My Favorite Movie

• The Godfather (1972)
• Paramount
• Parent Movie Company: Viacom
• Highest Grossing Films in Paramount's History: Titanic, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Mission Impossible
• Producer: Albert S. Ruddy Executive Producer: Gray Frederickson
• Director: Francis Ford Coppola
• Writer: Mario Puzo
• Stars of the film: Marlon Brando (Don Vito Corleone), Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), James Caan (Santino "Sonny" Corleone)

Q and A:

The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Vito Corleone is the aging don or head of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michael has returned from WWII just in time to see the wedding of Connie Corleone (Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia Families to offer him protection in exchange for a profit of the drug money. He approaches Don Corleone about it, but, much against the advice of the Don's lawyer Tom Hagen, the Don is morally against the use of drugs, and turns down the offer. This does not please Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by some of his hit men. The Don barely survives, which leads his son Michael to begin a violent mob war against Sollozzo and tears the Corleone family apart.

I saw this movie on DVD for the first time in or around 2000. I was interested in seeing this film because my older brother and a couple of friends told me that I needed to see this film, and that it was an amazing gangster movie with great acting. They also told me it was a classic and a "must see." I liked that the movie was a great film and ranks, in my book, as one of the greatest movies of all time. Yes, I would recommend this film to anyone because it is an excellent movie for so many reasons.

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