Episode 112: The Godfather

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses The Godfather's complex plot and deliberate pacing, the film's iconic midpoint, and why Michael Corleone's arc is one of the strongest in cinema history.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:14.3	Today we are talking about The Godfather, the 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, screenplay by Mario Puzzo and Francis Ford Coppola.
0:23.6	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:26.9	Hello, everybody.
0:28.3	Brian Bittner.
0:29.6	Hello, hello.
0:31.2	And Alex Cayetos.
0:32.7	Oh, I'm saving them.
0:33.9	Yeah, all right.
0:34.7	We were embracing ourselves for John Corleone.
0:39.4	Okay, before we jump in, question for Spotify listeners is, what's your favorite gangster movie?
0:46.5	Let us know.
0:47.5	And if you were watching on YouTube, let us know in the comments below.
0:51.2	Okay, so we're talking about The Godfather as the beginning of our trilogy of episodes
0:55.6	on The Godfather trilogy, because when we passed a thousand patrons, we had a vote across all
1:01.7	the platforms, Twitter and Discord and Patreon, all the places. And people chose the Godfather.
1:08.7	It was close. Back to the Future was in second place, almost made it.
1:12.7	But the godfather won.
1:14.9	And in the first place in a lot of individual votes and stuff.
1:18.9	So it was like very close.
1:21.5	So now we have to try to talk about the godfather.
1:26.2	The film that the American Film Institute ranks
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