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The Godfather
The Godfather, released in 1972, was adapted from Mario Puzo's novel and became both a massive box-office success and a critical landmark, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and establishing Francis Ford Coppola as one of the era's most significant American directors virtually overnight. Marlon Brando's performance as aging mob patriarch Vito Corleone, delivered with cotton stuffed in his cheeks to create the character's distinctive jowled appearance, won him the Academy Award for Best Actor, though he famously declined the award in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans. The film's 1974 sequel, The Godfather Part II, is one of the only sequels in film history considered by many critics to surpass the original, and the two films together are frequently cited as the high-water mark of what a multi-film crime saga can achieve both commercially and artistically. The Godfather's influence on the crime genre — its operatic pacing, its sympathetic treatment of characters engaged in genuinely violent criminal enterprise, and its meditation on family loyalty and the corruption of the American immigrant dream — has made it one of the most frequently referenced and imitated films in the subsequent five decades of American cinema.
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Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction, released in 1994, revived Quentin Tarantino's career-defining nonlinear storytelling approach, weaving together multiple interconnected crime stories out of chronological order in a way that became one of the most widely imitated structural techniques in independent filmmaking throughout the following decade. The film's dialogue-heavy, pop-culture-referencing screenplay, blending extended casual conversation with sudden bursts of graphic violence, established a distinctive tonal template that came to be closely associated with Tarantino's broader directorial style across his subsequent films. John Travolta's performance as hitman Vincent Vega is widely credited with reviving his career after a fallow period in the late 1980s and early '90s, and the film's ensemble cast, including Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, became closely associated with some of their most iconic career roles. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and its massive commercial success on a relatively modest budget helped cement the broader 1990s independent film movement as a genuine commercial force within the mainstream film industry.
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