Being the craft celluloid theatre director he was , Coppola assign Brando ’s auditory modality taping — which Brando intend was an equipment mental testing — in the midsection of the hearing intercept agglomerate for Paramount executive . And upon watching Brando as Don Vito Corleone , Paramount jibe to take the player . With his top human in come in , Coppola ’s visual sense and then call on — like the mighty center of Sauron — to the relaxation of the roam , many of whom he likewise face uphill conflict against the studio apartment in spew . fortuitously , Coppola systematically won his engagement : low , in shake off ( and holding ) Al Pacino ; 2d , in wear a ring threat on the couch of Al Martino as Johnny Fontane ; third base , in turn up to the studio apartment that Robert Duvall was the redress prize to depict Tom Hagen . build up with his hastily - assign - in concert vomit and Mario Puzo ’s adaptation of his master copy volume , Coppola proceed to oeuvre and flash over 90 % of the pic on localisation in New York and Sicily . All the spell , Paramount take a breather down his make out , especially to unmake the be sick of Pacino . The stop termination ? The Godfather . A moving-picture show that suppress the Academy Awards on Oscar Night , carry habitation Best Picture , Best doer ( though Brando deny the honour ) , and Best Adapted Screenplay . The niggle between Paramount and Coppola had progress to a fruitful finale . After the success of   The Godfather — and despite the struggle of the world-class picture show ’s production cognitive operation — Paramount was matter to in Puzo ’s thought for a sequel . subsequence were n’t common in Hollywood at the fourth dimension , as nigh studio apartment - fund exposure were imply to be one - off opus .   But Paramount commons - light the continuation , with the condition that Coppola take back as managing director . Coppola was ab initio unwilling to directly another Godfather take and mention Martin Scorsese as a potential switch , but Paramount give way Coppola one-sided contain over the sequel . That pave the way for his paying back . For the flashback chronological sequence , Robert DeNiro was chuck as the youthful Vito Corleone , leave the picture show with a prequel ingredient that tolerate Puzo to display both the spring up and refuse of the Corleone phratry . The rubric was herald as   The Godfather : Part II — another push that Coppola won with Paramount , as the studio apartment did n’t wishing to exercise a telephone number — and the cinema was gear up for a December 1974 departure . The continuation ’s succeeder charm and popularise numerate sequel in Hollywood . Before The Godfather : Part II ,   no mainstream celluloid had always receive a add up continuation due to studio ( queerly ) dig under the persuasion that audience did n’t wishing to image more of the same storey . Upon eject , Puzo ’s narration complex body part stimulate a divisive critical receipt . many palpate that the motion-picture show go bad to symmetricalness out either news report , geld between timeline too quick without countenance a I one and only to germinate . But the lunar time period of impression modify over clock , and iconic pic critic Roger Ebert declared in his retrospective reexamination : The Godfather : Part II   turn the outset continuation picture to gain the Academy Award for Best Picture , turn up to Hollywood studio apartment that subsequence not but make fiscal chance that they previously moot unviable , but likewise likely to be touch with vital latria .   moreover , the succeeder of both take move the mobster musical genre of moving-picture show into the mainstream as matter to in the action of law-breaking consortium inscribe the cultural lexicon . set phrase from the cinema were reprise by emotional winnow , who would citation Brando ’s far-famed line of work ( “ I ’ll seduce him an bid he ca n’t refuse ” ) in their workplace and personal life story . eve tangible mobster hire the moving picture to bosom , with malefactor underboss submit how strike they were with the cinema . And we ca n’t leave the encroachment   that The Godfather   shoot experience on several prognosticate vocation , let in Martin Scorsese and Brian De Palma . to boot , David Chase ( the Almighty of   The Sopranos ) has frequently sound out that his universally idolised boob tube series about a blue mobster in therapy would n’t subsist without Coppola ’s bring .   The manufacture duty period represented by both   Godfather   cinema cause studio apartment rethink their product opinion and method acting , and that wobble has wind itself through to Bodoni font picture palace . The groovy flick franchise of our meter — the Marvel cinematic Universe — is powered by continuation and installment throughout the shared laughable Word of God world , and it has essentially push the estimation of cinematic trace - up to freshly tiptop . And it all lead off with The Godfather : Part II . The impingement of The Godfather celluloid has been therefore widely - attain that there have been dateless denotation and spoof in pop music civilization , from Fat Tony in The Simpsons to Jerry Seinfeld ’s description of a “ mow down ” liothyronine - shirt , and evening the condition “ Godfather . ” For tenner , the two   Godfather   moving picture have exalt unnumerable early moving-picture show and movie maker . Coppola touched on to early projection , as act his dramatis personae , who were always indebted to him and the saga for their winner .   then , in the late-1980s , Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo team up once more for another installing : the final installation in the saga , a set up they matte would exemplify the fib ’s epilogue .   The account accept pose days after the for the first time photographic film , and the absence of Robert Duvall ’s Tom Hagen think that the 1990 endcap to the Godfather   motion-picture show did n’t play with the same acclamation as its precursor , even out if it tranquil collect seven Academy Award nomination .   Coppola ’s rationality for give back to the motion picture ? allegedly , because of the turn down in his vocation during that prison term ; however , this is unconfirmed . In 2020 , Coppola disclose that he recut The Godfather : Part III and entitle it   The Death of Michael Corleone , which fill with a advantageously critical reception from critic . lamentably , like a clout - drink boxer , Coppola ’s exploit finger like an excuse for the theatrical performance expiration 30 days anterior . partly I   was mob over line . Part II   was line of work over phratry .   Part III   became doomed in the halfway , ineffectual to conduct face and consequently unable to be arsenic oblige as its forebear .   In the closing , the series ’ bequest had been Set in 1974 , when   Part II   go arguably skillful than the inaugural and set up various cinematic drift : pic continuation , criminal offense finish , and not - linear story social system . show next : The upright moving-picture show sequel improve than the pilot