AMC MOB Week: "Scarface" Tonight

Watching the Godfather or Scarface on cable. Just can't do it, plus add in commercials.

The Godfather is alright on cable.

Scarface, not so much.

Yay, Gangster movies edited to shite

It's kind of slow but they haven't edited out any of the violence yet.

The book is awesome, but even I admit I pass over some of the Vegas\Sunny's mistress parts.



There's one scene in the book that should have made the movie. When Michael finally explains that the business they're in is really all personal and that that is what really motivates the whole deal. that should have been in the movie.

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If you read the book, Sonny's wife

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Everything about Sonny's wife and her relationship with Sonny nearly reads the book.

I forced myself to read it before I watched the movie the first time and it wasn't horrible, but I'm not sure it's the kind of quality literature that I'd recommend to someone who's already seen the film.

The add-ons are worth a read if you're a real Godfather buff. From the Godfather Wiki:

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In 1983 Puzo's literary sequel to The Godfather was published. Entitled The Sicilian it chronicles the life of "Giuliano" (Salvatore Giuliano) but the Corleone family is featured heavily throughout, Michael Corleone in particular. Chronologically this story sits between Michael's exile to Sicily in 1950 to his return to the USA. For copyright reasons the Corleone family involvement was cut from the Michael Cimino movie adaption.

In 2004, Random House published a sequel to Puzo's The Godfather, The Godfather Returns, by Mark Winegardner. A further sequel by Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge, was released in 2006. The sequel novels continue the story from Puzo's novel.

The Godfather Returns picks up the story immediately after the end of Puzo's The Godfather. It covers the years 1955 to 1962, as well as providing significant backstory for Michael Corleone's character prior to the events of the first novel. The events of the film The Godfather Part IIall take place within the time frame of this novel, but are only mentioned in the background. The novel contains an appendix that attempts to correlate the events of the novels with the events of the films.

The Godfather's Revenge covers the years 1963 to 1964.

Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures, Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert Kennedy (the Shea family, in the novels) as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello (Carlo Tramonti). In The Godfather Returns, Winegardner also dramatizes the sweep of organized crime arrests that took place in Apalachin, New York, in 1957.

Winegardner uses all of the characters from the Puzo novels, and created a few of his own, most notably Nick Geraci, a Corleone caporegime whose role in the two sequel novels is as important as those of the Puzo-created characters. Winegardner further develops characters from the original novel, such as Fredo Corleone, Tom Hagen, and Johnny Fontane.

In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco. It tells the story of how Vito Corleone rises to Don and how Santino Corleone and Tom Hagen enter the family business.

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Scareface

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"Scareface"

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Is this a horror flick?