According to Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi both listed The Godfather as their favorite movie (Coppola). Indeed, he would not have been the first political figure to make the comparison. The UK did not fail to miss the terrifying political implications of Johnson’s choice: out-of-favor MPs must have been more than a tad worried that the Prime Minister would conduct his own vengeful string of administrative firings-and rightly so: Johnson may have been likening himself to Michael Corleone when he dismissed eleven ministers later that month (Swinford). The sequence-usually dubbed the baptism scene-depicts a mob boss, Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino), securing his underworld omnipotence by having his rivals murdered. So it came as quite a surprise when Boris Johnson, after being asked to name his favorite movie moment, nonchalantly replied: the “multiple retribution scene in The Godfather” (qtd. It’s not often that you find a democratic leader openly admitting to a penchant for tyranny.
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