The Godfather is the answer to everything in the universe....

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2011)

Yes its a guy line and this is by far the greatest guy movie ever made. Any man who has watched The Godfather knows how much this movie would have touched him and his soul. He would have felt like going into a parallel universe and coming out refined. Such is the sheer magnitude and power this movie commands. A long story about one great gangster is not a story about a gangster itself. It is the story of every human that you see in the world everyday or every father you see everyday. It is a story of a father who is trying to pass on his legacy to this sons and as always there will be a son who will want to make it on his own. But there comes a time when the son will realize that family comes first.
The steeling portrayal of Don Vito Corleone by Marlon Brando will be one of the most haunting performances that you will ever see on screen. The deep voice, the heavy face with a small frown and the look which says even if you point a gun a gun to my face I will still blow your head off is empowering and scary at the same time. But the subtleties and pain of a man who has power are the things you might remember about him the most.
Then comes the young Italian Al Pacino. He looks like the wimpy son of a army general dad but dare you not forget that the blood of the king of gangsters runs through him. He is not muscle, he is the brain. The way he just sits down and thinks about his moves and executes them in deadly precision makes him just as good a Godfather as his father.
The remaining members of the cast consisting of James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, Diane Keaton etc. are all extremely praise worthy. The bottom line is that this movie had the best cast, the best direction and the best script in the history of cinema.
The flow of this magnum sized cinema is amazing as it does not let the viewer off its leash. The intricacies of the film and the way it swerves and squirms and rolls and down right destroys sometimes is amazing.
For Mario Puzo's book, the brilliant screenplay, the brilliant cast and just about everything associated with this movie it gets a 10/10.
P.S. - Address him as The Godfather