WriteMyEssay.com

...FILMS By Tracy Gregory, - August 1998 In this corner, is the 1969 best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, The Godfather, and in this corner is, collectively, The Godfather films 1, 2 and 3, penned by famed director Francis Ford Coppola. The loser of this contest will, no doubt, find a horse's head in its bed. The Godfather is an epic novel which charts the evolution of an Sicilian-American family, the Corleone's, whose struggles were chronicled on the screen in three films, released in 1972, 1974 and 1990, respectively. Despite the folklore which has become a part of The Godfather mystique, the book was a complete work of fiction, and written, Puzo sheepishly admits, solely for the money. The character of Don Vito Corleone was modeled after no one Puzo knew The Godfather was based on three years of exhaustive research into the exclusive `family business' known as La Cosa Nostra. Despite its subject matter which immediately assured it of bestseller status (which is the reason Puzo selected to write the novel in the...