The+Godfather+Film+Review

//The Godfather// was one of the greatest movies of its time. Other producers of that time did not think that Francis Ford Coppolla would be able to do as good of a job as he ended up doing. The movie was released in 1972 and has since won 3 Oscars.

Some of the actors in //The Godfather// are James Caan as Sonny Corleone, Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, and Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen. The acting in //The Godfather// was good for its time. For the most part it was believable but some of the fight scenes were not done well. For example, when Sonny went over to his sister's house and she had bruises all over her face. When Sonny went to find her husband and “rough him up”, the fight scene did not look real at all. Otherwise, I thought that the acting in this movie was not bad.

This film is a crime and a family drama. Towards the beginning of this film, this does not seem like your typical family. The father is what seems to be a mob boss, their adopted son is their “lawyer”, one son is involved in the same things as his father, and the youngest son is in the army and has nothing to do with the family business. In the beginning, during Connie’s wedding we get to know a little more about what the Godfather really does when Michael says “My father gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Luca Brasi held the gun to his head and my father told him that either his signature or his brain would be on the contract.” During the wedding, the family is close but more towards the end, they grow further apart. They don’t listen to each other and eventually ends up getting Sonny killed.

The music in //The Godfather// changes when the scenes change for the most part. The music sets up the scenes very well also. Coppolla used different types of music throughout the movie.

The camera work in //The Godfather// is creative and innovating. Coppolla used many cuts and had many shots in a scene. For example, during Connie’s child’s baptism, Coppolla used almost seventy cuts and there was close to eight or nine different places that the movie took place in.

At the time, there were not that many editing tricks that could be done. Instead, he used many cuts and different sceneries. He used a bunch of short scenes and put them all together to form a big scene.