Who almost played Michael Corleone in The Godfather instead of Al Pacino? In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic drama became an immediate classic, primarily because of the collective performances and the fictional study of an American crime organization. Marlon Brando headlines the mob film as Vito Corleone, but it’s Pacino who steals the show as a soft-spoken World War II veteran who takes over the family business.
Stanley Kubrick and me: designing the poster for A Clockwork Orange
Castle’s little notebook shows, amazingly, that he came up with what is now seen as one of the classic film posters of all time practically then and there. One change was that he tried initially to fit his drawings of a vicious looking Malcolm McDowell wielding a glinting knife over a statue of a kneeling nude inside a giant letter A.
Why Are 2 Million People Still Getting Netflix DVDs by Mail?
But Eric, now aged 41, kept on getting DVDs and Blu-Rays by mail—sometimes he watched them and sent them back quickly, other times they sat unopened for months. For most of us, the idea of deciding you want to watch a film, and then waiting for a rental copy to be physically mailed to you seems almost comically quaint. But Eric is far from alone. Of all the huge numbers marking out Netflix’s rapid growth, perhaps this is the most surprising: There are still more than 2 million people in the United States getting Netflix DVDs by post.