https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorable successor being finally chosen. Michael, the young and idealistic son of Vito Corleone, the head of the most powerful Mafia clan in New York, returns home as a war hero and is determined to live his own life. But tragic circumstances make him face the legacy of his family. en-us 2017-01-31 19:08:21 UTC 2025-10-25 19:55:21 UTC hello@padlet.com devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/150965001 2017-02-01 19:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/150965001 devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151540895 2017-02-03 19:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151540895 devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151542571 One of the best openings of any movie.  Ever.  The scene establishes the character of Don Corleone, his gravitas, his life code and his position in the community in one interaction with a supplicant.  It also gives us one of the most famous lines in all of movie history.]]> 2017-02-03 19:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151542571 devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151543568 The first Godfather is all about Michael’s descent into Hell.  This is the moment when Lucifer falls, so to speak.  While the rest of the family think he’s joking, Michael coldly plans the execution of two crooked cops and leaves no doubt that the only Corleone not in the family business is now IN.]]> 2017-02-03 19:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151543568 devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151545409 One of the most effective and disturbing juxtapositions in film.  As Michael becomes the Godfather to his sister’s child, we cut between the rites of the baptism and the cold execution of all the Corleones enemies.  It’s brilliant directing from Coppola.  Even more so than the final door closing at the end of the film, this is where you see that Michael has become a monster.]]> 2017-02-03 19:19:40 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151545409 devin_demarco https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151549541 Michael is the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone. He is the youngest brother of Sonny and Fredo, and the older brother of Connie. Michael initially wants nothing to do with the "family business", and is enrolled at Dartmouth College in search of a more Americanized life. After the United States' entry into World War II, he enlists in the Marines against his father's wishes and fights in the Pacific Theatre. For his bravery, Michael is featured in Life magazine in 1944, having been awarded the Navy Cross. Michael is discharged as a Captain to recover from wounds in 1945. He later re-enters Dartmouth, where he meets his future wife, Kay Adams (Diane Keaton).  When his father is nearly assassinated in 1945, he volunteers to murder the man responsible, Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo (Al Lettieri). He also proposes to kill Captain McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), a police captain who removed his father's bodyguards from the hospital, presumably to set up his father to be killed. Although it is normally a hard-and-fast rule in the Mafia that law enforcement officials are not to be harmed, Michael successfully convinces his older brother Sonny (James Caan) that since McCluskey is serving as Sollozzo's bodyguard, he has crossed into their world and is fair game.]]> 2017-02-03 19:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/devin_demarco/xcyea3a4c44i/wish/151549541