TesuqueRed
Master Don Juan
I visited an old flame and her husband + kids over the holidays (15 yrs ago we were an item and have remained very good friends since...)
She's never seen the Godfather movies and (ahem) requested this family drama...
So we rented this classic.
Pacino does a veritable study of what a man would do and gives the performance of why he's the don and Santino, who couldn't control himself, is dead.
We all know that theme from this movie--it's like an old fashioned morality play.
Where it got interesting was where Michael (Pacino's character, the once and future Don) goes to hide in Italy after shooting the NYPD captain on the take.
He meets a ravishing Italian beauty (as only the Italians can be) and falls for her. He inquires at the local watering hole and inadvertently insults her father. His local guards want to get out of there, but Michael has the father called out, apologizes for any unintended insult and invites the family to dinner. He's straight-forward, makes no unnecessary apologies and takes control of the situation.
At the dinner (read: first date) he gives his future wife a present. Of course this was written for dramatic effect, character exposition, and gets a point across in a 120-minute film.
My ex saw this and was shocked--"Never give a girl a present on a first date!!!" she said in disbelief.
Now, the movie was right in that Pacino played Michael, the future Don, as assured, confident and in charge, as someone dealing with problems w/o apology and knowing what to do. You get to see why he got to be the Don, like his father.
By my ex was dead on right, too. Never give a gift to a girl on the first date. She's never been to this site, she and I have never discussed this stuff. She simply recognized how absolutely wrong it was (even though it was done to compress the message and character development of the film...)
Funny how scenes in movies strike you differently after you've been here for awhile.
She's never seen the Godfather movies and (ahem) requested this family drama...
So we rented this classic.
Pacino does a veritable study of what a man would do and gives the performance of why he's the don and Santino, who couldn't control himself, is dead.
We all know that theme from this movie--it's like an old fashioned morality play.
Where it got interesting was where Michael (Pacino's character, the once and future Don) goes to hide in Italy after shooting the NYPD captain on the take.
He meets a ravishing Italian beauty (as only the Italians can be) and falls for her. He inquires at the local watering hole and inadvertently insults her father. His local guards want to get out of there, but Michael has the father called out, apologizes for any unintended insult and invites the family to dinner. He's straight-forward, makes no unnecessary apologies and takes control of the situation.
At the dinner (read: first date) he gives his future wife a present. Of course this was written for dramatic effect, character exposition, and gets a point across in a 120-minute film.
My ex saw this and was shocked--"Never give a girl a present on a first date!!!" she said in disbelief.
Now, the movie was right in that Pacino played Michael, the future Don, as assured, confident and in charge, as someone dealing with problems w/o apology and knowing what to do. You get to see why he got to be the Don, like his father.
By my ex was dead on right, too. Never give a gift to a girl on the first date. She's never been to this site, she and I have never discussed this stuff. She simply recognized how absolutely wrong it was (even though it was done to compress the message and character development of the film...)
Funny how scenes in movies strike you differently after you've been here for awhile.
