As I watch the film again and again I look more and more into tiny, ornamental details which don't seem to make any point, for example: How often do kids hit each other, what do characters hold in their hands, how the cameras are being used, how many non-alcoholic beverages do we see, etc. The forum sometimes tends to be very much focused on narrative and characters, which is fine. But film is much more than just story.
One scene that kind of bothers me (REALLY nit-picking) is the one in which Mike calls the family compound as soon as he learned that Vito had been shot. He called from a pay phone and its plain to see that the phone's dial is not set up properly (the numbers and holes on the dial are not aligned).
Now, the movie was filmed in 1971, and from what I remember the pay phones were still using the roitary dial phones then (I MAY be mistaken - I'm sure Turnbull would know for sure), but if thats the case, and they were using rotary dial phones, why would they use one in the movie that was plainly fake?
(My research showed that AT&T [whom TB worked for then] introduced the touch tone phones in the mid 60's, but I can't find any info when they changed the pay phones to this new style).
Like I said, its real nit-picking.
