Vito Corleone

criminals. They were apprehended by law enforcement, then charged with money laundering or murder. The Italians were the bad guys, and the cops were the good guys. However, The Godfather depicted mobsters as wealthy men who cared about their family. Don Corleone spoke with sophistication. Michael is college educated and a veteran. The audience sympathizes with Michael’s struggles between good and evil in the film. The new way of presenting the “bad guys” prompted changes in other films and…

“The choices we make dictate the life we lead”, said Bill Rago. The class examines the changes between Bill Rago and the Double D’s and how they change from MA to Ren traits. In the movie the end result was that Bill Rago and the Double D’s showed humanism, adventurous, and confidence. During the beginning of the movie Bill Rago and the Double D shared similar MA traits. Both of them didn’t show humanism because he was not loyal and had no style. He showed no loyalty when he didn’t support his…

Once again, director, Danny Boyle has combined drama and crime with a pinch of romance and created a British film called Slumdog Millionaire. The film is written by Simon Beaufoy and produced by Christian Colson. The movie is yet another example of rags-to-riches, it is about a Muslim boy named Jamal Malik, who grew up on the streets of Mumbai, India with his older brother Salim Malik, as they lost their mother in an anti-Muslim riot. Jamal and Salim met a little pretty girl of their age called…

loyalty, honor, and friendship. It always ends up with betrayal, murder, manipulation, and everyone ratting each other out to save their own ass. There is also a hierarchy in the mob movies, from the lowest mob enforcer all of the way up to Don Corleone. This hierarchy exists in society and, since it is human nature to protect your own ass and do what is in one’s…

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the Corleone family affairs following the events of the first film. The film begins with a mafia chief executing all of Vito Corleone’s immediate family in Sicily. Left alone, young Vito flees his hometown and travels to America. As Vito gets older, his career of crime begins with petty theft and later escalates into the neighborhood negotiator. Despite his life of crime, Vito continues to be portrayed as a well-respected man. The remainder of the film focuses on Vito’s son, Michael Corleone,…

I give The Godfather four stars out of four stars. It is an excellent movie. The first thing that makes The Godfather an excellent movie is the music score. The music fit with the movie perfectly. The composers of the songs did an excellent job composing pieces that fit with the scene. The final song, composed by Nino Rota, is very memorable. From now on, whenever I hear Rota’s song, I will think of The Godfather. The action is the second thing that makes The Godfather an excellent movie. The…

The Godfather (1972), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) transform from a young man completely uninterested in his family’s business into the ruthless Don of his family. As Don of the Corleone family, Michael is constantly scheming to ensure the survival of his family over the other families in New York. Coppola’s mixing of the sacred and the profane helps to show Michael’s transformation into Don Corleone. Over the course of the movie the presence of the profane…

” is depended on the sacrifices you’re willing to make, even if it means death. As cheesy as it sounds, this is what I perceived the message to be in The Godfather: Part II by Francis Ford Coppola, but in the Cinema, the main protagonist Michael Corleone loses what matters the most to him, Family. You get to see him and his household collapse due to his obsession of the family business and you get to view this through great angles this flick has produced. The sequel overall satisfied me for it’s…

and tradition play in our lives. The Corleone family at the heart of this 1972 crime drama is led by Vito, "the Don Corleone," the "Godfather" who protects the family and executes all major business decisions on their behalf. Besides Vito being in charge, Don Michael Corleone was the head of the Corleone family after Vito Corleone stepped down. In this movie there are many examples as to why it’s an archetypal film of Italian Americans. In the opening scene, Vito attends his father's funeral in…