![]() But until its altered ending, it is fundamentally the same film, better in parts than as a whole. ![]() ![]() Twelve minutes shorter, it rearranges some key episodes, eliminates a few minor scenes and trims a line here or there. And the word 'death' signals its dark inevitability, although the meaning of that word is slipperier than it first appears. Calling it a coda emphasises its connection to the earlier instalments, and even hints at its lesser stature. It now has the title Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Hindsight alone would tell us how seriously the film has been undervalued, even without Coppola's newly restored, re-edited and renamed version.
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