Cine TV Contest #27 - The Godfather and Nino Rota

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Music has permeated the various activities that man does at all times. It is with him in festivals of joy, occasions of sadness, religious rituals, and in the education of children, up to music therapy. During which the world knew the system and achieved balance.

According to Plato's theory, we find that music served humanity in achieving unification between human feelings and the various elements of life in one society and among different societies, and was able to express the individual and the group in coordination and unity.


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In 1969, while Paramount Company was suffering from a delay and a decline in its revenues and its ranking among American production companies, a unique work by Mario Puzo called “The Godfather” appeared in the sky, and the company bought it before the novel became even more popular and achieved the title of bestseller in America.

Paramount bought the novel, but did not start turning it into a cinematic work right away. Instead, it produced other films to make some profit to cover production costs, so it produced the famous movie Love Story, which we all remember with its famous music, and this movie achieved some success.

At the beginning of the film and in the scene in which the great producer “Waltz” appears as he rose from his bed to find his “horse head” severed and located under the cover on his bed, which was filled with blood, in fact the real actor did not know that this head was real and that they came from a dog food factory , which made him shriek loudly and seriously upon seeing this mess.

The soundtrack that made the film in the timeless classic color, and it roamed around the world because of its magnificence, and was nominated for an Oscar in the first part, but he did not get it because there is a track in the film's music that was used in another movie made by the same composer produced in 1958 entitled Fortunella, However, the music won the Oscar in the second part of the film, after the similarity was excluded.

The Godfather movie is the only movie in which the same main character for the work in two different ages and in two parts of it gets Oscars. The second part, Robert De Niro, also received an Oscar.

Nino Rota

Italian composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for the tunes of his films, which exceeded one hundred and fifty tunes, in which he composed for films by great directors such as (Luciano Visconti), (Frederico Fellini) and (Francis Fordcoppola). The second of them won the Academy Award for Best Original Score.

He was born into a musical family in Milan, Italy, and his genius appeared early in his childhood, so he wrote his first verbal musical piece at the age of eleven! He performed in front of an audience for the first time in 1923 at the age of twelve, in a three-act comedy.
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