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Dec 20, 2019 · The Godfather is a historic movie that made and remade history. Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s best-selling family novel is consistently rated in the top three motion ...
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Aug 8, 2024 · The Godfather is one of the greatest films ever made, and the influence of Don Vito Corleone, the patriarch of the mafia family at the heart of The Godfather movie series, is easy to see. Any time a corpulent mob boss pops up in pop culture, in everything from Star Wars to Futurama, it's fair to assume that it's a riff on Marlon Brando's iconic ...
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- Joey Zasa. Joey Zasa is the capo in charge of the family's affairs in New York once Frank Petrangeli dies. He appears in the third film and is played by Joe Mantenga.
- Al Neri. Al Neri is to Michael Corleone what Luca Brassi was to Vito Corleone. He appears in the three movies and is played by Richard Bright. Neri is one of the Godfather's best enforcers in charge of many important killings throughout the trilogy, such as Barzini’s in the first Godfather film, Fredo’s in the second movie, or Archbishop Gilday's in the third movie.
- Frank Pentangeli. Frank Pentangeli is also a capo inside the Corleone Family. He appears in the second film and is portrayed by Michael V. Gazzo. Frank takes Clemenza’s position after his death.
- Luca Brasi. Luca Brasi is a soldier inside the Corleone Family. He is an awkward and scary thug, but also a very loyal character. He is Vito Corleone’s bodyguard and hitman.
Dec 15, 2020 · Based on Mario Puzo's 1969 crime novel of the same name, ... Like Carlo Gambino, Vito had a reputation for being a modest, under-the-radar figure. ... In one of the most memorable scenes in The ...
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- The Five Families. The Godfather's central story chronicles an ongoing power struggle between the Corleone family and their New York rivals. The other four families - the Tattaglias, the Barzinis, the Cuneos and the Straccis - are seeking to move into the narcotics trade with the help of Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, but the old-fashioned Don Corleone refuses to play ball.
- Vito Corleone. Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone is one of cinema's most celebrated figures, but the character took inspiration from several real-life criminals and perhaps the most prominent influence is Frank Costello, one-time head of the Genovese family.
- Johnny Fontane. Although the singer himself was infamously irked by the connection, it's widely believed that the Corleones' close family friend, Johnny Fontane, was based on Frank Sinatra.
- Moe Greene. As the Corleones' associate in Las Vegas, Moe Greene is an exuberant and debauched personality who thinks of himself as a big-shot, however, this larger-than-life personality is modeled on real-life mobster, Bugsy Siegel.
Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the aging Don (head) of a New York Mafia family, has three sons: passionate hothead Santino "Sonny" (James Caan), weak and ineffectual Fredo (John Cazale), and youngest Michael (Al Pacino), as well as daughter Connie (Talia Shire), and adopted son (and attorney) Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall).
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Vito Corleone is based on a composite of mid-20th-century New York Mafia figures Carlo Gambino, [1] Frank Costello, [2] Joe Bonanno, [3] and Joe Profaci. [4] Maria Le Conti Puzo, Mario Puzo's mother, was also a basis for the author's depiction of Vito. In 2019, Francis Ford Coppola wrote
