"The Godfather"

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This paper presents a short analysis of a sequence from Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, "The Godfather". The scene in question is the murder of the police chief and rival mob boss by Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino. The paper focuses on the camera angles, motifs, etc.

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"As he enters the stall, the camera pans right to follow him. It stops directly behind him as he begins searching behind a rectangular fixture on the wall for the gun that is hidden there. As he searches, he turns so that the left side of his face appears in profile. The left (or sinister, from the Italian) side of his face is swollen and slightly bruised because the captain at the table broke his jaw in an earlier scene. The injury has caused his cheek to swell and speech to slur, which makes him look and sound more like his father, the Don of the Corleone crime family. It is appropriate that the audience can only see his "gangster" side as he prepares to commit the first act in his life of crime."

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