Through out the movie, the Godfather I, many of us would agree that Francis Coppolo is interested in the incorporating a variety of literary devices in the movie. Here is a link to a short ten minutes video clip about F.F.Coppolo called The Godfather Trilogy: Francis-Ford Coppola's Notebook.
In the video clip he talks about the using of imagery, tone, suspense, cliche and exposition in the Godfather.
Some of the examples he gave was:
Cliche: in the beginning of the movie where Connie's marrige was held, children were sliding around the sandwichman. He mentioned that it was a very typically way to begin a movie with.
Suspence: One of the key scenes in the movie was the part where Michael's initiate step into the family business, the killing of Sollozo and McClusky. Clemenza gave Michael instructions before he head off(drop the gun right after kill the two); however, Michael didn't drop the gun immediately which was what Clemenza told him to do: Coppolo wanted to create suspense for the audience. Audience sees that Michael is not doing what he was suppose to so "hopefully the audience is dying drop it drop it drop it”(from the video clip)
HERE--> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPLAnJ8Xozk
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