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The cat in Brando’s Godfather scene was added spontaneously
AI-generated symbolic image of a cat on a period film set; it is not a scene from The Godfather and shows no actor.
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The cat on Vito Corleone’s lap in The Godfather’s opening scene was not planned. Director Francis Ford Coppola spotted the animal on the Paramount lot and gave it to Marlon Brando. Its loud purring interfered with dialogue recording, so some lines had to be re-recorded.
