"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Michael Corleone The film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is based on the book "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, who also wrote the screenplay. The Godfather has entered our culture, and its actors and actresses have become icons. The Godfather follows the Corleone family's rise and conflicts in the mafia world, as patriarch Vito Corleone, played by Marlon Brando, leads with wisdom and ruthlessness. Michael, his youngest son, played by Al Pacino evolves from a reluctant outsider to the cold, calculated head of the family. The book and the film title "The Godfather" follow his rise, and with each activity, we see similarities to that of a great superpower, in this case, the USA. It. "For in his chronicling of the rise, fall, and rebirth of the Corleone Mafia empire, Coppola presents two hauntingly prophetic messages that speak directly to America today: that the fall of the powerful i...