** ALL RIGHTS TO RESPECTIVE OWNERS SPOILERS
The opening monologue is a bunch of shit. “She’ll never be beautiful, so I wept.”
Bitch, that’s the least of your problems. These mofos beat your daughter so bad her jaw was wired shut, and you cry over the fact “she won’t be beautiful again?”
Marlon Brando with the wooly balls in his mouth. Literally. He sounds like he does have food in his mouth. There’s a lot of stereotypical hand gestures here, the signature,"WTF,” among others.
As we see, Sicilian culture is big on courtesy and respect.
“Masculine child.” Oh, if only you could see the mob now…you’d be in for a rude awakening.
The horse head scene… YAH. Even now I want to yell about that. Yah, it looks fake, yah, it’s parodied all over, but, SHITTTTT…… Consigliere won’t lose sleep over the horse head…. YAH….
Character wise, look how Don Corleone shuts Sonny down with a LOOK. A LOOK. DAMN.
“I don’t like violence Tom, I’m a businessman.” I won’t spoil a famous quote.
Kay: I love you. Mike: I KNOW. WOW.
Noting people are away from the desk and no one’s around, Mike realizes somethings up. And you totally feel the fear and anxiety.
“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.” Chuckles
Consigliere might have made a good replacement. Unfortunately, we’ll never know.
Is this confession when Mike gets a hug from the captain in the car?
Reflects the way society works. How else would a writer know, unless they’re on the payroll, or in on the fix?
Marlon Brando put actual weights on the bed without anyone’s knowledge so the other actors would try to carry him up the stairs. Hahahaha!
And the beating up of Connie’s husband… yah. I forgot how fucking awful that was. I still cringe and shiver….
The scene with Connie is horrifying when her abusive husband comes at her with his belt. I also still cringe and shiver...
Mike swearing up and down about how he’s not like his father…. but they’re more alike than he thinks.
And one of the most famous quotes of all time. “Now who’s being naïve Kay?”
“Buy out the competition.” But if you watch Mike’s face when he’s meeting with Mo Green, Mike isn’t laughing.
“Women and children can be careless, not men.” Oh, if only you could see the mob now Don Corleone.
Where were these filming locations?
As the baptism occurs, all these hits are carried out on Barzini and his crew. “I do renounce Satan.” Oh, the irony….
But how did they know about the mole?
SO, who was the mole? The moles were Carlo and Tessio.
So, that’s when Kay asks him the truth and sees his bad half. And, in true psycho form, he lies right to Kay’s face.
The women’s costumes scare me at the wedding. I’d rather wear the suits…. The hair, the accessories….:-O The later costumes are a lot more tolerable than the costumes at Connie’s wedding (maybe it’s cause I’m a millennial Hehehehe).
As an old film reviewer said,” It’s like a big club, where everyone knows everyone else, and they are pretty knowledgeable about what they’re up to.” Exactly!
The writing is substantive, the dialogue is rich, and so’s the cinematography.
As a film, it’s wonderfully executed.
AND THE SOUNDTRACK DOES ITS JOB. It perfectly punctuates the sequence it’s used in. When the danger theme kicks in, it’s like the JAWS theme, where you know shit’s about to happen. The soundtrack when Mike kills Captain McCluskey in the Pizza Joint is good, reflects what’s going through Mike’s head. The dramatic music after the murder of McCluskey and Salazzo is Mike’s official turn to the dark side.
There’s a lot of things about the human condition and power here, which is part of what makes this film so critically acclaimed. The finnicky nature of human nature, Don Corleone ends up being the very thing he fought against.
They kill people on screen in the most graphic way in this film, like the psychos and losers they are. But they romanticize it, I think that was my largest problem with it. You’re supposed to empathize with the psychos, the mofos. They don't blink an eye when giving the order for a hit.
There’s a massive propagandizing/brainwashing on the character’s part “Family”, “Businessman”, “Offer they can’t refuse.” Supposedly, they feel guilt. Do they? It's the name of the game they play. It's normalized, like anything, if you're exposed to it long enough.
All in all, the exploration of human nature is interesting somewhat, the violence is graphic, and the costumes, score, the dialogue, writing, and cinematography works so well! So does the editing!
If it were re-released today, I'd rate it $11.50/$13.50 USD on the technical work ALONE.
