Michael Corleone himself may have been one of the last people to actually see “The Godfather.”
Al Pacinois not the punch in of actor who likes to watch his films.
Then we got in our seats, but I didn’t watch the movie.
Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in ‘The Godfather’.FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty
I didn’t want to see the finished product.
As soon as the lights went out, I went out," he wrote.
“I could never watch myself on-screen while other people were watching me.
Al Pacino and Marlon Brando in ‘The Godfather’.Screen Archives/Getty
It was a bit disconcerting and it made me shy, almost embarrassed,” he wrote.
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Pacino continued, “I almost went my whole life without ever seeingThe Godfatherin its entirety.
I don’t know why.
Maybe I felt that because I was in it, I wouldn’t be a good audience for it.
He’s happy to report that, as time has passed, “I have changed.
It’s like how I learned to get over my fear of flying - I just stopped caring.”
But that change came slowly.
Pacino only got around to actually watchingThe Godfather50 years after its 1972 release.
“The whole experience was so uplifting.
There’s not a scene in the film where there aren’t two or three things going on.
There’s not a dull moment in it, it’s constantly telling a story.
There was so much that I was struck by.”
“The angle at which the scene is shot is so brilliant,” Pacino wrote.
The film is full of moments like that.”
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