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Godfather: La Fine, The
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Original Release Date:
1990
Original Running Time:
153
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Fanedit Running Time:
172
Time Added:
19
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Brief Synopsis:
An improved preservation of the The Godfather Part 3 Director's Cut using La Coda color grade as the basis, reinstating all the removed material with extra new opening in HD.
Intention:
To take The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone and replace the disastrous changes to the ending and opening, restoring all the removed material (except 9 secs) . All subtitles were re-made and expanded to match the fonsts of the Godfather Magnum Opus and Copolla Restoration. This stand alone version allows viewers to watch the theatrical or extended versions of Pprts 1 and 2, and them conclude with La Fine.
Additional Notes:
IMHO La Coda works fine as a standalone, BUT, the truncated ended and opening montage changes are tonaly disastrous and hamfistedly executed if you listen carefuly to the muic. It's just plain awful.
I started by wanting to correct this. In fact, I completed this edit BEFOR I dove into the Magnum Opus. (https://ifdb.fanedit.org/godfather-michaels-opus-the/).
It was this edit that led me to make The Godfather Magnum Opus. It is this edit that forms the second half of The Godfather: Michael's Opus. For those that prefer the Theatrical structures, here is the standalone of PArt 3, FIXED.
This is the longest version of Part 3 you can find anywhere. I hope you enjoy it.
Other Sources:
The Godfather Part 3 CD
Godfather Part 3 DVD Extras
Godfather Part 3 DVD Extras
Release Information:
Digital
Editing Details:
The Godfather Part 3 Theatrical cut 153 min, has never been released to home video. The original DVD release at 161 min was an expanded Directors Cut, and the recent La Coda was shorter. This reverses the changes made to La Coda, corrects an glaring continuity error when Michael speaks to the Archbishop in the opening. This scene is in The Vatican, not in New York. A new establishing shot was added, and 60 secs of additional dialogue restore with HD visuals, available here for the first time.
Cuts and Additions:
The Godfather Part III additional scenes/Shots
- 6 shots newly added to the CODA version of Part 3
- All material removed from La Coda is added back and graded to approximate the grade of La Coda (19 mins)
- New Opening Titles
- Restored opening
- Additional dialogue between Michael and the Cardinal NOT SEEN IN ANY OTHER VERSION in HD!!
- Corrected continuity establishing shots
- More thorough translation of subtitles, all fully re made and expanded
- 4 secs removed of Mary' making and odd face (yet again)
- Restored ending
- 5 secs removed from finale
- Kay lighting a candles in remembrance (used under the credits for the Novel for television)
- An in Memoriam sequence during the end credit from The Trilogy version (rebuilt from scratch in HD)
- 6 shots newly added to the CODA version of Part 3
- All material removed from La Coda is added back and graded to approximate the grade of La Coda (19 mins)
- New Opening Titles
- Restored opening
- Additional dialogue between Michael and the Cardinal NOT SEEN IN ANY OTHER VERSION in HD!!
- Corrected continuity establishing shots
- More thorough translation of subtitles, all fully re made and expanded
- 4 secs removed of Mary' making and odd face (yet again)
- Restored ending
- 5 secs removed from finale
- Kay lighting a candles in remembrance (used under the credits for the Novel for television)
- An in Memoriam sequence during the end credit from The Trilogy version (rebuilt from scratch in HD)
User reviews
8 reviews
Overall rating
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
9.9(8)
Audio Editing
9.8(8)
Visual Editing
10.0(8)
Narrative
9.6(8)
Enjoyment
9.8(8)
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Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Enjoyed this one just as much as the other 2 extended editions. Well done, well edited. As always cheers, Wraith.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
J
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
I watched this version edited by Wraith and all I can say is he has the Midas Touch when it comes to editing and restoration skills. This version just flows better and I much prefer this ending. Watching this as 'La Fine', after watching the first 2 Movie Extended versions of his, it was an all around very satisfying experience, all of his versions are pure perfection as anyone will see if the have basically 10 hours to watch all 3. This is now the copy I will watch with friends and family. As it's far superior to the original theatrical version.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
B
(Updated: December 11, 2022)
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
This extended version of the final chapter of the Godfather series is a vast improvement 0ver the original, and it begs the question...
Why the hell did Francis Ford Coppola not create this version, and release it to the cinemas back in 1990. Regardless, there were still two key weaknesses in the movie...
Firstly, the absence of Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and substituting his character with his son, B.J. Harrison (George Hamilton) was a plot contrivance that barely managed to keep the movie believable... it was the movie equivalent of putting a patch over a puncture on a wheel. However, this notable flaw in the pre-production casting for the film could hardly be blamed on Wraith.
Secondly, Sofia Coppola's lack was acting skills was also noticeable in several key scenes, especially during the early portion of the movie when the character of Mary (Coppola) confronts her father, Michael Corleone (Pacino) during the morning breakfast on the penthouse balcony. In the scene, Mary questions her father as to whether she is merely a 'front' for the family business, kept in place just to keep a shine on her father's image. There were no other actors in the scene, only Coppola and Pacino, and the viewing audience could easily distinguish between the acting ability of her and him... and there was no way that and 18-year-old novice like her could do a better acting job than Pacino - but, again, this flaw in the movie is not the fault of Wraith.
The inclusion of the deleted scenes and the addition of the coda at the end of the movie served to elevate the film above what is was, and showed us (the audience), what it should have been all along. To a certain extent, the new film footage provided by Wraith, and especially the coda (showing the broken man that Michael Corleone eventually became in his final years), partially compensated for the flaws in Francis Ford Coppola's original production. Personally, I found the scene of the old Michael, with his soul crushed, to be the most poignant of the entire film series, and the perfect ending to the whole saga - that, and his wife's decision to light a candle for him in the church, shown in the end-credits scene.
Symbolically, Wraith's creation of a fanedit of this movie is akin to what happened to Michael Corleone in Italy. There, Michael visits Cardinal Lamberto, and the benevolent Cardinal persuades Michael to make his first confession in 30 years, during which he (Michael) tearfully confesses that he ordered the murder of his brother Fredo (in The Godfather: Part II). Lamberto states that Michael deserved to suffer for his sins, but that could be redeemed. Likewise, Francis Ford Coppola has sinned, and made everyone else suffer, by creating the original Godfather: Part III - but Wraith has redeemed Coppola by 'washing away the sins of the past' (replacing the original with this superior fanedit).
Thank Heaven for Wraith's efforts.
Why the hell did Francis Ford Coppola not create this version, and release it to the cinemas back in 1990. Regardless, there were still two key weaknesses in the movie...
Firstly, the absence of Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and substituting his character with his son, B.J. Harrison (George Hamilton) was a plot contrivance that barely managed to keep the movie believable... it was the movie equivalent of putting a patch over a puncture on a wheel. However, this notable flaw in the pre-production casting for the film could hardly be blamed on Wraith.
Secondly, Sofia Coppola's lack was acting skills was also noticeable in several key scenes, especially during the early portion of the movie when the character of Mary (Coppola) confronts her father, Michael Corleone (Pacino) during the morning breakfast on the penthouse balcony. In the scene, Mary questions her father as to whether she is merely a 'front' for the family business, kept in place just to keep a shine on her father's image. There were no other actors in the scene, only Coppola and Pacino, and the viewing audience could easily distinguish between the acting ability of her and him... and there was no way that and 18-year-old novice like her could do a better acting job than Pacino - but, again, this flaw in the movie is not the fault of Wraith.
The inclusion of the deleted scenes and the addition of the coda at the end of the movie served to elevate the film above what is was, and showed us (the audience), what it should have been all along. To a certain extent, the new film footage provided by Wraith, and especially the coda (showing the broken man that Michael Corleone eventually became in his final years), partially compensated for the flaws in Francis Ford Coppola's original production. Personally, I found the scene of the old Michael, with his soul crushed, to be the most poignant of the entire film series, and the perfect ending to the whole saga - that, and his wife's decision to light a candle for him in the church, shown in the end-credits scene.
Symbolically, Wraith's creation of a fanedit of this movie is akin to what happened to Michael Corleone in Italy. There, Michael visits Cardinal Lamberto, and the benevolent Cardinal persuades Michael to make his first confession in 30 years, during which he (Michael) tearfully confesses that he ordered the murder of his brother Fredo (in The Godfather: Part II). Lamberto states that Michael deserved to suffer for his sins, but that could be redeemed. Likewise, Francis Ford Coppola has sinned, and made everyone else suffer, by creating the original Godfather: Part III - but Wraith has redeemed Coppola by 'washing away the sins of the past' (replacing the original with this superior fanedit).
Thank Heaven for Wraith's efforts.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
D
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
what can i say that hasn't already been said, this is an awesome edit. Aside from some bad acting, it's a great movie, and this edit just improves on it I enjoyed it alot. So thanks for all your hard work. Keep it up.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
C
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Somewhere it has been said, this release should be official and Mr. Coppola should notice it. I am sure, we can all agree on this, who have seen Wraith's release of this magnificent opus. Have watched all the 3 new releases ( Don Vito's Opus, Michael's Opus, La FIne) and have to say, the quality, the editing and the polishing of audio and video is just exceptional. Having watched the whole show almost at once, (well within 2 days) even if this is the longest cut of Godfather, I still have the feeling, some scenes should be more detailed in terms of storytelling. (At least I could watch it for another 10 hours.) Obviously, this is nothing to do with Wraith and this release. In overall, I can only say, this is the best version of a cronological cut of The Godfather.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched?
Digital
L