Orson Welles wanted to play Vito Corleone - offering to lose a significant amount of weight in order to secure the role

>Orson Welles wanted to play Vito Corleone - offering to lose a significant amount of weight in order to secure the role

Would Orson Welles being Vito Corleone have improved The Godfather?

No, the problem with that film was the atrocious pacing
The acting was pretty decent for the most part, though Al Pacino was really too old to play a young michael corleone

No, it would have been shit either way.

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>I'll MAKE HIM AN OFFER.... [sly smile] He can't refuse.

Orson Welles improves everything he's in, even a frozen peas commercial

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It's hard to imagine him satisfactorily impersonating a guinea.

What would the movie have been like if Welles had directed but everything else was the same?

>Make the Corleones into WASPS
>Family is now called the Cumberbatchs
>Victor Cumberbatch (Welles) tasks his son Matthew (Day Lewis) with taking over the family's legitimate business

I'd watch it desu

Kay would have been even more annoying because Welles hates women

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AAAAHHHH THE SICILIAN...

Wouldn't we all, user?

>t. triggered tumblrite

It would have hopefully been citizen kane with organised crime
ie. much, much better

A much better film. Orson is way above Coppola.

That's the spirit, user.

>Ahhhh the of-fer he cant refuse!

>action orson!
>mwahhaha....the siciliansh's offersh's....have always been celebrated for their un-refusability....there ish an offer by vitp corleone...inspired....by that shame sicilian shtubbornness...so vito corleone....

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I don't think you understand your own question.
If everything else stayed the same, then the movie would be identical to what we got.
Only the name of the director is changed.

Fucking told

>same actors, same script and music
>entirely different visual style and editing, changing up the pacing because welles is a madman

FROM WAR OF THE WORLDS TO THE WORLD THAT WAS WAR.
R.I.P. IN PIECE ORSON SCOTT CARD.

>ORSON SCOTT CARD
kek

It's almost like some kind of gypsy magic but you know, I read that in his melodious voice

please use your inside voice Brian: yes we know that Gordon's not dead.