Not that Part I was a tiny film, with its ten-year narrative span and its embrace of themes from the moral deflation of a single human all the way up to The Rise Of America As A Superpower. The screenplay for the sequel had already been commissioned before the first film even opened, but it was being developed during exactly the period when Part I was making the scope of its achievement known.Īnd so, back we go: Part II knows the expectations it needs to live up to, and it decides the way to live up to them is go really big. * By the time Part II entered production, Part I was, of course, an anointed modern masterpiece: a box office titan, winner of the Best Picture Oscar, and recognised by the end of its first theatrical run as one of the all-time great American films. It was a commercially-minded adaptation of a sudsy bestseller made by a down-on-his-luck director and starring basically nobody with much of a reputation among critics or audiences. 1972's The Godfather, adapted from Mario Puzo's 1969 crime novel, was never supposed to be one of the defining films of the New Hollywood Cinema and from there, of contemporary American filmmaking.
THE GODFATHER 2 EXPLAINED MOVIE
Whether you consider it a strength, or the movie's most damning flaw, I think this much cannot be denied: The Godfather, Part II knows the scale of the movie it's following, and it is hellbent on topping it.
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