[Book Club] The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, FINAL Session, ft. Jay Dyer

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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A pulp fiction classic that became a national phenomenon! Still, there is so much more that meets the eye to this one, and with return co-host, Jay Dyer, along for the ride, we hit new depths with the analysis! Feel free to read and contribute to The Godfather's official threads: Session One: https://tinyurl.com/kuvcc88c Session Two: https://tinyurl.com/56twtksk Session Three: https://tinyurl.com/bdhb7vc8 Session Four: https://tinyurl.com/y3nt2whw Final Session: https://tinyurl.com/4j28m7x3 If you want to be a part of the live sessions for books forthcoming become a monthly sponsor on the "Sponsor Us" tab on QuiteFrankly.tv! All monthly sponsors (no matter at which level of sponsorship) are given access to specialty programs like Book Club!

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0:00.0	You're going to be here. The The And the The All right.
1:12.0	All right.
1:17.0	How's everybody feeling? I gotta say, I have to say,
1:21.0	this is one of those nights I've been sad every time a book ended
1:27.8	This one I'm devastated I wanted it to go on and on and on and you know the other thing I will say is that it
1:39.6	really shows how well I know that Mario Puzo never dabbled in screen plays before, but for him to get
1:49.7	in and write the screenplay with Coppola and for them to have such a warm relationship.
1:57.0	It's very hard for writers to be dispassionate about their work being edited,
2:02.0	especially by somebody who is looking to bring their
2:07.0	their work to screen or to stage.
2:10.0	I knew a couple of playwrights in my time who just hate
2:14.8	hate actors because they always pose some kind of a threat to the original intent for everything they wrote.
2:26.0	But for Pozzo to work so closely with Coppola to make the screenplay for the First Godfather and have it be so coherent.
2:36.4	And with everything that has been put in its way, I'm really going to continue to suggest that those of you out there who are looking to know a little bit more about
2:45.8	the making of the book and the making of the movie and I think that it would I think that
2:50.4	you would really get it now because you're going to get a little bit more of what
2:54.7	was going on in the country at the time, what was going on at the movie theaters, Paramount, it's really something else and it's something else and it's something to see that with
3:08.7	the source material that we got I know I'm just talking generally but it's the last night and I just want to be
3:13.9	conversational about this. But what we got in this book as far as source material for what would become
3:21.8	Godfather part two. It's not a lot. We got the old
3:27.0	scenes back in New York with Vido, how he stalked Finucci, the black hand, how he came to the country, his his mother, his brother, the vendetta, that really drove him for revenge his entire life.
3:48.5	He went back to Corleone, Sicily to be able to kill Don Chico. The other thing is, yeah, and also that's how you get
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