The Godfather (1972) by Francis Ford Coppola, Clip: Five Dead Dons & a baptism-Michael takes control

The Image: The montage intercutting between Michael presiding over his godson's baptism - https://aestheticoftheimageuk.files.w... - and his mobsters gunning down Dons/key members of the Five Families (https://aestheticoftheimageuk.files.w...) becomes a little obvious in this scene - but still, kinda cool...

(But, I do really like Coppola's homage to Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein, where the woman shot in her right eye through her glasses is transmuted to where bespectacled Moe Greene is shot in his right eye by everyone's favourite gangster, Al Neri - compare here: https://aestheticoftheimageuk.files.w...)
And the look on Don Costello's face - almost wide-mouthed outrage at the audacity of him being assassinated by these hoodlums is kind funny - https://aestheticoftheimageuk.files.w...

Image book here: https://aestheticoftheimageuk.wordpre...

Cinematography - Gordon Willis
(Francis Ford Coppola looks like this: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6ce6dd...)

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