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The Godfather’s two endings: Lighting a candle and the wrong side of the door

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The shattering final shot in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, while it is among the most celebrated closing shots in cinema history, was not the original ending envisioned by Coppola. Anyone who knows the film […]

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