Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
After the first scene showing the plane starting up it's engines and turning around, we are shown another scene of rioters throwing slot machines out of a club. In the bottom centre of the screen you can see a silhouette of what looks to be a part of a jigsaw puzzle piece on the camera. The object must be on the camera because when the camera pans to the right and down, the silhouette stays in the same position in the picture. See more...
Robert DeNiro went to a dentist and had smaller versions of the implants in Marlon Brando's mouth put in. See more...
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall (add more)
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After the scene at the theater where Vito learns about Fanucci the "Black Hand", there's a long scene panning along the street, and there's a fire burning in a 55 gallon steel drum. The year is 1917, and the drum wasn't invented until later. [55-gallon drums came into common use during World War I, which began in 1914 and ended in 1918.]
When Michael is having the little meeting with Hyman Roth, they are talking secrets, so Roth turns up the volume on the TV. Some seconds later, the volume is on the same stage as before Roth turned it up. It is not his wife who turns down the volume, she first enters the room later. (Obviously deliberate to hear dialogue.) [This occurs with the 2 men in close-up, implying that we are meant to hear what they're saying, while the TV is masking the sound to anyone else. As such it's a stylistic choice rather than a mistake.]
In the scene where a rebel sets off a grenade killing himself and a captain, you can see some soldiers carrying FN FAL assault rifles. Batista's army didn't have those. They used M1 Garand carbines and rifles as main infantry personal weapons. [In fact this scene shows the benefits of detailed and meticulous research. Towards the end of his dictatorship Battista hired many South Americans for his army and paramilitary police force. They were trained by European mercenaries including the Belgian 'Jaques 'Black Jack' Schramme, who was also paid to equip his men. He used a variety of black market European weapons, including the Belgian FN assault rifles you see here.]
In the theater, Vito learns from Genca about Fanucci the "Black Hand". Now, here is a man parading the quarter where Vito has lived the better part of his life, sticking out in his white suit and hat, extorting protection money from even the smallest business man, and Vito doesn't know him? [Vito didn't know that he worked for Mazaralla, or the exact extent of his notoriety. He had probably seen Fanucci walking around the place before, just not realised exactly what he was or how powerful and feared he was. He learns this from Genca.]
The last scene is a flashback where Vito's offspring are waiting for him at his birthday, where a few things don't look OK. First Sonny introduces Tom's "girl" Teresa who seems to be more a housemaid as her only duty is to set the table and carry the birthday cake away. Then Sonny and Michael start a fight where Sonny's tightly buttoned jacket opens up and closes within seconds. Finally Fredo disappears from his seat and we don't know why and how. [Teresa's not having any dialogue isn't a mistake, Sonny's jacket doesn't just pop open and we see Sonny ordering Fredo out of the room, after Fredo tries to congratulate Michael.]
When Connie asks Michael to pay for her trip to Europe she tells one of Michael's men (Al) to fix a drink for her boyfriend Merle. When the camera is on Michael we can see that Al gets busy behind the counter, but when Connie shouts "You are not my father." Al disappears and never returns, let alone with a drink. [The conversation between Michael and Connie quickly grows heated and it makes perfect sense that Al would not want to interrupt, by handing a drink to a man the Godfather disdains.]
In the scene where Vito's mother is at Paolo's dead body, she picks up his head and his right hand is clearly moving. [It's all geometry: When Vito's mother lifts Paolo's head, she also has the upper part of his body (and therefore his arm) cradled. As a result of the upper arm being pulled away from the ground, the hand shifted back, thus allowing the fingers to approach the natural curl that they have when the muscles are relaxed. She then leans on Paolo and the hand flattens down again.]
In Cuba, they are passing the "telephone made of gold" from one to the other. When Roth gets it he lifts it easily with one hand. If it were made of gold it would be very heavy, and Roth would have a hard time lifting it since he is 80 years old and very sick. [Obviously the telephone is not a solid block of gold - it's a working telephone. Gold is too soft to make a telephone body out of - it's gold plate, barely heavier than a normal telephone.]
When Clemenza is shown rolling up the red carpet to give to the young Vito Corleone it is only 6 feet wide but when Vito and Clemenza are shown going up the steps into the building where Vito lived they where both shouldering a rolled up carpet that was 12-15 feet long and later when it was shown on Vito's floor it was back to 6 feet. [They roll the carpet along its length rather than its width. The carpet is about 13 by 6 feet, which is why it appears to be 12 to 15 feet 'wide' when rolled this way. They cut the carpet up to fit Vito's small living room.]
When Michael is having the little meeting with Hyman Roth, they are talking secrets, so Roth turns up the volume on the TV. Some seconds later, the volume is on the same stage as before Roth turned it up. [Roth's wife comes in and turns down the TV.]
During the Senate hearings the senator with the white hair who is to the right of the main speaker can be seen taking off his glasses in one scene and then they are back on in the next, and then back off again in the next. [The senator in question wears his glasses when he is reading or writing, otherwise not. Nothing wrong with the scene.]
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