#source: godfather: part II

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

But Daffy is only nine, and dumb-witted. The child cannot harm you.

Farmer Jim to Elmer Fudd

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Reference: Literary & Hollywood Cocktails

Literary Cocktails

Literature has its own compendium of cocktails, both on the page and in the hands of writers—typing or scribbling away with a favorite drink within reach, or schmoozing with fellow artists in the bars of Paris, London, or New York.

FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY

No two writers are more intimately associated with alcohol than F. Scott Fizgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

Fitzgerald, who gave the Jazz Age its moniker, will forever be associated with the speakeasy culture at once glamorized and criticized in The Great Gatsby.

Hemingway, of course, did much to make the Mojito and Daiquiri the classic Caribbean drinks they are.

DETECTIVE COCKTAILS

Cocktail culture saturates the detective novels of such genre-transcending writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

In Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe learns the mysteries of the Gimlet from doomed playboy Terry Lennox.

Dashiell Hammett’s Nick Charles is perhaps the greatest literary connoisseur of the cocktail; the hero of The Thin Man shares his love not only for Martinis but also for Bronx Cocktails and Knickerbockers.

Hollywood Cocktails

The most famous of all movie cocktails is, of course, James Bond’s vodka martini—shaken, not stirred.

But the martini as a mark of style and sophistication owes more to the decades earlier classic comedies of the 1930s, notably the Thin Man movies.

Whiskey cocktails inherited the mantle of manliness passed on from classic Westerns.

But other cocktails were seen as more feminine: when Rick, Humphrey Bogart’s lovelorn hero in Casablanca, says “Here’s looking at you, kid” to Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa, he has just mixed her a champagne cocktail.

“Softer” drinks in the hands of male characters came to suggest a lack of grit—as when the feckless Fredo orders a banana daiquiri in The Godfather Part II.

Next to martinis, no drink has exercised such a spell over Hollywood as the Manhattan:

In Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe’s alluring Sugar Kane Kowalczyk imbibes Manhattans.

Off screen, the Manhattan became the signature drink of Frank Sinatra’s notorious Rat Pack.

Source: The Ultimate Cocktail Encyclopedia by Walter Burns More: Wine-tasting ⚜ Drunkenness ⚜ Drinking ⚜ Cocktails

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WHEN IS A MOVIE SCENE TOO VIOLENT? WHEN COPPOLA DECIDES TO CUT IT FROM HIS EPIC CRIME FILM.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a deleted scene from Mario Puzo's "The Godfather" (1972), in which Michael returns to America to track down Fabrizio, his former Sicilian bodyguard and the man responsible for the death of his wife Apollonia. Finding him in a pizza parlor, Michael blows him away with a shotgun. The scene was ultimately cut from the film due to its graphic violence.

OVERVIEW: "In the "Godfather" book, Michael tracks down Fabrizio, the bodyguard that tried to kill him (but only succeeded in killing Apollonia). In "Part I," there is a scene that shows Michael recovering and ordering his men to find his former bodyguard. Coppola also filmed a scene in which Michael, toting a lupara just like Fabrizio, confronts him and blows him away, but it was so bloody that it was cut. But Coppola returned to it in "Part II," showing Michael getting the news that Fabrizio had been tracked down."

-- THE PASSION OF CHRISTOPHER PIERZNIK, "Some of My Favorite Deleted Scenes from “The Godfather” Films," published April 18, 2016

Source: https://christopherpierznik.com/2016/04/18/some-of-my-favorite-deleted-scenes-from-the-godfather-films.

[modcrnspirits]

Cole mac Cumhaill

Info:

Face: Colin Farrell Age: unknown, looks like 48 Occupation: Professor / Trainer / Coach Gift: long life, controls wind and thunder Sexuality: Omni Position: Mostly Bottom Gods Connections: Zeus and Jupiter (his fathers), Ba'al (his godfather), Monkey King, Odin, Circe, Raijin, Zang Ghuo, Nix & other deities for storm, magic, night and chaos. Family:

Fathers: Francis mac Cumhaill (Jude Law) and Zeus (Bruce Campbell)

Husband: Theodore "Theo" Sullivan (Ewan McGregor)

Sons:

Cian mac Cumhaill (Paul Mescal) with Dian Cecht Felix mac Cumhaill (Thomas Doherty) with Fortuna Mort mac Cumhaill (Joe Alwyn) with Yoshio Tagawa Rodrick mac Cumhaill (Taron Egerton) with Mercury (Dan Stevens) Alberto mac Cumhaill with Xipe-Totec (Humberto Carrao)

Brothers mac Cumhaill:

Alfie mac Cumhaill (Tom Hardy) Samuel mac Cumhaill (Lee Pace) Alois mac Cumhaill (Michael Fassbender) Gaspar mac Cumhaill (Richard Madden) Flynn mac Cumhaill (Ryan Gosling) Noah mac Cumhaill (Paul Rudd)

Brothers by Zeus:

Billy Marte (Brandon Flynn) Carlos Cervantes II (young Antonio Banderas)

Body Type:

Cock Size: 8.2 inches (21 cm) Cock Shape: Normal girth, leaning to the right which makes one part of his cock a bit girthier Type: Uncut Balls and Pubes: Shaved balls, trimmed pubes over his cock Ass: Round and firm cheeks, mostly shaved, except a bit around the hole Tattoos: 1. A circle (looks like a sun) around his bellybutton, given by the gods (and connected to his "ability" of getting sons). Body type: Well taken care of dadbod, a small pouch but strong arms and chest. Body hair: a bit fur in the middle of his chest and a bit on his belly. Special attributes: he is often caged, so his cock might look smaller but on periods without wearing a cage his cock gets back to normal size.

History:

Born as the Roman Empire conquered the western world, Cole has had many different names. His powers over storm and thunder come from two of his three fathers - a union between two pantheons inside Francis. A favorite among Emperors and Generals, Cole was raised at the top of the Empire.

Don't be fooled by his zen-exterior. Cole was once the problematic kid and that somehow gave him the favor of some of the most chaotic gods that granted him power over winds and lightning. But as the ages passed, Cole readjusted. He is a Professor now - at a real, important college, but also for the Family.

He teaches magic and he makes sure every new person that enters the family is suited for their works: body, mind and spirit. He is rigid and tough and only the best ones end up finishing his trainings. And yet, most of his students love him.

He is married to a mortal, Theo, who he loves with all his heart. Their relationship is open and one of Theo's kinks is to watch Cole with other men.

He currently is taking care of a young son with Theo. This has been a source of problem, because the father, Xipe-Totec, is jealous of Cole's devotion to Theo and he had thought giving Cole a new hero would stop the man's wedding from continuing. Instead, Theo stepped up and has been a wonderful father for the boy.

In bed:

he likes gang bangs, breeding, watersports, exhibitionism, giving orders, dressing up, feminization, FF, etc.

[melis-writes]

Not me thinking of Victoria under the desk in the last gif 🤫 https://www.tumblr.com/melis-writes/727516756402388992/the-godfather-part-ii-1974-dir-francis-ford?source=share

I love how we had a chapter exactly like that in the first part of the fic where Michael was trying to do business over the phone and Victoria was right underneath his desk, trying to get some 🥴🥴

[orlaite]

24, 26, 27 and 33 💃

24. do sequels always ruin originals?

Not always, some of my favourite movies are sequels: The Godfather part II, Paddington 2, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and I do (almost guiltily) love some franchises that have really good sequels, like X-Men: Days of Future Past or Avatar: The Way of Water. Good sequels are definitely the outlier though, and most of the time they're either straight up awful or have some kind of charm or small redeeming qualities that make them atleast passable (e.g Hellraiser 2, Robocop 2). Honestly, most of the time I don't watch sequels: maybe because I fear they'll take away some of the magic and "ruin" the original.

26. which movie made you think the most about life?

Again I'm gonna go with Malick's Tree of Life. The juxtaposition of the creation of the universe/love/God/nature with the life of one boy and his family and the way this juxtaposing ties the "smallness" of humans into the "largeness" of all existence and of God is just beautiful and it's one of the few movies that have made me feel spiritual; only as intensly Christian as that movie is, "God" feels more like a stand-in for the security and meaning humans crave in a way that makes it really acessible to anyone even if they're not Christian or religious at all. Beautiful, beautiful movie and not to brag but I own the Criterion Edition🥰

27. are you enjoying the remaking of old films or do we need to get creative and do something new?

Do something new omg pleeeeease stop remaking old movies that are already perfect!! We don't need a new Possession movie we need the physical discs of the original Possession to be more affordable and accessible!!

I like quite a few remakes myself (some of which are just new adaptations of the same source material but that's the excuse everyone's using now to do boring, stale remakes) but their distinguishing factor is that they are remade in a way that takes advantage of the progress in the cinematic medium or industry, e.g Ben-Hur (1959) which was a sweeping widescreen adventure with sound and colour when the original Ben-Hur was silent and black-and white, or The Children's Hour (1961) which due to increasing permissiveness could finally tackle the lesbian subject-matter of the original play. No one who's doing remakes now are adding or innovating anything they're just making the same movies again and making them worse because they think that since it's newer it's automatically "better". Make new cool movies instead!

33. do you get invested in the film award shows?

Not really; if a movie I really, really loved is up for any awards I'm happy if they win but unbothered or just slightly salty that they lose. I do follow the drama around the Oscars and pay a bit more attention to the movies that win at Cannes but I rarely see my taste represented in award shows and the more they reward purely commercial, uninteresting movies the less interested I become.

[dignitywhatdignity]

Alien: I find your media regarding the history of organized crime fascinating!

Human 1: Oh, that's cool. What's your favorite?

Alien: While Godfather Part II is probably the superior work by most commonly accepted metrics, I enjoy Boyz n the Hood more.

Human 2: Good choices!

Alien: But of course, I haven't seen every film there is. In fact, I am having trouble sourcing a particularly popular one. By any chance do either of you have a copy of Goncharov?

Human 1: Should I tell him?

Human 2: Don't you dare!

[robertdowneyjjr]

In recent years, Tony has taken using the Robert Pattinson interview technique ie: lying about answers because he’s bored. Fav movie? Footloose. Fav food? Spaghetti. Fav band? Steely Dan

Again, non of these are true and he changes the answer so often people catch on he’s lying, which wasn’t a problem until he got a new set of friends that want to get him a birthday present and if they google anything about him the get…conflicting info. And asking him about what he wants makes him go all awwww no need i don’t need presents. Which is unhelpful

Unfortunately Steve is still too new to the future to catch the issue and give Tony some very thoughtful gifts based off his recent answers and Tony smiles and says he loves them and oops he’s committed

(Also please picture Steve planning a first date with Tony with them watching Footloose and eating spaghetti while listening to Steely Dan. And Tony did not hate any of them but they weren’t his actual fav but now they might be???)

And Steve does find out the problem on his own but makes Tony continue to pretend he enjoys his fake favs until he confesses lol

LMAO oh my god yes absolutely all of this.

to be fair, tony had never really given the press real answers whenever he was asked things that were too personal, even back in his younger days. he was already in the spotlight enough, he didn’t need the whole world to know every single thing about him. but he always had the same scripted answers just for consistency’s sake, and he always had some bullshit reason to explain it all. favorite food? new york pizza (because new york will always be home). favorite movie? the godfather part ii (because it reminds him of his mother’s stories about immigrating to america, and he doesn’t get to visit his grandparents nearly enough). favorite band? abba (who doesn’t like dancing queen?)

but after he comes back from afghanistan, after the ultimate wake up call, he just can’t be bothered with keeping the press happy anymore. he still doesn’t much care for letting people know too much about him, but he also doesn’t put too much effort into appeasing the press because he has other things to worry about. so the next time he gives an interview and the reporter asks him one of these inane questions, he tells her his favorite band is steely dan. then twitter goes wild. his ultra fans pull up the receipts from his past decade of interviews and calls him out on it. “i thought it was abba??” someone tweets, and it gets thousands of retweets. tony replies simply with, people change ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

from then on he makes it a point to give a different answer every single time he gets asked something personal. in 2008 his favorite band was steely dan. he was paramore’s biggest fan in 2009. in 2010 he became the world’s first and most famous directioner. 2011 rolled around and he told some random reporter on a red carpet that he only ever listened to duran duran. then in 2012 he wore a black sabbath t-shirt and everyone figured out that was his “favorite” of the year.

then he meets steve. sweet, wonderful, thoughtful steve, who has finally built up the courage after four years of friendship and asked tony out. steve, who wants nothing more than to impress tony and show him that he pays attention and wants to make this work. although tony had told steve early on that he should never trust what he reads on the internet, steve is adamant about planning the perfect first date. he wants a second date. and a third. and a fourth. you get the point. he needs tony to know he’s serious about building a relationship together.

so he googles. he bypasses all the opinion pieces and the articles that are clearly from gossip rags or less-than-credible news sources. but he figures official interviews that tony gives should be fair game, right? and man, does steve find out a lot about tony and the things he likes. he figures out quickly what he should cook for dinner: singaporean chilli crab (people magazine circa 2009). he sets the table with the loveliest carnations he could find (reddit ama circa 2014). he queues up footloose to play on the tv while they eat a homemade chocolate soufflé (vanity fair circa 2011 and tonight show circa 2015). steve’s done the research. he knows tony will be happy he’s put so much effort into this night.

and tony, well. he doesn’t hate all of those things but they were never really his favorites. his real favorites? his mama’s carbonara. ac/dc. back to the future. sunflowers. but he doesn’t want to burst steve’s bubble. none of that matters, anyway, when he gets to spend time with his ultimate favorite person.

(steve finally figures it out when rhodey comes to visit one day with a box of tiramisu from the hole-in-the-wall he and tony used to go to in boston and tony lights up in a way that he’s never done when eating steve’s chocolate soufflé. he still keeps making the soufflé though, just to see if tony would ever confess)

[showmethesneer]

"Before we talk about making people watch, shouldn't we begin with the question of whether or not watching is the right thing to do?"

-Sejanus Plinth, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I'm losing my mind over this book lmao

I want so badly to scream about everything. It's so fucking good already and I'm only on chapter 6.

Something about the premise of this book being "you know, people didn't actually WATCH the hunger games at first, they had to be enticed to... and this is that story of how the children murdering each other became a source of entertainment " literally makes me feral

Like we all just took for granted that the hunger games were always a source of entertainment in this world, because we know how real that shit is in our own world. But something about watching it develop from something people initially resisted is like.. I'm vibrating on another frequency.

It's exactly like why i love Gotham and Rogue One and the flashback scenes in The Godfather Part II-- i love an origin story that truly understnds the why of its world and all its characters

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Happy Birthday to...

Sophie von der Pfalz, Electress of Hannover, and James VII and II, born on 14 October 1630 and 1633 respectively.

James and Sophie remained in lifelong contact, and the exiled James considered her one of his few allies.

...Little did he know that Sophie was close with both William and Mary, growing particularly fond of the latter in an almost maternal capacity.

Sophie- the woman who would almost have been Queen of England twice

Originally a candidate for marrying James' brother, the recently restored Charles II, the latter settled for Catherine of Braganza instead.

Rather than as consort, Sophie later would almost have become Queen in her own right when the Act of Settlement, implemented by William III, named her as heir presumptive to the crown.

When Sophie visited The Hague with her little niece Liselotte in the winter of 1659/1660, little did she know that one day, the nine-year-old William of Nassau who romped through the Binnenhof palace with her niece would become King of England, and declare her the heir presumptive to the throne. At the time, Sophie was heavily pregnant with her son Georg Ludwig, the future George I who became King of Great Britain when Queen Anne died in 1714. Sophie, alas, had predeceased the much younger Anne by a mere handful of weeks.

Sophie on her own birthday:

In 1680, the year she turned fifty, Sophie decided to write her own memoirs, including a description of her birth and early years. Here is what she had to say on the circumstances of her birth:

Sophie, Electress of Hannover and Köcher, Adolf [Ed]: Memoiren der Herzogin Sophie nachmals Kurfürstin von Hannover, Leipzig 1879, p. 33.

They told me that I was born in the year 1630 on the 14th of October, and since I was the 12th fruit of the marriage of the King my father and the Queen my mother, I think that my birth did not cause them any other joy than that of my no longer occupying the place I previously did. They were even at a loss which name and which godparents one should give me, as all the kings and princes to be considered had already taken this trouble for the children who had preceded me. It had pleased them to put various names on slips of paper and to draw from them the name I was to receive, and chance gave me that of Sophie; and to choose godmothers for me who had that name, the King picked the Princess Palatine of Birkenfeld, Countess of Hohenlohe, the Countess of Cuylenburg and Madame de Brederode, Countess of Nassau, and as godfathers the states of Frisia.

Happy birthday, Sophie von Hannover! She may have been the 12th child of her parents, but she left us first-rate sources in the shape of her memoirs and parts of her correspondence, providing a window into 17th century life and politics.

[wisteria-lodge]

Sorting the Corleone Family

(using the @sortinghatchats system.)

PRIMARY (ie MOTIVE) 

BADGER ~ Loyal to the group.

SNAKE ~ Loyal to yourself and your Important People.

LION ~ Subconscious Idealist. Ideals are linked to feelings and instincts. 

BIRD ~ Conscious Idealist. Ideals are linked to built systems and external facts. 

SECONDARY (ie METHOD) 

BADGER ~ Connect with the group. Make allies, work steadily and well. Be whatever the situation calls for. If you find a locked door, knock.

SNAKE ~ Connect with the environment. Notice things. Tell people what they want to hear. If you find a locked door, get in through the window.

BIRD ~ Collect skills, tools, knowledge, personas, useful friends. If you find a locked door, track down the key or learn to pick the lock.

LION ~ Be honest, be direct, speak your truth. Either the obstacle is going down or you are. If you find a locked door, kick it in. 

(if you're curious about the system, I go into a lot more depth here.)

So the Godfather films take place in an insanely Loyalist universe. Family is everything. Family, children, children’s toys and children’s drawings, it's a pretty damn near constant visual motif through Godfather 1 & 2. It is THE POINT.

VITO CORLEONE makes this very literal text: “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.” He sets the tone for the universe that he presides over, and it is very very clear that family is literally everything to him… and he has a broad definition of family. He’s a Snake with a lot of people, and he got into the game to protect them.

Going from the first movie alone, you could maybe make the case that he’s a Badger, but then the sequel throws in a revenge narrative (very Snake) and starts off his crime career with stealing a rug for his wife (even more Snake honestly.) He comes down really hard on Sonny for not presenting a united front - “never tell anyone outside the family what you’re thinking again.”  

He’s also the loudest Badger secondary ever, a power fantasy Badger secondary. He is at the center of a gigantic community that respects him, adores him, and which he can call on for power. He also very explicitly requires friendship from the people who ask favors from him, and that makes sense too. He is not building a list of useful assets, he’s building a community. He makes the decision not to get involved in heroin, because he is afraid that it will mess with the community that is the source of his power. In the sequel when he tells the landlord he's shaking down to “Ask your friends in the neighborhood about me. They'll tell you I know how to return a favor”... and then this guy comes back the next scene, his mind completely changed? That's Badger superpowers.

MICHAEL CORLEONE is completely different. For one thing, he’s an Idealist in a sea of Loyalists, but I want to come back to that. Let’s get the easiest thing out of the way first. Michael loves an elaborate plan, way more than his father did. So there’s definitely a Bird secondary model there. But, I do think that underneath that Michael is a Snake secondary. Like, it’s subtle but he’s absolutely a charmer. He charms Kay, he charms Sonny and then Connie, and he usually does it by giving them an edited version of the truth and letting them come to their own conclusions. The most desperate we ever see him is the moment when he arrives at the empty hospital, and has to find a way to protect his vulnerable bedridden father. We see him use his environment, the two people he’s got access to, the wheels turn as he thinks on the fly, and deliberately creates a threatening tableau (when he is 100% bluffing.) Deliberately seeming meek and mild to assassinate the police chief, and then spinning it into a story about a corrupt police chief… very Snake secondary moves. 

Now, we’re not in Michael‘s head for a lot of the runtime, so we have to infer why he does certain things. I have two possible reads on his secondary in Part II. One is that he is trying to model his father's very direct, very earnest, no-nonsense secondary, and it’s... not really working for him. Michael seems to have misinterpreted Vito as more of a Lion secondary, probably because Vito is more of a Bookkeeper Badger than a Courtier Badger, diligently building his community and doing his job extremely thoroughly. (Although he absolutely *can* do the courtier thing. Vito calling a meeting of the heads of the Five Families is in *total* Courtier Badger mode.) So Michael gets really direct and Lion-y, to the point of being brusque and unpleasant. 

The SECOND way you could read him, is that rather than trying too hard to be his father, he’s kind of given up. This is probably the more sympathetic Michael, the one who (instead of transforming into a bloodthirsty ruthless mafia don) only became one because he had no choice, and is… kind of dead inside. If Michael Corleone is just letting his Snake secondary remain in neutral, not really bothering to act anymore, and using his Bird secondary model exclusively… that’s a Michael who is going through the motions, but has stopped caring. 

And in terms of primary, he’s definitely an Idealist. The final scene of the movie has him going to war instead of staying with his family, and when Sonny says “your country’s not your blood,” Michael replies “I don’t see it that way.” Hard to get more directly Idealist  than that. Michael is the only character not constantly surrounded by and defined by kids. His loyalty is not to his *family* - although there are weird little bursts. He seems to be motivated by his father, and his first wife (but not his second.) He sometimes seems to be motivated by his kids (sort of. Or at least he thinks he ought to be motivated by his kids.)

I think he does want to make the family legitimate. (And that’s why he married Kay.) There is a disconnect between the morals which we know he does have - “that’s my family Kay, it’s not me,” and the rather horrible things he does as Don Corleone. I think if you take just the first film I’d lean towards Bird: his priority shifts are very quiet and very mellow, and he doesn’t make snap decisions. However, once we hit movie two, and meet a Michael doesn’t listen to anyone, doesn’t even have a consigliere, who is paranoid and sees threats in the shadows, and feels betrayed whenever anyone doesn’t follow his rather draconian rules… I think we have an Exploded Lion on our hands. And depending how you read the final shot of the second film, he’s just starting to realize that. 

SONNY CORLEONE is obviously a Lion secondary. His planning is that he doesn’t plan, and he gets annoyed at Tom Hagen for making him plan. He’s also a Loyalist (this is so well known that it’s actively used against him, to facilitate his assassination.) I want to say he is a Badger rather than a Snake, and that’s where he runs into difficulty with his father. His father has a list of people he wants to protect, Sonny is more expansive and more community minded. We always see him in groups: he’s with his family, he’s with his soldiers, he’s with his kids.

TOM HAGEN is mysterious. I *thought* he was Badger secondary, which was why he had such an easy working relationship with Vito. He’s deliberate, he’s pleasant, he knows exactly what his job is and he does it very well. But now I think he’s an Actor Bird. He plays things very, very close to the chest, and when you talk to him you get the impression that this is a perfect, professional mask - not the real man. He doesn’t feel like he’s really able to relax around the rest of the Corleones and that's because he's a Badger primary. The closest we get to him taking about his motivation is “I always wanted to thought of as a brother by you, Mikey -- a real brother.” Since he’s not ethnically Italian, he’s always a little bit in the outgroup, and he never complains - but this gets to him. 

CONNIE CORLEONE … I’m not sure about, we never really see baseline Connie, only different types of trauma!Connie. My instinct tells me she’s probably a Snake who makes unhealthy attachments (including, at the end, to Michael.) And possibly a Badger secondary? She seems to function as the family go-between, and is the one who actually ends up caretaking Michael’s kids in the end. She definitely grew up being Daddy’s Little Princess, and if she house-matched Vito, I could see him kind of spoiling her. 

KAY CORLEONE neé ADAMS is a Snake, who was once loyal to Michael and then falls out of love with him, switching her loyalty completely to her kids. She’s another one whose secondary is kind of hidden under trauma. She is literally not permitted to do that much, even being effectively under house arrest for most of the second film. But she might be a Lion secondary: she desperately wants Michael to be truthful to her, to see her, and to listen to her.

FREDO CORLEONE is a very loud Badger primary, always falling into new groups, and always adapting to the new group a little bit too much, in a way that effectively splits his loyalty (at least in the eyes of Michael.) Drop Fredo in any environment, and that’s who he’s going to become. He loves being part of the group and it kills him when Michael officially un-brothers him. He’s also probably a Badger secondary. He’s always trying to caretake people, he takes his position as older brother very seriously, but tragically... is really bad at reading a room.

tl;dr

Vito Corleone - Snake primary / Badger secondary 

Michael Corelone - Lion primary that Explodes / Snake secondary (Bird Model) 

Sonny Corleone - Badger primary / Lion secondary

Tom Hagen - Badger primary / Bird secondary

Connie Corleone - Snake primary / Badger secondary

Kay Corleone - Snake primary / Lion secondary

Fredo Corleone - Badger primary / Badger secondary

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

But Henery ah say Henery is only seven and a half, and dumb-witted that is. That baw ah say that baw cannot harm you.

Foghorn Leghorn to Rhode Island Red

[bitch-a-la-mode]

The TV: “and now the greatest sequel ever made...The Godfather part II starts now on AMC”

My sister: damn that’s a fact

Me: I mean... it’s a close second to Shrek 2 but I guess

[keepyourpantsongohan]

Rating Naruto Dads: Lost and Found Edition

(These dads are all either found throughout the characters’ journeys or absent for some time before returning to meet with their child - Original Dad Rating Here)

Kakashi: 7.5/10. Is the only adult in Sasuke’s life consistently trying to show that he cares and instill values in him. Gave Naruto a basket of non-ramen related vegetables. Pulls back the child leash when his kids are about do something crazy. Doesn’t spend as much quality dad time with Sakura as the boys, but to be fair she has another perfectly good dad. Offered substitute parenting to almost every teenage ninja we know. Used his ninja presidency to bail his teenage terrorist son out of jail. Always catches his kids before they hit the ground. -2.5 for entering his students in the Chunin exams at age 12, but hey, he was given the parental equivalent of trying to defuse a bomb. B+ for effort. 

Yamato: 7/10. A reliable dad energy, who expects his kids to be the best version of themselves. Excellent in woodshop, a highly demanded Dad Quality. Tucked Naruto into bed after his panic attack. Tried to get to know his step-son Sasuke. Gets mad at people for hurting his kids’ feelings. Co-parented with Kakashi in Part II. Much like Sakumo in the first post, here for a good time, not a long time. Helped Kakashi to organize Naruto’s wedding and wanted to make the Uzumaki fam a wholeass house in Konoha Hiden. His points are lost purely for blowing in and out of their lives like a summer breeze. I am very biased.

Gai: 8.5/10. Very similar to Dai. Instills great values, protects his kids, pulls the child leash, supports Lee through his every journey, vibe checks Neji as needed. Incredible dad energy. Teeny deductions for teaching the self-destruction jutsu and for suggesting a suicide pact with a thirteen-year-old re: Lee’s operation. But hey, eyebrow-taijutsu solidarity.

Kaiza: 9/10. Do you remember Inari’s stepdad, way back in the Wave arc? He was pretty cool. Industrious, kind, buff dad. Once again, I don’t know if you should tell a six-year-old when you love something you should die for it, but I understand the moral of the story. 

Jiraiya: :S/10. My culture doesn’t have godfathers but I’m not sure that’s what you’re supposed to do when they make you one.

Zabuza: 4.5/10. Rescued, mentored and loved his adopted son Haku but only expressed it fully for it after he’d jumped in front of a jutsu. Really did not help Haku form a healthy worldview. Use your words, Zabuza!!

Minato Again But As a Zombie: 7/10. Cries because he is so proud of Naruto. Openly enamoured with his wife, a pleasant asset in any dad. Teaches Naruto a fun new jutsu he learned in Ninja Purgatory. Tries to resurrect him from the dead. Spends time with him on his birthday, which is arguably the only time we’ve ever seen a father do that in Naruto. He’s learning from his mistakes.

Kurenai: 10/10. As the primary source of actual parenting for both Hinata and Mirai, Kurenai is an honorary dad. Takes Hinata under her wing and is proud of her perseverance, and maintains the most well-adjusted team of any of the jonin sensei. Enjoys spicy food and alcohol, making her perfect Dad Company at a barbecue. Honourable mention to Asuma, who would also be okay company at a barbecue (RIP). 

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‘The Batman’ dominates UK-Ireland box office with £13.5m opening weekend

The Batman / Source: Warner Bros.

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Warner Bros’ blockbuster The Batman dominated the UK-Ireland box office on its opening weekend, with a £13.53m three-day session coming in as the third highest of the last two years.

Playing in 709 locations, the film took an average of £19,086 per site. Its £13.5m three-day figure is only behind No Time To Die (£21m) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (£19.5m).

The full opening is to be confirmed, with Imax still to report figures from its previews on Thursday, March 3.

The Batman’s opening is ahead of the first two of Christopher Nolan’s trio – Batman Begins with £4.4m and The Dark Knight with £11.2m – and only slightly behind The Dark Knight Rises’ £14.3m.

It also tops the £12.6m three-day start of 2019’s Joker, giving The Batman the highest opening for a 15-rated title ever in the territory. 2015’s Fifty Shades Of Grey is the only 18-rated title to have opened higher – marginally ahead with a £13.56m first weekend.

Joker went on to an enormous £58.3m total; Warner Bros will hope that The Batman can hold similarly well.

The Batman’s dominance of both screens and ticket sales affected the takings of several other titles on release, from genre stablemates to family titles.

Sony’s former number one Uncharted fell 51.7% on its fourth weekend. It’s £1.33m session was still enough to take it to £20.3m – one of only seven films to cross that mark in the last two years.

Sing 2 fell 61.2% on its sixth session with £1m. It has passed a landmark of its own, with £30.3m total passing the £29.5m of the 2017 first film.

Pathé’s The Duke was a key exception to The Batman’s rule, falling just 23% on its opening weekend – the smallest drop in the top 10 - with £681,258 taking it to a £2.7m total.

Disney’s Death On The Nile rounded out the top five, dropping 63% with £283,213 taking it to a £7.2m cume on its fourth weekend.

Total takings for the top five shot up 108.2% to £16.87m, boosted by The Batman, which accounted for over 80% of that amount.

Entertainment Film Distributors’ Dog dropped 57.7% with £275,208 taking it to £2.6m from three weekends.

Despite the arrival of another superhero in cinemas, Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home still took £213,000 on what is now a 12-weekend run. It is now up to £95.7m as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time, chasing down the £96.7m of 2021’s No Time To Die.

Belfast breaks record

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Heading into Bafta week, six-time nominee Belfast has become the highest-grossing black-and-white film of the modern era. Its £174,442 weekend (a 52.3% drop) contributed towards a £14.5m cume from seven weekends, topping the £14.4m total of Schindler’s List from 1994, and monochrome titles including The Artist’s £9.8m from 2011/12.

Paramount’s slate is led by Bollywood title Gangubai Kathiawadi, which dropped 57.1% - par for the course this weekend – with £93,000. It was playing in just 61 sites this time, scoring a strong £1,525 average; and is up to £465,000 from two sessions.

Close behind was another Paramount title, Jackass Forever, which added £87,000 for a £6.1m cume – closing in on Jackass: Bad Grandpa’s £6.5m.

Clio Barnard’s Cannes 2021 title Ali & Ava opened to £63,968 from 136 sites at an average of £470. Including previews, the film has £106,785 - the highest full opening of Barnard’s career, ahead of The Selfish Giant’s £81,737.

Paramount also opened The Godfather Part II re-release to £45,000; while The Godfather added £12,000 on a second weekend to reach £401,000.

Cyrano, a four-time Bafta nominee, is struggling in cinemas, with an 84.8% drop on its second weekend of £40,121 bringing it to a £624,779 total for Universal.

Parallel Mothers dropped just 23.3% with £26,644 on its sixth weekend, and is coming up on £1.3m total.

Universal’s Marry Me added £19,881 to reach £2.2m from four weekends; while Licorice Pizza put on £12,717 for a £2.5m total.

Bafta- and Oscar-nominee Encanto added £17,970 on an impressive 15th weekend for Disney, reaching £7.7m across that time.

Sony’s Foo Fighters feature Studio 666 added £10,000 and is up to £189,000 from two sessions.

Paramount’s Scream is closing out with £8,000 bringing it to £7.57m.

Bohemia Media opened Rebel Dread to £6,742 from 17 locations at a £397 average, with £11,124 including previews.

Remember… Kenneth Branagh's 'Belfast' is now the highest-grossing black-and-white film of the modern era in the UK and Ireland. — Screen Daily

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