Episode 3: The Godfather: Part II - If You Love Me, You Have a Funny Way of Showing It

Star Wars and Jurassic World trailers, killing Jar-Jar Binks, making good things into ultimate things, podcasting via hologram, escaping from the mafia, and Vito Corleone as a god figure.

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The Godfather - Livetweet Review

So...I did this the other day.

And...here we go #thegodfather
— Longish ن (@HannahGraceLong) October 22, 2014

Marlon Brando sounds way less scary than he looks on the DVD case #theGodfather
— Longish ن (@HannahGraceLong) October 22, 2014

Poor Don Corleone. He just wants friends. #thegodfather
— Longish ن (@HannahGraceLong) October 22, 2014

Cue *You've Got a Friend in Me* #TheGodfather
— Longish ن (@HannahGraceLong) October 22, 2014

Life is Beautiful - Movie Review

The last three movies I've watched have curiously prepared me for this one, which I finished Monday. To End All Wars was a WWII film, taking place in a camp of sufferers. The Scarlet and the Black was about a resistance movement in Nazi Rome. Kind Hearts and Coronets was a film from the 1940's.

Life is Beautiful takes elements from all of these and improves on them, being a WWII tale set in Italy with a 1940's style of filming. Mark Twain once said "the personages in a tale [should] be alive, except in the case of corpses, and...the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others." In Life is Beautiful, unlike To End All Wars, a vast amount of time is spent in ensuring the life of the characters, before even a shadow of death darkens the horizon.

The Scarlet and the Black strove both for an amusing main character and menacing villains, but both efforts failed. Life is Beautiful excels in both directions, always evoking the correct response.