The Book and the movie The Godfather have their similarities and differences. The Godfather novel is the best selling phenomenon, a classic of our time, it was written before the movie came out, approximately 30 years ago. At first glance, the book and the movie appear the same. Upon further investigation, however, the two forms of media do possess certain differences. Although, they are different in the areas of characters, setting, and dialog, they are similar in the areas of violence, Don Vito Corleone, and Michael Corleone.
One difference between the movie and the book are the main actors; in the movie are Marlon Brando (Don Vito Corleone), Al Pacino (Michael Corleone), Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen) and Diane Keaton (Kay Adams). The only thing I feel was not well thought out about the movie, is the characters picked out to play the parts. Some of them were not considered to look like they were Italian. Along with that, the sons of the Godfather did not resemble each other, the father, nor the mother. The setting in both the movie and the book were accurate. The dialog throughout the film and book was not that of the native Italian language. The story was Americanized. The Italian names were there and the Italian culture was there, but the dialog was in English for the most part.
The characters in the book were more put into detail. There are some characters in the book that were not mentioned in the movie they are Nazorine, Margot Ashton, Enzo, Katherine, Filomena, Anthony Cappola, and Billy Goff. Nazorine is a baker that is described as a pudgy and crusty as his great Italian loaves, still dusty with flour that scowled at his wife. Katherine is Nazorine's daughter. Enzo was Nazorine's baker helper. Filomena is the one that Nazorine scowled at his wife. Margot Ashton, along with being Johnny Fontaine's wife, was described as a beautiful woman with an angelic face, soulful violet eyes, and delicately fragile but perfectly formed body. Anthony Coppola was...