people who did this and and it's this [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► the the transaction is really [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► fascinating because he's like first off [TS]

00:07:19 ◼   ► you know you're kind of a shame to be [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► around me you never you don't you don't [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► call me Godfather you you do you went to [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► the police and not to me and and also [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► about you know killing them versus [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► dispensing some sort of justice and the [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► whole the whole conversation of what it [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► is to swear the oath of fealty to to to [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► kiss the ring of the godfather and call [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► him Godfather it's all laid out in this [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► in this first scene it's really pretty [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► amazing while the well but like the [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► wedding party is happening behind them [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► the cinematography of this also it lets [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► you know you're in for something a [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► little bit different than most nineteen [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► seventies period pieces because we [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► started in from black like John said [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► right on this with this character [TS]

00:08:03 ◼   ► talking just slightly off of the camera [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► lens and we pull back slowly over the [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► shoulder of a shadowy figure and that's [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► basically all you can see because [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► there's so little light in the scene and [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► even when he comes over to tell The [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► Godfather what is he once he gets up and [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► walks over and whispers completely out [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► of focus and then we cut away to some of [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► the other framing we barely see Brando's [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► eyes this is a shadowy dark place and [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► it's contrasted with the bright [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► exuberant exterior shots of of the [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► wedding they're taking place outside so [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► it's it's just a really let you know [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► you're not in for a something something [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► more run-of-the-mill like this is this [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► is there so there's definitely thought [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► put into the eat the staging the the [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► intensity with which things are a little [TS]

00:08:50 ◼   ► and exposed for like on film it's [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► beautiful yeah they really push the [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► darkness like this is the thing that [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► every modern TV shows and I assume for [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► some technical reason about and [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► understand its way easier to do in [TS]

00:08:59 ◼   ► digital or whatever [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► but for the most part in the area this [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► was made you either couldn't or wouldn't [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► make things as incredibly oppressively [TS]

00:09:08 ◼   ► dark as the inside scenes in this movie [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► are and I think the wedding scenes are [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► all blown out probably intentionally [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► just incredible contrast and that always [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► struck me about this movie like that [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► again hitting over that [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► here's the dark underbelly and here's [TS]

00:09:22 ◼   ► the bright outside with the family you [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► know that's it's not subtle but it's [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► it's so well done and to this day I feel [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► like maybe it's just the incredible film [TS]

00:09:31 ◼   ► grain on this thing you know like but [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► like the dark interiors yes everything [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► is dark and black and everything is like [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► pure black except for the part that slit [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► but the black has texture to it it's [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► like the black is like like sandpaper or [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► like that the film grain is on the black [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► minute when i think of this movie in my [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► head [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► this is one of the few movies but i [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► think my head I see film grain if anyone [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► is that was some great just watch the [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► cops question because father to when you [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► know you have to remember the time [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► Coppola was not a big giant filmmaker he [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► was he was still an experimental sort of [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► independent guy that came in and do this [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► so so he's trying stuff he's doing [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► things you wouldn't normally do you know [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► it's like the big names would not do in [TS]

00:10:11 ◼   ► this film which is fascinating to watch [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► and I you know I was I was kidding in [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► the introductions but one of my favorite [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► lines in the movie is someday and the [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► state may never come i will call upon [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► you to do a service for me and that is [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► that says everything about Don Corleone [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► and and the code of honor and how he [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► expects everyone to be if they ask him [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► to help them they better help him later [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► and that ties and it's just going to [TS]

00:10:40 ◼   ► movie making the way that ends up time [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► is a tragic way later movie because you [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► look at that point you I don't know if [TS]

00:10:45 ◼   ► you don't know what he does but it's [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► certainly not important about and when [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► they they connect that back later in [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► such a tragedy fashion it's a it's all [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► the more better than you know a worse [TS]

00:10:53 ◼   ► way to do it bc i will call you for a [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► favor in later and we have him calling [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► his favor and have it be like either [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► unrelated or as a tool of his victory [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► over is disposed or ever but instead [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► it's entirely tragic circumstances and [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► you realize like like he pitches it as [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► I'll become your friend you know and and [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► then your enemies will be my enemies and [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► for you and all the stuff but it's [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► supposed to be like why don't you come [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► to me as a friend you know like like [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► he's acting almost like and it's almost [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► like he's hurt but not a sinister way [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► you kind of get the idea that he does [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► want these friendships the godfather is [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► all about is all about personal [TS]

00:11:25 ◼   ► relationships [TS]

00:11:26 ◼   ► yeah right like that he really really [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► truly means it's not just a sinister [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► plot to put people under his thumb that [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► you really want these relationships and [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► that he is you know that again what [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► raise your daughter in the American [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► fashion going to the police and the [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► Godfather you know doesn't it is the the [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► opposite of the American Dream and [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► that's the American dream to live in a [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► civilized society and rule of law [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► I represent not that and when you don't [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► come to me and when you're ashamed to be [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► seen with me I take that as a personal [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► insult that's and that's like the the [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► transaction here is almost about hurt [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► feelings more than like a power struggle [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► around gonna go to call his favorite [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► that's gonna hurt you later like this [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► favor is gonna hurt me more than it [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► hurts you but it will still be important [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► because that's our relationship because [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► it's it's not it's not a loose [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► affiliation people it's the family [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► yeah that's what society do you want to [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► live in are you living in American [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► society are you living inside the family [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► and our society that we've built and and [TS]

00:12:19 ◼   ► if you go to the police you're not in [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► our family [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► yeah and that's by the way did the [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► American Society the American dream for [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► italian immigrants that doesn't work [TS]

00:12:26 ◼   ► you're learning you know the Godfather's [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► there's wedding you'll see you'll see [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► that it doesn't work you'll have to come [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► to me because we try to go to police it [TS]

00:12:32 ◼   ► won't work like for Italians there is no [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► American dream later shoot again from [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► the Statue of Liberty you'll see that [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► but you mentioned uh someday I'll call [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► upon you to different do a service for [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► me but also you know you come into my [TS]

00:12:46 ◼   ► house on the day of my daughter's [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► wedding this is a movie that I'm struck [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► when I watch it that this this is you [TS]

00:12:52 ◼   ► know a lot of movies are quotable sci-fi [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► movies are quotable Comedy Store [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► quotable but the godfather is I've had [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► forgotten just how many lines in this [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► movie are in classic quotable repeated [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► in in love in the lexicon in in the [TS]

00:13:10 ◼   ► vernacular of everybody of of of people [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► who don't even know they're quoting The [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► Godfather and it is rife with these [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► things that we say all the time it's [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► amazing i've had to explain leave the [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► gun take the cannoli because my wife has [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► never seen the guy [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► father but we use that all the time [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► yeah yeah anytime I've got cannoli it's [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► gonna happen [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► that's just how it is so we've got that [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► we've got the dark scenes with the [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► godfather and we've got the very bright [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► seems very much like you're walking [TS]

00:13:40 ◼   ► outside from a darkened room and into [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► the light and made that got kind of [TS]

00:13:44 ◼   ► blown out outside the house but you also [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► get the sense that the Godfather you [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► know he's at his daughter's wedding but [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► he's doing business inside it's a family [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► day it's a very serious day and yet [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► everybody you know he's still conducting [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► his business while this is all going on [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► and then obligation in a burden like is [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► there like I got one more like it's not [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► like he's their like again you know [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► stroking his cattle he does have a cat [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► and being super evil about it it's [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► exhausting to have person after person [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► come in and demand things up because of [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► this tradition or whatever you would [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► like to just get out to the wedding that [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► he would like to enjoy but he's doing [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► this because this is basically his job [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► and when he very briefly goes out and to [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► take that photo and Michael isn't there [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► he just goes back to doing business [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► until Michael arrives [TS]

00:14:25 ◼   ► yeah that mean this is obviously as you [TS]

00:14:27 ◼   ► know it an easy way to set up everybody [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► and all the characters have a wedding [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► where all your characters were together [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► and you can cut back and forth it [TS]

00:14:33 ◼   ► establishes all the characters [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► establishes their relationships that [TS]

00:14:35 ◼   ► establishes Michael as the favorite it [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► establishes sunny as a hothead like it [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► just so efficient in terms of like you [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► mostly think you're just watching a [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► wedding and this is the silly scenes are [TS]

00:14:44 ◼   ► doing outside there but you get to know [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► every single character for their three [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► seconds there on camera and the wedding [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► is a good excuse to give these little [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► vignettes without having to have like a [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► through-line like you can you couldn't [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► do these are all in separate locations [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► because what would be the motivation to [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► interact with each other ways now [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► cutting back and forth it feels natural [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► boobs are like I'm going to see the [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► whole wedding but I'm gonna see scenes [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► from a wedding and in each of the scenes [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► from the wedding i'm going to learn who [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► the major players are and what they're [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► like in very short order and there are a [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► lot of characters in this movie is a [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► three-hour movie is a lot of characters [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► a lot of moving pieces this is like in [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► the beginning we're going to set the [TS]

00:15:16 ◼   ► table [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► here's the themes of the movie here's [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► all the characters involved movie here's [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► what they're like and then they can move [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► forward what is actually much more [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► leisurely pace after that without [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► throwing thousand characters actually at [TS]

00:15:26 ◼   ► once they pick up that all out of the [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► way in the beginning [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► and then move on to slowly going out a [TS]

00:15:31 ◼   ► series of slow scenes or people talk to [TS]

00:15:33 ◼   ► each other i think it ties in the [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► opening scene really the the seventies [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► crop of filmmakers maybe Scorsese a [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► little bit aside but Coppola for sure [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► George Lucas for sure steven spielberg [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► for sure [TS]

00:15:47 ◼   ► what's his name the guy who who did [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► Carrie and no diploma diploma diploma [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► for sure that this crop of filmmakers [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► that they loved movies and I think it [TS]

00:15:57 ◼   ► was the first to me it's the first [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► generation of filmmakers who already [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► loved movies where it's like the [TS]

00:16:03 ◼   ► generation before kind of had to invent [TS]

00:16:05 ◼   ► what movies were and because they loved [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► movies they they all of those guys i [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► listed took movies it that were in these [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► genres that would that had all these [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► tropes and and you know here's how you [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► do a gangster movie here's how you do a [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► Western that made them all feel the same [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► and they like turn them upside down and [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► and tried to make them it for lack of a [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► better word real like what you know and [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► the godfather is not realistic but in a [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► sense there's like a it doesn't feel [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► like anything like the way like James [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► Cagney era gangster movies are and the [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► opening really sets the tone of that [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► they got Italians to play Italians like [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► that's the reality is that right 70 [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► movies like that you did they said look [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► we're gonna make it authentic so get a [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► bunch of Italian people to play by even [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► if they're not great actors even if you [TS]

00:16:52 ◼   ► don't know them from other movies as [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► opposed to the old Hollywood butchers we [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► have a crop of stars and they can do [TS]

00:16:57 ◼   ► anything they can be gangster in one [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► movie they can be detective they can be [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► a singer that can be you know because [TS]

00:17:02 ◼   ► there they have all these talents and we [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► don't care really are we just going to [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► put them in any role we feel like [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► putting them in whereas the seventies [TS]

00:17:07 ◼   ► movies that you're gonna have a gangster [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► movies about Italians we're gonna get [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► all the extras are going to be Italian [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► Americans and our actors are going to be [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► Italian or italian-looking which is very [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► different from the old style which would [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► always seem to look like like a bunch of [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► your high school friends got together [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► and decided to put on a play this like [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► you expect to see your favorite actors [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► and all these roles even if they're not [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► really great for the rules i'm perfectly [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► plausible as an Italian me and see me [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► johnny dangerously nails that too [TS]

00:17:34 ◼   ► yeah so that's a good example of of sort [TS]

00:17:36 ◼   ► of playing playing up the tropes of a of [TS]

00:17:38 ◼   ► a traditional gangster movie and it's so [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► the whole opening scene there it is [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► whether it's it is you know it's the [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► gritty but business of being The [TS]

00:17:46 ◼   ► Godfather in the darkroom and it's just [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► a happy Italian family outside at the [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► wedding but there's nothing is played up [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► for over-the-top you know there's [TS]

00:17:56 ◼   ► nothing really sinister nobody gets [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► threatened I mean they are talking about [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► beating up a guy who beat up the guy's [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► girl but it's it's not like they're a [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► big caper is going on or anything it's [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► almost mundane and the wedding there's [TS]

00:18:08 ◼   ► no it's not like oh these these awful [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► mob family wives are you know what [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► terrible people they are now that's just [TS]

00:18:15 ◼   ► a happy Italian family [TS]

00:18:17 ◼   ► yeah I'm this is where we get I want you [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► talking about the the romance of it a [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► little bit I I think about what what [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► separates the Godfather for something [TS]

00:18:25 ◼   ► like Goodfellas and for me it's the it's [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► the family aspect of it a little bit and [TS]

00:18:30 ◼   ► it's the fact that this is playing a [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► little higher level that the the [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► Goodfellas is the low-level guys and so [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► that's like the the brutality not like [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► there's brutality there's personality [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► aplenty in The Godfather but it's the [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► the people on the ground just where the [TS]

00:18:45 ◼   ► brutality is and so moving like [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► goodfellas III which I love but it's [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► very violent and I it wants you to feel [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► I think disgusted by the the sudden [TS]

00:18:56 ◼   ► violence that happens in that movie The [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► Godfather it's it though it's there's [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► violence there but because it's a little [TS]

00:19:02 ◼   ► higher level and it's a little more [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► strategic it's the people in charge the [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► violence is more a means to an end [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► there's a little more understanding it's [TS]

00:19:10 ◼   ► a little bit less at the center of the [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► movie than something like Goodfellas and [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► i was struck that it's not it's not [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► super crazy romantic like we're [TS]

00:19:19 ◼   ► gangsters but nothing bad happens I mean [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► talk to Luca Brasi about that but it's [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► it's but it's got a very different kind [TS]

00:19:27 ◼   ► of feel in terms of who these that it's [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► the gangster family and it's a family [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► story in a way that Goodfellas is not [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► because they're the low-level guys who [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► have to do all the dirty work [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► let's take their stakeholders in this [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► like the reason everybody in this the [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► main characters move you're doing [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► something is because they are the [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► ultimate stakeholders they are Corleone [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► family like and so their motivation is [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► you do what's best for the family was in [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► goodfellas your motivation is I'm not [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► the ultimate stakeholders organized [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► crime family [TS]

00:19:54 ◼   ► I'm looking out for myself how much [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► money can i make how much you know what [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► kind of ice can I pull off or whatever [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► and they're motivated in goodfellas by [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► probably more realistic motivations in [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► terms of what happened to my childhood [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► that made me a violent person [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► what issues do i have to work out that I [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► expressed by beating on people who are [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► smaller than me you know and how does [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► that affect my ability to advance within [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► the organization / become a made man [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► right that the right is a lower level [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► but like in this movie the motivations [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► are going to say more more noble but it [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► just because this they are the ultimate [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► stakeholders in the top level of this [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► game and so they are they're motivated [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► to buy strong motivation to like the [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► goodfellas but they have much more to [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► gain a much more to lose and they can't [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► they can't afford to and generally don't [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► succeed by indulging their personal [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► impulses just a sunny [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► well it's it's also kind of the inverse [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► of Goodfellas to write the main [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► character in goodfellas is someone who [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► is who wants to be parted he's striving [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► he's trying to get ahead and he becomes [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► disillusioned by the end an Italian turn [TS]

00:20:57 ◼   ► not an Italian and and in this you know [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► i mean Michael isn't i mean i would call [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► them the protagonist because we kind of [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► follow him yeah so without Pacino and so [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► Delta G know that hey you know uh is [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► someone arguing that you someone arguing [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► that marlon brando is the protagonist in [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► the story the story is that is the dell [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► Pacino got bent out of shape because he [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► had nominated for Best Supporting Actor [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► and Marlon Brando got nominated for Best [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► Actor and yeah al pacino didn't [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► appreciate that very much and break a [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► one and but but you know Michael being [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► the protagonist he starts out not [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► wanting to be involved and he peed finds [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► himself slowly pulling back in because [TS]

00:21:35 ◼   ► of the family tie he doesn't have a [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► choice because he has to defend the [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► family and he has to step up eventually [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► I don't think it's just that has to well [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► you know it's the stories about kings [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► who are Prince's they were the second [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► line and they were going to be the king [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► and then the the older brother dies and [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► suddenly they thrust into it i mean all [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► of that is going on in here [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► he was meant to be some senator Corleone [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► right he's meant to make for a different [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► path and he ends up not going down that [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► path and not only z is Michael the main [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► character Michael is the title character [TS]

00:22:01 ◼   ► write this this is a movie about him [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► becoming the Godfather more than it is [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► about Marlon Brando being The Godfather [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► it's about this transfer that's that's [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► the trick that the title plays on you as [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► you think it's about Marlon Brando and [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► you very slowly begin to realize no no [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► this is about Al Pacino becoming the [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► godfather and that's where the sequel is [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► called The Godfather to t.o.o the sun's [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► controls the all my past hours podcast [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► but i'll say it again on the Godfather [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► one as well like every time I think of [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► Star Wars prequels I think of this movie [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► is that is what they should have been [TS]

00:22:35 ◼   ► modeled on because this is not the only [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► but I think the best movie that shows [TS]

00:22:41 ◼   ► how a good person can end up especially [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► by the end of the godfather part two end [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► up in a bad place to a series of things [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► that both he and the audience watching [TS]

00:22:52 ◼   ► the movie believes are the right thing [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► to do which is an incredibly hard thing [TS]

00:22:55 ◼   ► to pull off many movies have the [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► downfall of the character but at a [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► certain point the audience starts to [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► agree [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► all right guy what you're doing here is [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► wrong and Michael didn't want to be [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► involved in his family that's my family [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► k that's not me right [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► yeah and it's not it's not as if he had [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► to because that family obligation here's [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► the problem he's kind of like 10 seconds [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► but he's kind of like a what's-his-name [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► in Game of Thrones where the the the [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► gifts of strategy and determination and [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► you know wisdom that marlon brando's [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► character has obviously skip sunny and [TS]

00:23:27 ◼   ► went to Michael that he has the raw [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► skills in the same way that tyrion [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► lannister Syrian yeah [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► Tyrion has the same raw skills this [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► Tywin and right and so Michael doesn't [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► want to be involved in that [TS]

00:23:38 ◼   ► um but when the time comes he doesn't [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► feel like all I have to go save my [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► family he eventually and very quickly [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► realizes I'm the best-equipped yes save [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► my family I am the i have my father's [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► skills and and he and his his emotional [TS]

00:23:53 ◼   ► he's angry he loves his family wants to [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► do those things but but you know we're [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► going to cover part 2 and eventually [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► realize like this is my core skill set [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► him i was born to be a godfather [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► everything I'm doing is I'm protecting [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► my father I'm protecting my family and [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► then on eventually just like my protect [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► my family or my just trying to win or [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► you know like through two movies [TS]

00:24:12 ◼   ► Michael Corleone with us reading from [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► essentially the whole time right up [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► until maybe efficient crap happens [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► like that he's he's trying to do the [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► right thing and we want him to win and [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► it's just through a series of those [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► small steps by the end of it he's Darth [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► Vader and that's what the prequels could [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► never do [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► there's a breathtaking moment later in [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► this movie we'll jump around a little [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► bit but breathtaking moment is when [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► they're trying to figure out how to kill [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► the you know the cop and the and and the [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► the guy who's behind this is a lot so [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► the Turk and and Michael just says [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► here's what here's what we're gonna do [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► I'll have you know I have dinner with [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► him in and you know you gave me a gun [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► not kill him just like that it's like [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► wow just ok at and that's not working [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► that out they show i'm sitting in the [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► chair like silently and you get like you [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► see the gears turning he's working out [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► is it this is realizing these guys are [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► all talking they don't want to do [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► eventually he's like you know what I [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► know what to do and then he's going to [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► think about what am I gonna do that [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► inventors got venison look company this [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► is the solution to the problem [TS]

00:25:18 ◼   ► do this do this do this and he's not [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► good at it it's not like he will get to [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► that seen eventually it's not like he's [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► a super expert you know for but he knows [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► what to do yeah let's talk about the the [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► the family here but since we're at the [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► wedding I feel like this is maybe a good [TS]

00:25:30 ◼   ► time to talk about the family we get [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► obviously Mike Michael is there it comes [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► in his uniform to the wedding [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► there-there's are Al Pacino Diane Keaton [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► is there as k his girlfriend [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► we know your Italian not an Italian we [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► Tom Tom Hagen was Robert to fall was [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► there too [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► who else is there tell your shower is [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► there is Connie Carlo Rizzo's there but [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► were not introduced to him yet right [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► Sonny James Caan so it's cool i wanted [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► an amazing cast here but we get to meet [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► all the all the characters and and it [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► did we meet [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► it's fredo do we see Freddie no here I [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► don't yes we drunk at the wedding [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► he's drunk at the wedding comes up it [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► gets too close to ke to go in for the [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► kiss oh yeah that's right establishes [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► himself as a you know not not altogether [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► not to put the other kind of guy [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► SEO SEO is there right SEO was there [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► commences then [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► men's that you know Michael's mom is [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► there at the wedding and everybody's [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► there Johnny Fontane Luca Brasi is there [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► he has a any others in a really truly [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► hilarious and weird scene where he [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► insists he insists on seeing the [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► godfather and and and Marlon Brando very [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► much like it's a great little moment of [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► like do I really need to see him and [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► like you how you need to see him like I [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► right away just want to say thank you [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► like that's it yes he's got a spray tan [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► line to say thank you see didn't expect [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► to get invited to the wedding and it's [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► such a fascinating thing because he's [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► this big lug and he is completely unable [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► to even sort of Express he's he's [TS]

00:26:57 ◼   ► reading rehearsed he's we see no cursing [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► his work [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► it's amazing and it's hilarious and [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► weird and I don't know in a in a movie [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► it was a tone and I didn't expect it how [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► funny it was I'd forgotten how funny it [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► is that Luca Brasi a is so beside [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► himself meeting meeting the Godfather [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► it's amazing and may your first child be [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► a masculine child [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► oh well he's a useful tool right you [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► look at process is there to be a you [TS]

00:27:26 ◼   ► know to be a thug that's but he's very [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► loyal it's um it's a fascinating [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► character and we get a story about him [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► at the same time by the way that's what [TS]

00:27:33 ◼   ► the story Michael tells k about like you [TS]

00:27:35 ◼   ► know how do you get out of his deal or [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► whatever you know looking brothy held a [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► gun to his head [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► you know said get your signature your [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► brains gonna be on my contract that [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► we're getting that story more or less in [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► the same section of the movie as he's [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► this sort of sweet bumbling yeah who [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► wants to say thank you so you see you [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► see the cross over there between these [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► two worlds that guy is the guy who is [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► threatening to do that [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► that's my family k that's not me its [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► fine and that's what that's why you say [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► Michael tells us start with such [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► incredible disdain at the end of it he [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► goes that's true story like you can tell [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► he's not proud of that story he's not [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► saying it to impress his girlfriend it's [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► like you want to know what the deal is [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► this is what the deal is and she's like [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► good and he's like to but he's been done [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► about it also that piece of exposition [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► not only sets up that for Luca Brasi but [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► we also get the back story about what [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► happened to people who have crossed [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► Johnny Fontane in the the past because [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► that gets reference again we move on [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► later to the film here and heard about [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► that band leader [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► is this the point where Johnny Fontane [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► asks the yeah he's one of the people [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► comes in and says I want i got to get in [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► this movie I want to be in the movie any [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► cries and he gets it he gets chastised [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► we get slapped around he does [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► be a man so you're gonna come on my [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► godfather imitate some crying toxic [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► masculinity the movie back that I was [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► the seventies is different sunny is busy [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► my note my notes just as Sony's banging [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► a girl that's what's happening not [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► talking while you're behind [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► sunny is being sunny welcome this is [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► sunny curly I don't do people inches of [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► cheek which is his main pic of movies [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► yeah finishing as an unfortunate angle [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► though of course of a is his wife [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► turning around and seeing that he is [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► absent from the table and then she turns [TS]

00:29:15 ◼   ► around and act like everything's normal [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► chichi unfortunately to do that couple [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► times the film and it is that everything [TS]

00:29:20 ◼   ► happens at the wedding i mean this is [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► this is the it's a huge download i wrote [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► down [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► it's like 20 it's like almost 30 minutes [TS]

00:29:27 ◼   ► is the wedding [TS]

00:29:29 ◼   ► it's a day long stretch of the film is [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► is the wedding and meeting all the [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► characters and how they relate to each [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► other and what what you know what we [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► need to know about them [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► there's a whole it's just doing [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► incredible you are you are given time to [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► understand who is who in this complex [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► Italian family before we move on to [TS]

00:29:49 ◼   ► other you know to LA basically and and [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► the film spans 10 years so taking 30 [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► minutes for a few one day is kind of [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► amazing very important day [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► you also have the establishment of how [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► the rest of the world views this family [TS]

00:30:04 ◼   ► they were watching because you have the [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► paparazzi outside yet and the FBI right [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► during the people like writing down [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► license plate numbers and sunny goes out [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► smash the guy camera throws bills on the [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► ground was away which is a classic move [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► that has also been copied in so many [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► movies [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► yeah kind of a hothead seems like hope [TS]

00:30:20 ◼   ► that doesn't get the better of him [TS]

00:30:22 ◼   ► Oh surely not now no definitely not [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► so what if we leave the wedding wewe I [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► end up in California [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► oh yeah Tom Hagen goes out to LA to did [TS]

00:30:33 ◼   ► get basically get this part in the movie [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► for Johnny Fontane and is told lots of [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► lots of bad things even though even [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► though it's great [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► robert duvall admire your pictures very [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► much is a great just a great line when [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► he meets him before he knows he's part [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► of iCarly on how is like it is these you [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► know he goes through the series of [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► Italian slurs and he's like actually I'm [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► german-irish just let me tell you [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► something my crop make friends with you [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► because you're ready with you ready with [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► the ethnic slurs for any set of [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► nationalities I got all the slurs you [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► just just say and then it's like almost [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► like smash cut too apologetic [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► oh why didn't you say Don Corleone [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► doesn't know but he says I'm not going [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► to give him apart he ruined my starlet [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► and then like you know [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► okay well Don Corleone doesn't [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► appreciate people saying no and but but [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► hey let me show you this great horse i [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► have in my stable that's important is an [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► important part and at this point Lauren [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► turned to me and was like wow the horse [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► head in the bed is this early i'm like [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► yes it is really it's like you again a [TS]

00:31:40 ◼   ► piece of pop culture that is known by [TS]

00:31:44 ◼   ► all even if they have not seen this [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► movie The the scene where he wakes up [TS]

00:31:48 ◼   ► and you know he's just kind of rolling [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► around and then he realizes there's [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► something feels kind of funny and then [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► it's like it's blood and sweat there's [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► more blood [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► there's more blood and it's nice and [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► then to put the horse head like down [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► like down by his feet so we have to like [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► search around a little bit before he [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► gets that the head of his his prized [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► racehorses that he's putting out to stud [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► and Johnny Fontane get the part after [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► that the kid stays in the picture the [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► framing of that shot to where we don't [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► know if the punishment for refusing this [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► favor is maybe he died or something [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► because the cameras just moving slowly [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► over a bed and it's not until we start [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► to see some movement that's like okay [TS]

00:32:26 ◼   ► well he's not dead and then we see just [TS]

00:32:29 ◼   ► a little bit of the blood as the camera [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► rounds up over his shoulder and then we [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► pull down the sheets and slowly go [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► through all the blood until we finally [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► get to that horse head so it's a great [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► way to shoot that and then of course the [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► reaction shot where at [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► you're just seeing the enormous [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► Hollywood villa that he has and just [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► shouting it's you know is this is really [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► nicely put together a piece of film it's [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► pretty amazing [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► did Tom Higgins character I mean there's [TS]

00:32:58 ◼   ► a bunch of great i mean we're talking it [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► sounds stupid but there's a bunch of [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► great characters in this way but Tom [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► Higgins character is so unusual for this [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► genre film because he's he's just a [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► smart businessman that's you know smart [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► attorney and he acts like a smart [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► attorney and he's confident and he knows [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► he knows as he's dealing with this guy [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► the entire time he knows he's going to [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► get what he wants because ultimately he [TS]

00:33:21 ◼   ► could take it to that level that he [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► eventually goes to but he's not [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► threatening the guy at 1st he's being [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► these bending over backwards that to let [TS]

00:33:30 ◼   ► this cook to get this guy to make the [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► right decision [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► you know like it and there's no you know [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► I don't think I think Hagen would have [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► loved it if this guy could have just [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► been ok yes i'll give them apart and [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► then Hagen would have been that's great [TS]

00:33:41 ◼   ► and he would have been very nice but [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► it's so unusual for this genre film is [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► is a guy Tom Hagen doesn't even carry a [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► gun he's not there to threaten the guy [TS]

00:33:49 ◼   ► that's so unusual [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► it's a great character to become so he's [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► not Italian he was adopted [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► basically he he's a lawyer so he's the [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► family lawyer he's the constantly area [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► but not not a wartime constantly area [TS]

00:34:01 ◼   ► and they get a full-blooded Italian and [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► how well does that go to do that to do [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► that job and it's fast because he's in [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► the family close and yet he's also sort [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► of not of the family and the the things [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► he's good at are different from the [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► things that other people are good at is [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► almost like the ambassador to the [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► outside world to the respectable society [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► Italians are respectable he can he can [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► pass and regular society and he's got an [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► Irish Annie navigate the laws of love [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► the legal society and he can he can be [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► that for them but that also means he's [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► an outsider to a certain degree even as [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► Insider is he is he's not full-blooded [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► Italian he's not actually part of the [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► family even though he might as well be [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► because he was raised with them but his [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► loyalty is unwavering us another nice [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► exactly like oh because I'm not part of [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► the family I feel on the outside and i [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► have a resentment no peace a hundred [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► percent loyal all the time is willing to [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► do I mean he's gonna say why am I out of [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► my out Mike likes just but still he is [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► loyal to the end forever yeah and he [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► knows he knows what's going on i mean he [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► he you get the sense at that time that [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► he has a pretty much all the answers [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► like he knows what's what's up and [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► sometimes it takes some other people [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► little bit of time to get there but Tom [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► Hagen I think super-sharp he knows [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► what's going on and he's and he's loyal [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► and and you know and he's aware the [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► other thing is i think there will be a [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► cliché way of doing this character [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► where he's a little bit naive and Tom [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► Hagen is not naive like he's well aware [TS]

00:35:29 ◼   ► of the consequences of the of the [TS]

00:35:32 ◼   ► producer turning him down he's [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► absolutely perfectly aware and he's very [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► a school is a cool character like wow [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► you know they're having that dinner and [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► he's all like oh I didn't you tell me [TS]

00:35:40 ◼   ► that you were from the Corleone blonde [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► is all being nice finish moves in or [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► whatever and as you know as he [TS]

00:35:45 ◼   ► eventually get to the heart of it why [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► won't you give Johnny this party started [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► telling a story and it's more angry and [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► more angry when she gets up out of the [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► water gets up out of his seat he walks [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► over to him he's looming over and he's [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► like him just tell him not a [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► hard-hearted man she was beautiful may [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► also says she was the best piece is ever [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► had so much for his uh yeah classiness [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► yeah all over the world during that [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► whole scene [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► Tom higgenson is dinner he's eating his [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► dinner he's just a beauty keeps eating [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► dinner is eating dinner when the guys [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► done yelling says thank you for a lovely [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► meal and leaves like he doesn't even [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► stop is amelia is just the coolest [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► customer during this whole thing even [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► though he knows how it's gonna end like [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► you said he's you know gonna finish this [TS]

00:36:20 ◼   ► meal there's a great scene that they [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► obviously you know for for cinematic [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► purposes don't show it you did they cut [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► right to the morning and areas the guys [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► in bed with the Horsehead but if you [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► imagine how they got the horse head [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► there it's because first you gotta kill [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► the horse and that's not too are you get [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► to shoot the horse but you don't want to [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► wake this guy out like that the whole [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► point was they wanted to have a nice [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► surprise form so you don't want allowed [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► gunshot so somehow you got to kill the [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► horse easy enough but then you gotta cut [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► the horse head off yeah that's that's a [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► lot of cut a lot of manpower even on the [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► west coast you can find some Union folks [TS]

00:36:54 ◼   ► get that done for you and then you gotta [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► get the horse head into his bed without [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► waking them up and I just imagine like a [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► couple of crooks with his horse and gosh [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► she's a sound sleeper luckily and are [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► they giggling maybe they're like maybe [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► there's like one feather just going up [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► and down [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► can you believe he's still asleep I mean [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► normally you're breaking people's [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► fingers or their legs are you know [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► collecting this is a novel and exciting [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► gig the Horsehead gig [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► that's the charity gig and I imagine [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► that it's a guy like that Tommy from [TS]

00:37:23 ◼   ► Goodfellas yeah like the west coast [TS]

00:37:25 ◼   ► version and Tommy is there and he's just [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► he's like shut up will laugh about this [TS]

00:37:29 ◼   ► later when best dismemberment guy on the [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► west coast [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► you gotta take pride in your work even [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► if its leading a horse head in [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► somebody's beds stealthily and also [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► likely before they get to that stage [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► what is that you know Tom comes there [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► with with things to offer besides do [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► this role do something bad to you things [TS]

00:37:45 ◼   ► offer you got your gonna have Union [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► problem soon we can make those go away [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► like there he has connections he has [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► things to offer which under any other [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► circumstance would have worked but it's [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► a personal vendetta here with the whole [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► starlet you know that that's that's why [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► he has to go out that's why there's a [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► problem doing everybody tries all [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► conventional means first because it's [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► just much more efficient to do it that [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► way and it yeah it doesn't just [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► alternately the the family's authority [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► rests on their willingness to resort to [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► violence that's ultimately what the [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► authority goes to and the producer makes [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► the mistake of thinking that the [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► authority is ultimately the the in the [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► legal sense and in a sense that we [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► respect civil society that he owns the [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► studio it's his picture [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► therefore whatever you know if he says [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► no to Johnny Fontane that's it that's [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► the bottom line he's is just doesn't see [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► that there's another level that this [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► could be taken to you don't buy me out i [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► buy you out if but the family and but [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► it's the way that they you know and in [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► ultimately that they do resort to [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► violence shows that there's you know [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► there's there is something morally wrong [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► with with the Corleone family but until [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► they get there they really are acting [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► like good guys you know they're not that [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► they don't go to violence first they [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► don't just say threatened they're trying [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► they're like hey look will be with your [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► Union problems we can you know do this [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► we can do that you know and enters also [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► like with with Hagen is sort of like he [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► acknowledges look I know you don't want [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► to do this but it's gotta be done [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► yeah and violence as a way for them to a [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► mass power because they want power they [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► want to have politicians they want to [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► control the unions or whatever and all [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► its not violence's is about [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► this is an end as if they want to be [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► known as this thing that will kill you [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► they want to use violence as needed to [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► amass power they would much rather say [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► because we have done all these small [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► violent things and captured the unions [TS]

00:39:22 ◼   ► and we have the judges in your we want [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► we can use that to get what we want [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► which way better than using violence [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► violence is a problem we don't want to [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► kill police officer because i know it'll [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► bring stuff down and it's like small [TS]

00:39:32 ◼   ► acts of violence to you know maintain [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► their gambling business and and you know [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► the prostitution all of the stuff and to [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► a mass power to have the politicians who [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► you have something on because they've [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► been with your prostitutes because they [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► are they are indebted to you for [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► gambling or whatever and to use that [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► power to get your things done like it [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► it's all about a massive power is just [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► that when when your power is [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► insufficient because you don't have [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► enough leverage over this particular guy [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► that of the gear you can go up into it [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► we got Horsehead one of the things that [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► happens here I mean he's saying no to [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► Don Corleone and you don't say don't [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► know Don Corleone but part of this is i [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► would say that the main plot of the [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► movie is because Don Corleone says no to [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► the other families and this is you know [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► when you say no and and that's just it [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► and in and you can have the this art of [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► persuasion or horse trading or you let [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► us do this and we'll take care of this [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► problem and all of that [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► that's when they're the the violence [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► becomes the recourse and you see it in [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► the very next scene so they meet with [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► with a lot so the Turk and this is it's [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► fascinating because this is about about [TS]

00:40:35 ◼   ► narcotics it's about it's about getting [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► into the drug trade and I I think tom [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► says narcotics is the future through the [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► night [TS]

00:40:43 ◼   ► he's a man with a vision one word for [TS]

00:40:45 ◼   ► you narcotics yea and perhaps only but [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► video does not does not like that and he [TS]

00:40:51 ◼   ► and he says finally after you know all [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► of this talk he says I must say I must [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► say no to you because and that that [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► kicks off this whole the all the [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► violence that happens between the [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► families but it's not just that he says [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► no like that is that is one part of it [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► but the real the real key stone too i [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► think the the entire particular conflict [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► miss movies during this meeting they [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► have the pre-meeting we're all it's like [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► sunny and [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► and the Godfather they're all in and Tom [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► and they're all talking about what [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► they're gonna do and they say you know a [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► lot of money in that white powder i [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► don't know we should definitely meet [TS]

00:41:20 ◼   ► with him he's a serious person here's [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► the deal like they're all doing the [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► background on them then they they set [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► the meet [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► they do the meet there's a lot of [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► talking back and forth i was very polite [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► talks about things [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► sunny has one tiny outpost like what you [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► mean you're gonna guarantee our [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► investment that one tiny outpost which [TS]

00:41:35 ◼   ► wasn't against the Godfather wasn't like [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► he went against the family right as [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► Michael school someone for doing later [TS]

00:41:40 ◼   ► he merely was incredulous that the [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► supposed guarantees that were being [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► offered and it showed that he was more [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► open to the deal than his father and [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► that was the thing that sets off this [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► entire conflict because if the families [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► had been loyal [TS]

00:41:54 ◼   ► I think the Corleone family as a unit [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► they they wouldn't have gone up against [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► them like there was there was a reason [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► they were having this meeting why didn't [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► they just forced it like they they can't [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► go up against a unified fan but once [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► they see a crack in the armor lock up [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► all you gotta do is kill the old man get [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► rid of the end man and sunny your shady [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► dishonest because Sonny is is more [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► amenable to this deal and so here is it [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► here is an efficient way to get what we [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► want with us again another small act of [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► violence to make these things go for if [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► they had presented unified front [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► I don't think there was this whole movie [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► wouldn't play out there wouldn't have [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► been this violence because it the [TS]

00:42:25 ◼   ► impression I get from the first [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► Godfather is that the Corleone family [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► was if not the most powerful family in [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► New York one of the most powerful and it [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► is certainly in political power because [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► they have complained that he had all the [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► politicians yeah and so no they're the [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► most powerful i think that's that's very [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► clear mean they can't you know it's one [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► of those subjective things that maybe [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► the other families would disagree but I [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► think the movie clearly presents them as [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► the you know the equivalent of like the [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► Gambino's you know that they're there [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► the barzinis bad a table the end though [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► so I don't know like why does he have to [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► sit at the head and the Godfather's [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► gotta sit in the middle but either way I [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► feel like if they had a unified front [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► there it would they wouldn't have gone [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► to war over it because this definitely [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► these you know that to tell you and [TS]

00:43:03 ◼   ► everything that they were these were [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► lesser smaller families which is why you [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► know they weren't really concerned about [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► them but one outburst from sunny one [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► sentence 1 introjection and then that's [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► it then they get the twinkle in their [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► eye and they hang a lantern on that [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► right because he gets dressed down he [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► says never tell anyone outside the [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► family what you think righty The [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► Godfather immediately says you can't do [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► it right and it wasn't [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► never go against the family it was just [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► just don't tell them what you're [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► thinking because by revealing your [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► thinking now we're not a unified front [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► also this situation is misread by a lot [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► so in a very unfortunate way because he [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► assumed that that Sonny will go along [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► with this he doesn't realize that she [TS]

00:43:39 ◼   ► doesn't care what he wanted to kill you [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► yeah you heard his father that is the [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► only thing he'll see red for the rest of [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► the movie [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► yeah then he realizes oh maybe Sonny is [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► a bit of a hothead and not reasonable [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► this was a miscalculation right Michael [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► you could argue I I think again the [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► loyalty to their fathers probably but i [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► think so wats was making me cold [TS]

00:43:58 ◼   ► calculation that the sons are going to [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► want to seize power and that will that [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► will be enough that that even other [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► father is it is dead that they're going [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► to be so happy to be in charge gonna [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► make the cold calculation likes alot so [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► perhaps would do and that's not what [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► happens because Sonny is a hothead we [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► get so look at Brasi sleeps with the [TS]

00:44:18 ◼   ► fishes which we find out a little bit [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► later because he they send Luca Brasi to [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► talk to them and they kill him probably [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► not a great plan by the way look abroad [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► see maybe not your most savvy spy under [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► him yes it is a great enforcer he's got [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► at least he's the most loyal henchman [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► why would he be the one that you send [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► and being like I don't know maybe he'll [TS]

00:44:36 ◼   ► switch sides looking process [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► consultations on tomorrow it's like the [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► most you know the big lies better than [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► the small I'm just saying I don't have [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► faith in his ability to act like him act [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► like he's not loyal he does a pretty [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► good job is very stone-faced or whatever [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► but that's what look at roxy is like so [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► he gets he gets carotid do you know it's [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► it's bad and that's a brutal murder that [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► happens and that's the end of the [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► prostate but then the oranges oh the [TS]

00:44:59 ◼   ► oranges so many things happen with [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► oranges around 44 feet oh but he's [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► buying some oranges and fruit stand and [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► shoot him [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► like many times we and it's it's quite [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► shocking [TS]

00:45:11 ◼   ► the thing that really struck me though [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► and this is just the world of this movie [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► and also when this movie was made and [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► our modern world Michael Corleone finds [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► out that his father has been shot from [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► the newspaper yet by walking past a [TS]

00:45:24 ◼   ► newsstand and seeing it in the papers [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► it's amazing come on a cellphone and [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► then he runs to a phone booth [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► yeah it's just like they have time to [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► that time to write the story print the [TS]

00:45:35 ◼   ► paper ready with his [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► additionally front shows along i think [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► he was yeah I think he was out you know [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► out on the town for many hours and you [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► know you don't have a phone or anything [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► like that but it's just and they [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► couldn't reach him and that they do say [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► when he finally calls and like where [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► where the hell have you been [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► but it's pretty amazing that like you [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► can go you can go so long that you find [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► about your about your dad being shot by [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► seeing it on a newsstand in a newspaper [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► that's amazing [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► the world we live in doesn't say if he's [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► alive or dead and Tom Hagen is uh has [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► kidnapped as well as part of this plan [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► and they're gonna release him but they [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► want to talk to him first and this is [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► this is against lots of trying to trying [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► to make a make an offer i make a deal [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► about about this with the family about [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► what that what they want to do anyone's [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► Tom Hagen to be the the person two weeks [TS]

00:46:20 ◼   ► to lay it all out because he's got the [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► he's got the clear legal mind and he [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► they think it's a good a good emissary [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► here but video doesn't die five shots [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► but he's still alive [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► yeah and they didn't have a [TS]

00:46:31 ◼   ► miscalculation with Tom like Tom you're [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► right tom is the person who listen to [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► reason everything but Tom's loyalty is [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► just as big as they're all he's gonna do [TS]

00:46:37 ◼   ► is take everything you told him and use [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► it against you and he gets back there's [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► never any inkling in this movie that [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► he's going to like never once the family [TS]

00:46:43 ◼   ► and be persuaded the entire time he's [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► talking to slot so you can tell he's [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► like everything you say to me i will use [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► against you as soon as I get back to my [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► family [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► tell them what the deal is we will use [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► the potty you know like so-and-so thinks [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► maybe there's a chance and he is very [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► wrong [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► yeah and this is a the oranges I just I [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► can't get hung up on that we realized [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► it's playing with oranges and get shot [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► and then later he's playing with your [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► inches when he dies at the end of the [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► movie just gonna buy gonna buy some [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► fruit my poli calls in sick [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► Fredo is the driver Fredo is not leaping [TS]

00:47:13 ◼   ► into action some real gun handling that [TS]

00:47:15 ◼   ► radio has some amazing like what is this [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► gun will at any and he's crushed by day [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► like you can see that he you know he [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► realizes he fails use Lisicki he knows [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► yeah he knows this vault and he feels [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► terrible [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► alright the next set of scenes that we [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► get our amazing which is when we get [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► leave we really the gun take the cannoli [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► here to put the hospital the hospital [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► but deserted hospital is so amazing that [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► like what [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► where is everybody and it's just veto [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► there and the one nurse that there [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► jumpscares a jump-scare on the Godfather [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► the nervous twitch becomes in like the [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► quiet scene where is creeping in looking [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► for his father finds a nurse comes what [TS]

00:47:57 ◼   ► are you doing here it's a jump-scare [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► with a whisper but probably the feet [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► never achieved in a regular non our [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► movie yeah well it also it's amazing how [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► this particular scene shot because it's [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► very tense the camera's not moving at [TS]

00:48:08 ◼   ► all [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► we have sort of a fixed position very [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► low to the ground on that top floor of [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► the hospital where there's a very clear [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► the hallway that goes on one way to the [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► room now the hallway that goes down to [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► the place where they they take a video [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► later on when will the card out in a [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► takes place very slowly we get another a [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► momentary disturbance with Enzo and they [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► go downstairs and they just stand there [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► while the car drives by and it's not a [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► there's nothing crazy happening in terms [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► of quick cuts and camera moves or [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► anything like that in it just allows [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► this very slow tension to build over the [TS]

00:48:42 ◼   ► scene because there's effectively no one [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► there who can help him and and you you [TS]

00:48:47 ◼   ► see the isolation there I use any uses [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► brains to get out of it and I think the [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► key thing about the pacing the scene [TS]

00:48:53 ◼   ► that always struck me as so they do that [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► whole thing is it's tense and those [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► comes out [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► n0 you know he's got the flowers were in [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► his end will come over here put your [TS]

00:49:01 ◼   ► hand in your pocket you got a gun behind [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► really they did they do the whole bluff [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► right but it's very tense right don't [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► forget the one of my favorite things in [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► the in this whole set is when he turns [TS]

00:49:09 ◼   ► the nurses we need to move him men are [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► coming here to kill him [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► yeah yeah is it now the line is you you [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► know my father men are coming here comes [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► Michael effective communication in [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► crisis is it you know my father [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► it's only a second to say you understand [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► my father's part of organized crime [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► bosses you know my father [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► it's a question a statement men are [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► coming here to kill him that comes right [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► to the point we need emotions but maybe [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► like after after they put the collar up [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► and they do they're bluffing it works [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► they have what seems like a luxurious [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► amount of time showing Enzo trying to [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► light a cigarette and his hands are [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► shaking you so nervous like we don't [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► need we already got the attention but [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► somehow having the scene where you see [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► how shaken up he is afterwards like [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► ripples backwards movie and makes it [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► even more tense up and they spend time [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► on it like they're not saying anything [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► that didn't already say before like in [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► other words it's almost like they're [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► putting had a hat there but it's [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► important because it's like the [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► audience's decompressing and then [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► realizing how to [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► here's what they did was and then it [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► leads into the you know the pitch the [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► police chief coming and knocking Michael [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► in the face so it doesn't actually do [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► something it's not like we go to that [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► and I cut to something entirely [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► different but that always struck me as [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► it as a tiny luxury that most movies [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► don't take because like all right we've [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► already done that everyone knows his [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► tents next scene but the Godfather has [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► that has this area lighting and I think [TS]

00:50:20 ◼   ► it's important you can you because you [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► can see that it's that that's what's [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► happening is a it's all spinning out of [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► control they come by and they they they [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► see that they're there with their hands [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► in their pockets and then they move on [TS]

00:50:35 ◼   ► yeah it's a and then the cops come and [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► it's it's still close thing right like I [TS]

00:50:41 ◼   ► mean they're gonna try a few things to [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► get to veto and then they finally kind [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► of have the beat at the end when Tom [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► Hagen toss-up is a private detective so [TS]

00:50:51 ◼   ► I just carry firearms blah blah blah and [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► please like I legalese scraping it [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► yeah I also would argue that the that [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► the the shaking hands I mean the great [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► thing about the shaking hands is that it [TS]

00:51:03 ◼   ► gets it across that this guy that [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► Michael has conscripted is essentially [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► is a civilian and you need to show like [TS]

00:51:11 ◼   ► this is not normal [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► this is terrifying they are standing out [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► there with a hitman coming by and acting [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► like they've got guns in order to do [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► this and yeah it is terrifying this is [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► not normal [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► this is not every day for four Enzo he's [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► terrified and it's it's great that we [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► see that the Indians I'm rewinding a [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► little bit to the before we move on to [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► the running a little bit to the poly [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► business [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► I think I mean this is for me this [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► establishes maybe this is an old [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► gangster movie trope but i think is one [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► of the first ones I saw Polly you know [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► called in sick quote-unquote you know [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► that day the the video got shot and [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► everything right so he is with people [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► who are going to kill him we kind of [TS]

00:51:49 ◼   ► know that we kind of know that's what [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► they're for business I Polly I don't [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► want to see him again like you know so [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► they're there to do that they all get [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► into the car together to go with their [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► cannolis and everything [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► Paulie doesn't want someone sitting [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► directly behind him and make some excuse [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► about being able to see in the rearview [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► mirror because he no like why does he [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► not want someone sitting behind his is [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► this kind of seeing that the godfather [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► is full of where Paulie is there with [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► people who are ostensibly his friends [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► they all have to pretend like a billy [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► budd dope fashion that I know that you [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► so that i know but i can't let on that i [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► know that you're there to kill me that [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► vibe Godfather's entire movie is that [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► vibe and this one seems clear that [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► paulinho's there to kill but what can [TS]

00:52:23 ◼   ► you do he's got to play along with and [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► hope that maybe he's wrong about it but [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► he also doesn't want the guy sitting [TS]

00:52:27 ◼   ► behind them and that's that adds to the [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► tension that scene and also i think the [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► great scene where he kicks it gets [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► strangled from behind and kicks out the [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► windshield which is another dramatic [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► moment mostly not copies i think you [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► don't have the strength to kick out a [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► windshield on a modern car but those old [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► cars and the forties remember this most [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► no problem and that of course they [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► should they should inform the Statue of [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► Liberty again are you getting the [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► picture here American dream [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► gone head but alright what's also [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► interesting about that i didn't know [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► until relatively recently can't remember [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► what this was but a 4x4 couple wrote in [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► the line for the wife telling Clemenza [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► that she won't want into you know don't [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► forget the cannoli and then when the [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► actor who plays comenta Clemente later [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► on is saying you know take the gun he [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► improvised the line now leave the gun [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► take the cannoli for that scene it [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► wasn't exactly written that way but you [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► know it really embodies a lot of what we [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► think of when we think of this film I [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► would say because it you know it's about [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► family and don't cross the family and [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► you know that year's ears you know the [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► food we should come to my wife and I'm [TS]