Week 2 Class Act - Denitza

This is the last week of watching the Godfather movie.
Because we are only watching Part I. :(

* The role of women.

Coppola (the director) has made a significant difference between the two brothers, Sonny and Michael. He shows the audience different types of differences, such as way of thought and interpitation, which is very obvious. But one that caught my eye was the way the handle women.

Michael

- he looks at Apollonia with love and even catches her when she falls, because he is looking out of her and watching every move she makes.

Sonny

- He is married, yet still goes out with other women. It is like he does not care about his wife.

This shows a great difference, until we reached the part of when Michael goes back to NY and lies to Kay and says that he loves her...yet that is hard to believe. Which brought me to the question "are Michael and Sonny really all that different in handling women?" I mean Michael moved very quickly from one girl to another! This brought me to a conclusion that family is very important to an italian man, but only because he have children. Therefore it the woman was never really all that important. Later on in the movie this statement is supported. (divorce scene)

*Clothing colors

In Sicily, Michael meets another woman, Apollonia, who is wearing red as well. Probably Michael likes girls that are unique, or that are always trouble. Which is weird, yet interesting to investigate. Any way, after Michael marries Apollonia, she does not wear red any more. It is like she is accepted into the family. On the other hand, Kay wears red until Michael returns from Sicily. There are 2 reasons why she is not wearing red when they meet again;
1) It is a very happy scene. She is glad that her love is back and wants her back. Therefore there is nothing bad that can follow.
2) It has been such a long time that they have not seen each other that she has slowly let him go. And with him goes all the dangerous things (red).

Another addition to this title would be the changes that Vito Corleone goes through. Character wise and clothing wise.
Since Michael took over the family business, there is a scene where Michael is oppointing things and Vito is just listening. Vito is wearing gray clothing, this is a symbol of age and letting go of power. Because the power is now with Michael, who is wearing pitch black suits, just like Vito used to. His clothing also protrays his character. After his final meeting with all the 5 families, Vito turned into a person that could not remember properly, repeating himself and not caring so much about the business anymore. He seems to focus more on his family then on business. This is all signs of a regular old man. Thats why Vito is looked upon as not having that much power in the eyes of the other heads of the other families. On the other hand, the audience thinks that his words and sayings are very valuable.

FAV. PARTS IN PART I

- It was really cool how Coppola filmed the scene where Michael went to the babtism of Connie's baby, yet during the same time all the heads of the 5 families are being killed. And the sounds behind all the kill scenes was the voice of the priest that was babtising Connie's baby. I thought that this scene was the first best scene made in the whole part I of the godfather. It was like a huge turning point. That was when Michael became the leader of mafia in NY, because there was nobody to compete with him.

-The second best scene in the Godfather Part I is the ending. It finishes in a way that made me want to see more because of all the loose ends that were still hanging. Michael just lied to Kay that he did not kill his sister's husband, when he did. This right away shows that family should never mess with business. Unfortunately when Kay exists the office, she sees how people are kissing Michael's hand, like is a Don. Right then, she realizes that Michael lied and that he is now the head of the family's mafia gang. And exactly at the moment that she realizes, the door of the office shuts, shutting off or ending Part I of the Godfather.