*The Godfather 2*(1974) the BEST sequel - Reaction & Commentary ft. Cam
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Watch our reaction to Goodfellas on @CameronBaba channel.
A black guy named Awesome along with Cam watch the 1974 sequel to The Godfather. The Godfather 2. Francis Ford Coppola did it twice. This may be the greatest sequel ever. This is a first time blind reaction. She has never seen this before. - Zábava
Goodfellas reaction here czcams.com/video/Q0V-OjnVCAw/video.htmlsi=X8XNnhcPriGf4v4l
The famous critic Pauline Kael wrote that this film is;
"a moody meditation on (the subject of) power."
The greatest sequel ever made, and its not up for debate.
Also, Al Pacino's finest performance.
Michael at the end, is unassailable, untouchable, more powerful than his father could ever dream, and he is completely alone.
Utterly desolate.
He is the answer to the question:
'What does it profit a man,
to gain the world entire,
at the expense of his soul?'
Hyman Roth is modeled after Meyer Lansky, and Moe Greene is supposed to be Bugsy Siegel. Jewish gangsters were active in organized crime with Meyer and Bugsy associated with Lucky Luciano. Another prominent Jewish gang was the Purple Gang out of Detroit referenced by Elvis in jailhouse rock. No one reacts to Bugsy, Warren Beatty’s film of the Siegel story. Artsy but worth it.
Also murder incorporated was small hat's
You are one of the few young reactors that knew that this took place at the time of Castro's revolution. The first movie spans from 1946-1950. Part two was from about 1957=1959.
Business dealings in Cuba and talks of guerilla fighters. Had to be the revolution
Battista was a corrupt dictator who was more than willing to profit from American corporations and organized crime. At the time, Cuba did NOT have effective public medicine, and the medical schools were without much gov't funding. After Castro, Cuba went from the worst country in terms of infant mortality to one of the best in the world. After 9/11, the Cubans sent doctors and other staff to help New York.
The look Michael gives his henchman at his mother’s funeral while holding Fredo…..
It's a myth the officials at Ellis Island were changing people's names and anglicizing names with no concern for immigrants' feelings. The majority of officials were natives of each community's homeland, spoke the language fluently, and were familiar with naming conventions.
Some people did anglicize their own names. Olympic swimmer and future "Tarzan" Johnny Weismuller began as Johann Weissmueller with the letter Ess-zet ("sz" or "double-S") and an umlaut (and officially "Jonas" since he was born in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary); Weissmuller's parents changed their name when they arrived with their two-year-old toddler.
I would bet money it was leftist, anti-American activists who started the myth about ignorant immigration officials.
Part of the problem was the inability of official documentation to accept the idea of hyphenated names, so common in Europe, so in completing everything from citizenship applications to drivers licenses you had to "choose" your last name as the legal one. My grandfather had a hyphenated family name, and he ended up using one or the other as his last name--when he could (like voter registration) he used both.
Comment on my own comment: Hungarian "Janos" not "Jonas."
Thank you! I can't imagine how overwhelmed these employees felt while processing so many people...
My grandfather's first name was Vito but the intake official at Ellis Island wrote it down as "Willie". The family always called him Vito and he letter had to have it legally changed back to Vito.
Changing people's names at Ellis Island was relatively common in that time.
Never happened and is one of the biggest urban legends in American genealogy. Google Ellis Island Name Change. Hope that helps.
I think this official did it purely by accident, as it was loud and Vito was not speaking. And it may have saved his life from anyone sent from Sicily looking for Vito Andolini
Not as much by officialdom ignorance, but much more by anglicization on the part of the immigrants themselves. The Ellis Island officials were actually efficient and careful--the doctors and medical staff first class and the translators hard working. Yes, there were mistakes like not understanding a mute boy's papers, but relatively rare.
Al Pacino and John Cazale worked together again on Dog Day Afternoon that came out a year after this film. If you havent seen it before it is amazing too. It's based on a true story.
Just like the first film, the last scene with Diane Keaton (Kay), she gets covered up by a closing door.
I think Vito's voice was gravelly due to having smallpox when he traveled to the US.
Brando made the decision to have Vito talk like that, assuming he'd been shot in the neck at some point.
Goodfellas will be on Cam's channel soon
Reaction request: Tokyo Vice seasons 1&2 on Max! An underrated gem of a Yakuza crime drama series loosely based on a true story not known by many in the U.S and hardly anyone here in the U.K, well worth a watch! 👍🏽
Great job noticing that he was uncle Jr.
1. Who opened the drapes after Kay went to bed? Not Fredo if you believe his "I didn't know it would be a hit" spiel.
2. Who killed/gunned down the would-be hit men seconds after the machine-gun volley?
3. How did Rocco know what he said? "Looks like they were hired out of New York." Huh? It wasn't any of Frank Pentangeli's men since he was too loyal to Mikey and hated Hyman Roth too much. If Rocco knew the two hitmen belonged to the Rosato Brothers he would have said so, right?
4. How soon after the machine gun fire did these guys get killed? Why would no one hear that? The machine guns sent the whole compound into immediate controlled chaos. Fredo? He was presumably with his wife. Who immediately came running out of the house screaming her head off. And do we think Fredo had the cunning and nerve to kill those guys? And brains? He would have to be an iceberg, only 10% of his intelligence showing. And not once showing he had the cold intelligence and nerve to do this his whole life. Fredo never once in both movies shows any brains at all.
Think of the logistics of the whole thing. Security on the compound is shown to be wildly tight, so whoever opened the drapes after Kay went to bed would have to be a person who wouldn't be questioned as to why they were in Mike's part of the house. Fredo? If he didn't open the drapes, what exactly DID he do for Roth and Johnny Ola? If he DID open them, he knew it would be a hit. And he was smart enough to know the gunmen couldn't be taken alive. All of which shows that maybe he opened the drapes AND killed the two shooters immediately. Which means he deserved what he got at the end. If he didn't do it, someone else on the property DID do it. Someone not ever suspected. Like Tom Hagen.
Mike went out of his way to be rude to Tom in the first movie and here. We know he's smart. And we know he arranged for Kay to have an abortion.
Huh?
Yep. Kay could not leave the property after Mike went to visit Roth and Pentangeli. Not unless Tom was with her. We saw how much he did not want her to leave the property once Mike left. Did the Ob-Gyn come to visit her? If not, she would have had to have been planning her abortion for a while. Her personal doctor would be too scared of Mike to do it, right? So he would have had to know where Kay could quietly get an abortion. Either her doctor or her doctor AND Tom knew all about it. If the doctor set it up, Tom would have to know where to take her to get the abortion because he would never trust Kay leaving the compound without him being along with her. AND he is exactly the kind of guy who would know where to get an abortion. Besides Fredo, that is. But would Tom trust Fredo's ability to take care of Kay if it were just Fredo and Kay going out to the doctor? No. Tom would not trust Fredo to guard Kay by himself. Unless he (Tom) was in on the attempted hit AND the abortion. No doctor known to The Family would ever give Kay an abortion. Too scared of Mike. So...Tom helped Kay get the abortion. And he probably opened the drapes and killed the hitmen.
Only Tom could move around without being questioned and only Tom would have the brains and guts to kill them immediately. And he would never trust Fredo enough to open the drapes without knowing it was going to be machine guns or some other guns shattering the glass to kill Mike.
So probably Tom opened the drapes, killed the gunmen, and set up the abortion AND drove Kay to the abortionist "as being a guard for her".
Certainly Mike would have thought that all out and made the decision that Tom was too valuable to The Family on the business end to let go, but he treats him like crap anyway because he just can't help it.
4. So...did Mike have Tom killed between parts 2 and Godfather 3? I say yes but part 3 would have mentioned it. Mike would have said it during a diabetic fit. I think Mike would have felt 1000 times more guilt over having Tom killed than he did about having Fredo killed.
Filmmakers are only human. And they are very visual. If they think of something as iconic as the machine gun attack on Mike and Kay's room or the helicopter attack seen in Apocalypse Now (coolest and most exhilarating shot in history) while playing Flight Of The Valkyries at full blast from huge speakers, well, they would run with it and damn the silliness of it. Those speakers would draw anti-copter fire like crazy. But it looks too good not to do it.
In the early 40s Raymond Chandler wrote The Big Sleep. When Howard Hawks directed it, he first adapted it into a screenplay with Nobel prize winner (in 1949) William Faulkner. As they worked on it, they realized that a key character had been killed but that they didn't know who. Everyone else was accounted for. So who killedl him?
Faulkner phoned Chandler from Hawks' office, realized Chandler was as clueless as they were, and got into a shouting match with him over the phone.
Hawks said he heard Faulkner yellow " But we're going to put a big credit on it saying it's Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep!!!"
He got off the phone and said "Bastard said we bought the book, it was our problem."
In The Shining, Kubrick was rewriting his adaptation of the King novel every day. The documentary made on The Shining 's Making Of showed it was utter chaos. Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duval got script changes just hours before the shot. So there were a lot of continuity errors.
There is a chair that appears and disappears and reappears over Jack's shoulder, against the wall. The Family is shown watching a TV that is not plugged in. Just before Danny goes into Room 239, he is playing on the floor where the pattern of the rug on the carpet changes shot to shot
But since Kubrick cannot get sloppy and let these things slide, they must have a reason, according to fans. So they use pretzel logic to explain it all.
And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels. In those, Dr. Watson has John for a first name some of the time. Other times Sherlock calls him James. And no one caught it at the time.
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GOODFELLAS REACTION IS UP COME HANG OUT
If you all decide to watch part III please watch the original cut and not the “Coda”
La Cosa Nostra, the real name of the Mafia, began in Sicily in the 1890's. It was brought to American with the Italian and Sicilian immigrants. It lasted until the 1970's with the end of John Gotti. There are a few scant factions left. I suggest you watch the History Channel.
When baby Fredo was sick the old woman was cupping, supposedly to draw the evil out.
My Mother was treated by this 90 years ago in Poland. Some sort of fever
Cupping has been around for centuries (and is still considered legitimate alternative medicine) If it was completely ineffective, would it have stood the test of time?
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Effective for what? Drawing the evil out?
Mafias were here on day 1
By the time of the great Southern Italian immigration (after 1890, mostly), there were already many established non-Italian gangs in cities like New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Boston. (see "Gangs of New York") The Sicilians, Neapolitans, Calabrians and other Southern Italians were poor, generally uneducated, desperate for work and were targeted by the established ethnics like the Irish. And local cops didn't give a damn.
No one can blame you for not knowing history. The Sicilian Mafia, the Neapolian "Camorra," the Calabrian " 'Ndraghetta," the Apulian "Corona Sacra" all date to 1860. There were criminal gangs before, but in 1860-61 Italian patriots led by the "Hero of Two Continents" Giuseppe Garibaldi overthrew the Bourbon dynasty which ruled all southern Italy. The liberal warlord redistributed the land, taking it from feudal nobles and the Church and giving individual shares to the peasantry who worked the land. Unfortunately, southern Italy was so misgoverned, there was no law with the fall of the Bourbons, and the strong and ruthless took over. Violence was so bad, it drove Neapolitans and Sicilians to flee to the United States in their millions. And out of the wreckage of society, criminals were untouchable except by other criminals. It took Italy more than a hundred years to bring them to heel, and the Camorra is still powerful in Naples.
The exact same thing happened in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus after the fall of the USSR in 1991, except it was industries, mines, and oilfields that were distributed to workers, and the "Russian mafia" and "oligarchs" bought out or forced out ordinary people for their shares.
Interesting take on the history of Southern Italy and Sicily. My family were Sicilian nobility since the 16th century, but my great grandfather sensibly backed Garibaldi. It wasn't just the right thing to do, it was smart, as he mostly kept his family land (some of the most productive olive groves in Sicily). There were other nobles who also backed Italian self-rule, and now pledged their loyalty to the Italian King of Savoy. There was actually the potential for good government, except the new Italian/Savoyard government in Rome really didn't give a damn about Sicily or the rest of Southern Italy, and government policies treated the entire area as "a chunk of Africa that had floated too far north". There were no jobs and widespread famines---that's why there were so many desperate immigrants to America, not the violence as much. The Mafia, which had flourished during the centuries of foreign rule as brigands, never did give up. My family's town, not far from Corleone, prided themselves that they never fell under the control of the Mafia---my family shared their food with the people in famine and earthquakes and had their loyalty.
@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Very cool! Sounds like a real-life "Il Leopardo."
It is an anti everyone not Italian madia movie 😂
Notice that Michael used the right pronouns when talking about Merle in front of him.
there's a third godfather lol
Not for me
Spoiler: unfortunately Don Ciccio was right 😂