Coming Soon - Smack in the Face - Beyond the Big Screen

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
This is Beyond the Big Screen podcast with your host
Steve Guera.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, that's it too, right, And then it fits with
his character too, where Sonny should have kind of known
that he shouldn't been by himself, right, But that's who
Sonny was, right, He was like a bowl in a
shina shop, Like, I'm the toughest guy in the room.
I'm going to take him on, and you know, in
most cases when I want, he probably is the toughest
guy in the room. Right, But you know, you're in

(00:36):
the middle of a mob war. You know, you need backup.
You know, you're not just like a nobody, You're not
a soldier, You're you know, one of the top guys
in the family. Of course they're going to target you,
you know, especially after you know, with your temperament, you've
probably pissed off a lot of people in terms of
you know, beating them up and you know, saying stuff
to them and vice versa.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, they were definitely playing on his imperm there by
setting that trap, and and really that leads into my
third favorite scene. I was really tempted to choose the
scene where Michael gets Carlo to confess that it was
him the way he goes about that is so classic,

(01:19):
and then I was tempted to say, no, my favorite
scene it's going to be when he tells Connie or
maybe he tells Kay one or the other, that nothing's
going to happen to Carlo. I wouldn't do that to
my you know, to my sister's husband, Da da da da.
And then of course, you know, he gets garreted, he

(01:40):
kicks out the windshield and all that. Those are both
great scenes. But I think the thru thread there is
Michael and his ability to lie so well and to
not feel any guilt for it, and I think that
culminates in in the final, very final scene where he
lies to Kate and then he goes into the room

(02:00):
and they kiss his finger, and then you get that
picture of Kate realizing and then the door closes on her,
you know, and the vade to black kind of thing.
That's such a powerful ending to a movie. I mean,
it's a little cerebral. It's not a bang bang ending,
but it has a lot of punch. And so that's
I'm gonna say that's my My other favorite scene is

(02:21):
the very final minute or so. And you know, I
know we're not talking about the second movie here, but
spoiler if we ever do. One of my three favorite
scenes is also the final shot in that movie too,
with the leaves blowing and sweep up to Michael sitting
in the chair all alone, looking for lorn and miserable

(02:42):
and so forth. I just in both of those movies,
he really found a way to nail the final shot.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
I like that. But it's such a great scene that
you point out because it's so different from the book too.
It's like Coppola understood how the books should have en ended.
That's and maybe it's a way that you really couldn't
even end the book. It's it is one of the
most powerful endings of a movie because it's it's like

(03:12):
throwing all the cards on the table. Now we know everything,
and he knows everything. There's no nothing's left unturned after
that ending where everybody's kissing his hand.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Didn't the book end with her going to the church
to pray for her husband's soul. Yeah, so it's kind
of the same kind of thing, but it just wasn't
as it wasn't as much of a smack in the face, right,

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