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Robert De NiroandAl Pacinoare still repping the family business half a century later.
Pacino, 82, and author Michael Hainey participated in a discussion about the seminal mafia title from directorFrancis Ford Coppolabefore Tribeca screened the film’s restoration.
De Niro and Pacino previously joined Coppola, 83, onstage at the 94thAcademy Awards, where the iconic directorreflected on his magnum opus' milestone anniversary.
“I feel moments like this should be sincere and brief,” he said, turning to De Niro and Pacino. “And I’m so grateful for my wonderful friends to come here to help me celebrate with you.
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“This project that we began 50 years ago with really the most extraordinary collaborators, many of them legends and so many of them that I can’t take the time to list them all, but you know them all well. So I’m going to only thank two from the bottom of my heart,” Coppola added.
Pacino toldThe New York Timesthat he’s been “deeply honored” to see the film’s lasting acclaim over the past 50 years, while musing on the anniversary.
“It’s a piece of work that I was so fortunate to be in. But it’s taken me a lifetime to accept it and move on,” Pacino said in March. “It’s not like I played Superman.”
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The Academy Award winner added that he’s “surprised” when people tell him they’ve never seen the movie, adding: “They’ve heard about it. You get that. ‘Oh, I heard — were you in that? That was a film, wasn’t it?'”
The Godfathertells the story of the Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) as his youngest son Michael (Pacino) joins the mafia and tries to juggle the violent family business with his marriage to wife Kay (Diane Keaton).
The film, which is based on screenwriter Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel of the same name, has been widely regarded as one of the best films of all time since it premiered in 1972. It won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, in addition to nominations for Coppola and Pacino.
De Niro starred in 1974’sThe Godfather Part IIas a younger version of Vito.
source: people.com
