The Godfather's James Caan on a scene cut from the film: “There was a scene before in the same room that I had with Bobby [Duvall] that was like 10 pages long — and Francis cut all of it out! I was so pissed off, I couldn’t watch the rest of the film.”
The Godfather's James Caan is still upset over director Francis Ford Coppola's decision to cut an extended scene from the movie. Released in 1972, The Godfather quickly became the most popular film of the year, topping the box office chart with $86 million gross . The film became a cultural phenomenon and is recognized as one of the best films ever made. The American Film Institute placed The Godfather as the third best film of all time in their 100 Years...
James Caan stars as Santino"Sonny" Corleone, the mafia family's patriarch Vito Corleone's eldest son in The Godfather. After Vito rejects a business proposition with the rival family, the Tattaglias, he is gunned down in the streets as retaliation. This temporarily pushes Sonny to the head of the family with revenge on his mind. However, one scene cut from The Godfather had Caan's Sonny and Robert Duvall's Hagen opposite each other, and Caan's still not over it.
"When Michael [Pacino] tells me he is going to take care of the cop and Sollozzo [Al Lettieri], I say, ‘You’ll get brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.’ There was a scene before in the same room that I had with Bobby [Duvall] that was like 10 pages long — and Francis cut all of it out! I was so pissed off, I couldn’t watch the rest of the film."
Although Caan was upset with Coppola for cutting a scene in which Sonny was the central focus, the actor was still happy with how the film turned out, adding,"But otherwise, he gave me a great honor." Caan garnered nominations for his role at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. Although he did not win, The Godfather took home top honors at both award ceremonies.
Before production on the film began, both Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, the original writer of the book the film is based on, independently wrote two separate screenplays for the film. The two later combined their scripts, trimming and excising any scenes that did not fit with the film thematically, and ended up with a screenplay that sat at a whopping 163 pages. The average screenplay length sits between 90 and 120 pages.
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