Edouard Gueury, Thomas Becquart
Mario Puzo’s The Godfather (1972)

Support: Computer (texts, video extracts, pictures…) Main point of interest: How is this movie still so cult today?
Main ideas : * Synopsis * The actors/their role * The direction (setting, the music by Nino Rota…) * The interest in the subject by the audience

The Godfather has been directed by the American director Francis Ford Coppola in 1972; it is based on the 1969 Mario Puzo’s novel. The movie is one of the famous films ever thanks to different elements, such as the actors, which have made it so cult and very well received by the worldwide audience. The Godfather has been turned in 65 days and costed about 6.5 millions dollars. It is ranked at the second place in the IMDB Best movie ever ranking; it’s also considered as the best American movie ever by the American Film Institute.

The Godfather deals with an aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty, Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) who gives the control of his empire to his reluctant son Michael (Al Pacino).
Cast -the actors- their role
The Godfather cast is kind of prestigious; some of the actors have even been discovered thanks to the movie.
MARLON BRANDO AS DON VITO CORLEONE

Don Vito Corleone is the most famous character of The Godfather, played by Marlon Brando. He’s certainly the character who made the movie so famous and cult. He’s composed of many characteristics of the gangster, largely based on Frank Costello’s or Carlo Gambino’s (famous italian-american gangster): raspy voice, hair pulled back, suit, politicians and judges on his payroll, elegant…
In the movie, Don Corleone is the head of Corleone family, the most powerful mafia in New York and even of the country. He’s presented as an ambitious Italian American who has been successful, moving from the Hell’s kitchen and building a crime empire. In the early 1900’s, he’s a young Sicilian boy who immigrates to