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FanFix April 05, 2021 5852
Overall rating
 
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
 
10.0
Audio Editing
 
10.0
Visual Editing
 
10.0
Narrative
 
10.0
Enjoyment
 
10.0
Wraith's fanedit of The Godfather Trilogy has been lovingly rebuilt to showcase the linear narrative. As with his other creation - The Godfather: Don Vito's Opus - the misery and suffering of the protagonist, Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), is shown in its full clarity. Like his father before him, Michael's attempts at living a peaceful and honest life were thwarted by the corruption of every other powerful man around him. In the end, despite his best efforts at living an honest life, the scheming, craven and abhorent behaviour of other families eventually robbed Michael of his own daughter.

Wraith's inclusion of the numerous deleted scenes add to the character development of this gut-wrenching and heartbreaking story, but by far the most moving of all the added scenes was the final one - the coda - showing Michael as an old man. As a 77-year-old, he sits in his wheelchair outside in the garden, triumphantly living in the residence of his last adversary/victim. He possesses all the wealth and power that he could possibly desire, but is nevertheless an empty and broken man, with nothing to live for... haunted by the murder of his older brother (that he arranged), the disintegration of his marriage, and the loss of his ownly daughter. Only his son, who left the crime 'business', survives... he alone survives because he rejected the legacy of his father...

That coda, with a duration of only one-minute, effectively summarises the entire epic movie masterpiece. (If the coda had been included in the original cinema cut back in 1990, The Godfather: Part III might have won the academy award for best picture... but now, we will never know.)

Lastly, despite her lack of acting skill, I still found Sofia Coppola's performance as least passable. Certainly, the acting heavyweights all around her and their sterling performances overshadowed her own efforts. Regardless, she conveyed the necessary innocence and fragility that was necessary for the role - you could believe that she actually was Michael Corleone's daughter... a naive young woman lacking the strength and experience of her father (just as Sofia Coppola lacked the acting experience and charisma of Al Pacino).

This is a brilliant fanedit of a wretched family's tormented existence in the criminal underworld.

Well done Wraith!

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