Interview of The Godfather Coda: Watch – / Film

There is a new cut of The Godfather III the headlines – The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Director Francis Ford Coppola has intersected his films in the past – Apocalypse now has several different cuts, and he recently released The Cotton Club Encore, an intersection of The Cotton Club. Now with The godfather, Coda, Coppola hopes to show the world the movie he always hoped to make. In a new interview with film critic Leonard Maltin, Coppola and Godfather, Coda stars Al Pacino and Andy Garcia talk about the new cut.

Interview with the Godfather Coda

With The godfather, Coda, said director Francis Ford Coppola: “For this version of the finale, I created a new beginning and a new end, and reorganized some scenes, shots and musical signals. With these changes and the images and sound restored, for me, this is a more appropriate conclusion for The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II.Coppola talks more about the film in a new interview with Leonard Maltin, telling Maltin that over time The Godfather III for this recut, he found himself making choices that he had never thought of making during the filming of the film.

The biggest change is a new opening scene that really sets the plot of the film in motion. The new opening features Michael Corleone’s meeting with the director of the Vatican Bank. As I wrote in my review:

As for the big changes, Coppola tweaked the beginning and the end, and then cut some scenes down. The theatrical cut opened with a haunting look at the abandoned, rotten, ghostly Corleone resort at Lake Tahoe. It was Coppola signaling the death and decay lurking in every dark corner of the film. Here the filmmaker corrects that, instead jumping onto a stage where the aging Corleone family godfather Michael (Al Pacino) meets the head of the Vatican Bank. The bank has run up a huge deficit and they want this distinguished mobster to bail them out. And Michael is more than happy to step in – not because he’s a particularly loyal man. Rather, he aspires to be seen as a legitimate businessman, and not just another fat thug. But more than that, he wants redemption.

In this interview, Pacino says the new opening “centers the film” and focuses it in a different way. And he’s right.

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