Michael Corleone rewrites his ending

For 16 years, from the filming of

to

Francis Ford Coppola resisted the siren's songs.

All that could.

Paramount knew that the Corleones, the main family of the Mafia plot (a word that is never mentioned in the first installment), were a gold mine.

But its director resisted.

Not even with the bankruptcy of his production company, American Zoetrope, did he change his mind.

There were even 15 treatments in dance on the plot that would close the tri ...

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