Godfather I

It is a good movie, you need to sit back and watch it one day.  

Not for it being a good movie only, think about it, it was filmed in I think 1974.  

Think about what you were doing in that year.  

While watching remember the legendary actors (now considered legendary), but back then they were fairly young.  Let me think without looking, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall. James Caan, and the wife of Sylvester Stallone in the movie Rocky. In this movie, she was Al Pacino’s sister.  

Also who played the Godfather? Marlon Brando.  The icon of the 1950s and 1960s.  

Also, the director was Francis F Coppola.  He did many good films.  

Get this, Francis is the uncle of Nicolas Cage, you know who that is? Good actor.  

Last thing, Marlon Brando won an Oscar for this role, I think this was his third Oscar honour, but guess what he did? He did not show up to the oscars and declined the award.  

He sent a very pretty female Native American Indian to the awards, when they called ‘the winner is Marlon Brando’, the native lady went to the podium and gave a written speech of the cruelty and prejudice of native Indians in film.  This got many people cheering Marlon and the native lady, but he made a lot of enemies in Hollywood, particularly the executives of the industry with the speech. 

Watch it now, for all of the side stories about the film and actors. 

It is a slow movie.  

If you want to listen to the book, it is on YouTube, it is about 12 to 15 hours.