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"I was in Sicily and we were doing the wedding scene, he (Francis Ford Coppola) said 'Al just go...' because you know, he is trying to make a film and I'm hanging around asking him stupid questions he said 'Al just go over to the family group and speak Italian to them' I said I don't speak Italian Francis! He said 'It doesn't matter just say anything to them, it's ok I got a camera over there don't worry about it' I said I'm not worried, he said 'just go over there and do it!' so I go over there and I'm trying to talk to them [laughs] then he says 'now what you do is you get up and you grab the girl you are going to marry and you do the waltz just round in a circle' I said Francis I can't waltz! I've never waltzed. He said 'You've not waltzed? What do you mean you can't? Just go TAKE HER AROUND!" I said ok, ok I will go do it. So I got the girl, who did not like me for starters, oh god she just... I don't know had her eyes somewhere else I guess. But I was going around the thing with the girl and I was dizzy and everything which didn't matter. Then he says 'Now get in the car and go!' I said Francis I don't drive! and I swear to you, I swear he said 'WHY DID I HIRE YOU?'

Al Pacino stories from the set of The Godfather (THR Awards Chatter podcast)

#the godfather #al pacino #i just wanted to say #she was just a kid #no wonder she didn’t like him #she was a minor #and he was like 32 #anything ‘romantic’ between the actors #would be disgusting #it already was

[latristereina]

When Prince Arthur died in 1502 , Catherine became widow , then her father Ferdinand asked her to come back to her homeland, but she refused because she thought that She was anointed as queen of England by God ,

I think of she went back to her homeland , she would not have suffered such a terrible fate

What do you think of it ?

Neither Ferdinand nor Isabella really wanted Katharine back in Spain… Maybe as parents they would have liked to but they weren’t regular parents, they were 16th century monarchs and their interests came first.

Yes, Ferdinand requested his daughter be sent back home but in reality he wanted her to marry the next heir to the English throne and it was the initial agreement he and Henry VII reached.

Royal children were political pawns first and foremost, princesses were raised in such a fashion as to know they were going to marry abroad to forge alliances that were going to benefit their countries.

#katherine of aragon

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Kay & Michael by my friend Andrea

link to her instagram account: (x)

#mikay

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The Godfather (1972), dir Francis Ford Coppola

Michael and Kay in the hotel bed (deleted scene)

@blackvalyrians, @jasonvanhalen, @godfat-her

#forever reblog

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[latristereina]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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I personally don’t see that between them, but I agree Apollonia was more of a plot device than anything else although not to further his trauma but rather to espouse the Sicilian traditions on the way to become the next don.

Coppola likes to fuck with people’s minds and to make them believe something that really isn’t the case as he himself said. Having the actress topless was disgusting enough given her age but if they had actually represented Michael’s thoughts about her from the book, it would have been even worse.

About Kay and Michael, Coppola kinda prides himself in arranging a Cupid like moment in the hotel to fuel Diane and Al’s chemistry because they actually became lovers after The Godfather part II, which didn’t last long that time around, but then they got back together again and even lived together in the mid-80s.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams

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I mean, I personally don’t think whatever he had with Apollonia in the movie was sweet or romantic, there was no chemistry between the actors (and rightfully so since she was only 16) but to each their own.

Michael courted Apollonia in a “proper way” because it was the only way for him to get into her panties. He and Kay were going to marry, there’s a deleted scene of the two in bed when they talk about it.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams

[latristereina]

Rhaenys Targaryen in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - present) ↳ S01E10⎮The Black Queen

#the house of the dragon #rhaenys targaryen

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I wanted, you know, Michael to be haunted by the iciness in his own personal life, the reflection about his child, his wife, that oddly enough, he was, you know, doing all of this to preserve his family and he was destroying his family at the same time, and that was the central theme of that character.

The choice of his wife hearing the sewing machine and working on it… I don’t know how many women really use sewing machines very much now but it’s just an image that, of course, it evokes Penelope in the Odyssey, you know, the wife, the loyal wife at home spinning or working on some needle point as is really like Greek epic story

-The Godfather part II, The Director's Commentary

@blackvalyrians

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Sofia Coppola should be left alone at this point, she was in The Godfather III only because Winona Ryder dropped out at the last minute and Coppola was obsessed with the idea of Mary being young and naive and having “baby fat” on her (🤮), that’s why he cast his daughter. She never wanted to be an actress, she just wanted to help her father.

#the godfather #the godfather part iii #princess sofia

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You see, Apollonia and Michael’s relationship was kinda romanticized by Coppola in the movie (although to me it wasn’t really romantic, the most lame “romance” I’ve ever seen on screen), which is disgusting because both Apollonia and the actress were 16 while Michael was 27 (32 in the movie). In the book (there’s only one) it’s crystal clear Michael was bored and horny while in Sicily, he saw a pretty girl and got dangerously obsessed with her, he felt the need to possess her, to make her his own, it wasn’t love, it was pure lust, he saw her as his sex slave, the fact she was a virgin enhanced his toxic masculinity, which wasn’t really inherent to his nature prior to the exile. We know from the book Kay was the girl of his dreams, his type physically and romantically speaking, it’s stated he loved her whereas the same can’t be said about Apollonia. In “The Sicilian” (it’s not really about the Corleones but Michael’s return to the States is depicted in that novel), he was thinking about Kay shortly after Apollonia’s death, he didn’t really mourn her. When he came home he didn’t reach out to Kay because he felt ashamed, he didn’t think she would wait for him after the killings, it was Kay who came to the mall at the insistence of Michael’s mother. The case with Michael is that he was never good at expressing his feelings both in the book and the movies, but yeh, there’s more romance and a lot of sex between him and Kay in the novel.

I agree with you that Apollonia’s death caused trauma and guilt in him but not that he loved her or really changed after her death. You have to keep in mind Apollonia’s and Sonny’s deaths happened back to back and I think what really changed him was the fact he became the next don and he absolutely hated that job. He and Kay had different plans.

As for the script being changed, yeh, there were more moments between Kay and Michael, but I specifically meant TGF III script because in the draft he admitted he had married Apollonia just to have sex and because he had missed Kay.

I mean, he sucked at showing love either to women (whom he treated like shit in general) or to anyone, but he kept wearing his wedding ring even after Kay dumped him and wanted her back years later even though she was happily married.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams

[latristereina]

My favorite type of The Godfather fanfiction feature Kay as the main character or at least one of the main characters with her own pov.

#the godfather #kay adams

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"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

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Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

#statistics

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I wanted, you know, Michael to be haunted by the iciness in his own personal life, the reflection about his child, his wife, that oddly enough, he was, you know, doing all of this to preserve his family and he was destroying his family at the same time, and that was the central theme of that character.

The choice of his wife hearing the sewing machine and working on it… I don’t know how many women really use sewing machines very much now but it’s just an image that, of course, it evokes Penelope in the Odyssey, you know, the wife, the loyal wife at home spinning or working on some needle point as is really like Greek epic story

-The Godfather part II, The Director's Commentary

@blackvalyrians

#the godfather #the godfather part ii #michael corleone #kay adams #kay corleone #al pacino #diane keaton

[latristereina]

If Kay Adams has no defenders that means I’m dead. Just so you know.

#same #kay adams