re: The Offer • Paramount+ • The Making of The Godfather

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Anyway I watched the first 45 minutes of it and it’s quite interesting. Evans’ voice is gold and it’s crazy how well the actor in Offer nailed it too.

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If he doesn't win an award, I will flip a small table

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Lets also take a moment to again say "screw the fake media" whom apparently still can't spot good entertainment. The RT critics score on this show is like 45%..

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WTF. Probably not diverse enough or other shite.

It's a great cast from Goode/Evans to Ribisi/ Colombo. One of the funniest lines is when Colombo asks Ruddy if the Johnny Fontaine character is about Sinatra and Ruddy replies, "Joe, do you want him to be Sinatra?"

An interesting note on Sinatra and the mob. An old FBI agent told me that the mob tolerated Sinatra more than anything else. He was not Sicilian, his family came from Northern Italy and the Sicilians sort of hate the Northern Italians. Now, Vic Damone and Al Martino were different, they were Southern Italians something the mob could tolerate a little better Ultimately Al Martino is cast as a favor to Colombo. But really they wanted Rocco Farinola to play the part....Vic Damone

According to Coppola, Evans, the actors everyone else who was there, the sabatoge that went on in this latest episode lasted for weeks and weeks, and, when Evans found out, he went apeshit and nearly fired Ruddy, which of course isn't in the episode.

Paramount also had Elia Kazan lined up to direct if/when Coppola got fired. Apparently the actors literally didn't know if Coppola would be back on set each day because everyone, including Ruddy, were not sold on him nor Pacino, still even weeks into filming.

The stuff about the restaurant scene, though is pretty accurate, but I think it was actually this scene LINK instead, where Michael says he'll kill both McKlusky and Solozzo and not the actual shooting scene. Once they showed the scene to Bludhorn and the Gulf+Western execs, it was a wrap, A
And then they were sold in Pacino and Coppola, and no more shenanigans took place.

I still can't get over the guy playing Pacino. It's fricking uncanny.

Bludhorn talking to Evans while they were shooting the restaurant scene had me cracking up.

“You need a bath”

Goode’s voice. Damn. After watching/listening to the Evans documentary suggested by the astute poster, damn he nailed it. And Goode/Evans’ voice is insane, is musical when praising and downright acid when tearing into people. It’s like it’s own part of the movie.

I love this series. I understand that it is a dramatization, but if any of these events, especially those involving the mob, are close to the truth, it’s insane and makes it even better. I need to read the book the show is based on.

This show gets better and better. It’s won me over. Never thought I’d be rooting for Bob Evans and Joe Colombo.

Ehhhhh. I don't know if the particulars are accurate, but the guys at OCB at the FBI said that in the 70's The Godfather was almost like a recruitment video for wannabe mobsters.