The Mafia Tried To Stop It, Then They Acted In It - The Godfather
By: BY MARK SEAL - VANITY FAIR
This is the most interesting, in fact most fascinating, behind the scenes movie article I have ever read, and you know that I am really into movies. The article is quite long, and I was unable to copy its photos other than one, so I have posted only the first two paragraphs of the article with that one photo, but please, do yourself a favour and click on the SEEDED CONTENT link below to open the article and learn about how The Godfather, a brilliant movie enjoyed by so many, got started and what it went through to be completed.
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The GODFATHER Wars
In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster. After violent disputes over the casting of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, they tangled with the real-life Mob, which didn’t want the movie made at all. The author recalls how the clash of Hollywood sharks, Mafia kingpins, and cinematic geniuses shaped a Hollywood masterpiece. Plus: Video , more photos , and the late-breaking story of how a Jersey family mentored the cast .
During the 1960s, a dirty, loaded word came into currency: Mafia. It signified one of the most terrifying forces on earth, the Italian-American faction of organized crime, and naturally the men who headed this force wanted to keep the word from being spoken, if not obliterate it altogether. When it became the basis of a best-selling book, and the book was sold to the movies, those men decided that they had to take action.
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Did anybody know that the actor who played Luca Brasi, the Godfather's enforcer who ended up sleeping with the fish, really was an actual mafioso, the bodyguard of a don?
Have you ever read a book where you just can't put it down until you've finished reading it? If you liked the movie, you'll be fascinated as I was by this article. Let me know if I'm right.
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P.S. Don't forget to click on those links in the first paragraph.
I have heard some interesting stories on the making of the Godfather, but It's the first time I've read this one.
Great find.
Well, maybe because this story isn't about politics it's of very little interest to NT members. Or else maybe they just couldn't handle the length of it.
Now I'm convinced. Political ranting and insulting definitely outranks culture on this site. Pretty obvious to me why so many who sign up for a membership disappear very quickly. But then I've been accused of being both a Nazi and a commie, and that's quite an accomplishment. LOL
What a day for movies this is for me here today. Besides a couple movies I don't know the name of they're showing Sayonara, Sabrina, Be Somebody, Forrest Gump, The Shallows, A Place in the Sun and Forsaken. Forsaken is the only movie where Donald and Kiefer Sutherland play a father and a son, which they actulally are.