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Title: Godfather Companion: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About All Three Godfather Films by Peter Biskind ISBN: 0-06-096579-7 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's an offer you can't refuse!
Comment: I read this a while ago, and it's terrific. Mostly because I can't see the movies, yet.
Rating: 4
Summary: Shallow but a lot of fun
Comment: The Godfather Companion is, more or less, a gossipy fanzine done deluxe. That said, its still full of fun bits of trivia about the Godfather trilogy and should be enjoyed by fans of the films (and really, who hasn't sometimes wished they were a Corleone?) Perhaps my favorite sections are the heavily detailed passages dealing with the other actors considered for the roles made famous by Brando, Pacino, Duvall, et al. Some of the alternative possibilities are nicely intriguing (Martin Sheen would have made an effective Tom Hagen though certainly not one with Duvall's moral shadings) while others simply boggle the mind. (Just imagine, this could have been a film starring Ernest Borgnine, David Carradine, and John Saxon!) Also of interest are the extensive listings of scenes and actors cut from the three films and a helpful Corleone Family Tree in the back of the book. This book doesn't attempt to go into any heavy analysis concerning these films (other then to prove that the Godfather's symbol of evil was, for reasons never really explained, the color oarnge) but its still a lot of fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: Biskind Falls Short
Comment: The Companion is a nice book with lots of trivia, however many of the facts stated are inaccurate. It's a must-have for the true padrinophile's collection, but for more accurate research, check out The Godfather Legacy by Harlan Lebo (1997), or The Godfather Book by Peter Cowie (1997).
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Title: The Godfather Legacy by Harlan Lebo ISBN: 0684836475 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 10 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy by Nick Browne, Horton Andrew ISBN: 0521559502 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang" by Christian K. Messenger ISBN: 0791453588 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Godfather by Mario Puzo ISBN: 0451167716 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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