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    woman of her time period usually does not have. She is not in need of a first name for there is only one Mama Corleone and everyone knows this. For example Puzo wrote added a conversation between Mama Corleone and Kay Adams. Michael had been home for 6 months and neglected to contact kay. Kay had just found out and was upset. Mama Corleone would not let Kay refuse to see Michael. Mama Corleone told Kay “you wanta see Mikey, you come out here now…..You take a taxi, and I tell the man at the gate to pay

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    The Godfather In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola amazed the world with his release of The Godfather. The Godfather, who is Vito Corleone, is a man with strong beliefs in family and loyalty and the head of his crime family business. Upon earning his reputation over many years, he is a very powerful and respected man. Don Corleone has three sons and a daughter. The oldest, Sonny, is a very quick-to-anger character and is well known as a rough and violent person. The second oldest, Fredo, is a weak and uninterested

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    INTRODUCTION In films a big concept has always been the use of lights. The use of lights in films helps create a meaning about what the scene is about and at times reveals a little more. In cinematography there is different types of lighting such as: three point lighting, fill light, key light, high key and low key lighting, top or under, lighting and many more. In the times when films were black and white the use of light is not easily visible. The use of black and white still helped portray the

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    in Los Angela’s, California. The scenes in Italy take place primarily in Sicily. Criticism: http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/badabing The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. A blurb by Frank Lentricchia on the back of Chris Messenger's book calls it "a landmark in the study of popular culture." Most readers recognize

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    Not often is The Godfather Trilogy thought of as a tragedy; however, Aristotle’s principles from The Poetics support the idea that the film, and the character of Michael Corleone, are indeed tragic. A war veteran, Michael goes to his sister’s wedding with the intention of remaining separated from the family’s illegal business affairs, but the assassination attempt on his father leads him to completely change his values for the good of the family. Ironically, his seemingly positive trait of loyalty

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    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 (Ebert). The story of Vito Corleone is shown through flashbacks that

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    1900’s, Luciano Leggio reinvented the way mafia and crime worked. He used new methods which brought him to become one of the most powerful men in a very mafia influenced community of Corleone. What made him different from other crime bosses had a lot to do with his recruiting methods. He initiated men not strictly from Corleone, but instead men who were already “men of honor” and kept their identities hidden from their family and other members of other Mafia groups. Leggio got his start when he was hired

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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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    Stone and with performance of the cast with the lead Al Pacino, Scarface became a cult classic among the masses. The Godfather is a mob film focuses on the Corleone Family, with its head Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) trying to find a suitable heir to his empire, while war is breathing down the neck of other crime families. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) then steps in to organize the family back to shape. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based from the novel of the same name written by Mario Puzo

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    the movie can be interpreted on. The lighting in "The Godfather," is very dim and is often said to be compared with a Rembrant. The lighting suggest many things throughout the film like a painting. The light scenes in the movie are to portray the Corleone family as good people, someone you could relate to not look down upon.

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