The Godfather works so well because it isn't a film that kisses it's own ass on a variety of sub-levels. I first watched it back close to ten years ago as a 12 year old, never fully getting the story with the film falling into the "great film that I didn't appreciate" category until a month or so back when I got the Coppola restoration Blu-Ray and realized as an adult how fantastic of a film it truly was. Growing up as a film nut, I often heard of The Godfather as possessing a sort of mythic status which few films made after 1955 possess. I was roughly twenty years away from even being conceived when The Godfather came out.
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