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Sean Hutchinson<\/strong> at Mental_Floss <\/strong><\/a>presents 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. My three favorites are…<\/p>\n 9. HE [Coppola] ALSO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF MISTAKES.<\/strong> 14. THE \u201cTAKE THE CANNOLI\u201d LINE WAS IMPROVISED.<\/strong> 1. COPPOLA WAS AT RISK OF BEING FIRED DURING PRODUCTION.<\/strong> The studio wanted a more salacious gangster movie, so it constantly threatened to fire Coppola (even going so far as to have stand-in directors waiting on set). Coppola was reportedly getting the ax until he shot the scene where Michael kills Solozzo and McCluskey, which the executives saw and loved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sean Hutchinson at Mental_Floss presents 15 Things You Didn’t Know About The Godfather. My three favorites are… 9. HE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12393,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/12393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nLenny Montana, who played Luca Brasi, was a professional wrestler before becoming an actor. He was so nervous delivering his lines to a legend like Brando during the scene in the Godfather\u2019s study that he didn\u2019t give one good take during an entire day\u2019s shoot. Because he didn\u2019t have time to reshoot the scene, Coppola added a new scene of Luca Brasi rehearsing his lines before seeing the Godfather to make Montana\u2019s bad takes seem like Brasi was simply nervous to talk to the Godfather.<\/p>\n
\nThe line in the script only had actor Richard Castellano as Clemenza say \u201cLeave the gun\u201d after the hit on the mobster who ratted on the Corleones. He was inspired to make the sweet addition after Coppola inserted a line in which the character\u2019s wife asks him to buy cannoli for dessert.<\/p>\n
\nCoppola (who got the job because of his previous movie, The Rain People) wasn\u2019t the first director Paramount Pictures had in mind for The Godfather (Elia Kazan, Arthur Penn, Richard Brooks, and Costa-Gavras all turned the job down), and after filming began, executives didn\u2019t like the brooding, talky drama that Coppola was shooting.<\/p>\n