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Parto con qualche inciso a vario titolo.
La Paramount si sta dimostrando una fucina di serie tv di altissimo livello.
La trilogia di Sheridan, composta da Yellowstone, 1883 e Mayor of Kingstown, ha lasciato letteralmente il segno lo scorso anno. Piazzare, oggi, una miniserie come The Offer, subito dopo quelle 3 magnifiche serie, equivale ad un manifesto programmatico serissimo. La Paramount ci ha detto, negli ultimi mesi: CI SONO ANCHE IO.
Dopo la clamorosa ascesa di Apple TV Plus e con la HBO che non perde un colpo, forte anche della nuovissima HBOMax che sta seminando gioielli ovunque, anche la Paramount sembra volersi iscrivere all'albo delle case di produzione infallibili.
Ed è sempre la Paramount che con The Offer sembra voler tributare a se stessa un omaggio autocelebrativo, nel voler evidenziare come fu proprio essa a produrre e credere in The Godfather. Per la serie: dopo 50 anni siamo ancora qui a recitare la parte del leone.
Altra cosa molto importante, secondo me, è che The Offer non nasce dalle menti e dalle tasche di chi era stato, a vario titolo, presente nella trilogia de Il Padrino. Non c'è dietro un tentativo di ricordare quel prodotto, a mezzo secolo di distanza, lucrandoci anche un pochettino sopra. The Offer è una serie autonoma, nata per celebrare quel film e tutta Hollywood, quasi come se fosse un Once Upon a Time in Hollywood non scritto da Quentin Tarantino e costruito per il piccolo schermo.
Ritornando al pilot dello show, c'è molto da dire proprio perchè i riferimenti e i tributi sono tantissimi.
Quello che conta davvero (e tanto) è che in The Offer si finisce per addentrarsi totalmente nella costruzione di quello che sarebbe stato Il Padrino. Che ci crediate o no, questo punto fisso nel tempo cinematografico, ha avuto una gestazione complicata ed un avvio quasi mai certo.
Nello show ritroviamo tutti gli uomini che dietro le quinte si affannarono per mettere in piedi il film. Dallo scrittore Puzo al giovane produttore Ruddy, dalla Paramount a Francis Ford Coppola, e via discorrendo.
L'introduzione, a scaglioni, di tutti questi personaggi, ci consente di riaffacciarci a The Godfather, aggiungendo degli elementi che conoscevamo poco o per nulla.
A credere nell'adattamento della versione letteraria, erano in pochissimi, nonostante il libro avesse avuto un discreto successo.
La Warner Bros voleva rubarne i diritti per produrne un lungometraggio. La Paramount disse no, non tanto perchè desiderosa e cosciente di avere in mano del materiale pregiato, ma perchè era alla disperata ricerca di quello che oggi chiameremmo un blockbuster o meglio un film ad alto incasso. E cosi che al giovane produttore Ruddy (il sempre ottimo Miles Teller) fu affidato il copione ed il compito di interagire con Puzo per la messa in moto del progetto. Arrivò Francis Ford Coppola, arrivarono Al Pacino, Marlon Brando e tutti gli altri.
Il resto è storia.

Voglia di continuare a vederlo: 8,5
Voglia di consigliarlo: 7
Originalità: 8
Cast: 8,5
Comparto Tecnico: 8+
Dove Vederla: Paramount +
Anno di uscita: 2022

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Do you believe that The Godfather is one of the best films in the history of cinema?

Have you always wondered how the screenplay for this masterpiece came about?

Do movie and gangster stories send you into raptures?

Paramount + has placed another masterstroke, producing and signing The Offer, a 10-episode miniseries that sets out to retrace the very events that led to the genesis of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's unforgettable masterpiece still considered one of the milestones of film history.
The Offer, right from its title throws us full-throttle inside the famous film, taking up the most famous phrase of the entire trilogy, that iconic sentence pronounced by Don Vito Corleone (played by the masterful Marlon Brando) and which for us Italians has always sounded like "I'll make you an offer you won't be able to refuse."
And the series, in 2022, sounds just like one you can't refuse to watch, made up of intrigue, rises, fears, and grotesque situations that, put all together, led to the creation of this '90s piece of all filmmaking.

I'll start with a few miscellaneous asides.
Paramount is proving to be a hotbed of TV series of the highest order.
The Sheridan trilogy, consisting of Yellowstone, 1883 and Mayor of Kingstown, literally made its mark last year. To place, today, a miniseries like The Offer, right after those 3 magnificent series, is tantamount to a serious programmatic manifesto. Paramount has been telling us, for the past few months: I AM ALSO IN IT.
After the resounding rise of Apple TV Plus and with HBO not missing a beat, strong also with the brand new HBOMax that is sowing jewels everywhere, Paramount too seems to want to join the roll of infallible production houses.
And it is always Paramount that with The Offer seems to want to pay itself a self-celebratory tribute, in wanting to highlight how it was precisely it that produced and believed in The Godfather. For the series: after 50 years we are still here playing the lion's share.
Another very important thing, in my opinion, is that The Offer does not come from the minds and pockets of those who had been, in various capacities, present in The Godfather trilogy. There is no attempt behind it to recall that product, half a century later, even profiting a little bit on it. The Offer is a stand-alone series, created to celebrate that film and all of Hollywood, almost as if it were a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood not written by Quentin Tarantino and built for the small screen. It may seem like a forced comparison, but if you drop it into the specific desire to chronicle the Hollywood underworld of excess and whimsy, of stars and cranks, of big majors and budding producers, of dreams and red seats, then you will understand that what was Tarantino's intention in that film is also Michael Tolkin's intention here.
And speaking of Michael Tolkin, it is worth mentioning that the creator of The Offer is also one of the creators of Escape at Dannemora, a never-too-praised series that I reviewed for you some time ago in this post.

Returning to the show's pilot, there is a lot to say precisely because there are so many references and tributes.
What really matters (and a lot) is that in The Offer we end up totally delving into the construction of what would have been The Godfather. Believe it or not, this fixed point in cinematic time had a complicated gestation and an almost never certain start.
In the show we find all the men behind the scenes who labored to put the film together. From writer Puzo to young producer Ruddy, from Paramount to Francis Ford Coppola, and on and on.
The staggered introduction of all these characters allows us to reacquaint ourselves with The Godfather, adding elements we knew little or nothing about.
There were very few who believed in adapting the literary version, despite the fact that the book was quite successful.
Warner Bros. wanted to steal the rights to produce a feature film. Paramount said no, not so much because it was eager and aware that it was holding valuable material, but because it was desperate for what today we would call a blockbuster or rather a high-grossing film. And so it was that young producer Ruddy (the always excellent Miles Teller) was given the script and the task of interacting with Puzo to set the project in motion. In came Francis Ford Coppola, in came Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and all the rest.
The rest is history.

Italy and the Italian-American Mafia played no small role in this story, both diegetically and extradiegetically. If in the former case the reason is obvious, The Godfather being a film all about the Italian-American Mafia, the latter is much less so.
Puzo's book, in fact, had triggered such strong resentments in Italian-American criminal circles that it set in motion a mechanism of self-defense and censorship by the mafia itself against that writer and his book. The result was a kind of boycott, more or less civil, of the Mafia against a book, and then a film, that portrayed its grotesque, excessive and thuggish behavior as never before.
The genius of the authors, in the series, was to compose a character cut and tailor-made for Giovanni Ribisi, on whom the actor dropped all the stereotypes of the Italian-American mobster, in a sauce that was also quite ridiculous and funny. The actor plays Joe Colombo, a gangster on the upswing who we see interacting among such notorious "Padrino" mob bosses as Lucchese and Gambino.

Willingness to keep seeing it: 8.5
Willingness to recommend it: 7
Originality: 8
Cast: 8.5
Technical Compartment: 8+
Where to See It: Paramount +
Release Year: 2022