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Today we're talking about the Godfather.

Widely considered a classic movie part of the film canon,

I watched it for the first time only two years ago, and I was stunned,

not only by how great of a film it is, but also by just how influential of a film it is,

the drama, the character development, the signature score. It's considered the blueprint for a reason.

And while many cinephiles love it, like I do, when it came out, some people hated it,

and the people who protested the film might surprise you.

Today on the show we're bringing you part one of a special docu-series called Screening Ourselves.

From our friends over at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. In the series they look at some classic

films and explore the complicated relationships between on-screen characters and the communities

they're meant to represent. So with that, I'll hand it over to Pop Culture Happy Hours Aisha Harris.

Welcome to a very special weekend edition of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

Today we're kicking off a new documentary series, A Trilogy, in fact, brought to you by our

host and my dear pal Aisha Harris. Hello Aisha. Hey Linda. Yeah, you've been working on this

project for quite a while. It has been not a secret to me, but a secret to the PCHH audience. So

tell everybody now there's no more secrets. Break the silence. Yes, so this is a series that I am

calling Screening Ourselves. And you know Linda, we've been having a lot of conversations

for the last decade or so about representation and misrepresentation in Pop Culture. And I wanted

to sort of look back on how many of these conversations are not new. They've been happening for years

and they've changed in some ways and remained the same in other ways. And so the hope was to dig

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