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Barry Malkin was selected by Coppola as editor for the movie. He was a boyhood acquaintance of the director's from Queens.
Coppola asked Barry Malkin to reassemble the footage of the two films into chronological order.
why is it a 'great movie'? Because it must be seen as a piece with the unqualified greatness of 'The Godfather.' The two can hardly be considered apart ('Part III' is another matter). When the characters in a film take on a virtual reality for us, when a character in another film made 30 years later can say 'The Godfather' contains all the lessons in life you need to know, when an audience understands why that statement could be made, a film has become a cultural bedrock.
