![]() Even though the novel on which the film is based by Mario Puzo had been a best-seller, it’d been dismissed as pulp fiction, with The New York Times citing its ‘overdramatisation’. But creating an epic was not anticipated.ĭirector Francis Ford Coppola was something of a Hollywood joke, having just made a string of box office duds, while Marlon Brando was deemed a ‘has been’. Lauded today as one of cinema’s masterpieces, and launching a trilogy that earned nine Oscars, no one knew quite what to expect when the cameras began rolling on the movie in 1971. ![]() For all its Oscars, acclaim and legacy, the fact is The Godfather really should have been a bomb.
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