“The daughter took the bullet for Michael Corleone—my daughter took the bullet for me,” Coppola said. For the last 30 years, The Godfather: Part III has felt like the bastard child of the Corleone trilogy. Sure, it's hard to live in the shadow of two of the greatest films of all time, and the movie definitely has been judged way harsher than others, but it's just been easy to dunk on it for the last 30 years. I mean, how many other films could release to seven Academy Award nominations and live in infamy because the director was forced to cast his daughter at the last minute? Or because they have a plot about the corrupt Vatican? And how many of those movies have an amazing helicopter attack scene? Much has been written about the movie's strengths and weaknesses, but no one could have anticipated that the film's director, Francis Ford Coppola, would be able to go in and make the changes he wanted to 30 years ago and give us what he considers to be the finished product. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 3 December, 2020