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The Ottawa Citizen r.ise :.54 March 2a, 1972 NIGHTLY IN THK RAINBOW ROOM ir The Godfather Faultless portrayal by Brando Corleton University invites you to attend the 1972 Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures with GEORG STEHER 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ALL NEW THE RED IDEN! DANCING NIGHTLY 9 P.M. TO CLOSING featuring The Early Birds 1 Entertainment from 4.30 to closing. Welcome to skaters WED. AMATEUR NIGHT GRAND HOTEL 399 SUSSEX 233-9388 cor.

Besserer FREE PARKING 2 NO COVER CHARGE riace Ie Yille 1 THE GODFATHER. Directed by Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan. speaking on "A Science of Man" Thursday, March 30 and Saturday, April 1 8.30 Alumni Theatre Mr. Steiner is the author of The Death of Tragedy, Language and Silence, and most recently In Bluebeard's Castle: Notes Toward the Re-definition of Culture.

Currently ot Cambridge University, he will discus three models of human behaviour: Marx, Freud, and Levi-Strauss will be presented as "scientists of the human condition." Mr. Steiner 'will question the scientific nature of their theories and the possibility of a true "science dt The Plaunt Lectures are made possible by the generous support of an anonymous donor In memory of the late Alan B. Plaunt, a distinguished Canadian and a resident of Ottawa who was active in many projects of national and civic importance during the 1930's. r.y Noel Taylor It was only a matter of time before at least one film-maker took that incredible institution, the Mafia, seriously. To a whole generation raised on slinky black limousines, tight Sicilian lips below dark American glasses and street corner shoot-ups, it been a long wait.

But Francis Coppola's treatment of Puzo's top-selling novel, is worth it. At last the Mafia though the name is breathed only once comes alive and the curious contradictions of loyalty and betrayal, power and vulnerability take on a meaning which the old cari- Nashville Recording Artist MAURY LOGAN and THE TARGETS STANDISHALL 777-3801 Banquet and Receptions -HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIirr OiiC zxs-c: ZXKZ DtZ ft IRWIN PRESCOTT'S HOME OF COUNTRY MUSIC in the Golden Rail Dining Lounge Starring Irwin Prescntt and many Special Guests Featuring: Terry Carisse The Borderline Roger, Satch and Ken Relax with your friends in the Pickwick Lounge CONTINUING EDUCATION April72 Session at 180 Arqyle DINING ROOM NOW OPEN Full Course Meals served in a deligfetfr'l atmosphere BUSINESSMEN'S LUNCHEON Si. 45 THURSDAY Amateur Night SATURDAY Family Matinee Salon D'or Proudly Presents the m.r.q: for Dancing and for Listening ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY FOR RECEPTIONS AND BANQUETS OF ALL KINDS CALL 777-2741 CHEZ HENRI catures never even attempted. The one overwhelming impression, which submerges even that of ruthless men in pursuit of worthless goals, is that of the family the ultimate power base, the one constant in a world of utter inconstancy. "Never a real man" As the godfather himself puts it: "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." And nor apparently can the man who doesn't spend the rest of the time decimating other people's families.

The godfather himself is supreme. He is able to grant any favor that a bullet, or the threat of one, can procure. He can sentence to death, and in conjunction with other godfathers, impose peace. Don Vito Corleone is the head of one of the New York area's five families. He is played by Marlon Brando in a faultless portrayal of patrician dignity and" underlying menace.

He is gunned down and recovers, and the oldest son takes over. He in turn is shot and another son succeeds and Vito is left to die in retirement, playing with his grandson in a tomato patch. Brando's total authority and the' skill with which he masters every nuance of the aging process, linger in the mind long after the savagery is forgotten. Well-learned lesson Of his sons, James Caan plays the untamed tiger with such enthusiasm it's plain that he won't last long. On the other hand there is Michael, the unwilling recruit who learns his father's lesson too well and plans the act of his rivals' extermination even as the priest at his own godson's christening asks him, "Do you renounce Satan and all his works?" Al Pacino, with a deceptive blffndness in his approach early on, works up to a nicely controlled explosion of cynical assassination.

The choice of Cappola as director may not have rested entirely on his Italian-American background but whatever the reason, it helps. He has the right sense of occasion which the Mafia brings to its family festivals and ritual revenges and uses it sensitively to let the system spell out its own condemnation. He chooses to be quite explicit about the violence, but there is nothing more stomach-turning here than we have seen in a succession of recent films, and for once it belongs to the story. He is especially strong on contrasts. Some of these are subtle and subdued, as when the New York branch of the Mafia meets in a board-room atmosphere, or in that idyllic interlude in Sicily when Michael does his courting with an armed guard and others comes across with brutal clarity.

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