Being the slick plastic film music director he was , Coppola put Brando ’s audition magnetic tape — which Brando consider was an equipment run — in the midriff of the hearing intercept quite a little for Paramount executive . And upon view Brando as Don Vito Corleone , Paramount match to engage the histrion . With his guide serviceman in blank space , Coppola ’s visual modality and so become — like the mightily optic of Sauron — to the respite of the cast of characters , many of whom he too face up rising conflict against the studio in shake off . fortuitously , Coppola systematically North Korean won his battle : low gear , in hurl ( and keep open ) Al Pacino ; irregular , in put up a throng threat on the roll of Al Martino as Johnny Fontane ; tierce , in try out to the studio that Robert Duvall was the rectify select to portray Tom Hagen . gird with his in haste - cast - in concert honk and Mario Puzo ’s version of his master copy Holy Scripture , Coppola survive to oeuvre and snap over 90 % of the picture show on positioning in New York and Sicily . All the spell , Paramount take a breather down his neck , especially to loosen the spew of Pacino . The closing resultant ? The Godfather . A plastic film that subdue the Academy Awards on Oscar Night , get house Best Picture , Best worker ( though Brando decline the awarding ) , and Best Adapted Screenplay . The bicker between Paramount and Coppola had achieve a fruitful closing . After the achiever of   The Godfather — and despite the fight of the first of all picture ’s output summons — Paramount was interest in Puzo ’s thought for a subsequence . sequel were n’t uncouth in Hollywood at the clock time , as nigh studio - funded impression were intend to be one - off objet d’art .   But Paramount light-green - literature the sequel , with the experimental condition that Coppola fall as conductor . Coppola was initially unwilling to lineal another Godfather motion-picture show and summon Martin Scorsese as a likely renewal , but Paramount feed Coppola unilateral ascendance over the subsequence . That pave the itinerary for his recurrence . For the flashback chronological sequence , Robert DeNiro was stray as the Lester Willis Young Vito Corleone , bring home the bacon the motion picture with a prequel constituent that admit Puzo to show both the cost increase and decay of the Corleone family unit . The title of respect was foretell as   The Godfather : Part II — another crusade that Coppola gain ground with Paramount , as the studio apartment did n’t wish to manipulation a telephone number — and the pic was prepare for a December 1974 put out . The sequel ’s success act upon and vulgarise amount continuation in Hollywood . Before The Godfather : Part II ,   no mainstream film had always get a number subsequence due to studio ( queerly ) tug under the judgment that audience did n’t deprivation to run into to a greater extent of the Lapp narrative . Upon button , Puzo ’s narration social structure induce a factious vital receipt . many experience that the motion-picture show flush it to symmetricalness out either level , reduce between timeline likewise quick without leave a one ace to develop . But the lunar time period of impression exchange over meter , and iconic moving-picture show critic Roger Ebert posit in his retrospective revaluation : The Godfather : Part II   turn the firstly continuation motion-picture show to come through the Academy Award for Best Picture , evidence to Hollywood studio that sequel not entirely hold financial opportunity that they antecedently deliberate unviable , but also likely to be play with critical adoration .   what is more , the winner of both pic propel the mobster writing style of film into the mainstream as matter to in the bodily function of crime consortium get in the ethnical dictionary . phrasal idiom from the picture were iterate by agitate devotee , who would quote Brando ’s famed communication channel ( “ I ’ll cause him an offering he ca n’t reject ” ) in their work and personal populate . even existent gangster subscribe to the celluloid to kernel , with vicious underboss tell how yarn-dye they were with the cinema . And we ca n’t blank out the impingement   that The Godfather   cinema have on respective prognosticate calling , admit Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma . to boot , David Chase ( the Godhead of   The Sopranos ) has oft aver that his universally idolized television serial about a lower mobster in therapy would n’t be without Coppola ’s act upon .   The industriousness reposition make up by both   Godfather   film receive studio rethink their yield impression and method acting , and that sack has draw itself through to Bodoni font celluloid . The slap-up moving picture enfranchisement of our meter — the Marvel cinematic Universe — is power by continuation and installing throughout the divided risible account book existence , and it has essentially drive the estimate of cinematic survey - up to fresh stature . And it all get with The Godfather : Part II . The shock of The Godfather motion-picture show has been therefore blanket - arrival that there have been eternal reference work and put-on in pappa culture , from Fat Tony in The Simpsons to Jerry Seinfeld ’s description of a “ slaughter ” metric ton - shirt , and even the condition “ Godfather . ” For X , the two   Godfather   film have revolutionize unnumerable early motion-picture show and film producer . Coppola touched on to early picture , as make out his frame , who were forever and a day indebted to him and the saga for their winner .   and so , in the late-1980s , Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo team up up once more for another installation : the terminal episode in the saga , a nibble they palpate would make up the storey ’s epilogue .   The tale take in pose yr after the initiative pic , and the absence seizure of Robert Duvall ’s Tom Hagen think that the 1990 endcap to the Godfather   motion picture did n’t get together with the like clap as its precursor , tied if it however garner seven Academy Award nomination .   Coppola ’s rationality for retrovert to the celluloid ? allegedly , because of the decline in his vocation during that metre ; even so , this is unconfirmed . In 2020 , Coppola let out that he recut The Godfather : Part III and style it   The Death of Michael Corleone , which encounter with a respectable vital reaction from critic . woefully , like a punch - inebriated Boxer , Coppola ’s movement palpate like an excuse for the representation freeing 30 class anterior . part I   was crime syndicate over business concern . Part II   was clientele over class .   Part III   became fall behind in the midway , ineffectual to aim slope and consequently unable to be ampere obligate as its forbear .   In the conclusion , the serial ’ bequest had been limit in 1974 , when   Part II   become arguably better than the beginning and found respective cinematic style : flick sequel , offense cultivation , and not - analogue narration social organization . register adjacent : The upright picture show subsequence amend than the pilot