I got to wondering what would happen if Francis Ford Coppola were infected with Lucasism and decided to produce a Special Edition Godfather trilogy, wherein he vastly "improved" the films with the aid of computer animation and good ideas. Also, shortly thereafter, he would release a prequel trilogy attempting to flesh out aspects of fictional mafia history. I figure the following would result.
In Coppola's special edition of the original Godfather trilogy:
(1) Lots and lots of new, digitally animated car driving sequences.
(2) Coppola slightly alters the famous scene where Pacino goes into the bathroom to get the gun and then shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey; instead, when Michael Corleone comes back, the two are waiting for him with pistols drawn, and Michael only manages to kill them after dodging two bullets. This makes Micheal Corleone the good guy.
(3) Robert De Niro's (current, aged) face is digitally animated and superimposed over Brando's for the entirety of the first film, and scenes with Vito Corleone are rerecorded with De Niro's voice and dubbed over; this is done in order to create better continuity.
In the new prequel trilogy:
(1) Don Ciccio's father reveals to him that your power and status in the mafia really comes down to possessing small organisms in your bloodstream called Metacorleoneans.
(2) There are excruciatingly long gun battles between mafia families, Gunkata style.
(3) Coppola introduces numerous racially-insensitive characters, among them a white man in Jolson blackface playing a character called Yesmassa -- a servant to the Ciccio family
I could think of others, but perhaps some of you could think of better ideas.
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Posted: 14 years 21 weeks ago
You forgot the slow-motion Matrix-style shot of the bullet killing Fredo on the boat.