CREDITS: Look at the credits on the poster (the actors, director, producer…) and talk about them with your partner(s).Ĥ. STORY: Talk about what you think the story of the movie is – the start, beginning, end, etc. SIX WORDS: Look at the poster and write down six words (more if you like) that you think of as you look at it. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 for being 'culturally significant'.įind a nice poster for this movie at the Internet Movie Database ( ).įind an official trailer for this movie on YouTube.ġ. In 1997, the film was ranked as the thirty-second greatest film in American cinema history by the American Film Institute. The Godfather Part II is widely considered to be one of the greatest movies ever made and it remains a highly influential film in the gangster genre. This made Part II the first film sequel to win an Oscar for Best Picture. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture. It received huge critical praise, with some critics saying it was better than its predecessor. The film's stars include Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro. The other story is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone (De Niro), from his childhood in Sicily in 1901 to his founding of the Corleone family in New York City. We see him trying to hold his business ventures together from 1958 to 1959. The main storyline follows the events of the first film and centers on Michael Corleone (Pacino), the new head of the Corleone crime family. The second film presents two parallel dramas.

The film is in part, both a sequel and a prequel to the 1972 The Godfather film.

The screenplay was written by Coppola and Puzo. The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and partially based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather.

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