classics of [The Godfather]
When it comes to gangster films, everyone should think of: all kinds of guns and ammunition, all kinds of team battles, all kinds of racing car chases... Anyway, it should be full of excitement, gunpowder smell and hormones toy. Then if you take this as a standard, in comparison, [Godfather] should give me the feeling of being boring.
This kind of sullenness comes from almost any element in the film: the slow-paced story, the undulating plot, the taciturn protagonist, the restrained and deep performance, and even the music is a literary style, the whole is simply a pot of boredom Sao hodgepodge. Such a gangster film, in theory, is simply a dancer wearing a down jacket, and there is nothing to watch.
However, if there is a list of gangster classics, [The Godfather] is ranked second, I am afraid that not many works can be ranked first. [Godfather] The reason why it is classic is because under its sultry appearance, there are other things wrapped.
In those exciting gangster movies, every time the protagonist wants to kill someone, he often has to fiddle with a weapon (or even a few) that is incomparable. Hide, you chase after me, all kinds of flying cars and all kinds of escapes, and finally a few explosions can guarantee to kill.
However, back to [The Godfather], it seems that in a small climax in the middle half, Mike planned to murder two people. It may have taken only a few minutes from drawing the gun to escaping, and even the deadly weapon was just inconspicuous. small pistol.
Behind the sullenness, the essence is outrageous truth.
Betrayal, assassination, conspiracy, black gold politics, behind-the-scenes operations... These essential elements in gangster films are presented in another way, and they are no longer so observable and pondering. Mike's lover was bombed for a moment, and even the time that Mike should have scratched his head and went crazy and asked the sky "Oh my god! She didn't do anything!" was omitted.
The head of the Mafia family in the film, the style and procedures of the meeting are no less than that of multinational diplomacy, which is exaggeratedly serious. And what about the mafia members? As soon as the gun is drawn, he kills, and when he sees someone, he fights without a word of nonsense. The whole process is as casual as a documentary.
In the film, Mike becomes Connie's daughter's godfather. Inside the church, there is a new life, but outside the stone wall, there is bloodshed. Isn't this double contradiction an accusation of the cruelty of this society? Sloppy human life is thrown away like garbage, let alone blinking an eye, killing is just like a duty, and there is no sense of disobedience.
Coppola once said that people today find [The Godfather] boring because the production cost at that time was strictly regulated, and this style was squeezed out of necessity. But now it seems that Coppola is also inadvertently intervening, and this kind of realism has been regarded as a classic. [The Godfather] has thus become a rare milestone in film history, a classic that is destined not to be remade.
[Godfather] After that, there is no godfather.
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