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* According to a Playboy interview with director Francis Ford Coppola,
Frank Sinatra, despite his reported distaste for the novel and opposition
to the film, had discussions with Coppola about playing the role of Don
Vito Corleone himself and at one point actually offered his services.
Coppola, however, was adamant in his conviction that Marlon Brando take the
role instead. This would be the third time Brando performed in a part
sought by Sinatra, after playing Terry Malloy in 'On the Waterfront' (1954)
and Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1955) .
* Carmine Caridi was Francis Ford Coppola's first choice for the role
of Sonny. Robert Evans insisted he cast James Caan instead because Al
Pacino (who was relatively unknown) had been cast as Michael. Evans wanted
at least one "name" actor to play one of the brothers. Caridi was later
given a small part in The Godfather: Part II (1974).
* After his suggestions of Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Burt Reynolds
were rejected by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount production chief Robert
Evans suggested Robert Redford. When Coppola demurred, preferring his first
choice of Tony Award-winning Broadway actor Al Pacino, Evans explained that
Redford could fit the role as he could be perceived as "northern Italian".
Evans eventually lost the struggle over the actor he derided as "The
Midget", but while Paramount brass dithered over whether to cast him as
Michael, the role that would make him a star, a frustrated Pacino signed up
for the role of Mario Trantino in The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
(1971). When Paramount finally decided to give him the part, they had to
buy out his contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The abandoned role in "Gang"
went to Robert De Niro, whom The Godfather: Part II (1974) would make a
star.
* Before being cast as Michael, Al Pacino was committed to starring in
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973). Coppola pulled some strings and managed to get
Pacino released. Pacino was replaced on that film by Robert De Niro, who
had to give up the small role he'd had in this film--that of Paulie ("won't
see him no more") Gatto. This, in turn, cleared the way for De Niro to star
as a young Vito in the sequel.
* Voted #7 in TV Guide Magazine's list "50 Greatest Movies on TV and
Video" (August 8-14, 1998 issue). The sequel The Godfather: Part II (1974)
took top honors, ranking #1.
* Voted #3 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movies.
* Fabrizio, the Italian bodyguard who kills Appolonia, was supposed to
be caught by Michael Corleone at a pizza parlor he opens in America and
subsequently blown away with a shotgun at the end of the movie as per the
Godfather novel. This scene was filmed but ultimately cut because the
Italian makeup artists plastered the actor playing Fabrizio with so much
fake blood that the scene just looked ridiculous. Photos of Michael
Corleone with a hat, shotgun blazing, appeared in many magazines, despite
the scene's eventual omission.
* Paramount senior management, dissatisfied with the early rushes,
considered replacing Francis Ford Coppola with Elia Kazan with the hope
that Kazan would be able to work with the notoriously difficult Marlon
Brando. Brando announced that he would quit the film if Coppola was fired
and the studio backed down. Paramount brass apparently did not know of
Brando's dismay with Kazan over his testimony before the House Un-American
Activities Committee in the 1950s.
* Paramount's original idea was to make this a low-budget gangster film
set in the present rather than a period piece set in the 1940s and 1950s.
* Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and Dustin Hoffman were all offered
the part of Michael Corleone, but all refused. Robert Redford and Ryan
O'Neal were also considered.
* Robert De Niro read for the parts of both Sonny and Michael Corleone.
Coppola decided that he wasn't right for the role of Sonny, and already had
Pacino in mind for Michael. De Niro was almost cast in the role of Carlo,
the husband of Connie as well.
* Martin Sheen auditioned for the role of Michael Corleone.
* There is a rumor that Burt Reynolds was originally cast as Sonny
Corleone but Marlon Brando wouldn't act with him, considering him more a TV
star.
* Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine and Edward G. Robinson were
considered for the role of Vito Corleone.
* Coppola wanted to cast actor Timothy Carey but Carey turned the part
down so he could film a television pilot.
* Among those who tested for the role of Johnny Fontane were Frankie
Avalon and Vic Damone, both established singer/actors with movie experience.
* Sergio Leone was offered the job of director, but refused, wanting to
make his own gangster film, which eventually became Once Upon a Time in
America (1984). Leone later regretted the decision.
* Author Mario Puzo and director Coppola deliberately avoided using the
word "Mafia" in their screenplay.
* Screenwriter Robert Towne wrote the scene on the patio in which Vito
warns Michael of the assassination attempt that will be made on him.
* Usually, only members of the Corleone family pronounce the family
name without the "e" on the end. All of the outsiders pronounce it
Corleon-e. However, Don Vito himself does pronounce "Corleone" with the "e"
at the end in the scene where he warns Michael of the assassination attempt
against him.
* Coppola was hired by Robert Evans to direct the movie after Peter
Bogdanovich, among others, turned down the offer.
* Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog", so
he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the screen test. For actual
filming, he wore an appliance made by a dentist. Al Pacino wore a foam
latex facial appliance that covered his entire left cheek and was made up
with colors to match his skin tone and give the effect of bruising. This
was to simulate the effect of having his jaw broken by Captain McCluskey.
Brando's mouthpiece is on display in the American Museum of the Moving
Image in Queens, New York.
* During rehearsals, a false horse's head was used for the bedroom
scene. For the actual shot, a real horse's head was used. The head was
acquired from a dog-food factory.
* The actor playing Luca Brasi, Lenny Montana, was so nervous about
working with Marlon Brando that, in the first take of their scene together,
he flubbed some lines. Coppola liked the genuine nervousness and used it in
the final cut. The scenes of Luca Brasi practicing his speech were added
later.
* The cat held by Marlon Brando in the opening scene was a stray the
actor found while on the lot at Paramount, and was not originally called
for in the script. So content was the cat that its purring muffled some of
Brando's dialogue, and, as a result, most of his lines had to be looped.
* During an early shot of the scene where Vito Corleone returns home
and his people carry him up the stairs, Marlon Brando put weights under his
body on the bed as a prank, to make it harder to lift him.
* Marlon Brando did not memorize most of his lines and read from cue
cards during most of the film.
* As Vito Corleone picks oranges prior to the assassination attempt,
there's a poster in the store window advertising a boxing match involving
Jake LaMotta. Robert De Niro plays the young Vito in The Godfather: Part II
(1974) and also went on to play LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980)
* In the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo, the actor Frank Sivero is an
extra. He also appears in The Godfather: Part II (1974) as Genco and in
Goodfellas (1990) as Frankie Carbone.
* The presence of oranges in all three "Godfather" movies indicates
that a death or a close call will soon happen.
* While Sonny is driving alone in his car, he's listening to the 3
October 1951 radio broadcast of Russ Hodges calling the Dodgers-Giants
playoff - a half-inning before Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the
World."
* The phone number Michael calls to find out news about his father is
Long Beach 4-5620.
* The name of the traditional Sicilian hat (worn, for instance, by
Michael's bodyguards) is "coppola."
* Apart from as required by his Marine uniform, Michael Corleone does
not wear a hat until he becomes involved in the family business.
* This film was selected for the National Film Registry, Library of
Congress, in 1990.
* Sofia Coppola (daughter of director) appears as Michael Corleone's
nephew in the christening scenes.
* The 45th Academy Award winner as Best Picture, it was the first
winner to be even partially set in Los Angeles, the first to depict the
film industry, and the first in which an Oscar statuette is visible.
* According to the director's comments on the DVD, the intercutting of
the baptism scene with the gang killings during the movie's climax was the
idea of director Francis Ford Coppola, but he says it did not really work
until editor Peter Zinner added the organ soundtrack.
* Because Corleone, Sicily was too developed even in the early 1970's,
the town of Savoca, outside Taormina, Sicily was used for shooting the
scenes where Michael goes exiled to Italy.
* Food and drinking are prolific throughout the movie. There are
approximately 61 scenes or shots with people eating, drinking, or with food
featured.
* The room where Don Corleone negotiates an end to the five families
war was actually the board room of the New York Central Railroad, which
explains the train mural that you see in back of Richard Conte's head
throughout the scene.
* Nino Rota was originally nominated for an Oscar for his score (and
would probably have won) but the nomination was withdrawn when it was
realized that he had substantially re-worked parts of his earlier score for
Fortunella (1958).
* Although the dark photography of Gordon Willis was eventually copied
by many other films, when the developed film came back from the lab,
Paramount executives thought the look was a mistake. They ordered a
different look but Willis and director Coppola refused.
* Don Vito Corleone's distinctive voice was based on real-life mobster
Frank Costello. Marlon Brando had seen him on TV during the Kefauver
hearings in 1951 and imitated his husky whisper in the film.
* While filming the scene where Sonny beats up his brother-in-law in
the street, James Caan actually injured Gianni Russo. Caan broke two of
Russo's ribs and chipped his elbow.
* George Lucas put together the "Matress Sequence" (the montage after
Michael kills Sollozo and McCluskey) as a favor to Coppola for helping him
fund American Graffiti (1973). He asked not to be credited.
* At one point, James Caan was asked to read for the role of Michael
* Orson Welles and George C. Scott were also considered early on for
the role of Vito Corleone.
* In the scene where Sonny beats up Carlo, a truck in the background
and a wooden box on the sidewalk are strategically placed to hide
anachronistic objects in the background.
* During the scene in the study when the family decides Michael (Al
Pacino) needs to kill Sollozzo and McClusky, Santino (James Caan) is seen
idly toying with a cane naturally assumed to belong to the aging Don Vito
(Marlon Brando); in reality, the cane belonged to Pacino, who had badly
injured his leg while filming Michael's escape from the restaurant after
having killed Sollozzo and McClusky.
* After Santino learns that Paulie Gatto has turned traitor, he refers
to him as "that stronzo". Translated from Italian dialect, "stronzo" is
roughly equivalent to the English word "asshole".
* According to Francis Ford Coppola, the term "Don Corleone" is
actually incorrect Italian parlance. In Italian, addressing someone as
"Don" would be like addressing them as "Uncle" in English, so the correct
parlance would be "Don Michael" or "Don Vito". Coppola says that Puzo, who
couldn't speak any Italian, simply made up the idea of using "Don" with a
person's last name, and it has now become a pop culture staple.
* Cameo: [Gray Frederickson] the cowboy in the studio when Tom
encounters Woltz the first time.
* The only comment Robert Duvall will make about his performance is
that he wished "they would have made a better hairpiece" for his character.
* Two Jewish actors, James Caan and Abe Vigoda, played Italian
characters. An Italian, Alex Rocco, played a Jewish character (Moe Greene).
* The character Moe Greene was modeled after Jewish mobster Bugsy
Siegel.
* This is the only Best Picture winner in which an Oscar can be seen.
It is sitting on Jack Woltz's bedside table.
* Body count: 18 (including the horse).
* The three-year-old child actor Anthony Gounaris responded best when
his real name was used while shooting the film. That's why Michael's son's
name is Anthony.
* During the sequences filmed in Sicily, Michael's broken-jaw make-up
does not match the make-up used during the sequences filmed in New York.
This is because Paramount Pictures would not pay the costs of sending
makeup artist Dick Smith to Italy with the rest of the crew.
* When Sollozo speaks Italian to Mike in the restaurant there are no
subtitles. After telling McCluskey that he wants to speak Italian to Mike
this is what he says, "I am sorry. What happened to your father was
business. I have much respect for your father, but your father... his
thinking is old fashioned. You must understand why I had to do that. Now
let's work through where we go from here." After Mike comes out of the
restroom Sollozo speaks Italian again without subtitles this time saying,
"Everything all right? I respect myself, understand? And cannot allow
another man to hold me back. What happened was unavoidable. I had the
unspoken support of the other Family Dons. If your father were in better
health, without his eldest son running things, no disrespect intended, we
wouldn't have this nonsense. We will stop fighting until your father is
well and can resume bargaining. No vengeance will be taken. We will have
peace, but your family should interfere no longer."
* Paulie says, "If this was somebody else's wedding, sfortunato."
Sfortunato means "ill-fated".
* When the Godfather becomes angry at Johnny he calls him a
"finocchio." In Italian, "finocchio" is a demeaning slang for "homosexual."
* This was voted the "Greatest Film of All Time" by Entertainment
Weekly.
* Voted #3 film of all time by the American Film Institute.
* The line "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" was selected
by the American Film Institute on it's list as one of the top 100 movie
quotes, it was at #2 right behind "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn"
from Gone with the Wind (1939).
* When Michael and Kay are having dinner together the song on the radio
is Irving Berlin's "All of My Life".
* According to Al Pacino, those were real tears in Marlon Brando's eyes
when Michael pledges himself to his father in the hospital scene.
* The scenes in which Enzo comes to visit The Godfather in the hospital
were shot in reverse with the outside scene shot first. Gabriele Torrei
(the actor who plays Enzo) had never acted in front of a camera before and
his nervous shaking after the car drives away was real.
* Jack Woltz name was patterned after Jack L. Warner. His personality
was based on Louis B. Mayer.
* After Michael and the bodyguards pass the memorial for all the men
who died in vendettas he walks through a small square. This is the same
square where young Vito was smuggled out of town at the beginning of The
Godfather Part II (1974).
* The horse's name is Khartoum.
* According to a Playboy interview with Mario Puzo, the character of
Johnny Fontane was not Frank Sinatra. However, everyone assumed that it
was, and Sinatra was so incensed by it that he refused to speak to Puzo
when first introduced but rather spoke to Puzo in rather vulgar terms
through his (Sinatra's) friend, Jilly Rizzo.
* Mario Puzo gave Vito's eldest son the nickname of "Sonny" after the
nickname given to the son of Al Capone. The similarities end there. Sonny
Capone did not enter his father's business.
* Don Corleone is shot at the end of 1945. This can be determined from
a poster on the wall of the grocer where the Don is getting oranges before
being shot. The poster advertises a fight at the Garden between Jake
LaMotta and Tommy Bell on January 9th, 1946
* To save production costs, Paramount originally wanted the entire film
to be shot in Hollywood. However, when production designer Dean Tavoularis
threatened to add two stories to each backlot in order to replicate the
look of the city, the studio relented and allowed for shooting in New York.
In reality, over 100 NYC locations were utilised in the finished film.
* The scene where Sonny beats up Connie's husband took four days to
shoot and featured more than 700 extras.
* According to an interview with Gianni Russo, Marlon Brando was
initially against having Russo, who had never acted before, in the film.
Russo became angry and threatened Brando. Brando thought Russo was acting
and was convinced he would be good in the role.
* Actor James Caan credits the stage persona of "insult comic" Don
Rickles for inspiring his characterization of Santino Corleone.
* The scene in the tomato garden was actually filmed at a private
residence on Long Island, New York. The entire garden was created from
scratch, then torn down and the yard put back to its original state
immediately after the scene was finished. This location was not used for
any other scenes in the film.
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