[Movie Script]Godfather Part II

				THE GODFATHER



Part Two
Screenplay by
Mario Puzo
and
Francis Ford Coppola
SECOND DRAFT



September 24, 1973
FADE IN:



The Paramount Pictures logo is presented over a simple black

background, as a single trumpet plays the familiar theme of

a waltz.  White lettering fades in:
Mario Puzo's THE GODFATHER
There is a pause, as the trumpet concludes, and there is the

additional title: - Part Two -
INT. DON CORLEONE'S OLD OFFICE - CLOSE VIEW ON MICHAEL

CORLEONE - DAY



standing impassively, like a young Prince, recently crowned

King.
CLOSE VIEW ON Michael's hand.  ROCCO LAMPONE kisses his hand.

Then it is taken away.  We can SEE only the empty desk and

chair of Michael's father, Vito Corleone.  We HEAR, over

this, very faintly a funeral dirge played in the distance,

as THE VIEW MOVES SLOWLY CLOSER to the empty desk and chair.
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