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The Genius, Multi-Conflict Opening of THE GODFATHER PART 2
There are, broadly speaking, two ways to convey conflict: implicitly and explicitly. The former involves illustrating some kind of dissonance through setting, silence, the way one character looks at another. The latter involves someone saying ‘I hate you’, punching, or a deliberate explosion. THE GODFATHER PART 2 is rich in both implicit and explicit conflict, and today we’re going to examine how its opening sequence delivers a veritable masterclass in conflict-generation… Categories/Types of Conflict Further to this, it’s well-known