Godfather 1 and 2–What is your favorite scene?

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It’s never directly implied but it becomes obvious Tom is giving him the option of committing suicide and letting him know his family will be taken care of

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Oh, it’s there.

Liking The Godfather threads recently.

It’s only maybe a couple of minutes long but I love the scene when Clemenza is showing Mike how to cook for 20 guys.

It also makes me crave pasta

So many great scenes to choose from.

For me, one of the funniest is when Senor Roberto goes to see young Vito about letting the lady stay in the apartment instead of evicting her.

One of the coldest is when Abe Vigoda (Sal), after being found out for trying to set up Michael in a meeting to be killed asks Tom if he could get him off the hook "for old times sake" and Tom just shakes his head and says "Can't do it Sally".

Extremely hard to pick a favorite scene.

I guess I’ll go with the meeting of the families.
The Don displays his power and cunning in the meeting like a boss.

I also love the whole opening wedding sequence of the first movie.

In the second movie I like all the flashback scenes.

The horse head
the reaction was the best part

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never directly implied but it becomes obvious Tom is giving him the option of committing suicide and letting him know his family will be taken care of

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Its the whole point of the scene

I love the flashback scene at the end of part 2, where it’s their pop’s birthday and Mike is home from college and has just enlisted. All four of the brothers’ (counting Tom) personalities come out. Sonny introduces his sister to Carlo.

But, there are so many good scenes. Hyman telling Michael that “this is the business we’ve chosen”. Sonny getting the call from his sister after Carlo beat her. Maybe my favorite is Vito making peace with the other heads of the families, and says if anything happens to Michael, “if he is struck by a bolt of lightning”, then he will hold some of those people responsible.

A favorite of mine is when Vito and young Clemenza break into the mansion to steal the rug.

The scene where Apollonia gets blown up in the car instead of Michael. That scene to me was the start of Michael becoming one vicious mother fricker in general.