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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 441464" data-attributes="member: 8">That&#039;s what Michael said to Kay in one of the first scenes of The Godfather, and look how that panned out. I think it&#039;s precisely this tragic character descent that gives the film so much oomph. He was the favourite son, the &quot;Bobby&quot;, meant for better things, and Michael Corleone himself thought he was a &quot;Gary&quot;.A Corleone is a Corleone, and a Ewing is a Ewing - and lives will be ruined.I rewatched this film today and I loved it much more than the first time, but at the heart of it this is very much a potboiler, not High Literature. The fact that it&#039;s beautifully made doesn&#039;t change any of that.And so I find it ironic that people would look down their nose on the soap opera genre while simultaneously lauding The Godfather as the best film ever made.It is a great film, but not better than many of the other great films made in the 1970s.I&#039;m not going to rewatch the sequel because it adds information that I don&#039;t need, and I remember disliking it very much so at best I will dislike it a little less. But it&#039;s also partially a prequel and I hate prequels.A soap with perfectly sane characters would be unwatchable. I Iike them for the good and&nbsp; bad decisions they make.I think one of Knots&#039; most brilliant moments is when Abby confesses whatever she knew about the Twin Drama and still&nbsp; pull the wool over everyone&#039;s eyes (although Greg remained suspicious, but it takes a crook to know a crook).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 441464, member: 8"] That's what Michael said to Kay in one of the first scenes of [I]The Godfather[/I], and look how that panned out. I think it's precisely this tragic character descent that gives the film so much oomph. He was the favourite son, the "Bobby", meant for better things, and Michael Corleone himself thought he was a "Gary". A Corleone is a Corleone, and a Ewing is a Ewing - and lives will be ruined. I rewatched this film today and I loved it much more than the first time, but at the heart of it this is very much a potboiler, not High Literature. The fact that it's beautifully made doesn't change any of that. And so I find it ironic that people would look down their nose on the soap opera genre while simultaneously lauding [I]The Godfather[/I] as the best film ever made. It [I]is[/I] a great film, but not better than many of the other great films made in the 1970s. I'm not going to rewatch the sequel because it adds information that I don't need, and I remember disliking it very much so at best I will dislike it a little less. But it's also partially a prequel and I hate prequels. A soap with perfectly sane characters would be unwatchable. I Iike them for the good [I]and[/I] bad decisions they make. I think one of Knots' most brilliant moments is when Abby confesses whatever she knew about the Twin Drama and [I]still[/I] pull the wool over everyone's eyes (although Greg remained suspicious, but it takes a crook to know a crook). [/QUOTE]

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