![]() ![]() The first thing Coppola did was immediately return to the ideas he formed in Sicily the previous year. This second movie would indeed feature a significant amount of screen/story-time to the rise of young Vito Corleone, played by an up-and-coming Italian actor named Robert De Niro. These scenes of young Vito would be interwoven into the other main story, which according to Puzo, were to be about the fall and ultimate death of Michael Corleone (once again played by Al Pacino). While Coppola worked on outlining the young Vito storylines, Puzo was fashioning his story on the fading power of Vito’s son, Michael. Both stories would intersect in the final film which yes, remarkably, did open on December 20th, 1974 despite having been filmed in three different countries, featuring a cast of 100 speaking parts, with stunning plot surprises that required attentiveness from the audience and which ran at 201 minutes in length. ![]() Imagine any director pulling *that* off today. ![]() The Godfather Part II was made at a time when a director was allowed to tell the story they wanted to tell it, in the time they wished to take to tell it. ![]()
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