https://padlet.com/mbattaglia01_2/Bookmarks Why is it So Long? en-us 2021-02-08 22:13:40 UTC 2025-10-02 10:26:15 UTC hello@padlet.com mbattaglia01_2 https://padlet.com/mbattaglia01_2/Bookmarks/wish/1340167100 No movie we’ve studied so far this semester has been as long as The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972). The runtime for the movie is nearly three hours long, and Coppola does a fantastic job by being able to keep the audience engaged (most certainly myself). Most people would think: “Oh, a three hour movie, how am I ever going to sit through this thing?”. Coppola knows that he was going to take this risk, but it allowed him to explore and achieve many things while making this film. Firstly, the opening scene of Vito Corleone’s daughter’s wedding day takes up the first twenty-seven minutes of the film. Here, the audience is introduced to nearly all of the main roles in the film. This is where the audience can also get to know how each character interacts with one another. Most importantly, we see how much of an important and powerful man Vito is. An example of this is immediately seen in the next sequence of scenes when the horse of the big Hollywood producer, Jack Woltz, is killed for not giving a role to Johnny (Vito’s godson). I’d say a decapitated horse head would grab the audience's attention for the rest of the movie. However, after this scene there was still over two hours of runtime, which gives Coppola a lot more opportunities to do what he wants with the film. Coppola gives a lot of screentime to other characters other than Vito, which allows us to follow many different storylines of the characters. For instance, after Vito is shot, Sonny and Michael are given more screen time, and we also begin to follow their part of the storyline. As an example, Michael volunteers to kill Sollonzo and McCluskey and that is when he takes full participation in the family business. This allows Coppola to follow through with the rest of the film, centered around Michael and his accomplices. ]]> 2021-03-22 20:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mbattaglia01_2/Bookmarks/wish/1340167100