The Godfather: Part II behind the scenes gags

2022-01-25 08:01

Marlon Brando was originally considered to be the main guest actor in the flashback at the end of the film, but in view of the way Paramount treated him in the first episode of "The Godfather," he refused to film even if it was only for one day.
Coppola originally planned to shoot Mike and his 18-year-old son Anthony in the final scene, but the shooting time was too late that day and the light was too dark, and this scene was not completed.
Vittorio Storaro declined the invitation to be the photographer of the film because he felt that the film could not exceed the first episode of "The Godfather".
De Niro's lines are basically Italian Sicilian.
Lee Strasberg contracted an illness during filming, so the script was modified to change the character of Hyman into a weak old man.
Hyman Ross is based on the real Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky, who is the godfather of the Jewish gang. After the film was released, he called Strassberg, "Why don't you act me more sympathetically? After all, I am now a grandfather."
James Can asks him to play Sonny Krini in the end flashback, and he should be paid the same as he did in the first movie. As a result, he got his wish.

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Bettye 2022-03-24 09:01:02

It wasn't until the last scene that I realized that "The Godfather 2" was filmed in the 1970s: an era when the struggle ended and the patriarchy returned. Mike had a plan for himself. He wanted to get rid of the family's sinful business, but he finally became the incarnation of sin. The power of the gang is established in the corner of the capitalist social power failure, but the old Corion's chivalrous bones are no longer there, and the patriarchy, as a copy of social power, has revealed its hideous features.
Toney 2022-03-23 09:01:02

Old Coppola, 1974. Al pacino is really handsome, haha. But the story is too beautified. It is neither like a gangster movie, nor a gunfight movie, nor a spy war movie, nor a family movie, nor a historical movie, which cannot be classified.