The Godfather Essay

Editing: The Baptism Murders – The Godfather (8/9) Movie Clip (1972) HD In the movie scene, “The Baptism Murders” from The Godfather (1972), there were a wide variety of editing methods/techniques that were used to portray the ironic message of good versus evil. The scene was composed of a main scene in a church and direct cuts to a violent contrast of the character. Direct cuts, according to (CITE), are immediate, sometimes jarring cuts between one scene and another. Another method used in this…

What Happened to the Money? In Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Don Vito Corleone said, “lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks” (187) In the gangster culture, all decisions and motivations revolve around money. Throughout Little Caesar, The Godfather, and Donnie Brasco, the circulation of money shifts greatly. At a time, whoever earned money got to keep their own money, but eventually, gangsters started making money for bosses, or basically, gangsters…

Puzo’s novels are famed for his development of characters in a short period of time one such example in the novel is that of Luca Brasi, "Luca Brasi was indeed a man to frighten the devil in hell himself. Brasi's reputation for violence was awesome and his devotion towards Don Corleone legendary. his kind was a rarity."(Puzo,36) "Luca Brasi did not fear the police, he did not fear societies, he did not fear god, he did not fear hell, he did not fear or love his fellow man. but he has elected and…

Gangster films are one of the most popular films today. These films are full of violence, crime, action and a whole lot more. Films in this genre go pretty far back in time. Some of the most popular gangster films were made in the early 1900’s. One of the first ever gangster film made is Musketeers of Pig Alley. This film is black and white with no sound. According to Film Genre Reader II, “we know that whatever happens the gangster always gets his” (Mitchel 206). Having that in mind makes these…

The movie Chinatown is a historical movie which reveals something that happened in the past, where a man named William Mulholland which was the chief engineer of the department of water and power in LA, he brought Owens Valley water to LA for reasons of safety and engineering, so a man at that time which resembles Noah Cross and LA want the company, so they played a game on him leading him to his death and ending his career The film is a skillful blend of mystery, romance, suspense, and…

portrayed Italians as mobsters, pasta loving people, or thugs. We choose to accept and believe these stereotypes. Although Italians have made their way in America, they are still affiliated with many cultural stereotypes. Some films such as the Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos have negatively influenced our perspective in associating Italians with criminal activity. State how its negatively influenced (3) The show features Italian mobster who cook…

With each movie genre comes growth and evolution. When a genre first starts out in the industry, it usually will not look exactly the same as it would if it was made today. Specifically, when it comes to mafia movies, the core values each film shares still stays true. The consistent rush of criminal activity and bad guys looking like good guys are all the same qualities that keep the content of the films strong. But, the genre itself has continued to grow, both through techniques as well as the…

The importance of an assortment of racial groups off-screen is arguably necessary in order to produce a larger amount of diversity within films and to better represent POC. Arguably, this may be one factor when considering why POC are not being cast if the people that are casting are white and will not want to break the system of institutionalised racism. In regards to gender, Women are another oppressed group. Women are often sexualised and objectified and are also commonly exposed to negative…

In this 1992 American-Japanese documentary directed by Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy and Stuart Samuels, we are shown a 92-minute glimpse of the art of cinematography since the conception of cinema in the late eighteen-hundreds to contemporary films in the late nineteen-eighties. “Visions of Light: the Art of Cinematography” (1992) is a chronologic collage of several films, narrated in English by different directors of photography; the cinematography of this documentary is done by Detroit’s own…

people came to the Godfather for “justice”, one of whom was Bonasera, an Italian-American undertaker. The film started by his famous line, “I believe in America”, at which time the screen was still dark; then his face and forehead appeared on the screen, and he continued “America has made my fortune”. However, America failed to give him justice: His daughter was beaten to disfigurement and almost raped but the suspects only received a suspended sentence. Thus he came to Godfather, who was awed y…