Originally posted by johnny ola:
I think part of the charm of the Godfather films is the continuation of the same actors playing the same parts. To divert from this might have weaken the films.
Well, I know that, but I think it weakened them somewhat to have key characters (Clemenza in II, Hagen in III) written out without any resolution to their story lines, and then new characters abruptly written into the plot to fill essentially the same roles.
I mean, yeah, the Pentangeli character fit right into the story line - almost as well as if his name was Pete Clemenza.
Ideally, of course, the best thing would have been to bring the original actors back to play the original roles. Considering how much $$$ the series made, maybe, probably, that's what FFC should have done.
