It begins with a man asking for revenge. “I believe in America,” says the undertaker Bonasera into the dark, and for a long, unbroken minute Francis Ford Coppola holds on his face while the camera eases back to reveal Vito Corleone listening from behind a desk. Everything The Godfather is about is already in that scene: the distance between the country’s promises and the favors that actually move it, and a family that has built an empire in the …
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