This Thing Of Ours

My Dear Princess and Dear Friends,

Today was "Godfather" day in Paraparaumu. 

Here's what happened: Jefe had told us about the chronological edit he had seen of Godfather parts 1&2 back in the 80's* and so I was delighted to give him a USB stick with a fan-created chronological edit of parts 1, 2 and 3 which also included deleted scenes and other extras for his birthday back in February.

Except it wouldn't play on his TV. Apparently Manda had cooked up pasta and they had cracked red wine and everything. I felt bad. I checked them again on OUR tv. 

It was fine. 

I gave him another stick.

Would NOT play. 

So there was only one solution. Get the pair of them over to ours nice and early and we watch them together. But just parts 1 and 2. Seriously, if you throw 3 in the mix as well it's a ten-hour thing. 

So Manda made pasta. SO MUCH PASTA. 

And we cracked some red wine.

SO MUCH WINE.

And we had fun. I wrote a Mafia movie quiz** we chatted and laughed and we watched the movies. And we watched and we watched and we watched. And there was a drinking game I could not keep up with. It goes something like this.

- Take a drink whenever someone speaks Italian.
- Take a drink whenever someone dies.
- Take a drink whenever you see an orange. 

Oh my GOD. Do you KNOW how many oranges there are in The Godfather 1 & 2? Do you?

There is a PERMANENT LIVER DAMAGE amount of oranges. 

Anyway. We were toiling. At 9pm when all the pasta and all the drinking and all the f***ing oranges started to kick in, I knew I was in trouble. I closed my eyes for a second and think I missed most of Cuba because there was Hyman Roth and look there's Fredo and then WTF Cuba just FELL to Castro?

Manda also gave it up fairly early on. However Jefe and Caro manfully struggled on. But as you can see, after I awoke (around the time that Michael disowns Fredo) they were both gone. 

Although they both denied it later. 

It doesn't matter though. Both Caro and Jefe know these films backwards and can quote the dialogue. So they still enjoyed what they saw and could piece it together anyway. 

Between the pair of them I think they've seen these movies more times than I've eaten oranges. 

Salut!

S.

* Back when he was struggling to raise money to make "Apocalypse Now", Coppola put out a chronological cut called, "The Godfather Saga" which was shown on tv and released onto VHS. Nerd alert over. 

** Jefe won. But he only just SQUEAKED the victory past Caro.