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Godfather too Detailed?
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11/22/04 05:11 PM
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I have read The Godfather 3 times now. And what I notice about Puzo that he is too detailed. Not enough dialogue. Tell me if I am wrong.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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11/23/04 05:38 PM
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It's a novel. The author describes what's happening, he describes the physical surroundings, he describes what the characters are thinking.
You want dialogue, read the screenplay.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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11/24/04 11:06 AM
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I love Puzo so much because he's so descriptive. Mark Winegardner is much the same, so I'm glad he's the one who's written the prequel, we're keeping with the theme.
Personally, I prefer the detail to lots of dialogue. Like Plawrence said, I watch the movie if I feel like listening to people speak. The book creates great visuals, which is why I love it so much.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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11/24/04 11:18 PM
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i personally think that the only place that puzo went into much detail on, and devoted to much time to, is the johnny fontane and lucy mancini parts. i find them boring, and i usually just skip those parts.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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12/09/04 02:20 PM
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Yes, I skip those parts too. And it is really a good literature, written in a very decent language. As to its being too detailed... Details are what you read books for! Nothing else, even movie, can give you as much details of character, way of thinking, inner processes, as book can. That's why nothing can equal literature for the fullness of emotional experience. Only dreams and music, perhaps... 
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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01/20/05 02:57 PM
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Originally posted by Cancerkitty:
I gotta say, this Godfather is the only film I've ever seen that I prefered over the book. FFC cut out all the boring stuff, and all the weird sex-organ-deformation stuff, and that made all the difference for me. It seemed like Puzo couldn't decide between writing a mafia book or a porno sometimes. I would agree that FFC left out the less interesting stuff from the novel. However, I would have liked to see the following from the book: 1) inserted into the beginning of the GFII film: the scene between Kay & Hagen, where Hagen is sent to bring Kay home 2) a flashback scene showing Luca Brasi killing the 6 Capone men 3) a flashback to a young Santino telling Vito that Santino witnessed his father murdering Fannucci.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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01/22/05 11:16 AM
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Originally posted by goombah: Originally posted by Cancerkitty:
[b] I gotta say, this Godfather is the only film I've ever seen that I prefered over the book. FFC cut out all the boring stuff, and all the weird sex-organ-deformation stuff, and that made all the difference for me. It seemed like Puzo couldn't decide between writing a mafia book or a porno sometimes.
1) inserted into the beginning of the GFII film: the scene between Kay & Hagen, where Hagen is sent to bring Kay home
2) a flashback scene showing Luca Brasi killing the 6 Capone men
3) a flashback to a young Santino telling Vito that Santino witnessed his father murdering Fannucci. [/b]4)The old lady in Sicily who asks Michael what happened to Luca Brasi. And that she tells the story of the Irish girl and the baby. It would have made Luca a lot more scarier if FFC putted that in the movie.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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Originally posted by DutchGodfather: Originally posted by goombah:
[b] I would agree that FFC left out the less interesting stuff from the novel. However, I would have liked to see the following from the book:
1) inserted into the beginning of the GFII film: the scene between Kay & Hagen, where Hagen is sent to bring Kay home
2) a flashback scene showing Luca Brasi killing the 6 Capone men
3) a flashback to a young Santino telling Vito that Santino witnessed his father murdering Fannucci. I would like to see Mike-Kay relationship as it was in the book. It would be more, but it would be more natural for both. The way he cut off almost everything there was between them is one of the weakest things about GF.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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01/25/05 05:42 PM
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Originally posted by Rudik:
I have read The Godfather 3 times now. And what I notice about Puzo that he is too detailed. Not enough dialogue. Tell me if I am wrong. I don't see how any book can be too detailed. If anything, it makes the story much better to read because you can imagine what the scenery is like. The dialogue seem perfect for me. The only part I disliked about The Godfather was Book II, where Johnny Fontane was given $20, 000, 000 to produce a movie. It seems boring and carried on for quite a bit.
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Re: Godfather too Detailed?
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02/24/05 03:39 PM
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I agree I found some Johnny Fontane and Lucy parts on the novel quite dull aswell...I dont know if it was the fact that they were not covered so much in the film...or probably because they didn't seem to have much point to them  I watched the film before reading the book...so i had the images playing in my head as i was reading it..its a brilliant book tho no questions asked lol
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. And he changed many things in the original novel he'd better leave as they were. So I definitely prefer the book, the skipped wersion without Fontane-Mancini parts 
