3 hours and 21 minutes is a bit too long for an ordinary movie, but for this "Godfather 2", I don't think I have seen enough. The film combines those in "The Godfather" about the first godfather Vito. Corleone's history of his career and the second godfather, Mike. Corleone's history of hard work tells the story. The two main lines are cross-played, and it is not too complicated, and the more you compare, the more you find mike's not easy. How can one be helpless?
Film with Mike. Corleone's ascension to power side by side presents flashbacks of his father Vito's youth. These footage, which took place in Sicily and old New York, use the traditional model of depicting the struggles of young people, showing how the mafia approach was infused into the corleone family. To do great things, you must use murderous means, and the veil of warmth cannot hide this. Coppola more or less weakens the brutality and violence of some of the scenes in the film. For example, the scene in which Vito kills a gang leader in New York when he is young, the camera shoots through Vito's perspective, and follows him over the roof, tracks his opponents, and then successfully escapes. At this point, the audience's point of view merges with the film, thus creating an immersive sense of presence.
The part about Mike in The Godfather 2 captures the hearts of viewers because of the ups and downs of its storyline. The film shows Mike's collapse under pressure. Many viewers remember that when he was young, he was a proud war hero, a successful college student, and wanted to live a legitimate and legitimate life. However, on the day of his marriage to Kay, his wife first began to realize that the Corleone family's control was all-encompassing, and it was as suffocating as a cocoon. There will always be something she won't be told and won't be trusted. In the end, Mike has no one to talk to and trust except his elderly mother. In that focused and emotional conversation with his mother, Mike's desperation is amply annotated for the final scene of the film.
Compared to the first episode of The Godfather, the soundtrack in The Godfather 2 plays a bigger role. Its nostalgic and sentimental melody, reminiscent of an era that has passed, has stirred up many emotional fluctuations in people's minds that do not belong to such a story; if the film adopts the traditional soundtrack of crime films, the audience will not be so emotional. In The Godfather 2, Mike. Corleone lost what little conscience remained in his body and became an empty shell that had lost his soul, and his heart was fearful and cold. If music evokes a kind of pity, it is Mike's self-pity. If Nino. If Rota's score is a little more powerful, the audience may understand Mike as Tony in the movie Scarface. A role like Montana's. However, the film's mournful music has a completely different effect, because the role of music in fueling emotions is often more powerful and subtle than the story itself.
Maybe Mike carried too much love from his father in his childhood and even in his youth, and God wanted to take back these loves little by little. I still prefer Vito's principle to Mike's unscrupulousness: I want to give them benefits, and they can't reject me.
Vito was a successful godfather because he earned the respect of everyone. Although Mike kept the map of the family business and extended his hand farther away, there was no one around him to talk to. Overall, Mike failed!