Crazy Little-Known Facts about "The Godfather" Franchise

It's Too Dark!

Obviously, Paramount didn't like a lot of the choices that were made for this film (which all ended up being iconic choices, by the way.) During post-production, the studio exec's apparently hated the fact that the film was so dark. Coppola and Willis had to convince them that it was accurate to the film (which it was.)

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The More You Know

  • The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent 100 ways to cook an egg.
  • Four times more people speak English as a second language than as a native one.
  • 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.
  • Yosemite means "those who kill."
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