- During the filming, Coppola had a fierce conflict with the producer Paramount Pictures, so that the producer considered replacing him.
- Most of Marlon Brando's lines in the film are read out according to the cue cards. In addition, he deliberately imitated the voice of Vito Corleone's character prototype Frank Costello.
- Marlon Brando hopes to make Vito Corleone look like a "bulldog." During the audition, he stuffed cotton in his mouth to make his cheeks bulge. In the actual shooting, he wore a pair of dental braces specially made by the dentist.
- Lenny Montana, who plays Luca, was very nervous because of the role played with Marlon Brando, and even said the wrong lines, but Coppola thought his nervousness was just right and kept it in the final version.
- In the film Vito slapped Johnny. However, this is not in the script, and the confusion revealed by Al Martino, who plays Johnny, is also his true interpretation.
- The cat in Brando's arms in the opening scene is a stray cat he stumbled across on the Paramount set. The cat's purring even overwhelmed Brando's lines.
- In the bedroom scene, the horse head scene on the bed can be called the most amazing scene in this movie, and the crew used a real horse head to shoot. Animal rights organizations therefore protested. Coppola said that the horse's head was purchased from a dog food processing factory and that they would not mutilate animals out of filming needs.
- Coppola's original director's cut version was 126 minutes long, but the producer thought it was too short, and the officially released version was 50 minutes longer than the director's cut version.
- The scene of Sonny beating Connie's husband took 4 days to complete, using as many as 700 extras.
- Al Pacino said that Marlon Brando did indeed burst into tears when filming the footage in the hospital.
- Giani Russo, who plays Carlo, has a background in the underworld. Since he had never acted in a play, his appearance was opposed by Brando. For this reason, Gianni Russo tried to threaten Brando. However, this made Brando mistakenly believe that he was acting, and therefore affirmed his acting skills.
- When filming the shot of Sonny beating her brother-in-law on the street, James Kane, who played Sonny, interrupted the actor's two ribs. In addition, trucks and wooden boxes appeared in the background of the screen at that time, which were used to block the inappropriate background.
- In the picture taken in Sicily, Michael’s makeup does not match that of the filming in New York, because Paramount is unwilling to pay for the makeup artist’s trip to Italy.
- When filming the location of Waltz's residence, due to the inability of Robert Duval and John Marley to be there, the crew had to find extras as their stand-ins.
The Godfather behind the scenes gags
2021-10-13 18:31
Extended Reading
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Dianna 2021-10-20 18:58:02
Life is so beautiful. The plot and everything are very good, but there is one sentence I don't like. It seems to say that men need to consider a lot and bear a lot, but children and women don't need it. It feels a bit sexist.
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Gayle 2022-03-26 09:01:01
1. Like all fans, Godfather fans are as scary. If this is a man's bible, I can only say that fortunately I am not religious. 2. Is it to look at it from the perspective of film history? Why does it get such a high honor? Has it made a breakthrough in any aspect? 3, this so-called "epic" narrative seems out of place in the consumer era, maybe we are alienated? 4. I like the opening scene of the wedding very much. Well, maybe classic is a type
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Don Corleone: [crying, staring at Sonny's body] Look how they massacred my boy!
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Sonny: Tom-anuch! Hey, a hundred button men on the street twenty-four hours a day. That Turk shows one hair on his ass, he's dead. Believe me.
Sonny: [to Michael, whose face is bruised] Hey Michael, c'mere. Let me look at you. You look beautiful, just beautiful, you're gorgeous. Hey, listen to this. The Turk, he wants to talk. You imagine the nerve on this son of a bitch, hey? Craps out last night he wants a meetin' today.
Tom Hagen: What did he say?
Sonny: What did he say? Badda-beep, badda-bap, badda-boop, badda-beep, he wants us to send Michael to hear the proposition, and the promise is the deal is so good we can't refuse. Hey.
Tom Hagen: What about Bruno Tattaglia?
Sonny: That's part of the deal. Bruno cancels out what they did to my father.
Tom Hagen: Sonny, we ought to hear what they have to say.
Sonny: No, no, no! No more! Not this time, Consigliere! No more meetin's! No more discussions! No more Sollozzo tricks! You give 'em one message - I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war, we go to the mattresses.
Tom Hagen: Some of the other families won't sit still for all-out war!
Sonny: Then they hand me Sollozzo!
Tom Hagen: Your father would want to hear this. This is business, not personal.
Sonny: They shot my father? It's business, your ass.
Tom Hagen: Even the shooting of your father was business, not personal, Sonny!
Sonny: Well then, business will have to suffer, all right? And listen, do me a favor, Tom. No more advice on how to patch things up, just help me win, please. All right?
Tom Hagen: I found out about this Captain McClusky who broke Mike's jaw.
Sonny: What about him?
Tom Hagen: Now, he's definitely on Sollozzo's payroll and for big money. McClusky has agreed to be the Turk's bodyguard. What you have to understand, Sonny, is that while Sollozzo's being guarded like this he is invulnerable. Now, nobody has ever gunned down a New York police captain. Never. It would be disastrous. All the five families would come after you, Sonny. The Corleone Family would be outcast. Even the old man's political protection would run for cover. So, do me a favor, take this into consideration.
Sonny: All right, we wait.
Michael: It can't wait.
Sonny: Huh?
Michael: It can't wait. I don't care what Sollozzo says about a deal, he's gonna kill Pop. That's it. That's a key for him. Gotta get Sollozzo.
Clemenza: Mikey's right.
Sonny: Let me ask you something, Professor. I mean, what about this McClusky, huh? What do we do with this cop here?
Michael: They want to have a meeting with me, right? It will be me, McClusky and Sollozzo. Let's set the meeting. Get our informants to find out where it's going to be held. Now we insist it's a public place - a bar or a restaurant, some place where there's people there so I'll feel safe. They're going to search me when I first meet them, right? So I can't have a weapon on me then. But if Clemenza can figure a way to have a weapon planted there for me, then I'll kill them both.
Sonny: [Clemenza, Tessio and Sonny laugh] Hey. What are you gonna do? Nice college boy, huh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business? Now you want to gun down a police captain, what, 'cause he slapped you in the face a little bit, huh? What do you think, this the Army where you shoot 'em a mile away? No, you gotta get up close like this - badda-bing! - you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit. C'mere.
[Kisses Michael on the head]
Sonny: You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very, very personal.