******************************************************* THE GODFATHER NEWSLETTER #4 - 2/4/96 ******************************************************* Published now and then to inform all padrinophiles about updates and other news concerning The Godfather and The Godfather Trilogy website. Your host: Geoff "Il Padrino" Malta email: jgeoff@TheGodfatherTrilogy.com WWW: THE GODFATHER TRILOGY URL: http://www.TheGodfatherTrilogy.com/ If you do not wish to receive future editions of this newsletter, or if you have received more than one copy of this newsletter, please let me know. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. What's New on the site? 3. Trivia Contest Announcement 4. Storage space update 5. 13 awards to date! 6. GF Discussion +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 1. INTRODUCTION Ciao, fellow padrinophiles! There are now 200 of yooz! THANKS!! It's been almost a month since the last issue, so there's lots of new stuff! **STILL** No one has written me with any more info on The Godfather Part IV. .. has anyone heard anything new? This new newsletter is NOT a mailing list (yet)... I've painstakingly taken all your email addresses from your Survey submissions, and have pasted them To: this document. Responses to this newsletter will NOT be sent to everyone, but just to me. But that's okay! If you have any comments about this, or anything else, please let me know! Enjoy... +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 2. WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE? LOTS!! *New animated GF logos for Netscape 2.0 users! *A new site logo! *The site should be slightly faster, as I've decreased the sizes of some of the graphics. But I still don't know why it's so slow :( Sorry! *For Scholars Only: A new section that discusses the GF films in more depth! *Oranges?!: A new section... find out what it's about! *Family Portraits and updated Family Trees! I still need the GF3 portrait, though! *Translations of "The Godfather" and the Don's "offer" quote in other languages! *Two MIDI versions of the GF theme! *More "other links" -- and now they're rated! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 3. TRIVIA CONTEST NUMBER 2 ENDS FEB 8th! Trivia Contest #2 ends on February 8th. This month's contest is sponsored by The Nostalgia Factory, who graciously have donated original 8x10" promo stills. There will be FOUR winners this month! Good luck, folks! CONTEST #3 will start on February 10th! I'm still looking for sponsors, though, so I'll keep you updated on the prize situation! If you'd like to sponsor a prize, please let me know! In order to be sure we have future prizes for the contests, I have to make the sponsors happy :) If you are looking for Godfather memorabilia, please fill out the form on the following URL (it comes up after you enter the forms-based contest): http://www.exit109.com/~jgeoff/godfather/thanks2.html Also, I'm still waiting for more entries for the GF LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST! Read the details on the contest page, accessible from the main page. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 4. UPDATE ON MY STORAGE SPACE Those of you who've read the last issue know that a month ago I've reached my disk-storage limit on my Internet Access Provider's hard-drive, and could n't add anything more! My ISP has graciously given me another 5M of storage! Of course, that'll be used up soon -- especially when I get my Goodfellas site up. The Scarface site took lots of space because of the 30 WAV files posted. So... If anyone can provide any space on a *reliable* and *fast* server for some WAV files, please let me know! Grazie! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 5. THE GF TRILOGY SITE HITS 13 AWARDS! Wow! I want to thank each and every one of you for helping to make this site so popular and successful! As of now, the GF site has received 13 awards PLUS many favorable reviews! Check the Kudos page! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 6. GODFATHER DISCUSSION Because of the new For Scholars Only page, I won't have to include the text here. Last month I posted a conversation about who tried to kill Pentangeli , and that can be found now on the site. The next topic will be "Who was the "real" Godfather? Vito or Michael?" Here's a taste of what's to come: Donald wrote: >Nathan...Regarding the last note I have from you about the "real GF". I >favor the idea of Marlon Brando as *THE* Godfather just from sheer charisma >of the character. Michael and Vincent will always be the "sons" in my mind. > As you pointed out, there are references throughout the movies about Vito as >the GF and how the sons learn from him or are compared to him. Besides, Vito >earned it on his own to give origin to the family. While Michael can write >the book on building power, he and Vincent are regarded more as forces that >preserved the family. Make sense?? Donald, you make sense. But there should have been more of Brando and De Niro in the films! I love Pacino, but those two...WOW! But let me include my and Nathan's previous ideas for easy of memory: -- > As we follow the entire saga, we see that the title role of "The >Godfather" is that of Michael Corleone throughout nearly all of GF2 >and GF3. If there is to be a GF4, it may well be that Vincent will be >"The Godfather" by that time. But which character does the title "The >Godfather" signify in Part I? Is it Vito? Or is it Michael? Or is it both >of them? Whose hand is that symbolically holding the strings in the >familiar GF logo? I agree with you Nathan that Michael was the Godfather in all three films... Vito, who in all respects was a Don in his own right, represented, at first, the life that Michael despised. Until, evidently, he got a taste of it after shooting Sollozzo and McCluskey. He still had the Family honor to pull this off. He loved his father, and not only became him, but became an exaggeration of him. He was even more ruthless than Vito. Without knowing Vito in Part I, and his background in Part II, we'd never know what Michael had to live "up" to in a way... About the logo, remember Vito tells Michael: "I refused to be the fool, dancing on the strings held by those bigshots... (pezzonovante)." I assume these are the strings. But the Godfather is a bigshot as well, right? Just a thought: Perhaps the "hand" holding the strings represents the "proper" society (truly run by pezzonovante I believe), and he *is* dancing on the strings... The strings do end at the words "The Godfather." It may appear that mob folk are separate and apart from society, with their own rules and rulers... but who, in the end, shows to be the true "ruler" with the "real" "rules"? Look at John Gotti :) They try so hard to NOT "dance" on the strings (go along with the masses controled by "authority"), but I think, to a point, that may be impossible. It *is* admirable to try not to dance on the strings, and some succeed; who wants to go "along with the masses," at least with that 'control' theme? And I think we even try *not* to a lot of the times, but ultimately, we are one society and have to play by the rules -- right? Just one cents' worth of my two cents... :) [it's a little rambling, I know, but there's an Al Pacino interview on HBO about 'Heat' right now :)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who cares to share their input on this topic, please send it to me! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Folks, the best is yet to come! (I HOPE!) What's in store for the future? *More info on Puzo the novel! *More info on the actors, including their birthdays (so we don't miss them!) *A Godfather actor's address book! Please let me know what *you'd* like to see in the future! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Thanks for reading! And again, let me know if you don't want this sent to you again, or if you've received more than one copy of it. Heck, let me know anything ya want me to know...! GRAZIE A TUTTI E SALUTE! CIAO I MIEI AMICI! 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