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The Godfather trivia
Sep. 5th, 2013 07:17 pmWe've just rewatched the entire trilogy in quick succession. That's probably the best way to watch the Godfather films, because then you stand a better chance of working out which minor character is connected to which other minor character in one of the other films.
Even that isn't enough to completely work out what is going on, so I did some research today to answer some questions that were bugging me about Part 3. Some I answered (Who exactly is Don Altobello? Answer: He was consigliere to the Tattaglias, who were fighting the Corleones in Part 1, but later acquired control of the Tattaglia Family), some I didn't. (Who the hell is the little girl who dances with Michael and Mary in Part 3, and is in the family photo? She's only credited as 'little girl'.)
As part of this research, I stumbled across all sorts of interesting trivia. This film series seems to have much better trivia attached to it than most. I picked out the best bits and copied them across to this post. Behind the cut, because obviously there are spoilers if you haven't seen all three films (and if you haven't, then why on earth not?).
My favourite piece of Godfather trivia is this one:
The famous horse’s head scene used a real horse’s head (acquired from a pet food factory). Nobody told John Marley (the actor playing movie studio boss Jack Woltz who wakes up to find he's sleeping with the decapitated head of his favourite racehorse). According to Marley, his scream of utter horror wasn’t acting.
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Even that isn't enough to completely work out what is going on, so I did some research today to answer some questions that were bugging me about Part 3. Some I answered (Who exactly is Don Altobello? Answer: He was consigliere to the Tattaglias, who were fighting the Corleones in Part 1, but later acquired control of the Tattaglia Family), some I didn't. (Who the hell is the little girl who dances with Michael and Mary in Part 3, and is in the family photo? She's only credited as 'little girl'.)
As part of this research, I stumbled across all sorts of interesting trivia. This film series seems to have much better trivia attached to it than most. I picked out the best bits and copied them across to this post. Behind the cut, because obviously there are spoilers if you haven't seen all three films (and if you haven't, then why on earth not?).
My favourite piece of Godfather trivia is this one:
The famous horse’s head scene used a real horse’s head (acquired from a pet food factory). Nobody told John Marley (the actor playing movie studio boss Jack Woltz who wakes up to find he's sleeping with the decapitated head of his favourite racehorse). According to Marley, his scream of utter horror wasn’t acting.
( Read more... )
