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The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 06:40 PM
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A few years ago I started a thread describing what I thought were the best "looks" (facial features caught in a single scene) in "The Godfather". Here, with the aid of some pictures, I'd like to re-create that thread. #5. The look of fear on Carlo's face when he realizes that Mike had been "on to" him (and his complicity in Sonny's killing): #4. Tom Hagen's look at Tessio in response for a plea of getting him off the hook for "old time's sake". He's thinking, "You f*cking traitor": #3. Mike's icy cold stare at Barzini during Vito's funeral. You just know he's thinking that Barzini is a dead man!: #2. Vito's look of pure anguish as he declares, "Look how they massacred my boy": And the #1 look: Virgil Sollozzo's expression after Tom Hagen "warned" him about Luca Brasi (Sollozzo already knew Luca was dead). The look is pure evil: ![[Linked Image]](http://photopile.com/photos/Consigliere/Family/154573.jpg)
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 06:46 PM
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You have one of Moe Green, doing that little bit of business when he fingers his tie and shirt collar and kind of extends his neck during his meeting with Michael?
I always loved that nervous look on his face.
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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Originally posted by Beth E: I've always liked the look Kaye gives to Michael at the end of GF3 when Mary is killed. Thats a goody, too. I wanna post some pics from the other two parts soon. Feel free to join in with yours, guys and gals.
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 07:22 PM
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Thanks, SC. That's the one. Always reminded me a bit of Rodney Dangerfield.
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 07:52 PM
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Great looks, every one of them! I'd add a few: 1. Tom grinning outside the door when Sonny's banging Lucy, after Sonny says, "one minute," and Lucy's moaning, "Oh Sonny!" Patented Robert Duvall look. 2. Vito making his face crumble, then lifting it again, with that heart-wrenching sigh, when Tom tells him, "They shot Sonny on the causeway." 3. Senator Geary being smug when Michael says, "Oh, Senator, you can have my answer now." 4. Kay, utterly baffled, after Michael tells her the Luca/bandleader story. 5. Vito rolling his eyes in a deleted scene when he asks if Michael's "American girlfriend" got home ok."
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 07:59 PM
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How about Michael's face when he's dancing with Apolonia? That's the sweetest smile! Originally posted by Turnbull: 5. Vito rolling his eyes in the deleted scene when he asks if Michael's "American girlfriend" got home ok." Where is that?
"...Luca Brasi held a gun to his head and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract. That's a true story. That's my family, Kay. It's not me." (Michael Corleone)
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 09:03 PM
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Originally posted by DonVitoCorleone: 5. Vito rolling his eyes in a deleted scene when he asks if Michael's "American girlfriend" got home ok." Never heard of that...I'd like to see it. A single frame from that sequence doesn't do the scene justice.... its almost comical to watch Vito make that face. Here's a look at it: ![[Linked Image]](http://photopile.com/photos/Consigliere/Family/154602.jpg)
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 09:42 PM
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Originally posted by SC: Originally posted by DonVitoCorleone: [b] 5. Vito rolling his eyes in a deleted scene when he asks if Michael's "American girlfriend" got home ok." Never heard of that...I'd like to see it. A single frame from that sequence doesn't do the scene justice.... its almost comical to watch Vito make that face. Here's a look at it: [/b]Wow. Is that scene on the DVD?
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/04/04 09:46 PM
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I always thought that the look on Michael's face when he hears Fredo say that "Johnny Ola knows these places like the back of his hand," spoke volumes! In that scene Pacino's look makes you feel the neausea and sickness that Michael is feeling. I also liked the looks that are exchanged between Michael and Neri when Michael is hugging Fredo at mama's wake. I always felt that when Michael gives Neri that cold look, as he raises his head to look at Neri, that Neri is saying to himself " I can't believe that he really wants me to kill his own brother now that his mother is gone." The third best look in my opinion is when Geary insults Michael when they meet. ....."you and your whole f**k*ng family!" If looks could kill, Geary would have been dead right on the spot. Don Cardi 
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/05/04 09:00 AM
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: I always thought that the look on Michael's face when he hears Fredo say that "Johnny Ola knows these places like the back of his hand," spoke volumes! In that scene Pacino's look makes you feel the neausea and sickness that Michael is feeling. That really was a brilliant piece of acting. Pacino actually looks like he's ready to throw up. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.net/emoticons/barf.gif)
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/05/04 11:37 AM
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Originally posted by Don Vercetti: This is the best expression in my opinion, along with the final image in Part 2.
I agree w/ Don V and also Anthony Lombardi who was the first to actually mention this chilling 'slow burn' of Michael's. Another of my favorites is the slow turn & look from Don Fanucci...after Genco shouts at him to sit down in the theater. Come to think of it, Genco's face after realizing who that is is pretty priceless, too! AppleOnYa
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Re: The Best "Looks" in "The Godfather"
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11/05/04 12:30 PM
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there are a number of great "looks" but the one the always gets me is the look Tom Hagen gives Senator Geary - then (shifting only his eyes) to Michael - then (eyes only again) back to Geary, when Geary gives his "squeeze" speech to Michael. Tom is thinking, "you have NO idea what you're saying and to who!"
Senator Geary: Because I intend to squeeze you. I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in your oily hair -- dressed up in those silk suits - and try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business with you, but the fact is, I despise your masquerade -- the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself, and your whole f**king family.
Michael: Senator - we're both part of the same hypocrisy. But never think it applies to my family.
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