Sunday 27 November 2011

Does "The Godfather" glorify the mafia or organized crime

I feel that Francis ford Coppola's use of wide panning and slow zooms make the film very intriguing and tense because when he uses those kind of camera angles it makes you feel as if though something horrible is about to happen, but it also lets you see the whole room and what is going on in the room. An example of a well-used long pan was the scene when the film director (Jack Waltz) was in the bed and woke up to the horrible surprise of being covered in blood only to find his prize possession's head at the foot of his bed. Another great use of long zooms are in the very first scene of the movie with Bonasera when he was asking for justice, that scene also really characterized the Don as being wise because before he just said yes to helping him he had to contemplate what to do even though he had to say yes to his request due to the fact that it was on the day of his daughter’s wedding.

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