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The Godfather

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The Godfather	comment	The Godfather is a trilogy of American crime films directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based upon Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, revolving around a fictional Italian-American crime family, the Corleone Family. The first movie came out in 1972, followed by The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Godfather Part III in 1990. Puzo and Coppola co-wrote all three films, with Nino Rota composing the music for the first two films.The first two films are widely considered to be among the greatest films of all time and the flagship of the New Hollywood, due to being the first films to portray gangsters seriously as dramatic figures of real complexity, with real depth of character, and tell the story from their perspective. It served as a Star-Making Role for many members of its cast, including Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, James Caan, Robert Duvall and John Cazale, while Marlon Brando's performance as Vito Corleone is renowned as one of the most iconic in the history of cinema.The scale of achievement is such that it not only defined the image of gangster culture in the popular consciousness but also influenced real gangsters and mafiosi to imitate the film's characters in style and manner of speech. Coppola admitted that he did very little actual research into the gangster culture and that to him the film was a stylistic "modern myth" about the Italian-American immigration experience.In late 2020, Coppola released a Director's Cut of the third film both on home video and in selected theaters, which he retitled The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.Without Coppola's involvement or approval, the first two films were loosely adapted by EA Games into two free-roaming action/adventure games that let you create your own mobster and rise through the ranks. Content related to the video games goes here.There are two projects depicting the making of the film: the Paramount+ mini-series The Offer, based on the experiences of Godfather producer Al Ruddy, and the upcoming Barry Levinson movie Francis & The Godfather, starring Oscar Isaac as Coppola.
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The Godfather / int_10c9fbb	comment	Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion: Jules Segal lost his license for performing underground abortions, and has to settle for the still-underdeveloped Las Vegas. Later, Michael Corleone helps him to get a clinic.
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The Godfather / int_11b2e74f	type	An Immigrant's Tale
The Godfather / int_11b2e74f	comment	An Immigrant's Tale: Emphasized in Part II. Vito arrives at Ellis Island from Sicily in 1901.
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The Godfather / int_11cdc5d8	type	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
The Godfather / int_11cdc5d8	comment	White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: Kay Adams, who provides contrast between a "normal" American in The '40s and the Corleones.
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The Godfather / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Godfather / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Just like in the real life mob world. Deaths, both major and minor, are swift and anti-climatic (yet remain powerful). By the end of the trilogy, very few main characters are left standing.
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The Godfather / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Godfather / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Associate producer Gray Frederickson appears as an actor in Woltz's studio in the first film.
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The Godfather / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Godfather / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Johnny Fontane is a thinly-veiled version of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra took offense from it and almost got into a fight with Puzo on one occasion. Jack Woltz was patterned after several Hollywood moguls, such as Warner Bros. chief Jack L. Warner. His personality was based on MGM head Louis B. Mayer, who was a great racing aficionado, and owned a racing stable. Mayer abandoned the activity, reportedly after his son-in-law William Goetz, who was his partner in the stable, got involved with the Mafia and fixed a race. Mayer's horse was the favorite to win. Moe Greene is obviously Bugsy Siegel, and Hyman Roth is based on Meyer Lansky. A big difference is that Lansky was not shot to death, but died from cancer. In the novel Nino Valenti — Johnny Fontane's alcoholic friend — is based on Dean Martin's public image (while no teetotaler, Martin was not an alcoholic and did not drink himself to death) and Billy Goff is a thinly disguised Willie Bioff. By implication, the band leader extorted into signing Fontane away in Michael's tale would be Tommy Dorsey. Nevada senator Pat Geary may be based on Pat McCarran, a real-life senator from Nevada known for his staunch anti-communist views. The Las Vegas airport bears his name. Joey Zasa (Joe Mantegna) in Part III is based on John Gotti, and his demise in his Italian-American pride parade is based on Joe Columbo. Don Lucchesi is based on Italian politician Giulio Andreotti. Archbishop Gilday and Frederick Keinszig are based on other figures in the Vatican Bank scandals, Paul Marcinkus and Roberto Calvi. The Senate committee is modeled after the Valachi hearings, with Coppola describing Pentangeli as a "Valachi figure".
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The Godfather / int_12bae520	type	Big Prick, Big Problems
The Godfather / int_12bae520	comment	Big Prick, Big Problems: Sonny is so well-endowed that sex is uncomfortable for most of his partners. Even "the most hardened and fearless putain" demands double price, and his wife is actually glad that he's cheating on her, since it means she won't need to have sex with him as often (though she does start to complain when he neglects her too long). When he meets Lucy, a woman whose vagina can comfortably acommodate him, their affair is intense. Meanwhile, Lucy has the female version of this problem: her capacious vagina is the result of a weakened pelvic floor which prevents her from enjoying sex with any man less-endowed than Sonny, and which needs surgical correction lest it cause even more serious problems later in life.
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The Godfather / int_1358f741	type	Friendly Target
The Godfather / int_1358f741	comment	Friendly Target: Apollonia, via car bomb. Michael, however, was the intended target..
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The Godfather / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
The Godfather / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The fake-looking beating of Carlo was made even more hilarious by the fact there was not even a single bruise, much less a drop of blood, in spite of the supposedly "brutal" beating that Sonny gave him.
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The Godfather / int_135d58f9	type	Man of Wealth and Taste
The Godfather / int_135d58f9	comment	Man of Wealth and Taste: Most of the gangsters are already Badasses In Nice Suits, but the nasty Bruno Tattaglia one-ups the lot by wearing a tux. Joey Zasa in Part III likes to be known for his well-dressed style (he's even been dubbed "best-dressed gangster" by Esquire magazine) and as a champion of Italian-American heritage. It doesn't exactly endear him to his fellow mafiosi. Deliberately averted in the book, where the "old mustache Petes" of Vito's generation — many of whom, like Vito himself, came from poverty — wear inexpensive, no-nonsense business suits and disdain anyone who gets too fancy.
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The Godfather / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
The Godfather / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: During later events, Fanucci sports a big scar under his chin that wasn't present in previous ones. It originates from a deleted scene where Vito witnesses him being badly beaten by two thugs.
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The Godfather / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Godfather / int_1439161f	comment	Fredo... "well"; after going into shock from witnessing Vito's shooting he is relegated to secondary roles far away from Michael's inner circle.
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The Godfather / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Godfather / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Part II has a few moments that are somewhat Lighter and Softer than the original (the landlord practically collapsing into a quivering puddle in front of Vito during one of the flashback sequences is more comedic than anything in the original, for example), but in general Coppola felt that the first movie had shown The Mafia in too warm and sentimental a light, so Part II was consciously made darker and edgier. It emphasizes the corruption and ugliness inherent in organized crime. Michael grows colder, more murderous and increasingly paranoid as his power grows; he's betrayed by longtime henchmen and ultimately his own brother, besides driving away his wife and kids. His murders are less cathartic and justifiable, with Michael having a prostitute killed to frame Senator Geary, sending Rocco on a Suicide Mission to kill a terminally ill Roth and ordering Fredo's execution. It's virtually a deconstruction of the original film's treatment of the Mafia lifestyle.
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The Godfather / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
The Godfather / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...: Sollozzo says this verbatim to Tom Hagen.
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The Godfather / int_14e31793	type	Unions Suck
The Godfather / int_14e31793	comment	Unions Suck: More explicit in the book, where unions and their leaders are only described as a racket along the lines of loansharking or gambling. After Vito Corleone offered to help Johnny Fontane with his cinema career, his consigliere Tom Hagen specifically tells him to not pay up these inflated costs, since the Family will take care of these.
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The Godfather / int_1520ad7e	type	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
The Godfather / int_1520ad7e	comment	Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: Michael is a White Sheep who moves from a civilian position to the underworld in a single move by killing Sollozzo and McCluskey.
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The Godfather / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Godfather / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Corleones. They are a mafia family after all. And there's murders, assassinations, assassination of in-laws, fratricide...
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The Godfather / int_1592e954	type	Man Bites Man
The Godfather / int_1592e954	comment	Man Bites Man: When Sonny does his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Carlo, he bites his hand somewhere in the middle of it. Vincent (Sonny's bastard son) bites Joey Zasa's ear in the third movie, more proof of Generation Xerox.
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The Godfather / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Godfather / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Jack Woltz arrogantly telling Tom Hagen that he won't fold to Don Corleone's demands. Hagen even smirks when Woltz says this during his rant. One severed prized horse head in his bed later... Played for Tragedy in Godfather Part III, Michael really should not "Swear by the lives of my children I will sin no more" and then order a final slew of assassinations.
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The Godfather / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Godfather / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The "Mafia money laundering at the Vatican" plot in Part III.
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The Godfather / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
The Godfather / int_1649e053	comment	Fredo threatens to "belt" his wife, but she laughs in his face and tells him, "You couldn't belt your mama."
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The Godfather / int_16995d90	type	Right-Hand Cat
The Godfather / int_16995d90	comment	Right-Hand Cat: In the opening scene, Vito is stroking a cat while sitting at his desk listening to Bonasera's plea.
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The Godfather / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
The Godfather / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Michael, and to an extent, Fredo (although he's not especially competent). Connie is the prodigal sibling in Part II and becomes The Caretaker in Part III
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The Godfather / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Godfather / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Played with, while all the Corleone brothers have big shoes to fill: Initially, Michael doesn't seek to please his father and in fact, does the opposite when he joins the Marines. Fredo bitterly comments that he was never able to live up to Vito's standards and/or ever be more like him. Later, he also seeks Michael's approval and apologizes to him. Michael, despite being Fredo's younger brother, is the head of the family, the Godfather, and comes close to being a second father to Fredo.
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The Godfather / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Godfather / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: When Michael and Sollozzo switch to speaking Italian during the restaurant scene, the subtitles don't pick up their dialogue. The conversation (translated in English) is in the novel. The names, characterizations, and histories of various characters, including most of the Dons at the peace conference, are in the novel.
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The Godfather / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
The Godfather / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print: Subverted. Johnny Fontane doesn't look very happy about the sudden deal but signs the contract to perform in the family casinos at Las Vegas right away without reading or almost looking at it. He is a good godson after all, and trusts that the family will do right by him.
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The Godfather / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Godfather / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The iconic puppeteer hand logo is explained in this quote:
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The Godfather / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
The Godfather / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: Said verbatim by Vito (in Sicilian) to Don Ciccio before gutting him in II.
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The Godfather / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Godfather / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: The Corleone family are the heroes of the film trilogy, but mostly because everyone else — the other mobsters, the cops, politicians, even Vatican clergy — are worse. The very first person we meet in the original film — the mortician — has only come to Don Vito because the courts had let the would-be rapists of his daughter go free. In the Corleones' favor, both Vito and Michael conduct themselves as good decent men... except for Michael's obsessive need for control. This goes back to the original novel. Puzo specifies that the Corleones make their money from illegal gambling and union corruption, which while not nice are not that big a deal to most of his audience. He states further that they (or at least Vito and Michael) hold the Tattaglias, who make their money from prostitution, and of course Sollozzo, who makes his money off drugs, in contempt. The novel also establishes that Vito's heart's desire was to see Michael go completely legit. On top of that, every characterized NYPD officer in the novel is either corrupt (Detective Phillips), brutal (Albert Neri) or both (Captain Mc Cluskey). Puzo's later protestations aside, one begins to wonder if the novel actually was a case of Black-and-Grey Morality if not Blue-and-Orange Morality — perhaps Black and Blue Morality.
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The Godfather / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
The Godfather / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: In Part III, when Vincent assassinates Joey Zasa.
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The Godfather / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
The Godfather / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: The Corleone family (and the criminal underworld at large) treats Michael as a newbie, despite his starting out as a hardened Marine WWII war hero.
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The Godfather / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
The Godfather / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Sonny. Despite doing his best to fill the roles of caporegime (read: general), and later acting Don, the only thing Sonny is ever really good at is violence (well, outside the bedroom that is...)
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The Godfather / int_1b80d3cf	type	Cartoon Bug-Sprayer
The Godfather / int_1b80d3cf	comment	Cartoon Bug-Sprayer: In Part I, young Anthony is playing with one.
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The Godfather / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
The Godfather / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Michael takes refuge in Sicily to avoid the heat of the mob war that ensues in Part I. Michael tells Carlo that his punishment is being exiled from the family. He is instead exiled from this life. A young Vito makes America his new home out of necessity when he has to flee from Corleone after Don Ciccio refuses to spare his life.
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The Godfather / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Godfather / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The mafioso American entrepreneurs divide among themselves a birthday cake with the map of Cuba on it. Additionally, in a non-literal sense, Michael and Roth want to have the cake and eat it too.
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The Godfather / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
The Godfather / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: Michael orchestrates a final purge in all three movies as the climax to each film.
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The Godfather / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Godfather / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Sonny speaks out of turn during the Sollozzo's refusal meeting, contradicting his father and showing internal division to an outsider. He gets schooled later but his blunder makes Sollozzo realize that with Vito dead the Corleones would be weaker and more agreeable to his deal.
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The Godfather / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Godfather / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Tom Hagen discusses with a well-read Pentangeli how some things were done in The Roman Empire as a hint about how to solve his situation.
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The Godfather / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Godfather / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Two interweaved killings set this up. Vito killing Fanucci and deposing the local authority marks the cornerstone of his rule. Michael killing Sollozzo and McCluskey doubles as a rite of passage from naive newcomer to credible and de facto mafia leader, as he can no longer be a clean civilian and is now in Vito's world.
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The Godfather / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Godfather / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Michael makes his bones by killing a drug dealer who tried to have Michael's father killed and a corrupt police captain who earlier broke Michael's jaw.
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The Godfather / int_1e30fd35	type	Dangerously Close Shave
The Godfather / int_1e30fd35	comment	Dangerously Close Shave: Subverted; during the Baptism Scene it certainly looks like this is about to happen to someone, but it turns out that the man getting a shave is a hitman for the Corleone family who is making time before ambushing the target.
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The Godfather / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Godfather / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The grotesque state of Sonny's corpse is not fully shown to the audience, but the reaction shots and the terrific acting of Brando say it all.
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The Godfather / int_1ed91e2a	type	Revealing Hug
The Godfather / int_1ed91e2a	comment	Revealing Hug: During Mama Corleone's funeral in Part II, Michael and Fredo reconcile with a hug. As Mike embraces him, he makes a signal to his hitman Al Neri to kill him.
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The Godfather / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Godfather / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Tom Hagen needs a drink before bringing himself to tell his Don the news about Sonny. Anticipating this, Tom hands Vito a shot before he tells the Don the news that the latter already suspects.
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The Godfather / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Godfather / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Frank Pentangeli is about to testify about the Corleone family's business dealings to Congress when he sees his brother sitting next to Michael, having been flown all the way from Italy. Pentangeli immediately recants his previous testimony and pleads ignorance of anything to do with the Corleone family. Did he do this because he was ashamed of snitching to the feds in front of his brother? Or was his brother's presence an implied death threat on the part of Michael?
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The Godfather / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Godfather / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Don Corleone's policy of doing favors for people in return for the person in question performing a service for him in the future has very strong undertones of this, but the Don does not make the people who call on him for help do anything evil (at least, not that we see; the potential is still there). The mortician Bonasera, whose request for help opens the movie, is terrified of being indebted to Don Vito for such a favor and, in the book, fears that one day the Don will show up at his doorstep with a pile of corpses and a "request" that he bury them. In the end, Vito calls in the favor to beg Bonasera to clean up Sonny's bullet-riddled body, as well as reconstruct his face so that his mother will be able to look upon him. When Don Vito himself dies, Bonasera is spotted at the funeral. Apparently he is providing for the late Don and is openly weeping. The novel confirms that Bonasera worked on Vito, and that he worked even harder than he did with Sonny, as the heart attack he suffered disfigured his skin badly. The novel makes it clear that Vito generally avoids having his favors be these because then people would avoid asking him for favors. He's clever enough to gain all the advantage he needs by asking his huge network of "friends" for debt repayments that aren't evil, criminal, or self-destructive (or at least no moreso than their normal behavior), and by doing so he remains a Villain with Good Publicity, so that's what he does.
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The Godfather / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Godfather / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Pretty much everybody. The story goes out of its way to show these guys are all family men, despite their jobs.
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The Godfather / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Godfather / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: The novel goes more in-depth about how Michael is able to come home when he's wanted for the murder of a police captain - the family is less worried about the actual evidence and more worried that the NYPD will create fake evidence to get their revenge. Vito eventually hits on a plan to do this himself, by making a deal with someone already on death row for three murders to "come clean" and confess to the two murders Michael committed.
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The Godfather / int_21b4a391	type	Just a Gangster
The Godfather / int_21b4a391	comment	Just a Gangster: The third film shows that not everyone within the Corleone Family is pleased with Michael's efforts to turn the Family legit, and Joey Zasa in particular is recruited by enemies from outside the Family to undermine it from within.
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The Godfather / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Godfather / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Literal. In Part II Vito is made redundant and loses his job because Abbandando has to accommodate Fanucci's nephew.
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The Godfather / int_22f5d1b9	type	Some of My Best Friends Are X
The Godfather / int_22f5d1b9	comment	Some of My Best Friends Are X: Senator Geary says it word for word regarding Italian-Americans, just before excusing himself during Michael's hearing.
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The Godfather / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Godfather / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The poisoned cannolis in Part III that Connie serves to Don Altobello.
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The Godfather / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Godfather / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The scene where a retired Vito reflects with Michael about his life and their prospects was written by Robert Towne for the movie. Coppola also added a few violent scenes to keep the studio happy. Part II mixes Vito's scenes left out of the original novel with a completely new plot with Michael during the 50s. Part III is entirely original.
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The Godfather / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Godfather / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Prior to the release of the original 1972 film, movies about gangsters were mostly action-oriented pictures of the James Cagney/Edward G. Robinson/Paul Muni variety. The trilogy does a lot to strip away some of the larger-than-life mythology of the American gangster and depicts its protagonists as human beings with flaws and frustrated ambitions.
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The Godfather / int_2472c017	type	Abuse Discretion Shot
The Godfather / int_2472c017	comment	Abuse Discretion Shot: The greater part of Carlo beating Connie (in both instances) is not shown in the film; only the aftermath is shown and the beat down Carlo receives from Sonny in response.
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The Godfather / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Godfather / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The mortician relates how his daughter was savagely beaten when she defended her honour, to the point that "she will never be beautiful again." In return, Don Vito arranges for her attackers to get a beating of their own: he wants them hospitalized for at least a month, but "no blows on the top or back of the head, there was to be no accidental fatality. Other than that they could go as far as they liked." (Implied in the movie, depicted in the book.) Sonny gives one to Carlo, right after the latter delivers a savage beating to Connie.
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The Godfather / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Godfather / int_25bc8511	comment	Vincent (Sonny's bastard son) bites Joey Zasa's ear in the third movie, more proof of Generation Xerox.
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The Godfather / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
The Godfather / int_2612a967	comment	A point during the nostalgic final conversation between Frankie "Five Angels" and Tom. The scene also shows an underneath comradeship and Frank thanks Tom for everything he has done as a farewell.
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The Godfather / int_264a140b	type	Fat and Skinny
The Godfather / int_264a140b	comment	Fat and Skinny: The two caporegimes in the Corleone family under Vito: Peter Clemenza is a heavyset man (fat), Sal Tessio is a tall, thin man (skinny).
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The Godfather / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Godfather / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When the old Italian man at the wedding gets on stage to join in singing Che La Luna, there's a blink and you'll miss it moment where his dentures get loose mid-song.
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The Godfather / int_27ba9b64	type	What Did I Do Last Night?
The Godfather / int_27ba9b64	comment	What Did I Do Last Night?: In Part II, Senator Geary is given a room at a Mafia-run brothel and plied with booze and God knows what else. When he wakes up, there's a dead prostitute in his bed and blood everywhere......and that nice Tom Hagen is there to promise Geary that Michael Corleone will make his problems vanish, and they can be friends. And even more: if he should see fit to drop a federal investigation into the Corleone family, that'd make them even better friends.
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The Godfather / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
The Godfather / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: Al Neri does this in order to assassinate Barzini. In the books, Al Neri was previously an actual police officer until he killed a perpetrator while on the job rather than arresting him. The Corleones took a look at the circumstances and decided to provide him a high-powered defence to get him off the hook at the later trial, after which he came to work for the family. Vincent does this in the third film to get close enough to an unsuspecting Joey Zasa to assassinate him.
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The Godfather / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Godfather / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In certain scenes of the trilogy people speak actual Italian/Sicilian. In Part II during the scenes in Cuban Spanish is spoken too.
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The Godfather / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
The Godfather / int_2978c012	comment	Stage Mom: A rather extreme example offers her daughter up to be used sexually by Woltz. The novel even states that she has a look of triumph on her face when leading her obviously traumatized daughter back to the car.
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The Godfather / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
The Godfather / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Clemenza gives war veteran Michael a reliable revolver for his first assassination.
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The Godfather / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Godfather / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Of all the non-family members under Vito's employment, Luca Brasi has this reputation, thanks to incidents like his run-in with a Hollywood producer, as Michael tells Kay at Connie's wedding; it's even more pronounced in the novel — throw your newborn baby in an incinerator, and people will talk. Even Vito seems to want to keep his interactions with Brasi as brief and infrequent as possible; when told that Luca is waiting to speak with him at the wedding, the first thing Vito asks is, "Is this necessary?" It's worth mentioning, though, that the one person who seems to truly intimidate Brasi is Vito himself.
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The Godfather / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Godfather / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: EVERYONE who defies or otherwise disrespects the Corleone crime family and/or its current Don comes to regret it, sometimes fatally. And the ones who survive this lesson are always much more friendly and compliant. Jack Woltz (Part I), Senator Geary and Signor Roberto (from Part II) are the most prominent examples of the latter.
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The Godfather / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
The Godfather / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: In the novel Carlo soils himself while being garroted by Clemenza. Also happens to Luca Brasi when the Tattaglias need to get him out of the way.
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The Godfather / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
The Godfather / int_2b706ca	comment	The toll booth scene is an homage to the ending of Bonnie and Clyde.
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The Godfather / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
The Godfather / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: NYC and its underworld is the center of action for most of the first movie and half of the second.
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The Godfather / int_2c620f20	type	Cleanup Crew
The Godfather / int_2c620f20	comment	Cleanup Crew: In Part II, Michael and co "offer" to clean up after their own frame job on Senator Geary, who was drugged and left in a hotel room with a Disposable Sex Worker. The idea is that he'll owe them a favour, and thus be in their pocket.
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The Godfather / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
The Godfather / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: All over the place. The Mafiosi of The Godfather rarely speak of killing directly: Sonny orders Clemenza to kill Paulie for his betrayal by saying "I don't wanna see him again." Clemenza announces that the deed is done by saying "Oh, Paulie, you won't see him no more." Luca Brasi being killed and dumped in the ocean is referred to as "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." Proving your worth to a gang by killing someone is referred to as "Making one's bones". Clemenza asks Michael if he's "done the job" on McCluskey and Sollozzo, which also counts as an Unusual Euphemism in-universe, since every other time the phrase is used, it refers to having sex with a woman.
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The Godfather / int_2f665172	type	Come Alone
The Godfather / int_2f665172	comment	Come Alone: Michael Corleone is summoned to such a meeting after the Don has been shot.
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The Godfather / int_2fc21a19	type	Distaff Counterpart
The Godfather / int_2fc21a19	comment	Distaff Counterpart: Merle, Connie's boyfriend, and Deanna, Fredo's wife; two good-looking and obvious gold diggers. Mama Corleone offhandedly notes that the two look like a perfect match.
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The Godfather / int_30cffab7	type	Illegal Gambling Den
The Godfather / int_30cffab7	comment	Illegal Gambling Den: Carlo Rizzi was given one to manage by the Corleone family to check whether he would be competent enough to be given more responsibilities. He wasn't.
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The Godfather / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Godfather / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: In the novel, the Don of Detroit's speech about keeping drugs away from children is seen as a pointlessly sentimental outburst by the others. After all, who would ever sell drugs to kids? And where would children ever get the money to pay for them?
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The Godfather / int_3168b8ef	type	AstroTurf
The Godfather / int_3168b8ef	comment	Each term is mentioned in just one scene in Part II. When Corleone faces the senate hearing, he alludes to them and immediately refutes any connection between himself and such organizations. Senator Geary also refers to "these hearings on the Mafia". By the time this movie was made, people had figured out the above Astroturf con, so it was once more politically correct to use the term. Though in the novel at least, it's made clear that, strictly speaking, Don Vito and his lieutenants are not members of the Cosa Nostra: the Corleone family are upstarts rather than "official" "honorable men". Interestingly enough, the novel implies that Vito coins the term Cosa Nostra.
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The Godfather / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Godfather / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Vito believes that his political connections, which regard gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging as "a harmless vice", will abandon the Family if they learn that hard drugs like heroin are being sold. Even after they agree to the trade, the Dons refuse to allow the drugs into schools or sold to children. Vito refuses the assassination requested by Bonasera because that wouldn't be justice, since Bonasera's daughter is alive. "We're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker says" Tom Hagen and Vito are disgusted about Jack Woltz's rape of the child actress in the book and a deleted scene from Part One. Even during wars such as the escalating conflict between the Corleones and Tattaglias, there's an unspoken agreement to leave "civilians" - people not directly involved with the Mafia - alone. This initially includes Michael before he gets involved. Many of the police are willing to take bribes, but only for minor offenses — the NYPD rank and file give up their anger over the murder of Captain McCluskey when his connections to drug trafficking and murder come to light. One of the cops McCluskey brings along to the hospital balks at giving a beating to Michael because of his status as a war heronote He was awarded a Silver Star and the Navy Cross, decorations for valor below only the Medal of Honor Al Neri's backstory in the book reveals that he had been fired from the NYPD and arrested for beating a pimp (caught in the act of slashing a little girl) so badly with his flashlight that the flashlight broke (along with the perp's skull). It is this incident that brings Al to Michael's attention, and subsequently into the Corleone organization as Michael's enforcer. One mentioned in the book and only passingly referenced in the film: during the meeting of all the dons, we see some from California and Kansas City (as well as other places), but the New York dons specifically left out the Chicago Outfit, because they were far too happy to resort to violence and they also failed to keep their underlings under control.
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The Godfather / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
The Godfather / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: Michael in the third movie. As his priest puts it, while Michael can be forgiven for his sins, as long as Michael himself does not believe he can earn forgiveness, he will never truly change his ways.
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The Godfather / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
The Godfather / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: Part II, a 1941 flashback is followed by a slightly aged Michael sitting alone at Lake Tahoe, likely during the late '60s. Part III has a similar final scene, now in 1997.
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The Godfather / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
The Godfather / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: Many years pass until the Corleones exert their revenge in Part I. Vito is an adult family man when he returns to Sicily to exact revenge on the man (a crippled old man by then) who killed his brother and his parents when he was a child. A deleted scene from Part II, shows Fabrizzio, Michael's traitorous bodyguard, getting into a car, turning the ignition, and having the car blow up, killing him exactly the way he killed Michael's first wife, years after it happened. (This scene does appear in the adapted for TV Saga.) In the book he was simply shot on the same night Michael had everyone else with Corleone blood on their hands killed, as seen in Part I.
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The Godfather / int_34260591	type	Impromptu Tracheotomy
The Godfather / int_34260591	comment	Impromptu Tracheotomy: At the Italian restaurant. What is scary is that the shot was not fatal, so McCluskey wheezes for a few seconds...
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The Godfather / int_34bfa91a	type	Auteur License
The Godfather / int_34bfa91a	comment	Oddly enough, Part III was inverted. Coppola, now without Auteur License, wanted to call it The Death of Michael Corleone, but the studio wouldn't let him.
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The Godfather / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Godfather / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Decapitating a man's horse because he will not cast a guy in a movie. But see Break the Cutie above re: Woltz's dark side.
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The Godfather / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Godfather / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: The Cuban revolutionaries, whose chances of success, derailing the business, are properly evaluated by Michael.
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The Godfather / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
The Godfather / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: While Vito's father is named Antonio Andolini, his mother is only known as Signora (Mrs.) Andolini.
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The Godfather / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
The Godfather / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Mama Corleone, though the novel epilogue revealed she is also a Stepford Smiler.
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The Godfather / int_36999dd	type	This Means War!
The Godfather / int_36999dd	comment	This Means War!: Sonny was already running hot after his father was shot and nearly killed. After Michael narrowly foils a second attempt on Vito's life (and gets his jaw broken by a cop on Sollozzo's payroll for his trouble), Sonny decides to start hitting the Tattaglias back.
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The Godfather / int_36dcbe1c	type	Switch to English
The Godfather / int_36dcbe1c	comment	Switch to English: Played with, in meaningful ways. Invoked in Part I, Sollozzo leaves McCluskey out of the conversation by speaking in Italian/Sicilian, but Michael has a low command of the language and has to switch to English to give his retort. Michael's proficiency improves later in Sicily but he relies on a translator for an important conversation at one point. The characters speak in Sicilian during the whole Vito's segment of Part II. Vito only starts to use English when he begins to deal with his community as the Godfather. His job is linked with his Americanization. Michael switches to Italian in Part II in the middle of a cold conversation with Tom Hagen.
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The Godfather / int_36e1cea	type	The Punishment Is the Crime
The Godfather / int_36e1cea	comment	The Punishment Is the Crime: By the end of the second film Michael has escaped a Congressional inquiry into his criminality, he has control of several casinos, and has crushed traitors and enemies. But his marriage has bitterly ended, his children are not happy, his sister fears him, and he has killed his own brother. The greatest Pyrrhic Victory imaginable.
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The Godfather / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
The Godfather / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Open with a family gathering, close with a murder montage.
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The Godfather / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
The Godfather / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the first movie, Michael realizes something is fishy about the car and quickly tries to warn Apollonia about it, but it's too late, as she's already gotten into the car and turned the key. Boom. In Part II: "Michael, why are the drapes open?" seconds before a rain of gunfire is unleashed inside the Corleone's bedroom.
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The Godfather / int_38a1e0eb	type	Foreign Cuss Word
The Godfather / int_38a1e0eb	comment	Foreign Cuss Word: During their argument Carlo yells vaffanculo (roughly: "go fuck yourself") at Connie.
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The Godfather / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Godfather / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Politely implied by Vito when he refuses to accept the basket of food that a heartbroken Abbandando gives to Vito as severance and genuine gift in Part II, after Don Fanucci's nephew gets Vito's job. Vito is like family, but the handout does not sit well with his pride or his self-governing nature. Subsequently Vito finds his own ways to provide for his family... and sets in motion the entire epic.
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The Godfather / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Godfather / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: To set up Sonny in Part I, Carlo has his mistress call his home just before he arrives, then refuses the dinner Connie's made for him. This sets her off to the point that she starts breaking plates on the floor, giving him the pretext he needs to beat her. He knows she will call her brother and complain, and based on what happened after an altercation between the two of them earlier Sonny will rush right over to beat up Carlo in retaliation. Which he does ... right into the ambush at the toll booth.
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The Godfather / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
The Godfather / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: It's implied that Michael's apparent weakness and lack of resolution (a ruse meant to lull the other families into a false sense of security as well as to force the hand of any potential traitors) is the reason behind Tessio's betrayal. Factored in and hinted by the two main capos announcing their intention to spin-off from the Family because of Michael's incapacity to defend their own territories.
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The Godfather / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Godfather / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Robert De Niro is seen running over the rooftops of Little Italy during the annual Feast of San Rocco festival.
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The Godfather / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Godfather / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: Jack Woltz has just refused an offer by Tom Hagen on behalf of Don Vito Corleone to cast Johnny Fontane, who Woltz wants run out of the business, in his new movie. When Woltz wakes up the following morning, he finds himself and his undersheets covered in blood, rips the sheets back and discovers that someone's placed the head of his prize horse Khartoum in bed with him!
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The Godfather / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Godfather / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: A tactic used by the enemies of the Corleones in I and III. The Mafia uses several hierarchical layers that work as functional safeguards. The orders of the Don pass from the Consigliere to the Capos and finally to button men; a plot point in Part II when the Senate committee is able to produce a witness with direct access to the Don.
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The Godfather / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Godfather / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Don Corleone almost never speaks on the phone, as he fears his voice being recorded by the FBI. He's right to be wary, as wiretaps were one of the methods used by the FBI in The '70s and The '80s to bring down the mob, which also makes it foreshadowing.
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The Godfather / int_3c1bc558	type	Board to Death
The Godfather / int_3c1bc558	comment	Board to Death: The meeting of Part III becomes a massacre when a helicopter shows up.
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The Godfather / int_3cb9ed4d	type	Bulletproof Vest
The Godfather / int_3cb9ed4d	comment	Bulletproof Vest: Luca Brasi wears one when going to speak to The Turk. It doesn't help, since he gets garroted instead and then sleeps with the fishes, but it's not like he could have discreetly worn a gorget.
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The Godfather / int_3d078cc5	type	Concert Climax
The Godfather / int_3d078cc5	comment	Concert Climax: The ending of Part III takes place at an opera and involves an assassination attempt. The target is Michael who survives, but his beloved daughter is killed.
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The Godfather / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Godfather / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: There are no big gunfights, no epic Last Stands. A man caught unprepared by armed and ready ambushers indeed has no chance. For example, in Sonny Corleone's death, there is no Heroic Second Wind where he gets up and takes some of his attackers with him, no final speech, just getting shot and shot again until he's dead. Similarly, Rank Scales with Asskicking is not in action; the four other Dons don't get any final speeches, any epic fight scenes, just simple assassinations.
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The Godfather / int_3eb9e19f	type	Child of Two Worlds
The Godfather / int_3eb9e19f	comment	Child of Two Worlds: Tom Hagen was born into a German-Irish family but raised by Sicilians. As an adult, he often acts as a buffer between the Corleones and their WASP colleagues.
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The Godfather / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Godfather / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Don Vito specifically warns the other families against letting anything happen to Michael on the way back from Sicily, even going so far as to say that "If he should get struck by a bolt of lightning, then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room."
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The Godfather / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Godfather / int_3f11ef74	comment	Vito adopting Tom Hagen. In the novel Kay comments on the generosity of this action but Michael remarks it's no big deal, as their Sicilian family would be undersized by the traditional standards.
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The Godfather / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Godfather / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: The Corleone Family encounters one of these with Sollozzo's business proposal to traffic hard drugs. Vito himself believes that getting into this line of work will erode the family's power in the long run, because the police, politicians and judges that are willing to overlook what they consider more petty crime like gambling and union racketeering will not participate in the drug trade. Tom Hagen argues that not taking the deal will erode the family's power anyway, because it's an incredibly lucrative operation, and the families that do participate will be able to outspend the families that don't.
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The Godfather / int_40b1c664	type	The Patriarch
The Godfather / int_40b1c664	comment	Vito never wanted a criminal life for Michael, he was meant to be a Senator, a Governor... another pezzonovante. However, notice family is The Patriarch Vito's only motivation, and when his son is already dead, he doesn't pursue revenge. Michael, on the other hand, is a curse on his own family and always puts Revenge Before Reason.
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The Godfather / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Godfather / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The first movie. Michael has been corrupted but the triumph of the Corleones is portrayed as a lesser evil, most of the wrongdoings are not irreversible in hindsight and Las Vegas may offer a cleaner new life. Coppola deemed this was a bit too happy for a Mafia movie and gave grimmer endings to the sequels.
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The Godfather / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Godfather / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Bruno Tattaglia in the first film is the only major casualty of the war that is offscreen. Averted in the game where the player kills him.
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The Godfather / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
The Godfather / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: Clemenza is a great dancer, and Vito's surprising quickness for his size saves his life during Sollozzo's ambush.
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The Godfather / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
The Godfather / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier Tom Hagen in the first two. Close to a Unbuilt Trope in that Tom, though well-meaning, isn't a particularly good Consigliere during wartime. He admits it to himself in the book after Sonny dies. Michael replaces him with his father, although he still listens to him until he grows unhappy with Tom in Part II.
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The Godfather / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Godfather / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Connie and her mother wear mink coats in the second film.
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The Godfather / int_455794d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
The Godfather / int_455794d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: Played straight and conversed in the first movie. When Clemenza shows Michael the gun he will have planted at the meeting place with Sollozzo and McCluskey, Michael fires a test round and comments on how loud it is. Clemenza says the loudness is a good thing because it will scare off any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders.
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The Godfather / int_45b850b7	type	Dead Animal Warning
The Godfather / int_45b850b7	comment	Dead Animal Warning: Jack Woltz wakes up with the severed head of Khartoum in his bed as proof of what will happen if he doesn't give in to Don Corleone's demands.
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The Godfather / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
The Godfather / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: The ultimate variety.
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The Godfather / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Godfather / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Michael begins the first film having recently returned from service in the Marines during WWII; by the end, he is the head of the most powerful crime family in New York.
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The Godfather / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Godfather / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: In Part II, Fredo claims he never met Johnny Ola, but during the sex club scene excitedly talks of how Ola introduced him to the place. Michael's shocked expression says everything as he realizes his own brother has betrayed him. The entire plot might have been avoided if Sonny hadn't let it slip that there was a difference of opinion in the family over the drug business, thus giving Sollozzo the idea that Sonny and the Corleone family would be easier to deal with if Vito were removed.
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The Godfather / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Godfather / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sonny is very much this; he may be impulsive and violent (as well as racist), but he loves and cares for his family and is very protective of his younger siblings, especially Connie.
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The Godfather / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Godfather / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the book Luca Brasi forces a midwife at knife point to place his illegitimate newborn daughter in a furnace. Francis Ford Coppola allegedly refused to include this episode in the film version. In Part II, Don Ciccio has no qualms about killing young Paolo and wanting to kill the even younger Vito. It's not hard to imagine that this isn't the first time he's done this. After the death of his wife, Jack Woltz is only aroused by young girls and uses aspiring child actresses to satisfy himself.
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The Godfather / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Godfather / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: The Corleone houses, the most luxurious being the one at Lake Tahoe. Also Jack Woltz's California mansion.
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The Godfather / int_48384f95	type	Intermission
The Godfather / int_48384f95	comment	Intermission: Part II has an intermission, though Part I lacks one.
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The Godfather / int_486b0458	type	Draft Dodging
The Godfather / int_486b0458	comment	Draft Dodging: It's mentioned in the books that the Families found various ways to get their people and those willing to ask their Don for a favor to be declared medically ineligible for conscription. Michael was a notable exception — he enlisted in the Marines willingly — but even there it's noted that after he was wounded in combat Vito pulled some strings to arrange for Captain Corleone to get a medical discharge.
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The Godfather / int_48c8fcbc	type	Kosher Nostra
The Godfather / int_48c8fcbc	comment	Kosher Nostra: Moe Greene is implied and Hyman Roth is explicitly stated to be Jewish.
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The Godfather / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Godfather / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: In the book, the prostitute that Tattaglia was having sex with, Cuneo, Stracci, Barzini's driver, and his bodyguards all survive. They are all killed during the first film's Death Montage. In the segment of the book that goes into Vito's past (later incorporated into Part II), there is also no mention of Vito's mother confronting Don Ciccio to plead for Vito's life and getting killed in the process. The book simply states that when the Don's men came looking for Vito to kill him, she hid him with friends and arranged for his travel to America, so we can assume she survives in the book, though Vito never seems to see her again.
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The Godfather / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Godfather / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Michael in Part II, especially towards the end. He is the most powerful Mafia Don in the country, has secured the Corleone Family's power and prosperity, and eliminated all his enemies, but he has alienated those who love him and relinquished his own happiness in the process.
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The Godfather / int_4968ed35	type	Door-Closes Ending
The Godfather / int_4968ed35	comment	Door-Closes Ending: Probably the most famous use of this trope. Done after Michael lies to Kay about not being responsible for killing his brother-in-law, we see the door shut on Kay as Michael is being proclaimed the new Don.
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The Godfather / int_49f21688	type	NotUsingTheZedWord
The Godfather / int_49f21688	comment	Not Using the Zed Word: The word "Mafia" was deliberately never spoken in the first film, nor is the "official" name of the organization, La Cosa Nostra ("This thing of ours" or, simply "Our Thing"). This was an Enforced Trope Coppola had to concede to a real life mafioso who was vetting the film, and a Mafia Astroturf organization was attempting to convince people that there was, in fact, no such thing as the Mafia. Word of God says its intended usage was very minor anyway. Allegedly, this is Truth in Television, as real-life mobsters rarely refer to themselves in these terms, either. Each term is mentioned in just one scene in Part II. When Corleone faces the senate hearing, he alludes to them and immediately refutes any connection between himself and such organizations. Senator Geary also refers to "these hearings on the Mafia". By the time this movie was made, people had figured out the above Astroturf con, so it was once more politically correct to use the term. Though in the novel at least, it's made clear that, strictly speaking, Don Vito and his lieutenants are not members of the Cosa Nostra: the Corleone family are upstarts rather than "official" "honorable men". Interestingly enough, the novel implies that Vito coins the term Cosa Nostra.
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The Godfather / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Godfather / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Sonny spits on the identification of an FBI Agent who is posted outside of Connie's wedding. Connie tries this when confronting Michael about Carlo's death, but she's too distraught to work up any saliva.
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The Godfather / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Godfather / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Present in the book and in the recut. What Jack Woltz does to a very young, very beautiful actress during Tom Hagen's visit. Insiders say it's a description of something that happened to Elizabeth Taylor, probably at MGM. It was one of the factors that would ultimately lead to the horse-head incident, and is called an infamita by the Don himself when he hears about it.
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The Godfather / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Godfather / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: The Corleones get the charges against Michael for the murder of Solozzo and McClusky dropped by arranging for a low-level criminal who was already on death row to give a False Confession for the killings.
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The Godfather / int_4bca5b2e	type	We Have Become Complacent
The Godfather / int_4bca5b2e	comment	We Have Become Complacent: At the start of the story, the Corleones have been the unchallenged head of the New York Families for a decade, and they haven't even watched the other Families face any major power struggles in five years (on account of WWII, which ended literally days before Connie's wedding). As a result, they are totally unprepared for the Mob War that breaks out when Sollozzo tries to kill Vito.
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The Godfather / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
The Godfather / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: When Woltz is ranting about how Johnny Fontaine wooed away a young actress he had been sleeping with, Tom is quietly munching away at his dinner.
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The Godfather / int_4d044580	type	Motive Rant
The Godfather / int_4d044580	comment	Motive Rant: When Michael asks Hyman Roth who ordered the hit on Pentangeli, Roth responds by revealing his close connection to Moe Greene, whom Michael had killed. This provides greater clarity about why Roth would want Michael dead, even though Roth is never explicit about this.
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The Godfather / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Godfather / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Not just for its excessive violence and mafia fashion style. The Godfather is viewed as symbolic of men's gender roles — as Father, Brother, Businessman, Community leader — of 20th Century America. Nicely illustrated in the film You've Got Mail where Tom Hanks' character explains to Meg Ryan's how The Godfather is the I-Ching of all wisdom and that every guy gets the movie. Meg's character promptly quizzes her mild-mannered boyfriend about the phrase "Going to the mattresses." He immediately and nonchalantly replies "Yeah, that's from The Godfather."
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The Godfather / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
The Godfather / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: In Part III, Don Lucchesi is assassinated in a truly spectacular fashion when he is stabbed in the throat with his own glasses.
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The Godfather / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Godfather / int_4e3d253b	comment	Arguably the reason why Godfather Part II has such a Downer Ending: other than Hyman Roth, Michael didn't really need to have the others killed for his revenge. And even Roth was doomed to prison and would likely soon die from failing health anyway. Finally, Michael certainly didn't need to have his own brother Fredo killed.
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The Godfather / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
The Godfather / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Vito's reason for why he refuses to enter the narcotics business with Sollozzo.
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The Godfather / int_4e6c80ca	type	Holy Pipe Organ
The Godfather / int_4e6c80ca	comment	Holy Pipe Organ: In the first baptism scene, a reverent organ music is playing. But as the movie begins switching between Michael Corleone standing at an altar and a mass murder scenes, the organ music slowly becomes much more sinister.
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The Godfather / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Godfather / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line In Part I: During a limo ride with Hagen, Don Corleone reveals that he figured out who orchestrated the hit on Sonny: In Part II: Fredo casually and inadvertently reveals himself as The Mole for Johnny Ola when he talks excitedly about a steamy sex club act. This is after he said he never met that guy before. Michael immediately realizes Fredo's betrayal and lets him know later on with a Kiss of Death: And then, Kay's revelation to Michael that her Convenient Miscarriage was anything but:
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The Godfather / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
The Godfather / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: Michael discovers that Fredo was in cahoots with Johnny Ola, involved somehow in the plot to kill him, and thus a traitor.
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The Godfather / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Godfather / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "My father's name was Antonio Andoliniâ€¦ and this is for you." "Power wears out those who don't have it." This doubles as an ironic Historical In-Joke, since the original phrase was coined by Giulio Andreotti, the inspiration for Don Lucchesi.
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The Godfather / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Godfather / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Discussed. Bonasera asks Don Vito to kill the guys who beat his daughter, but Vito replies he cannot do that, since — as his daughter is alive — that wouldn't be justice. Vito finally arranges to have Clemenza deal with them, with the stipulation that his people aren't to get "carried away." There's a scene in the book where Paulie Gatto does indeed deal with the guys, and while it's not exactly pretty what he and his men do to them, no one could say it's more than they deserve. Vito once threatened to kill a band leader after refusing his request to buy out Johnny Fontane's contract. Arguably the reason why Godfather Part II has such a Downer Ending: other than Hyman Roth, Michael didn't really need to have the others killed for his revenge. And even Roth was doomed to prison and would likely soon die from failing health anyway. Finally, Michael certainly didn't need to have his own brother Fredo killed. Pretty much the entire story starts when Solozzo decided to launch a gang war against the Corleones because Vito declined to invest in his drug operation, something Vito did politely while explaining precisely why (while narcotics would bring in lots of money, it was also high-risk and could cost him influence in his power-brokering network), and stated that he would also not interfere with Solozzo's operation should he find funding elsewhere. Had Solozzo taken Vito at his word, the rest of the book/film would not have happened.
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The Godfather / int_51509ce7	type	Convenient Miscarriage
The Godfather / int_51509ce7	comment	And then, Kay's revelation to Michael that her Convenient Miscarriage was anything but:
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The Godfather / int_51561f43	type	Hurricane of Euphemisms
The Godfather / int_51561f43	comment	Jack Woltz shoots a hurricane of racial slurs to Tom Hagen.
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The Godfather / int_51923571	type	Spinning Paper
The Godfather / int_51923571	comment	Spinning Paper: The "Mattress Sequence", a montage of crime scene photos and headlines about the war between the five families. Made by George Lucas.
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The Godfather / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Godfather / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Sonny and Carlo were friends, to the point where Sonny introduced Connie to Carlo at Vito's birthday party, leading to their marriage. When Carlo became an abusive prick, Sonny grew to hate him along with the rest of the family, giving him the beating of his life when he abused Connie. In revenge, Carlo sets up Sonny to be killed by Barzini's people.
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The Godfather / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
The Godfather / int_525df529	comment	The name "the Godfather" has a symbolic ring to it. Just the word itself, comprising "God" and "Father," seems to say a lot: It conveys power, the sense of a patriarch or maybe of a wrathful deity. In Christian tradition, godparents are the people who will assume legal guardianship of their godchildren in case the actual parents die. (It's largely an honorary function, nowadays.) In the movie, "The Godfather" is more a guardian of both his literal and symbolic godchildren's interests: He protects them by going around the law, demanding their eternal loyalty. All they have to do is agree to return the favorâ€”by means illegal or legal. There is something oddly god-like about this relationship, since it bears a similarity to the way an ancient Roman deity might reward his or her devotees in exchange for a sacrifice. The Godfather is a kind of puppet-master tooâ€”trying to pull strings that other people are holding (this is depicted in the logo for the film's title, where a hand pulls marionette strings attached to the words). Interestingly, no one in the mafia called the head Don of a family "Godfather" until after Puzo did it in his book. The head of a mafia family was just called the "boss of the bosses," or capo di tutti capi in Italian.
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The Godfather / int_52b517e7	type	Culturally Religious
The Godfather / int_52b517e7	comment	Culturally Religious: The Italian-American characters were raised in a culture very heavily influenced by Roman Catholicism, and they do go to church for special occasions like baptisms, first communions, and the like, but anyone with even a passing knowledge of the films could tell that they otherwise do not live according to Catholic teachings. Michael in particular is said in Part III to have not gone to confession in 30 years. Cardinal Lamberto even discusses this; he points out a rock that has been in a church fountain's pool for a very long time but which has a completely dry interior due to it not having absorbed any of the water, which he says is similar to how many in Italy have absorbed little of Christianity's teachings despite them living in Christendom's historic center.
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The Godfather / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Godfather / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The film begins and ends in the Don's study. At the beginning, Vito is the Don, and Michael truthfully tells Kay about the business his family are in, and the fact that he wants no part of it. At the end, Michael is himself the Don, and he lies to Kay about his involvement in Carlo's death. In Part II young Vito's story begins with his flight from Sicily to America after Don Ciccio kills his father, mother, and brother, and tries to kill him. It concludes with Vito, now a powerful Mafia Don in New York, coming back to Sicily for a visit and exacting revenge on a now-feeble Don Ciccio after more than 20 years later. Part II begins and ends with the murder of a brother...Vito's older brother in 1901 Sicily and Fredo in 1959 Lake Tahoe. Also, it's more obvious in The Godfather Epic (a cut sometimes shown on cable that presents the first two movies in strict chronological order, beginning in 1901 and ending in 1959), but when you take Part III into account, the entire saga begins and ends with a parent weeping over a murdered child.
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The Godfather / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Godfather / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Vito behaves like — and, in some ways, is — a family-oriented leader of his community, doing favors for the weak and punishing the wicked (so long as it doesn't interfere with business). In some ways this is an Invoked Trope. People are expected to treat Don Vito the same way — like a treasured and respected friend. During his first scene, he chides Bonasera the mortician for not being more sociable with him and only visiting when he needs a favor. Michael is this in the third movie, as he's mellowed out in his old age and genuinely wants to be a better man.
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The Godfather / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Godfather / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Part II ends with a flashback that goes all the way back to four years before the first movie begins, at Don Vito's birthday party. It shows the family all together and happy, before everything went bad.
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The Godfather / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Godfather / int_53f5119f	comment	Tom Hagen — Hagen was The Dragon for GÃ¼nther (local Vito Corleone) in Nibelungenlied.
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The Godfather / int_545f8c91	type	Abortion Fallout Drama
The Godfather / int_545f8c91	comment	Abortion Fallout Drama: Kay's revelation that she aborted what would have been their third child blows up her marriage to Michael.
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The Godfather / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Godfather / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: One of the central stories of Part III, featuring also Vatican City and The Pope as a reformist.
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The Godfather / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
The Godfather / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Retired Badass Vito Corleone exits this life playing hide and seek with his grandson in his garden.
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The Godfather / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
The Godfather / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Corleones. Except Fredo.
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The Godfather / int_55c8bdbc	type	Death Wail
The Godfather / int_55c8bdbc	comment	Death Wail: Michael Corleone's full scream when Mary dies was supposedly so primal and intense that a good chunk of the full audio had to be cut from the movie.
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The Godfather / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Godfather / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: In Part II, the Statue of Liberty greets Vito upon his arrival in New York in its iconic shade of green, when in 1901, it was still mostly bronze and would only turn visibly green several lustrums later as the copper fully oxidized. In Part III, the deaths of Pope Paul VI and John Paul I take place in 1979, the year after their real-life deaths. Furthermore, the name of the actual Cardinal who becomes John Paul I appears to have been changed, along with his pre-papal posting in Sicily rather than Venice. This overlaps with Very Loosely Based on a True Story, since the movie is based on several conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the real-life John Paul I and offers an accordingly fictionalized version of events. Also, Pope John Paul I appears to die on the same night as the opera, which was stated to premiere at Easter. Easter takes place in April or late March, depending on the year. John Paul I died in late September.
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The Godfather / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
The Godfather / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: How the Corleones ultimately prevail over the other families. Following the death of Sonny, Vito holds a peace treaty where he concedes to all of the other dons' demands, making it appear as though his family is no longer in any shape to fight. In the years that follow, he and Michael instruct their men to not fight back as the other families encroach on their territory (further giving off the illusion of weakness). This causes the other dons to abandon all caution and loosen their security, allowing Michael's assassins to kill all of them in one fell swoop.
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The Godfather / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Godfather / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: With Sonny dead and Vito nearing the end of his life, Fredo is sent to oversee the family's affairs in Las Vegas; despite being the oldest remaining brother, he is unsuited to lead and this opens the door for Michael to take over. This is also supposed to be Carlo's fate for his role in orchestrating Sonny's death — being cut out of the family business and sent to Las Vegas. In reality, Michael has him killed.
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The Godfather / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Godfather / int_588d766f	comment	Vito lives an honest life in America for years. Petty crime only ensues after he's fired, and he only becomes a killer when Fanucci threatens his livelihood once again. After that it gets downplayed almost to subversion levels in that Vito is not that evil by the standards of the story. He's a neighbourhood friendly gangster who for the most part is pitted against people who are more evil. All things considered his worst in-universe deeds during his donship boil down to having a horse killed and making An Offer You Can't Refuse to a band leader after a failed negotiation, and that loses some effect by being Offstage Villainy.
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The Godfather / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Godfather / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Carlo beats Connie regularly. The trope is invoked to lure Sonny out of the Corleone fortress. Fredo threatens to "belt" his wife, but she laughs in his face and tells him, "You couldn't belt your mama." Michael hits Kay hard enough to knock her down when she says she had an abortion.
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The Godfather / int_599ad6d5	type	Contrived Clumsiness
The Godfather / int_599ad6d5	comment	Contrived Clumsiness: Michael has to support Apollonia by her arm when she almost trips over. The book and the subtitles in the recut movie make clear the stumble is a deliberate misstep by Apollonia to invoke some mild physical contact before the wedding. It's as much as the chaperones would allow. The operator at the toll booth (where Sonny gets assassinated) drops the change. It's just a way to bend down out of sight and a signal to the armed gunmen to start firing.
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The Godfather / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Godfather / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Fabrizzio's runs out eventually. In The Godfather Saga, they put a bomb in his car so he dies the same way Apollonia did. In the book, they just shoot the son of a bitch. Still extremely satisfying.
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The Godfather / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Godfather / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The film drops a lot of the novel's subplots, though one major one (Don Vito's youth and rise to power) becomes about half of Part II. Secondary characters like Al Neri, Johnny Fontane and Luca Brasi get a lot more backstory and screen time in the novel, whereas in the movie they only get a few scenes.
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The Godfather / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
The Godfather / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: In making the peace treaty with the Five Families that will bring Michael home, Don Vito promises that "I swear, on the souls of my grandchildren, that I will not be the one to break the peace we've made here today." And indeed he doesn't. Instead, Michael takes revenge after Vito's death. In the novel and in the recut Vito says I Gave My Word, but Michael points out he didn't give his.
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The Godfather / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Godfather / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Invoked by Michael with Roth and with Don Altobello. A lesson learned from Vito: "Keep your friends close but your enemies closer." Also the case between Frank and his FBI handlers. They're positively chummy with him.
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The Godfather / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
The Godfather / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Vito is no happier than Sonny about how Carlo treats Connie, but his traditional values won't allow him to intervene in matters between husband and wife. It's implied that this is part of the reason Carlo abuses Connie in the first place.
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The Godfather / int_5c81a18b	type	I Am Not My Father
The Godfather / int_5c81a18b	comment	I Am Not My Father: "That's my family Kay, it's not me."
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The Godfather / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Godfather / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Don Vito does not oppose the drug trade because of any moral opposition to drugs, but because he fears that it will destroy their political connections. In the novel, it's briefly mentioned that all of the Dons believe it is morally wrong to sell drugs to children, but also that it makes no practical sense, because where would children get the money to afford them? Sollozzo proclaims he doesn't like violence because he is a businessman. "Blood is a big expense." Tom Hagen agrees with this view, while Sonny puts revenge before the business.
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The Godfather / int_5cc41f66	type	Disowned Sibling
The Godfather / int_5cc41f66	comment	Disowned Sibling: In Part II Michael Corleone effectively disowns his brother Fredo when he hears his reasons for selling out the family, only sparing his life for the sake of their still-living mother. After she passes, however, he has Fredo executed during a fishing trip.
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The Godfather / int_5cd6010b	type	Turn Out Like His Father
The Godfather / int_5cd6010b	comment	Turn Out Like His Father: Vito never wanted a criminal life for Michael, he was meant to be a Senator, a Governor... another pezzonovante. However, notice family is The Patriarch Vito's only motivation, and when his son is already dead, he doesn't pursue revenge. Michael, on the other hand, is a curse on his own family and always puts Revenge Before Reason. Kay confronts Michael to allow their son Anthony to abandon his law studies and pursue a musical career. Michael is legit by then and needs lawyers, but he graciously concedes. Michael explicitly mentors Vincent to avoid the mistakes of Santino, his father. Each son is basically a part of Vito's overall personality: Sonny has his violent aspects. Fredo is his sweet and sincere parts. Michael is his cunning and logical parts.
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The Godfather / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Godfather / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: The usually stoic and softspoken Vito does this early in the first film when Johnny Fontane is whining that Woltz won't give him the part he wants in a movie. Later in his career (including the third Godfather film) Al Pacino would become known for yelling a lot, but in the first two films Michael is mostly very calm and collected. This makes the two times in Part II when he does suddenly shout, namely the scene after his bedroom is shot up ("IN MY HOME! WHERE MY WIFE SLEEPS!") and the scene where he finds out about Kay's (supposed) miscarriage ("WAS IT A BOY?") land with dramatic impact.
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The Godfather / int_5f173ee4	type	I Kiss Your Hand
The Godfather / int_5f173ee4	comment	I Kiss Your Hand: Not in a romantic sense but an expected sign of respect towards a Don.
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The Godfather / int_5fb5dad8	type	Royal Blood
The Godfather / int_5fb5dad8	comment	Royal Blood: The Corleones are one of the Royal Families of the criminal underworld; Vito, the self made man founder of the dynasty ascends from Rags to Royalty and his successors are his direct descendants. Sonny, the heir and first regent has shades of The Caligula (he is shown more competent in the novel and the recut) and the third Don is his bastard son. The saga starts during the wedding of the Mafia Princess, Michael ends up as the Unexpected Successor and he finally abdicates.
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The Godfather / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Godfather / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Mild examples in Joey Zasa and Don Altobello, given the Time Skip and the latter being based in Sicily.
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The Godfather / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Godfather / int_60194b82	comment	Vito to Michael. Vito figures on Sonny following his path, and Fredo... well... He wanted something better with Michael. The expression on his face when he's told that Michael killed Sollozzo and McCluskey is one of pure heartbreak.
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The Godfather / int_60426489	type	Citizenship Marriage
The Godfather / int_60426489	comment	Citizenship Marriage: One of the favors asked of Vito during his daughter's wedding is to help an Italian POW who was allowed out of the camps on parole to work at the favor-seeker's bakery to get a green card so that he could stay in America and marry the baker's daughter now that the war was over and the POWs were getting shipped back to Europe.
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The Godfather / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Godfather / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Tom Hagen, if you know Nibelungenlied.
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The Godfather / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Godfather / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Subverted, Pentangeli is put under Witness Protection and is going to testify against the Corleone family. Michael and Tom Hagen find a way to prevent him breaking the omertÃ ; his brother shows up the day he has to testify. It's not stated if they stop Pentangeli by shaming him in front of his old school brother or there's some kind of Implied Death Threat going on. note Earlier drafts of the script had Michael explaining that said brother was the custodian of Pentangeli's illegitimate children back in Sicily, his showing up delivers an unambiguous message.
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The Godfather / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
The Godfather / int_61c7d589	comment	Bigger Is Better in Bed: Sonny, though it is less blatant in the film than in the book, where it is deconstructed as the size makes the sex extremely uncomfortable to his partners except to Lucy, who has an abnormally large vagina. Johnny Fontane. Enough so that stories about its sheer girth are common on the Hollywood scene. One rumor (eventually confirmed) stated that he had to have his suits specially tailored in order to accommodate it. Subverted by "Superman" in the sex show in Part II, where it's implied that the sex will be very painful for the woman.
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The Godfather / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Godfather / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Pentangeli. The Family wants him dead, but Tom Hagen tells him that if he kills himself the Corleones will provide for his surviving family from that point on. Vito's mother grabs Don Ciccio and holds a knife to his throat, screaming at him to run. She had to have known this would result in her own death, but was determined to save her remaining son's life.
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The Godfather / int_648c3646	type	Enlightened Self-Interest
The Godfather / int_648c3646	comment	The novel makes it clear that Vito generally avoids having his favors be these because then people would avoid asking him for favors. He's clever enough to gain all the advantage he needs by asking his huge network of "friends" for debt repayments that aren't evil, criminal, or self-destructive (or at least no moreso than their normal behavior), and by doing so he remains a Villain with Good Publicity, so that's what he does.
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The Godfather / int_6537cc1a	type	All Girls Like Ponies
The Godfather / int_6537cc1a	comment	All Girls Like Ponies: When Connie was younger, she got her own pony. Jack Woltz presents his ingenue/lover with a pony as a gift.
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The Godfather / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
The Godfather / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: The brothers are a perfect example. Sonny (choleric), Michael (melancholic), Fredo (sanguine), and Tom Hagen (phlegmatic).
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The Godfather / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Godfather / int_66cdb21b	comment	Subtly referenced in Part II. In Cuba, Michael gives Fredo the task of arranging entertainment for his visiting guests, all VIPs and politicians he hopes to win over and expedite his investment in the Cuban hotel industry. Fredo's choice of venue is a seedy club hosting a sex show, starring 'Superman'. While all the guests are laughing in good-natured disbelief at the size of Superman's more-powerful-than-a-locomotive, there is a two-second shot of Fredo staring, unblinking and almost trembling.
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The Godfather / int_66eb63b1	type	Brandishment Bluff
The Godfather / int_66eb63b1	comment	Brandishment Bluff: To save Vito from being assassinated at the hospital due to Sollozzo-affiliated police captain McCluskey removing all of Vito's guards from the scene, the unarmed Michael and Enzo, who had shown up after the guards were driven away, pretend to visibly pull out weapons as soon as they spot a car they know is full of assassins. The assassins drive away due to the bluff, buying more time for Sonny's men to reach the hospital and guard Vito.
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The Godfather / int_66ef1fa1	type	Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee
The Godfather / int_66ef1fa1	comment	Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: A large section of Part II features Michael being interrogated by a Senate committee on organized crime, who produces Pentangeli as its surprise witness.
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The Godfather / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Godfather / int_680bb6b1	comment	Sonny spits at FBI agents and then destroys the camera of a photographer, demonstrating that he is a hot head. He later has sex with the maid of honor, showing that he is a lothario. His wife also makes a visual representation of the size of Sonny's ... prowess.
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The Godfather / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
The Godfather / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: Part II juxtaposes the creation of Vito's family with the gradual dissolution of Michael's.
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The Godfather / int_68a91d1c	type	Honest Advisor
The Godfather / int_68a91d1c	comment	Honest Advisor: Vito encourages Tom to be one: "Not even a Sicilian consigliere always agrees with the boss."
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The Godfather / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Godfather / int_69681e01	comment	Likewise, after Connie is violently beaten by Carlo, Sonny's Big Brother Instinct kicks in.
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The Godfather / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
The Godfather / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Michael goes to Dartmouth College (where he meets Kay). A possible justification is hinted when Hagen mentions that his father pulled many strings to provide a deferment for Michael.
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The Godfather / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
The Godfather / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: The Baptism / Execution sequence from the end of Part I where Michael becomes the Godfather in both senses of the term. Not an actual birth but a very close symbolic one, a very young child gains admission to a new life in Christ.
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The Godfather / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
The Godfather / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: In Part II, following the attempt on his life, Michael tells Rocco that he wants the gunmen captured alive. He even repeats the order, to make absolutely sure.
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The Godfather / int_6cc2137b	type	The Scream
The Godfather / int_6cc2137b	comment	The Scream: Woltz starts a series of huge screams in his bed, the scene then cuts to the outside of his house while the screaming continues. Part III. When his daughter Mary is fatally shot during a hit meant for him, Michael delivers a wail that is so heartrending it had to be edited.
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The Godfather / int_6d740dff	type	Enforced Trope
The Godfather / int_6d740dff	comment	The word "Mafia" was deliberately never spoken in the first film, nor is the "official" name of the organization, La Cosa Nostra ("This thing of ours" or, simply "Our Thing"). This was an Enforced Trope Coppola had to concede to a real life mafioso who was vetting the film, and a Mafia Astroturf organization was attempting to convince people that there was, in fact, no such thing as the Mafia. Word of God says its intended usage was very minor anyway. Allegedly, this is Truth in Television, as real-life mobsters rarely refer to themselves in these terms, either.
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The Godfather / int_6da4d56e	type	Conspicuously Public Assassination
The Godfather / int_6da4d56e	comment	Conspicuously Public Assassination: Michael wants to get rid of Sollozzo and Captain McClusky. A gun is left for him in a restaurant bathroom: he gets up from his parley with the targets, comes back from the toilet and shoots them each once in the head, then drops the gun on the floor and calmly walks out the front door. Sure, he has to flee the country afterwards, but he gets away with it.
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The Godfather / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Godfather / int_6de71c57	comment	Barzini in Part I, with Sollozzo serving as Disc-One Final Boss.
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The Godfather / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
The Godfather / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: A small one for Sandra, Sonny's wife. When she sees Sonny and Lucy go off together at the wedding, she is clearly displeased. In the novel, however, she is grateful enough of his affairs to light a church candle in thanks because she can't handle Sonny's big penis.
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The Godfather / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
The Godfather / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Don Ciccio refuses to spare young Vito's life, fearing that when he grows up, he'll seek his revenge for his murdered brother and father—which is exactly what happens.
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The Godfather / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Godfather / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Senator Geary tries to extort and bully Michael for a gambling license. A nonchalant Michael bides his time and turns the tables with a cold frameup. It's worth pointing out that the Senator knows Michael is a powerful criminal but misevaluates him as harmless thinking that a political leader is out of his nefarious reach.
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The Godfather / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Godfather / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The book essentially describes Michael having to kill McCluskey as this. Killing an NYPD captain is just about the most dangerous thing the Family can do (short of killing a fed). This is because the NYPD will put enormous pressure on all the New York families to find the killer and, since they can't with Michael hiding in Sicily, it would be horrible for everyone's business. This turns out to be right; McCluskey and Sollozzo's assassinations kick off a Mob War.
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The Godfather / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Godfather / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Don Emilio Barzini wants to get blacks hooked on heroin. Another Don agrees: "They're animals anyway, let them lose their souls." In the book the other dons have no problem with this attitude, they just don't think it should be discussed. You do business with blacks, but you don't talk about it; the main reason they gave for this disdain is that there were no black gangs as powerful or as organized as "Cosa Nostra." In the book, Luca Brasi has his half Irish illegitimate baby killed because he believes "None of that race should live." Senator Geary from Part II goes out of his way to insult Michael's Italian-American heritage while trying to extort him. Jack Woltz shoots a hurricane of racial slurs to Tom Hagen. Woltz also has an unambiguous pederastic side in both the novel and the recut. Captain McCluskey's first line: "I thought I got all you guinea hoods locked up!" After a fight with Fredo, his wife Deanna yells, "Never marry a wop! They treat their wives like shit!"
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The Godfather / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
The Godfather / int_72e0023f	comment	Vito behaves like — and, in some ways, is — a family-oriented leader of his community, doing favors for the weak and punishing the wicked (so long as it doesn't interfere with business). In some ways this is an Invoked Trope. People are expected to treat Don Vito the same way — like a treasured and respected friend. During his first scene, he chides Bonasera the mortician for not being more sociable with him and only visiting when he needs a favor.
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The Godfather / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Godfather / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Pentangeli in Part II, who's callously manipulated by both Michael and Roth and ultimately Driven to Suicide.
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The Godfather / int_73d9c25f	type	Quack Doctor
The Godfather / int_73d9c25f	comment	Quack Doctor: Dr. Taza spends more time in brothels than reading medical books and received his medical degree from the university of Palerma only because the local Mafia leader said so. Michael Corleone is understandably hesitant to have him operate on his jaw broken by NYPD Captain Mark McCluskey.
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The Godfather / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
The Godfather / int_744e3311	comment	In the novel every cop is either on the take, experts in Police Brutality (like ex-cop Al Neri) or both. That said, they have their own code of honor as to what constitutes "clean" graft and what's beyond the pale. Taking a bribe to look the other way for prostitution or gambling or speeding tickets is one thing; getting involved in drugs or murder is quite another. Thus, in the novel, the NYPD loses a lot of their will to avenge McCluskey when they find out he was working with the Mob to set up a hard-drugs operation. The Corleones also exploit this through the media, with plenty of stories emphasizing McCluskey's "hard" corruption ensuring that the public aren't exactly crying out for his killer to be found and punished either.
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The Godfather / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Godfather / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Both of Michael's Sicilian bodyguards, Fabrizzio and Calo, die in the novel but survive in the movie adaptation, only to die in the sequels. Fabrizzio sets a car bomb for Michael but kills Michael's wife Apollonia instead. In the novel, Fabrizzio is killed in the climactic massacre montage, but in the movie he is not seen again after Apollonia's death. A deleted scene in Godfather II reveals that Michael has him killed years later in a car bombing. In the novel Calo is killed in the car blast with Apollonia, but his fate is unrevealed in the movie until Godfather III, where he is killed while taking part in that film's climactic massacre montage.
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The Godfather / int_7553a0d4	type	Nature Tinkling
The Godfather / int_7553a0d4	comment	Nature Tinkling: In Part I, Clemenza gets out of a car to take a leak. While he does, Rocco executes Paulie.
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The Godfather / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
The Godfather / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: Kay considers the Corleone siblings massive-numbered, and considers Vito and Carmela generous for adding a fifth member to their brood with Tom. Michael, however, notes that even five children constitutes a small family by mid-century Sicilian standards.
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The Godfather / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
The Godfather / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert: When Michael opens the newspaper to read about his father's shooting, his hands in the insert are played by George Lucas.
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The Godfather / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
The Godfather / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Gordon Willis and Coppola loved this trope to the extent that in many cases it's so dark that parts of the film remain un-exposed. This was why it has been problematic to transfer or restore the film to DVD, as it's very hard for digital media to handle pitch black. note MPEG-2 handles completely flat black very well, but it tends to fall apart when there's a little noise in the black — which tends to happen with under-exposed film or video.
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The Godfather / int_769ad308	type	Hidden Weapons
The Godfather / int_769ad308	comment	Hidden Weapons: The Corleones correctly assume Michael is going to be thoroughly frisked before a meeting and discuss a method to plant a gun in a restaurant.
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The Godfather / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
The Godfather / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: For Vito, nothing is more important than Family. Michael tries to follow his example, but blurs the lines between family and business and anyone who crosses him has to go.
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The Godfather / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
The Godfather / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: Sollozzo does this to Luca Brasi in the movie version to prevent him reaching for his gun. This is a scary deviation, in the book it takes two men to hold his arms while he's being strangled by Sollozzo.
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The Godfather / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Godfather / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: Both Vito and Michael were noted as young men for being soft-spoken, understated, and reasonable, especially in contrast to many of their Sicilian immigrant and first-generation compatriots.
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The Godfather / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Godfather / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Frank Pentangeli in Part II, reflecting he's Clemenza's Suspiciously Similar Substitute. Someone who looks an awful lot like Frank is briefly visible at Connie's wedding in Part I, so some fans interpret this as a sign that Frank was at least a family friend even by that point. On the other hand, it's not confirmed whether it's the same actor, and even if it is, this probably wasn't intended. Also Hyman Roth is mentioned as having a long history with the Corleone family despite never being mentioned in the first movie. Mild examples in Joey Zasa and Don Altobello, given the Time Skip and the latter being based in Sicily. Possibly excused if any of them were doing time in jail; the Corleones are a criminal enterprise, after all.
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The Godfather / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Godfather / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch. Two of the three films focus on leadership of the Corleone family being passed down between generations. In the first, it's from Vito to Michael, and in the third it's from Michael to Vincent.
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The Godfather / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Godfather / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: A minor example — the scene where Luca Brasi meets Don Vito Corleone and stumbles over his words happened because actor Lenny Montana was so petrified to work a scene with an actor like Marlon Brando. Francis Ford Coppola liked the dynamic this gave, and added in the chronologically-earlier scene where Luca practices what he's going to say to Vito, giving the idea that even a "big scary guy" like Luca (as pointed by Kay) could be intimidated by the Don.
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The Godfather / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
The Godfather / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In many of the Sicily scenes, Michael wipes his nose with a handkerchief. The novel explains that McCluskey's punch did damage to his sinuses.
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The Godfather / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
The Godfather / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: Sonny's temper is legendary amongst everyone who knows him; it eventually leads to his downfall.
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The Godfather / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
The Godfather / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The epic as a whole reflects upon the Italian-American experience. The second movie in particular a poignant celebration of the immigration experience as young Vito arrives to Ellis Island and grows up in the melting pot that is New York City. The opening line famously frames the entire movie: "I believe in America..."
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The Godfather / int_7aaafe	type	Wedding/Death Juxtaposition
The Godfather / int_7aaafe	comment	Wedding/Death Juxtaposition: A few variations in Part One: The movie opens with Bonasera asking Don Corleone to kill the two men who beat up and tried to rape his daughter. We then learn that all this is happening behind the scenes at the wedding of Don Corleone's own daughter, Connie. The Godfather declines to have the men killed, on the logic that the other man's daughter is still alive, but is willing to have them badly beaten. Toward the end, there's a juxtaposition of death and a baptism for Connie's son, with the movie cutting back and forth between the ceremony and a montage of Corleone hitmen assassinating the heads of all the other major crime families and other potential rivals. This represents Michael's ascendency as the new head of the family, with his consolidation of hard power - through the assassinations - and soft power - by being named Godfather to his nephew at the ceremony. One of the final scenes of the Corleone's family return to Sicily (in part II) is of Vito and Carmela renewing their vows at the local church. After fading out, the next scene is of Carmela's funeral.
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The Godfather / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Godfather / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Vito is shot on the same day Paulie calls in sick. Sonny sees through the coincidence. In the novel and the recut he backs the suspicions with phone records. In Sicily, Apollonia is driving the car for the first time as a surprise to Michael, who notices his bodyguard Fabrizzio hurriedly walking away from his villa. Michael turns and screams to his wife, but it's too late, she starts the engine and the car explodes, killing her. Sal Tessio plans one at the end of Part I, but he's thwarted. Michael in Part II discusses the possibility, pointing out that his men are just businessmen and their loyalty is based on that.
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The Godfather / int_7bb844ec	type	Villain Decay
The Godfather / int_7bb844ec	comment	Villain Decay: Discussed in-universe.
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The Godfather / int_7d44b017	type	Balance of Power
The Godfather / int_7d44b017	comment	Balance of Power: Some of the intrigue comes from the families negotiating about this.
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The Godfather / int_7e89ba0	type	Suspiciously Idle Officers
The Godfather / int_7e89ba0	comment	Suspiciously Idle Officers: Averted. Captain McCluskey is on the villain's payroll but he's also an NYPD Captain and is, as such, required to be on call. The Corleones' own Dirty Cops learn where the Captain has scheduled himself during a supposedly secret meeting. Sonny is then able to plant a gun there in advance for Michael to ambush Sollozzo and McCluskey.
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The Godfather / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
The Godfather / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: The Mafia, specifically. Jack Woltz rambles furiously to a stone-faced Tom Hagen about how he won't fold to the demands of an extremely powerful crime lord. Needless to say this doesn't end well. This doubles as Idiot Ball when you remember that Woltz admitted to knowing the story of how Vito Corleone strong-armed Johnny Fontane's band leader into letting him go. Meaning he knew what the Corleones were capable of and provoked them anyway. This applies to Moe Greene as well. When told that the Corleones are going to buy his portion of the casino out and have sole control, he claims that the family doesn't have "enough muscle" to pull this off and refuses. Moe also (stupidly) brags about "straightening out" Fredo (Michael Corleone's brother) with slaps. He learns later what a mistake that was, by taking a bullet to the eye.
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The Godfather / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Godfather / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: A doctor is talking to Nino Valenti, a friend of Johnny Fontane, telling the man that if he doesn't cut out the smoking and drinking he'll be dead in five years. The man gives off an apparently horrified reaction as he says, "My God! Doc, are you serious? I'll be dead in five years? You mean it's going to take that long? In the film, when Fredo introduces himself to Kay, he's quite schnozzled. Deanna, Fredo's wife, is juiced to the hilt in 2, slurring her words and falling on her ass on the dance floor.
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The Godfather / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
The Godfather / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Michael's hair goes from loose and boyish in the beginning of the first movie to slicked back when he's older and more ruthless later in the film and in Part II.
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The Godfather / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
The Godfather / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: It's such an iconic line that it's right up there on the poster: Coined by Michael to illustrate how Vito reached an agreement with a bandleader to release Johnny Fontane from a contract. Invoked with Jack Woltz, again for the benefit of Johnny Fontane, Vito's godson. Downplayed or used less efficiently by Michael before the meeting with Moe Greene, who is neither explicitly threatened nor intimidated. The line is dropped by Vito while talking with Tessio and Clemenza about Fanucci's extortion, but averted since eventually Fanucci is not allowed any kind of retort.
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The Godfather / int_7f8fd503	type	Lonely at the Top
The Godfather / int_7f8fd503	comment	Lonely at the Top: Michael, with the added twist that, initially at least, he didn't even want to be the head of the 'family business'. It becomes the focal point for Part III. He tries to repair the relationship with his wife and children now that he's legit in the eyes of the public (which was his ultimate goal for the family). He goes to a Catholic Priest and confesses his ultimate sin of having his older brother Fredo killed. He finds a worthy successor to take over the business when he's gone. And just when things are looking up, his daughter gets killed by his enemies, breaking him for good.
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The Godfather / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Godfather / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sonny shows he's interested in Sollozzo's deal, despite his father saying he wants nothing to do with drugs. As this shows internal dissent in the family, Sonny is reprimanded for this cock-up, and it leads directly to the attempt on his father's life, Sollozzo having assumed that if he gets rid of Don Corleone, he can make a deal with Sonny.
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The Godfather / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Godfather / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first wedding scene of Part I is one of the most iconic examples, for all the characters. Vito is hearing the lamentations of a man who feels cheated by the legal justice system. He refuses the request for an assassination, deeming it out of proportion and then gives the man a long scolding for his lack of respect and proper manners. Yet Vito finally complies with a toned down request, affably but unenthusiastically, once the man's allegiance (in a very feudal kind of way) is assured. All in the middle of his daughter's wedding party. In the same scene, Tom Hagen's role as The Handler is hinted with a few gestures and confirmed once Vito assigns to him the implementation — but not the execution — of the request. Sonny seems to be Vito's right hand, but he is distracted and more concerned with the outside party and later with chasing skirts than with the business. This is reinforced during the briefing before the meeting with Sollozzo. Despite his busy schedule and just getting off a plane from California, Hagan is organized with a point by point rundown of Sollozzo's activities and background so the Don knows what to expect when they speak later. When Vito asks Sonny his opinion on the proposal, all he has to offer is saying there's a lot of money to be made in drugs. Vito looks almost disappointed as he turns to Tom for what he knows will be a much more in-depth and substantial reply. This goes a different direction in the book, where Sonny provides a simple but solid analysis (there's a lot of money, but it's risky; people could get serious prison sentences. It might be better if they stick to financing instead of importation and distribution), and Tom thinks, approvingly, that Sonny "Had stuck to the obvious, much the best course for him." Sonny spits at FBI agents and then destroys the camera of a photographer, demonstrating that he is a hot head. He later has sex with the maid of honor, showing that he is a lothario. His wife also makes a visual representation of the size of Sonny's ... prowess. Michael arrives late at the wedding, in a military uniform that differentiates him from the rest of the family, and his conversation with Kay makes it clear he wants to be a law-abiding and respectable citizen with no part in the family business. He is far from a stranger however, Vito refuses to take a picture without him. Fredo is not present in Vito's inner circle and then drunkenly bumps into Michael and Kay. He's an idiot, but not that bad a guy. His spinelessness is later reinforced when Vito gets shot: he clumsily drops his gun and the hitmen flee, and his response is to sit down by the roadside and cry rather than try to get help. Luca Brasi's introduction scene plays with this, in that it doesn't exactly establish his character as much as it reinforces his employer's. We first see this hulking, physically imposing enforcer nervously rehearsing for his audience with Vito Corleone, only to completely flub it when he's actually in the room. As Cracked.com notes, it reminds us that it's not the thug we should be intimidated by — it's the man who gives the thug his orders.
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The Godfather / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
The Godfather / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: It's understood among the Five Families that all civilians — people not affiliated with the mob — are to be left alone. This includes blood relatives such Michael Corleone early in Part I before he gets involved in the business. Though it's hard to say how much of this is out of values versus not wanting to bring particularly strong backlash from the police.
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The Godfather / int_8348e22f	type	Shared Unusual Trait
The Godfather / int_8348e22f	comment	Sonny, though it is less blatant in the film than in the book, where it is deconstructed as the size makes the sex extremely uncomfortable to his partners except to Lucy, who has an abnormally large vagina.
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The Godfather / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
The Godfather / int_83a30cd3	comment	Middle Child Syndrome: Fredo.
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The Godfather / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Godfather / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Fredo, mainly discussed in the original book and the Mark Winegardner follow-ups: Many of the personality conflicts he has with Michael and other Made Men are because of his issues dealing with his extremely repressed sexuality, occasionally leading to drunken one-night affairs, and his overcompensation by cultivating a reputation as a Vegas ladies' man. This gives him the impression of being inconsistent, flighty, and unreliable, all traits that attract the wrong kinds of attention and are liabilities for a man looking to make himself useful in the family business. Subtly referenced in Part II. In Cuba, Michael gives Fredo the task of arranging entertainment for his visiting guests, all VIPs and politicians he hopes to win over and expedite his investment in the Cuban hotel industry. Fredo's choice of venue is a seedy club hosting a sex show, starring 'Superman'. While all the guests are laughing in good-natured disbelief at the size of Superman's more-powerful-than-a-locomotive, there is a two-second shot of Fredo staring, unblinking and almost trembling.
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The Godfather / int_848153ef	type	Viva Las Vegas!
The Godfather / int_848153ef	comment	Viva Las Vegas!: Where Michael sends Fredo to get him out of his hair, and where the family attempts to become legitimate in II.
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The Godfather / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Godfather / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A minor case, but the use of the word "Don" was so impacted by this film that most people are unaware of the proper form of address. In real life, the word "Don" is used in conjunction with a person's first name rather than their last, similarly to how one would address an uncle. Thus, "Don Corleone" should be "Don Vito" or "Don Michael." This is of only minor importance in the movie itself, and there is occasional use of the proper form of address, but public perception of the Mafia in particular (and Sicilian/Italian culture in general) was so defined by this movie that most people are unaware of the correct usage. One possible reason for Vito using his last name instead of his first is that, unlike the other Dons, he wishes for his family to go legitimate at some point, and it's implied he tries to keep some sort of distance between his personal life (as "Vito") and his work life (as "Don Corleone"). Part of Vito's character is his two different personas as a family man and a don. "Vito" has more personal connotations as it's the name he was given, while "Don Corleone" implies distance and formality. Furthermore, nostalgia for "the good old days" is also a major part of Vito's character, and it would be likely used as a way to honor where he came from.
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The Godfather / int_856a425a	type	TheFifties
The Godfather / int_856a425a	comment	The '50s: Michael's half of Part II. Also, the latter half of Part I, which spans from 1945 to 1955.
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The Godfather / int_857abc33	type	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters
The Godfather / int_857abc33	comment	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: Compare The Corleone family to the Tattaglias. Or to any other gangster for that matter. Vito is a genuine pillar of his community who does retributed favours. Vincent is also shown to be this, and one of his main knocks against Joey Zasa is that Zasa is not.
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The Godfather / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Godfather / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Willie Cicci, during the Senate hearings, essentially betrays omerta (the code of silence). He gets prison time anyway due to his admission of crimes that he committed. It is not known what ultimately happened to him but most assume that he would eventually have been killed in prison due to his violation of omerta. Reportedly, Cicci was supposed to have returned for Part III but his actor Joe Spinell had died in 1989, before the movie began filming. Allegedly, his place is taken by Joey Zasa. So the assumption is probably The Character Died with Him. Also from Part II, the Rosato brothers apparently survive despite Michael killing Roth, their main benefactor. At least, nothing's heard from them after trying to kill Pentangeli. Michael's bodyguard Fabrizio turns traitor and kills Michael's wife Appollonia, then vanishes from the story and is never seen or mentioned again in the cinematic version. Averted in the novel and recut, in which Michael gets his revenge. The film ends rather abruptly after Mary is killed in Part III. We get a brief montage of all the women Michael has lost followed by his own death. So we never find out what happened to Connie, Kay, Anthony, Vincent, or anyone else for that matter. At the end of Part I, Michael Corleone stands godfather at the christening of his nephew, Carlo and Connie's baby. That boy never again appears, or is mentioned, in the series — not even in Part III, when Michael is looking around for a successor. Connie is still around, but she appears to be childless.
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The Godfather / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Godfather / int_868409c	comment	Clemenza to Michael as well (Pentangeli was supposed to be Clemenza in Part II, adding more drama to their relation).
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The Godfather / int_86c9b9b9	type	Badass Decay
The Godfather / int_86c9b9b9	comment	Badass Decay: Discussed in-universe. When Sollozzo has Tom held captive, he says that Vito and Luca would never have fallen for the ploys used if it were years earlier, trying to suggest that they've gotten soft.
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The Godfather / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Godfather / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: During the Senate investigation there is a big board with a diagram showing how the Corleone family is organized and branched.
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The Godfather / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Godfather / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Though in the film and novel it's more of an affectionate nickname, mob informant Joe Vallachi while describing the initiation ritual in 1963 says that the head of the Families is known as "the Godfather".
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The Godfather / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
The Godfather / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Nearly everyone in the Mafia counts in all three films. They may be ruthless mobsters but they do look good in those suits. Michael notably trades in his casual attire for a Homburg hat and slick-looking jacket and tie when he becomes part of the family business.
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The Godfather / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Godfather / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Kay accuses Michael of Hiding Behind Religion when Michael is knighted by the Church in Part III.
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The Godfather / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Godfather / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Played straight in the movie with Vito towards Michael, meant for a higher purpose. The original novel tries to explain why Sonny is the heir exempt from Evil Parents Want Good Kids because Sonny chose a criminal life after witnessing Vito killing Fanucci. (Part II disregards this)
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The Godfather / int_89283763	type	Insatiable Newlyweds
The Godfather / int_89283763	comment	Insatiable Newlyweds: Implied in the movie, stated outright in the book. Michael was worried that Apollonia, as an innocent young virgin, would be shy and reluctant when it came to sex. She's really, really not.
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The Godfather / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
The Godfather / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: The movies depict the upper-echelons of the Corleone family in a decidedly non-villainous light.
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The Godfather / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Godfather / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: One of the most iconic examples in all of fiction. The films are about the rise and fall of mob boss Michael Corleone, who participates in his family's illicit business in crime from murder to extortion.
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The Godfather / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Godfather / int_8ae880f7	comment	In the novel, McCluskey's actually something of a Deconstruction, or at least a more nuanced example than most. His dad was a cop who actually took young McCluskey along on his collection of "clean" graft (see below) without the youngster realizing what's happening. When he himself becomes a cop, he also only takes "clean" graft at first. The financial pressures of putting his kids through college (significantly, McCluskey does not want any of them to become cops, nor do they) and of caring for his large extended family, including medical bills for cancer treatments, make him need more and more illicit income. This brings him in touch with the Tattaglia family, and from there he becomes wholly dirty.
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The Godfather / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Godfather / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Vito, throughout Part 2, as his scenes depict him as a child and then a young man.
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The Godfather / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Godfather / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Poor Sonny... After Vito's failed assassination, they probably wanted to be sure that he was dead. Also because he was hated for his extreme violence; hence the moment where he gets kicked in the face by one of the gunman after he's dead. When Vito is requesting that Bonasera clean and reconstruct Sonny's body so that his mother doesn't have to see him in his current state, even Bonasera — a mortician! — is visibly startled at how savagely Sonny was mauled by the gunmen. In Part II, young Vito first shoots Don Fanucci in the chest, which by itself was probably enough to do him in eventually. But just to be sure, Vito proceeds to shoot him again, this time in the cheek, and finally sticks the gun in Fanucci's mouth and lets off a shot for good measure.
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The Godfather / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Godfather / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: especially Part II, was regarded by Francis Ford Coppola as being less about the mob and more about the mob as a metaphor for capitalism. This is most prominent where Michael Corleone boasts of his shares in IBM and Hyman Roth states that the mob is "bigger than U.S. Steel." See also American Dream above for details.
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The Godfather / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Godfather / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: In Part II, Michael grows a heart of stone (and far worse he has a completely innocent prostitute killed for the sake of the business) yet personality-wise he is not unprovokedly abrupt until the final part, when he offends Tom Hagen for no reason. This is somehow inverted during the two decades gap and by Part III Michael has mellowed out and is now The Atoner. Kay is the one who is abrasive towards him and on a high horse, despite that he voluntarily gave up child custody and she is not squeaky-clean either.
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The Godfather / int_8ed601a6	type	Two-Part Trilogy
The Godfather / int_8ed601a6	comment	Two-Part Trilogy: Variation. Mario Puzo once described the films as "two parts and an epilogue."
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The Godfather / int_8f166a4b	type	Chokepoint Geography
The Godfather / int_8f166a4b	comment	Chokepoint Geography: The toll booth is the perfect place for an ambush.
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The Godfather / int_8f48d89	type	Lawman Gone Bad
The Godfather / int_8f48d89	comment	Lawman Gone Bad: Al Neri, in the novel, is revealed to be an incorruptible but ferocious cop. When a Pay Evil unto Evil situation does not quite go as planned, he winds up convicted of manslaughter. Michael Corleone gets him off with a suspended sentence; in gratitude, he becomes Michael's most trusted bodyguard and Professional Killer.
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The Godfather / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Godfather / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: In the third movie, Michael's daughter, Mary, and nephew, Vincent, are in love. Michael is against their relationship, but Mary's mother, Kay, is not. However, Michael's objections are apparently not based on consanguinity, but the danger of Vincent's lifestyle.
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The Godfather / int_90507020	type	TheForties
The Godfather / int_90507020	comment	The '40s: Most of the action in Part I.
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The Godfather / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Godfather / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: In the novel, Michael comes to realize during his time in exile that the Mafia had been the ruin of Sicily, and further realizes that if the Mafia, including specifically "his father's empire" is allowed to grow, it will be the ruin of America too. Needless to say, this does not stop him from taking over his father's empire and continuing to spread its corruption.
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The Godfather / int_90769dd0	type	Evil Genius
The Godfather / int_90769dd0	comment	Evil Genius: Michael proves himself to be this at least twice during Part I, and continuously throughout Part II, using devious and brutal schemes to keep the Corleone Family strong, despite their (numerous) ups and downs.
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The Godfather / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Godfather / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: In a deleted scene from Part II, Michael has Fabrizzio killed via car bomb - the same way that he killed Appollonia.
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The Godfather / int_90f6d157	type	Confessional
The Godfather / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: In Part III. Michael gets to confess and receive absolution from the future Pope John Paul I himself.
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The Godfather / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
The Godfather / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Part I The name "the Godfather" has a symbolic ring to it. Just the word itself, comprising "God" and "Father," seems to say a lot: It conveys power, the sense of a patriarch or maybe of a wrathful deity. In Christian tradition, godparents are the people who will assume legal guardianship of their godchildren in case the actual parents die. (It's largely an honorary function, nowadays.) In the movie, "The Godfather" is more a guardian of both his literal and symbolic godchildren's interests: He protects them by going around the law, demanding their eternal loyalty. All they have to do is agree to return the favorâ€”by means illegal or legal. There is something oddly god-like about this relationship, since it bears a similarity to the way an ancient Roman deity might reward his or her devotees in exchange for a sacrifice. The Godfather is a kind of puppet-master tooâ€”trying to pull strings that other people are holding (this is depicted in the logo for the film's title, where a hand pulls marionette strings attached to the words). Interestingly, no one in the mafia called the head Don of a family "Godfather" until after Puzo did it in his book. The head of a mafia family was just called the "boss of the bosses," or capo di tutti capi in Italian. The horse head scene is a very iconic moment. Jack Woltz wakes up with a horse head in his bed, showing him that the Corleones mean business. Apparently, this forces Woltz to give Johnny Fontane (a Frank Sinatra expy) a part in a movie that will make him a star, despite his personal distaste for Fontane. In the years since the first film debuted, putting a horse's head in someone's bed has become a widely known symbol of sortsâ€”shorthand for making someone an offer they can't refuse, or forcing them to give you something they don't want to give you. After the Tattaglia family assassinates Luca Brasi, the Corleones' feared hit man, they send a message to the Corleones: a fish wrapped in Brasi's bulletproof vest. The message is clear: He "sleeps with the fishes," meaning that his corpse is weighed down at the bottom of a river (maybe the East River, a historically great place to dump dead bodies). It's pretty effective as a symbolism term. Oranges are another large factor within the first film, as they show up whether someone's about to die, or otherwise suffer. When Vito gets shot in the street, he's buying oranges, which scatter on the ground as he falls. When he dies at the very end, it's while peeling an orange and putting the rind in his mouth to make funny faces at his grandson. Before the horse head shows up in Jack Woltz's bed, we see an orange at the table where he eats dinner with Tom Hagen. Oranges show up at the meeting with the five families, near the mob bosses who will later be murdered. At the beginning of the film, oranges are also prominently on a table where future traitor to the family Tessio sits, who is of course whacked by the movie's end. At the end of the movie, Michael is literally becoming the godfather to Connie's child while also becoming the Godfather to the Corleone family, sealing his position with blood. There's a heavy irony in the scene, as Michael stands in church saying that he "renounces Satan and all his works" while a massacre that he ordered progresses in the world outside. It demonstrates the wide chasm between appearance and reality: This churchly dude, renouncing Satan, is actually semi-secretly embracing the world's evil. This is the scene of Michael's final transformation: He's becoming the thing that he's been trying not to become: the Don, the ruler, and it turns out that this is a pretty violent, pretty awful position to hold. He's being baptized, in a way, but it's an evil, anti-spiritual baptism. He's establishing his new identity through murder. Sure, he's developed some worthy traitsâ€”he's cool, competent, and capable of putting business above taking things personally. But those positive traits are put in the service of violence and destruction. Michael is losing his soul, which is, strangely, his triumph. He's made a strong effort toward becoming damned, becoming the leader of a criminal empire, and he's finally made it. There's something admittedly impressive about him as a villain, since it takes so much work. He's not just following his impulses like a serial killer: he's disciplined. A present-day parallel is Walter White's transformation into the drug kingpin Heisenberg on Breaking Bad. At the end of the movie, Connie accuses Michael of having her husband, Carlo, murdered. He straightfacedly denies it, even though it's entirely true. He repeats the same lie to his wife Kay, as well. Michael is capable of lying to his loved ones for the sake of his criminal business interestsâ€”which is totally cold, but the inevitable result of his journey. Kay watches as Michael's capos (underling bosses) gather in his office. One of them closes the door, and then the movie ends. This signifies Michael's transformation into ruthless crime lord, sealing Kay outside of his inner world. He's not the golden, studious war hero with whom she was originally in love. He's gone into a different realm, and the closing door symbolizes that he's fully entered into that new world of wickedness. It's a transformation that required a lot of work, but it's placed him, in the end, in a strange and potentially isolated position.
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The Godfather / int_91d3ab1e	type	Ominous Pipe Organ
The Godfather / int_91d3ab1e	comment	Ominous Pipe Organ: In the first baptism scene, a Holy Pipe Organ music is playing. But as the movie begins switching between Michael Corleone standing at an altar and a mass murder scenes, the organ music slowly becomes much more sinister.
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The Godfather / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Godfather / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Perhaps the most famous use of this Stock Phrase. Worded several times on a heated debate. And deconstructed by none other than Michael himself in the novel, who tells us, "It's all personal, every bit of business," creating an Unbuilt Trope. Tessio gives it to Hagen at the end of part I as a message to Mike. Invoked constantly, by both protagonists and antagonists. The most glaring example: the conference that begins the national syndicate and traffic in narcotics brings together Philip Tattaglia and Vito Corleone, who have lost their oldest sons to each other's hoods, in the name of restoring the "business" to normal.
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The Godfather / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Godfather / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Sonny Corleone's Gag Penis makes sex with him painful and unsatisfying to most women he sleeps with, including his wife Sandra who openly gossips about it to the other mobster wives. In his youth, he even had to pay double to get prostitutes to sleep with him. The fact he doesn't seem to care much about hurting them speaks poorly of his character. It's only when he finds a Distaff Counterpart in Lucy Mancini, a woman whose vagina is also overly large, that he finds a partner who can enjoy sex with him, and Sandra is actually relieved when he takes Lucy as a lover since it means she herself doesn't have to sleep with him anymore.
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The Godfather / int_945c8d7d	type	War Hero
The Godfather / int_945c8d7d	comment	War Hero: In the original novel, Detective Phillips, trying to protect Michael Corleone, specifically says "He's a war hero." Indeed Michael is: his deeds earned him several medals, including the Navy Cross, Silver Star, Purple Heart, and LIFE magazine ran a photo layout story on him.
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The Godfather / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
The Godfather / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash Clemenza dies of a heart attack — although Cicci implies foul play — between the events of the first and second films and his position as capo of the Corleone family's New York branch passes to Frank Pentangeli, his Suspiciously Similar Substitute. This was not originally going to happen; the reason for this change was a disagreement between actor Richard Castellano and Coppola (Castellano wanted creative control over his character and Coppola would not allow it, so Castellano was dropped from the film). The central story of Part III was going to be a full-on war between Michael and Tom, but Tom was dropped from the final film and his recent death is mentioned briefly in a scene with his son. Robert Duvall thought it was unfair for him to receive only a fifth of Al Pacino's salary and Coppola didn't have enough traction to amend it. Willie Cicci was reportedly supposed to have a major part in Part III but after Coppola learned of the 1989 death of actor Joe Spinell, the character was changed to Joey Zasa. Interestingly enough, Cicci was one of the untied ends from Part II as his final fate was left unclear. Most assume that he would have been dead by then (probably killed in prison), given his violation of "Omerta".
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The Godfather / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Godfather / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Many characters have subtle versions, but special mention goes to Michael in parts II and III. In part II he breaks down twice. The first time when he finds out that Kay had a miscarriage, he suddenly snaps at Tom for not getting a straight answer. The second time is around Kay herself when she reveals that said miscarriage was an abortion. In part III, when Mary gets shot, Michael screams with such primal fury that he induces a stroke.
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The Godfather / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Godfather / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Michael in Part II briefly has signs of this, but he's too far gone to really notice or act on them. It's not until Part III that he actually feels sincere remorse for his actions. His attempts at atoning and undoing the damage however, fail.
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The Godfather / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Godfather / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Michael in the first two movies is polite, icy and ruthless. He sweet-talks Kay to make her believe he's not going to be a criminal while his revenge plans are already in motion. He invokes a false veneer of amicability by keeping his friends close but his enemies closer.
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The Godfather / int_96251156	type	Deer in the Headlights
The Godfather / int_96251156	comment	Deer in the Headlights: Captain McCluskey just looks on in shock when Michael caps Sollozzo. He doesn't even go for his own weapon when Michael turns his gun on him. In the book, this is partly due to the fact that he believes Michael wouldn't dare to shoot a police captain.
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The Godfather / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Godfather / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What Sonny saw in Carlo that made him think he would be a good husband for Connie is never explained.
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The Godfather / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Godfather / int_970c790a	comment	She also fatally poisons Don Altobello, the Big Bad of Part III.
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The Godfather / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
The Godfather / int_97d97c28	comment	Sollozzo proclaims he doesn't like violence because he is a businessman. "Blood is a big expense." Tom Hagen agrees with this view, while Sonny puts revenge before the business.
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The Godfather / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Godfather / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: No one questions the sexist machismo culture of the mafia. For example, Michael's level of pain over the death of his and Kay's unborn child is dependent on whether or not it was a boy.
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The Godfather / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
The Godfather / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: Vito's raspy voice is the result of a characterization decision by Brando, who felt Vito the gangster was shot in the throat. Part II straight up RetCons this with a young Vito having already had that voice, hinting it comes from his feeble health as a child. Word of God not addressed in the movies.
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The Godfather / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
The Godfather / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: The saga opens with a Mafia wedding. Though the top members of the mob are still working at first, it becomes a leisure activity later. Don Vito Corleone is out shopping for oranges. It immediately precedes a mob ambush. Tom Hagen is in the middle of his Christmas purchases when he is intercepted by Sollozzo. This occurs at pretty much the same time the aforementioned hit on Tom's adoptive father. "Leave the gun, take the cannoli." Clemenza casually switches between professional and personal family errands.
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The Godfather / int_9b030fac	type	Repeated Rehearsal Failure
The Godfather / int_9b030fac	comment	Repeated Rehearsal Failure: Luca Brasi repeatedly practices his speech to Don Corleone thanking him for inviting him to the wedding of his daughter. But when he delivers the speech, he instead thanks Corleone for inviting him to his daughter. The interesting thing about this is that it's a genuine mistake on the part of the actor. Lenny Montana was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that he flubbed the line and the director added another scene where Brasi practiced his speech.
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The Godfather / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Godfather / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: When you think about Vito, Sonny, Fredo, and Michael all die in a manner fitting of their life. Vito relatively peacefully in his home with a loved one present. Sonny in an extremely violent way. Fredo passively and pathetically. And Michael alone and broken.
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The Godfather / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Godfather / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Connie is the least important of the Corleone siblings In-Universe (what with being a woman and all that) and spends most of the first movie being victimized by her husband. However, by part III with Fredo, Tom and Sonny out of the way she temporarily replaces Michael as family boss when he falls ill in the middle of a gang war. She also fatally poisons Don Altobello, the Big Bad of Part III.
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The Godfather / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
The Godfather / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: The backgrounds of the disc menus in the Coppola Restoration box set are static shots of three important death scenes. The Godfather's menu shows Vito lying dead in his tomato garden. Part II's menu shows Michael standing in his study, which in the film is when Fredo is killed. Part III's menu shows someone hanged; while it's easy to think that it's Michael given that it's the final film and considering the previous two discs' menus, it's actually Frederick Keinszig.
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The Godfather / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Godfather / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Oranges are another large factor within the first film, as they show up whether someone's about to die, or otherwise suffer. When Vito gets shot in the street, he's buying oranges, which scatter on the ground as he falls. When he dies at the very end, it's while peeling an orange and putting the rind in his mouth to make funny faces at his grandson. Before the horse head shows up in Jack Woltz's bed, we see an orange at the table where he eats dinner with Tom Hagen. Oranges show up at the meeting with the five families, near the mob bosses who will later be murdered. At the beginning of the film, oranges are also prominently on a table where future traitor to the family Tessio sits, who is of course whacked by the movie's end.
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The Godfather / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
The Godfather / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: At the end of Part II, Michael assigns Rocco to assassinate Hyman Roth at the Miami airport. Tom tries talking him out of it, pointing out that the police and FBI will be waiting to arrest Roth. Michael orders the hit anyway, and Rocco's killed moments after shooting Roth.
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The Godfather / int_9e776765	type	Churchgoing Villain
The Godfather / int_9e776765	comment	Churchgoing Villain: The Corleones and other crime families are pretty devout Catholics, and ruthless racketeers.
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The Godfather / int_9eeb5455	type	Evil Virtues
The Godfather / int_9eeb5455	comment	Evil Virtues: The Corleone family displays many of them: Ambition: Vito went from a penniless immigrant orphan to heading the leading crime family in New York. Michael expands the family business to include casinos in Las Vegas (and almost Cuba) and later in life seeks to run the Vatican's bank. Determination: Michael responds to Tom's concerns about trying to kill Hyman Roth by assuring him, "If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone." Honor: Vito's first step towards becoming The Godfather, after killing Fanucci, is stopping a landlord from kicking a widow out of her apartment with her kids and dog. He later opposes Sollozzo's offer to join the drug trade and only gives in after all the other families defeat the Corleones in a city gang war. Humility: Not so much ... Love: The Corleones clearly love each other very much. Even when Michael has Fredo killedâ€”which he waits to do until after his mother has diedâ€”he is wracked by guilt for decades. Loyalty: Michael joins the mafia to protect his father and then the whole family. Tom stands by Michael even after Michael cuts him out of the family. Passion: Sonny!! Patience: Unlike Sonny, though, Michael is patient in exacting his revenge. Valor: Michael's fate looks bleak after Barzini's victory in the mob war, Tessio and Clemenza's open denigration of his leadership, the Godfather's death, and Tessio's imminent betrayal. Yet Michael battles on.
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The Godfather / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
The Godfather / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Most of the gangsters are already Badasses In Nice Suits, but the nasty Bruno Tattaglia one-ups the lot by wearing a tux.
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The Godfather / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Godfather / int_9fe35833	comment	Love: The Corleones clearly love each other very much. Even when Michael has Fredo killedâ€”which he waits to do until after his mother has diedâ€”he is wracked by guilt for decades.
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The Godfather / int_9ff2b000	type	The Consigliere
The Godfather / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Trope Codifier Tom Hagen in the first two. Close to a Unbuilt Trope in that Tom, though well-meaning, isn't a particularly good Consigliere during wartime. He admits it to himself in the book after Sonny dies. Michael replaces him with his father, although he still listens to him until he grows unhappy with Tom in Part II. Genco Abbandando was Vito's longtime consigliere, seen in Part II, recuts and in the original novel (he doesn't appear in Part I because his entire role in that part of the story was to die of natural causes so that Tom could step into the position). When reflecting upon his own failures, Tom remarks that his councillorship is a tough act to follow: Less-seen B.J. Harrison in Part III. Connie seems to fill this role (albeit unofficially) in 3, at least in terms of being much more of a "wartime consigliere' than B.J.; it's she who serves as her nephew Vincent Mancini's biggest booster, and gives the go-ahead (alongside Al Neri, behind Michael's back) to whack Joey Zasa. Also in 3; after Michael retires and appoints Vincent as his successor as the Don of the Corleone family, he all but in name becomes his nephew Vincent's consigliere.
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The Godfather / int_a0a005d1	type	Protagonist Journey to Villain
The Godfather / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: The Saga gradually follows Michael from his Start of Darkness to his attempts to atone and be out. Part II explores Vito's journey, starting out as an immigrant orphan fleeing from a Mafia don, making an honest living, then being pushed into crime after being fired.
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The Godfather / int_a1841170	type	Generational Saga
The Godfather / int_a1841170	comment	Generational Saga: The Corleones 1901-1980, with a 1997 epilogue.
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The Godfather / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Godfather / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: As part of The Purge of the Five Families by Michael, Vegas boss Moe Greene while getting a massage is shot in the eye.
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The Godfather / int_a2e84479	type	Slowly Slipping Into Evil
The Godfather / int_a2e84479	comment	Slowly Slipping Into Evil: After returning from Sicily and with Sonny gone, Michael embraces his fate and gradually becomes his father's son, hatching their revenge for years. He marries Kay in the middle of his transformation, the son of a criminal who claims to be struggling for legitimacy. In a natural, magnified but equal iteration of his first evil act, he becomes a full-fledged Don by killing all of his underworld rivals. The real descent comes in that he crosses lines that Vito never had to cross, alienates his family and becomes callous in his personal life, thereby leading to his Pyrrhic Victory by the end of Part II. Vito lives an honest life in America for years. Petty crime only ensues after he's fired, and he only becomes a killer when Fanucci threatens his livelihood once again. After that it gets downplayed almost to subversion levels in that Vito is not that evil by the standards of the story. He's a neighbourhood friendly gangster who for the most part is pitted against people who are more evil. All things considered his worst in-universe deeds during his donship boil down to having a horse killed and making An Offer You Can't Refuse to a band leader after a failed negotiation, and that loses some effect by being Offstage Villainy.
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The Godfather / int_a2f6e439	type	The Living Dead
The Godfather / int_a2f6e439	comment	The Living Dead: In Part II, the dead prostitute used to frame Senator Geary can be seen breathing.
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The Godfather / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
The Godfather / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: Don Barzini destroys the film of a photographer after the man takes a picture of the mobster. Sonny smashes the camera of another scoop and then throws the man some dollars for his troubles.
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The Godfather / int_a3ff1ef1	type	Flashback B-Plot
The Godfather / int_a3ff1ef1	comment	Flashback B-Plot: While the second film mostly focuses on telling the story of Michael Corleone as the new Don of the family, we also get flashbacks to the first years of his father in New York to show the difference on how they balanced their power and their families.
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The Godfather / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
The Godfather / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: The main reason why Michael dislikes Vincent and Mary dating, and convinces Vincent to break off the romance. It leads to break her heart to save her. It does not work out in the end.
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The Godfather / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Godfather / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Jack Woltz's prize horse Khartoum. Shame what happens to him due to the Don's offer getting refused.
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The Godfather / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Godfather / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In the DVD Commentary for Part II director Francis Ford Coppola notes that minor characters like Al Neri and Rocco Lampone "emerge as a presence in the first Godfather, becoming more and more evident in each installment of the story, as would be natural. As it would be in life."
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The Godfather / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Godfather / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Fabrizzio. A Deleted Scene from the second movie (which actually appeared as part of the purge at the end of the original novel) shows Michael's revenge. The scene is included in the made-for-TV, chronological order The Godfather Saga.
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The Godfather / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Godfather / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Michael, specially in Part I; he deliberately projects the image of a weak boss and even his capos start to doubt his leadership. Not-So-Harmless Villain ensues.
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The Godfather / int_a836a9b5	type	Character Witness
The Godfather / int_a836a9b5	comment	Character Witness: Enzo, an immigrant baker who Don Corleone was asked to help get married to his employer's daughter and thus become a citizen, shows up unexpectedly at the hospital he is being treated at — presumably to pay his respects to the ailing Don — the same night that his bodyguards are sent away; when Michael tells Enzo that danger is imminent, he bravely offers to stay and help guard the Don until reinforcements arrive. His presence, along with Michael's, foils a second attempt on the Don's life.
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The Godfather / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Godfather / int_a8559a9f	comment	Vito refuses to get into the narcotics business after the war, not only because he knows his political friends would abandon him but because he believes in the future that the drug business could kill the Mafia. In Real Life, the Mafia has been crippled since The '70s mostly due to the war on drugs bringing federal attention to mafia activities.
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The Godfather / int_a89efdf8	type	Wife-Basher Basher
The Godfather / int_a89efdf8	comment	Wife-Basher Basher: Sonny Corleone, in spite of being an unfaithful husband, does not tolerate men hitting women. ESPECIALLY when it comes to his sister: "If you touch my sister again I'll kill you!". Unfortunately this is used to lure him to his death.
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The Godfather / int_a8c7bf13	type	Sickbed Slaying
The Godfather / int_a8c7bf13	comment	Sickbed Slaying: Planned against Vito but aborted because Michael steps in. Subverted with Hyman Roth, his would-be killer is killed at the last second, pillow in hand.
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The Godfather / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Godfather / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: This is literally how Michael falls for Apollonia; his native Sicilian companions refer to it as getting "hit by the thunderbolt."
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The Godfather / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
The Godfather / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: A major focus of the first film, with the Five Families on one side, and the Corleones on the other, set off by the attempt on Don Vito's life. (In the novel, Vito establishes himself as the most powerful Don in the city by winning an earlier War.)
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The Godfather / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Godfather / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: None of the Five Families have any problem with black people buying drugs. "They're all animals anyway." Sonny can be heard matter-of-factly tossing off the n-word during a conversation, reflective of the racism that was rampant both at the time and within the Italian mafia. In the novel Don Corleone is pondering who will replace Luca Brasi as his chief enforcer, and rejects a candidate who works in the Negro district and gets along well with them, because the latter implies some flaw in his character. When Connie complains to her father about Carlo beating her, she's surprised by his cold response, and he even gives Sonny a direct order not to intervene. In the Don's mind he's facing an irreconcilable dilemma, as protecting his daughter would mean intervening in a husband's absolute authority over his wife.
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The Godfather / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Godfather / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: The Corleone brothers all inherited a quality from their father (Sonny's charisma, Fredo's heart and Michael's cunning) which comes off as a negative quality. Had they worked together they would have been unstoppable. The one thing they have in common is ambition and this brings disaster.
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The Godfather / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Godfather / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The endings to the three films.
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The Godfather / int_acf43080	type	Wicked Pretentious
The Godfather / int_acf43080	comment	Wicked Pretentious: It's noted that the oldest and most experienced wiseguys try to seem the most respectable but also wear the cheapest suits. This is deliberate on their part; they want you to know they are accustomed to getting their hands dirty and respectability hasn't changed that.
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The Godfather / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Godfather / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Two from the first film: When Michael arrives at an empty hospital and learns from the nurse that the guards in Don Vito's hospital room were removed by the police. When Apollonia says she's going to drive over to Michael in preparation of fleeing the town of Corleone for safety, Fabrizio darts away. Michael then screams at Apollonia to get out of the car, an instant before it explodes. "Michael, why are the drapes open?"
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The Godfather / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
The Godfather / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: McCluskey's blow gives Michael a disfigured cheek. It gets repaired later; Fredo comments offhandedly that a surgeon did a very good job. In the book, the injury receives more emphasis; because he didn't follow up with surgery right away, the bones healed badly, causing Michael constant pain, heaviness in the face and an almost continuously running nose.
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The Godfather / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Godfather / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	After returning from Sicily and with Sonny gone, Michael embraces his fate and gradually becomes his father's son, hatching their revenge for years. He marries Kay in the middle of his transformation, the son of a criminal who claims to be struggling for legitimacy. In a natural, magnified but equal iteration of his first evil act, he becomes a full-fledged Don by killing all of his underworld rivals. The real descent comes in that he crosses lines that Vito never had to cross, alienates his family and becomes callous in his personal life, thereby leading to his Pyrrhic Victory by the end of Part II.
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The Godfather / int_adbbb5c5	type	Writers Suck
The Godfather / int_adbbb5c5	comment	Writers Suck: The author of the novel which was being made into the movie that Johnny Fontane wants to star in. He was only briefly mentioned in the book, and not at all in the movie.
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The Godfather / int_add9026	type	Older and Wiser
The Godfather / int_add9026	comment	Older and Wiser: Connie is practically The Load in her younger years since the business is not female-friendly, but she evolves and by Part III she is Lady Macbeth.
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The Godfather / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
The Godfather / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: In Part II, Hagen visits Pentangeli in prison and talks about this practice in the Roman Empire, hinting that if Pentangeli does this his family will be spared. He does, and they are. The camera shot depicting the outcome is a Shout-Out to the painting The Death of Marat.
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The Godfather / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Godfather / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Michael's arc in the first movie.
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The Godfather / int_af8dad6b	type	Beautiful Singing Voice
The Godfather / int_af8dad6b	comment	Beautiful Singing Voice: In the original novels, Johnny Fontaine, with the blessing of Vito Corleone, was chosen to sing at the wedding of Constanzia Corleone. Johnny is stated to have had a remarkable voice since childhood, which was furthered by Sister Immaculata. In III, Michael's son Anthony drops out of college to become a professional singer, and is good enough to get third billing in an opera within a year.
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The Godfather / int_afc8486b	type	Awesome Anachronistic Apparel
The Godfather / int_afc8486b	comment	Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: A future version. In the scene where Michael comes home the day after saving Vito at the hospital, the family compound is bristling with Corleone soldiers all in suits and overcoats... along with one man in a knit cap, jeans and a brown leather jacket seemingly out of the 70s.
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The Godfather / int_b00115aa	type	Noble Fugitive
The Godfather / int_b00115aa	comment	Michael takes refuge in Sicily to avoid the heat of the mob war that ensues in Part I.
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The Godfather / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Godfather / int_b01abe4f	comment	Vito believes that his political connections, which regard gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging as "a harmless vice", will abandon the Family if they learn that hard drugs like heroin are being sold. Even after they agree to the trade, the Dons refuse to allow the drugs into schools or sold to children.
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The Godfather / int_b0e8d4f7	type	Atrocity Montage
The Godfather / int_b0e8d4f7	comment	Atrocity Montage: The famous baptism scene where Michael Corleone becomes the godfather of his nephew and claims to reject Satan and his works at church while he orders a series of successive assassinations of his rivals by his hitmen, each punctuated by the organ.
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The Godfather / int_b117e1fb	type	You Owe Me
The Godfather / int_b117e1fb	comment	You Owe Me: Vito's standard approach to business binding.
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The Godfather / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Godfather / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone has the titular demise be symbolic rather than literal as in Part III. Instead of dying, the ending has him live a long life alone, and haunted by his failures.
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The Godfather / int_b15ad926	type	Time-Shifted Actor
The Godfather / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Both Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando won Oscars for playing young and old Vito Corleone, thus making them the first duo of actors to ever win Oscars for playing the same character.note To date, this feat has only been replicated one other time, with Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix both playing The Joker. Supporting and main role categories, respectively. A third actor, Oreste Baldini plays Vito as a child. Vito's grandson Anthony is played by three different actors.
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The Godfather / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Godfather / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Vito's reflections on his life:
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The Godfather / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Godfather / int_b1dde8fd	comment	At the end of Part III, Michael makes a solemn vow on the souls of his children that he will never sin again and retires as Godfather. He then names as his successor someone who he knows will start off his reign with a bloody purge of his enemies the same way that Michael once did. God apparently doesn't approve of the Loophole Abuse, as on the same night as the purge, Michael's daughter is killed while her brother helplessly watches.
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The Godfather / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Godfather / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Vincent Mancini's existence is a piece of retcon, as it is quite clear from the original novel that Sonny never fathered a child with Lucy Mancini.
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The Godfather / int_b2b2093c	type	Rape and Revenge
The Godfather / int_b2b2093c	comment	Rape and Revenge: The mortician's motive for becoming Vito's client. Played with, as his daughter wasn't actually raped, but was brutally beaten when she resisted. Likewise, after Connie is violently beaten by Carlo, Sonny's Big Brother Instinct kicks in.
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The Godfather / int_b343fa47	type	Feudal Overlord
The Godfather / int_b343fa47	comment	Feudal Overlord: The resemblance with this is striking. As the Mafia is, in a way, an underground version of the pre-modern social system, it makes sense.
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The Godfather / int_b3599d6c	type	Totally Not a Criminal Front
The Godfather / int_b3599d6c	comment	Totally Not a Criminal Front: Genco Imports serves as the front organization for Don Corleone. While it's not explicitly portrayed as a paper thin disguise, the criminal activities in New York are referred to as 'the olive oil business' in all three films. The novels highlight that the Corleone's "olive oil business" is an honest-to-god olive oil business, apparently one that grows to be very successful due to the Don's strongarming tactics (basically intimidating groceries all over New York into only stocking the Genco brand).
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The Godfather / int_b35e77ee	type	Fake Defector
The Godfather / int_b35e77ee	comment	Fake Defector: Don Corleone sends Luca Brasi to infiltrate the gang of Sollozzo to garner information, but Sollozzo is wise to the plot and Luca ends up sleeping with the fishes. Michael puts Vincent under the tutelage of Don Altobello in Part III . Michael takes some precautions to avoid an obvious identification of the trope.
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The Godfather / int_b42325cf	type	Matron Chaperone
The Godfather / int_b42325cf	comment	Matron Chaperone: Apollonia and Michael are escorted by half a dozen old ladies when the couple walks around Corleone.
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The Godfather / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Godfather / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The Corleone family and its associates have no moral qualms about corruption, intimidation, and murder, but when one of their own is attacked or killed, they're outraged.
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The Godfather / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Godfather / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Discussed. Bonasera asks Don Vito to kill the guys who beat his daughter, but Vito replies he cannot do that, since — as his daughter is alive — that wouldn't be justice. Vito finally arranges to have Clemenza deal with them, with the stipulation that his people aren't to get "carried away." There's a scene in the book where Paulie Gatto does indeed deal with the guys, and while it's not exactly pretty what he and his men do to them, no one could say it's more than they deserve.
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The Godfather / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Godfather / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: Michael starts as an independent minded war hero, but he is gradually dragged into mob life to protect his father and his family. He fought his perceived enemies with cold ruthlessness for years while he struggles to achieve legitimacy, and by the time he gets there, he admits that it's too late and that he is too tired and past redemption, and passes the torch to a new Don.
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The Godfather / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Godfather / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Moe Greene berates, disrespects and personally insults Michael - now the Godfather of the Corleone family - to his face. Then he goes even further by openly admitting to physically assaulting Fredo, Michael's own brother. He's one of Michael's victims at the end of the movie. One could make a case for Sonny as well. He's so overcome with rage when he learns that Carlo has beaten Connie again that he drives off alone without his bodyguards in the middle of a mob war, resulting in his death. Which is what Don Barzini and Carlo were hoping for. Carlo cheats on the daughter of a powerful Mafia crime lord, beats his pregnant wife twice and sets his brother-in-law up to be killed. Maybe he expected some protection from Don Barzini but he should have realized this would end badly for him.
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The Godfather / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Godfather / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Tom Hagen is a dignified mob lawyer. Vito makes a point in the novel about brains being better than brawn. Tom actually considers being a mob lawyer to be the lesser of two evils. According to the novels, after graduation he got a job working for an auto company, where he was asked to do a cost-benefit analysis of a vehicle recall, weighing the cost of the recall against the cost of paying death benefits to the families of the projected casualties. He submitted his report along with his resignation and went to work for Vito the next day, where any screwing over he had to do would be on those who took their chances and had it coming.
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The Godfather / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Godfather / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Vito always saw Michael this way — he was the family's great hope for legitimacy and genuine power, a man who could become anything, up to and including President of the United States. Once that idea goes down the tubes, Michael proves to be stronger, smarter and more decisive than just about anyone else in the Mafia, but it's the tragedy of the trilogy that all of Michael's brilliance just leaves him alone and alienated from his loved ones.
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The Godfather / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
The Godfather / int_b5b4bd37	comment	Justified by Cicci's testimony in Part II: there was always a go-between so nothing could be pinned on the Corleones — The Don gives an order to The Consigliere, who gives the order to one of the caporegimes, who gives the order to some button-men to execute. Even if the button-men are caught red-handed, the most the cops can get is testimony against their caporegime, who is unlikely to break. Even if he does, the most they can get out of him is testimony against the consigliere. Only by breaking the consigliere is it possible to get any evidence against the don himself. And the caporegimes and consigliere are selected in part for their loyalty: given a choice between doing time and betraying the don, they will willingly go to prison.
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The Godfather / int_b5c56995	type	Corrupt the Cutie
The Godfather / int_b5c56995	comment	Corrupt the Cutie: Michael Corleone starts as a principled war hero firmly detached from the family business, only to be gradually dragged into the criminal world and ending up as the new Don, cold and ruthless, alienated from his family. He tries to atone for some things in Part III. In Part I Connie is (an informed) civilian who marries well before her husband treats her like crap and is murdered; in Part II she turns to leeching off Michael (while spiting him) but staying out of the business; in Part III she is an active player in family affairs.
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The Godfather / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The Godfather / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-universe: Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz has actor wannabe Johnny Fontane blacklisted because he ruined a starlet (translation: seduced her away from Woltz). Woltz in turn gets overruled by the ultimate meddling in the form of his prize horse's head being placed in his bed.
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The Godfather / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
The Godfather / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Omnipresent and alluded to by Kay in Part III: "It never ends."
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The Godfather / int_b869b5b1	type	Color Motif
The Godfather / int_b869b5b1	comment	Color Motif: The color orange is a symbol of impending death. Usually, it comes in the form of orange fruit, but even orange clothing and orange decorations are used as foreshadowing towards death.
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The Godfather / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Godfather / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Michael starts to have this attitude in Part II.
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The Godfather / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
The Godfather / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: Played with early in the film: Clemenza takes Paulie Gatto with him on the pretense of scouting for apartments in preparation to "go to the mattresses", but he also brings along Rocco Lampone; Rocco sits in the back while Paulie drives and Clemenza rides shotgun. Paulie knows something is a little off and you can see it in his expression when he asks Rocco to move over because he's blocking the rear-view mirror. It turns out Paulie was right to be nervous. "Hello, Carlo."
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The Godfather / int_bb8f2da3	type	Cop Killer Manhunt
The Godfather / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: Michael Corleone has to hide out in Sicily for years to escape retribution for killing a corrupt police captain who was in the pocket of another family. It is discussed in the novel that Michael doesn't need to flee for fear of legal prosecution, since the Corleone connections could probably deal with the courts, but because the cops would be out for revenge no matter what the law decided. Part of the solution is getting somebody already on death row to confess to the shooting so that Michael will no longer even be suspected in the crime.
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The Godfather / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Godfather / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."
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The Godfather / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
The Godfather / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Not that he didn't have it coming, but Carlo is easily convinced to betray Sonny after he brutally beats him in public. Pentangeli has some disagreements with the Godfather and then flips to the authorities because he believes Michael is the one who put a hit on him. Fredo cites being displaced by his kid brother and only trusted with minor and distant business as a reason behind his behavior.
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The Godfather / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
The Godfather / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task: Getting to the overprotected Pentangeli and Hyman Roth. Discussed in a clear reference to John F. Kennedy's assassination. The latter's outcome is a Shout-Out to Jack Ruby vs Oswald. The movie takes places years before the historical magnicide (around the time of the Cuban revolution.).
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The Godfather / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Godfather / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: Though some scenes from the book were included in Re-Cut versions.
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The Godfather / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Godfather / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Antonio Andolini, Vito's father. Also Constanzia Corleone.
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The Godfather / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Godfather / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Vito and Carmela Corleone. Michael and Apollonia, while it lasts. Despite his various affairs, this seems to be the case for Santino and Sandra Corleone as well. In fact, she seems to be quite content that he sleeps around because his endowments make sex painful for her.
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The Godfather / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
The Godfather / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Michael to Carlo—"Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence. And makes me very angry." A rare effective use of this trope, because Michael Corleone shows no external anger while delivering this line, instead exhibiting an otherwise very telling cold lack of emotion that makes the line very sinister and somewhat chilling.
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The Godfather / int_c0d106a8	type	Wrecked Weapon
The Godfather / int_c0d106a8	comment	Wrecked Weapon: After Vito kills Don Fanucci, he smashes the gun he used and drops the pieces down various pipes and chimneys in the neighborhood.
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The Godfather / int_c15f1f71	type	Keeping the Handicap
The Godfather / int_c15f1f71	comment	Keeping the Handicap: Michael Corleone initially chose to keep his jaw wounded by Captain McCluskey, distrusting the doctor he lived with in Sicily and, even after, wanting to keep his image, until his wife Kay convinces him otherwise.
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The Godfather / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Godfather / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the book, having wiped out the Heads of the Five Families, Michael sends a man to Fabrizzio's pizza parlour to shoot him dead. In a scene cut from the film, Michael does the deed himself with a double-barreled shotgun. In a cut scene from Part II, Michael has him killed via car bomb, just like how Appollonia was killed.
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The Godfather / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Godfather / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Sofia Coppola's character in Part III gets shot outside of a theater, and all she pulls off is a rather flat and expressionless "Dad?"
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The Godfather / int_c24d8c78	type	Pink Mist
The Godfather / int_c24d8c78	comment	Pink Mist: When Michael shoots Sollozzo in the head.
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The Godfather / int_c287be68	type	Family-Values Villain
The Godfather / int_c287be68	comment	The love for their family and Vito's non-criminal favors towards people in need (Enzo the Baker, Signora Colombo, whose son gets to keep a literal dog) are key elements of the Sympathetic P.O.V. given to the Corleones. Part II has a scene where Michael shows kindness giving his blessing to a niece, but Coppola removed it because Michael was smiling too much in it; not the tone he wanted to set in the first third of the film.
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The Godfather / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Godfather / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: Barzini's plot has Tattaglia send Sollozzo to the Corleones to see about increasing the drug traffic. If Vito says yes then the drug trade can begin immediately (with the backing of the Corleones' extensive political contacts), but if he says no, Sollozzo will sow discord within the Corleone ranks. If Sollozzo fails to sway the Corleone family and all out war breaks out (which it does), the Corleones will spend their time gunning for Sollozzo and Tattaglia. Any way it plays out, Barzini wins. It almost works except that Vito figures out "It was Barzini all along."
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The Godfather / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Godfather / int_c335b9ec	comment	At the end of the movie, Michael is literally becoming the godfather to Connie's child while also becoming the Godfather to the Corleone family, sealing his position with blood. There's a heavy irony in the scene, as Michael stands in church saying that he "renounces Satan and all his works" while a massacre that he ordered progresses in the world outside. It demonstrates the wide chasm between appearance and reality: This churchly dude, renouncing Satan, is actually semi-secretly embracing the world's evil. This is the scene of Michael's final transformation: He's becoming the thing that he's been trying not to become: the Don, the ruler, and it turns out that this is a pretty violent, pretty awful position to hold. He's being baptized, in a way, but it's an evil, anti-spiritual baptism. He's establishing his new identity through murder. Sure, he's developed some worthy traitsâ€”he's cool, competent, and capable of putting business above taking things personally. But those positive traits are put in the service of violence and destruction. Michael is losing his soul, which is, strangely, his triumph. He's made a strong effort toward becoming damned, becoming the leader of a criminal empire, and he's finally made it. There's something admittedly impressive about him as a villain, since it takes so much work. He's not just following his impulses like a serial killer: he's disciplined. A present-day parallel is Walter White's transformation into the drug kingpin Heisenberg on Breaking Bad.
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The Godfather / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
The Godfather / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: None of the brutality that Luca Brasi is supposedly capable of is seen onscreen, but everyone talks about it. The only story told about Brasi is fairly meek compared to the on-screen action: Michael tells Kay that Brasi once pointed a gun to the head of a music director to extort him to sign Johnny Fontane away. When Don Vito gives Brasi the task of pretending to go work for Sollozzo, Brasi fails and gets killed before doing anything. The book is more explicit about Brasi's savagery although always as Offstage Villainy in the distant past. Justified thematically in that Luca, like Vito, is getting older and his Glory Days (such as they were) are behind him.
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The Godfather / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
The Godfather / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Michael was a decorated Marine in World War II and also an Ivy League student. Tom is a lawyer by profession and undoubtedly one of the most intelligent members of the Corleone family, he also killed two people in The Godfather Returns strangling one with his belt and shooting another. Then, in the same book, there's his ease in putting Fredo on the ground when attacked in a fit of anger. (Fredo later compliments him on his reflexes. Tom's response: "lots of coffee".)
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The Godfather / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Godfather / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Numerous examples. Sonny makes a point about the family business not being a clean and impersonal matter. It's also far from the Pretty Little Head Shots variety.
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The Godfather / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
The Godfather / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The Godfather Saga, a special presentation of the first two films on NBC television in 1977, reassembled them into a strict chronological narrative, adding more than an hour of previously-unseen footage while deleting other scenes that were deemed too intense or violent for network TV. In 1992 Coppola stitched all three films together for the home video presentation The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980. A detailed list of the additional footage can be read on The Other Wiki. In September 2020, it was announced that for the third film's 30th Anniversary, a new cut of the film called Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone was created by Francis Ford Coppola for a limited theatrical release before hitting home media. This version contains a new beginning and ending alongside other changes to better align with Coppola and Puzo's original intentions.
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The Godfather / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Godfather / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: In a seeming Pet the Dog moment Michael embraces a crying Fredo at Connie's behest, appearing to forgive him in Part II. Instead he gives a pointed look at Al Neri, signifying that the protection from assassination Fredo had while Carmela Corleone was alive is over. Part III/Coda in general follows Michael, being at the cusp of genuinely going legitimate, trying his best to seal the deal, only for enemies and circumstances to render said efforts all for nought.
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The Godfather / int_c3c7d2e5	type	Criminal Procedural
The Godfather / int_c3c7d2e5	comment	Criminal Procedural: Organized crime category. An exploration of the top managerial positions.
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The Godfather / int_c41a5bac	type	Neutral No Longer
The Godfather / int_c41a5bac	comment	Neutral No Longer: Michael is pulled into the family business when his father is almost killed by a rival who will keep on trying. Ironically the United States abandoning its neutrality after the attack on Pearl Harbor is the event that makes Michael declare his own neutrality away from the path of his father; he joins the Marine Corps the day after.
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The Godfather / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Godfather / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: The finale of III. Michael has successfully turned his criminal enterprises over to his nephew and transitioned himself to working in completely legal business. His children are totally clean, with his daughter the head of a charity foundation and his son an opera singer. As young Tony makes his triumphant debut performance, Michael notes to himself that the Corleone name has escaped its past, and now will be remembered for a voice. Then a hitman that Vincent's people failed to catch during the opera opens fire, wounding Michael and accidentally killing Mary.
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The Godfather / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Godfather / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: People outside the immediate Corleone family consider Fredo to be the most likable. While Sonny has a hair-trigger temper, and one always has to be on guard with Tom and Michael for subtle nuances and double meanings, Fredo has the distinction of being both friendly and harmless, the most easily approachable of the Corleones for a drink and casual conversation.
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The Godfather / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
The Godfather / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family - Vito's kids have his qualities. Sonny has his charisma and charm. Fredo has his warmth and compassion. Michael has his intelligence and iron will. Connie has his ambition.
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The Godfather / int_c66b3e9c	type	Fashions Never Change
The Godfather / int_c66b3e9c	comment	Fashions Never Change: Largely averted in the first two movies. Cars and clothing styles visibly change over the course of decades.
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The Godfather / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Godfather / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Don Fanucci, the local kingpin in Part II. He is very feared and acts all ruthless, but he is a Paper Tiger: there are some paisans who don't pay him any tribute, he has no real muscle and resorts to police threats to enforce his demands. After Vito tests him by only paying half of his debt, he decides that he's no threat and kills him.
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The Godfather / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Godfather / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The toll booth scene is an homage to the ending of Bonnie and Clyde. Moe Greene's death was inspired by a scene in Battleship Potemkin. Troy Donahue's character in Part II is named Merle Johnson, the actor's birth name. The wedding in the first movie is an homage to The Leopard, along with Michael's exile in Sicily. The wedding scene is also inspired by The Bad Sleep Well in the way it sets up the characters. The Conformist is a major influence on all three movies, particularly Coppola and Gordon Willis' visual style. It's most overt in Part II, from the color scheme in the Vito flashbacks to the leaves blowing across the lake house lawn just before Fredo's murder, and the casting of Gastone Moschin as Don Fanucci. Michael and Kay exit a cinema and mention Ingrid Bergman after watching The Bells of St. Mary's.
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The Godfather / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
The Godfather / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability: A mundane example. Tom refuses to convey a letter Kay intended for Michael because that would be proof of Tom's knowledge about Michael's whereabouts. This trope is also implied to be the reason why newly-minted Don Michael removes Tom from the position of consigliere (towards the end of Part I), so that he cannot be implicated in the impending purge of the heads of the Five Families.
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The Godfather / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Godfather / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee Surprisingly averted in Act I. The Corleones' scheme to kill Sollozzo and his pet policeman works almost exactly as planned, although Michael waits a bit longer than he was supposed to before gunning his victims down. Played straight in the climax, as the audience is as blindsided as the victims themselves when Michael settles the family business all at once.
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The Godfather / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
The Godfather / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: The parts where Vito begins his career as a gangster.
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The Godfather / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Godfather / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: The Don pulls this on Johnny Fontane when Fontane is complaining about Woltz keeping him from getting a part in his movie.
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The Godfather / int_c92a568	type	Family Extermination
The Godfather / int_c92a568	comment	Family Extermination: Don Ciccio orders the whole family of Antonio Andolini killed. They are all killed except for Antonio's son, Vito, who escapes to America and becomes Vito Corleone. Vito returns decades later and kills Don Ciccio.
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The Godfather / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Godfather / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Don Vito's wife is never named, only referred to as "Mama". The DVD's special features named her "Carmela Corleone" as an afterthought.
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The Godfather / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Godfather / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Michael has to juggle many hard balls in Part II. In Part III he is an infirm man haunted by some of his past decisions, tired of an unbearable crown and has to give in.
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The Godfather / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
The Godfather / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Justified thematically in that Luca, like Vito, is getting older and his Glory Days (such as they were) are behind him.
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The Godfather / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
The Godfather / int_cc1bd54d	comment	In Part I, consigliere Tom Hagen is reassigned to handling the family move to Nevada because there is a big fight coming and he is not a wartime consigliere.
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The Godfather / int_cdb965a9	type	Numbered Sequels
The Godfather / int_cdb965a9	comment	Numbered Sequels: Cinema's Trope Maker. Part II was the first major film to use this trend. It was one of Francis Ford Coppola's three demands for working on the sequel. His two other demands were approved, but the studio highly objected to simply following the title with a number. Its success began the tradition of numbered sequels. Oddly enough, Part III was inverted. Coppola, now without Auteur License, wanted to call it The Death of Michael Corleone, but the studio wouldn't let him.
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The Godfather / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Godfather / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: In the novel, the mother of a twelve-year-old actress hands her daughter over to producer Jack Woltz (a thinly disguised Jack Warner). Insiders say it's based on a true story. The movie tones this down, except in deleted scenes, but Woltz complains about another actress. He mentions her talent, how much money he spent on her, and how he was going to make her a big star, but he seems angrier that he won't have another chance to sleep with her, because Johnny Fontane got with her first.
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The Godfather / int_ce632fb	type	It's Not About the Request
The Godfather / int_ce632fb	comment	It's Not About the Request: Vito initially refuses Bonasera's request to take revenge on the men who abused Bonasera's daughter not because he disagrees with it, but because Bonasera has a history of not appreciating friendship and initially tries to talk about how much it will cost, as though Vito is a hired goon. Once he asks the correct way, Vito agrees to do it.
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The Godfather / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
The Godfather / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The final scene in Part III is set in 1997, seven years after the film's original release.
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The Godfather / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Godfather / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Luca Brasi went on one after an attempt on Vito's life in the Olive Oil War. It took Vito recovering and personally calling him off to avoid Luca dropping enough bodies to make peace impossible. The Turk has him killed before they attempt to kill Vito to avoid this happening to him, and also talks Tom into preventing Santino from going on such a rampage. Tom later states that even Sonny won't be able to call off Luca.
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The Godfather / int_d21f3d5d	type	Justified Criminal
The Godfather / int_d21f3d5d	comment	Justified Criminal: Michael presents himself as a choiceless one when confronted by Kay in Part III; he starts as a detached from crime college student turned war hero who is dragged into the underground world first to protect his vulnerable father and then to protect his whole family.
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The Godfather / int_d2a8b268	type	Death Montage
The Godfather / int_d2a8b268	comment	Death Montage: The climax of each film involves a montage of people being killed on Michael's orders. They all culminate in the murder of one of Michael's family members: Carlo, Fredo, and Mary, respectively. The latter is the only case where Michael didn't order the hit himself.
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The Godfather / int_d34f8215	type	Coattail-Riding Relative
The Godfather / int_d34f8215	comment	Coattail-Riding Relative: Carlo thinks he's going to pull this off by marrying Connie, but the Corleones never offer him any opportunities, until Michael does so as part of the final set-up. See under Gold Digger
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The Godfather / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Godfather / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Delivered to Michael by almost every main character towards the end of Part II. Most painfully by the end, when Tom is trying to talk him out of any revenge against Roth and even Fredo. When Michael coldly taunts Tom about leaving for another job, Tom is offended: "Why do you hurt me, Michael? I've always been loyal..."
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The Godfather / int_d3f33049	type	Blasphemous Boast
The Godfather / int_d3f33049	comment	Blasphemous Boast: Inverted in a deleted scene. Vito visits Genco, his old consigliere who is dying. Genco begs Vito to heal him, and Vito ruefully replies that he has no such power.
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The Godfather / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Godfather / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: When Senator Geary demands a bribe from Michael, Michael tells him, "You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally." In the book, it is explained that this was Don Vito's technique: if the person they are trying to make a deal with rejected their first offer, Vito would then propose a second, lower offer. This was intended to send a message that if the new terms are refused, things are soon going to become very unpleasant for the refuser.
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The Godfather / int_d55108a1	type	Horrible Hollywood
The Godfather / int_d55108a1	comment	Horrible Hollywood: Much more visible in the book than in the film. The studio labour unions are on the Mafia's payroll and will strike at a moment's notice if given a good reason (such as getting Johnny Fontane the lead role he and Woltz know will make him a star again). The writer of Fontane's comeback film was paid next to nothing for his hard work. Hookers and Blow abound; Tom Hagen tries to use a male lead's growing heroin addiction as leverage with Woltz and later sees a dishevelled 12-year-old starlet being ushered out of Woltz' house by her uncaring Stage Mom, while a preview screening turns into a massive orgy when the lights are dimmed. Actors place preserving their good looks over their health as they grow older, and their doctors are happy to oblige for the right price. Fontane's cousin Nino Valenti thinks to himself that if this is success, he wants none of it. He later becomes a film actor anyway, but drinks himself to death just as his career is taking off.
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The Godfather / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Godfather / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The traitors are purged in the climax of each movie.
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The Godfather / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Godfather / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Don Vito himself, especially in the book where it is more obvious that Michael's purge of the five families was orchestrated by Vito years before, at his negotiations to bring Michael home from Sicily. Michael in all three films. The main antagonists of the movies— Barzini, Roth, and Altobello — are examples, albeit much less successful.
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The Godfather / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
The Godfather / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: In Part I, consigliere Tom Hagen is reassigned to handling the family move to Nevada because there is a big fight coming and he is not a wartime consigliere. Fredo... "well"; after going into shock from witnessing Vito's shooting he is relegated to secondary roles far away from Michael's inner circle.
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The Godfather / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
The Godfather / int_d848560f	comment	Clemenza asks Michael if he's "done the job" on McCluskey and Sollozzo, which also counts as an Unusual Euphemism in-universe, since every other time the phrase is used, it refers to having sex with a woman.
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The Godfather / int_d935d66a	type	StockPhrase
The Godfather / int_d935d66a	comment	Perhaps the most famous use of this Stock Phrase. Worded several times on a heated debate.
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The Godfather / int_db148980	type	Mook Promotion
The Godfather / int_db148980	comment	Mook Promotion: Al Neri and Rocco Lampone are promoted from "Button Men" in the first movie to Michael's caporegimes in the second. Willie Cicci is a button in Part I and became Frank Pentangeli's capo in Part II. In Part III he was originally planned to be the one who took over Michael's New York operation after he became legitimate, but actor Joe Spinell died before filming began. He was replaced by a new character, Joey Zasa.
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The Godfather / int_dc031fde	type	Inelegant Blubbering
The Godfather / int_dc031fde	comment	Inelegant Blubbering: Fredo after the Don, is shot. Not your everyday Manly Tears, this is full-blown sobbing and sniveling, caused not only by the shocking, sudden onset of grief, but from the sheer humiliation of having failed to do anything to stop the assassination (he fumbled his gun at a critical moment).
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The Godfather / int_dc56ef0b	type	The Matchmaker
The Godfather / int_dc56ef0b	comment	The Match Maker: In a bit of irony it is revealed in the flashback at the end of Part II that Sonny was this for his sister Connie and Carlo.
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The Godfather / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
The Godfather / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Michael immediately realizes Fredo's betrayal and lets him know later on with a Kiss of Death:
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The Godfather / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Godfather / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: One of the many connotations of the Godfather title. Discussed by Michael during the Senate commission in Part II.
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The Godfather / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Godfather / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Michael in Part III after Mary gets killed.
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The Godfather / int_de444805	type	The Character Died with Him
The Godfather / int_de444805	comment	Willie Cicci, during the Senate hearings, essentially betrays omerta (the code of silence). He gets prison time anyway due to his admission of crimes that he committed. It is not known what ultimately happened to him but most assume that he would eventually have been killed in prison due to his violation of omerta. Reportedly, Cicci was supposed to have returned for Part III but his actor Joe Spinell had died in 1989, before the movie began filming. Allegedly, his place is taken by Joey Zasa. So the assumption is probably The Character Died with Him.
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The Godfather / int_de70f5a4	type	Continuity Cameo
The Godfather / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: Johnny Fontane and Lucy Mancini. In the novel they both get big storylines nearly the equal of the main storyline with Michael. In the first film, Johnny has a very small part and Lucy just two short scenes confirming her as Sonny's mistress. They both make a brief appearances in Part III.
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The Godfather / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
The Godfather / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Vito opposes entering into the drug trade. His stated reason is that he thinks that they will drive away his allies in politics and the police force, but it's implied to be more a matter of conscience. He is eventually forced to get the Corleones into the trade when the Five Families kill Sonny and he needs to negotiate a truce. All the other Dons agree that it needs to be run "as a business," kept out of the hands of children and preferably within the black community.
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The Godfather / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
The Godfather / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Senator Geary of Nevada in Part II, who tries to extort and bully Michael... and not out of greed but because Geary is a racist spiteful bastard. The many off-screen politicians and judges that are indebted to Vito in the first two films. Along with Geary, the Senate attorney Questadt is working for Hyman Roth.
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The Godfather / int_df6f7cc9	type	Keeping the Enemy Close
The Godfather / int_df6f7cc9	comment	Keeping the Enemy Close: Michael Corleone is the Trope Namer, who learned this trope as a lesson from Vito and practices it with Roth and Don Altobello.
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The Godfather / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Godfather / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: Near the end of the first film Vito is dead after capitulating in the mob war and Michael is angering his Capos by not defending Corleone interests as the other families muscle in. Michael's enemies (the opposing crime family heads) plan to assassinate this 'weak' new Don under guise of a peace meeting, only for Michael to have them all wiped out at once. The ease of the killings and lack of protection for the targets show just how little they thought of Michael, and how unexpected his decapitation strike really was.
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The Godfather / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Godfather / int_dfe57573	comment	"Power wears out those who don't have it." This doubles as an ironic Historical In-Joke, since the original phrase was coined by Giulio Andreotti, the inspiration for Don Lucchesi.
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The Godfather / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
The Godfather / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: Invoked by Michael. McCluskey's police captain status makes him an untouchable target, but this can be nullified if the media controlled by the family starts airing his crooked side.
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The Godfather / int_e0fb1d9f	type	Bad Habits
The Godfather / int_e0fb1d9f	comment	Bad Habits: This guise fails in Part III as the old mafia boss recognises the assassin sent to kill his guest Michael Corleone.
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The Godfather / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
The Godfather / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Emphasis on "nobody" for Vito and on "nightmare" for Michael, as he is raised inside a powerful family and is Famed In-Story for being a war hero at the start, only to develop a deadly callousness that his affable father never showed.
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The Godfather / int_e1f9753e	type	The Handler
The Godfather / int_e1f9753e	comment	The Handler: Tom Hagen as consigliere to Don Vito.
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The Godfather / int_e250f2af	type	We Do Not Know Each Other
The Godfather / int_e250f2af	comment	We Do Not Know Each Other: This is the fatal mistake Fredo makes in Part II. He pretends not to know Johnny Ola when they meet in Cuba, but later on babbles excitedly about the various places in Havana that Ola took him to, while Michael can be seen covering his face in despair.
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The Godfather / int_e277967	type	What Is Evil?
The Godfather / int_e277967	comment	What Is Evil?: Michael (sort of) implies it to Kay after returning from Sicily.
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The Godfather / int_e3277b30	type	Contrast Montage
The Godfather / int_e3277b30	comment	Contrast Montage: The christening in which Michael becomes an actual godfather is contrasted with a series of hits on rival mob bosses. Michael's promises to renounce Satan and "all his works" underscore the grisly scenes of the murders committed on his orders.
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The Godfather / int_e3847ee8	type	Cigarette of Anxiety
The Godfather / int_e3847ee8	comment	Cigarette of Anxiety: The baker Enzo tries to light a cigarette when he and Michael Corleone are guarding Vito Corleone; Enzo's hands are shaking too hard to light the cigarette, but Michael, a war vet, is completely calm and lights it for him.
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The Godfather / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Godfather / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Don Tommasino, the friend of the Corleone family that looks after Michael when he has to hide out in Sicily, has partial paralysis in his legs. In Part II, Tommasino takes part in Vito's revenge against Don Ciccio, and takes a blast from a lupara shotgun that knocks him flat when he and Vito are escaping the house grounds.
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The Godfather / int_e41cf31d	type	Extreme MÃªlÃ©e Revenge
The Godfather / int_e41cf31d	comment	The mortician relates how his daughter was savagely beaten when she defended her honour, to the point that "she will never be beautiful again." In return, Don Vito arranges for her attackers to get a beating of their own: he wants them hospitalized for at least a month, but "no blows on the top or back of the head, there was to be no accidental fatality. Other than that they could go as far as they liked." (Implied in the movie, depicted in the book.)
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The Godfather / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Godfather / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Francis Ford Coppola describes Vincent as this, having Vito's cunning, Michael's ruthlessness, Fredo's sensitivity, Sonny's temper, and Tom's loyalty.
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The Godfather / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Godfather / int_e4b69188	comment	In Part III, the deaths of Pope Paul VI and John Paul I take place in 1979, the year after their real-life deaths. Furthermore, the name of the actual Cardinal who becomes John Paul I appears to have been changed, along with his pre-papal posting in Sicily rather than Venice. This overlaps with Very Loosely Based on a True Story, since the movie is based on several conspiracy theories surrounding the death of the real-life John Paul I and offers an accordingly fictionalized version of events. Also, Pope John Paul I appears to die on the same night as the opera, which was stated to premiere at Easter. Easter takes place in April or late March, depending on the year. John Paul I died in late September.
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The Godfather / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Godfather / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Connie aggressively confronts Michael in the aftermath of the Carlo situation. She later confesses she behaves badly in order to get back at Michael and hurt him. Fredo has an outburst of anger against the arrangements made by his father Vito and continued by Michael, who is his kid brother but is to all effects a second father figure; the Godfather.
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The Godfather / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
The Godfather / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Bruno Tattaglia's nightclub was supposed to be one, which is why they're able to catch Luca Brasi off his guard so easily. This breach of the truce costs Bruno his Innocent Bystander status, and shortly thereafter his life.
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The Godfather / int_e5a9f2b9	type	While You Were in Diapers
The Godfather / int_e5a9f2b9	comment	While You Were in Diapers: Moe "I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders" Green. Later, in Part II, Hyman Roth (Moe's childhood friend) tells Michael "Your father and I ran molasses out of Cuba when you were a baby".
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The Godfather / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
The Godfather / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened: What is most likely implied by Michael having Frank Pentangeli's brother flown in from Sicily to attend Pentangeli's Congressional hearing.
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The Godfather / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
The Godfather / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Throughout the novel that started it all, only two people refer to the youngest Corleone as "Michael": his father and his wife. To everyone else he's "Mike," except his mom, who calls him the even more diminutive "Mikey." And then he executes his master-stroke in the penultimate chapter. The next time he meets his caporegimes, they address him as "Don Michael." Less portentously, Vito Andolini changes his name to that of his hometown, Corleone, when he immigrates to America. He does this to make it harder for his Sicilian would-be killers to finish their vendetta, but also "...to preserve some tie with his native village. It was one of the few gestures of sentiment he was ever to make."
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The Godfather / int_e6f2f710	type	But Liquor Is Quicker
The Godfather / int_e6f2f710	comment	But Liquor Is Quicker: Used for drama with Bonasera's daughter in the opening scene. A boyfriend and his friend made her drink whiskey with the intent of taking advantage of her, but when she resisted, they viciously beat her to the point that the undertaker says that "she will never be beautiful again." Bonasera's reason for coming to Don Corleone was to avenge this horrible wrong after the courts did not provide him with the justice he sought.
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The Godfather / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Godfather / int_e70127	comment	Fredo casually and inadvertently reveals himself as The Mole for Johnny Ola when he talks excitedly about a steamy sex club act. This is after he said he never met that guy before.
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The Godfather / int_e73b36ed	type	Truce Trickery
The Godfather / int_e73b36ed	comment	Truce Trickery: The novelization explains why Luca Brasi (the Corleones' best hitman) never saw the attack that got him slain and sleeping with the fishes: he was ambushed in a bar that was a well-established Truce Zone among Mob families. With this proof that the rival families wish to get rid of the Corleones at any cost, Michael goes to full scorched-Earth war with them. Don Vito and Michael execute an epic one against the Five Families at the end of the same film.
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The Godfather / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
The Godfather / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: The narration of the novel doesn't ignore the Corleones' misdeeds, exactly, but it always puts the best possible spin on them. The book gives a clue early on that this sympathetic POV might not be entirely reliable when it first introduces Vito as looking so good in his tux that he could have been mistaken for the groom, then describing the tux as ill-fitting when seen by someone outside the Corleones' usual circles.
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The Godfather / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
The Godfather / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: The first scene of the first movie runs three minutes without a cut, with the camera focusing on Bonasera as he tells The Godfather his story of how his daughter was brutalized by two young men.
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The Godfather / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
The Godfather / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene berates, disrespects and personally insults Michael - now the Godfather of the Corleone family - to his face. Then he goes even further by openly admitting to physically assaulting Fredo, Michael's own brother. He's one of Michael's victims at the end of the movie.
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The Godfather / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Godfather / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Michael Corleone, like his father, seldom raises his voice or uses foul language, being much more of the Tranquil Fury type. So when he's enraged and shouting at the top of his lungs in several scenes, such as the end of Part I, when he warns Kay not to ask him about his business, and Part II, it's never over "business" (no matter how threatening), but over something personal, such as a threat to his children. After gunmen take shots through his window, Michael confronts Pentangili as the one he (rightly) suspects for the betraya. His rage is compounded by his justified suspicion that his own brother, Fredo, was also involved: Similarly, when Kay threatens to take his children away from him:
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The Godfather / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Godfather / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Vito Corleone makes a pledge at the meeting of the Five Families that, despite the death of Sonny and the other families colluding to force him to accept humiliating peace terms, he will not seek revenge. Specifically, he says that "I will not be the one to break the peace we have made here today." Note that this does not bind his successor from doing so in the event of Vito's demise... This is made explicit in a deleted scene from Part I: At the end of Part III, Michael makes a solemn vow on the souls of his children that he will never sin again and retires as Godfather. He then names as his successor someone who he knows will start off his reign with a bloody purge of his enemies the same way that Michael once did. God apparently doesn't approve of the Loophole Abuse, as on the same night as the purge, Michael's daughter is killed while her brother helplessly watches.
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The Godfather / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
The Godfather / int_eb251937	comment	In the book, we learn that part of the reason McCluskey is so greedy for bribes is because he wants to pay for college for his children and grandchildren, since neither he nor they want them to be cops. Of course, usually a cop wouldn't qualify for this trope, but the way McCluskey does the job...
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The Godfather / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Godfather / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: McCluskey and Woltz are grouchy and racist, Carlo is an abuser who beats the mother of his unborn child, Ciccio is a callous sociopath and Zasa rarely tries to be polite and tends to be obnoxious. Luca Brasi is a bumbling thug in the film who is revealed to be a horrible human being in the novel.
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The Godfather / int_eba4a0e7	type	Chronic Villainy
The Godfather / int_eba4a0e7	comment	Chronic Villainy: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"
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The Godfather / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Godfather / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Michael and Fredo, mixed with Finding Judas; Fredo claims he thought his actions would unblock a deal and be good for the family too.
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The Godfather / int_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
The Godfather / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Michael tries to avoid joining the Family in the first film, discusses his attempts to leave it in the second film, and conclusively fails in the third film.
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The Godfather / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
The Godfather / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: "I didn't realize until this day, it was Barzini all along." In Part II, when Fredo is gushing over a lurid live show with Johnny Ola and a few other family associates, he gets excited and accidentally reveals that he took Johnny (whom he'd previously claimed to have never met before) to see the show a few days earlier. This tips Michael off that Fredo has betrayed the family.
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The Godfather / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
The Godfather / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: Michael is indisputably the central character of the series, but the supporting cast is massive and richly detailed. This is even more pronounced in the sequel, which cuts back and forth between Michael's story and a young Vito's.
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The Godfather / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
The Godfather / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: In Part I, Rocco Lampone and another assassin kill Phillip Tattaglia, along with the prostitute he is having sex with at the time. In Part II, the Corleones get corrupt U.S. Senator Geary in their pocket when he wakes up in a room with a dead and bound prostitute in a brothel run by Fredo. They had engaged in rough, possibly dangerous sex before the senator blacked out, but the exact circumstances of her death are never revealed, and it is awfully "convenient" for the Corleone interests that she died. Of course, there is a brief scene during that moment where Al Neri is idly washing his hands in a nearby bathroom, hinting he had set up the senator by drugging him unconscious and then killing the poor girl.
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The Godfather / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
The Godfather / int_ecc8b108	comment	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: The first movie was the Trope Codifier, so much so that Coppola crafted the second two moviesâ€”particularly the thirdâ€”to deconstruct this trope and demonstrate the terrible costs of being in the mafia.
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The Godfather / int_ecdb8790	type	Decapitation Strike
The Godfather / int_ecdb8790	comment	Decapitation Strike: Michael has the heads of all of the other New York crime families assassinated on the same day. This ends the Mob War and makes Michael one of the most powerful mob bosses in America.
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The Godfather / int_ecf76ce6	type	Decapitated Army
The Godfather / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Invoked by Sollozzo. Without Vito at the helm the Corleone family would lose his political connections and half of its power.
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The Godfather / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
The Godfather / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: Michael detached himself apart from the business and is laughed at by other members of the family when he proposes a hit against Sollozzo and McCluskey. They consider him ignorant and too trigger happy. Subverted. Michael deliberately continues to project this image. Michael's (non-Italian) fiancee, Kay Adams, in the first movie. Zigzagged as she is aware of some of the nasty things but Michael plays with it trying to downplay the criminal side of his family.
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The Godfather / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
The Godfather / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: When Senator Geary addresses the party that opens Part II, he horribly botches the pronunciation of "Corleone". Later, when talking privately with Michael, he pronounces it correctly, revealing the insult. He's also publicly implying that he's not familiar with the Corleones.
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The Godfather / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
The Godfather / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The mafia's illegal revenue models are only mentioned in brief narrative. No bribery, prostitution, or drug-dealing ever happens on screen, and the only gambling that is shown (aside from Carlo's bookmaking portfolio) is the legal business in Las Vegas. While the Corleones make their famous offers they cannot refuse they are never seen doing extortion for money; the only one who does it is Fanucci against the young Vito. This leads to his failure, though. Justified by Cicci's testimony in Part II: there was always a go-between so nothing could be pinned on the Corleones — The Don gives an order to The Consigliere, who gives the order to one of the caporegimes, who gives the order to some button-men to execute. Even if the button-men are caught red-handed, the most the cops can get is testimony against their caporegime, who is unlikely to break. Even if he does, the most they can get out of him is testimony against the consigliere. Only by breaking the consigliere is it possible to get any evidence against the don himself. And the caporegimes and consigliere are selected in part for their loyalty: given a choice between doing time and betraying the don, they will willingly go to prison.
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The Godfather / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Godfather / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: While the Godfather franchise is the Trope Codifier of The Mafia, it depicts the inherent weakness of the organization; eventually leading to its downfall, and a family tragedy.
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The Godfather / int_f10cc97f	type	Bludgeoned to Death
The Godfather / int_f10cc97f	comment	Bludgeoned to Death: In extended scenes for Part II, Vito takes revenge on one of Don Ciccio's former enforcers by beating him to death with an oar.
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The Godfather / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Godfather / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: First, Luca Brasi to Vito Corleone. The novel puts it poetically: "Luca Brasi did not fear the police, he did not fear society, he did not fear God, he did not fear Hell, he did not fear or love his fellow man. But he had elected, he had chosen, to fear and love Don Corleone.'' Then, Albert Neri to Michael Corleone. Michael uses the lesson passed on from his father: "The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then."
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The Godfather / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
The Godfather / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: If you wish to be a mob chief after watching this, then you are crazy.
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The Godfather / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Godfather / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Clemenza takes Michael through his process of making tomato sauce, including using sugar and red wine.
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The Godfather / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
The Godfather / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the novel (and the shooting script), it's Michael who tells Kay about the Sicilian tradition of never refusing a request on a daughter's wedding day. In the film, Tom explains it to his wife, Theresa.
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The Godfather / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Godfather / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Averted with: Sal Tessio, who appeals to Tom to be left off the hook for old times' sake, but it's not an option. Connie begs Michael to forgive Fredo but then again this doesn't happen. They seem to reconcile, but Michael is not the forgiving type. Borderline example with Kay in Part III. It's been 20 years, after all, but Michael has forgiven the abortion, which was meant as an injury against him, has given up custody of his children, is very friendly towards her and stoically takes many of the jabs she throws at him.
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The Godfather / int_f3c801ef	type	Cranky Landlord
The Godfather / int_f3c801ef	comment	Honor: Vito's first step towards becoming The Godfather, after killing Fanucci, is stopping a landlord from kicking a widow out of her apartment with her kids and dog. He later opposes Sollozzo's offer to join the drug trade and only gives in after all the other families defeat the Corleones in a city gang war.
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The Godfather / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
The Godfather / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: An inter-criminal example in Part II has several hitmen infiltrating Michael's compound at Lake Tahoe in an attempt to gun Michael down, who is uncharacteristically and justifiably inflamed by the attack.
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The Godfather / int_f54f1401	type	Passed-Over Inheritance
The Godfather / int_f54f1401	comment	Fredo cites being displaced by his kid brother and only trusted with minor and distant business as a reason behind his behavior.
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The Godfather / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
The Godfather / int_f5a3e496	comment	Frank Pentangeli in Part II, reflecting he's Clemenza's Suspiciously Similar Substitute. Someone who looks an awful lot like Frank is briefly visible at Connie's wedding in Part I, so some fans interpret this as a sign that Frank was at least a family friend even by that point. On the other hand, it's not confirmed whether it's the same actor, and even if it is, this probably wasn't intended.
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The Godfather / int_f690d996	type	Refuge in the West
The Godfather / int_f690d996	comment	Refuge in the West: Vito Corleone fled Sicily after his family was killed by the local mafia and settled in New York City, only to find that early 20th century America wasn't particularly friendly to Italian immigrants and wind up founding his own mafia family. In an inversion, Vito's son Michael seeks refuge to the East after killing a crooked cop and his drug dealing allies, lying low in Sicily until his enemies track him down and murder his wife. During the Corleone family's Gang War with New York's drug dealing families, the Corleones start building a casino in Las Vegas and making contingency plans to move the whole family westward. After the war ends in the drug dealers' favor, Vito dies of old age, and Michael has everyone who betrayed them killed, the surviving Corleones finalize the move.
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The Godfather / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Godfather / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Connie's husband Carlo is a failed male example. Deanna, Fredo's drunken spouse.
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The Godfather / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Godfather / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: Subverted in the first film when Michael is laughed at for suggesting it regarding Sollozzo and McCluskey, but he makes his case and the others concede that he's right. In the final act of Part II, Tom questions the decision to kill Roth because Michael has already won, the hit is impossible and Roth is a very ill man with a low life expectancy. Michael rebukes him and replies that "Roth has been dying from the same heart attack for the last twenty years" and anybody can be killed. An extra layer of poignancy is added if you assume Tom knows that Michael is going to have Fredo killed as well and is subtly trying to talk him out of it.
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The Godfather / int_f6ef4ff9	type	Break-In Threat
The Godfather / int_f6ef4ff9	comment	Break-In Threat: In one of the most famous scenes, Jack Woltz wakes up with a severed horse head in his bed. Bonus points for it being his prize horse when it was still alive. And even more for being an actual horse head and not a prop (which had been used in rehearsals for the scene).
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The Godfather / int_f70bcdc3	type	External Combustion
The Godfather / int_f70bcdc3	comment	When Apollonia says she's going to drive over to Michael in preparation of fleeing the town of Corleone for safety, Fabrizio darts away. Michael then screams at Apollonia to get out of the car, an instant before it explodes.
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The Godfather / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
The Godfather / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: In stark contrast to Vito, Michael dies alone surrounded by idle dogs, which serves to underscore his tragic failure.
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The Godfather / int_f76f8943	type	Bruiser with a Soft Center
The Godfather / int_f76f8943	comment	Bruiser with a Soft Center: Sonny, despite being known for his explosive temper, is a loving if unfaithful husband and father who cares about his family and friends deeply.
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The Godfather / int_f77aa221	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod
The Godfather / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: Don Ciccio attempts to kill all of Antonio Andolini's male relatives, including his 9-year-old son Vito, knowing they would be honor bound to avenge Antonio's murder. This forces Vito to escape to America, where he becomes a Don himself, eventually giving him the ability to return and kill Don Ciccio.
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The Godfather / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
The Godfather / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: A major issue for Fredo in Part II.
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The Godfather / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
The Godfather / int_f85354eb	comment	The movie opens with Bonasera asking Don Corleone to kill the two men who beat up and tried to rape his daughter. We then learn that all this is happening behind the scenes at the wedding of Don Corleone's own daughter, Connie. The Godfather declines to have the men killed, on the logic that the other man's daughter is still alive, but is willing to have them badly beaten.
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The Godfather / int_f945dff4	type	Facepalm
The Godfather / int_f945dff4	comment	Facepalm: Michael's appalled reaction in Part II when he realizes Fredo's betrayal. Frank Pentangeli's lawyer during the former's testimony denying his sworn statements. Michael does one in Part III, muttering "Oh, Jesus..." after Vincent bites off Joey Zasa's ear.
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The Godfather / int_fadf1efc	type	Happy Flashback
The Godfather / int_fadf1efc	comment	Happy Flashback: A particularly effective one ends the second film. The Corleone children waiting for Vito and sitting around the dinner table, as Michael tells them he is joining the Marine Corps and going off to fight in World War II and thus bluntly detaching himself from the family business. There is a lot of character definition and foreshadowing and the moment represents the end of the happier, together times in the Corleone family's life. This is counterpointed by the final shot of Michael sitting alone in the Lake Tahoe compound. The final scene of the saga is preceded by a montage reprising Michael's happy moments with the women of his life, including dancing with his daughter Mary.
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The Godfather / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Godfather / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: The beginning of Part II tells or shows that Vito's father, mother (and brother) are murdered by a Sicilian mafia boss, Don Ciccio, when Vito is a child. He escapes to the U.S., becomes an influential crime boss there, and eventually returns to Sicily to meet Don Ciccio.
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The Godfather / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Godfather / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "I'm honored that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding." In reality, Lenny Montana was a professional wrestler and not a trained actor (he was brought in due to having actually worked as a mob enforcer). His verbal stumble came from being incredibly nervous about having to act opposite Marlon Brando. Coppola kept it in because it seemed to fit Luca Brasi's own awe and admiration of the Don. They also added an extra scene, where Luca is practicing his speech on the porch, so that the stumble would make more sense.
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The Godfather / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
The Godfather / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Michael explains to Pentangeli that lulling Hyman Roth into a sense of trust is key to finding the traitor in the Corleone family. Cut to Fredo, at home with his wife, taking an unwanted call from Johnny Ola.
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The Godfather / int_fd1f1963	type	Young Conqueror
The Godfather / int_fd1f1963	comment	Young Conqueror: Michael is a deconstruction. By the time he's Older and Wiser he's also Lonely at the Top due to the style of his conquests.
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The Godfather / int_fd725374	type	Pose of Silence
The Godfather / int_fd725374	comment	Pose of Silence: Don Vito is at the receiving end of this whenever one of his Consiglieres wants to report sensitive information to him while in the middle of a meeting with subordinates or other crime bosses.
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The Godfather / int_fe1ccea	type	Evil Parents Want Good Kids
The Godfather / int_fe1ccea	comment	Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Vito to Michael. Vito figures on Sonny following his path, and Fredo... well... He wanted something better with Michael. The expression on his face when he's told that Michael killed Sollozzo and McCluskey is one of pure heartbreak. In the book, Michael wants his kids to stay out of the Family business — he wants them to be law-abiding, all-American citizens. In the book, we learn that part of the reason McCluskey is so greedy for bribes is because he wants to pay for college for his children and grandchildren, since neither he nor they want them to be cops. Of course, usually a cop wouldn't qualify for this trope, but the way McCluskey does the job...
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The Godfather / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Godfather / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: When Johnny Fontane seduces a beautiful young starlet away from Jack Woltz the latter's response is to have him blacklisted in Hollywood entirely. He initially refuses to back down from this when Vito Corleone gets involved and even declares that he'll never fold to Vito's demand. In the book Tom Hagen lampshades how pointlessly petty and vindictive this was.
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The Godfather / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
The Godfather / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Vito adopting Tom Hagen. In the novel Kay comments on the generosity of this action but Michael remarks it's no big deal, as their Sicilian family would be undersized by the traditional standards. A literal example in the first scene, Vito tenderly plays with a cat during life-and-death business. The love for their family and Vito's non-criminal favors towards people in need (Enzo the Baker, Signora Colombo, whose son gets to keep a literal dog) are key elements of the Sympathetic P.O.V. given to the Corleones. Part II has a scene where Michael shows kindness giving his blessing to a niece, but Coppola removed it because Michael was smiling too much in it; not the tone he wanted to set in the first third of the film.
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The Godfather / int_ff89e65b	type	Not in the Face!
The Godfather / int_ff89e65b	comment	Not in the Face!: In the novel, Johnny Fontane's movie-star wife tolerates his beating her — but "not in the face, I'm making a picture."
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The Godfather / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Godfather / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: In the first movie, the spaghetti sauce instructions are actually usable and a new 1946 Cadillac can be seen with wooden planks as bumpers (due to chrome shortages, bumpers on very early post-World War II cars were supplied some time later, to be installed by the dealer).
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Ivy League	seeAlso	The Godfather
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JamesCaan	seeAlso	The Godfather
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New Hollywood	seeAlso	The Godfather
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The Godfather	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! / int_58f28be1
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The Godfather	hasFeature	Slowly Slipping Into Evil / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Soft-Spoken Sadist / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Some of My Best Friends Are X / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Stage Mom / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Starter Villain / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Stock Sound Effects / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Straight Edge Evil / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Strong Family Resemblance / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Suspiciously Idle Officers / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Symbolic Baptism / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Team Chef / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The '40s / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The '50s / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Brute / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Catchphrase Catches On / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Danza / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Don / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Exile / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Man Behind the Man / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The One Who Made It Out / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Paranoiac / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Purge / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Scream / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The Smart One Turns Traitor / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed) / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_58f28be1
TheyShootPicturesDontThey	seeAlso	The Godfather
The Godfather	hasFeature	This Means War! / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Throw-Away Guns / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Toll Booth Antics / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Too Clever by Half / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Tragedy / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Trouble Entendre / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Trouser Space / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Truce Trickery / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Two Lines, Different Times / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Unconventional Learning Experience / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Unexpected Successor / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Unspoken Plan Guarantee / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Villain in a White Suit / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Villainous Ethics Decay / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Villains Want Mercy / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Virile Stallion / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Viva Las Vegas! / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Vocal Evolution / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Wall Bang Her / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	War Hero / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Watched It for the Representation / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	We Have Become Complacent / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Wedding/Death Juxtaposition / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	While You Were in Diapers / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Whispered Threat / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	White Sheep / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Why Are You Not My Son? / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Women Are Wiser / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Writers Suck / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Yank the Dog's Chain / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	You Owe Me / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Young Conqueror / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	You're Not My Father / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_58f28be1
thegodfather	sameAs	The Godfather
The Godfather	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Death Is Dramatic / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Looping Lines / int_58f28be1
The Godfather	hasFeature	Love Theme / int_58f28be1

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