thoughts on godfather: ill be honest, this movie took a lot to get into. i had to repeatedly stop the movie and read a synopsis to understand what exactly was going on in the scenes and i dunno how happy i am about that. i really wanted to like this film since it is so widely recognized and referenced. the strongest characters in the film were the three actual family members (the don, michael and sonny) and im sure that's exactly what the director was going for but in doing that they failed to really submerse the audience in the plot and the surroundings. i understood that al pacino's character was the 'odd-one-out' in his family having not engaged in the dealings of "the family" and how adamant he was about not becoming "like them." as in true storyboard form, something happens to draw him into everything and it goes from there. by the third leg in this movie i started caring about the characters and where they were going, what they were doing. especially when you could see the change in the don's demeanor. by the end of the film, my thoughts on it completely changed. once the son took over the family you saw a whole different side to him. you only saw half of his face and that helped portray him and how much he had changed from the start of the film. this last hour made me really excited for part 2. though he pretty much became everything he didnt or thought he wouldnt be. i enjoyed this one more than the second. maybe the godfather series is like pot, you have to watch it a couple of times to start liking/loving it.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
"Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are thinking again. Go on." - don corleone
The second movie in IMDB's top 250 movies of all time is Coppola's The Godfather starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
thoughts on godfather: ill be honest, this movie took a lot to get into. i had to repeatedly stop the movie and read a synopsis to understand what exactly was going on in the scenes and i dunno how happy i am about that. i really wanted to like this film since it is so widely recognized and referenced. the strongest characters in the film were the three actual family members (the don, michael and sonny) and im sure that's exactly what the director was going for but in doing that they failed to really submerse the audience in the plot and the surroundings. i understood that al pacino's character was the 'odd-one-out' in his family having not engaged in the dealings of "the family" and how adamant he was about not becoming "like them." as in true storyboard form, something happens to draw him into everything and it goes from there. by the third leg in this movie i started caring about the characters and where they were going, what they were doing. especially when you could see the change in the don's demeanor. by the end of the film, my thoughts on it completely changed. once the son took over the family you saw a whole different side to him. you only saw half of his face and that helped portray him and how much he had changed from the start of the film. this last hour made me really excited for part 2. though he pretty much became everything he didnt or thought he wouldnt be. i enjoyed this one more than the second. maybe the godfather series is like pot, you have to watch it a couple of times to start liking/loving it.
thoughts on godfather: ill be honest, this movie took a lot to get into. i had to repeatedly stop the movie and read a synopsis to understand what exactly was going on in the scenes and i dunno how happy i am about that. i really wanted to like this film since it is so widely recognized and referenced. the strongest characters in the film were the three actual family members (the don, michael and sonny) and im sure that's exactly what the director was going for but in doing that they failed to really submerse the audience in the plot and the surroundings. i understood that al pacino's character was the 'odd-one-out' in his family having not engaged in the dealings of "the family" and how adamant he was about not becoming "like them." as in true storyboard form, something happens to draw him into everything and it goes from there. by the third leg in this movie i started caring about the characters and where they were going, what they were doing. especially when you could see the change in the don's demeanor. by the end of the film, my thoughts on it completely changed. once the son took over the family you saw a whole different side to him. you only saw half of his face and that helped portray him and how much he had changed from the start of the film. this last hour made me really excited for part 2. though he pretty much became everything he didnt or thought he wouldnt be. i enjoyed this one more than the second. maybe the godfather series is like pot, you have to watch it a couple of times to start liking/loving it.
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