But creating an epic was not anticipated.ĭirector Francis Ford Coppola was something of a Hollywood joke, having just made a string of box office duds, while Marlon Brando was deemed a ‘has been’. Lauded today as one of cinema’s masterpieces, and launching a trilogy that earned nine Oscars, no one knew quite what to expect when the cameras began rolling on the movie in 1971. For all its Oscars, acclaim and legacy, the fact is The Godfather really should have been a bomb.
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