Monday, March 11, 2013

The Godfather (1972)



The Godfather, based on a best selling novel by renowned novelist Mario Puzo, presents a naked insight into the clandestine world of New York Mafia headed over by Don Vito Corleone. Francis Ford Coppola directs The Godfather with a scalpel like precision, and fully succeeds in bringing Puzo's larger than life characters to life on the celluloid. Coppola entrusts none other than Puzo himself for the movie's screenplay. In the crime saga that revolves around the Corleone crime family, Puzo presents in a cutthroat fashion an eclectic blend of Crime, Suspense, and Drama that immures the viewer in a vice-like grip from the breathtaking inception to the blood-cuddling finale. Nino Rota's hypnotic music enriches The Godfather with an ineffable sense of poignancy while its vivid cinematography features amongst the best works of its time. Nigh flawless and ubiquitously acclaimed for being in a league of its own, The Godfather doesn't depict poetic justice, but rather portrays the triumph of puissance over pusillanimity in the most ruthless manner
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