3 ms·
The book is not great. It goes on and on with stupid subplots (for some reason johnny fontane is an important character, go figure). Coppola hated the book an
by dudul 7y ago
The book is not great. It goes on and on with stupid subplots (for some reason johnny fontane is an important character, go figure). Coppola hated the book and hesitated a long time before accepting to work on the movie.
The 3rd party is not on par with the other 2, but it gets more hate than it deserves. It is the closing of the Corleone saga and I found the 3rd act of the movie very powerful.
- CalChris 7y agoCoppola didn't like it on first reading, bu hated is too strong a word. He really liked it on the second close reading. https://ew.com/books/2019/03/05/the-godfather-book-50th-anniversary-foreword/ https://ew.com/books/2019/03/05/the-godfather-book-50th-anni... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5KdzlWYNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5KdzlWYNI As for the book, it is a GAM, Great American Novel. It's intended to tell a broad story of immigration and assimilation. The movie, being a movie with limited budget and time, has to chop much of that away. Needless to say, I liked the book.