Movie review of The Godfather

I watched the American movie series The Godfather over the New Year holiday.

The series is based on a popular novel, and consists of three parts. All three movies were directed by Francis Ford Coppola.



PartⅠ and Ⅱ got Academy Awards in many categories.

They describe the history of a family, who are Italian-American Mafia.

PartⅠwas released in 1972.

The main character of this drama, Michael, was played by Al Pacino.

Michael hated his family’s crime, and joined the Marines in WWII to escape from their illegal business.

However, his father Vito, who is the head of the Corleone crime family, was attacked by his enemy, and his elder brother Sonny was betrayed and killed.

As Michael understood the crisis of his family, he decided to succeed the Corleone family.


The drama of PartⅡ described why Vito became the don, the head of the crime family.

‘Don’ is an honorific title in Southern Europe, including Italy.

Robert De Niro acted as young Vito.

In the beginning of the 20th century, many poor people immigrated to the US from Europe. Vito was one of them, and came from Sicily.

His family members were killed by the Sicilian Mafia, and he escaped from his home as a child.

He worked for a grocery store in New York, but a person in the Mafia took his job away, and disturbed his life after that.

That’s why Vito killed this person and became the head of a crime family.

And the drama also shows how Michael gets success in both common society and an underground community.

He runs a casino, hotel and entertainment business, and becomes a successful businessman.

But his wife Kay, played by Dian Keaton, sees through his crimes, and leaves him, even though he loves her so much.


PartⅢ was released in 1990.

Michael got old, and his son hates his family business like Michael at a young age.

He became one of the richest men in the world, and had strong influence on politics and even the Vatican.

He struggled to leave the underground community, and gave his status to his nephew Vincent, the son of Sonny.

And he finally passed away alone.


I enjoyed these marvelous masterpieces and deep drama, with wonderful actors and actresses.

And I was so tired from watching these movies in about 10 hours. I also felt sad because so many men were killed and there were no happy people in this drama, even though they wanted to be happy.


Location: 日本、神奈川県

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The drama of Akechi Mitsuhide

Image
  The annual historical drama series, The Giraffe is Coming ( Awaiting Kirin : Japanese title Kirin ga Kuru) is broadcasting on NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation. The main character of this drama is Akechi Mitsuhide, and it is an exceptional explanation of Japanese history. That is because he has been described as the betrayer to Oda Nobunaga, who had been a highly rated warrior and politician. It is told that Nobunaga finished the warring state, Sengoku period, and tried to unify all of Japan. Nobunaga is very popular, he generally has been said to be a charismatic, handsome, smart and fair person, even though he also was a cruel tyrant with a very short temper. Mitsuhide belonged to Oda’s clan, and was promoted by Nobunaga. However he killed Nobunaga in 1582 in what is called the Honno-ji incident. After the Honno-ji incident, Mitsuhide was killed by Hashiba Hideyoshi, who was also in Oda’s clan, and he succeeded Nobunaga’s project. According to history, Mitsuhide has ...
Read more

The mythology of the twelve signs of western astrology — part.2

Image
Cancer season starts the day of summer solstice, which usually comes on the 21st or 22nd of June.  In the Northern hemisphere, the Sun reaches its highest position in the sky and daytime becomes the longest in the year. As I showed in the previous article, Zeus, the god of the highest position in Greek mythology, has a lot of children born from human women. Heracles was one of them, and Zeus made a plan for his wife goddess Hera to breastfeed Heracles while she was asleep, because Zeus would like to give him the power of a god. 　 Heracles sucked Hera's breast so strongly, even though he was a baby, that she awoke. Hera was surprised and shook him off, the Milky Way was created by her breastmilk spreading into the night sky. She got angry and continued to hate him forever. Heracles had grown to be the strongest hero in Greece, and started the adventures that are called the Twelve Labours of Heracles. The models of Cancer and Leo are concerned with these episodes. When Heracles slaye...
Read more

Movie Review of The Danish Girl

Image
 I watched the movie The Danish Girl , which is based on the biography of the first person who had undergone sex reassignment surgery in the world.  At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a couple of painters, Mr and Mrs Wegener in Copenhagen, Denmark. Einar Wegener was good at landscapes, and gaining fame as one of most talented artists in Denmark, but his wife, Gerda, didn’t achieve success behind Einar. One day, Gerda asked Einar to be the foot model in place of the female model because she didn’t come on time. When Einar wore lady’s stockings and shoes, and put the dress on his chest, he felt someone awaken inside himself. Gerda also proposed him to pretend to be a woman and join a party together. Einar wore a dress, wig, and makeup, and finally he became a beautiful woman. He was named Lili, and she got attention from guys there. Einar believed he is a woman inside, and began to change from a man to a woman since then. Gerda was confused by her husband’s change, ...
Read more