🐴The Godfather BOOK VS MOVIE (kind of)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- I compare the book with the movie in today's episode, but it is more of a book rant review. I had a lot of issues with this book, and I used this as an opportunity to air my grievances. I am pretty harsh towards Puzo and the book, so it you love the book and don't want your opinions confronted, you should probably skip this one.
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also after making this video I watched @AdamWrightReviews video for it and if you are wanting a book vs movie video from someone who did like the book, his is a good one to watch. Even though I didn't like the book nearly as much as him, I still enjoyed his video and he does a great job going over what makes this a great movie.
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00:00 Intro
01:02 Book rant review
13:02 Movie talk with more book rant
15:23 Linear vs nonlinear storytelling
17:54 Strictly Business
19:52 Kay Adams
20:44 Vito’s wife
21:23 Things I like about the movie
24:42 Book vs Movie
25:43 More book ranting
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I want to reiterate that Puzo never even met anyone in the mafia and this book is just what he imagined the mafia to be.
Since it isn't based in fact, he could have wrote anything he wanted. And while parts of this story are well written and well constructed, his choice to have so much sexism and no well rounded female characters, and instead have female characters who are fine with the sexism, ruins this book for me.
I think you didn't really like the book... 😉
This was so interesting....I'm 63 years old now. When the movie came out (so much Buzz), I was too young to see it, so I checked the book out from the public library ( my Mom, from an impoverished background, always stressed how important books were to release the imagination, learn empathy. Eternal Thanks, Mom!). I thought that as a novel, the book was "okay" literature-wise,,half-good. When I got to see the movie years later...Wow! So much better than the book in general, although the movie did leave out some of the more interesting aspects/vignettes of the novel. Sometimes the movie is better-renditioned than the book-source, due to the various talents involved, but they built on the original Idea. It's a different genre and different Times, but sometimes the original novels like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" are better than most movies made from the original source, altered (I thought Kenneth Branagh's "Frankenstein" movie was the best true adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, and understood the philosophical implications). As a kid I'd liked the Lugosi movies, of course, but when I read the original Bram Stoker book, done in the form of letters and diaries, it "Blew my Mind!". Thanks to my Mom's encouragement to me as her child to be a Book Worm to escape bad, poor, physical surroundings I got an anthology of horror stories that included a Stoker short story called "The Judge's House". Written in the 1880s or 1890s before there was a tv "Twilight Zone" thing....A couple of years later when I became a teenager into playing music there was an album by an eccentric Australian band called Audience that had an album named "House On the Hill", the title track inspired by the Bram Stoker spooky short story I had read when I was 10 years old..College student who rents what the local townies believe is a haunted house, to study for his college exams...."They say that there's a King Rat who wears a Judge's Black Cap...And I wouldn't go near that House on the Hill"....Bingo!
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27 minutes of my life that I will never get back
thanks for watching!
Sounds like Puzo got incredibly lucky. I really don’t like when they flip back and forth from past to present in books. Currently reading A Beautiful, Terrible thing, a whiny memoir about getting cheated on by her husband who she married because he was pretty where she does that and it is so annoying!
That was one book I could not get into. The characters, the writing. And I agree with you The Godfather book. Forget it. WiseGuy/Goodfellas a much better book. And the cast was really good in the movie. And it is a great movie.
Yes! I love Goodfellas/Wiseguy!
I just watched 'The Offer' and have seen GF many times before, but I never read the book. I was about to buy it, but after your review, I think I'll skip it. Tha ks for the review and saving me the time.
Good call! And you're welcome 😊
Great review! Totally respect the DNF, this book deserves the rant 👏👏👏 And thanks so much for the shout out for our episode with Fonda Lee!
Thanks! The three of you had such a great discussion on this
Thru the TH-cam algorithms I first found your channel on your posts about "Phantom of the Opera" and I love how you approach towards these things. My Mom taught me to love Books. She would take me and my older brother by bus to the nearest public library, she took us to swim at a public pool afterwards because when a kid she loved Swimming so much ( she had done a lot of swimming in her local Buffalo River) and she usually got us Hot Chocolate afterwards 😎 ...I mention these personal facts of my own story because what I find in this modern internet age that has gotten lost is what can connect us to just being interesting Human beings. Too much political bs, putting us into categories. We make decisions, and sometimes get caught up in "the Play"...Neither my Mom nor my Dad got entangled into that, ..they just wanted us kids to be Honorable people. They gave me a love of Books, the Imagination Key, although they didn't have money or privileges. I was so fortunate
I just read the book and I thought it was amazing! It takes place in the 1940’s and written in the late 60’s, it’s not a bastion of progressive diversity.
OMG that beginning is hilarious! Great review too.
Glad you liked the intro 😆 and the video!
Your show continues to be outstanding, and this was the most illuminating compare and contrast I have yet seen you do. How long is your talking-points preparation time to do a 30 minute cohesive commentary like this one?
Thank you so much! Glad you continue to enjoy the channel 😁
It probably takes me an hour to write up my thoughts.
What did you think of the dr jules monologue in chapter 26?
Hmm you'll have to remind me. It has been a while
@WhytheBookWins Dr jules has a monologue that is very pro women, womens rights women's choice. I strongly suggest finishing the book before reviewing it. It is rather ignorant to give such strong opions about a book that you didn't not finish. You have no idea how the storyline connected in the end or how the characters developed. Reckless behavior
Have you finished the book?
The Godfather is not only claiming that violence against women is ok. It also says that ANY violence is ok. The godfather from the title is a mafia boss who kills people but in Puzo's eyes he is a good guy because "he protects his family". Michael is a war hero but he decides to throw away all his morality to become another boss. Even more ruthless than his father. Because he has Sicilian blood. When he travels to homeland he starts to understand that to be a man means to kill your enemies.
Ma’am if Puzo changed things up he would have multiple mobsters show up to his doorstep. They were guiding him while making it
No they weren't
I was so excited to read this book a few months ago since I love the movies. Boy was I disappointed. I “liked” the beginning because I was envisioning the movie in my head and it was pretty close. However I just got lost the further I got. Then when we got to the part where the woman has surgery and that doctor who is a specialist in this area,, I was done. I stopped reading at that point too. It was so unnecessary. Huge disappointment. Great comprehensive video.
Glad you liked the video! Such a disappointing book 😖
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10:25 ITS KEEPS GOING MAKE IT STOP
Right?? So terrible and it just kept going!
@@WhytheBookWins AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Thanks for the shoutout!
You're welcome! I got pretty caught up dislike for the book, so I thought I would share your video where you articulate really well on why this is a great movie! As well as talking about some of the positives from the book
From what I have heard mario puzo based the book on the Borgia family there's a tv show about there life
I thought the film was bad, I didn't imagine the book was worse
I watched the godfather movies many times out of curiosity I decided to read the book version and i really was surprised how much i enjoyed it the movie does stay true to the book to me even though I enjoyed but due to learning that francis ford Coppola helped convicted sex offender victor salva and sued the boy that accused salva I will never rewatch the godfather movies
Wow I had no idea. That's terrible and disgusting
@@WhytheBookWins I heard about this on a TH-cam channel called dreading the channel had done a video about victor salva I was totally shocked to find out about Francis involvement I truly feel sorry for the victim Nathan forest winters
Yessssss to everything you said!!!! I tried to listen to the audiobook of The Godfather and I just couldn't. I was like what in the name of heaven am I listening to??? I was very disappointed! The way you feel about this book is how I feel about Gone With the Wind. That book made me sick to my stomach and people who give it a 5 star I look at them like they need serious therapy lol. Great video thanks for sharing your thoughts!! 👌🏽💯
glad you liked the video! this book was definitely upsetting! I started Gone with the Wind a couple years ago but I wasn't able to get through that either.
I, on the other hand, liked the book a lot. Only read it after seeing the movies multiple times so I kinda was watching the movie through the book when I was reading it. It was great, I loved it. Knowing the movie made it even more interesting because I had the story in my mind already so I could follow the details without losing myself.
I had no problem with the mysoginy, it just belongs there because it was a patriarchal gangster society so I would only expect it, just like I expect indifference to slavery in The Egyptian. If Puzo was to lecture the reader how it was wrong, it's not only unnecessary because we know it, but it would also be a literary sin - the writer would be interfering into the story and judging his own characters from outside. It would cease being a novel. He has overdone some things but he wrote it the way he felt was best in describing the gangster culture. I'm not saying that people shouldn't be offended. Contrary, they should and that's probably the reason Puzo wrote the book like that. He knew people would be rightly offended and he wanted them to be.
I think it's safe to say I won't be reading this book, lol. I've never seen the movie, either. Love the nail polish!
I support that decision 😆 But I do think the movie is worth watching. And thanks!
09:40 WTF
Yeah very messed up
Clearly a book that hasn’t aged well, similar to Gone with the Wind movie and its romanticizing of the Confederate South.
Yeah definitely.
Okay so you are telling people they are wrong to tell you how to feel about this book but you go ahead and criticize anyone who likes this book. How is that right? So you can tell people how they should feel but they better not do it to you? You can still find a book like this 5 stars and feel uncomfortable with some of the themes. I love Schindler's List but it's still a hard film to watch especially knowing it's a true story. These are bad people, even the women in the lives of the mafia are to an extent bas people. That's the whole point. You aren't meant to like the people because they are bad. The point of the story is seeing a young man trying not to be like his family get roped into it. The films further show how this lifestyle and how they are is their own undoing.
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
This is different from Schindler's List because that movie itself isn't antisemitic. Whereas the book The Godfather comes across as sexist. Not because of the sexist, unlikable characters, but because of the way Puzo writes about them. The book itself comes across as derogatory towards women in general in my opinion.
I don't really have issues with this movie thanks to the changes they made.
Other movie better than book cuckoos nest . LA confidential, princess bride
I have a video's for Cuckoo's Nest and L.A. Confidential as well! Definitely agree with Cuckoo movie being better, with L.A. though it's a close call.
@@WhytheBookWins think la is like godfather vers off into dreamland and father I do like Dudley lives .
Loved this! But honestly I think both the book and the movie are disgustingly misogynistic. The fact this rubbish is so well considered is so ridiculous. It is about time our 'best of all time' movies and novels STOP being chosen and defined by men. Enough now, really.
so true! it's sad how many "great" movies are so male focused and the women (if there are any) are just kind of there
@@WhytheBookWins absolutely... About time we start redefining greatness itself in storytelling, and claiming our own best-of-all-time film and literature without fear of being deemed low-brow, too feminist, or simply too girly (as if this was something negative?!).
The vilification of the romance genre, for instance, is in itself a great example of this; how stories that centre on women, and which women tend to like, are considered lesser. Except when they are written by men, of course, no one says a bad word about big male figures like Thomas Hardy, yet works like 'Far From the Madding Crowd' are just romance novels (and men tend to write bland and uninspired ones, for that matter).
Anyway, it's only by taking up space and challenging the accepted (imposed) 'greatness canon' that we can start truly changing the paradigm. And channels like yours do just that! ❤🤗 Every time I see channels where women fearlessly and passionately express their honest preferences and opinions, I feel so much hope and happiness!
Sometimes we continue to feel like we need to apologise for expressing our views or tastes, especially when they challenge the patriarchal canon, and it doesn't make sense! We have as much authority as anyone else to criticise the goddamn godfather. Up with it! ;)
@@isabelnoyer5893 of my gosh yes! I am definitely guilty of feeling like I need to apologize or tread lightly on certain things, but I am working on just stating my opinions and not second guessing myself! And your point about romance is so true!
I could honestly go one forever about this topic. It's something I've noticed more in the last couple years, and I've realized some sexist attitudes I myself have had! So I've been learning to shed those misogynistic ideas that society wants us to think and have been noticing more than ever all the messed up beliefs that have been ingrained in so many of us.
@@WhytheBookWins Yes, totally... The annoying part of it is that once you start tunning the eye to all that fine-threaded misogyny, you start seeing it everywhere... Simply because it IS everywhere! Which in itself is a very disheartening fact.
But hey, it is with our words and with our own choices that we slowly go on to change that. I can't stress enough how important and inspiring is the work that you do! Obviously videos like this that directly target misogyny in literature are awesome, but it goes beyond directly talking about sexism and misogyny, or spreading a specific message; just being out there freely talking about literature and about your passion for books is the message, and it is already invaluable in and of itself. :) I love that the booktube space is full of women of all ages and with all kinds of different tastes, being present, articulate and inspiring for the whole world to see. So yeah... Just wanted you to know that what you do matters a lot, and it makes a ton of people, like myself, feel very very happy, and also hopeful about the future.
In the end, we will use our freedom to talk among ourselves and support each other, and no one can take that away from us if we don't allow it.🌟
Love yaa! x
I liked the book. I heard your confrontation(s) of my opinion. Sounds like you're reading the book through filters of sexism and female empowerment, and are judging it based on how it upholds those values rather than whether is it a well-told, compelling story. Some see 'sexism'. Other people see characters living out their roles in the context of the story being told. No well-rounded female characters? Kay is plenty well-rounded, but the rest are SUPPORTING CHARACTERS. We're not going to get to know them as well as the leading characters. And there are PLENTY of male characters that are not well-rounded...because they are supporting characters! A novel deserves a rant because it (correctly!) focuses on the leading characters in his story, or because the well-rounded characters (Kay aside) are male, or that some of the characters are not the nicest people? I worked on a movie once that focused on a future society in which women were dominant and men were subjugated. No one ranted, because we were just filming a story. Male actors didn't object that the male characters were dominated. No one was unhappy over the sexist female characters, either, because it was just a story being told.
You make a point to some degree. But what about the whole section dedicated to the woman getting the reconstructive surgery?
And you call one of the greatest actors of all time pretentious and annoying as if your opinion even matters, i don’t even know who you think you are
You call this a book vs movie review, you didn’t read the whole book, takes time to talk about another story and even show a clip, complain that it is sexist instead of actually talking about the books main points