An offer you can't refuse

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This week’s theme was Fallen Angels and after hours of reflection and three mojitos, we reached a decision: The Godfather (yeah, we really thought about cutting the “fallen” part and talk about the Victoria Secret's Angels, but Sara Sampaio said she wouldn’t give us an interview, so we just forgot it, and cried a lot).

Before you ask us why the hell is The Godfather related to the metaphor of The Fallen Angel, we just want to give you a little kind of synopsis:

This incredible old movie (it’s from 1972), based on Mario Puzo’s books and directed by Francis Ford Coppola (which surely is not the reason for having his daughter, Sofia Coppola, acting on the third movie, yeah, SURELY…), tells the story of the Corleone’s, a family leaded by the one the world calls The Godfather (aka The Don or just Vito for his friends), Don Vito Corleone (the ex-Vito Andolini – we know, it seems a good name for a pizzeria, but it’s probably already taken).

First of all, this guy, Vito, had a really sad youth: all of his family was killed by the local mafia, in their homeland, Italy, when he was young, and he was forced to leave the country – he went to the US – and to change is identity – he changed his name for Vito Corleone (actually the name of the village in which he was born) – and he starts stealing and delivering “stuff” for a criminal web – ok, it was just one guy (we thought it would sound better if it was a big web)… but a really thug one!

So, one day, like every young man, he gets tired of his boss and decides to shoot him in the middle of the street during a parade (correction: every young Italian), and starts making favors for people (if there is someone like him in your neighborhood stay away from him, he will demand you pay him another favor, probably you will be asked to kill someone; so, yeah, run for your life) and expanding his criminal web. Everybody loves him and he gets the nickname of The Godfather. He marries an Italian immigrant called Carmela, in 1914, and they have 3 boys and 1 girl: Sonny (a really thug, but too angry man, yeah, SONNY ISN’T THE GIRL!), Fredo (a thin and weak dude), Michael (who fought in the World War II and turns to be the clever one) and Connie (the one that has no access to the decisions of the family). Their “family business” grows and, suddenly, his family turns one of the five most important families of the New York Mafia (cool name for a band)!

Like bad boys use to say “this city is too small for you and me” (then they start beating the small kid), but in this case there are 5 families fighting for the command of New York. The Corleone’s grow so much that they can’t grow anymore, the other families get angry and the war starts:

The Don gets shot 5 times in his back! Inexplicably he survives… He goes to the hospital, but there are 2 attempts to kill him (intercepted by his younger son, Michael, considered by the other families a civilian) and he gets his jaw broken by a corrupt cop (ok this is not relevant for the synopsis, but still shows the Fall of the Angel, in this case, the Fall of the Don – I told you it had something to do with fallen angels!). The war keeps going on, vendetta after vendetta, Sonny gets ambushed on the road, in a toll (and dies – sorry for the SPOILER!), Michael goes to Sicilia to be safe (after killing the corrupt cop).

After a long time, Michael comes back to the US and marries his old girlfriend, Kay Adams. Vito leaves the command of the family and Michael takes his position on the Family Business (he promises Kay he would make everything legal in 5 years). Vito dies (WE TOLD YOU – THE FALLEN ANGEL), the family begins to fall and the story goes on… but we are almost reaching the end, so we won’t spoil you anymore! The movie is absolutely amazing and we hope you get the chance to see it! Everything in it is great: the soundtrack by Nino Rota, the direction and the production, the effects (for the year in which it was made), the acting, the argument (I read 5 books written by Mario Puzo, so yeah I love him (SIG Rodrigo))!

For us, it deserves a really consistent 9 (or if you want to, a 9,0000000001). It is very interesting and the 3 Oscars it received are totally justified.
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P.S: If you don’t you might wake up with your horse’s head laying on your bed with a lot of blood around. We told you, an irrefutable offer…