Essays on The Godfather

The Public Enemy and The Godfather had many similarities but at the same time many differences. The timeline and settings were very different, ways you can tell by is checking the environment on scenes and seeing how the gangsters got their work done and interacted....

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian filmmaker, was best known for his 1970 masterpiece The Conformist, which was a huge inspiration to Francis Coppola when making The Godfather in 1972. The Conformist centers on the life of Marcello Clerici, a hitman working for the Organization for Vigilance...

Due to the fact that I like reading the criminal news, stories, history as well as watching criminal movies I jut could not pass by legendary “The Godfather”. This film has everything from incredible activity scenes to world celebrated on-screen characters. This motion picture stars...

Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese are two directors that have redefined American cinema numerous times, their new wave films evoking not a form of destruction, but a rejuvenation of traditions and conventions, proposing a visionary type of cinema that Raymond Durgnat describes as fusing...

I believe that family plays a big role in shaping the mind and characters involved in famous films because we as children are shaped by what we see our parents do, they shape and mold our behavior. In this essay I evaluate my opinion by...

Francis Ford Coppola’s film ‘The Godfather’ is an epic movie based on Mario Puzo’s novel ‘The Godfather’. It is considered a masterpiece of art and has been used as a template for developing other ‘gangster’ movies. This one film series set the pattern for later...

In this essay I am expounding on the utilization of lighting in the opening scene of The Godfather. The Shots of The Godfather as a whole film is arranged and utilized explicitly to create states of mind, and have extraordinary mental effect. This is similarly...