Le Parrain - 2e Partie par Andalouse

The last time i saw the trilogy goes back to the 22th of July 2009 and that is really, really a long time. I was so excited to rewatch this fantastic movie, which is for me the best sequel ever to be made, and my second all-time favourite movie.

I still think that The Godfather and its sequel are two perfect movies. Technically speaking this movie has all the things that a movie needs to be considered as a masterpiece. And I also think that when watching The Godfather Part II, we are supposed to be flying like an angel cloud or imagining our most secret guilty pleasure dream and it goes on for more than 3 hours.

I can assure you that the actors were so perfect that I cried several times while watching some scenes, it really get me every time I watch it. It is really sad, such sad characters and situations that your heart may stop. Francis Ford Coppola again did a wonderful job, both for directing and screenwriting with Mario Puzo of course. The job that he did to the De Niro's scenes is just fantastic, the setting and the cinematography is great. Francis really can squezze excellent performances from his actors. From the magnificient, cruel and heart-breaking performance of Al Pacino to the cameo of James Caan, you can see that every actor here did a wonderful job.

The music is just awesome, it never cease to impress me. Now, there are some scenes here that reflects the intelligence in the screenwriting such as :
1.Vito Corleone looked at Don Fanucci in a weird way, I guess that because he saw in some way the american version of Don Ciccio, the man who killed his family. I really like this observation.
2. The scene where we see Michael thinking/reviewing his life in the very end just before the birthday scene, I think that this is probably the most heart-breaking scene in the movie with of course the killing of Fredo. I cried while watching it, Al Pacino's look, Francis Coppola's zoom on his face... That does it for me. And then it came the birthday scene in which Coppola/Puzo sums up all the characters in 3 minutes. Fredo's weakness and loneliness, Sonny the hotheaded man, Hagen's intelligence and calm, Connie/Carlo future marriage failure and Michael's independence from his family's way of life, we can see in the scene that Michael is sitting alone in the right side of the table, alone facing his family... Refusing to get involved with their way of life by choosing his own path. it may be the best ending ever to a movie.

Hat's down for the perfection of this movie, for the great Al Pacino & Robert De Niro and for all the satisfaction that it gives me.