The Godfather (1972)

Such a cracking film Francis Ford-Coppola's 1972 I first watched this when I was 18, I've been in love with this film for years. I love the main character 'Don Vito Corleone' the way he acts is incredible his hand gestures the movements when he scratches his facial hair (Slowly) and his Brooklyn accent, the way he speaks it’s almost like his mouth is wired up but it’s so effective for his character. It shows power and respect. "Sleeps with the fishes" The Tattaglias, asks Vito for investment in the emerging drug trade and protection through his political connections. Vito disapproves of drug dealers, so he sends his enforcer, Luca Brasi, to spy on them. The family then receives two fish wrapped in Brasi's vest which implies Brasi is dead. Sollozzo's men then come after Vito and shot him five times!!! (Maybe less) he then got hospitalized which had annoyed me so much I love that man! So his eldest son, Sonny, takes command. Sollozzo kidnaps Hagen to pressure Sonny to accept his deal. Michael thwarts a second assassination attempt on his father at the hospital; his jaw is broken by Police Captain McCluskey, who is also Sollozzo's bodyguard. Sonny retaliates for the attacks on his father by having Tattaglia's son killed. Michael comes up with a plan to hit Sollozzo and McCluskey: on the pretext of settling the dispute, Michael accepts their offer to meet in a Bronx restaurant retrieves a planted handgun and murders them. Michael takes refuge in Sicily; Sonny attacks his brother-in-law Carlo on the street for abusing his sister Connie. When it happens again, Sonny speeds for her home but assassins ambush him at a highway toll booth and riddle him with submachine gun fire. Michael's time abroad has led to marriage to Apollonia Vitelli. Their euphoria is shattered when a car bomb intended for him takes her life. Michael returns home and over a year later marries Kay; Michael takes the reins of the family, promising his wife to make the business legitimate within five years. Vito collapses and dies in his garden while playing with Michael's son, Anthony. Michael then stands as godfather as the christening proceeds, Corleone assassins, acting on Michael's orders, murder the other New York dons and Moe Greene. Tessio is told that Michael is aware of his betrayal and taken off to his death after Carlo is questioned by Michael. I like how they used montage editing for this scene. Parallel editing (cross cutting) is the technique of alternating two or more scenes that often happen simultaneously but in different locations. If the scenes are simultaneous, they occasionally culminate in a single place, where the relevant parties confront each other.