You have a routine, and you follow it except random occasions when you purposely don't, and when someone else asks you to change that routine, you shit yourself.
Upon arriving home, Clemenza handed the box of Canoli to his wife and said, "Don't worry about the blood on it. It was the last box the restaurant had"
CanNoli double N!! In Italian double consonants are important in words: they NEVER CHANGE the pronunciation but extend the sound of that particular letter! May be u won’t understand the difference but ... that’s it!!
To whom don't know: Cannoli is an Italian pastry dessert of the Sicily region. The singular is cannolo, meaning "little tube", with the etymology stemming from the Arabic "Qanawat". Cannoli originated in Sicily and are a staple of Sicilian cuisine
You told me all that useless shit but didn't bother to tell me the most important part: Is it good? If so, where do I get it? And don't say up my ass because I already checked there.
Considering that the Greeks had a super advanced culture and the Romans based pretty much everything they did on Greek systems, even their gods. What you said doesn't make any sense jon.
in the book Paulie gets tasked with getting a few guys together to beat the crap out of the guys that beat and raped Bonasera's daughter. In the movie after Bonasera leaves Don Corleone says he wants reliable people to do the job. 'We're not murderers, despite what this undertaker says'...
+Eric K Apparently there is a deleted scene in which Paulie and two men beat up the punks who beat Bonasera's daughter but even on special dvd versions this is unavailable. Would have given us even more of an insight into how powerful the don was really was!
The movie did a horrible job explaining why Paulie had to die. They just make it seem like Sonny is a reckless idiot blaming people left right and center.
Solus Darkcoat -- Maybe they wanted it to seem that way and leave it up to us to decide for sure if he deserved it. In the book though its made clear he betrayed them.
In the movie they alluded to that as well, and it was authentic script so everything isn't spelled out or in black and white answers, but nonetheless if you watch the whole exchange you can see they know he was the traitor.
I always got a kick out of him "calling in sick" for a mafia job. Like do you need a Doctor's note after using too many? Do you have to give a 30 minute notice before your shift starts when doing it? Do your unused sick time carry over every year? So many questions.
I was always confused why 1) the guy throws deli meats to Paulie at a wedding and 2) why Paulie calls the guy a stupid jerk just for trying to share snacks. He just wanted Paulie to eat, he looked terrible.
Hes a soldier, earns little and probably asked that guy if he could grab him some food from the table. Obvious joined figuring he can earn big in no time, you can tell by the why he was watching the married couple receive their gift. He was getting impatient and opportunistic.
Paulie Ghatto: Walking proof that greed begets stupidity. He had enough sense to resist the temptation to steal Connie's bridal purse, but was stupid enough to think he could get away with setting up Vito for a hit?
01:15 Those lines are very obviously added in later in ADR. Often lines are inserted into the film to make the story more coherent or to explain things that weren't obvious. To a casual first time watcher it might not be clear that Paulie betrayed Vito so those lines were added.
@Cult Mechanicus Yes it's Gatsu. And the lines added in later with ADR in The Godfather stand out badly because they weren't inserted that well. "Talked to Barzini" is another one.
He did for sure they traced his phone calls to a payphone outside the dons office which tells you someone called his house from the payphone multiple times
there are deleted scenes of The Godfather which show Sonny consulting with his connections at the phone company which traced Paulie's phone calls the three days leading up to the shooting
Why waste a perfectly good gun by leaving it in the car? I can see taking the cannoli. A good cannoli after a successful clip job is always appropriate, but sacrifice a gun?
+Ralph Adamo Because you don't want to be caught with a gun that matches the bullets in a guys head. Besides why would they care about the gun? Getting another one is easy.
MaxxCoyote Naaw. Ballistics matches can be defeated, even when the time of this story occurred. You're thinking of rifling marks. But the thing you should understand is that these marks change with wear, rendering any registration of the rifling marks eventually useless. If you want to defeat such a registration system, you can hasten the wear in the barrel. If the gun was entered into a registration system before you bought it, you have a couple of options. First, if it is a semi-automatic handgun, you could simply buy another barrel. Barrels are uncontrolled, and easily swapped in and out of semi-autos. If you don't want to go to the trouble (or possible paper trail) of buying a new barrel, or if you can't easily change the barrel in your gun, you must change the marks the rifling makes. You can't change the rifling itself, unless you re-bore the barrel. But you can change the microscopic characteristics of your particular gun. This can be accomplished by soaking a patch in an abrasive and running it up and down the barrel vigorously several times. You can also "fire-lap" the barrel, which is more involved, but just as effective (and more conducive to accuracy). Both of these methods will change the particular "fingerprint" of your barrel. If and when a bullet fired from your barrel is scanned, it will not match any previous sample from your barrel. The most that could be said at that point is that the two samples (one from before you performed the operation, one from after) came from the same caliber and type of gun, but that the two samples don't match.
+Ralph Adamo All those things you mention to change the forensics of a gun would take a lot of time. The point of leaving a gun is so that if they get caught escaping (say a mile down they road they get pulled over), they don't have a weapon on them. They are basically free and clear as soon as they clear the scene, assuming no one actually witnesses the murder.
MaxxCoyote I don't care what you guys say. You don't just ditch a perfectly good tool, dumping it wherever you happen to be, whether in the street, in the woods, or near a river. You know, it's thoughtless guys like you that are adding to the environmental waste crisis.
0:09 for non Italians, Clemenza is not falling for Paulie bullshit he basically said to him to "fuck off" go and do your job once he tried to fake compliments him
a lot of things are wrote n a way and spelled in a another, most american italians speak the southern italian thats why it may appear odd to other italians.
Hmmm...Clemenza must have made sure that the car he abandoned with dead Paulie has fake registration papers in the glove compartment that will not connect it to the Corleone family.
"..part where Paulie is in the car as he talks with Clemenza"... yes, this was a classic part in the movie. Somebody in the car apparently blew a fart... Clemenza comments on smelling a "bidido" (that's Sicilian for fart) ...and Paulie says "oh no ... not me! Also when Sonny is commenting that Paulie "sold out the old man" ... you have to listen closely, because he then calls him a "Strunz" with is short for Strunzo (meaning a large piece of shit) Several "off color" comments like these, where apparently allowed in the movie because they were said in the Sicilian dialect.. and very few people would catch on.
Few people would catch on, except if many of them understood the dialect, or something close. The first time I saw the Godfather in the theater, it was a full house (in the first days/weeks after its original opening) and during the wedding scene when various characters spoke or shouted something in Italian (or Sicilian), there were immediate hearty laughs from a majority of the people in the theater. And I realized how many people in that audience, like my father (born here), understood what was being said. It was amazing, and memorable.
People do understand Italian leaving the words in has nothing to do with them in Italian nothing was that off color ,the wedding and throughout the movie they talk in Italian, what a surprise it's about Italians ......SMH
I wonder who the car was registered to-someone important enough to get a class "A" gas rationing sticker (unlimited gasoline-reserved for medical doctors, people important to the government, war effort, etc.)
Poor Paulie, fantasise about stealing a little silk purse at a wedding, told to take a walk around the neighbourhood, caught a cold virus from that walk and gets shot in the back of the head 3 times
Powerful No it's not. In the book Rocco throws the gun into the swamp and cannoli isn't even mentioned. "Rocco Lampone scrambled out of the back seat. He still held the gun and he threw it into the swamp. He and Clemenza walked hastily to a car parked nearby and got in."
1:20 Clemenza is personally motivated to get rid of Paulie because in the book, he recruited him in the first place. So he feels responsible for what happened to the Don and feels that this is his mess to clean up.
Catzilla And Paulie Gatto is in the book portrayed tougher,more muscular.Than this actor.Lot of things in the book are different from the movie.. I just red the book last week.
The actor who played "Paulie" is John Martino. He was born in 1937 in Brooklyn. He is basically a nice guy. When people recognized him after the Godfather, his persona was totally different from the character he played. He's been married for decades to the same wife. He continues to work in films. There was a book about him "A Wish Beyond The Stars, The Johnny Martino Story". He's also an accomplished singer. You can see him sing on You Tube.
You missed the best bit where Paullie uses the word exterminate in the car at Clemenzas and Clemenza jokingly says “Exterminate? That’s a strong word, watch out we don’t exterminate you!”
Pauli (described by novelist Puzo as "small & ferret faced) is featured in a great scene (only in the book) that was never in the movie script, not even the epic version with all the deleted scenes. When Bonasera wants justice for the 2 POS punks who brutally beat his daughter, they use Pauli as bait. They find the bar the 2 punks hang out at and Pauli sits there watching a girl they tried to pick up tell them no way, since she knows what they did to that "Eyetalian" girl. They're pissed after getting rejected and Pauli pokes fun at them, only to be asked to step outside to "continue the discussion". When they're about to deliver the beat down, 2 ex boxers come up behind them and grab them. Their instructions were "no blows to the back of the head, leave them alive, if they get out of the hospital before 3 months, you 2 go back to driving trucks!". After the big mugs pound them to a pulp, punching them repeatedly from head to crotch, Pauli grabs his brass knuckles and does his speed bag routine on their faces. They leave the 2 on the sidewalk in a bloody heap. For this deed Bonasera prepared Sonny's and face & casket arrangement so "his mother didn't have to see him like this".
Something not in the movie -They knew Paulie was double crossing them because the family had an insider at the phone switch board that traced the calls Paulie was making.
I noticed that the Don never uses the phone, yet it is a big part of how he finds information out from others. Maybe that was his secret weapon all along - the telephone.
good to know, it just makes less ridiculous that they would whack the small town Italian, just because a Santino's hunch (he got whacked himself for not having a hunch on he being set up) And the whole of it is odd, as don Vito's driver would have been someone with more years in the organiation You don't put the Boss in a Box with someone that could be his deliverer to a dead end street alley. Just too silly hiring a new soldier to be placed directly on for such job
I think the purpose of the seemingly useless monologue about the wedding purse was to show that Paulie was untrustworthy that he would even think of stealing from the Don’s daughter.
He was such an idiot for sticking around. Of course they'd find out. And no amount of money is worth betraying the family for. What he probably got paid maybe 1,000 dollars or something minor. Maybe they intentionally got him into debt so they could have leverage on him and said they'd forgive it. Maybe. But not worth it.
@@brentcrude8153 Astrunz is a very american swing at Stronzzolo (=gone sung in the head), in Italy they don't make short forms of insults to make it silly or to sound or look cute. You are a full 'Idiot' or 'stupid', not some "Idie" or "stup" I think he makes it short, to don't give fully away he can't speak Italian as the accent would have come terrible
They showed us very early on who Paulie really was. A scumbag that would steal from a Bride on her Wedding day. It should’ve come as a surprise to no viewer that Paulie was the one who snaked the family.
His fascination with the purse suggests he can be bought, but the film does not bother proving he turned traitor and unlike the book the viewer might draw the conclusion Sonny is paranoid.
a name I kinda did. More just wondering “how could he know that?” All the audience is really given is Sonny claiming he sold the old man out, but nothing else in the film backs it up
@@stevekaczynski3793 there are deleted scenes of The Godfather which show Sonny consulting with his connections at the phone company which traced Paulie's phone calls the three day leading up to the shooting
@@stevekaczynski3793 regardless of whether or not he DID do it he still needed to be taken care of. He may not have even did it but his negligence alone nearly cost the Don his life. He failed to do his job and the Don paid for it dearly. It was such a coincidence that he just so happened to miss that day of work. It's confirmed that he had a part in it, but regardless he was getting whacked.
I remember watching the movie as a kid and to this day I'm pissed that they killed him in the car. The car was perfectly fine. Now it's ruined and we have to leave it here. What are we, made out of money?
They should have interrogated Pauli who was behind the attack and maybe they would have known it was barzini much before but Sonny's hot headedness didn't let it happen.
@North Bridge but Barzini personally approached Carlo. I think the reason why they didn't bother to interrogate Paulie was because Barzini wasn't even a suspect at that point, to them it was clear that the tattaglias and sollozo were the only ones behind the hit on Vito so why bother questioning Paulie
+BellicIV not being a smartass but I do have some thoughts on that: a) it's just a lovely balanced line that says so much b) in the context it's an excellent piece of black humour c) it shows us that for Clemenza the whole thing is routine and won't put him off his tasty grub d) mafia films are always about food - have read several comments where people say watching the Sopranos always made them hungry
+BellicIV sorry.....one more thing: at the beginning of the Paulie gets whacked scene Clemenza's wife says "don't forget the cannoli" so that short quote reinforces the idea of family and that C is "just" a regular family guy
Don't know if it would have worked in the movie. Paulie Gatto if I recall was a big man in the book. Gatto in the movie was played by John Martino who is not particularly large. So beating the crap out of 2 guys might not have looked realistic.
@@Gabriela-Acevedo yes Pesci is not big or tall but he really never used his fists in the movie. I think once when he along with Deniro & Liotta were beating the crap out of Billy Batts. But other than that he used a gun for violence. It really didn't matter how big or small he was. Pesci was so good as Tommy DeVito (DeSimone) he won an Oscar.
“Sfortunato” ? Obviously I don’t speak Italian, I always thought he said “sweet tomato”, which puzzled me because most Americans I have heard pronounce this word with a hard A, “tomayto” Any Italian speakers out there care to enlighten me?
