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2021-02-08, 05:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 2021-02-09, 11:32 PM by weegee2392.)
I noticed a few changes between the Final Directors Cut version restoration from 2008 and Coda. (I don’t think the original theatrical version was released on Home video.)
1. A new color grading but I don’t mind this one (with The exception of one flashback in the middle of the film to The Godfather Part 1), FFC must’ve thought the golden tint from the original Blu-ray did not work for this film.
2. The opening is altered a bit it starts in Rome with Michael and a cardinal in a meeting.
3. The death of Lucchesi is more Violent in nature with new foley work to accompany that.
4. Everybody knows this by now but the ending has been altered to remove flashbacks to the first two parts and Michael doesn’t physically die unlike the original 1990 theatrical version and 1991 Final Directors Cut where cuts from a flashback of Mary to other flashback then fades to elderly Michael. After Michael puts on his shades, it fades to a proverb instead.
5. Line alterations in a few scenes.
6. The 2003 Paramount logo (which plasters is the 1990 logo) opens and closes the 2008 restoration and The 2020 Paramount logo (also plasters the 1990 logo) opens and closes Coda. (The 1990 and 1997 VHS along with the 2001 DVD retained the 1990 logo)
7. Restoration credits are added and the MPPA logo is changed to the MPA logo.
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I haven't watched the Godfather Part 3 for a while, so I'll to go back and watch it again.
That said, the Godfather Coda is the exact same movie. Nothing has really changed significantly at all. Moving the cardinal meeting to the start doesn't really achieve anything, and the one half-significant change is that at the end Michael doesn't literally slump over and die in the same was as his father Vito.
All the problems with the original still persist, most notably the complete absence of Tom Hagen, and Michael's quest for redemption which I do not believe the audience feels. He gets what he deserves. I've never agreed with the criticisms against Sofia Coppola - she showed a raw emotional performance that felt more real at times.
Aside from the ending being genuinely improved, I'm not sure what else was accomplished in this new edit? It just seems like Coppola is obsessed with editing his movies over, and over again probably to the inspiration of Lucas...
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I also felt that it was exactly the same movie. Nothing of any substance has changed.
Godfather III has been all but completely dismissed in the years since its release. I think this new version is just Coppola's way of getting everybody to re-watch (and hopefully re-appraise) the movie.
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That's strange. You're saying the slumping over is edited out in the new cut? Then maybe I accidentally watched the old cut. Hmmm