Film Analysis by Sagarika Reddy Siddavatam

The Godfather and Pachinko

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Similar film techniques

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Opening scene (The Godfather I)

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Opening scene and Transition (Pachinko)

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Opening scene: 00:40
Transition I: 03:25
Transition II: 21:00

Transition I (The Godfather II opening)

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Transition II (The Godfather II)

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Adaptation from book to movie

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Linear Storytelling to Non-linear Storytelling
Removing elements
The Godfather as a show

Character tropes

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Sunja and Vito

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First generation immigrants
Moved young due to difficult circumstances
Breadwinners
Resilient, smart
Family-oriented

Michael and Apollonia / Sunja and Hansu

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Immigrants who return to the homeland
Fall in love with a local woman
Have love interests / partners in the foreign land
One commits to the new woman, the other does not

Full circle in Vito and Sunja

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Return to the homeland
Vito's success, Sunja's peace
Justice and sentimentality

Solomon and Michael

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Second and Third generation immigrants
Assimilated to foreign culture, disconnected from the homeland
Money-oriented
Attempts to escape the family business, forced back into it

Common themes

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The effect of the political background

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Occupation of Korea
Crackdown on Mafias - Kefauver committee
Cuban riots - Earthquakes
Pre/During World War II

Family

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Generational
Close-knit
Sacrificial

Lives of Immigrants

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Discrimination
"Ghetto" community
Poor, forced to turn to illegal means
Lack of improvement

Differences

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THEMES

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Election 1 (2005)

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The Godfather

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Triad VS Italian Mafia

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Generational
Hierarchical
Loyalty and Betrayal
Sense of Family or Brethren

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Filming and Editing Techniques

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Cross Dissolve
Use of Sound - Godfather Waltz and Sound of Heaven and Forever Smiling
Faster pace with wider shots - minimal tight shots

Colour Grading - shots are dark and warm-toned in The Godfather and blue-green-toned in the Election - exceptions
Similar shots - desk room shots

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Character Tropes

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Michael Corleone

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Don Vito

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Lok and Big D

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Jimmy

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Santino

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The "Godfather" trope

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Symbolism of Cigarettes and Tea

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Genre difference and approach to "gangster"

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Sound and Editing

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The build up of intensity and cutting between different scenes that play interestingly with time

The undertones of Violence

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Banton and the Chair - possession of highest power of the "final role"

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