9.1
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television (1977)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 9.1
Overview
A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America, re-edited for its 1977 network television broadcast.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
Overview
A seven-hour chronological edit of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, expanded with over an hour of restored scenes to trace the Corleone family’s rise from Vito’s youth in Sicily to Michael’s reign in 1950s America, re-edited for its 1977 network television broadcast.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film explores the complex dynamics of power, loyalty, and the American Dream through the lens of a crime family, offering critiques of societal institutions and the corrupting nature of power without explicitly endorsing a specific political ideology.
The movie features traditional casting, predominantly white and Italian-American, consistent with its historical and cultural setting. Its narrative centers on a patriarchal family structure, portraying traditional male roles without engaging in explicit critique of traditional identities or incorporating DEI themes as central to its story.
Secondary
The film uses Catholic rituals and traditions (baptisms, weddings, funerals) as a significant backdrop, often juxtaposing them with the violent and morally corrupt actions of the Corleone family. This highlights the characters' hypocrisy and moral failings, implicitly affirming the virtues of the faith that they betray rather than condemning Christianity itself. The narrative frames the characters' actions as a perversion of their faith, not a reflection of it.
This television miniseries, a chronological re-edit of 'The Godfather' and 'The Godfather Part II' with additional footage, does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative is entirely focused on the Corleone family's saga, power struggles, and traditional dynamics, resulting in no portrayal of LGBTQ+ elements.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This television miniseries is a chronological re-edit of the original 'The Godfather' films, incorporating deleted scenes. It does not introduce new character portrayals that alter the established gender of any canonical character from the source material or prior installments.
This 1977 television miniseries is a re-edit of the 1972 and 1974 Godfather films, using the original cast. All major characters, established as white in the source novel and prior films, are portrayed by the same white actors, thus containing no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
9.5
8.6
Critic Ratings
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