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* [[Breakthrough Hit]]: Because of the original, you know who [[Francis Ford Coppola]] is.

* [[Easter Egg]]: In the [[The Godfather (video game)|videogame]], on the mission where you help protect Vito in the hospital, if you go up to Vito's room while Michael is talking to him and listen in, the conversation is one of [[Marlon Brando]]'s last recorded performances. A [[The Other Darrin|Marlon Brando soundalike]] was used for Vito's other scenes.

* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: In the "Woltz's bedroom" scene, John Marley (who played Woltz) was not told that they would be using an actual horse head for the scene, as they had used various props in rehearsals.

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:

** Luca Brasi may sleep with the fishes, but Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) ''is'' [[Barney Miller|Fish]].

* [[Money, Dear Boy]]: Coppola's reason for making all three films. He was head of a very unprofitable film company when he was offered the first one (offered purely on the grounds that he was Italian), and thought it was a stupid genre movie that he didn't want to waste his time on... but he really needed the money. Coppola wanted to now move away from the studio and focus on his personal film projects ''[[The Conversation]]'' and ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', which he could get finance for... Providing he made another Godfather film. Then many years later he was struggling with debts from failed projects... people went to see my Godfather movies, didn't they? Yeah, let's make another one of those. People sometimes cite this trope as a reason the third one sucked, but it was there the whole time.

* [[Playing Against Type]]: Michael (especially in Part Two) is a more subdued and quieter role than what [[Al Pacino]] usually plays. This, ironically, was also Pacino's first major role. It could be considered an actor-specific and positive example of [[Early Installment Weirdness]].

* [[What Could Have Been]]:

** A large list of actors were considered for the part of Vito Corleone:

*** [[Orson Welles]] lobbied heavily for the part of Don Corleone. Coppola felt so bad about turning him down that he offered him the part of Colonel Kurtz in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', but for some reason or another Welles didn't take it.

*** Others considered for the Don Corleone role: [[Laurence Olivier]], [[Ernest Borgnine]], Anthony Quinn, George C. Scott, Edward G. Robinson, and [[Odd Name Out|Danny Thomas]].

** Coppola wanted to make a fourth movie similar to ''Part II'' but focusing on the Corleones' rise to power under Vito and Sonny's leadership, and the fall of the Corleone empire under Vincent, but many of the actors were disinterested and it was abandoned with the [[Author Existence Failure|death of Mario Puzo]].

** Coppola initially didn't want to direct ''Part II'', and instead recommended a young, up-and-coming director: [[Martin Scorsese]]. Paramount rejected the idea because Scorsese was too unknown at the time.

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