This is the first time I noticed how well this film’s story moves. I’ve seen this before – select scenes here and there as a child when it was broadcast on TV, or I’d walk into a room when someone was watching. An old roommate from 20 years ago heard that I hadn’t seen it and gave me a required-viewing screening. But this time I was struck by just how inexorably the film drives its characters to their various fates. Those characters, as I probably don’t need to mention, are the members of a Mafia family. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the patriarch, running things with his oldest son Santino or “Sonny” (James Caan), and a longtime family friend and lawyer, Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall). Middle son Fredo (John Cazale) is a bit too inept for the bigger league stuff, so he’s being groomed to run a casino in Vegas. Vito does what he can to keep his daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) out of the mess. Michael has no interest in the business either; he’s more…
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