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    The Godfather was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and was released in 1972. It starred Al Pacino and Marlon Brando as the two main characters. This movie is one of the best films to grace the big screen to this date. It has a very well executed plot as well. I like this movie a lot, portrays generally unlikeable characters in a sympathetic light and by the end of the movie you are truly rooting for them. I like that Coppola takes a very unlikeable subject and generally bad people and turns them

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    table 4.1). Moreover, one of the more iconic and popular genres would have to be the gangster film genre. However, there are many other genres, but the gangster film just does not have as many sub-genres. That is why my paper will focus on the “The Godfather” movie of the gangster genre in which is characterized by organized crime. The Drama and Gangster Drama can exhibit or display real life situations with realistic characters, settings that support the stories. The Gangster Drama genres characteristics

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    For many Italian-Americans, The Godfather changed the way that they were viewed in American society in a good way. Megan Gambino of the Smithsonian interviewed Tom Santopietro, the author of The Godfather effect. In the interview, Santopietro states "The film changed Hollywood because it finally changed the way Italians were depicted on film. It made Italians seem like more fully realized people and not stereotypes. It was a film in Hollywood made by Italians about Italians. Previously, it had not

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    The Godfather, The Exorcist, and The Silence of the Lambs are three films that are often given the title “greatest of all time” in their respective genre, for very good reason. Each film consists of scenes that are crafted so unforgettably that the scenes leave each viewer with a sense of awe, shock, and horror when each scene is carefully examined. The Godfather, distributed in 1972 by Paramount Pictures, was directed by Francis Ford Coppola who in an interview said in regards to his filmmaking

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    The Godfather is the story of Vito and Michael Corleone. Michael is the son of Vito who is the Don of the Corleone mafia crime family. The Godfather depicts how an orphaned Sicilian immigrant rises to the top of organized crime in America and how his son, who at first shuns his father’s world, embraces his father’s way of life after the attempted murder on his father. Mise-en-scene paints the picture of a film and is also known as what is on the stage. At the beginning of The Godfather, the movie

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    Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster movie “ The Godfather” examines two views of the condemnation American dream and America through the eyes of father and son through many specific aspects of drugs, conflicting views, and balance. Through Vito's point of view of America and its dream are law, order, stability, family, and security. He flew from his home in Sicily to escape the balance of Mafia to an unbalanced place to bring order. Since his family was all killed by the mob, Vito wanted to bring

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    Mario Puzo and Introduction Mario Puzo was an American Screenwriter and Author who is best known for his Novel which was later adapted into one of the most famous movie series of all times "The Godfather". Birth, Rise to Fame and Death Mario Puzo was born on October 15 ,1920 in an area of New York known as Hell's Kitchen. Mario's Father was an illiterate and poor immigrant who abandoned Mario and his mother during Mario's early teens as he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was institutionalized

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    a case to be stated that the first two Godfathers films form the “Great American Movie” of the twentieth century. Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is among one of the best films ever produced. In this short essay I will be concentrating on the Godfather part one and its relationship with Chapter 7 of the book. This film was released in 1972 and was consistently ranked as one of the top three films by the American film institute. In the Godfather, one of the main characters Michael Corleone

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    “Leave the gun, take the cannoli” is one of the most iconic lines from the Francis Ford Coppola film The Godfather. Most people probably have no idea that this line wasn’t part of the novel the film was based on. In fact, the average person is most likely unaware of the novel’s existence. Nevertheless, in 1969 Mario Puzo released what would become an international bestseller and the inspiration for the seminal film. It’s worth mentioning that both the film and book have much to offer with their compelling

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    The particular video I chose is a segment of the film ‘The Godfather’ (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), which is still regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. I chose the opening scene of the film because I feel that it, not only sets out a particular theme and ongoing form of communication, but that is also full of communicational tactics that deliver important connotations about culture, organisational communication and emblems which are still relevant to today’s society. The first four words

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