"The Godfather" tells a romantic gang epic in a somber and calm style. It is one of the greatest gangster movies in movie history and is known as the man's bible. The film has not only achieved success in reviews, art and box office, but it also set a model for future generations. It is a classic movie praised by all. Its praise rate on authoritative film websites is as high as 100%. The authoritative American film organization, the American Film Institute, named it "the greatest gangster classic film in America.")
"The Godfather" has a profound influence on film history, gangster genre films, and pop culture. It is the best film in film history in the minds of many directors, such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and other actors. Excellent interpretation, coupled with the epic of the story itself, makes this movie a masterpiece. "The Godfather", as a gang-themed movie, is not a nihilistic downplay of religious meaning. On the contrary, this movie has a deep Christian imprint. It rarely discusses good and evil, and rarely uses subjective lenses to express religious morality, but it is Several nodes, concentratedly showing the inner suffering of the characters, expressing this level of connotation with ease
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"The Godfather" describes the family grievances in the heyday of the Mafia with fine pen and ink. Although the film pattern of large, complex plot, many characters, but yet the whole film director Coppola handled in an orderly, exciting, demonstrated superb technical skills).
The deep significance of "The Godfather" is that it has opened up a broad prospect for crime films in the history of American cinema. This film not only expands the field of expression of crime films, its ideological significance and connotation also far exceed the category of violence, and sublimate the theme to the deep meaning of the most common power alternation in human society-the relationship between power and evil).
The discussion of religion in "The Godfather" is looming, and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred by elegance, warmth, kindness, and family. The image of the godfather in the film subverts people's traditional cognition of the gangster. The gangster in the film no longer looks domineering, he can be gentle and kind, he can be decent and elegant. The director arranged large-scale assassination scenes in the film and skillfully used cross-montage to show the plot of revenge. When Marlon Brando said in a very calm tone that he would propose a condition that he could not refuse, the violent acts of the underworld were eliminated to the greatest extent, and a huge aesthetic tension was generated from this
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