thats what i mean by possible conflicts

Another conflict is Mary acting like a 17 year old while she was in her mid 20s.

Hey Anthony was a screwed up kid who was raised by hit men and then by Michael and Connie. Besides he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. His only real talent was singing, which was probably discovered in the 6 years of therapy and "special " school he attended when he got to Kay in New Hampshire. He also went to college on the 5 year plan, took a year off then went to law school . In short he was a third generation spoiled guinea brat. Just like his sister.

But can't that also be expected from a sheltered, spoiled rich girl who absolutely NO ONE will mess with?

So i was reading this Intresting Articleabout all the deleted scenes and extended scenes when i came across this:



The Young Vito sequence likewise lost about an hour and a half. In the finished film, his story stops in 1925 as he's leaving Sicily. But much more took place when he returned to America. There are scenes with Vito establishing his budding empire, recruiting a young Luca Brasi, teaching a young Sonny the ins and outs of gangster life, and a long sequence in the 30's where the Corleone family is busy fighting off a war with a rival Mafia clan (even Al Capone sends some guys after Vito!)


If all these scenes were actually shot then holy crap thats a lot of footage lost there. They should have just made the two separate stories different movies

Not only is there an abundance of viewers who would pay to see that footgae if melded into a coherent story, but FFC would make a fortune.

Most definitely.

So Francis, if you're reading this on a Sunday afternoon when drinking a sample of your latest self-made wine... If you want to make some more money for your studio and winery, assemble all the lost footage, call Spielberg and Robert Harris again and ask him them to help restore all those lost footage and release it as a mini-serie. You can call it The Godfather: The Lost Footage. Do us and yourself that favor!

I'm wondering how much of this "lost footage" rumor is merely Godfather folklore.

hell i'd be willing to pay for it even if it wasn't a coherent story.

There is always hope they will be released some day, On the star wars blu ray set , deleted scenes were released after 35 years of never being seen. Maybe Lucas can convince his friend to do the same?

Absolutely nothing. It's not a rumor. But much of it may be unusuable by now.

The amc hd broadcast had footage of the original godfather 2 ending
that wasnt seen for nearly 40 years so at least some of the footage still exists somewhere

Just an aside here, but Connie and Carlo had a really long courtship. They met in December 1941 and didnt get married until spring/summer of 1945. I guess there were not a lot of huge weddings durng the war. And while we are at it, how did Carlo get a deferrment... that weasel.

Hey- not without Michael. The don can't even take a picture without Michael. Mikey had to get back from the war. And Carlo's deferrment? I'm sure Vito took care of that to make sure his daughter could be married off. Better to have a long engagement and secure the husband rather than losing the husband and being stuck with an old spinster daughter moping around the house, whining about what could have been.

The wedding was postponed because the family was waiting for Michael to return home. And if you believe Connie was born in 1927, she would have only been 14 years old when she met Carlo, far too young to marry...

Oh man.... if she was only 14 in that 1941 scene then she better have had a huge friggin' dowry.

Is there any hope of these hours of footage ever seeing the light of day?

The Amc hd restoration showed some of the older Michael clips from the original godfather 2 ending so it is possible that they do exist somewhere

If you missed AMC's showing, is there ANY way of seeing it?

Yes, it's available on the internet.