Following the success of the first film, Paramount Pictures began developing a follow up to the film, with much of the same cast and crew returning. Partially based on Puzo's novel The Godfather, the film is both sequel and prequel to The Godfather, presenting parallel dramas: one picks up the story of Michael Corleone Pacino, the new Don of the Corleone crime family, protecting the family business in the aftermath of an attempt on his life the prequel covers the journey of his father, Vito Corleone De Niro, from his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New York City. This relieves Michael from the day to day responsibilities of Don so that he can track down the traitor that allowed this attack to happen and protect his family with all the tools available to him. These beats are worth noting because a version of each of them comes into play during the Lake Tahoe party. Puzo and Coppola manage to introduce 9 key conflict threads in a 30 minute sequence, which is incredible at the most basic level, story functions by presenting a main character with a problem - THE GODFATHER PART 2 takes its main character, douses him in gasoline and flings him dramatically out of the frying pan. In total, Puzo and Coppola manage to cram in fully 9 conflict threads, proving that if you can write succinctly, you can say an awful lot in not many pages. The former involves illustrating some kind of dissonance through setting, silence, the way one character looks at another. There are, broadly speaking, two ways to convey conflict: implicitly and explicitly.
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