Saying that line anywhere, while on a treadmill in the gym, at a Sunday brunch, after a boring mandatory office meeting or in the middle of a wine tasting, will get you nods/smiles of recognition – “yeh”.
The Godfather films by Francis Ford Coppola based on the books by Mario Puzo lives on. Parts 1, (1972) and 2, (1974), re explode every 6, 12 months on some TV channel. A cable channel just ran a marathon it called, the “Godfather Saga” with re edited parts 1 and 2. It went from 9am to 6pm on a Sunday. If you didn’t have 8 hours to devote to this great American story, you could plug in whenever, meal times, in between telephone calls or text messages and remember dialogue and revisit scenes that have soaked into our bones without even knowing it:
“It was never personal Michael, it was just business”
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
“I know it was you Fredo, your broke my heart!”
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
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Never gets old, still one of the best films ever. The Godfather is #2 with a bullet on the American Film Institute list of 100 best.
(I like to think of 1 and 2 as a neat package, one experience. I never mention part 3)