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“Leave the gun, take the cannoli.”
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.”
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, this crime epic follows the Corleone family’s mafia empire and Michael’s rise to power.
Why these lines last: each one carries the film's central tension in a sentence — you can hear the scene without seeing it. That is what makes a quote travel beyond the people who watched the movie.
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