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Genre The Godfather conforms to the key generic conventions of the gangster film: the tragic narrative, the pursuit of the American dream, the morality tale message, and the documentary style, which are important features of the film. However, what makes The G a significant contribution to the genre, and to cinema as a whole, is the originality of its approach. The tragic narrative in The G takes on the dimensions of classical tragedy. The director, Francis Ford Coppola, suggested as much when he said that it was a “romance about a king with three sons”(modern King Lear). Don Corleone’s is s