The Godfather at 50: why its legacy is about more than gangster movies

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The Godfather at 50: why its legacy is about more than gangster movies
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It’s the Godfather of mob flicks, sure, but the film’s influence goes far deeper into our culture than that

Even the latest example of prestige TV owes a debt to The Godfather. Don Corleone is an ailing patriarch whose children believe him to be falling behind the times by refusing to enter the burgeoning heroin trade of 1940s New York, just as the Roys encourage their father to modernise his media business and embrace social media, the great narcotic of our times.

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