![]() When Michael is sitting at the dinner table with Sollozzo and Police Captain McCluskey (Sterling Hayden), he lets Sollozzo do all the talking, easing him into comfort before pulling the trigger. The two scenes are polar opposites in all ways but suspense. Scarface doesn’t give us many details of the crimes Tony was involved in while still in Cuba, so he makes his cinematic bones executing General Emilio Rebenga in the American detention camp for Cuban refugees. Castellano) before he goes out to enjoy the veal. ![]() Michael gets assassination training from his father’s most trusted capo, Pete Clemenza (Richard S. And every soldier has to go through basic training before they’re ready to earn their button. ![]() In mafia organizations, real and cinematic, the button men on the street are called soldiers. Pacino brings little of the wisdom of his Godfather role to Scarface’s title character. Tony Montana owns the screen from the moment it opens until his last splash in the fountain under the “World Is Yours” sign. Michael isn’t the focus of an entire film until The Godfather, Part III, and by then folks were only distracted by his daughter. While Michael inherits the position by The Godfather, Part II, he shares Godfather roles with Robert De Niro there, and people come away feeling a little sorry for Fredo. The Godfather is a mob movie, crowded with top rate talent in an ensemble case, but it belongs to Marlon Brando. The whole movie is about Tony Montana and his meteoric rise through money, power and women. Montana leaves a larger body count in the wake of his cocaine empire career. Gallo stand-in Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo (Al Lettieri) did a lot of damage while he was trying to muscle in on Don Vito Corleone’s territory, selling white powder. ![]() Montana is a hungry, young, loose cannon, just like real-life’s “Crazy” Joe Gallo, who went up against the Profaci family in the street fight which Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola used as inspiration on The Godfather. Tony Montana doesn’t live to see the fruits of his labor, but his career in crime is littered with the successes of excess. The obvious answer would seem to be Michael Corleone because he turned a criminal empire into a multi-billion-dollar international business, and lived to a ripe old age to regret it. Both roles are smorgasbords of possibilities to an actor, especially one who chased Richard III to every imaginable outcome. Tony was a shooting star on the other hand, one on a collision course with an unyielding atmosphere. ![]() But in The Godfather, at least, he grows into the establishment. Possibly right before they rumble.Īl Pacino played both men in both movies, and in each film, he begins the story as a punk. The Who’s anthem was a musical allegory about the rock scene, but the lyrics might as well be interpreted as a conversation between Michael Corleone and Tony Montana. That being said, a definitive place in the DCU would be a true feather in the cap of any former Hogwarts student looking to get back into a major movie series.Scarface hadn’t been made when Pete Townshend’s 1974 song “ The Punk and the Godfather” came out, but The Godfather certainly had. Some Harry Potter alumni have already had noteworthy brushes with films based off of DC Comics, with Gary Oldman starring as Commissioner Gordon and Robert Pattinson turning in one of the best live-action Batman performances. James Gunn's nascent DCU will need plenty of talented actors and actresses to add to its ranks, and actors experienced with carrying big franchises like the Harry Potter cast would be a true boon. The cast of the Harry Potter movies have gone on to do some incredible work, whether they were already household names by the time of the series or child actors that cultivated their talent while starring in the films. With the latest film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows - Part 2 being 13 years old now, many former wizards and witches are free to join a new blockbuster franchise. The DCU still has a lot of critical characters to fill out for its roster, and looking to the iconic Harry Potter films may reveal some good casting choices. ![]()
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