During the scene Francis Ford Coppola's father Carmine Coppola is the piano player.Īl Pacino made just $35,000 for starring in the film (the same as James Caan and Diane Keaton and $1,000 less than Robert Duvall).
The one pictured is Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti, Al Capone’s right-hand man who had not been murdered, but actually shot himself. Lucas used photos from real crime scenes.
George Lucas put together the “Mattress Sequence” ( this montage of crime scene snaps and headlines) as a thank you to Francis Ford Coppola for helping him fund American Graffiti. The others conceded defeat and he was presented with a belt buckle with the words “Mighty Moon King” emblazoned. Bare buttocks were exposed during the childish game of oneupmanship until Brando showed his backside in the middle of a huge wedding-reception scene. Marlon Brando, James Caan, and Robert Duvall spent the filming process trying to out-moon one-another. Things on screen may have been intense but off screen the actors were embroiled in, shall we say, high jinx. Animal rights groups unsuccessfully protested the inclusion of the scene. When the cameras rolled, without him knowing, a real horses head from a dog-food factory was used. Spare a thought for actor John Marley who, during rehearsals, would "wake up" to find a fake horses head in bed with him. Its ludicrously loud purring muffled some of Brando’s lines, which meant they had to be looped over. Francis Ford Coppola found it while walking through the lot at Paramount Studios and wrote it into the movie. Amazingly this was a stray - there was no cat in the original script. In the film’s opening scene, Vito is famously seen holding a cat. Ideally we'd all put it on at the same time and cast and crew would tweet trivia in real time.Īlas, there's a few logistical and legal issues to our genius plan, so we all have to make do with our 25 Godfather facts that you probably don't know. It should be made compulsory, we reckon, that everyone on Earth has to watch The Godfather once a year.
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