'It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said,"what train am I on? OK. Humor the guy." And he wanted me to do Michael. I thought,"OK, I'll go along with this." I said, yes, Francis, good,' Pacino said of Coppola's interest in him, which ended up becoming a reality when he offered him the part.
The Godfather premiered at Loew's State Theatre on Broadway in New York City on March 14, 1972 , and was widely released in the United States on March 24, 1972. Transformation: Michael's shy son and war hero persona turns to unsuspecting hitman when he kills the police chief who tried to whack his father, Vito Corleone
Considering himself a bit of a young rebel at the time, the New York City native decided not to attend the Oscars' ceremony. 'I was young in terms of the newness of all this. It was the old shot-out-of-a-cannon syndrome. And it's connected to drugs and those kinds of things, which I was engaged in back there, and I think that had a lot to do with it. I was just unaware of things back then.'
'The Godfather' probably the finest trilogy ever brought to the big screen.