The Godfather behind the scenes gags

The Godfather

During the filming, Coppola had a fierce conflict with the producer Paramount Pictures, so that the producer considered replacing him.
Most of Marlon Brando's lines in the film are read out according to the cue cards. In addition, he deliberately imitated the voice of Vito Corleone's character prototype Frank Costello.
Marlon Brando hopes to make Vito Corleone look like a "bulldog." During the audition, he stuffed cotton in his mouth to make his cheeks bulge. In the actual shooting, he wore a pair of dental braces specially made by the dentist.
Lenny Montana, who plays Luca, was very nervous because of the role played with Marlon Brando, and even said the wrong lines, but Coppola thought his nervousness was just right and kept it in the final version.
In the film Vito slapped Johnny. However, this is not in the script, and the confusion revealed by Al Martino, who plays Johnny, is also his true interpretation.
The cat in Brando's arms in the opening scene is a stray cat he stumbled across on the Paramount set. The cat's purring even overwhelmed Brando's lines.
In the bedroom scene, the horse head scene on the bed can be called the most amazing scene in this movie, and the crew used a real horse head to shoot. Animal rights organizations therefore protested. Coppola said that the horse's head was purchased from a dog food processing factory and that they would not mutilate animals out of filming needs.
Coppola's original director's cut version was 126 minutes long, but the producer thought it was too short, and the officially released version was 50 minutes longer than the director's cut version.
The scene of Sonny beating Connie's husband took 4 days to complete, using as many as 700 extras.
Al Pacino said that Marlon Brando did indeed burst into tears when filming the footage in the hospital.
Giani Russo, who plays Carlo, has a background in the underworld. Since he had never acted in a play, his appearance was opposed by Brando. For this reason, Gianni Russo tried to threaten Brando. However, this made Brando mistakenly believe that he was acting, and therefore affirmed his acting skills.
When filming the shot of Sonny beating her brother-in-law on the street, James Kane, who played Sonny, interrupted the actor's two ribs. In addition, trucks and wooden boxes appeared in the background of the screen at that time, which were used to block the inappropriate background.
In the picture taken in Sicily, Michael’s makeup does not match that of the filming in New York, because Paramount is unwilling to pay for the makeup artist’s trip to Italy.
When filming the location of Waltz's residence, due to the inability of Robert Duval and John Marley to be there, the crew had to find extras as their stand-ins.