"The Godfather Part II"

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I did watch this last night and was struck again by how dark some of the scenes are. I mean the cinematography, not the subject matter. In the excellent documentary on cinematography, "Visioins of Light" (highly recommended, by the way) Gordon Willis admits that in some scenes they may have gone over the top on G/F II. It certainy must have been difficult to transfer to video.
Like the original, there is so much to enjoy here and also like the original I never tire of it. In the DVD box documentary Coppola explains that the film's originally concieved back and forth in time conceit had to be watered down so audiences could follow it better.
I also own the linear version of the two and am always amazed that the scene where De Niro goes back to Sicily to kill Don Cheech appears way toward the end in the middle of the Michael story, a jarring and confusing note. I have always been puzzled as to whether that was intentional by those who reassembled the story.

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Topic - "The Godfather Part II" - rico 03:11:20 10/18/04 (0)

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