THE GODFATHER (1972) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Real-life Details, Film Analysis And Making Of
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THE GODFATHER (1972) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Hidden Details, Film Analysis, And Making Of. We explain, analyze and do a deep dive on The Godfather to talk about the hidden themes, details, easter eggs and making of trivia that make this one of the best movies of all time. This is a massive video essay covering the characters, deeper meaning and more.
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down The Godfather.
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Arguably the best mobster movie of all time this is one of my favourite films ever made.
Yes I'm basic.
I think it's legacy looms largely over the piece and it's gone onto influence a multitude of movies.
It's responsible for making a lot of it's actors house hold names and it's a film that changed the landscape of Cinema. Throughout this video I wanna break down all the hidden details in it and talk about the deeper themes. Based off the book of the same name this work chronicalled the history of the Five Families in New York.
The book takes a lot of focus on the character Johnny Fontane who we meet in the movie. Based on Frank Sinatra this hinted towards the singers rise through Hollywood being handled by the mob.
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Quick question... Why do you call Al Pacino a her in the thumbnail?
You made a mistake at 1:41. Michael did not become Godfather to Connie's 'daughter' - it was a son. You confused the fact that the baby shown is Coppolla's daughter irl.
37:32 It's Apollonia, not Appolina. Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone.
Nah, Fam @13:00. Michael speaks Italian fluently. He used Fabrizio to translate for him as a ploy to let him (Apollonia's father) know Fabrizio would kill him if he ever let anyone know that Michael was hanging out in Corleone.
The videos are better when only clips are shown rather than the narrator, it's just too much
I took my kids to the playground today. And we passed a little dog on a walk. My kids asked to stroke it. The lady said “his name is Enzo” instinctively I replied “The baker!” Nobody got it
Loooooool
Enzo Ferrari.
That's tragic.
When someone shouts, "yes!" and nobody replies, "Cuban B!", my heart breaks a little.
"I'll stay. For your father, your father!"
Lolol
The fact the first half hour spent at the wedding scene flies by unnoticed is a testimony to great story telling.
λ
Damn near The first 50 pages of the book
Watched the whole thing parts 1 and 2 last night and it felt like it took about 90 minutes
1 thing, Michael DID understand what was being said in Italian at the restaurant. He switched to English because he wanted to make sure the Cop understood "why" he was there to "accept" the truce
No he didn't
He understood it but didn't speak it very well . According to my Sicilian grandmother
@@frankyturrizo4240 she raised michael corleone?
@sirrom5155 yes , and she also spoke Italian so that's how she could tell
Michael knows Italian enough to have a conversation but he spoke to the Turk in English because wanted the Turk to understand him VERY clearly without any miscommunication & also wants the Cop to hear why he wants peace….and he spoke to the Father in English to let him know he’s from America and his daughter will become American citizen if he marries her. Also showing he wasnt a regular dude from the country side and was important person back home.
Yesss!!!! Finally you did it!!! One of the finest movies ever made!!! The intro still hooks me everytime due the stellar performance of Marlon Brando!!! Just perfect story in which you really see characters change drastically like Michael turning to become the godfather...anyways mate great video as always!!!
Yeah it’s perfect. One of the best ever. Thanks for checking out the video.
The story is fiction and is far from perfect
@@heavyspoilersfar from perfect
@@genghiskhan9269no shit it’s fiction it’s art imitating life
How funny that i happened to rewatch the entire Godfather trilogy a few days ago. The Godfather was a movie that my parents loved to watch over & over. That affection transfered to me. I never tire of Coppola's classic & its legendary cast!!
Watching this review was an offer I couldn’t refuse. ❤
i cant believe youd make this joke.....on this....the day of my daughters wedding.
Appolonia's death was the most tragic event in the film for me. Not the Don, not Sonny's. With Appolonia by Michael's side, a real Sicilian wife who would have understood that Michael would need to do the things he had to do, 90% of his domestic stress would have just disappeared. Instead he ended up saddled with an American wife and all the baggage that entailed.
His pronunciation of "Ap-oh-lee-nee-uh" was also pretty tragic.
Excellent point
That’s what I was thinking too it would’ve grounded him and had the opportunity to raise full Sicilian boys which was necessary at the time if you wanted an heir
@@lTha208lThat was not a concern for him because he wanted to take business legitimate. Also any sons he had would have the father's Sicilian blood
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The book goes into about more detail as to why Michael wanted to marry Kay. Remember he sought HER out after he returned to the states. Also, she was a lot more conciliatory to his life style in the book, at least towards the end. She became very close with his mother and followed her ways of coping with their lives under their husbands.
35:00 You missed some spoilerage. Michael doesn't come out blasting from the restroom because a.) in the book, he sees that Solozzo has a guard seated at one of the tables, and b.) in the film, he notices that the sound of the subway is very loud in the restaurant. So c.) he chooses the next arrival of the subway as cover for his shooting. This is mentioned in one of the commentaries.
The guy who killed barzini was Al Neri. He was impersonating a cop.
Best underrated character, doesn’t have much lines but he def my fav
He was an ex cop that got sentenced to prison for killing a pimp before Michael hired him as his own Luca Brasi (I read the book a very long time ago)
@tonym994 yeah 99% sure it was his own uniform and pistol
Careful with the Godfather's Tear. He was sad Michael was in Italy for a hit. That medical bed tear could have been the first sign of Vito's devistation as his youngest son choses the life of crime Vito never wanted for him.
Exactly!
@wackywankavator
Vito wants Micheal to be a Senator, that he will be respected and to be in a position to help the family, not to keep him from crime.
@@dominaevillae28 no
we spent a month my senior year in HS discussing the Godfather and ive been obsessed with this movie and book for 20+ years
Looking forward for your godfather 2 breakdown...
Soon
Yeah but do more research. Facts matter. Even today. 😳
You are one of the few content creators I listen at 1x ❤
Ey thank you especially on these long vids
Me and my 85 year old Dad bond over this film. It’s life changing for our family
Me and my mom did the same
"Look how they massacred my boy " is a line I use show much all the time lol. Love this movie. Reminds me of my grandparents party's when I was little.
My whole life i thought godfather said looks like mess but it's my boy
I thought he said look how they messed with my boy.
Paul i see you didn't refuse my offer, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
I knew it was you
38:16 he was tracked down and killed in the book at a pizza shop in America not by Micheal, but at his direction
They did shoot the scene, but the Italian make up artist used so much fake blood that it looked ridiculous. They did however include a scene set in America where Mkchael avenges his wife in one of the deleted scenes. In it, the assassin has opened a pizzeria in Buffalo, NY, and is murdered after he leaves for the night by a car bomb I believe.
I never thought I see the day, but my favorite breakdown channel is covering one of my favorite movies of all time!!!🔥💯
Let’s go
Amazing breakdown as always, one of my fav movies. I hadn't read that Pacino stuffed his cheeks after his jaw was broken. He did have his jaw wired shut to be more authentic to the injury and how it would affect his performance
0:25 The Godfather is objectively one of the best films ever made.
pound for pound it's the best!!!
This channel gives me so much joy! Well done for bringing out such quality consistently. Schamon!
Thank you
Godfather Part:2 is imo still the best movie ever made
I like 2 more than 1st also
Love ya classic movie reviews! You definitely have added additional value to the channel by exhaustively dissecting these movies! 50 minutes of great education, info and trivia.
Thank you
Frank Sivero also plays Genco in part 2 😉
I watched a character analysis on Michael and one of the things they brought up is how Michael doesn't have to say much just look at his eyes, Michael analyzes silently, learning this from his time in the military and his eyes tells what he will do next, and that is how he communicates to people
After rewatching recently I saw a lot of influence on Tommy Shelby from peaky blinders. They are similar characters in stature
@@zacbergman710definitely
Crazy how this movie was such a box office success too despite not being your typical blockbuster, and on a meager budget
This was 1972. Blockbusters really didn’t exist yet. It wasn’t until Jaws and Star Wars did films break the bank.
@@darthdezeExactly. There were no “blockbusters” as yet in 1972. Trad film history marks the first modern blockbuster as 1975’s summer hit “Jaws” if I’m not mistaken. That’s why Spielberg is both lauded and blamed for the state of modern movies.
Also, at the time of its release in 1972 Godfather’s budget was hardly “meager”. It was above average at $6M. During the 70s most films cost between $1M and $10M. For a film made in the early ‘70s it was definitely big on the books for the studio and those involved were definitely under pressure to produce something quite significantly popular given the amount being spent. A meager budget would have been a film made for less than $1M.
Times and thinking were different in the 1970s. Things were also changing. The blockbuster way of thinking was on the horizon. But multi screen cineplexes weren’t yet a thing either (and neither of course was home video) so the means of recouping significant outlays weren’t clear to film people at the time other than a massively popular movie that had broad appeal to all kinds of adults across the country for an extended period of time. Which was not all that common for any film. Paramount people even tried to advocate for cutting it down to 2 hours to maximize the showings per day theaters could offer thus increase in their minds anyway the chances of making their money back quickly. The studio was nervous even though the book the Godfather came from was itself a massive hit and bestseller. What a different and superficial film the Godfather might have been if Coppola and Puzo and Ruddy had not convinced Robert Evans of the epic and symbolic … almost Homeric nature of the movie. Some bean counters at Paramount were pressuring all to treat it as a low-rent dirty late -60s hold over exploitation-style gangster film. What a disaster that would have been. Coppola got his way and made his 2h55m American Aeneid … thank goodness!
First blockbuster was goldfinger in 64
The greatest movie ever made. Hands down
I'm loving these classic movie breakdowns. Sometimes when I've seen a movie a dozen times, I get kind of blind to why it's a classic. I still love it, but the nuance gets lost on me. These breakdowns help remind me why these movies endure and inspire, and why they will continue to do so for many years to come. Also, you always manage to have at least one detail somewhere that I never noticed before. Love it.
"Totally not about Frank" Yeah. To make sure we knew it wasn't about Frank, one of the characters, when talking about him, literally says "Let's be frank". No way that was random :)
19:04
“Dog plant food”?
My bad
Came here to say this. Also, great video
This is my pick for the best movie ever made, and I loved the book.
My high school senior graduation shirt had “The Graduate 2009” on the back similar to The Godfather title style. I had no idea because I never watched it until recently because of my Sicilian bf. I was maybe like 27yo at this point. One of the many reason him and his family love the movie is the dialect and where they shot certain scenes. The dialect is what his family speaks and apparently they used locations close to their hometown in Messina(?) area.
I really enjoyed the story overall and I was the one who pointed out the oranges symbolism. He must’ve watched it over 20x and never picked up on it.
Excellent breakdown of one of my favorite movies. Thank you!
Absolute classic and thanks for the breakdown. Always makes me want to rewatch, more than normal lol
Cheers mate
The Sh'baow! Father: gonna make a review you can't refuse (is damn good)
Nice! Been waiting bro
I've always thought Tom got fired because he was there when Vito promised he wouldn't break the peace. If Tom kept his job that promise might "carry over" to Michael. But with him out when Vito dies the promise is gone. Michael gets his revenge, then restores Tom. Michael says there are things happening Tom can't be part of. He also says Tom's a good peace time consigliere, he doesn't say anything about non-peace but that implies it pretty hard.
While the Chinese food meal was probably practical in that only a Chinese restaurant would be open that late, it's also symbolic of the younger generation of the family not eating Italian food.
Totally didn’t even think of that, good catch
@@heavyspoilers Yeah I can't take credit for that. I took a creative writing class at summer camp during middle school. The teacher was one of those cool teachers who would show movies in class. He showed us The Godfather I and II and he had a number of different analyses of the films. This really started my love for films.
Great video, thanks. I appreciate all the hard work you put into it.
No matter how many times I've seen the first two films, they never fail to grip me. All time greats. About 3 years ago at Christmas I decided to watch the neglected 3rd film out of my boxset. And you know what? It's not bad.
I enjoy watching the third movie. The first two were instant classics, which is why a 3-star movie like Part III could be looked down on as much as it has... it was also filmed almost two decades after the first two, so it had a different feel on some levels.
Not having Robert Duvall really handicapped the film imo.
Coming back explicitly to say thank you for including captions; I’m very hard of hearing, w/autism/adhd and having captions is a huge blessing in terms of me being able to follow along but also stay invested since my eyes have to be affixed to the screen. So few channels include captions, so thank you again so much
Louis Prima isn’t in the film.
Woltz’s mansion actually belonged to silent film legend Harold Lloyd, who passed away in 1971. I never heard it once belonged to Hearst.
Fuck you reminded me of how great this film is and how great movies are. This movie in a theater is even more captivating, though the 3 hours always flies by regardless.
Great pod cast!! Thank you for your research
Your videos are consistently great and hilarious.
Ohhhhh yes! Another classic! You put so much work into these videos and deserve every success. I've watched your Predator and Alien analysis videos about ten times each haha! Best of luck with the channel and thanks again for these. ⭐️
Thanks so much mate, the editors did a brilliant job with it
@@heavyspoilers It's a great team effort. It's a lovely nostalgia trip for me; I was watching all the 80s action films as a kid, so it's great to see them again with some added analysis. You've actually got me into film analysis as a bit of a hobby, so thank you very much! ⭐️
@@SilentJukebox ey much appreciated mate, glad its making you look at films in a different way
Francis Coppola followed the book very closely, all things considered. There were a few things changed (for pacing or artistic reasons), but they did a good job. One of the best book-to-film adaptations of all time.
Tiktok could never replace you Paul. ❤
See ya Chump!
I love all your breakdowns. This one was amazing one of my favorite films to
thank you
Awesome. Love your work bro
This is in my top 3 movies ever made. You made my day! Like I thought, I knew the history behind this movie. You gave me a couple of new knowledge nuggets! Fantastic breakdown.
46:57 A truly epic film “The Godfather”; an American Homeric or Virgilian scale epic! I suppose it’s more like Virgil’s Roman ”The Aeneid” than either of Homer’s Greek masterpieces on the surface anyway. There is a massive father-son relationship in both “The Aeneid” and “The Godfather”, and the foundation of the new “Republic” or “res publica” (the people’s matters) in the one and the “cosa nostra” (our thing) in the other is founded by the interests of a group of immigrant people during their perilous travels after suffering defeat in their place of origin … and what they were willing to do as relatively poor, and fleeing immigrants injured to violence in new lands.
But like all of these great epic works, there’s always amazing new details like 46:57 to discover as you pointed out for us here, where Tom Hagen signals with his tie to Clemenza what to do to Carlo. I’ve watched the film dozens of times and heard it discussed hundreds of times and here’s a new detail I’ve never heard about until now.
Amazing … thanks!
Agree "The Godfather" parallels Virgil's "Aeneid" as well as Coppola's "Apocalypse Now". Micheal and Captain Willard travel the underworld to become like their father figure Vito and Colonel Kurtz.
Also, Coppola is telling the story of the founding of Rome.
That’s Neri as the police officer in the assasination scene … not really a police offer
He was always there.2 me his ability 2 go unnoticed fits the character from the book
Neri was a cop in the book but was thrown off the force.
You did a great job breaking down my favorite film!!!
Yessss!! Im here for it!!!
Every time i watch it i learn or see something new
Okay, now this was freaking AWESOME! Well done, Heavy Spoilers! This has got to be one of if not my favorite movie breakdown! Let's get that Godfather II and III breakdown! Cheers!
thank you
Excelent Paul! Regards from Venezuela ❤
Wonderful break down!! Great video
19:36 - I'm surprised you didn't take this time to also mention Joe Spinell, who played Willi Cicci in The Godfather(and The Godfather part 2), also playing Tony Gazzo in Rocky(and Rocky 2).
The movie was released about three months before the Watergate break-in.
Excellent analysis.
Thanks Paul.
Great breakdown 👌
Fantastic video. Godfather part 2 turns 50 this year. Would be amazing if you did a breakdown of that film
The oranges on the woltz dinner table did foreshadow death. The horse.
This is truly great content mate good work 👍
thank you
@@heavyspoilersmy pleasure. A Prometheus HS vid would be great. Loads of stuff going on in that one, Covenant too👍
Best Trilogy in film history❤
Please breakdown the film Nightmare Before Christmas😊
Love your videos and channel. Never thought I'd hear the phrase "create your own fishing clan" though 😅
Perfect timing! Was just in theatres here in St Louis, USA.
Wild it’s 52 years old
@@heavyspoilers I agree and am lucky. I’ve already bought tickets for Hereditary (imax), North By Northwest, Uncut Gems (imax), The Muppet Movie (1979), Rear Window, Never Ending Story, etc.
damn wasn't didn't know that, St. Louis cat here.
@@sirjer73 last Wednesday at Ronnie’s. They’re always showing oldies.
It’s like y’all knew I just rewatched the Godfather last week. 😍
Pacinos face when Brandos hand gets caught is fitting. 31:25
Appelina!!! Why I oughta!! You're lucky your content is absolute quality every time.
My bad. apologises for the pronunciation
Can't wait for the breakdown of Godfather II! That scene of Hagan adjusting his tie before Carlo's death always stood out to me, Lol. I'm about to watch this video again before firing up The Godfather.
Good one Paul🙏
The films are indeed way better than the novel. I've never read it completely but I thumbed through it enough times in the library to have an idea. It definitely reads way pulpier than the films and has little of that operatic, lyrical sweep. The novel is good for providing information on gaps in the film. There was a big mob war in the 30s that I believe was called the Castellamarese war. This is what Clemenza was referring to about having to cook spaghetti for 15 guys.
OH MY GOD!!! one of my favorite movies, EVER!! and an hour of breaking this down???? truly, god bless. i am so excited!!!!
Hope you enjoy it
“Didn’t even ‘warn-a-brother’” has me dying 😂
That wasn't Louis Prima. Also, his name is pronounced similar to the way you say Louie. Not Loueese.
Anyway, great video over all.
Oh yessssssss , excellent my call my friend
37:30 Hearing you say Apoleenya, and not Apollonia hurts my heart.
In the hospital scene where Michael talks to Vito, his hand goes over Vito's face. The shadow can be seen as Michael now taking over, overshadowing Vito.
Best review ever
Wow!!! This was incredible Man U absolutely knocked it out the park with is breakdown! One of the best breakdowns for one of the best films! Can’t wait to see what u got cooking for the next two! Great work man 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you man, cheers for your constant kind words and support mate, genuinely appreciate you always dropping feedback like this
@@heavyspoilers I should be thanking u for constantly putting out amazing content! Been a fan for a while it’s awesome u noticed man was a huge fan of the podcast too love all the content keep kicking ass brother! Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment u proved 🔥
Iconic breakdown
The Beverley Estate, featured in the film's horse head scene, was once owned by a couple whose love story served as an inspiration for Citizen Kane. Notably, JFK also spent his honeymoon there. Some other chumps also used the property.
Brilliant breakdown. You continue to be the second-best English Paul.
Haha thank you. Cheers for the bit of trivia too.
I JUST watched this again the other day and thought about how I hoped you would cover it. Thats actually happened a few times now. Pretty bizarre. Anyway, great pick and thank you for keeping these coming. Cheers
Looool you just have good taste
Possible easter egg but may be a reach…im just re-watching Bulletproof (1996) and it opens with James Caan saying, “I believe in America”
Gianni Russo played Carlo not Paulie
So Brando was crying in the hospital because he didn’t want Michael to join the family
The Offer is such an amazing show, made me appreciate The Godfather even much more
This 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 the 👏🏽 BEST!!!!
I don't remember like 70% of the movie being some guy in a room full of pop figures talking to the camera. I'll have to rewatch it.
Great recap! One of my favorite Godfather series details is the rise of Rocco Lampone and Al Neri along with Michael. Rocco goes from killing Paulie to getting yelled at by Michael in II, then getting killed while killing Hyman Roth. Al basically becomes Michael’s Luca Brasi, even getting one last kill in at the end of III. Same actors in each movie, not a ton of lines, but great for consistency in rewatches.
Yeah that’s what I Iove about the trilogy. So many characters and actors returning throughout. Really makes it feel like a documentary at points.
Sadly, Richard Bright who played Al Nero was struck and killed by a bus in midtown Manhattan a few years back.
"Look how they massacred my boy..." An excellent quote to use out of context.
Entertaining mate
Btw, 35:14 the loud noise of the overhead El (elevated train) would cover the gunfire blasts.
Never heard a subway train in a the same sentence as something being poetic but then Alfred Hitchcock used it for effect when blending a scream and the train's whistle.
... can't remember if an El was shown in the movie. Yea, having tunnel vision being nervous hearing one's heart beat 120 bpm would sound like a train.
Gianni Russo doesn't play Paulie bro, he plays Carlo.
I only watch for the fishing clash ads
Yes it is heavily implied that Michael is Italian American and doesn't speak Italian.
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