Best Locations

The Best Location for me is the scenes in Sicily, that country is so beautiful,yet so violant.

What is Your's?

I like the scenes in Michael's house in Nevada. I love the scenery at night around the water.

The Havana sequences, because they're so absolutely authentic-looking. A tribute to FFC's fanatical attention to detail.

Sicily, hands down. Everytime I watch GF, I want to hop an Alitalia flight immediately.

Geez, why do these tough questions always come up? If I really had to choose, I'd have to go with Sicily, with Havana running a very close second.


Don Cardi

The Lake Tahoe house during the winter, and Sicily.

FFC is a genius at making things look authentic.

Personally, I liked all the wedding scenes. I have an big, ethnic family like that, and I can tell you Coppola portrays those weddings to the exact.

The Lake Tahoe scenes are some of my favorites as well as some of the New York scenes from Vito's past

Yes! You can actually feel the "chilliness"(is that a word?)and its exactly like Michael at that time in the movie.

definitely scenes from sicily, especially when michael asks "where are all the men gone?" and some communist posters are seen on the high walls.

My favorite is New York City in the flashbacks of Part II.

i like the Sicily scenes, there quite nice. that guy who ones that tahoe house is one lucky man.

Has any been to these parts in particular?

I mostly like the scenes in Sicily. Especially the scenes at the family house (actually a castle). And yes, I've visitted (almost) all places in Sicily. Also that particular castle, and that is very special cause it belongs to a family who don't let tourists in. This family was also living there when the 3 parts of GF were shot there.
I have pictures from the castle and the place where Apollonia got killed in the car.

Here is one:

That picture is awesome.

Another one --> the church where Michael and Appolonia got maried. A few hundred meters away from Bar Vitelli.



and bar Vitelli one year ago:

Great pictures.

any more

New York!

I love all the NYC stuff in the flashback scenes in Part II. It just looked fantastic.

Then how did you get this picture if they dont let tourists in?

I was looking with some friends for a filming-location in a little village in Sicily. I knew some scenes where shot there. So I walked into an old bar and asked those men there if they knew something about the Godfather (il Padrino). One of them said he knew a location where the film was shot, but he didn't know what scene it was. So he stepped into our car and we drove to that place. From the street we only saw a big fence, but looking through it we saw the "holy house" .
We rang the door bell but one of the house-maids told us we couldn't come in. The owner didn't want any tourists. At that point the man of the bar spoke to the woman and she went to get the owner. The men knew each other! So then it wans't a problem anymore. We took a lot of pictures and also saw the inside of the castle. We also spoke to the owner about the filming. This was a realy cool experience!

I will put more pictures of our trip online, but I first have to finish my godfather-tour page.

A last one: Theatro Massimo in Palermo. This is where Mary got killed on the steps at the end of part 3.



Ciao!

Yeah, I like those scenes too, prodigiously. Not only because of their beauty, but because of the mood created there.
Don Giaccotto, you got there? You must be 007!

Yep! 007
Do you see the man with the yellow polo? That's me!

GREAT pictures, Don Giaccotto, thanks a lot for posting them!

Welcome to the boards.

New to the board, Pardon me for my bad English!

I really love the scenes shot in Sicily especcialy those in Corleone. The marriage between Michael and Apollonia, The bar Owned by Vitelli.

I told my girlfriend that our next vacation will be in Sicily!