If you read the book, you will see that Coppola really didn't have to do a lot of adapting for the movie. It's pretty much all there. My problem with The Godfa

If you read the book, you will see that Coppola really didn't have to do a lot of adapting for the movie. It's pretty much all there. My problem with The Godfather is that it makes Italian gangsters look like some chess-playing intellectuals, when in reality they were the crazy low-lifes that you see in Goodfellas.