- Zogo
- Jul 29, 2003
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Once Upon a Time in America > The Godfather > The Godfather: Part II > The Godfather: Part III
The ramifications of Leone's film being butchered in half still reverberate to this very day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_McyI1IQfcM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMT9jEluuOU
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- Zogo
- Jul 29, 2003
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Still never seen that. I'm assuming the 251-minute directors cut is the one to go for?
I've watched the 3h49m version (229 minutes). Originally planned as two three hour long films Leone relented to a 3h49m version thirty years ago but then it was further cut down to a 139 minute version that Ebert and others called a travesty.
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- Zogo
- Jul 29, 2003
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We could've had part IV.
http://www.mtv.com/news/1576410/francis-ford-coppola-explains-why-there-is-no-godfather-iv/
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MTV: "Godfather IV" was talked about, it seems, at one time. You and Mario Puzo — is this true? — went to Paramount and said, "We're interested, we'll do it," and they said, "We're not interested."
Coppola: I never thought making a second "Godfather" made sense to me. ... I thought the end of the first "Godfather" film was the end of it. Michael has become what he's become. He's paid a terrible price for it, and that's the point. The last shot of closing his wife out was the end. So when they wanted a second "Godfather," it was just to make money. ... It was the beginning of this franchise mentality, so I resisted it. ... But I was working on an original idea of ... telling a story of a father and a son at the same age ... two stories paralleling. They prevailed on me so much that I said, "Well, I'll do it, but I'll have total control, and I'll make it be this story and work it into 'The Godfather.' " When that was done — miracle of miracles that it was well-received; like anything, it could have gone as bad as gone right — then I was done with it.
Many years later, after "One From the Heart," after [accumulating] huge debt, unbelievable debt for a young guy, the chance to do "Godfather III" was a chance for me to get out of my problems, and I did it as best I knew how. ... And then there was talk of a fourth "Godfather." And I had an idea of how you could do it, oddly enough, again paralleling two stories because it was a big part of the book that had never been made — it was the period sort of between the old period in "Godfather II" and when you see Marlon Brando in "The Godfather." Mario called it the "happy years" — when we killed them and they didn't kill us. [He laughs.]
And Mario was very concerned to make money because he was getting older and he really wanted to leave his kids well-fixed, and I said to Paramount, "Look it, we have an idea of a structure of this thing. Pay Mario Puzo a million dollars to do this first draft, and I'll help him and work with him. You don't have to pay me anything. But he's getting old, and he's not entirely well." And they basically didn't do it. And then he died.
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