“The Godfather Saga” vs “The Godfather (1 & 2)”; which one do you prefer?

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• Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the best version is to watch Godfather 1 and 2 followed by The Godfather Coda. Coppola re-edited the Godfather 3 and released it in 2020 as the Godfather Coda. The new version is much better and also fits better with the previous two films.

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  • TheRTV@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Coda was really good. A much more fitting end to the trilogy. It made much more sense as a movie compared to the original edit. It’s too bad he didn’t have the time to do this originally

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  • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is his daughter still in it? 🤮

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• kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen Saga, but I feel the chronological cut would lead to a loss of lunch in the scenes with young Vito. Part of it is knowing where he ends up and what happens, and comparing that to his beginnings.

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s almost like storytelling is a craft involving real care and skill, and when experienced directors and writers choose to tell a story in a particular way its for a good reason.

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    • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree with you, but to play devil’s advocate, where does casting Sophia Coppola fall into this logic?

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The chronological cut was a much-hyped “special television event” spread over two nights, and that’s what I first saw from a friend who taped it on VHS.
  Some years later, when I saw the original theatrical releases, I preferred them much more, as the De Niro/young Vito sequences work better in segments, going back and forth to Michael in the 1950s and back, to put it all consecutively drags the pace from the very get-go.

  Also, the trip to Corleone, Sicily to exact revenge on don Ciccio works best as a parallel coda to the whole Fredo, Frankie “Five Angels” and Hyman Roth outcomes. The pacing just works that way.

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  • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree with all. I’ve only ever watched the originals in succession not this Chronicles of Godfather stuff. I think the theatrical release is the only way to watch.

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• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chronological cuts are fun curiosities, but they rarely succeed. The intercutting between time periods reveals meaning in the parallels between disparate settings.

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• Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, but the story is much more focused on Michael than in Godfather 3. I think the cuts that were chosen also served her better. Overall I did not really notice her performance, which was a big improvement over the earlier version.

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• FlyLikeAMouse@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love them both but, if I’m being super-critical, then I’d say that Part II has better pacing and therefore “wins”.

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