this is true power

@Mo Ana what are you going on about?

In the book he says " ... I will blame it on the ill will still borne by some of the people here today ..." Much more subtle and much more chilling.

It was the way that his face changed demeanor right before he said it that could bring a literal chill to you

I think that he said something about Michael's airplane falling out of the sky.

That, and the fact that Barzini is quick to dismiss Tattaglia's concerns about Vito's growing power and desire for vengeance. It's almost as if he's saying "I don't need you anymore, be quiet!"

no shit

Tattaglia’s a pimp….he never could have out though Santino.

I hate that damn Barzini🤣🤣🤣

Not only that but Barzini was sitting at the head. Clear giveaway to me

That’s mark cuban

Which they view as a harmless vice. But drugs are a dirty business.

Going by a deleted scene at hospital about discussing Michael's future (followed up later), I tend to wonder if Don Corleonewas largely motivated by wanting to forge a pathway for Michael in politics, hence wanting to avoid bring affiliated with "dirty business" that could undermine said pathway

Love that reference.

“Makes no difference what a man does for a living but your business is a little dangerous”

Of course, the youngest child, who decided to become clean and not involved in the business. He is not hot-headed like his oldest Sonny or stupid and spoiled as Fredo. So of course Michael is the favorite - he is the future Don sees

That’s not how the don works, bro … he is a logical man who is thinking about Corleone family … with his failing health, Sonny gone and Fredo being useless, the only hope for the family in the long term is Michael … so he had to take a step back with this truce, to jump ahead of others in the long run …

The youngest usually is

@@TheCipheric Sonny is hardly useless. He was set to inherit the whole criminal empire.

@@KD--sj8eo he said Fredo not Sonny

I understand what happened ?

@@socallawrence Sorry, are you making a statement or asking a question?

It's all the incidental things that really immersed you in the scene. As if we were a fly in the wall when the meeting took place.

Tom should have stayed standing up while the Don was standing. Bad consigliere...

Eric Phan personally I think it would be better to stay seated, but idk

The orange is the best actor in this scene.

Yeah and he probably didn't even memorize the script. You can see he keeps looking to his right and occasionally down on the table

GODFATHER IS THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIMES WITH OUT A DOUBT. AND. MARLON BRANDO IS DEFENETLY THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL EVER IN HISTORY❤️

vikas - Brando did it and that’s all that counts. Let’s see you make a work of art that will last generations.

Hey, it's Brando!

Golden (film) Years.

Micheal said "Yeah, Pop...that don't apply to me, though..."

Although the film plays with time a bit, and although in a deleted scene there is a glib line from son Michael that the vow not to break the peace did not apply to Michae [note that this scene was pointedly deleted from the theatrical release print]l, I think Don Vito kept his word because he added a proviso : "aside from that". This one exception to breaking the peace was that his son Michael not be harmed. Should anything happen to his son Michael, "if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning . . . that I do not forgive." Yet in Sicily there was an assassination attempt on Michael (the explosion of the car that kills Apollonia). It occurs earlier in the film but it is ambiguous as to when it happened. It could have happened in Sicily after the Don Vito made his vow in New York not to break the peace. If so, there was the "out"; his son Michael has been targeted. Moreover, in the scene in the garden between Vito and Michael, father Vito warns his son that he will be approached by a traitor who will arrange a meeting at which Michael will be assassinated. Again, Vito was aware that Michael was being targeted, which was the one express exception Vito made to keeping the peace; that no harm befall his son. That wish was clearly violated by the other mafia chieftains. This would be the clear exception to the vow of peace that would allow Don Vito to break the vow and thereby break the peace.

Coppola worked wonders turning that trash into art.

@@cockoffgewgle4993 yeah it just keeps pushing and so not like Vito, wasting his words and all

Thank you A Santos

I am so glad that Coppola didnt use this bullshit exactly like its written in the book. This scene is so impressive because it is like it is. If he was talking about some bad will and bad luck bullshit, it would be far less impressive.

@@vitocorleone1501 You are welcome, Godfather.

Poor theory.

@@plrc4593 Why?

@@whitehorse8558 I can understand that Vito steps down so that Michael could start a war as a new don, but what has Hagen to do with that? I alwayes understood this scene so that Michael wants to protect his foster brother.

@@plrc4593 It's not a poor theory. That is exactly why Tom was left out. Vito had I high sense of honor and keeping his word. Vito's people in the room with him when he made that oath were bound by it also. That sense of honor is also why Michael couldn't act until Vito had passed. Michael didn't start a war when Vito stepped down. He had to wait until the previous Don had passed. Vito and Michael planned everything out long in advance. There are other reasons, but that is the main one.

@@brianlevine249 Very far-fetched theory.

well said.

Paulie was sick and they had the phone companies check who paulie was phoning.

@Tolu Ojo he was suspicious and his suspicions were confirmed when they checked in with their guy at the phone company. The don shut sonny up in the meeting from speaking out so it didn’t reflect poorly on the godfather or show any weakness other than his children are his weakness. It taught sollozo that sonny reacts emotionally.

U will be blamed....

Haha...haa

Lol

As I was reading this I thought your username was gonna be TK Kirkland.

@@TimeTraveller3434 shattap

to the Maxwell!

Was Barzini still angry that Michael had shot and killed Barzini's pal Sollozzo? Or maybe it was Captain McCluskey.......

@@wilsonblauheuer6544 Michael just seemed like an easy target. A new don, no experience, ivy league kid, it just makes sense to get rid of him and replace him with one of your own people.

@@SimicFishCrab Indeed. It’s also why Tessio betrayed Michael, because at that point the Corleones looked(keyword, there) weak between Vito’s retirement and death and Michael being an unknown commodity. They wouldn’t have tried moving against Sonny like that had he still been alive because they knew how good of a fighter he was and how smart his advisors were. All Michael had done at that point was assassinate Barzini and McCloskey, whereas Sonny had the war with the Tataglias and the earlier war when he was younger and filling in for an injured Vito.

Jack Daone Sollozzo, not Barzini. I know you knew that, but just for accuracy’s sake.

In the long run it was actually a feint to make Barzini think he didn't know and to lure him into a sense of security. So it was the opposite in a way.

how on earth could you ever miss that? it's like a father taking his very pretty teenage daughter to a party and say to every teenage boy in the room "she is still a virgin. make sure she stays that way"!

@@leeeastwood6368 That's a very creepy analogy. Otherwise though I agree with you, how you could watch this 10 times and not have realised Vito was threatening them, that's almost amazing in itself.

QuasiELVIS, obviously you've never had a 15yo daughter! she refused to speak to me for about a month, but she also didn't have her own children until she was well into her twenties! so I'll live with creepy!!

@@leeeastwood6368 Wow, you actually said that?Newsflash: She lost her virginity when she was a teenager, not when she started having children. All you achieved was embarrassing her and making sure she never confides in you about anything.

I love that line and the one that follows about a bolt of lightning.

I'm not supersticious. But I'm... a little sticious.

@@nephastgweiz1022 In the Director's Cut Don Vito had Tom Hagen push a button in his briefcase and everybody at the table looked glowingly at each other and smiled, then started tapping their fingers and nodding their heads to the beat and the scene evolved into a full blown good natured musical montage. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr6jq9mVq5qcYX0.html

Should have been this video title.

“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

you don't type period after you've already typed a period (.) you dumb fuck

@@purpletape6594 he typed that 6 months ago, maybe he has grown since then you bitch

P u r p l e t a p e you put quote in quotes "." Not brackets (.) You dumb fuck

curtis its been 2 years why did you type period after placing a . we need to know

@@voidsff hahaha 😂😂 love your great sense of humor!

De Niro's display of Vito.

@@nicolascastillo857 With all due respect not even close

Brando's display of Kurtz

Pacino was equivalent, on a few occasions.

@@1KJO not even close

I couldnt work out where the orange was for Paulies foreshadowed demise. It’s actually at the beginning of the movie during the wedding scene. Clemenza is dancing and tells Paulie to give him a pitcher of wine, when he does it has orange slices floating in it.

Whoa.

Interesting how different colors are associated with death or mourning in different cultures. In Japan, you're expected to wear white to mourn, whereas in the U.S. that's the color for brides and it's black that is for mourning or, to a lesser degree, red being associated with the actual dying part.

I read in a comm that the director said the oranges were a coincidence

At the wedding party Tessio is seen handling an orange.

warrcc c He didn’t whack them all. In the book, he only took out Barzini and Tattaglia. Stracchi claimed neutrality after the war while Cuneo was the one who found Fabrizzio and alerted Michael to his whereabouts. Even though he murders them all here, the other bosses weren’t involved and Michael couldn’t or wouldn’t kill them. Fredo was under the protection of Molinari in the west, it was Tramonti who helped Michael open ties with Cuba and later assisted him against Hyman Roth, Zaluchi was an old friend of Don Corleone and was the only Don outside of New York to align himself with Vito, Forlenza in Cleveland controlled the majority of gambling throughout the USA, even in Vegas, so Michael couldn’t take him out without suffering consequences to the casino. The Corleone Family had absolutely nothing to do with Boston, so Panza wasn’t even a factor. Falcone, however, met his end when Mike tried to silence Gerachi. But that’s another story

Vito was waiting to die so Michael could avenge Sonny for him meaning he'd technically have kept his promise. Avenging dead loved ones has nothing to do with trying to bring them back because they know they won't come back. It's about making sure the people who killed them don't go unpunished for it and don't do it to anyone else. That's why I hate it when a character goes "Don't kill so and so. It won't bring "insert relative here" back to try and talk another one out of getting revenge. It's so cliche. The "revenge is empty" cliche is annoying too.

Amen

Remember Carlo admitted it was Bazini that killed Sonny, not Tattalia

Don

Daniel day Lewis, Denzel Washington, Matthew McConaughey, Joaquin Phoenix.. that's all.. very limited

@@180190ful does the Irishman mean nothing to you? They still got it.

He told them the truth, he was not the one who broke the peace. :)

Ross Peterson yeah, that’s the beauty of it. His conscience is clear but he totally deceived them.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except that everyone is going to die, and that Tattaglia's a pimp.

You won't say that after watching Joaquin Phoenix in the Joker in a few weeks?

I hope you are well

Carl Schwamberger oranges are a symbol of bad luck, the don gets shot and, my cousin got pelted with oranges the way sonny was killed after he was out cold drunk

What's interesting though is the shot where we see Corleone's hand obstruct the sight of the oranges with the peace offering, to indicate a LACK of Death in this particular scene.

One might write a paper on the nuances of oranges in this story.

@@Carlschwamberger1 They could ^_^ A film that will both entertain and spark conversation for years to come - a real Masterpiece. Suspect I'll have to re-watch it in full this weekend now - "life's terrible" :)

Nordic Paws, how did your weekend go?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug

At the beggining Don Vito says : "I wanna thank Don Barzhini for orchestrating this meeting ..."

You should see what happens to his Granddaughter in Godfather 3! I won't spoil it for you but .... It ain't good. ;-)

@@rchrdhzl Director Coppolla didnt want to direct part 3 , - these are words of Michael Franzese , Bob Duvall didn't play there , even if he was available , some parts of the movie are disrespectful to the other two , and statement that anyone would "pay" for anything here is ridiculous .

@@alneri8327 He swore on the souls of his grandchildren....just connecting the dots....one grandchild was murdered in utero by its mother and another died by gunshot blast

They needed Don Corleone connections with LE to operate the drug cartel. Remember the war started because Vito wanted no part of it, but Sonny thought it was a good idea.

@Alex I want to isolate and emphasise the most important piece of the dialog from my perspective. It contrasts with what others think is most important. A communion of minds through the internet, we share what is interesting with each other. It is a social meditation on the cultural influences we experience, even though we will never meet as people.

He meant if his son dies naturally and he outlives his son..he would break the peace...he gets peace for his son and ensures his son takes over...

yeah...and what happened to Vito's granddaughter because of it?....also look what Kay did to the other one*. *something "unholy"

So who tried blowing up Michael's car in Sicily, then? The Lone Fabrizio? LOL.

Beautiful

I love this quote

Someone once said that I shouldn't take things personally, and I used some of that quote as my inspiration for my response, in which I said I take everything personally.

He's my favourite character.

Granddaughter only

@@jerry85g7 yeah.. my bad 😅

He has a bunch of grandchildren, most notably Vincent from G3 who is Sonny's kid with Lucy Mancini.

@@jerry85g7 Good enough, the innocent one dies.

Carl Schwamberger InnoSINce, must die, n dis world - BCAUSE ITZ HELL!!! Thank u, mom & dad.....

Exactly the comment I was looking for!