I noticed that much later as well! It’s like growing up with your grandparents, only to see a picture of them 15-20 years ago do you really notice how much they aged!
@@lpb3731like for example in the scene where thr child comes back and enters the frame the door is visible for fraction of a second while the godfather character is almost inevitably out of the game with his pre visible bed ridden story from the hospital scene almost coming back a second time with Michael standing on the edge of the stairs but never entering mirroring after when he left the compound with the trees around
Indeed. He becomes a monster to play with the kid for fun, scares the kid, the kid gets used to it and starts playing back, killing Brando in the process. Though it was a natural death, the "play" depicts a different image.
Before I knew better, I always had sort of a mandela effect where I thought Brando was really the age that he portrayed in Godfather. It took me a while to realised he was still only in his mid-40s when he shot that film, but was made to look like the old family patriarch in his 60s/70s. Just to put in perspective, he shot the Godfather before Last Tango, and you could still see how youthful/athletic Brando still was in Last Tango, dancing and getting up in a backflip and all. Just shows how not only the makeup artists nailed the subtle aging make-up, but also how Brando convincingly portrayed an old dying man without leaning into elderly stereotypes. When great artists combine their talent...
My Italian grandfather died same way exactly, in his garden tending the tomato plants on a nice sunny day. Whenever I see that scene I always think of him and how clever he was to figure out that it was Barzini all along.
Richard Pryor's character said it best, IMHO: "You don't get to BE old bein' no fool. Whole lotta you wise men d**der than a mother... ain't they?" We OGs may no longer be fast afoot or lifting-strong, but we have answers where others haven't even asked the questions.
@@martindoyle7410 he was shot by Salatzo, set up by Paulie. The Don visibly changed after that. You could see the slow decline in his health. It’s a masterful performance. But Brando was amazing in every movie he ever did. Never less the mesmerizing. You should watch Reflection of a Golden Eye. He plays a closeted homosexual colonel. It’s a tour de force of, I won’t call it acting, becoming.
No one is commenting on the incredible makeup skill it took to create this! That was the point of the post….. as a makeup artist I can tell you this is no easy task.
This is a testament to the incredible work of master make-up artist Dick Smith. Not only was he an amazing artist but an innovator in the trade where other make-up artists are better in their work including the great Rick Baker. RIP Dick Smith, thank you for your work in The Godfather. The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, Altered States, Scanners and so many other films.
Blessings to the late great makeup genius of Dick Smith. As good as this was, he didn’t get an Oscar for The Godfather, but was finally honored in 1984 for aging F. Murray Abraham as rival composer Antonio Salieri in Amadeus!👍🏽
The respect Brando gained from his fellow actors, Caan, Pacino, Cazale, Duval among others, contributed to the scenes where he was not playing the patriarch of the family , he WAS the patriarch and that also made the whole feel of the movie's credebility!!
Darling treasure Tom Hanks " Tjhe Godfather " absolutely brilliant movie my ery favourite Mrarlon Brando Al Pacino so many amazing actors in the Godfather Blessings Always Diana Melbourne Australia
I once heard that the highest compliment you can give an actor is you didn’t recognize them right away in a role….the 1 that immediately comes to mind is Tom Hardy in the Revenant ….it took me a minute to recognize him….there are a few others but that’s the 1 I always remember
I love both Tom Hanks and Marlon Brando as two of the best of best actors of all times and I think aging naturally is so beautiful like the whole nature…
That's is so true that you should do anything at that level that you go un-noticed, going under the skin of the character so much that you wait for it to mature it like a fine wine
I just went over the flight log. Only names I saw were allen dershowitz. Naomi Campbell and Bill clinton. It is in horrible handwriting so hard to read.
Gave me chills when Hanks described this superb subtle hair and makeup . I also think the genius of Brando's performance, how he carries himself from his "younger" scenes to his elderly death scene in the garden is as real and convincing as anything ever filmed.
@@myleshigh9851 I stand corrected - in GF2 his DOB is shown as 1891 and he dies in 1955, that makes 64, not the the 70 year old man everyone thinks he was
Also another reason the DON looks Older than he actually is called Battle Fatigue wear and tear - people forget he was shot 5-6 times while buying oranges and he was 54 years old at that time - the trauma the human body will go thru to recover will be intense - the aging happens after the shooting - the don prior to the shooting and post the shooting is not the same physically - it’s called Life
It's not just his hair and makeup. The scene where he plays with his grandchild and drops dead is the best acting I have ever seen. No vanity. Just truth. How easy he makes it look.
As a matter of fact, when 'Don Corleone' dropped dead on that garden I was so disappointed, saddened because that character was coming to an end. Only an actor of the magnitude, stature of Marlon Brando could have nailed down that role the perfectly way he did. That movie is over 50 years old and I don't get tired watching it over and over again marvelling at his performance from beginning to the end. He was a wonderful, amazing actor.😮
They really fooled me into believing that Brando was older when he did the movie, he was only 47, the magic of makeup. Alsl the behind-the-scenes photos of Brando in makeup process are hilarious.
Im of Sicilian ancestry on my dads side. I grew up on Long Island. I can tell you this. The Godfather is a great movie but it is a complete crock of shit. There has never been a Don like Vito Corleone. The closest you can come is Bonanno or Gambino and both of them worked their way up through the ranks as enforcers. Breaking legs during the day, going home to eat supper with their families, tucking their kids into bed, then murdering at night. In other words real psychopaths.
I mean, you really expected to be a real story? I'm watching "The Offer" mini-series recently and there are plenty of interesting stories about The Godfather production, starting with the fact that the Italian-American Civil Rights League didn't want this movie to be made.
Not exactly, Puzo had Frank Costello in mind when he invented Don Corleone. Gambino was very different, like a traitor sometimes. Costello or Corleone were not like that. And people who turned against Costello could sing but not fly, at least in his prime. Fun fact: Costello's nickname was Prime Minister due to his political contacts. Also Corleone had most of those contacts of the 5 Family Bosses.
Рассказывали занятную байку про то, как Коппола снимал «Коттон-клаб» на деньги мафии. Это фильм о джазовых музыкантах, о временах сухого закона, о мафии. Согласился он на эту постановку, потому что фильму дали очень большой бюджет - 44 миллиона. Отношения с продюсером складывались неважно, обещанный аванс ему не заплатили. - Ладно, - сказал Коппола. - Вы мне не платите - я не выйду на съемку. В тот же день вблизи отеля рядом с ним остановился лимузин. - Вы Коппола? - Да. - Я ваш большой поклонник. Сядьте, пожалуйста, ко мне в машину. Вы просто не представляете, как я люблю ваши фильмы! Какая замечательная сцена у вас в «Крестном отце», когда Майкла везут через Бруклинский мост на свидание с полицейским! Классная сцена! Он доверительно нагнулся к Фрэнсису и, глядя в глаза, проговорил: - Должен вам сказать, что, если сегодня после трех часов вы не появитесь на съемке, ночью вас сбросят с этого самого моста. Имейте в виду. Через два часа Коппола был на площадке. Источник: Андрей Кончаловский
He just means the makeup. The acting sells the aging. Unless you mean the makeup was noticeable to you the first time you watched it, in which case that's fair enough.
My grandfather was Sicilian, and in his old age he looked and dressed exactly like how they portrayed the Don. The clothing. The messy hair under a hat. He even had rows of tomatoes in his garden I use to play in. When I first watched this as a teenager I nearly shed a tear as it was almost like a window into a lovely memory of mine shoved into a mafia film.
@@gabrielaortega-hn2pqBecause apparently being qualified for any field of profession such as acting is "pretentious" to these people. Heaven forbid you state what degree you've earned from a certain college, otherwise they see it as bragging. Seriously, the word is so overused that the meaning is watered down.🙄
