Showing posts with label Orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orange. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2010

The Godfather and the Oranges

This seems like a slightly abstract concept. Oranges appear multiple times in the film:


  • Santino drives past a billboard advertising oranges just before he dies
  • Don Vito was buying oranges just before he was shot, and in the scene where he was lying on the ground there are two oranges next to him:

  • the sheets of the bed that the horses head was in were orange
  • Carlo Rizzi was wearing an orange suit when Santino beat him up
  • The dress that Kay Adams was wearing often seemed like it could be orange, though this may have been simply bad coloration because if the age of the film.
This is interesting. It seems as though oranges could symbolize many things in the film, but especially death.