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Who?
Okay I did it again with something else I wrote, and now it's saying I write like Mario Puzo. Who wrote The Godfather.
whAAaaaT?
Writer friends, I discovered a fun website today. It’s called “I Write Like” and here’s the description: Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers. Let me know which autor you got!
CONNIE CORLEONE’S WEDDING | THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.
THE GODFATHER (1972) | dir. Francis Ford Coppola.
THE GODFATHER (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.
THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola.
The death of Apollonia was a good thing.
This point is better established in the novel instead of the movie.
In the novel, it is made more explicit that the idea of the Mafia was a system that would cause more harm than good and that Michael, during his sojourn in Sicily, was aware of the negative impact of the Mafia lifestyle.
However, Michael meeting Apollonia kept Michael within the status quo of the Mafia system despite him knowing the dangers of that life. Apollonia's family had connections with the Mafia, and Michael's courtship of her was done within the context of the Sicilian traditions which are strongly connected to the concept of Mafia.
More importantly, Apollonia clouded Michael's reasoning and logic. His possessive desire of Apollonia replaced the logical reasoning that was Michael's strongest trait and made him comfortable in the lifestyle that he knew was harmful in the long run.
Thus, Apollonia's death broke Michael from the fantasy and galvanized him to take over the family Corleone. So he could make the family legitimate and break away from the Mafia lifestyle that would doom him in the future.
This was a good thing in the Novel as the story ended on a triumphant note. Michael succeeded in going legitimate, his family was secure, and he took revenge on all fronts for all debts incurred. All this was because Apollonia dying broke the dream of the Mafia life. The movies ended more ambiguously and made the story about Michael's fall from grace as it ended with Michael becoming Don, but not with Michael going legitimate. In that context, Apollonia became the straw that broke Michael.
Instead of the hammer that broke Michael from his chains, and freed him to take the right actions and to break away from the Mafia once and for all.
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone.
THE GODFATHER (1972)
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
"Some mornings when he woke, the face of Don Corleone would be imprinted on his brain in that first conscious moment and he would feel safe."
Tom Hagen in The Godfather novel by Mario Puzo.
Tom Mankiewicz is the Bill Finger of Superman: The Movie.
Is it really impossible to write a good Superman movie?
mario puzo did it.
