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    Kay Research Paper

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    Kay Everyone calls him Kay: his wife, his family, his workmates, and friends too. When he came to the US, the people he associated with could not pronounce his real name `Karakadzai,’ it was something else. At the same time, he was not being convincible to change his name, or adopting a friendly nickname which was easy to call. This was Kay’s most favorite debate. He loved it! He was just an amazing character during the debate which attracted many people. He made so many friends in a short

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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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    The Corleonesi was a mafia group whose leaders were originated from Corleone, Italy. The main leader Luciano Leggio. Leggio started out working for Micele Navarra. While under Navarra, Leggio’s murder of Placido Rizzotto, a resistance veteran, is on the most noteworthy murders of a political figure in the years after the war. This murder shows just the beginning brutality of what was yet to come of Leggio and the Corleonesi. Leggio hid from authority after the murdering Rizzotto, and due to his skill

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    The Godfather Thesis

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    film. The story takes after the New York based Corleone wrongdoing family throughout ten years, from 1945-1955.

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    directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The lead character is played by Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), with supporting actors Marlon Brando (Vito Corleone), James Caan (Sonny Corleone), Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen), Kay (Diane Keaton) The story of this movie is about the book Mario Puzo "The Godfather based on one of the most powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). And when the youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), begins to join the family Mafia, a business he becomes more involved

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    ranked as one of the top three films by the American film institute. In the Godfather, one of the main characters Michael Corleone had different personality, behaviors and thoughts about his family business, however this behaviors began to change at the end. At first, he believes that what his family is doing is wrong and he doesn’t want to be part of that business. The Corleone family was a Sicilian mafia that settled in the United States. Knowing this,

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    film, for several years. In the film, The Godfather (1974), Francis Ford Coppola introduces the dichotomy of Don Vito Corleone, the sadistic, cruel mob leader, yet protective, compassionate father and husband. The ideals of family values and tradition are so neatly interwoven into this obscene lifestyle that it is nearly impossible to disassociate the two. Therefore, Don Corleone,

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    The Godfather Violence

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    Don Vito Corleone. Hey askes for some men to get hurt in other to claim justice for his daughter.

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    white upper class that the youngest son Michael wishes to inject himself into. Kay is treated with respect throughout the novel; even when she is put in her place about business. She is not looked at in a bad light even though she is a free agent of the time. In fact she is given somewhat of an authority role in this novel. I’ll be it that she is the epidemy of how woman can manipulate a situation or “use their wiles”. Kay uses the love and respect Michael has for her to get what she wants at times

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    The viewpoint of the audience is immediate understanding of Bonasera’s intimidation of Don Corleone, based solely on lighting. This, coupled with the incredible camera work of Michael Chapman, and the rest of the crew’s work in setting the perspective shots and visual point of views just right, allow for a cinematic masterpiece in cinematography alone. Not only does the lighting and camera

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