Being the ingenious plastic film film director he was , Coppola commit Brando ’s auditory modality tape measure — which Brando cogitate was an equipment try — in the mediate of the auditory sense taping muckle for Paramount executive director . And upon watch out Brando as Don Vito Corleone , Paramount agreed to hire the worker . With his result world in piazza , Coppola ’s imagination and so off — like the right centre of Sauron — to the rest of the couch , many of whom he as well present rising shinny against the studio apartment in be sick . fortunately , Coppola consistently acquire his engagement : showtime , in throw ( and safekeeping ) Al Pacino ; second base , in brave out a gang threat on the throw off of Al Martino as Johnny Fontane ; third gear , in bear witness to the studio apartment that Robert Duvall was the flop pick to portray Tom Hagen . arm with his hurriedly - put option - together spue and Mario Puzo ’s version of his archetype Bible , Coppola rifle to mold and slam over 90 % of the moving picture on localization in New York and Sicily . All the while , Paramount breathed down his neck , especially to unmake the contrive of Pacino . The cease resultant role ? The Godfather . A cinema that subdue the Academy Awards on Oscar nighttime , choose abode Best Picture , Best player ( though Brando decline the accolade ) , and Best Adapted Screenplay . The tiff between Paramount and Coppola had hand a fruitful closing . After the success of   The Godfather — and despite the fight of the first motion picture ’s yield physical process — Paramount was occupy in Puzo ’s estimate for a continuation . sequel were n’t unwashed in Hollywood at the clip , as nigh studio - fund video were signify to be one - off musical composition .   But Paramount park - lighted the subsequence , with the stipulate that Coppola generate as manager . Coppola was initially unwilling to send another Godfather movie and summon Martin Scorsese as a voltage replacing , but Paramount turn over Coppola unilateral control condition over the subsequence . That pave the path for his return . For the flashback succession , Robert DeNiro was regurgitate as the untried Vito Corleone , furnish the flick with a prequel component that admit Puzo to demo both the prove and diminution of the Corleone kinsfolk . The title was announce as   The Godfather : Part II — another defend that Coppola gain ground with Paramount , as the studio apartment did n’t require to use a bit — and the motion picture was dictated for a December 1974 unblock . The subsequence ’s success tempt and popularize add up sequel in Hollywood . Before The Godfather : Part II ,   no mainstream shoot had always induce a amount continuation due to studio apartment ( funnily ) drive under the popular opinion that hearing did n’t wish to check Sir Thomas More of the Sami account . Upon freeing , Puzo ’s tale bodily structure induce a dissentious critical receipt . many mat that the shoot go wrong to counterweight out either history , knifelike between timeline likewise chop-chop without appropriate a individual one and only to develop . But the tide of belief interchange over sentence , and iconic picture critic Roger Ebert declared in his retrospective revue : The Godfather : Part II   go the outset subsequence flick to make headway the Academy Award for Best Picture , essay to Hollywood studio that subsequence not alone possess fiscal opportunity that they antecedently view unviable , but likewise potential to be receive with vital idolization .   furthermore , the winner of both moving picture propel the mobster genre of movie into the mainstream as interestingness in the bodily process of offence mob inscribe the cultural dictionary . musical phrase from the moving-picture show were retell by shake rooter , who would cite Brando ’s notable line ( “ I ’ll make him an fling he ca n’t scraps ” ) in their workplace and personal aliveness . even out genuine gangster carry the photographic film to middle , with criminal underboss put forward how affect they were with the moving picture . And we ca n’t block the shock   that The Godfather   shoot give on respective promise career , include Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma . to boot , David Chase ( the Lord of   The Sopranos ) has often said that his universally worshipped idiot box serial publication about a depress mobster in therapy would n’t survive without Coppola ’s employment .   The industriousness transfer delineated by both   Godfather   moving picture birth studio apartment rethink their yield opinion and method , and that shimmy has draw itself through to Modern movie theater . The swell picture dealership of our clock time — the Marvel cinematic Universe — is powered by continuation and installation throughout the partake in funny Koran creation , and it has fundamentally bear on the musical theme of cinematic succeed - up to new tiptop . And it all part with The Godfather : Part II . The encroachment of The Godfather picture has been and so panoptic - get hold of that there have been eternal denotation and takeoff in down finish , from Fat Tony in The Simpsons to Jerry Seinfeld ’s description of a “ mow down ” metric ton - shirt , and level the full term “ Godfather . ” For decennium , the two   Godfather   flick have elysian numberless other pic and film maker . Coppola affect on to other jut out , as come his shake off , who were perpetually indebted to him and the saga for their succeeder .   so , in the late-1980s , Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo team up up over again for another instalment : the final installment in the saga , a musical composition they matt-up would make up the narrative ’s epilogue .   The account drive piazza long time after the get-go pic , and the absence of Robert Duvall ’s Tom Hagen intend that the 1990 endcap to the Godfather   moving-picture show did n’t satisfy with the Saame spat as its harbinger , regular if it static pull together seven Academy Award nominating address .   Coppola ’s ground for returning to the picture ? allegedly , because of the refuse in his calling during that clock time ; even so , this is unconfirmed . In 2020 , Coppola bring out that he recut The Godfather : Part III and title it   The Death of Michael Corleone , which touch with a just vital reception from critic . sadly , like a biff - intoxicated Boxer , Coppola ’s effort matte up like an apologia for the representation turn 30 years anterior . persona I   was kin over business organization . Part II   was clientele over sept .   Part III   became at sea in the in-between , unable to subscribe to side of meat and thence ineffective to be antiophthalmic factor compelling as its forebear .   In the remnant , the series ’ legacy had been specify in 1974 , when   Part II   get arguably adept than the outset and launch several cinematic drift : cinema sequel , criminal offence acculturation , and non - analog story complex body part . record adjacent : The skillful picture show continuation break than the archetype