“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” –Don Corleone (ranked #2 in American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 movie quotations.) And then they would fear you.” –Don Corleone And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, then that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. Here are some famous quotes from all three movies: Here we see the source of corruption in American politics, or the politics of any other country: capitalism’s use of the state to protect its interests.
Mafia Don Vito Andolini, who would change his surname to Corleone (‘Lionheart’), the name of the town in Sicily where he was born, has “all the judges and politicians in his pocket,” as so many US billionaires do in today’s neoliberal world. Mafia families represent competing capitalists, and the Corleone family in particular represents the traditional patriarchal family. In general, the social, political, and economic critiques in The Godfather are those of hierarchy and authority.
I will be focusing on the first two films, generally considered to be two of the greatest films ever made while Part III, being good only in parts (and I don’t think mine is a minority opinion), will be touched on more lightly. As a trio of crime dramas, its depiction of the mafia is understood to symbolize general corruption in American politics, though I will be carrying my analysis far beyond just that. The Godfather is a trilogy of films by Francis Ford Coppola, written by him and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s 1969 novel.
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