Mario Puzo the creator of the Godather could be the most blessed of authors - first for writing a masterpiece which became a runaway success and then for plugging all the details that he was not able to write in the already massive book into the 2 sequels that followed. IMHO the trilogy is a triumph of thoroughly researched story telling - backed by a serie3s of powerful men who dared to work out an 'american dream' of their own kind. So the people in the stories were believable. And then some real world events got tied so perfectly with the story line that the 'pulp' nature of the original got elevated to classic cinema. Francis Ford Coppola and crew (each one super masters of theor trade and domain) masterminded the cinematic offering. The equivalents of Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Tom Hagen, Sonny Corleone, Tessio and Clemenza can just not be re-created - the people who played their roles continue to be regearded as all time bests - one does not even have to mention names of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro actually. Talking of desi-Godfathers - to a minor extent one could digest a 'nayagan' and perhaps take a dharmatma too - because of the music and hemamalini... the rest can be ignored, simply because there is no way one can transplant a phenomenon like what happened in America (more NY city) of the late 19th century to India or Bombay and build up a story like that. It just does not work.
Re: Nothing can come anywhere near the Godfather trilogy...
by SX on Jul 04, 2011 02:42 PM
well said... But Naayagan had some scenes copied from Godfather, otherwise it was different and class in its own way... No wonder it was rated as one of the 100 best movies of the 20th century in world cinema by Times NY.. Kamal and Mani Ratnam made India proud!!
Mario Puzo the creator of the Godather could be the most blessed of authors - first for writing a masterpiece which became a runaway success and then for plugging all the details that he was not able to write in the already massive book into the 2 sequels that followed. IMHO the trilogy is a triumph of thoroughly researched story telling - backed by a serie3s of powerful men who dared to work out an 'american dream' of their own kind. So the people in the stories were believable. And then some real world events got tied so perfectly with the story line that the 'pulp' nature of the original got elevated to classic cinema. Francis Ford Coppola and crew (each one super masters of theor trade and domain) masterminded the cinematic offering. The equivalents of Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Tom Hagen, Sonny Corleone, Tessio and Clemenza can just not be re-created - the people who played their roles continue to be regearded as all time bests - one does not even have to mention names of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro actually. Talking of desi-Godfathers - to a minor extent one could digest a 'nayagan' and perhaps take a dharmatma too - because of the music and hemamalini... the rest can be ignored, simply because there is no way one can transplant a phenomenon like what happened in America (more NY city) of the late 19th century to India or Bombay and build up a story like that. It just does not work.
Mario Puzo the creator of the Godather could be the most blessed of authors - first for writing a masterpiece which became a runaway success and then for plugging all the details that he was not able to write in the already massive book into the 2 sequels that followed. IMHO the trilogy is a triumph of thoroughly researched story telling - backed by a serie3s of powerful men who dared to work out an 'american dream' of their own kind. So the people in the stories were believable. And then some real world events got tied so perfectly with the story line that the 'pulp' nature of the original got elevated to classic cinema. Francis Ford Coppola and crew (each one super masters of theor trade and domain) masterminded the cinematic offering. The equivalents of Don Vito and Michael Corleone, Tom Hagen, Sonny Corleone, Tessio and Clemenza can just not be re-created - the people who played their roles continue to be regearded as all time bests - one does not even have to mention names of Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro actually. Talking of desi-Godfathers - to a minor extent one could digest a 'nayagan' and perhaps take a dharmatma too - because of the music and hemamalini... the rest can be ignored, simply because there is no way one can transplant a phenomenon like what happened in America (more NY city) of the late 19th century to India or Bombay and build up a story like that. It just does not work.
Re: only shahrukh...
by Arun on Apr 03, 2011 05:08 AM
Dont u remember how your great gay khan was kicked in "Hey Ram" by Kamal... Where was ur khans pride then?
There was one Aamir Khan Movie, "Aatank Hi Aatank" with Rajni Kanth playing the elder brother, which was a scene by scene rip off of "The Godfather". The movie flopped miserably though.
