#the godfather
You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing.
The Godfather II, (1974).
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It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.
The Godfather, 1972
dir. Francis Ford Coppola
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First showing in New York on March 14, 1972
l Francis Ford Coppola l Mario Puzo l Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
l art cr. Reuters Graphics, SnollygosterPrd
POP CULTURE - Funny and twisted illustrations by Ben Chen
Funny and twisted illustrations of Ben Chen, filled with references to famous pop culture characters! Note that many of his illustrations were published as t-shirts at Threadless. l Via Ufunk.
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For The Godfather Movie X PUMA collaboration, we were asked to present 3 options during our proposal. In a very rare and surprising turn of events, Paramount and PUMA approved all 3, which left us in the very fortunate but also incredibly difficult situation of choosing the final design. In the end we went with Don Corleone’s office as we felt the layout worked better for multiple formats but this option came a close second.
We tried to capture Marlon Brando’s decision to use very deliberate and gentle hand and finger gestures throughout the movie for Don Vito, whilst maintaining the super geometric and chiaroscuro style we had set up for the other options. As a side note, someone asked me recently what I found the most difficult to draw: without a doubt, HANDS.
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Puma made me an offer I couldn’t refuse! It was an honour to be asked to create a set of illustrations for Puma’s latest collaboration with The Godfather movie.
We tried to stay as faithful as possible to Gordon Willis’s use of Chiaroscuro lighting and cinematography of shadows, and therefore we plunged half of the illustration into darkness. The world of the Godfather is a world of hard rules and hard consequences and thus we chose to use knife-sharp geometric lines to visually reinforce this idea.
As well as the Louis trainer pictured, the collaboration also includes t-shirts and hoodies too. Make sure you go and check it out on Puma’s website – otherwise I’ll have to question what I did to deserve such disrespect.
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ICONIC — Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in
“The Godfather” (1972)
