💡 While sharing a similar title to The Godfather (1972), The Godson was released a year earlier and represents a much different, lower-budget tier of the crime genre.
Given the ambiguity, I will write an essay on the thematic and cinematic significance of the idea of a "godson" in 1971 cinema, focusing on the archetype that would culminate in The Godfather (1972). This will be a critical analysis of the godson figure in early 1970s crime films. the godson 1971