The Three Brothers

"I've just movies been in my life, my whole life. And I feel like the characters are my friends, which is a really rare thing," he said. "Can you even conceive of what a middle brother is without thinking of Fredo?" Coppola wanted to make something that aspired to serious commentary using old fashioned ideas about story structure and characters,. He focused on making the characters seem as authentic, but also as sort of culturally meaningful as possible.