Crazy Little-Known Facts about "The Godfather" Franchise

The Orange

Coppola used the color orange and the fruit orange as a means of symbolism. The color orange in the film represented death. Whenever the orange fruit was shown, it was foreshadowing a death of a character in the scene. 

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The More You Know

  • Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day". To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption, which is why excessive drinking has become linked to the celebration.
  • In the 2011 census for the Czech Republic, over 15 thousand people listed their religion as Jedi.
  • Wasting food is illegal for supermarkets in France.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
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