Why did Francis Ford Coppola decide to shot the majority of his transition scenes through a doorway? Did he do this for the allusion that it creates or was it just to add change to his movie scenes? The use of doorways is for an obvious certain reason and was not just used because Francis like the way the shots looked, it was used for a certain but what is that reason?
The scene at the end of the movie is a scene that the use of the doorways is incredibly evident. When I first watched this scene, I was not completely aware of why Coppola would have out two doors and a closing door into the final scene. After re-watching the scene twice, I had an idea of what the doorways symbolized. When Kay is still in the office and she was asking Michael about what had happened with Carlos and if he had killed him Carlos. Kay had never seen him get Carlos killed but when he responds to her question finally, he lies to her and says that he did not kill Carlos. After that Kay leaves the room and the shot zooms out so that she is looking back at Michael inside his office with several other men (who start to refer to him as the Don) and then the door is shut on her and the movie ends.
Why were there doorways in that scene? I think that the doorways are a symbol for how little the woman that are involved or part of the Corleone family really understand about what is going on behind closed doors. When she leaves the room and we then see 2 doorways and she really does not know what is going on around the death of Carlos, all she knows is lies. Could the doorways symbolize how women are unaware of the real workings behind the Corleone family business?
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