The Godfather
A few years ago I wrote a post about The Godfather Part II after seeing it on the big screen for its 45th anniversary. I followed it up with posts on The Godfather Part III and Mario Puzo's The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone which recut the story of Part III and in my opinion improved it drastically. During the writing of those entries I had long planned to visit the original film. Spoilers from all three films below: Two key moments that brought me to this film. As a teenager in the 1980s I was at a friends' house and his parents at about 10:00pm on a Friday night were putting in a VHS tape of the first film, which was one of their favorites. I saw the opening title with the trumpet score and noticed how excited they were and it struck me that I needed to get to this film one day. In the summer of 1990 I went to see Ghost, which was released by Paramount, whose big Christmas release that year was The Godfather Part III. The trailer for Godfather Par