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According to Francis Ford Coppola, the term 'Don Corleone' is wrong.

That's not all that was invented by Puzo.

It didnРІР‚в„ўt exist,РІР‚Сњ said author of The Godfather Effect Tom Santopietro. РІР‚СљMario Puzo had invented the term РІР‚ВThe GodfatherРІР‚в„ў for the novel. His РІР‚ВfangsРІР‚в„ў were built up using quick-setting acrylic to make him look more animalistic. James Caan also wore dental prosthetics for his role as Sonny Corleone. Brando spent three hours in make-up every day being fitted with the steel-bar dentures that sat below and in front of his lower teeth, with blobs of resin (known as РІР‚ВplumpersРІР‚в„ў) at either end to give him that imperious jawline. For actual filming, he wore a mouthpiece made by a dentist this appliance is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.

Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look 'like a bulldog,' so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the audition. The cars' wooden bumpers are an example of incredible attention to detail, because auto manufacturers of the time were using alternate materials to conserve metal for the war effort. The use of the garbage can lid was improvised while the yellow truck in the background and a wooden box on the sidewalk (pictured) are strategically placed to hide objects or buildings that didn't exist when the movie was set. This scene where Sonny beats up Carlo, took four days to shoot and featured 700 extras, the vast majority never getting a glimpse of screen time. F*ck him and the horse he rode in on,РІР‚Сњ was what Evans apparently said at the time.

Godfather 1 movie script tv#

Brando saw poor old Burt as more of a TV star.Р”В¬oppolaРІР‚в„ўs hiring of Brando was met with fierce opposition by playboy Paramount executive Robert Evans: РІР‚СљHeРІР‚в„ўs crazy. John Cazale (Fredo) was only five years younger than her.Р”Р„pparently, Brando agreed to play Vito Corleone on the condition that Burt Reynolds - who was being considered for Sonny - would, no longer be considered for Sonny. James Caan and Al Pacino were only ten years younger than the American Jazz singer Morgana King, who played their mother. Francis Ford Coppola, a huge Welles fan, had to turn him down because his mind was set on Brando.Р”Р„ssociate Producer Gary Fredrickson once said that Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi - pictured) told him he had worked as a Mafia bodyguard and arsonist. There are a host of 'almost cast' stories but perhaps the biggest is that Orson Welles lobbied to get the part of Don Vito Corleone, offering to lose a good deal of weight in order to get the role. However, having made runaway hits Scarecrow and Serpico after The Godfather, Pacino managed to command a $600,000 salary for The Godfather: Part II, as well as a 10 percent cut of the movieРІР‚в„ўs adjusted-gross income. During the scene Francis Ford Coppola's father Carmine Coppola is the piano player.Р”Р„l Pacino made just $35,000 for starring in the film (the same as James Caan and Diane Keaton and $1,000 less than Robert Duvall). The one pictured is Frank РІР‚СљThe EnforcerРІР‚Сњ Nitti, Al CaponeРІР‚в„ўs right-hand man who had not been murdered, but actually shot himself. Lucas used photos from real crime scenes. George Lucas put together the РІР‚СљMattress SequenceРІР‚Сњ ( this montage of crime scene snaps and headlines) as a thank you to Francis Ford Coppola for helping him fund American Graffiti. The others conceded defeat and he was presented with a belt buckle with the words РІР‚СљMighty Moon KingРІР‚Сњ emblazoned. Bare buttocks were exposed during the childish game of oneupmanship until Brando showed his backside in the middle of a huge wedding-reception scene. Marlon Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall spent the filming process trying to out-moon one-another. Things on screen may have been intense but off screen the actors were embroiled in, shall we say, high jinx. Animal rights groups unsuccessfully protested the inclusion of the scene. When the cameras rolled, without him knowing, a real horses head from a dog-food factory was used. Spare a thought for actor John Marley who, during rehearsals, would 'wake up' to find a fake horses head in bed with him. Its ludicrously loud purring muffled some of BrandoРІР‚в„ўs lines, which meant they had to be looped over. Francis Ford Coppola found it while walking through the lot at Paramount Studios and wrote it into the movie. Amazingly this was a stray - there was no cat in the original script. In the filmРІР‚в„ўs opening scene, Vito is famously seen holding a cat. Ideally we'd all put it on at the same time and cast and crew would tweet trivia in real time.Р”Р„las, there's a few logistical and legal issues to our genius plan, so we all have to make do with our 25 Godfather facts that you probably don't know. It should be made compulsory, we reckon, that everyone on Earth has to watch The Godfather once a year.