[HN Gopher] The Godfather almost never happened
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The Godfather almost never happened
Author : walterbell
Score : 18 points
Date : 2022-03-14 02:24 UTC (1 days ago)
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| scotuswroteus wrote:
| Corrected headline: The best Family Guy scene almost never
| happened:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pnwE_Oy5WI&ab_channel=Weskk
| kgwxd wrote:
| I moved into a new house last summer and every time there's a
| new problem I look for The Money Pit on one of the 5 streaming
| services I subscribe to but haven't found it yet :/ It's so
| good. I hate The Godfather too.
| jwilk wrote:
| > "Revenge is a dish that tastes best served cold."
|
| Is that a real quote?
| Chinjut wrote:
| It's in the The Godfather novel (with slightly different
| wording), not the movie.
| stuff4ben wrote:
| I must be the only person who has never seen it. Binging the
| Sopranos has me yearning to see it now.
| jrace wrote:
| Watch 1 and 2, But under no circumstances watch 3, jut pretend
| it was never made
| [deleted]
| mc32 wrote:
| It was a movie. People enjoyed it and continue to enjoy it.
|
| But. It's a movie!
|
| If if never had been made? Big whoop!
|
| It would have been like all those eggs that never hatch. We'd
| know not the difference.
| scotuswroteus wrote:
| 3/10 analogy, would not repeat
| labster wrote:
| That analogy is like the tall poppy that doesn't get cut
| because it's not tall enough.
| chasil wrote:
| Cabaret actually did better than the Godfather in the 1972
| academy awards.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabaret_(1972_film)
|
| "The film also brought Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and
| Vincente Minnelli, her own first chance to sing on screen, and
| she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. With Academy Awards
| for Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Director (Fosse), Best
| Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Original
| Song Score and Adaptation, and Best Film Editing, Cabaret holds
| the record for most Oscars earned by a film not honored for Best
| Picture."
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather
|
| "At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Picture, Best
| Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (for Puzo and
| Coppola)."
|
| I like both films.
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| It's crazy how much the movie has overshadowed the book, to the
| point where I bet most people aren't even aware of the book even
| if they've seen the film. The Wikipedia page is a great example.
| How many adaptations get the URL with no addendum, while the
| original novel gets _(novel)?
| jwilk wrote:
| Other examples of adaptions with suffix-less Wikipedia
| articles:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| The poor Forrest Gump novel doesn't even get a nod before the
| article. You need to go to the disambiguation for it.
| smackeyacky wrote:
| I don't know if you've read it, but if you haven't it's a
| pretty odd choice to make a movie out of. It's closer to pulp
| than it is literature. Not that there is anything wrong with
| that, you can't live on michelin star restaurants and can get
| by with the occasional big mac combo meal, but given how feted
| the movie became, the novel is somewhat underwhelming.
| jeffnv wrote:
| The movie is a Coppola masterpiece. The book feels much more
| like a Quentin Tarantino. Definitely a fun read.
| gumby wrote:
| It's unambiguously a pot boiler, intended as a beach read. In
| fact I encountered the paperback, a couple of years after it
| was issued, at someone's beach house on a shelf full of
| potboilers (Michener, Susann, etc). 11 year old me was
| scandalized by the sex scene in the first chapter.
| cm2012 wrote:
| I'm not sure I'd agree it's that pulpy. The cultural and
| family dynamics in the book are interesting to explore.
| siva7 wrote:
| That movie is glorifying criminals
| bexsella wrote:
| It doesn't glorify criminality. Everyone either dies, or
| becomes a heartless, lying mafioso.
| agumonkey wrote:
| like a long string of mafia movies, somehow they all got great
| reviews, weird
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