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Offline MariaCatherine

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Why do so many Catholics like the Godfather films?
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2013, 08:35:52 PM »
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    The anti-hero loses all of his friends, all of his family, and everything he holds dear.  Even by secular standards he 'lost.'  


    Losers are glorified, or apologized for, all the time in our culture.


    True, but I don't think they are in the Godfather.   :smile:


    No anti-heroes in those films? What do you call them? Cultural Catholics? CINOs? Labels. I want labels.


    You said "losers are glorified, etc. etc."

    And I said "yes they are, but not in the Godfather."



    They obviously are to many people, if not to you.

    I wonder if any good film has ever been made that didn't glorify or apologize for its main characters.
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    Why do so many Catholics like the Godfather films?
    « Reply #16 on: April 21, 2013, 06:02:30 PM »
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    • Then again, it just might be that there are some great lines found in those movies that are completely relevant to today.  One that always comes to mind can be found in context to the Fellay-Krah machinations or to the whole ecuŠ¼enical outreach thing.  From The Godfather Part II:

    Frank Pentangeli: "Your father did business with Hyman Roth.  Your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never trusted Hyman Roth."

    There are others.

    "I can handle things, I'm smart, not like everybody says. Not dumb, I'm smart, and I want respect!"

    "Discontent for money is just a trick of the rich to keep the poor without it."

    "You give your loyalty to a Jew over your own blood."
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    Why do so many Catholics like the Godfather films?
    « Reply #17 on: April 21, 2013, 06:25:33 PM »
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    • The Godfather II is filthy.  Particularly when his wasp wife has an abortion.
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    Why do so many Catholics like the Godfather films?
    « Reply #18 on: April 21, 2013, 06:50:37 PM »
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    The Godfather II is filthy.  Particularly when his wasp wife has an abortion.


    Agreed that that is filthy.

    But that is a portrayal of immorality, not a glorification of it.  
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