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14th March 22,
The Godfather, completes Fifty Years!!
"Finance is a gun. Politics is
knowing when to pull the trigger”. Movie Godfather.
14th
March 72 i.e., 50 years back the movie Godfather was released and
millions of people across the world even without google or WhatsApp or Insta
or FB & without any hashtag, came to know about two terminologies i.e.,
Mafia & Don!! I have read the novel as well seen the movie (trilogy)
countless numbers & by now again there has been many articles about the
movie for it’s 50th B’day i.e. Golden Jubilee but this sharing is, not as a critics or some celebrity from the movie world but as a common movie
fan from the society!
The impact of Godfather showed the movie
industry it's true power as now we know, the success of a movie is not to be
measured by just money it makes on the box office but Godfather went
beyond that & made us realize, real success of the movie is how much it
make the masses to change their attitude towards the life! Because until the Godfather had not hit the screens,
ideas about right & wrong, good & bad were very simple & clear. If
you carry a gun & threaten the people with muscle power and beat them up
if they don’t listen to you, then you are a bad guy, simple! Every uniform
wearing man is a good man and any person not following the law is a bad guy. No
question of calling someone who extorts money or sells illegal liquor or helps
illegal immigrants in the country can ever be called a good man! Mafia is a
taboo word and gangsters are the people you keep away from, no question of
marrying them or being friends with them! If you don’t get justice for any crime that happened to you then the only way is you try higher courts or just keep mum,
blaming your bad luck and weakness as a white collared person and that’s all!!
But Godfather changed all of this in mere
three hours as now you know there is nothing such as total dark or black but
every black has got shades of grey and even black can be good at times! Now you think that not all the gangsters are bad and
even in the crime there are real bad crimes and lesser bad crimes and some are
even good crimes; such as beating up the bad goons which are troubling innocent
people and getting away from law as there are bad cops & corrupt judges
which can be bought & you can actually get justice by indulging in to a
crime which includes beating the bad goons by hired men who works for the Don!
Now, no more the boss of the gangsters is some evil man who indeed has been involved in crimes which includes bribing, smuggling, theft,
beating and even killing people at times but for a good cause, which he only
decides!! But why worry, we all have our own dark side and sometimes or other, each of us has allowed that dark, evil side of ours to take our control and do
the things which don't fit on the scale of the law or say morals, right?? So,
why to tag only Mr. Don Corleone as a bad guy for his acts of threatening or
extortion (which he calls a protection money) or dealing in illegal liquor or
beating some people who don't cooperate with him?? He definitely has some
goodness in him as he don't give support to drug business or prostitution or he
don't kill innocent white collared good people (unless they don't behave bad by
his definition of bad) and then he cares for his family just like any other
family man, it's just his ways are different to protect his family & that
does make him different from normal men but surely not bad like other more bad
guys around!!
This is what Godfather has done to the entire
society, as now in the movies the heroes or the lead role men are not
necessarily the characters who follows the so called laws of the society but
makes their own laws & built their own society bonded by these laws
& yet they can't be tagged as bad or villains, which earlier was
done!!!
Godfather has not only inspired thousands of
movie makers across the world to change their thought process about the script and
theme of the movies but it changed the mindset or say expectation or the
purpose itself of billions of the movie watchers (read as aam janata) to
watch the movie in the first place!! This is why Godfather is special as
it has made such an offer to watch this movie that no one can resist it!!
Thanks a lot, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola,
Marlen Brando, Al Pacino & Don Corleone for making The Godfather
& helping me to make my own definitions of good & bad clear &
making me able to understand the concept of justice, a shade better... Sanjay
Deshpande.
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Very nicely put up. It is MUST SHARE.
ReplyDeletethanks a lot, indeed it is a masterpiece & we owe a tribute to Godfather :)
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