re: spinoff- flashback scene at end of godfather II

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I've always preferred Goodfellas to Godfather

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It is a great scene, too bad they couldnt get Brando to come back and do it, they tried.

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Marlon Brando initially agreed to return for the birthday flashback sequence, but the actor, feeling mistreated by the board at Paramount, failed to show up for the single day's shooting; Coppola rewrote the scene that same day.

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