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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:
** Luca Brasi may sleep with the fishes, but Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) ''is'' [[Barney Miller|Fish]].
** For the younger audiences Joey Zasa is [[Criminal Minds|Rossi]] and also [[The Simpsons (animation)|Fat Tony]].
* [[Life Imitates Art]]: The real life mobsters were so flattered by the classy characterization of Brando and the Corleones in general that they started to style themselves after don Vito, invoking all kind of mannerisms old-fashioned or forgotten by then. A real-life mob-boss was [http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/142-mob-boss-arrested-while-playing-godfather-game recently apprehended while he was playing the videogame adaptation.]
* [[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.
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* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** A large list of actors were considered for the part of Vito Corleone:
*** [[Frank Sinatra]] tried very hard to be cast as Don Corleone. This would have made Vito's conversation with Johnny Fontane one of the funniest [[Actor Allusion
*** [[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]].
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