Originally Posted By: ErikPflueger
But that was the point; he was using the Godfather scenario to comment on other, larger issues. Coppola did the same thing. In this case, Winegardner was commenting on the Mafia's alleged role in soke of America's greatest mishaps - Cuba, the Bay of Pigs, JFK's assassination. Coppola commented on the Mafia's alleged role in the P2/Michele Sindona scandals of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Even Puzo himself considered the Corleones to be, at least in part, inspired as much by the Kennedys as any Mafia family.


I didn't have a problem with social commentary, it's the fact that is is so horribly done that the fact that it is such a rip off of what really happened that I can't even begin to think about what the commentary was.



Long as I remember The rain been coming down.
Clouds of Mystery pouring Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun;
And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.