Carmella Corleone

the absence of children. The Godfather shows how close organized crime families are and they would do anything to protect them. This movie takes place in the 40’s and 50’s in New York. Marlon Brando portrays Vito Corleone, also known as the Godfather. Al Pacino portrays Michael Corleone, Vito’s youngest son. The Godfather was inducted to the National Film Registry in 1990 (Library of Congress). In this movie, Coppola showed how, within this family, it was split into two social institutions: crime

movie left off, which is with Michael Corleone as the new don, or head of the family. However, this film is quite different from the first, or any other movie as it shows two different stories at once. One story is of Michael Corleone’s fall and the numerous legal battles he goes through as he tries to legitimize his family business, and the other is the story of Michael’s father, Vito, and his rise to power from young adult to mafia leader. The story of Vito Corleone is shown through flashbacks that

Coppola in 1972. The Godfather is a prominent crime film about a war hero of World War 2 named Michael Corleone, who openly volunteered to take control of his father’s (Vito Corleone) mafia business, after the death of his father and his older brother (Sonny

personality, values, and tempers, they are similar in areas of loyalty, their respect for their father, and their strong family ties. Their personalities are a study in contrasts. Sonny is brash and arrogant, where as Michael is calm and cool. When Don Corleone was in the hospital and Sonny was placed in charge, the family became kind of careless. He didn’t seem to care what could happen due to his actions. He wanted to kill the police captain and didn’t think about the repercussions. Tom has to tell

deal. This does not end up well do to the director’s non-attractiveness to John Fontane. I felt this was an important scene within the film The Godfather because it was one of the first instances where it made the viewer scared to disagree with Vito Corleone. It represented his unwillingness to settle for anything less then he believed and the unpleasant truth of dealing with a criminal organization. The significance of killing Jack Woltz’s most prized possession horse, resembles that the Godfather does

categories. The film’s plot follows the Corleone family as they conduct “family business” in the crime filled metropolitan region of New York. The feature film begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, throws a lavish wedding party for his daughter. At the party we meet Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), Vito’s youngest son who has just returned from war. Although all the men in the family are in the mob business, Michael wants nothing to do with it. The Corleone family is invited to a meeting by

Vito was in a major car accident eight months ago. Vito’s friend was intoxicated and driving a car with Vito as well as three other passengers whom were Vito’s friends. Prior to the accident, Vito was a scholar-athlete who was constantly on the honor roll, and well liked by his peers. He was always on the invite list for all of the parties hosted by his peers. Vito was thrown through the windshield of the vehicle that he was a passenger of, thus now he requires a wheelchair to stay mobile. In

Howard Hawks tour-de-force hit, Scarface, was the first significant film of real life organized crime in which the public actually got to see what was going on. Not only is this film extremely dark, but it also gives the audience a feeling of a lifelike underworld of the upbringing of crime and how it was and still is a major significance. What surprised me was that the film takes its subject matter very seriously, however it is very exciting as well as filled with dark humor. What I noticed consistently

a book about a Sicilian Mafia family, the Corleone Mafia Family, centered in New York. While his daughter, Connie, is out enjoying her reception in the backyard, the Godfather himself, Don Vito Corleone and his new son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi are handling business in the Godfather’s office. Along side him are his oldest son, Sonny and Tom Hagen, his adopted son and the family’s lawyer. If you’re unaware of who Don Corleone is, he is the Boss of the Corleone Mafia family. His friends and people he does

crime family, the Tattaglia, backing Sollozzo he asks the Corleone’s to partner with him but Vito declines and instead tries to spy on the opposition because he feels the drug business to be too dangerous. Many families were not doing as well as the Corleone and were jealous so they went into the drug trade anyway. Sollozzo felt slighted when Vito declined his offer so he and the Tattaglia’s devised a plan to whack the Godfather. The assassination attempt was unsuccessful leading Sollozzo to say in astonishment