355: What Would Pop Do?

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

We take a deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Part II”, which is really two movies in one. Robert De Niro stars as young Vito Corleone, who comes to America and learns how to become The Godfather. And Al Pacino stars as Michael Corleone, trying to live up to the standard set by his father in the first film. In this episode we talk about its overarching themes, the two-timeframe approach, and the first portion of the film itself, including a visit to pre-revolution Cuba and Lee Strasberg as a grumpy old man who really wants you to look at his cake. [Part one of two.]

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 355, May 2017.
0:14.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:15.9	In this episode, we're talking about a classic film following up on our conversation a little while ago about the
0:21.5	godfather we're going to talk about guess what the godfather part two from 1974 directed again
0:29.0	francis ford coppola written by francis for coppola and mario puzzo from mario puzzo's novel
0:34.7	joining me to talk about the Godfather Part 2,
0:39.4	are these fine gentlemen?
0:41.2	John Syracusa, hello.
0:43.0	Jason, if you do a podcast about The Godfather Part 3,
0:47.1	you'll disappoint me.
0:48.1	Are they making that?
0:49.3	I already made that joke.
0:50.0	I know.
0:50.9	Not on the podcast.
0:52.6	Moises Chou Yan, hello.
0:54.0	Coming to you live in my home, in my bedroom, where my wife sleeps, and the children I don't have play with their toys.
1:02.6	Merlin Mann is also here.
1:04.1	Hi, Merlin.
1:06.6	I'm a retired investor.
1:12.9	That's good.
1:13.9	And John Gruber is back to talk about The Godfather once more.
1:16.9	Hi, John.
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