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    The Godfather Part 2 resonates with me because it deals with being an entrepreneur and doing whatever it takes to keep the money and business flowing. While I might not be running an illicit, family business worth millions of dollars, I have had my fair share of smaller businesses and ideas to make a little bit of money. The Corleone’s had businesses in many different areas, most of them being illegitimate in some way or another. The only way for them to stay afloat was to use their wits and have

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    what people would do in his book The Godfather. In The Godfather it shows an immigrant that comes from nothing rises to the top of organized crime. Now his first son who first shuns his father's world comes to embrace his father's ways of life, money, and power. Throughout the story the father and son overcome from being nothing and economical disadvantages by learning to profit from the good and evil aspects of human nature. His father is called the godfather because he is at the top of money and

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    The Godfather is a 1972 American crime drama directed by Francis Coppola based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. The film stars Marlin Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a powerful family business of crime. The story is centred on Michael Corleone, and how he grows from a young man wanting nothing to do with the family business to a ruthless Don who will stop at nothing to exact his revenge. The movie grossed around 286 million dollars and is touted as one of the most successful films of all time

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    Tony, his friends and other characters relate to the first time they were explored and used in the film, The Godfather. For example, in Saturday Night Fever, there is a scene in which Tony and his friends are beat up by the Barracudas (Hispanic gang) and vice versa, when they go to get payback and avenge their friend Gus who was hospitalized (AFI). This relates to scenes in which the Godfather displayed brutality, blood, and mob violence (Browne). In general, such violence would be prohibited in films

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    Raised in a family surrounded by crime and mob violence, it is no wonder Michael would eventually get his hands dirty leading him to follow in his father's footsteps. However, the case of fictional movie character Michael Corleone in the film The Godfather is immensely more complex with numerous other factors at play. These factors would lead to his inevitable ascension to the head role of his mafia crime family. A more structured perspective is required in order to garner a more definitive grasp on

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    The Godfather

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    There isn’t much you hear about the Italian mobs and that is something we should be proud of. We rarely even see films that associate themselves in such aspects, but “The Godfather” series was such an incredible one; it would definitely be hard to compete with. The Godfather is easily one of my favorite crime boss movie series, even if I was born 17 years after the release of the first film. Francis Coppola was an eager and young 31 year old who wanted to direct a film

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    Narrative Structure Essay: How To Make a Mobster Lovable In his film The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola creates a narrative structure, very similar to that seen in Classic Hollywood cinema. Events in the film unfold chronologically, and cause and effect ultimately help shape the narrative. The Godfather’s long narrative span, covers a very significant time in American history, and centers around the idiosyncrasy of family. The film is told entirely within the closed world of the Corleone family

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    'The Godfather' is the most revolutionary gangster film of all time, it rewrote the gangster genre in such a stylized way that all latter gangster films have conformed to this genre but also evolved it as films have progressed. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola 'The Godfather' re-invented the gangster genre elevating it to a Hollywood status and making it commercially profitable. It looks into the life of the 'Corleone' family and represents America at that point in time

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    Don Corleone of The Godfather holds extravagant weddings and parties for his guests and organization members, he even promises to do some favors on the day of his daughter’s wedding (Sallamon 59). In Goodfellas Pauly is seen as a hero in his neighborhood community and helps out

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    Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), as well as performances in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Julius Caesar (1953), The Wild One (1953), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Last Tango in Paris (1972), and Apocalypse Now (1979). Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various Native American movements. Godfather (1972), as well as performances in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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