The Godfather Part II (DVD)

I'm sure at the time it was announced there would have been many people that thought another Godfather film would tarnish the reputation of what is a classic. Those fears were un-necessary as The Godfather Part II is a film in it's own right. You don't really have to have seen the first one to get the basis of this. To class it as a sequel is wrong and quite rightly it's named the second part of a much larger story. Some years have passed since ...
...the head of the Corleone family. He is still married to Kay and is making moves to expand the family's presence in Las Vegas with the casinos. We also move back to the turn of the century and see Don Vito Corleone's rise to power from a young boy sailing into New York to taking over the streets of the city. In the modern day story strand it's all about control, loyalty and betrayal. Michael spends time in Miami trying to make a bigger move into ...

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The critics have acclaimed The Godfather Part II as the greatest sequel of all time. Many have gone on to say that it is better than the original. I am not sure and I will try and explain why. Before I begin I will say that the film I watched was the 25th anniversary video. Similar to the original there are spoilers at the beginning of the video! So fast forward past those and watch the interviews etc after you have watched the movie. The second ...
...first film ended. However, the main part of the story is approximately 10 years after the original finished. Michael is the new Don. He is the head of the Corleone family and after re-instating them as the most powerful of the 5 New York families he relocated the family to Nevada. He has the problem that he is filling the shoes of a massively popular and well respected man. Can he continue to run the family in the way the Godfather did and can he ...

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The Godfather: Part II is the second installment in the Godfather saga, chronicling the life and times of the Corleone family. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written with Mario Puzo, this film won 6 academt awards, including best picture and best supporting actor for Robert De Niro. A noticeable difference with this film is that it presents two parallel storylines. One involves the now head of the Corleone family, Michael (Al Pacino), from ...
...a casino in Las Vegas, the other is a flashback showing his father, Vito "Don" Corleone from his childhood in Sicily to his founding of the Corleone crime family in New York. As with the first one, there is a lot of violence and murder, so it's not to everyone's taste. I know this film is held up as the exception to the rule that the sequel is always inferior to the original, but I disagree. To me, the quintessential mafia film has to be set in ...

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...is without doubt one of the finest directors/screenwriters of the 20th Century. we know about his Godfather contributions, but when you also consider Patton, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now & RumpleFish, we have to appreciate what a superb writer he really is. But The Godfather films will be his most-remembered for all the right reasons, and deservedly so, especially working in collaboration with Mario Puzo, one of best authors of the time. Coppola ...
...bits" work so well in the hands of the Master that it gives the movie (any of his movies in fact) a more intelligent & rounded gloss. I must freely admit to preferring G2 to the original because it offers so much richness & character-defining elements than the first. Although Brando was very good & suitably threatening in the first, he would also slow the pace of the film down to a stroll bringing the other characters down with him. However, with ...

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The Godfather II is the second part of the Godfather trilogy. This film sees Michael in charge of the Corleone family having taken over from his father Vito. Running parallel to Michael's rise to power and reign over his father's mafia empire is the story of Vito first coming to America as a boy from Sicily and his rise through the crime ranks. The arrival on the young Vito in America gives a background to the character portrayed by Marlon Brando. ...
...insistence on family being the most important thing. Watching how he has struggled as an outsider to create his reputation as a man on honour makes you realise that this is a legacy that must be passed on and that 'the family' must stay together. This film goes further than the first in exploring the idea of loyalty to 'the family' and the corrupting influence of power. Michael physically seems old beyond his years and Al Pacino puts in an astounding ...

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Starting when the first movie left off, this film brings in the continual change of Michael just as well as the original. The first left us with Michael Corleone, the head of the Corleone family, trying to turn his portion of the American-Italian mafia into straight guys earning a straight living, this one continues, but to no avail. With flashbacks to his fathers growth in power, this movie explains the beginnings of Michaels family. His fathers ...
...De-Niro. His class act steals the show. This was arguably one of his best performances. His delivery of lines ties in with Brandos performance, which brings great continuity to the character. The music and scores fit in perfectly with the storyline, making the Godfather experience all that more special. With the theme tune being played throughout the director shows great creativity in disguising it in various parts of the Corleone life. Also the ...

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...25 years on BBC1 had the great job of saying "yet again a sequel that does not live up to anything like the original - the only one that has is Godfather II" I must have heard him say it 100 times. Made two years after the original in 1973, The film actually in my opinion beats the original in many ways. The original Godfather film tells the story of the Corleone Mafia family in the 1940s. It depicts how young Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) rises ...
...dies and severe fighting with the other Mafia families has left the family in tatters, leaving a reluctant Michael no choice but to become the Don. The second film tells so many stories, the first main plot is the continued ascention of the Corleone family, in particular the change in character of Michael as he becomes more and more corrupted by his power and responsibility as a head of a mafia family. His performance is gripping and well worthy ...

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I had read the book and had started searching for the trilogy, but it was £42.00 pounds, far too much for me. I searched around on the net and it wasn't much cheaper, so i went into HMV and to my surprise and delight, it was a 3 for 2 offer. I got the 3 videos for about £15 pounds. I sat down for a gangster fest. Having watched the first part of the trilogy i couldn't wait to get the second video in the VCR. I wasn't dissapointed. Although Marlon ...
...also in this one as the young Vito Corleone and this is one of my favourite parts of the whole trilogy. It is such a well acted part it is stupid, I hadn't previously liked De Niro, but his performance in this film certainly changed my opinion. This film certainly isn't what the firast one was, but this is only because of Brandos abscence, and I can't see any way that Brando could have been included in this film. It would have been pretty much impossible ...

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...recieving respects from his advisors. The scripts states this as Michael being "in profile". He looks glumm and slightly stares down at them. Then the title reveals the that chair he was sitting in. An aspect of his life we have seen and preview. At the beginning of the film, we get a view of the mafia that we didn't get in the first one. Of actual Sicilians in Sicily. This is probably the most brutal part and area of the hepacracy that is witnessed ...
...for an insult made to the Don, he is of course killed. His son Paulo, probably one to have give spiritual inheritence to Santino, swears revenge and of course is killed in turn. Antonio's wife makes a reverent pleed to the Don to spare her last son, Vito. He refuses with a simple and cold "No." Vito escapes as his mother is killed. When he arrives in Ellis Island, he is given his name "Vito Corleone". In Lake Tahoe, Navada, the Corleones have achieved ...

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