So without further ado here are the winners.
1975- The Godfather Part II
I did not like the first movie and I did not like this one. I am just so incredibly happy that the third movie did not win a Best Picture award. I am still trying to figure out how this movie and the first one won Best Picture. I feel like both movies are very violent and if I was the one who decided if they won or not I would make sure that they would not win.
This is not my type of movie to go out and watch. It has been fun doing this blog because it has made me watch movies that I would not normally watch and some of them I have been pleasantly surprised that I like and then there are a lot of them that I have just hated and will never watch again. To be honest I thought this movie was really boring and once the movie was over I was so happy to watch something else. Just like the first movie, I want those 3 hours that I had to sit through back in my life. I will never watch this movie again because I didn't care for the violence and the language and did I already mention that it was boring? If people ever ask me if I have ever seen this movie I can tell them that I have but there is no amount of money in the world you could give me to make me watch this movie again let alone the first one again.
As my family knows I love to read the trivia about movies. So some interesting trivia I found out about this movie was that the director was actually thinking of having Marlon Brando come back and play the younger version of Vito Corleone before he became the Godfather because he thought Marlon Brando could play any part. But then the director remembered that Robert De Niro auditioned for the lead role in The Godfather that he chose him instead of Marlon Brando to play Vito Corleone. Another interesting fact was that Robert De Niro lived in Sicily to prepare for his role and he also spent 4 months learning to speak the Sicilian dialect to play Vito Corleone.
1974- The Sting
I LOVED this movie. I don't want to spoil the movie so a quick summary of the movie is this: When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. The story unfolds with several twists and last minute alterations. I would recommend this movie to anyone. It was fun watching this with my mom. She has seen this movie before so if I was confused about something she would explain it to me or she would tell me to just watch and my question would be answered because she didn't want to spoil it for me. I wish the reason she was in Yakima watching this with me was for a fun time of hanging out with me but sadly it was because I had the flu and she was taking care of me. Thankfully I feeling a lot better when we watched this movie.
Robert Redford and Paul Newman play the main con men. Paul plays the more experienced con man and Robert plays the young con man. Both are pretty good looking in this film but I have to say that Paul is the better looking one. His eyes are an amazing blue color and they just make you melt. He has always been good looking. I even think he was good looking when he got really old before he died.
I will totally watch this movie again and I might just have to put it on my birthday wish list :) I would totally recommend this movie to anyone who wants to see it.
1973- The Godfather
To be honest
I was not that excited to watch this movie but I don't know if anyone would be
excited to see The Godfather. I have heard this movie being quoted so many
times from people or from other shows that I wasn't really impressed by them
when I actually heard them in the movie because I could actually say it along
with the actor. When I see a movie for the first time I don't want to be able
to quote along with it. I was a little intrigued to see why most guys like this
movie. After watching the movie I wanted my 3 hours back and still had no idea
why guys like the movie.
I was
talking to my parents about this movie and my dad made the comment that he
doesn't like it when people say that this film shows the American dream, which
is "wealth at any cost". In the movie there are 18 deaths and if you
really believe that saying "wealth at any cost" then it seems to me
that they are saying it is ok to go out and kill people that are in your way. I
know that they are not really saying that but in a way I feel like they are.
My family
knows that I love reading the trivia about movies. I was reading the trivia
about this movie and one of the things that I thought was interesting but also
really disgusting is that the scene with the horse head in the bed is that it
is a real horse head. In rehearsals a fake horse head was used but for the
actual scene the real head was put there. The reaction that the guy has to it
is real because no one told the actor that they were going to use a real head.
I just feel like that was really mean for them to do. I think they should have
told the actor.
Marlon Brando won the Best Actor award for his portrayal of Don Vito Corleone. He decided to boycott the ceremony and sent Sacheen Littlefeather in his place to explain why he would not be accepting the award. Because of this incident the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences decided that a proxy will no longer be allowed to accept an award for an actor.
This will be
a movie I am more than happy to never watch again. If people ask me if I have
ever seen this movie then I can tell them that yes I have but will never watch
it again.
The following video shows why proxies are no longer allowed.
I was reading on Wikipedia about this and it said that Marlon Brando had written a 15-page speech for her to read on stage but when the producer met her backstage he threatened to physically remove her or arrest her if she goes longer than the 60 seconds. Everything she says on stage is improvised but once she got backstage she read the entire 15-page speech to the press. I am really curious to see what he wrote but I don't want to read 15 pages.
Coming Attractions: 1972, 1971 and 1970 Best Picture winners.
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