Originally posted by: CO
Coppola showed in one movie, with a series of flashbacks, a more compelling character study as to how one rises to power and eventually kills to acquire that power in Godfather II (Vito Corleone). This is the ultimate storytelling as to less is more.
Coppola showed in one movie, with a series of flashbacks, a more compelling character study as to how one rises to power and eventually kills to acquire that power in Godfather II (Vito Corleone). This is the ultimate storytelling as to less is more.
I'd add to that the fall of Michael Corleone in The Godfather. He's an honest guy at the beginning of the film. He's college educated, serves his country in the military, etc. He turns to evil completely by the end of the film.
He doesn't even resemble the person he was earlier in the story.
