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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