The Godfather trivia
The Godfather Mini Quiz
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Later matched by actors playing the Joker, what role in The Godfather films won Oscars for both Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro?
Brando won Best Actor as the aging mafia patriarch in the 1972 original, while De Niro won Best Supporting Actor playing the younger Vito in *The Godfather Part II*.
Before directing Star Wars, what filmmaker helped his friend Francis Ford Coppola by shooting the crime montage in The Godfather?
Lucas and Coppola founded the studio American Zoetrope together in 1969. Lucas filmed second-unit shots of spinning newspapers to save Coppola time during production.
Chosen to contrast the dark lighting, what bright citrus fruit serves as a famous visual omen of death throughout The Godfather?
The fruit wasn't originally meant to be symbolic. Production designer Dean Tavoularis simply used them to add a bright pop of color to the film's famously dark sets.
Mob epic The Godfather prominently features fresh oranges to signal what upcoming event?
This subtle motif is most famously seen right before the attempted assassination of Vito Corleone, who drops a bag of the fruit as he is gunned down.
Mob enforcers leave a severed horse head in a bed during The Godfather to achieve what goal?
The brutal tactic intimidates a stubborn studio executive into securing a lead role for Vito's godson, Johnny Fontane, a character believed to be inspired by Frank Sinatra.
The Godfather producers appeased protesting real-life mobsters by making what script change?
Real-life mob boss Joe Colombo organized the protests against The Godfather. Removing "Mafia" was an easy concession, as it only appeared once in the original script.