Recently, a Facebook friend reported that he had watched The
Godfather films at home, and he gave a ringing 4-stars to the first film,
dating from 1972, as directed by Francis Ford Coppola, from Paramount Pictures,
195 minutes. The screenplay had been
written with novelist Mario Puzo.
I remember seeing this film in an older theater in Manhattan
on 57th Street in 1973, when I was commuting into the City many
weekend days while living in New Jersey (I would ten go to the Ninth Street Center
on a Saturday, for cherry picking).
What strikes me particularly is a conversation where Marlon
Brando’s character says he specializes in “services” that legitimate businesses
are not allowed to indulge themselves in.
Prostitution is one of them.
Think about the Backpage issue, the Internet, and the serious challenge
to Section 230 now (and the way federal law is now being increased to include
prostitution as well as sex trafficking per se). Another was pornography, at
least based on adult consensual sex. I
actually would see “Deep Throat” with a trick in January 1976 on Times Square.
(I may do a post on this one later;
doesn’t look like I have one yet.)
The story revolves around his son’s rise to power (as played
by Al Pacino).
I do remember the wedding scene near the beginning (all
arranged, or was that Film II?), and particularly a violent execution at a New Jersey Turnpike toll
plaza, as well as restaurant assassinations Ponder these films today also in connection with the gun control debate.
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Today, I went to the beachfront with my children.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old
daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the
shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside
and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know
this is totally off topic but I had to tell someone!
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