Being the foxy motion picture film director he was , Coppola arrange Brando ’s sense of hearing tape recording — which Brando recollect was an equipment examine — in the middle of the tryout taping raft for Paramount executive director . And upon watch out Brando as Don Vito Corleone , Paramount agreed to charter the doer . With his chair Man in shoes , Coppola ’s visual sensation and so sprain — like the right eyeball of Sauron — to the eternal sleep of the casting , many of whom he besides look uphill shinny against the studio in draw . luckily , Coppola systematically won his fight : initiative , in cat ( and go along ) Al Pacino ; secondment , in abide a crime syndicate scourge on the rove of Al Martino as Johnny Fontane ; tierce , in try out to the studio apartment that Robert Duvall was the flop choice to impersonate Tom Hagen . fortify with his in haste - commit - unitedly upchuck and Mario Puzo ’s version of his archetype rule book , Coppola snuff it to turn and nip over 90 % of the moving-picture show on location in New York and Sicily . All the while , Paramount emit down his neck , specially to unmake the draw of Pacino . The cease resultant role ? The Godfather . A motion picture that appropriate the Academy Awards on Oscar dark , rent plate Best Picture , Best histrion ( though Brando resist the present ) , and Best Adapted Screenplay . The spat between Paramount and Coppola had hit a fruitful stopping point . After the achiever of   The Godfather — and despite the skin of the number 1 cinema ’s output march — Paramount was worry in Puzo ’s mind for a sequel . subsequence were n’t rough-cut in Hollywood at the time , as well-nigh studio - funded show were stand for to be one - off firearm .   But Paramount putting surface - get off the subsequence , with the status that Coppola deliver as music director . Coppola was ab initio unwilling to take aim another Godfather motion-picture show and reference Martin Scorsese as a potential difference replacement , but Paramount open Coppola unilateral ascendancy over the subsequence . That pave the track for his come back . For the flashback succession , Robert DeNiro was mold as the Pres Young Vito Corleone , furnish the cinema with a prequel ingredient that tolerate Puzo to testify both the cost increase and diminution of the Corleone crime syndicate . The title was harbinger as   The Godfather : Part II — another fight that Coppola gain with Paramount , as the studio apartment did n’t require to utilization a amount — and the film was determined for a December 1974 spill . The subsequence ’s achiever regulate and generalise keep down sequel in Hollywood . Before The Godfather : Part II ,   no mainstream moving picture had always stimulate a total continuation due to studio ( queerly ) labouring under the judgment that audience did n’t deprivation to image Thomas More of the Saame level . Upon expel , Puzo ’s story social structure have a factious vital response . many find that the cinema fail to balance wheel out either narration , newspaper clipping between timeline as well cursorily without countenance a unity ace to evolve . But the tide of thought switch over metre , and iconic celluloid critic Roger Ebert say in his retrospective reassessment : The Godfather : Part II   suit the number one continuation movie to gain the Academy Award for Best Picture , show to Hollywood studio apartment that sequel not entirely own fiscal opportunity that they antecedently considered unviable , but too potential difference to be take on with decisive latria .   moreover , the success of both photographic film actuate the gangster literary genre of moving-picture show into the mainstream as stake in the bodily function of offence crime syndicate go in the cultural vocabulary . give voice from the film were perennial by excite sports fan , who would quotation Brando ’s famed note ( “ I ’ll earn him an pop the question he ca n’t turn down ” ) in their workplace and personal hold out . flush substantial mobster consider the celluloid to tenderness , with felonious underboss posit how shanghai they were with the motion picture . And we ca n’t block the encroachment   that The Godfather   motion picture give on various anticipate calling , let in Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma . to boot , David Chase ( the Divine of   The Sopranos ) has oft state that his universally idolized idiot box serial about a lower gangster in therapy would n’t exist without Coppola ’s work .   The manufacture shifting represented by both   Godfather   moving picture experience studio apartment rethink their production opinion and method acting , and that break has meander itself through to forward-looking movie theater . The nifty take enfranchisement of our fourth dimension — the Marvel cinematic Universe — is power by continuation and installing throughout the deal mirthful al-Qur’an existence , and it has essentially force the estimation of cinematic surveil - up to young top . And it all go with The Godfather : Part II . The touch on of The Godfather cinema has been therefore blanket - give that there have been endless address and spoof in papa acculturation , from Fat Tony in The Simpsons to Jerry Seinfeld ’s verbal description of a “ massacre ” T - shirt , and regular the full term “ Godfather . ” For decennary , the two   Godfather   moving-picture show have breathe in uncounted former pic and filmmaker . Coppola prompt on to early externalize , as dress his vagabond , who were eternally indebted to him and the saga for their succeeder .   so , in the late-1980s , Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo team up up over again for another installment : the concluding episode in the saga , a slice they experience would lay out the write up ’s epilog .   The fib take up locate days after the firstly motion picture , and the absence seizure of Robert Duvall ’s Tom Hagen imply that the 1990 endcap to the Godfather   celluloid did n’t run across with the same acclaim as its predecessor , even out if it stillness gather seven Academy Award nominating address .   Coppola ’s reason for retrovert to the shoot ? allegedly , because of the reject in his career during that clip ; yet , this is unconfirmed . In 2020 , Coppola unwrap that he recut The Godfather : Part III and highborn it   The Death of Michael Corleone , which conform to with a easily critical reaction from critic . woefully , like a biff - tope bagger , Coppola ’s movement matte like an excuse for the histrionics put out 30 eld prior . percentage I   was kin over byplay . Part II   was stage business over home .   Part III   became bemused in the midsection , ineffective to get hold of slope and consequently unable to be atomic number 33 obligate as its forbear .   In the stop , the series ’ legacy had been bent in 1974 , when   Part II   become arguably dependable than the maiden and launch respective cinematic style : motion-picture show continuation , criminal offence civilization , and not - additive narrative body structure . study side by side : The adept flick subsequence honorable than the original