1. @emilynussbaum's smart tweets about the Godfather movies (check them out) remind me one way "Miller's Crossing" falls short.
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6. As against the lived experience Coppola & Scorsese drew on, Coen Bros. sense of gangster comes from novels & movies.
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@HeerJeet Except for how both Godfather and Goodfellas are based on books... - Show replies
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I don't buy it on Coppola. Godfather is from Shakespeare/Opera/historical-political critique, not real life.
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Coppola and parents were upper middle class. Puzo did not know anything about the mafia first-hand.
@HeerJeet http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/03/movies/mario-puzo-author-who-made-the-godfather-a-world-addiction-is-dead-at-78.html?pagewanted=all … - Show replies
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