Eugene's Mom: The Godfather
(In honor of Mother's Day, we're launching a series of posts today written, in part, by our mothers after we asked them one simple (yet very complex) question: What's your favorite movie and why?)
I take a lot of credit for my mom's burgeoning cinephilia. Used to be that she'd balk at anything remotely suspenseful, frightening or "unpleasant" (I think because she makes herself so emotionally available when she watches a movie that a nasty one can really wound), but I'm happy to report that last year, she voluntarily sat through No Country for Old Men, and even enjoyed it. When I asked her to name her favorite movie, she rattled off a list long enough that I had to stop her and tell her that this isn't the assignment. When I insisted she narrow it down to one, she regretfully cast off House of Games, You Can Count on Me and The Savages (Laura Linney is beloved in the Novikov household), and landed on The Godfather. By the end of the movie, she says, she feels like one of the family -- which is slightly terrifying, but I can see what she means. She tells me, "I can watch it every day and never get tired of it;" I believe her. And I'm awfully proud of her choice.
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5-12-2008 @ 6:53PM
Riley Freeman said...
this is how i feel about godfather
Peter: Did not care for The Godfather.
Chris: How can you even say that, Dad?
Peter: Didn't like...didn't like it.
Lois: Peter, it's so good, i-it's like a perfect movie!
Peter: I-this is what everyone always says... Everyone says "Oh-"
Chris: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino... I mean, you never see- ROBERT DUVALL!
Peter: I know, I li-no-fine, fine actor, did not like the movie.
Brian: Why not?
Peter: Did not-couldn't get into it.
Lois: Explain yourself. What didn't you like about it?
Peter: It insists upon itself, Lois.
Lois: What?
Peter: It insists upon itself.
Lois: What does that even mean?
Chris: Cause it has a valid point to make, it's insistent!
Peter: It takes forever gettin' in, and you spend like-you spend like six and a half hours, and then-you know, I can't get through- I can't even finish the movie, I've never even seen the ending.
Chris: YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE ENDING?!
Stewie: Well-well, how can you say you don't like it if you haven't even given it a chance?
Lois: I agree with Stewie, it's not really fair.
Peter: I have tried on three separate occasions to get through it, and I-I get to the scene when all the guys are sitting around on easy chairs-
Lois: Yeah, that's a great scene. I love that scene!
Peter: I have no idea what they're talking about, it's like they're speaking a different language-that's where I lose interest-
Chris: THEY'RE SPEAKING ITALIAN!
Lois: The language they're speaking is a language of subtlety, something that you wouldn't understand.
Peter: I love The Money Pit... That is my answer to that statement.
Lois: Whatever.
Chris: Yeah, I like that movie...
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