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The Godfather - The Coppola Restoration Giftset (Blu-ray)

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    There have been a series of motion pictures that have so captured the imagination of the public that they seep into our everyday vernacular as if they had always been there. Going back to such landmarks as Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz, up through relatively more recent efforts like Ben Hur or West Side Story, we then had a series of epochal films from 1965's Sound of Music to 1967's Bonnie and Clyde and 1970's Love Story that inflamed the movie-going public, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Probably no film in the 1970s captured the public's fancy the way The Godfather did in 1972, with "gangster chic" taking over fashion and Nino Rota's evocative score taking over the airwaves, and phrases like "make him an offer he can't refuse" entering everyday patois for adults and children alike. Marlon Brando's performance as Don Vito Corleone immediately entered the lexicon of classic acting, and the film did, as they say, boffo box office. When you take a step back from the hype and realize that all three Godfather movies are really just family dramas, largely about fathers and sons, in a sort of unusual business environment, it makes the films' impact all the more remarkable.
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