I belong to Facebook groups for a number of my favorite movies and shows. They’re sometimes fun, with postings of trivia and photos of videos. That’s what I enjoy.
But then there are posts where people express their opinion or their understanding of something in those movies/shows and I have to shake my head and say to myself “Did they watch the same thing I did?” Sometimes people totally misread a character or a scene. I go back to it over and over to see if I missed something.
One of the groups, the one in which this happens most, is about all things concerning The Godfather movie franchise. Like why didn’t they have Michael killed instead of having him kill the cop and gangster in the restaurant then Don’t would be in charge.
Or why did they kill off Apolonia? She’s the wife Michael deserved. May want a good enough wife and he didn’t love her. Really?
Have you ever wondered how someone could watch a movie and get something entirely different from what you understood?
Sometimes I go in the group and post what my understanding is or I will post what I have seen or read from watching and reading countless books, articles, and interviews since I first saw the first movie back in high school. I’ve seen the first Godfather movie at least 100 times. The second and third, almost as many. I know those movies inside and out. I’ve read and watched Puzo and Coppola interviews almost as many times. I think I get it. I think “they” don’t.
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