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The original was simply called 'The Godfather'; the sequels were called 'The Godfather: Part II' and 'The Godfather: Part III'.
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In the novel and movie The Godfather, the Godfather's first consigliere (adviser) was a Sicillian, Genco Abbandando. He dies at the beginning of the novel, and the Godfather's adopted son, the calm and intelligent Irish lawyer Tom Hagen, takes over. When Sonny is in charge and the war is going badly he screams at Hagen "Pop had Genco, look what I got."
That sentence describes Scaramouch in the book Scaramouch by Rafeal Sabatini, published in 1921. The next line is "And that was all his patrimony."The very first famous line from the book describes Scaramouch, which was He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Per www.thegodfathertrilogy.com/gfstats.html, the original budget for the first Godfather movie was $1 million. The actual budget ended up at $6.2 million.