Nah you are smart. I mean how smart you are? Because if Sonny didn't speak up during the meeting with the turk, he wouldn't have thought that Sonny can make the deal, he wouldn't have shot the godfather, and the whole drama wouldn't have happened!
+Brayen Zar Oh, you were complimenting me! Thanks. Didn't realize. :o Haha... yeah... but it only occurred to me when I think back to the events. All of this began with that meeting with the Turk. If business had gone as usual, and Sonny took over after Vito died a natural death with no assassination attempts on his life, Michael may have never entered the family business.
+jessc1979 We can't know that, in time Sonny would have tried to take over since Michael isn't in and then problems would grow, that time he spoke up when he shouldn't have but maybe even then he was looking to have a bigger responsibility, even if he didn't show weakness back then with the Turk he would have done it somewhere else or somehow differently, in any case it would lead to the same thing more or less. Michael was the one who took over as it was natural to him and he did what he could although there is no happy ending in a story like this, no matter what his familiy would have suffered at that time as the other families wouldn't back out from their plans.
+BHuang92 In a way, a big difference between Michael and his father, is that, Vito had a wife taking care of the family and children while Vito was out fighting his way up the rank. Michaels life would have been much different if his Sicilian wife had not been assassinated, she would have been a traditional wife as Michael's mother had been, rather than Kay who literally broke up the family.
Michael's downfall started when he had his own brother killed. You can't blame Kay for getting away from him. Mob life was too dangerous for her and the children.
Fun fact. The cat from Godfather 1 was a stray cat Brando found in the parking lot on the way to the set. If you know of Brando, he did whatever he wanted, brought the cat along while filming the scene. There was no cat in the novel either.
Marteen Projects and Vito was right about that, I mean being a rich and powerful mob boss maybe a promising life and with good benefits but there is a price to pay
Messylin "I thought that when it was your time that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone, Governor Corleone, something." An opera singer is good, but it's more like the fulfillment of an artist's dream than it is the realization of becoming a big mover and shaker.
One of the big comparisons between Vito and Michael, was that Vito always put family first and did what he did to take care of his family. Michael, on the other hand was far more ruthless and always puts the business first.
Jonny Britton I read somewhere when Michael's first wife Apollonia was murdered. Michael became obsessed with revenge. And it was fitting that he died in the same courtyard Apollonia was killed.
Just like Tywin Lannister. He was so consumed by the idea of family, he all but ignored his actual family. (SPOILERS) And in the end he dies alone on the privy, courtesy of his own son whom he pushed too damn far.
@angelscrytoBrilliantly noted! Yes Keanu I believe is constantly directed to the props cupboard to get changed. And that chair, again only a minor role, possibly his first, but was already a seasoned pro.
After seeing all three Godfathers many times I think this finale is a perfect examples of LESS is MORE. Michael dies alone in his garden, after having lost everyone he loves. He simply slumps and falls out of chair; no family gathered around him, no priest to hear his confession or give him last rites. Only the dog. We don’t need a brutal violent assassination; he already received his greatest punishment seeing his daughter killed in front of his eyes. Instead he is left to grow old with his regrets. It’s the saddest most beautiful scene in the whole saga and a perfect ending to the trilogy.
Sure, I completely agree. But, one could argue that the third movie was purely made for money. Now you might think i'm just stating the obvious because all films released has the sole purpose to make a profit. But when you look at how this film was released nearly two decades after the previous Godfather, one can argue they purely made this one, just to cash in on the godfather name. I mean the first was the most successful film released at the time.
Actually you are right. From what I understand, Coppola was not intending to do a three-quel because he felt that Michael’s story had been told in Parts 1 and 2. But “a dire financial failure in the 1980s compelled him to take up Paramount’s long-standing offer to make a third installment” (wikipedia). Coppola said that Part 3 was a way to make Michael “pay for his sins” committed in the second film. Overall, GF 3 is inferior to 1 and 2. But the last 30 minutes of the film - the montage of massacres set against the opera is sheer genius, like the baptism in Part 1. When Mary is killed on the steps outside the opera house, the decimated Corleone clan is a scene seared in my memory. It’s the explosion before the chilling calm; the same technique used at the end of 1 and 2. Michael’s lonely death in a garden was a sad and perfect closure to the trilogy. Sorry for the longwinded response. But GF 3 got some undeserved (imo) negative reviews from the press. Maybe over the course of time the critics will be more forgiving; I hope so. I can’t even imagine the Godfather saga without Part 3 now. Michael needed a swan song.
Lisa Lindsey I agree. Too much negativity about Godfather 3 but this was the perfect ending. I find it so tragic the way he dies alone. It gets you right in the feels!
Vito dies in a beautiful garden where the plants blossom and the birds sing, he's with his grandson and is having fun. Michael dies in a Barron and lifeless garden, all alone except for the dogs who don't love him.
Yes and no. If you remember, when Vito died, he was wearing fangs, like to show he was a monster and he knew it. He dies chasing after his grandson with the fangs on to show even though he was a better leader/smarter/had more care for his family and friends/less tempered out of sonny, fredo, and michael, he was still a monster underneath it all. It's a better scene/death than the death of the 3 three sons (Michael sonny fredo) but it also has the point of showing Vito was a monster who created the life his sons ultimately inherited.
The irony of life. he was one of the richest and most powerful man, obsessed with his family, and yet, he died alone with dogs sniffing him, I think directors deserve an award for creating this emotional scene.
Muhammad Gbadegesin I think it was perfect how in the end he died in the same courtyard she did. Right as he's having flashbacks of her. Me and my friends just finished the third movie an hour ago for the first time. We binged the whole series
Vito gets shot 5 times after buying oranges. Survives this, then dies while playing a trick on his grandson using an orange for a prop. Don Fanucci dies after buying an orange, and then Michael dies with an orange in his hand..... The moral of the story is never buy an Orange or try and eat one. In fact if you even set your eyes on an orange you should hit the deck and pray.
@David Sharma of course they got to knew each other well. Remember Michael was there a long time; he fell in love with her since the first time he saw her. And more sad because she had nothing to do with the mafia thing but died anyway, Michael's fault.
@David Sharma yes, love at first sight, very normal in movies, not strange at all. And as I said, they actually spent a lot of time together but you think they dont but that was because the movie only showed some parts.
@David Sharma douchebsgs??? Dude, calm down, its only a movie. Grow up. I dont give a fuck what u think, I have my point of view and you have yours. Have a good day.
I don’t care what people think about The Godfather Part 3. This was the perfect ending for this saga. Through revenge, power, greed, betrayal, and violence, Michael Corleone climbed the highest mountain, only to fall instantly, losing the most precious thing he valued in his life.
In the end, Vito Corleone was beloved and respected as he was hated and feared. But in the end, Michael died only hated and feared. Vito died peacefully playing with his grandson, Michael dies alone in the house where he once lived with his first wife. He vowed far too late to never sin again: and it was not enough to regain what he had surrendered for power.
@@JRF1004 The entire first act of The Godfather is about Vito's enemies conspiring to destroy his family. Vito was, first and foremost, a mobster and a criminal with a list of people who wanted him dead probably ten miles long. He was a man who was immensely detested by many, no matter how loved he was.
@@ShinoharaMiyu Uhh...The people conspiring against Vito were not doing it because they hated him, did you even see the movie? They were doing it because he wouldn't cooperate (at getting even deeper into crime).
This is a sad, beautiful ending. Michael remembered the three women of his life, and the flashback of the movie is about dancing, because these dances are the summary of the life of Don Corleone: Mary, Apolonia, and Kay. This is also a summary of all the stages of his life: Italy as a refugee, Lake Tahoe as a Mob Leader, and NY as a billionaire tycoon. But also, these three dances could be the last thoughts that he had at the moment of her dead. Three women to remember, before died alone. "You were so loved. WHY I was so feared, and you so loved?"
You were so feared because you showed yourself to have no soul and no need of love You were filled with anger and rage. Those people have no ability for love
The perfect parallel to Vito Corleone. Vito died in a garden while playing with his grandson. Michael dies in a barren land with only a dog next to him.
SirTermos I think the main is that Michael really didnt want to become a Godfather as Vito wanted. His marriage with Kay was just to "make a family" but it was not a matter of love. Just remembering the scene of God Father 2 when young Vito says: My wife and my kid are the most important. Michael didnt build a family like that. Awesome films, even the third is good.
It's like coming full circle. He dies in the same Village from which his father fled. After all those years of wealth and all those hundreds of millions of dollars he is back to square one
@@johnaddeo2251 An astute observer would recognize the drab brown courtyard empty of people, children, grandchildren. Compare this with the green garden where his father died playing with his grandson. There is a singular chair in this infertile courtyard. He keeps over and dies....all alone after alienating his wife, his son, murdering his brother. The only living thing is a dog that barely licks his face.
I think the whole inf into the dirt outside while something small be it a grandson or dog comes up to him being much like the father. Infact the entire trilogy shows parallels between Vito and Michael, the entire second film for instance
Oh my gosh yes! everyone notices the contrast between Michael and Vito's deaths: one dies in a luscious garden the other in a dry barren courtyard, one laughing and having a good time, surrounded by family, the other dying all alone just staring at the dirt, just him and his thoughts, but I then you also have to notice, they die the exact same why (probably a heart attack) and fall to the ground. There is someone around to notice for both, for Vito it's his grandson, for Michael, its just a dog. :(
EVERYTHING CHANGED after the death of Apollonia. Michael, who was to be subliminally forced to engage with the family business due to the ongoing war, found the love of his life in Sicily. If she hadn't died, he would've returned home with a beautiful wife he loved dearly, which would've made being the Don and a family man simultaneously so much easier, and he would've enjoyed life a lot more. Instead, the death made his heart cold. And although he would've become Don either way, he led the family as a cold, ruthless man with a wife he married just so he could have a family, not because they were soulmates. This led to unrest, Kay never loved him enough to get over his disapproval of the Corleone families business. Not only would've Apollonia understood, she would've been completely fine with it. They would've lived a long happy life and died together, instead Kay and Michael fell apart and Michael died alone. Michael knew this, he knew Apollonia was his soulmate, which is why he died in the exact same courtyard she did.
He died alone, LAST one to go, and he remembered everything, till the end. Good Memory is not always a boon....Part III was far underrated and did not get its due.
@@texasman9339 No one is comparing and no one should, Part III was made so many years later, it was different time, It had to be made that way, it was far underrated
In the Godfather franchise, oranges usually symbolize death or threat of death. Vito was buying oranges and other fruits when he was shot down. Vito was actually eating oranges few minutes before he died. And it's not just Vito. I can probably go on and point out more examples.
I watched all 3 movies in 1 day..It was the best experience ever.. I cried at the ending.. Just seeing it all end..And seeing Michael die alone after everything that has happened... Beatiful ending.. The godfather saga is the best story ever.. 10/10
That would've been a peaceful death(like death was his way to a peaceful heaven from a hell-like world) if he just died on the chair. Him falling from the chair shows in the end he lost everything.
When I saw his daughter die, I cried. I have two daughters and that scene got to me. His silent scream, my god, greatest sadness in movie history. Brilliant acting, and very sad ending.
I may sound weird saying this, but I believe that ANY movie that makes a man cry should be remembered. Francis Ford Coppola made made a timeless masterpiece.
@@thegreenjackal Micheal had nothing left but his memories and his regrets Micheal knew he was the downfall of his family All that power, all the bloodshed, the pain and it was all for nothing All he did from the moment Mary died was exist with nothing but the pain of his life
I was living a life on the wrong path for twenty years. I watched this movie and saw that family was more important than wealth and influence. I got out of the life I was in and went to work in a regular job, had two children at the age of forty and ten years later I'm sitting here typing while my wife is spelling the words for my seven year old daughter's Santa's list across the table from me. I have never been happier than I am now and the ending of The Godfather led me here today.
Michael Corleone is like roman emperor Augustus, he killed everyone who betrayed him, and he lasted alive until the last day dying at old age, like the dictator he was.
But look how he died, alone, no one carried in any way for him, he saw his child die, family torn apart and Corleone's name starts dissapearing from exsistence kind of sad to live up to see that if you ask me...
+Laki Stojkovic That's the loneliness of the dictators. He died alone but he was the greatest and everybody remembers him. His biggest enemy was his bad health. If you ask to me, The Godfather is a ruthless master piece.
At least when see Michael died alone because imagine his family, his brothers, Fredo and Sonny, Tom Hagen, his sister Connie and his father Vito are waiting for Michael join the Afterlife.
Michael Corleone's character alone should be studied in literature with the same academic consideration given to Sophocles' Aedipus and King Creon or to Christopher Marlowe's Faust. Never seen in the history of cinema such a powerful character portraying the solitude of a damned soul like that of Michael Corleone. And Pacino's performance is simply sublime (in my opinion, even more that that of Brando).
The sad thing about it, its when it shows him dancing with all of the three girls he most loved in his life. Guessing that his daughter and his past wife died, but somehow they put the mom of his children meaning that she is dead too... What a sad ending
I don't think it necessarily implies that Kay is dead just because Michael thought of her, but rather a reinforcement of his loneliness to which he is now doomed until the last few moments of his life. Mary and Apollonia died in a way because of him and even if Kay is still alive, Michael lost her forever after what happened with Mary. Kay could never forgive him for that.
He lost everything he had.. trying to be so much like his father yet forgeting what's the most important thing he adored...his family. Such a tragic death, i've never been so touched by someones character it makes me truly sad.
Animals always sniff at another animal's head, to detect whether it's *REALLY* dead or just "playing possum". By so doing, the animal is as far away as possible if the "dead" animal tries to reach up & grab them! Just another survival strategy...RIP
I rarely watch Godfather 3, it's just too sad to watch him go like that. I prefer Godfather 1 where the family is together in the beginning and there's warmth and love portrayed and seeing Michale coming into his own as the head of the family. My favourite film of all time.
I agree. These movies are as much about life as they are about the mafia and this one closes the chapter on possibly the lowest note there is. He only had his son left. That's all that's left. His brother, his wife, his daughter... All gone.
Never has a character conveyed such a range of emotions to the viewer like Michael. You go from identifying with the predestined young man of the first film to hating the monster he became in the second, ultimately you are just left with sorrow and compassion for a man who has sacrificed everything for nothing. Puzo and Coppola probably created one of the greatest characters in cinema history. Al Pacino's performance obviously adds a lot of depth too
The deeper you get into the trilogy the more and more Al Pacino is necessary and puts on a Pacino performance. It is like a meter going up, he is so reserved in the first film speaking very measured and by the 3rd film he is ready to lash out with each new development.
To appreciate Godfather III for the amazing movie that it is, I strongly recommend you watch all parts as a marathon. Part III, in my opinion, is not a standalone movie to be enjoyed in *isolation*. All these comparisons of Part III against the first two, are flawed; Part III doesn't compete against the first two but rather it completes them as an act of climax. It shapes, forms, culminates and concludes the story beautifully by eventually drawing in the audience back from the greed of power and money to basic sentiments of love, forgiveness and family. In the end, that's all that really matters.
A very sad thing is that the author of the Godfather books, Mario Puzo and the director of the films Francis Ford Coppola were planning on making a fourth film called Godfather part 4 or Godfather the final part. It was to depict Vincent Corleone's reign over the Corleone family as the new Don. He was to deviate from his predecessors that being Vito and Michael, by having the Corleone family enter the drug trade. It would eventually drive the family back into corruption and eventual decline and have Vincent being killed in the end. It was also gonna show Vito's early days as Don and Michael, Fredo, and Sonny's childhood and when they found out about their father's business. Too bad the author died.
Regarding this hypothetical 4rth movie, it was suposeed to have a scene close to the end, when an old an retired Michale Corleone meets Vincent Corleone, now being Godfather, and had a conversation. I would love to see that.
Pretty bad imo, except of showing they discovering the father's business.. but It would still be bad, because imo it would destroy everything that made Corleone family great which was protection and gambling business, not selling drugs and entering in this role would destroy their image...
I don't think a GF4 would have been a good idea. The premise would have been interesting but I really feel that the GF films belong to the 70's and another movie wouldn't be successful...look what happened with GF3. Who could possibly have played the young Vito? (RDN would be too old!).
my man was like "alright. let my put on my shades 1st before i die" lol. but in all seriousness, this was a very beautiful ending especially due to the life he lived
+Theodore Roth So what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide....how to lie. Me? I don't have that problem. Me?! I always tell the truth....even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
I guess it's somekind of symbolism because in the book when Vito dies he saw the sunlight and it says that when he did, he knew that behind the light it was the Death. So maybe Michael didn't want to see death 😢
I don't think it was a beautiful ending at all. It was a very sad ending. He died all alone without family. He is in the desert like environment. He falls to the ground dead and a dog licks his face
This is truly the classic Shakespearean tragedy. Michael, the aspiring leader of family, takes the ambitious role of reinstating his crime family in his youth. The crimes he commit while young has set the wheels in motion, and he watches helplessly as his sins take away everything he has loved and worked for in front of his own eyes. The crimes of his action are so great that they cannot be forgiven, as the archbishop tells him: "it is just that you suffer." And in his death, the man who valued family so much dies alone. He also is never forgiven and is not allowed redemption. The well in the last scene, symbolizing forgiveness and purity, is out of his reach- in fact, it is nowhere close to him. But this scene, I think, is not about divine judgement. Just like Macbeth, Michael has never forgiven himself for committing these crimes. The archbishop gives him chance to shed himself of these crimes, and to unburden himself. But after the death of his daughter, he understands that his life cannot undergo redemption. The final judgement was his, and he never forgives himself, so he dies a pained sinner- alone.
sad and true. many an industrious legacy is mired with the unredeemed. (you should have used a coma instead of a full stop after 'himself' on the second last line. the capital B doesn't sound right).
Agree-so why didn't he just buy the Las Vegas casinos, hand the NYC operation over to the underlings, and "go legit"?He could have left the life, he chose not to. I always remember Don Vito's advice to Michael.."I didn't want this for you...". Michael condemned himself.
the differnce between his death and his fathers death , his father died with his loved ones , while he died alone.. at least he saw his grand son before he died
Minhaj Nizam He makes a refrence to this in Godfather 2 - when he goes to see his mother - he says 'times are changing' maybe some kind of vision to the future
yeah man. Well said. I lost mine 13 years ago and every woman I have met since sits hollow beside me. Some of them are really nice with lots to offer...but they ain't her.
You have no idea how truly right you are . i'd trade a thousand years in hell to have her and my family back the way it was .....and it was my fault and of all the good I do know ....nothing can bring them back . great comment brother
Michael has lost 3 beloved women of his life - Kay (not died, but she won't seeing or forgive him ever again) - His second wife, most beautiful innocent Italian woman. - Marry, his beloved daughter.
1994g0 kay wasn't co-operative wife like his dad vito had, she increased a lot of stress in his life, definitely she must have blamed michael for mary and made him much more guilty/responsible for mary's death
1994g0 exactly that's Kay's personally and unfortunately that's what Michael had to deal with, he couldn't even had moved on cause she was the one he really loved, sad his fate was sealed afterall
@@justinmanley8131 deep down, Michael believed in judgment, and he believed in God... That's why he confessed to the priest in the middle of the movie and that's what made his misery so much greater at the end of his life.
Both Vito and Michael had the greatest deaths in any mafia movie ever created. No they weren't "the coolest" but it shows the end of a supreme leader. In the most simplistic way. Throughout all the years nobody could take them down, except time.
I don't much care for The Godfather Part 3; there's a few too many problems with the film that make it difficult for me to really get into it, but there is one sequence out of the whole film that I think makes it all worthwhile. The ending. A lot of people say that this is justice or some form of punishment for Michael's never-ending quest for power. I don't see it that way; Michael didn't so much look for power as he did try to protect what was most important to him: his family. Everything he did was to protect his family, sometimes by gaining power to provide safer protection. And this is the tragedy of Michael's character. Michael starts as golden boy who wants to distance himself from his father's business, but the attempt on his father's life forces him to act, forces him into the business he wanted to avoid. And then things only get worse, eventually letting the burden fall to him. First his brother Sonny is taken from him because of the war Michael starts in order to save his father. Then his new wife Apollonia is killed in a car bomb meant for him. And when he returns, his father dies, leaving the business to him. And to keep his family safe from future threats, he moves against all his potential enemies. That, for me, is the difference between him and his father. Vito sought to make friends, Michael sought to crush his enemies. Like Tom points out near the ending of part 2; Michael wipes out nearly everyone, simply because he wants no trace of enemies left. And it is this ruthlessness that loses him Connie as a sister when she runs off with another man (though she does eventually come back). Not long after, it loses him Kay. And it forces his hand against his own brother, who he saw as a potential threat to the rest of his family. And then, in part 3, his association puts him on poor terms with his son, who, like Michael once said, wants nothing to do with his business. And even his friend, Don Tomasino, who never betrayed him and stuck with him and his father to the end, dies, due to Michael's actions. Trying one last time, in his old age, to break away from all this endless violence and crime, he retires and goes to see his son perform; for a moment being free of everything related to the mob. Until his daughter is shot in front of him. By a gun that was aiming for him, because of his attempt to go legitimate. He's lost everything and everyone in this scene, all because of how he wanted to protect his family. How he tried to keep them safe, how he tried to "be strong for them like Papa" as Connie says. That is the tragedy of Michael's death. His father died and was surrounded by his friends, his family, his loved ones and lived quite likely a similar life to Michael's. But Michael on the other hand, died alone. And it was his own doing that removed everyone who could ever have loved him. All Michael ever tried to do was be like his father. Hold the strings, make the smart moves and above all, keep his family safe, as revealed in his conversation with his mother in the second part. But somehow, it didn't work for Michael. In a way, Michael was too good at being a don and that same skill that took his family far and above all the others is exactly what ruined his life. And I think in the end, when he screams, his daughter dead in front of him, he realizes how everything he ever fought for, all the reasons he had to do the things he did are gone, taken away by him and his actions. He destroyed his own world. And thus, he dies much like he was at the end of this. Alone. In a way, he's dead already when his daughter is taken from him. Like I said, Michael death is not so much justice as it is tragedy; a horrible fate, wrought by his own hands. That's why I like The Godfather Part 3. For Michael the hero of the Godfather Part 1, villain of Part 2, finally turning to victim in Part 3. It's just a shame the third film has a few flaws that distract from what is one of my favorite stories.
Couldn't have said it better mate.. Vito knew how to balence both criminal masterming and family, while Michael only knew how to be a mastermind, though both held the familys at heart..Michael just flew to close to the sun, dying alone..
It's funny (because it's lucky) how after all of the wars he had been in, after all of those gunshots he had barely managed to dodge, he dies in a chair near a garden of old age.
moviepeasant it’s not lucky. It’s actually an awful way to die. Old. alone not because your family members are dead, but because he’s been forsaken. Remorse eating your alive.
I respectfully disagree. Of course, it may be dependent on the composition of the man's character, but I can see myself dying this way and being reasonably satisfied with my life and my ending.
am i the only one who truly gets this bit? the godfather is soaked in a male-dominance culture. men are the kings. michael himself expresses the importance of a son being born to him though out his rein. but in the end, its actually the WOMEN in his life (that he has lost) which is the ultimate heart break. the ultimate sadness.
Kyle S then why would the very last scenes of the trilogy go through ALL the women in his life and not his father, his two brothers or his son? its a clear message for me. the men have been so obsessed with becoming kings they forget about the women, the real victims. who just so happen to bring them the most happiness in life (not the money or the guns or the power) but the women. he finally realizes this and dies.
You're absolutely right. It focuses heavily on the women because they are his biggest regrets in life. He lost all of them because of his actions and their ultimate consequences.
I don't think that's the point the film was trying to make. Michael spent his life up to the third film murdering and terrorizing others for his own gain. But in old age he found himself tormented by his past and yearned to live a normal life, but couldn't because he'd made so many enemies over the years. One can argue there's a line where redemption becomes impossible, and Michael crossed that line several times in the first two films. He didn't deserve a happy ending. I'm not saying the suffering of female characters wasn't meant to have some form of meaning, or that his daughter wasn't symbolic, but I think the movie's message was about the long-term consequences of evil rather than commentary on feminist gender theory.
What if he had bought a whole *CASE* of canned spaghetti and meatballs, and a case of cheap wine, and just gorged himself silly? Frank Sinatra once said, "I'm for whiskey, or the Bible, or whatever gets you through the night." Worth a try...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Boyardee
An extremely emotional moment in so many ways. The most perfect, tragic and ultimately just way for Michael to die. It’s a testament as to how powerful these films are and what a tour-de-force performance that Pacino gives that Michael’s death is so sad even after all he has done. Masterful
This is a decent scene, the problem is that it's basically just The Part II's ending again. Michael has lost everyone he once loved and cared about. So in the final scene he's alone, separated from his family, wishing for old days to come back. The only big difference is his death, but it's more or less the same ending.
Michael's end was tragic, ironic even. He wanted to protect his family, keep his family safe but in the end, he lost his family. His daughter got killed, and Kay would have hated him more now and Tony too. Michael died, alone, with no loved one beside him. This was the tragedy of his life.
Not quite right, Connie dedicated to looking after Michael as portrayed in part 3 Also Al Neri was available to rub out whoever Michael wanted , plus being his life time body guard.
I Remember watching this picture in a Multiplex Cinema back in 1990, people at the End of This Scene applauded, some were Crying, It Brings Tears to My Eyes even now in 2022. This is the Weakest of the Trilogy, BUT, it is still a Masterpiece, especially if you saw Part 1 and Part 2.
The book ends shortly after the first film but both sequels are considered canon due to the fact that the author Mario Puzo still co-wrote the screenplays.
Exactly. Vito dies with his grandson and with his legacy assured. Michael dies alone and he knows that his daughter is dead and that his son will not enter the family buisness
I love the new Coda version of Coppola, except the fact that he didn't keep the literal death of Michael. We already knew he spent decades suffering from guilt and remorse, but this shot with him dying in loneliness and near-anonymity, added more tragedy to his arc. (when Vito died in his garden with his grandson and relatives in the house)
Al Pacino is on a different level of acting. Whereas other movies with a similar tragedy taking place, Al is different. Those who have completed the trilogy will see how Michael changed from "innocence" into, well...a tragedy. We never think of Michael as Al, we think of him as Michael. And personally...when Michael laughs, I laugh. When he cries, I cry. When he died...well I'm still alive. Yet I feel my heart sink deeper into the grasps of death. I hope everyone gets the chance to know Michael.
First you see his eyes. The eyes of a grieving, sad man. "The eyes are the mirror of the soul". He puts his shades on for the last time because it symbolizes the blackness of his soul. When he listened to the song his son sang and he remembered Apollonia, he put down his glasses because he wanted to cry. Now he puts them on because he senses his end comes. Imminent blackness and the loss of everything. There is nothing left do grief for.
Michael had lost everyone that was important to him after asking his mother about losing his family not to mention the fact that he had his mother’s son killed, he died alone like an unwanted dog. A very powerful scene with a powerful message.
