“I went to the police, like a good American,” the man says. Don Vito asks why he did not come to him immediately.
A man has come to ask for punishment for his daughter’s rapist. It is the wedding day of Vito Corleone’s daughter, and on such a day a Sicilian must grant any reasonable request. It is significant that the first shot is inside a dark, shuttered room. There is one commandment, spoken by Michael ( Al Pacino): “Don’t ever take sides against the family.” The real world is replaced by an authoritarian patriarchy where power and justice flow from the Godfather, and the only villains are traitors. That is its secret, its charm, its spell in a way, it has shaped the public perception of the Mafia ever since. Regardless of Frank Sinatra's protests and attempts to block its production, as dramatized in The Offer, there was nothing he could really do to prevent The Godfather movies from being made.The story views the Mafia from the inside.
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Frank also liked Francis Ford Coppola and told the director that if he could finance the movie himself, Sinatra would play Don Corleone.
Sinatra eventually warmed to The Godfather movie after Ruddy made concessions to Joe Columbo that the words "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" be cut from the screenplay. Al Martino ultimately played Fontaine in the film. The Offer also depicts how Sinatra used his influence to pressure other actors to turn down the Johnny Fontaine role in The Godfather. The scuffle between The Godfather author and "The Chairman of the Board" was witnessed by the other diners at Chasen's. Although Puzo, who admired Sinatra as "an icon," didn't want to meet the crooner, Sinatra got hostile in Puzo's presence.
When Ruddy and Puzo went out to dinner at Chasen's, Sinatra happened to already be dining there. The Offer's premiere episode, "A Seat At The Table," recreates an infamous confrontation between Mario Puzo (Patrick Gallo) and Frank Sinatra (Frank John Hughes). How Frank Sinatra Tried To Block The Godfather's Production The crooner publicly denied his connections to the Mafia to protect his public image, yet Sinatra did have social ties to organized crime, and The Offer depicts him leaning on Joe Columbo to put a stop to The Godfather movie's production. Sinatra took grave offense to Fontaine's character in The Godfather, seeing it as a thinly-veiled shot at him. It's believed this is based on how Frank Sinatra got the part of Private Angelo Maggio in 1953's From Here To Eternity, which won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In The Godfather, Fontaine begs Don Corleone to help him get a part in a war movie that could resurrect his floundering career. Fontaine is a popular singer who owes his career to Don Corleone and the mob. In spite of Mario Puzo's denials and insistence that his novel is a work of fiction, it's generally accepted that The Godfather character Johnny Fontaine is based on Frank Sinatra. Related: The Offer Season 1 Ending Explained (In Detail)
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