But it's just a different kind of film." The new ending The third, by virtue of story themes, is in its own category. "Godfather I and II sort of belong in the same extension," Pacino says. Pacino believes the change from "Godfather III" frees it from the other two milestone films. The new title and re-editing emphasizes the impact of doomed Mary's death. "The Death of Michael Corleone" was the title Coppola always wanted, but he was turned down by Paramount Studios. "When that love happens, you know it," Pacino says. "I have two daughters, It's a very interesting thing when you see it," Pacino says the new version highlights how Coppola wanted "the innocence and the awkwardness of this young girl" and a "not-quite-formed human being" to make the tragedy more poignant and the forbidden love story with young gangster Vincent (Andy Garcia) more palpable. Critics were harsh about the 19-year-old's performance.
Grown daughter Mary is the ultimate innocent victim of this world, After Winona Ryder withdrew from the film, Coppola's brought in his daughter Sofia, a newcomer. "Michael was privileged as a child and didn't understand these kinds of machinations," Pacino says.
Michael's onetime struggling immigrant father, Vito (primarily portrayed by Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro in the films), was more suited to handle the guilt that came with running the crime family. But mainly, his brother, it was deep down. He carries the destruction that has been a part of him and his life. "He's justified everything, and instinctively he just keeps going. The consuming guilt alluded to in the original opening sequence, after brother Fredo was killed on Michael's orders in "Godfather II," still seeps out in the final chapter. This breakaway is the theme for Michael." "The axis of the film changes to where it belongs. Because the thing that drives Michael is the need to escape the world that he inherited. "This alters things to such a degree," Pacino says. "Godfather, Coda" opens as he negotiates a multimillion-dollar deal with the Vatican Bank and a nervous Archbishop Gilday (Donal Donnelly).
Pacino, 52 at the time of the film's release, wore makeup to play Michael in his 60s. The actor sees the new beginning as key, Rather than with a moody view of Corleone’s home in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the action begins at a Vatican business meeting. "It didn't require any new filming. He took what he had, marinated on it, and switched things around. But this far along, it's very unusual," Pacino says. "Francis has always been experimental. And directors do that a lot. Pacino made this request twice in a lengthy phone conversation from his Los Angeles home, where he discussed his lack of surprise about Coppola being pulled back into the third "Godfather" three decades after its release to mixed critical reviews.
"This way it would be, how I see the film through Michael's eyes." "Otherwise it becomes this thing where I'm doing a critique of a film I'm in," Pacino says gregariously. 8).īut Pacino, 80, wants to make clear that he's speaking "in a way, representing Michael Corleone," the famed protagonist he portrayed in three cultural-landmark films, including "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II." Al Pacino is calling upon you to do a service: Watch the newly re-edited version of 1990's "Godfather Part III," which director and co-screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola has renamed "Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone" (limited release now in theaters, available on Blu-Ray Dec.
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