I know a lot of naysayers really don't care for this to happen but with what is going on in the dvd industry and all these special edition boxsets and stuff, it would be cool to have this chronological version of all three 'Godfather' films on dvd. And since HD DVD and/or Blu ray have so much more space than your typical dvd, it would be great to have Paramount and Francis Coppola to release this collection onto dvd/blu ray. Why the hell not?

While I could not care less about any Blu Ray edition of anything, I remember there being a fan release of this "chronological edit", transferred either from laserdisc or VHS. I believe it was first announced in the non-Star Wars section of the OT forum. I seem to recall it taking up three DVD5 DVD-Rs, but I never checked.

Well i'm pretty sure there is a blu ray because i already have one

Hate to burst your bubble but blu-ray players and movies have not been released yet...Blu-Ray and HD are delayed.

I was also hoping that they released the novel for television on dvd.

if anyoen here has ever seen the old video cassette version where the movie is in chronological order can without a doubt say it is better then the movie trilogy dvd, and anythign else godfather related....it completely blows them away.

i rented it from a mom and pop movie store a couple of years ago, and this version had all of the deleted scenes included in the movie that are in the "deleted scenes" section of the dvd. this is why i never understood why they alway say complete and uncut.

it adds alot of things to the movie from the book that should have been in the movie....never understood it.

anyone know the answer to this??

Since it is implied that Michael Corleone died a few years after Mary's death (I would guess from the use of make-up that about 10 years have passed), shouldn't the saga years be something like 1901 - 1990?

Michael looked very old at his death.

I've never understood that either. I have the chrono VHS set and it looks Like Michael is at least 80 when he falls out of that chair. Could it be the shock of his daughter's death combined with his worsening diabetes aged him in a few months?

I think he died somewhere around 1996 or so. It says in the "family tree" on the dvd.

If memory serves it was 1991

memory doesn't serve right it was 1997

I wonder what happened to Connie? She stated that she would always take care of Michael but all we see is Michael all alone in a decaying house.

a much more powerful scene than a bedside with a caring sister around....

Maybe even Connie didn't want anything to do with the business when she saw Mary killed first hand. Or maybe she died before Michael. She was older than him, was she not?

Connie was the youngest of the Corleone children.

At the time of Michael's death she is inside the house watching Michael through a pair of old opera glasses... having just served him a nice dish of cannoli's.

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wow, a dish of cannoli....that's why Michael died!!!!

You guys should see the thread in the Part IV board about Puzo's poroposed Part IV script. I know he's joking but he says that Connie learns that Michael had Fredo killed (as if she didn't already know) and poisons Michael's orange at the end of Part III.

I would like versions of Part 1 and 2, with the deleted footage inserted in, but NOT in the chrono format, just exnteded versions of the films in their original format

Ok, sorry for the delay in answering your question, although I'm still not entirely certain what your question is, i got a pretty good idea.
You want to know why, since the complete and uncut version makes more sense and so your wondering why they wouldn't have released it like that. Well, near as I can figure, it's because of time constraints. Coppola had to submit a cut of the movie, trying to keep the story intact and tell as much as possible before shifting to another story,sometimes you just have to sacrifice scenes that really should explain itself without having to be shown to you. Then the studio execs cut the movie to what they think it should be. Execs always keep in mind the length of a movie because it limits the number of showings it can have in a day. Obviously, this probably wasn't such a concern at the time, what still remains true is that the suits just didn't want people discouraged from seeing a long movie. This is why the attention span of the average movie-goer nowadays is that of a ferret. I think those scenes make the movie work a lot better too, this is why I'd love to see them on DVD as is.

It was done that way for a purpose. I believe that FFC wanted to show us that after losing his daughter due to his lifestyle ( like he lost all the woman that he loved due to his lifestyle ), Michael was to physically live out a long life of suffering with the guilt and the memories of all those that he loved leaving him, be it by death or by choice. I believe that when Mary was killed, so was Michael, not physically, but in heart and spirit.

His punishment was to live a long life, all alone, living with those memories day after day.


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I would say that Connie probably died before Michael. Obviously Kay never spoke to him again, and Vincent was probably assasinated in New York. Anthony probably lived in total obscurity and Michael died alone and broken.

Why?

Thats a fair amount of assumptions with absolutely no basis.

True...but no more or less basis than assuming that Lucy would have allowed herself to become pregnant to trap Sonny, was thwarted as he was killed and lumbered with his kid, was probably a bad mother and fuelled her son with stories of his father and how he was killed.

Or that Sandra would have tried to keep her two sons rages at bay.

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