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re: Godfather II, request for speculation
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:28 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:28 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:This was one of the contemporary criticisms of the movie, that it whitewashed the mafia ("After all, we're not murderers"). Many of the characters from the novel were softened for the film. Luca Brasi is almost a comic relief character in the movie. In the book he's a monster.
We know they do IRL. There was a remark on another thread that the Corleone famly only killed those who had it coming.
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Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:38 pm to memphis tiger
quote:agree
It never occured to me that the Corleone's DIDN'T do it.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:45 pm to Kafka
Neri was also over the top in the book.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 5:52 pm to Minnesota Tiger
quote:I didn't mention him b/c he's such a minor character in the first film and is never really established (IIRC he doesn't have a single line of dialogue GF 1).
Neri was also over the top in the book
One of the few things that are superior in the book, aside from the sheer volume of journalistic detail, is that the characters come across as rougher and more like actual gangsters.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 6:07 pm to Kafka
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That wasn't Neri, it was the guy who went on to become Michael's bodyguard and is killed in Hyman Roth's hospital room in Havana.
Never doubt my Godfather knowledge.
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Some time later, Geary spends the night with a prostitute in a brothel run by Michael's brother Fredo in the Nevada desert. Having suffered from an alcoholic blackout, he awakens in a bed covered in blood next to the woman, who is dead. Corleone family consigliere Tom Hagen arrives on the scene and tells a terrified Geary that since the woman has no family, the matter can be safely covered up. Hagen promises Geary, "All that will be left is our friendship." It is implied that the Corleones have engineered this situation, perhaps through drugging Geary. Michael's personal assassin, Al Neri, is seen in the bathroom wiping his hands with a towel, indicating that it was he who murdered the prostitute.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 2/18/14 at 6:15 pm to Sus-Scrofa
The more I watch those movies, the higher they move on my list.
Still don't quite get why Hyman Roth was simultaneously trying to kill Michael while needing his help for establishing operations in Cuba. It seems to be a contradiction.
Still don't quite get why Hyman Roth was simultaneously trying to kill Michael while needing his help for establishing operations in Cuba. It seems to be a contradiction.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 6:19 pm to Kafka
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That wasn't Neri, it was the guy who went on to become Michael's bodyguard and is killed in Hyman Roth's hospital room in Havana.
This is worse than the op's question.
Posted on 2/18/14 at 6:28 pm to Sus-Scrofa
Holy shite I've spent my whole life thinking it was the bodyguard
Sheesh, they don't even look alike
Anybody have a screencap of that shot?
Sheesh, they don't even look alike
Anybody have a screencap of that shot?
Posted on 2/18/14 at 7:53 pm to Kafka
quote:Vaginal surgery anyone?!?!?
One of the few things that are superior in the book, aside from the sheer volume of journalistic detail
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:05 pm to drizztiger
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Vaginal surgery anyone?!?!?
I skip all that on the re-reads. Don't care what the bridesmaid does in Vegas.
This post was edited on 2/18/14 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 2/18/14 at 10:16 pm to Sus-Scrofa
Hagan set it up...props to him covering for Mike.
I never understood why the vag surgery tie in with Sonny the bull other to say "Santino has a huge piece"
I never understood why the vag surgery tie in with Sonny the bull other to say "Santino has a huge piece"
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