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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 441557" data-attributes="member: 8">The Godfather <s>Part III</s> Coda: The Death Of Michael Corleone (<s>1990</s> 2020)[ATTACH=full]59229[/ATTACH]The last instalment puts the opera in soap opera, an endless assassination scene that looks like a season finale episode in "which important character is going to die?"To become an ex-Godfather proves to be equally, if not more, challenging for Michael Corleone, but despite the spoilery re-title he doesn't actually die on screen.Similar to the previous films there's a lot of typical mafia tit for tat and they do it with smiles and gifts and false promises.All that decorum and pomposity masquerading the hatred and blood lust is part of the appeal of the Italian gangster genre.It reminds of the early years of Falcon Crest in which the Channings and Giobertis kept up appearances even though they were all aware of the war that was going on."After all, we're family" as Angela Channing would say it.It started out very simple for Vito Corleone and other Godfathers like him. You help me with this and I'll remember that. I always remember my friends.But when the stakes are getting higher and the circle of friends becomes bigger and more intricate then someday, someone, is going to be overlooked.And it only takes one insulted, vengeful person to make that house of cards collapse.I must say that I didn't understand all the details in the story. The introduction of Sonny Corleone's illegitimate son Vincent and his  feud with gangster Joey Saza is rowdy and messy and Michael keeps asking "what does all this have to do with me?" which is exactly the question I was asking myself.Joey Saza seems to have a big chip on his shoulder and later he declares war on the Corleones and I have no idea where it comes from.I also wasn't sure if the big Immobilaire Deal was a good or bad thing for Michael.But when the spectacle happens it's very spectacular - I played the film as loud as possible.Speaking of sound, the English subtitles are oddly absent in the parts with Italian language therefore I had to use the Dutch subtitles to understand what they were saying. Initially I thought the viewer wasn't supposed to know therefore I wasn't even sure what the Dutch subtitles would reveal. But it was important enough.Part III looks as beautiful as the previous parts - well, almost -  but I had to learn from wiki that this part of the story takes place in 1979, and not 1989 or 1990.There is nothing about the hair or clothes or environment that looks remotely 1970s. Men like Andy Garcia (who plays the retconned long lost half-nephew!) did not exist in the 1970s. But anyway,  I had a great time watching it and I think it really helped that Diane Keaton got a little bit more screen time.</blockquote>

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