This effect of the language is reaffirmed when Michael glances at the captain before switching to English, seeing that he is not even attempting to follow the conversation. The choice to deny the audience meaning in this conversation acts to further exoticize the world of the Sicilian mob, leaving us as outsiders. When Michael switches back to English, his entire demeanor shifts. He goes from soft spoken and timid to brutal, speaking through gritted teeth with anger.
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Vudu is and shall be under no obligation 1 to maintain any Comments in confidence; 2 to pay to users any compensation for any Comments; or 3 to respond to any user Comments. As for his infidelity with Lucy Mancini, there's an explanation for that in the book as well. In a highly unusual turn of events, Sonny's wife, Sandra, is well aware that Sonny sleeps with other women and actually prefers it that way.
It is described in the book that Sonny Corleone has an abnormally large penis, so large that it actually gives his wife stomachaches.
Lucy Mancini, who it turns out has a congenitally loose vagina, is able to deal with the size of Sonny's penis and thus they start an affair.
Their affair, however, is purely sexual: Lucy doesn't love Sonny and barely knows him outside of their affair, and Sonny is purely in love with only his wife. This is slightly alluded to in the film. During the wedding at the beginning, Sonny's wife is talking with other women at the table and she holds her hands up in a "this big" pose and gradually holds her hands out wider and wider, much to the amazement of the other women.
The scene then cuts to Sonny having sex with Lucy. Lucy has a much larger role in the novel, mostly due to an entire subplot, including several main characters not found in the film, including a plastic surgeon, who "repairs" her large vagina, his and Lucy's back-stories, plus their eventual involvement after her affair with Sonny ends due to his death.
This subplot has little to do with the main story of Vito and Michael, and so it was easily excised for the screen version. It's not explained in the film but they likely, out of respect for his years of loyal service The Godfather: Part II reveals that he has been working with Vito and Clemenza since the late s or early s to the family and Vito, took him somewhere they could kill him quietly and dispose of his body in a non-messy fashion. When they are about to kill somebody they want to be sure that he doesn't suspect anything.
In this case Michael still needed to extract information from Carlo. Michael told him about the ticket and that he wouldn't widow his sister like that. Carlo bought into it and admitted his betrayal and revealed who hired him. Only after Michael got what he wanted, the kill was executed. One could still argue why he wasn't killed right away in the house after the confession, though. Killing him in the car avoids a mess inside the house.
If needed, the car could be dumped or disposed of. But Michael allows her to ask one time since, as an outsider, she was unaware of this tradition. He lies to her because he knows that if she was told the truth, she wouldn't want to stay with Michael. It also signifies that Michael has completed his transformation into the cold, ruthless mafioso that we see in Part II. Moreover, Michael's answer of "no" to Kay's question is technically correct. Remember, Kay's question was "Is it true? Clemenza was the one who actually killed Carlo, so Michael can rationalize in his mind that he's not 'really' lying to Kay.
This is very similar to earlier in the film, at the big meeting of the five families, when Vito vows that he would not be the one to break the peace again, Vito was technically honest; it was Micheal who implemented the murders of the Mafia bosses, despite that fact that Vito clearly helped orchestrate them in advance before his death. Although Michael knows Carlo had a tendency to beat up Connie, the 'farce' that he's talking about is the specific beating that led to Sonny's death.
Connie gets a call, presumably from Carlo's mistress. She goes haywire, smashing things-which leads Carlo to beat her with his belt. Connie calls Sonny, who races out to help her-and is ambushed along the way by rival thugs who kill him. It seems like a spontaneous tragedy, but Michael knows it was all staged--the fight and the beating--to lure Sonny out so he could be assassinated. He gets Carlo to admit it. The scene of Micheal firing the lupara at Fabrizio was possibly deemed too far from the main storyline to be included in the final film.
He was with Luca Brasi sleeping with the fishes. Bonasera owns a very successful mortuary. The Don, at Connie's wedding, promised Bonasera he would punish the two men who beat and raped the man's daughter in exchange for providing his services as a mortician. When Sonny was killed, his assassins made sure to shoot him to death in a manner that would make it difficult for the Don to have an open casket at the funeral.
The description of Sonny's wounds is told in greater detail in the novel: the reason the last man kicked Sonny in the face was to disfigure his face and one of Sonny's eyes had been blown out by a bullet.
Other shots had also hit him in the face making his corpse look even more gruesome. The grievous injuries to Sonny's body would make Bonasera and his staff's job of making the corpse at least presentable for an open casket and likely would have cost more than the mortician's usual fee for his work.
The Don also didn't want his wife to see how badly Sonny's injuries were, which would have left her and the rest of the family emotionally devastated. Knowing that, the Don cashed in the favor he'd asked of Bonasera, who would either do the work for free or at a greatly reduced rate.
Don Vito was suspicious of Sollozzo. So he asked Luca to pretend to be unhappy with the Corleone family and go to the Tattaglias to find out what he could about their deal with Sollozzo. When Sollozzo offers his hand to make the deal, Luca doesn't accept it. This may be because Luca thinks of himself as honourable, knowing he wasn't actually betraying the Corleones, he couldn't in good conscience shake Sollozzo's hand to make the deal, which tipped Sollozzo that Luca was trying to spy or he simply took offense to the snub which is why he stabs Luca in his right hand while one of Tattaglia's men strangled Luca.
He may have also become suspicious that someone like Luca, who had a reputation for being a fiercely loyal Corleone enforcer would so easily betray them for some money. Michael may have become aware of this; as in The Godfather Part III, he tells Vincent to go to Don Altobello and act displeased with Michael, but if Altobello asked him to betray Michael, to act offended, because that would be his trap to determine his loyalty.
Alternatively, Sollozzo needed Luca out of the way because he was already planning the hit on Vito and even if he hoped Luca's defection was real, Luca likely wouldn't be happy about them killing Vito. So Luca had to die. As Tom says, "Not even Sonny will be able to call off Luca Brasi", to which Sollozo replied, "Yeah, well let me worry about Luca", as he already had him taken care of. Because Sollozzo and the Tattaglia Family knew that Fredo was only a harmless and incompetent man.
Fredo was not a major member of the Corleone Family and would never take on a position of power, so Sollozzo decides to have his men kill Vito and kill Fredo only if he poses a real threat to them, as killing Fredo would only cause additional bad blood and make Sonny even less likely to agree to a truce and commit further violent actions against the Tattaglias.
After the meeting of the Five Families, Vito expresses to Tom his conviction that the Barzini family is running the narcotics operation and that they were behind Sonny's death, Tattaglia being too much of a "pimp" to "outfight" Santino during the Five Families War.
During the meeting, it is Barzini who repeatedly reprimands Vito for refusing to share his police and political protection to the drug operation. Vito figures he would only be taking offense so strongly if he were the man behind the operation. From the beginning, Carlo was never a trusted member of The Family, as evidenced by his low position as bookmaker aka: "bookie", i. Carlo is a cowardly thug who knows that he is not valued by Don Corleone, but he cannot take his frustrations out on Vito, Sonny, or any of the other high-ranking members of the Family, so he does the next best thing - he is abusive toward Connie.
Carlo's treatment of his wife leads to further distrust by Don Corleone. Additionally, it puts strain on his relationship with Sonny -- though the relationship isn't fully explained in the movie, in the novel we learn that Sonny and Carlo have been lifelong friends.
When Sonny confronts Carlo about abusing Connie, Carlo instead flees and Sonny brutally beats him up on the street in his own neighborhood in front of Carlo's own men and several witnesses.
In the scene, Carlo is clearly displayed as a coward since he makes no attempt to fight Sonny or hit him back. After Sonny beats him up, Carlo feels completely humiliated and seeks vengeance against Sonny. When Barzini apparently hearing about the incident asks for his help in setting up Sonny, Carlo is more than happy to comply.
Vito himself likely suspected Carlo's role in Sonny's murder, but since he could not prove it and he didn't want to tip his hand so early , he pretends not to know. Connie, being the youngest child of Vito, had been spoiled and doted upon all her life and Vito doesn't want to see her widowed during his lifetime, something that, despite how horribly Carlo treats her, would upset Connie greatly and make her resent him.
A little later, Michael is informed of the sequence of events that took place on the day of Sonny's murder by Vito, Tom, Connie and others which as follows: A mystery woman phones Connie and Carlo at his home. The very pregnant and emotional Connie gets angry and starts to throw a tantrum giving Carlo an "excuse" to beat his wife knowing full well that she will call Sonny and tell him that Carlo has beaten her again.
It is possible that Carlo may have somehow phoned the Barzini people to inform them that Sonny is on his way to the city, thus giving them the opportunity to ambush and kill him at the toll booth on the Causeway. When Michael sits down with Carlo in the final scenes of the movie, he needs to know without a doubt that Carlo was responsible before giving the go-ahead.
He decides to bluff to get the frightened and cowardly Carlo to admit to his role in Sonny's assassination. It works, and once Michael has confirmation that he has good reason to make his sister a widow, he gives the order to kill Carlo. Carlo's position as son-in-law was the only thing that allowed him to live as long as he did. When Connie finds out her husband is dead, she hysterically says to Michael, "you waited until Papa died so no one could stop you, and you killed him!
Technically, no. Vito's goal in bringing the Commission together is to bring an end to the war in the hope of allowing Michael to return safely to America. Sonny has just been brutally murdered, and the war has gone on long enough, with heavy losses on both sides, both in resources and personnel. A couple of reasons Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Featured on Meta. Now live: A fully responsive profile. Version labels for answers. Linked Related Hot Network Questions.
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