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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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I personally don’t see that between them, but I agree Apollonia was more of a plot device than anything else although not to further his trauma but rather to espouse the Sicilian traditions on the way to become the next don.

Coppola likes to fuck with people’s minds and to make them believe something that really isn’t the case as he himself said. Having the actress topless was disgusting enough given her age but if they had actually represented Michael’s thoughts about her from the book, it would have been even worse.

About Kay and Michael, Coppola kinda prides himself in arranging a Cupid like moment in the hotel to fuel Diane and Al’s chemistry because they actually became lovers after The Godfather part II, which didn’t last long that time around, but then they got back together again and even lived together in the mid-80s.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

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I mean, I personally don’t think whatever he had with Apollonia in the movie was sweet or romantic, there was no chemistry between the actors (and rightfully so since she was only 16) but to each their own.

Michael courted Apollonia in a “proper way” because it was the only way for him to get into her panties. He and Kay were going to marry, there’s a deleted scene of the two in bed when they talk about it.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

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Rhaenys Targaryen in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022 - present) ↳ S01E10⎮The Black Queen

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I wanted, you know, Michael to be haunted by the iciness in his own personal life, the reflection about his child, his wife, that oddly enough, he was, you know, doing all of this to preserve his family and he was destroying his family at the same time, and that was the central theme of that character.

The choice of his wife hearing the sewing machine and working on it… I don’t know how many women really use sewing machines very much now but it’s just an image that, of course, it evokes Penelope in the Odyssey, you know, the wife, the loyal wife at home spinning or working on some needle point as is really like Greek epic story

-The Godfather part II, The Director's Commentary

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Sofia Coppola should be left alone at this point, she was in The Godfather III only because Winona Ryder dropped out at the last minute and Coppola was obsessed with the idea of Mary being young and naive and having “baby fat” on her (🤮), that’s why he cast his daughter. She never wanted to be an actress, she just wanted to help her father.

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You see, Apollonia and Michael’s relationship was kinda romanticized by Coppola in the movie (although to me it wasn’t really romantic, the most lame “romance” I’ve ever seen on screen), which is disgusting because both Apollonia and the actress were 16 while Michael was 27 (32 in the movie). In the book (there’s only one) it’s crystal clear Michael was bored and horny while in Sicily, he saw a pretty girl and got dangerously obsessed with her, he felt the need to possess her, to make her his own, it wasn’t love, it was pure lust, he saw her as his sex slave, the fact she was a virgin enhanced his toxic masculinity, which wasn’t really inherent to his nature prior to the exile. We know from the book Kay was the girl of his dreams, his type physically and romantically speaking, it’s stated he loved her whereas the same can’t be said about Apollonia. In “The Sicilian” (it’s not really about the Corleones but Michael’s return to the States is depicted in that novel), he was thinking about Kay shortly after Apollonia’s death, he didn’t really mourn her. When he came home he didn’t reach out to Kay because he felt ashamed, he didn’t think she would wait for him after the killings, it was Kay who came to the mall at the insistence of Michael’s mother. The case with Michael is that he was never good at expressing his feelings both in the book and the movies, but yeh, there’s more romance and a lot of sex between him and Kay in the novel.

I agree with you that Apollonia’s death caused trauma and guilt in him but not that he loved her or really changed after her death. You have to keep in mind Apollonia’s and Sonny’s deaths happened back to back and I think what really changed him was the fact he became the next don and he absolutely hated that job. He and Kay had different plans.

As for the script being changed, yeh, there were more moments between Kay and Michael, but I specifically meant TGF III script because in the draft he admitted he had married Apollonia just to have sex and because he had missed Kay.

I mean, he sucked at showing love either to women (whom he treated like shit in general) or to anyone, but he kept wearing his wedding ring even after Kay dumped him and wanted her back years later even though she was happily married.

Another media illiterate person arguing on youtube about how Michael changed after Apollonia’s death, how he loved her and how he wouldn’t have killed Fredo if Apollonia had been alive… 🤮 Too much Wattpad… Fuck whomever changed the original script to cater to this kind of people.

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My favorite type of The Godfather fanfiction feature Kay as the main character or at least one of the main characters with her own pov.

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"There's millions of Tumblr users" to you. To me There's only about 12 and we all reblog the same five posts from each other

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Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

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I wanted, you know, Michael to be haunted by the iciness in his own personal life, the reflection about his child, his wife, that oddly enough, he was, you know, doing all of this to preserve his family and he was destroying his family at the same time, and that was the central theme of that character.

The choice of his wife hearing the sewing machine and working on it… I don’t know how many women really use sewing machines very much now but it’s just an image that, of course, it evokes Penelope in the Odyssey, you know, the wife, the loyal wife at home spinning or working on some needle point as is really like Greek epic story

-The Godfather part II, The Director's Commentary

@blackvalyrians

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If Kay Adams has no defenders that means I’m dead. Just so you know.

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reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m socially exhausted - i don’t have the time right now - i don’t know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise

not reasons i haven’t replied back:

- i’m ignoring you just because - i hate you - i’m fed up with you - i don’t want to be your friend anymore

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JACQUETTA and ELIZABETH moments requested by @heather123fan-blog ♡

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A little celebratory painting in honor of Anne of Cleves' Hans Holbein portrait being cleaned

People often were not completely static sitters for their artists. They were also often played music, read to, and spoken with to help pass the time. Anne of Cleves, like many women of the era, was a fine sewist, but she may have also whiled the hours away practicing English for her prospective new husband or being taught court etiquette.

William Kay Blacklock's "The Lesson" was somewhat referenced for proper hand anatomy, as the main reference for this was the Hans Holbein portrait itself. Blacklock actually had two very similar paintings, which would have been even more useful to me had I discovered it earlier. The Second is "The Window."

Edit: Better photo

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being a gifmaker is fighting for your life in photoshop to get -0.3 notes on the set you've been thinking about all day

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