How did they give him The Godfather?" He continues, "I've got to tell you, it was a big deal already. I thought, well, he might be going through a mini-breakdown or something. First, he says he's going to be directing The Godfather. As Pacino recalls, "I got a call from Francis Coppola - a name from the past. Which takes some getting used to." In a separate interview, director Francis Ford Coppola said that when he read The Godfather book, he kept imagining Al Pacino in the part-he never had a second choice for who to cast. And also, you've got to do it again! You do it and they say, well, go again, do it again. I remember saying to my friend Charlie : Wow, they talk about it being real, but meanwhile it's not. I felt out of place in the early films that I made. And I wasn't as interested in film to the extent that I became interested. "At that time in my life, I didn't have a choice. That kind of thing was in the air."Īl Pacino revealed he never had a choice to play Michael Corleone. How about that? They were rebelling from the Hollywood thing. It was the tradition." He added: "I don't think Bob went to one of them. I was at that stage in my life where I was somewhat, more or less, rebellious. He denied that the decision had anything to do with him not being nominated in the leading category, saying: "No, absolutely not. He was particularly great in Godfather II and I don't think he got that kind of recognition." Pacino explained why he chose not to attend the Academy Awards when he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this film. And he didn't get credit for any of it." He added: "He was in five films, all Oscar-nominated films, and he was great in all of them. I had done a lot of theatre and three films with him. Speaking to The New York Times, Pacino said: "I learned so much from him. Paramount Pictures owner Charlie Bluhdorn read about the agreement in The New York Times, and was so outraged, that he fired Ruddy and shut down production, but Evans convinced Bluhdorn that the agreement was beneficial for the film, and Ruddy was rehired.Īl Pacino cited John Cazale as "one of the great actors of our time".
The angry letters ceased after this agreement was made. He also agreed to hire League members (mobsters) as extras and advisers.
Ruddy gave them the right to review the script and make changes. Ruddy met with Colombo, who demanded that the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" not be used in the film. They threatened to protest and disrupt filming. Paramount Pictures received many letters during pre-production from Italian-Americans, including politicians, decrying the film as anti-Italian. According to Robert Evans in his autobiography, Colombo called his house and threatened him and his family. Mafia crime boss Joe Colombo and his organization, The Italian-American Civil Rights League, started a campaign to stop the film from being made. Eventually, Brando was crowned best prankster, designated by a heavyweight-style leather belt with the title, "Moon Champion".
They planned it carefully and Caan, who overheard the plan, started to shout, "No, no, not here!" Everyone working on the production and most of the extras roared with laughter (some of the older ladies didn't appreciate the view). When I came out from behind the desk, I got a laugh, even though we had to do the scene over." The ultimate moon came when Brando and Duvall mooned four hundred cast and crew members during the shooting of the wedding scene. So while everyone was looking at the shirt, I took off my pants. Even Al Pacino got in on the act, as he told Ladies' Home Journal, "In a scene where I sit behind a desk, wardrobe made a big fuss about getting me a shirt with a smaller collar. Brando fell down in the car with laughter." Richard Bright claimed that it got to the point where every time you turned opened a door, you expected to see someone's behind. Bob Duvall and I were in one car and Brando was in another, so we drove up beside him and I pulled down my pants and stuck my ass out the window. Caan told TIME Magazine, "My best moon was on Second Avenue. In an effort to break some tension during a rehearsal for the first scene, the pair mooned Francis Ford Coppola, Marlon Brando, and Salvatore Corsitto. There was a great deal of mooning on-set, started by James Caan and Robert Duvall.
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