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‘The Godfather’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

The Rewatchables

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The Rise and Fall of Coppola

There's an enormous amount of Hollywood history that sets this up too. Almost every gangster movie that had happened in the history of Hollywood didn't star Italian Americans and wasn't made by Italian Americans. And finding Coppola and then Coppola pushing really hard for Pacino, I just feel like it's kind of lock and key with this whole story. If you don't get, the brand of stuff is vital, but Brando is not Italian. Pacino.

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