The scene with the golden telephone ceremony is based on real events. (However, while Hyman Roth is killed at an airport - in an assassination based on the real-life murder of Lee Harvey Oswald - Meyer Lansky passed away at age 80 after spending his twilight years living quietly in Florida.)ĥ. Taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows the Israeli government to exclude those with criminal pasts, Lansky was deported back to the U.S. In 1970, real-life mobster Meyer Lanksy fled to Israel to avoid federal tax evasion charges.
His request is rejected by the Israeli High Court because of his crime history. In The Godfather: Part II, Hyman Roth files a request to retire overseas under the Law of Return, which allows anyone of Jewish descent to settle in the State of Israel. The Law of Return doesn't protect mobsters - on screen or off-screen. Rothstein was a real-life kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York who is considered to be an orchestrator of the Chicago Black Sox Scandal of 1919, in which eight White Sox baseball players conspired to throw the series.Ĥ. In the film, Hyman Roth (then Hyman Suchowsky) tells Vito Corleone that he admires Arnold Rothstein for fixing the 1919 World Series, and changes his last name to Roth. Hyman Roth's mob idol is a real-life gangster. In real life, after Vegas hotels like The Flamingo (which Bugsy Siegel managed and Meyer Lansky had a financial stake in) began turning a profit, numerous Mafia families maneuvered to get a piece of the burgeoning gambling action out west.ģ. In The Godfather: Part II, Michael Corleone moves the family business to Nevada in an attempt to legitimize his foothold in the gambling industry. Michael moves the family business to Vegas - as did numerous real-life crime families. Allegedly, Lansky called Strasberg after the film's premiere and congratulated him on his performance, but added, "You could have made me more sympathetic. Lansky is widely credited for coming up with some of the key innovations upon which the casino and gambling industry is built today. Hyman Roth, played in The Godfather: Part II by actor Lee Strasberg, was based on real-life mobster Meyer Lansky. Hyman Roth is based on real casino mogul Meyer Lansky. Which mobsters were based on actual mafiosos? Which scenes were pulled right from the headlines? Read on to discover five true mob stories behind The Godfather: Part II:ġ. The Academy Award-winning film follows in The Godfather's footsteps of basing some of the film's most notable characters and events on real mob history. One imagines this is a discussion that’ll be watched and enjoyed for years to come.On the final Mob Monday, The Godfather: Part II airs at 5:30/4:30c, followed by the finale of The Making of the Mob: New York at 10/9c. So many classic films take time to find their footing in the annals of cinema history, so it’s great that we now have those that made these films on record reflecting candidly on their road to cinema glory. This is a fascinating, lengthy chat about two of the greatest films ever made, and that so many principal actors involved were able to take part in the discussion makes it pretty terrific. Of course when it came time to make The Godfather Part II, it was much smoother sailing.Įven Pacino admitted his misgivings about the first film during production, revealing that after shooting the wedding scene, he and Keaton got drunk together and talked about how much of a disaster The Godfather appeared to be, going so far as to describe it as “the worst film ever made.” Coppola himself was almost fired, but during the Q&A he revealed how he made some adjustments to appease the studio while keeping the integrity of The Godfather intact. The one-and-a-half-hour discussion covered a wide range of topics, focusing on the difficulty of even getting the first Godfather made-which included Paramount’s unwillingness to cast Marlon Brando or Pacino in what would become iconic roles in cinema history.
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And now the full discussion is online for all to see. Yes indeed, in one hell of a Q&A, Francis Ford Coppola was joined onstage by Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Talia Shire, and James Caan after a back-to-back screening of the first two Godfather films, with director Taylor Hackford ( Ray) moderating. This weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival, the main cast and director of two of the greatest films ever made reunited to talk all things The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
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