appropriate but
mistaken impression things
keep getting bigger
From the last line of the article, The Godfather Part II at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling masterpiece by Jesse Hassenger in the Guardian.
Mr. Hassenger writes, “The Godfather Part II gave the appropriate but mistaken impression that for a pugnacious American visionary, things could just keep getting bigger.”
Thinking of other big name, pugnacious American visionaries in the news these days.
Mr. Hassenger writes: Some years later, the ambition and scale of peak American 70s film-making would wobble and collapse, after some big-budget epics failed to pay off and blockbuster sequels – a little like The Godfather Part II, but maybe not so dark, not so long, not so downbeat – became even more enticing.
I am thinking these other big name, pugnacious American visionaries will also wobble and collapse.
As Big Bill wrote … ‘Tis a consummation to be wished.’
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