![]() ![]() ![]() That's how sure Paramount were that they had a monster hit on their hands, despite some exhibitors turning up their noses at a preview screening: too little action, too much talking, and too long - proof that in no way are exhibitors a bunch of popcorn-selling philistines. When The Godfather premiered in New York on March 14,1972, co-screenwriter and novelist Mario Puzo had already started work on the sequel. what were they thinking of, trying to match the critical and commercial dynamite of the first film? The Godfather Part II was, from conception upwards, an insane project. ![]() It's more ambitious, it's more elegiac, it delves deeper into the soil of Italian-American myth, plus. But The Godfather Part II is a better film. The Godfather is a more important film, of course it is.
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