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Sep. 20th, 2003 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnedaxUp too late. Just finished watching The Godfather for the first time. Interesting movie, although I found myself comparing it quite a bit to The Untouchables. Even placing the setting aside, the central motif of falling into corruption is remarkably similar... and I happen to think The Untouchables is one of the best dramas ever put to screen. Nonetheless, I can see the reasoning by which so many rate Godfather as the Greatest Movie Ever. Hmm, time for sleep now, I think.
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Date: 2003-09-20 01:51 pm (UTC)It really can't compare to part I, but it's important for completeness, and has its moments. If roughly 2 1/2 hours of the first one's 178 minutes are great, then roughly 1 1/2 hours of part II's 200 minutes are great...
"Leave the gun. Take the canolli."
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Date: 2003-09-21 10:15 am (UTC)The thing about that quote is that I'd heard it before, and always thought it was some kind of commentary about familial and/or culinary concerns being the more pressing than the call to violence. But no, it just means "the gun is evidence, but we need those canolli for later." Still not a bad line, just a totally different emphasis than I expected.