After all these years and dozens of viewings, I still find it to be as great as ever regardless of a few warts, such as the use of a bit too much stock footage (think of Tom Hagen arriving in the 1940s Hollywood, or Paulie, Rocco and Clemenza driving through New York) and the obvious use of stand-ins that don’t look all that much like the actors (like Hagen and Jack Woltz walking by the gardens of the latter’s mansion).
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It wasn’t until the summer of 1980 that the original "Godfather" made another round in cinemas down here in Mexico.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola highlights the professional and personal challenges Michael has to face by contrasting them with those of his father in their very different times and cultures. “The Godfather, Part II” deals with the continuing story of that family, as new patriarch Michael tries to expand its many businesses. There’s just something about the protagonists of certain movies that makes it hard to shake them off-the Fast Eddie Felsons, the Vincent & Neils, the Red & Andys, and above all, the Corleones.
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Knowing then very little about its predecessor and considering that the follow-up constantly jumps between time periods, it didn’t end up making all that much sense to me, but it raised enough curiosity to try to fill the voids, even if the only material available to me at that time was their Mad Magazine parodies. This was perhaps a couple of years after it was first released. “The Godfather, Part II” was the first film in the Godfather saga that I saw.
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What exactly makes “ The Godfather, Part II” better than its predecessor?