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melis-writes · 3 months

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MARLON BRANDO as VITO CORLEONE in THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.

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adaptationsdaily · 4 months

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THE GODFATHER (1972) DIR. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

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unbfacts · 7 months

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#Mario Puzo #The Godfather #books

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simonettastefanelli · 6 months

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SIMONETTA STEFANELLI as Apollonia Vitelli in 'The Godfather' (1972)

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earlgodwin · 6 months

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"Juan was more sensitive to personal injury, he had a cruel streak, and most of the time wore a sardonic expression. Still, Alexander was very fond of him, sensing in him a vulnerability that Cesare and Lucrezia did not have."

— Mario Puzo, The Family.

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lascitasdelashoras · 3 months

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Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather notebook, Mario Puzo

#francis ford coppola #directores #the godfather #notebook #mario puzo

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latristereina · 1 month

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“Her mouth was sweet and he gently pulled her down on the bed. She closed her eyes, waiting for him to make love to her and Michael felt an enormous happiness. He had spent the war years fighting in the Pacific, and on those bloody islands he had dreamed of a girl like Kay Adams. Of a beauty like hers. A fair and fragile body, milky-skinned and electrified by passion.”

“He was surprised to find himself so secretive with Kay. He loved her, he trusted her, but he would never tell her anything about his father or the Family. She was an outsider.”

“Michael often thought of Kay, of her smile, her body, and always felt a twinge of conscience at leaving her so brutally without a word of farewell.”

“…it was nothing like the love he’d had for Kay, a love based as much on her sweetness, her intelligence and the polarity of the fair and dark.”

“Kay was silent for a long time. ‘Why do you want me to marry you after never calling me all these months? Am I so good in bed?’ Michael nodded gravely. ‘Sure,’ he said. ‘But I’m getting it for nothing so why should I marry you for that?’”

‘You are the only person I felt any affection for, that I care about.’

“But Kay was grateful. She knew that Michael had done it against all his own inclinations. Had done it because she had asked him to, and that she was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature.”

“Kay put her hand on Hagen’s arm. ‘He didn’t order you to tell me all the other things?’ Hagen hesitated a moment as if debating whether to tell her a final truth. ‘You still don’t understand,’ he said. ‘If you told Michael what I’ve told you today, I’m a dead man.’ He paused again. ‘You and the children are the only people on this earth he couldn’t harm.’”

- Mario Puzo, “The Godfather”

“Michael loved her when he met her and he loved her throughout his life and he loves her to this day, even though their relationship was surrounded by a lie. He not only loves her, he admires her.”

- Al Pacino, (x)

“And consequently, as we see him even in his commendatory finery receiving the highest award the Vatican can bestow he…his face is a mirror of his soul that’s ravaged and sickly, and very very heartbroken because what he values the most is the thing that he has lost… but he has his children, and his children at this point, I would think to Michael mean everything, his daughter and his son.”

“Although to me, what is about to happen here is the beginning of rebuilding of what really means most to him…I have no doubt that Michael despite the limitations of his Sicilian-American upbringing, and how men were supposed to be, how women were supposed to be, and wives were supposed to be, he really loved Kay, much as Diane and Al really love each other or loved each other, or probably will always love each other… I felt we were dealing with real things in the context of this romantic novel.”

- Francis Ford Coppola’s DVD commentary, (x)

“He would do it for his children, this boy and this girl that was all he had left of his marriage with Kay, which obviously meant a lot to him but which she basically pulled the plug on. She was not going to be married to a man who murdered people and stuff.”

“I saw what Michael had, and thereby understood what he had lost. He loved Kay, you know. Kay represented to him this dream that one day he would be out of it. He would have achieved the goal, which was to one day be totally legitimate. He had promised her that he would do that and somehow he was not quite able to just pull it off.”

- Francis Ford Coppola, (x)

@godfat-her

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams #kay corleone #al pacino #diane keaton #mario puzo #francis ford coppola #let’s settle this once and for all

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the-technicolor-yawn · 7 months

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film vs book luca brasi

#the godfather #luca brasi #don corleone #godfather trilogy #mario puzo #literature #film #francis ford coppola #the godfather trilogy #godfather meme #vito corleone

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pedroam-bang · 25 days

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The Godfather: Part II (1974)

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iwasateenagenosferatu · 2 months

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Not me listening to Lana Del Rey playing The Godfather in The Sims. 👀🍷

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araekniarchive · 2 years

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Web weave about boyhood & how gentle boys grow up to be cruel men?

Orson Scott Card, The Princess and the Bear

Mario Puzo, The Godfather

George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

Skyfall (2012) dir. Sam Mendes

#webs #web weaving #theme: morality #theme: childhood #theme: growing up #mine #requests #orson scott card #mario puzo #the godfather (1972)#skyfall (2012)#george r. r. martin

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melis-writes · 8 months

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THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.

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adaptationsdaily · 2 years

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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

#the godfather #filmedit #doyouevenfilm #filmgifs #moviegifs #dailyflicks #userpavlova #usermikey #usersavana #usermandie #userairam #useralex #henricavyll #userkraina #fyeahmovies #literature #mario puzo #ours #by petra

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xxrrisxx · 2 months

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Behind every successful fortune, there is a crime.

Mario Puzo

#the godfather #mario puzo #book to movie #movie quotes #classic movies #crime novel #spilled words #words #literature #spilled ink #book quotes #spilled thoughts #spilled writing #lit

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sharry-arry-odd · 4 months

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Then the Don put his hand on Hagen's cheek, embraced him quickly, and said, in Italian, "You've been a good son. You comfort me."

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

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earlgodwin · 6 months

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"Juan Borgia was almost as tall as Cesare, but slighter of build. Like his brother and father, he was an attractive man but with a difference. He had the slightly slanted eyes and high cheekbones of his Spanish ancestors. His skin was bronzed from his long hours of riding and hunting but there was often a look of suspicion in his widely set dark eyes."

— Mario Puzo, The Family.

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