The fact is, due to issues having nothing to do with the finished product as far as the viewer is concerned, changes had to be made. I think, to use the old cliché, Coppola made an amazing lemonade out of the lemons he was given. I'm not so sure Clemenza would have been that great in the Pentangeli story as presented. I don't think Clemenza would have made sense. , as Micheal said to Tom at The Don's funeral after Tessio brought Barzini's message to Michael exposing himself (Tessio) as the betrayer, "It makes sense it's Tessio and not Clemenza. Tessio always was the smarter of the two. This is the smart move."

I would have actually preferred Micheal V. Gazzo play Clemenza as he was written, rather than Richard Castellano in The Godfather as well as in Godfather II. I still don't think Clemenza doing the Pantangelo sidestory would work no matter who played Clemenza.

First, this "search" for "the next" is just a publicity stunt to keep them in front of the public. In reality, "Bond" could be cast by Broccoli et al., in five minutes..

Second, All of this talk of "female" Bonds is the result of the fact that they stopped making Ian Fleming's stories a long time ago. Due to that fact and the pressures to apply modern values, habits and aditudes to Bond and the world he inhabits makes Bond Bond in name only Neither the stories nor the period correctness of Fleming's Bond exist any longer and really haven't since Connery left. That's not to say it was Connery alone that made the difference, it that the scripts, even of Fleming's stories that took on an additude with Bond that was not the character as Fleming had written him.

It's now just a money machine competing with other "action" franchises.

No. An actor who will be ed by the public as DD-L will be ed, is ed for his career output nor his personal relationships with other actors on any set. Most people haven't any idea how DD-L approaches his work or how he got along with people on any set and don't much care. It's the results of his career they and future generations will .

What posterity will about, "My Left Foot" was DD-L's extraordinary performance. Not what other actors thought of how he behaved on set.

That an actor nobody will much once his career is over doesn't like how he was spoken to on set by DD-L will dissappear into the ether like this article will.

Most people now don't know who Brian Cox is or connect him by name to any role he has played, even that TV show he was recently in. Who do people today, Fred Astaire or Eric Blore? If you don't know who I'm comparing Fred to, you make my point.

"If you the actor more than the work then did the actor really do the job?"

Of course, People will DD-L for the work he did. That's why he will be ed!