Not only that - both films managed to pick up Best Director and Best Picture Oscar nominations for Coppola. Not only did he manage to craft an incredible engrossing follow-up to one of the best films ever made, but he also crafted the tightly wound pitch-perfect thriller The Conversation starring Gene Hackman as a paranoid surveillance expert. As events of the past play out, the film flashes forward mere years after the events of the first film with the Corleone family living in Las Vegas and Michael desperately working to legitimize the Corleone name while strengthening their position in the criminal underworld for the safety and security of his family.ġ974 was a hell of a year for Francis Ford Coppola. Returning to Mario Puzo’s original novel, the film opens with the early life of Vito Corleone that we didn’t see in the first film. Released just two short years after The Godfather, this sequel had a monumental task ahead of itself - how do you make a follow-up to one of the best films ever made? Well, the truth of it is, this film is both a prequel and a sequel. A sequel that is not only as good as the original but can be argued to be an even bigger, grander epic crime saga. The Godfather: Part II is a beast of a film.
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