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Posted by One-Shot Scot on 01/07/06 08:10
"Curtin/Dobbs" <curtin-dobbs@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@mind-NOSPAM-spring.com> wrote in message
> news:7vivf.5349$M%4.5288@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > "Fish! - of Arcadia." <tastyfish@fugu.com> wrote in message
> > news:MPG.1e275094b416ae33989ff1@News.Individual.net...
> >>> I wouldn't be so quick to presume. Random House did recently
commission
> >>> and publish a "Godfather Returns" sequel novel by Mark Winegardner:
> >>>
> >>> http://tinyurl.com/8hjg7
> >>>
> >>> And, even more despicably, there is also a new Godfather video game:
> >>>
> >>> http://ps2.ign.com/objects/665/665843.html
> >>>
> >>> Is a 4th movie really so unlikely?
> >>
> >> Of course it fucking is. FFC got bagged to death for making the 3rd
> >> one,
> >
> > Who says he has to be involved? Mario Puzo is dead and yet there's a 4th
> > Godfather novel. Coppola doesn't own the rights to the franchise,
> > Paramount does. They can do with it what they want, and if they think
> > making a 4th movie could earn them a nickel there's nothing stopping
them
> > from doing it.
> >
> >> and what the hell would it be about anyway?
> >
> > It would be based on the "Godfather Returns" novel, presumably.
> >
> > I'm certainly not saying this is a good idea. I'd be pretty mortified by
> > it. But to say it's never going to happen is just plain ignorant of the
> > realities of the movie business.
>
>
>
> FWIW, a few years ago they were seriously thinking of making a 4th GF film
> that would take place after the Pt.II DeNiro stuff and before the Pt. I
> Brando stuff. DeCaprio was being touted as a young Sonny. I am SO GLAD
this
> was never realized.
>
> If they're going to do it--and I don't think they should--but, if they're
> going to do it, don't make the GF Returns bk. w/ all new actors that we'd
be
> distractedly and disparagingly comparing to the originals, but make a
> continuation of Pt. III and let somebody like Soderbergh, Tarantino,
> Rodriguez, etc. go wiggy with it.
>
>
> ...Curtin/Dobbs
Wow. Using _The Godfather Part III_ as a springboard for a further
continuation of The Godfather saga would be stretching the limits of the
original novel. At least in Part II, the young Vito scenes (brilliantly
played by Robert De Niro) came right out of the book.
They certainly squeezed a lot of extra mileage out of Connie Corleone by
adding non-existent dimensions to her character in order justify her parts
in episodes II and III of the Godfather series. However, In chapter 32 of
his book_The Godfather_, author Mario Puzo wrote the following epilogue:
"Time helped heal the old wounds. Connie Corleone was reconciled to her
brother Michael. Indeed not more than a week after her terrible accusations
she apologized to Michael for what she had said and assured Kay that there
had been no truth in her words, that it had been only a young widow's
hysteria."
"Connie Corleone easily found a new husband; in fact, she did not wait
the year of respect before filling her bed again with a fine young fellow
who had come to work for the Corleone Family as a male secretary. A boy from
a reliable Italian family but graduated from the top business college in
America. Naturally his marriage to the sister of the Don made his future
assured."
So, they trot Connie out in Part II as a drunken slut and then in Part III
she becomes a bitter old bitch bent on endless vendettas. "Kill the
bastards!"
Godfather III would have been dramatically improved if Sophia Coppola's swan
song in the final climatic Opera House scene had occurred at the beginning
of the movie. Then the cast members could have just talked about her and
shown family pictures of her. "Remember when Mary did this and when Mary did
that?"
It's difficult to suffer through Miss Coppola's pathetic performance without
laughing. In Godfather III, this wannabe starlet is surrounded by talented
actors. It's embarrassing to watch some of Hollywood's most
talented performers attempt to help her as she stumbles through the awkward
recital of each of her lines.
And I'm not the only one who feels this way:
Here's how Cheech summed up
the situation in_Bullets Over Broadway_:
"She throws the whole thing out of whack. Can't you see it? Every time I
hear that voice, it's like a knife in my fuckin' heart. She can't act! You
listening to me? She makes stuff not work. Stuff she ain't even in, it comes
out twisted. Leave me alone. I got a fuckin' headache."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
On the other hand, Miss Coppola's lousy acting does liven up an otherwise
dull movie with an element of comic relief.
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