The Corleone Family: Portrait of an American Dream
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SummaryMario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s trilogy of organized crime masterpieces, collectively known as The Godfather trilogy, have impacted America unlike any movie since. Rather than filling the movies with hours of bloodshed and unnecessary gore like so many mafia-oriented movies, Puzo and Coppola instead chose to write a great story, focusing on issues left out of most mob movies, and then supplement this story with tasteful, almost theatrical violence used to make a point about the style of life depicted in the movies. The story of the Corleone family, the New York City organized crime family The Godfather trilogy focuses on, is one of mixed emotions, of love for family, but at the same time of murder, ruthlessness, and cutthroat business tactics.
Table of Contents- Perhaps more than any other ethnicity, the Italian-American Corleone family depicted in Puzo's novels and books value family above all else.
- When it comes to the importance of family, The Godfather trilogy fails to live up to the incredible standard set by the novel.
- Along with the importance of family, Puzo's Godfather novel and movies also masterfully depicts the lure of greed, and the inherent destruction it causes.
- In my opinion, Puzo's novel just does not depict the downfall of Michael Corleone as graphically or as precisely as The Godfather trilogy.
- It would be impossible not to compare Vito Corleone to any great businessman of fame, like John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie, both famous for using ruthless and unethical tactics to better their respective businesses
- Through both of the mediums Puzo chooses to use to tell his beautifully crafted story, we see the importance of family, the lure of greed, and a bitter satire of the American dream
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