In this video, we explore how Paulie Gatto and Carlo Rizzi betrayed the Corleone family. We look at the reasons behind their actions, and how they ultimately led to the downfall of the family.
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I'm appalled at the lack of attention to detail viz the pronunciation of the Italian names. Did you even listen to the movie? You'd have the ability to pronounce the names correctly.
In my opinion Carlo was one of the more despicable characters here. I mean not only did the man beat his wife, which is bad enough. But knowing Sonny would show up in an instant if he beat her, which he did, to help assassinate Sonny? That’s orchestrating that event? The man was despicable. Glad he was offed at the end
Agreed. Beating your wife makes you a horrible human being. Beating your wife to arrange the assassination of her brother? That's genuinely evil. The world is a better place without Carlo in it. Michael did the species a favor removing Carlo from this world.
Sonny should deserve credit for understanding how Paulie betrayed them and how he learned the meeting place with Solozzo and McCluskey. His mistake was not being able to control his temper when Carlo betrayed them and fall into Barzini's trick.
Carlo should have known that betraying the Corleone Family and help assassinate Sonny was a death sentence. Carlo got too arrogant and didn't think his past actions would come back to haunt him.
The scene that would have explained how they found out it was Paulie who set up Vito was inexplicably cut from the film. It’s not particularly long and links the two scenes either side of it perfectly. It also highlights the hypocrisy of Tessio as he calls Paulie a punk for setting up the hit, but then famously betrays Michael.
I think they wanted to let the audience deduce that the experienced guys had instinct. Also, it's more stressful if they can kill just on that instinct. The scene showing Paulie admiring the silk bag of cash at the wedding was enough...along with him faking sick like a child that doesn't wanna go to school. That being said - it was a great scene that they cut. Maybe too on the nose?
Paulie - 3 months on leave? It was 3 days. The Godfather was shot around Christmas. When Sonny beats up Carlo it is Summer. Tessio had more to do with setting Michael's murder in motion.
Not the greatest mob movie. The greatest film of all time. This is only a small sample of the intrigues that permeate this classic. It also shows how difficult it is to maintain a dynasty. Even one as powerful as the Corleone family. There is always the greedy little turncoat in any organization. Waiting with cup in hand to be bought off. Paulie and Carlo weren't just greedy. They were mind blowingly stupid!!! Paulie is missing on the day that Vito is gunned down outside his office. By odd coincidence he was sick that day. DUHHH!!! Had he really been thinking he would have showed up anyway to relieve suspicion. Just not be there at the crucial moment. Carlo, on the other hand, is the true "Village Idiot" in the entire Godfather saga. After literally marrying into royalty, he rewards his benefactors by beating on and cheating on his trusting, adoring bride. Let's not stop there though. After deservingly beat beat shitless by an enraged Sonny, Carlo is approached by Barzini. He fingers his own brother in law and ex-best friend to be assassinated! If ever there was a man who deserved to die, it is Carlo Rizzi. In an unspeakably, horrible fashion!! Possibly the two best scenes in this timeless film are when Michael tells Carlo he'll be his right hand man in Vegas. The Stupid expression of greed on Carlos face is telling. Clueless enough to think he actually fooled the mighty Corleone family. So the Godfather isn't just a great mob and family saga. It allows us to gratuitously enjoy the demise of those that truly deserve it. It clicks on every level.
Michael gives him a made up job just before having him killed to see if greed is all that matters. It does to Carlo, and so he is killed for the proof he aided in the murder of Sonny for a payoff.. Whether him and Sonny were best friends is debatable since generally speaking nobody could stand Sonny and he only positively interacts with him at Connie's wedding. Carlo's motivation to cheat is based on disrespect and lack of importance, but he definitely was a world class moron for not just taking the free ride offered to him.
Well said. It is definitely up there with greatest of all time films. I've watched it so many times and I always feel like I see something new every time I watch it. Carlo's treachery is absolutely dispicable, I completely agree. I don't feel one bit for him when he gets strangled. He really was an idiot too, just like you described.
Sonny killed instantly? Not so....he staggered around taking an almost comical amount of .45 slugs before he finally went down.... that's not instantly.
Instantly got out of the car to be turned into Swiss cheese rather than gunning it and trying to escape. Also, it wasn't almost a comical amount, it was a comical amount; and it was Tommy Gun bullets.
Sorry but there was no U in Sollozzo, there were only three syllables in Barzini, Paulie was a half dozen notches down the line from being Vito Corleone's "right hand man" and confidante and Carlo's beating by Sonny was weeks, if not months after the shooting of Vito. Michael had already killed Sollozzo and had been exiled to Sicily and Vito was already home from the hospital after a lengthy stay.
I was just going to say this. Just shows that this guy didn't do ANY research for this video, Hell, I bet he never read the book and only saw the film once and it was probably 20 years ago when he was a little kid
I'd say either Tessio or Clemenza were his "right hand man." Paulie was just an aggravated soldier who was tired of being a pointless chauffeur to a Don offering him nothing but a low-end job in the ranks.
@@joepermenter7228 If you read the book and watched the various epic versions of the film that included scenes that had been initially deleted, Clemenza and Tessio were the Don's close friends and caporegimes, or captains of their own large crews. Sonny also had his own regime. Luca Brasi was kept at a distance but brought in for special assignments. The Consiglieres , first Genco Abandando and then Tom Hagen, were the Don's right hand men and confidantes. Paulie was no different from a secret service agent or soldier who is high enough in the organization to drive the president but doesn't get to advise him on policy or virtually anything else.
Not to mention the E at the end of Corleone is silent, just like it is in Capone. Bugs me no end when people change pronunciations without good reason.
@@Zacdawac But the movie depicts Tom as a subordinate, even to Michael and Sonny, only right hand man action he got was when Fredo was being sent around to go grocery shopping for peas and spaghetti sauce.
Paulie was an up-and-comer in Clemenza's regime. Clemenza was visibly worried, after the hit, that he would be blamed. Phone records proved that it was Paulie, but there was still the question of how and why Clemenza failed to suspect Paulie's betrayal.
I believe that Michael suspected that Carlos was involved but had no real proof. It was when he said that “it insults my inteligente. Now who was it? And Carlos said it was Barsini, you can see the change of Michael’s expression, just like when he learned of his brother’s treason in Cuba in part II.
Carlo was Sonny's friend, and he brought Carlo in to meet Connie. But from the wedding day on, Carlo was never trusted. "Give him a living, but keep him out of the family business." At dinner: "Sonny, I could be doing a lot more for the family." "We don't discuss business at the table." Carlo is shut out of the bedroom conference the day of Vito's return to the house: "Carlo, what's wrong?" "Connie, shut up." Vito was plenty smart enough to realize that all this would've hurt Carlo's pride. Carlo's betrayal wasn't just foreseeable, the Corleones bear some responsibility for instigating it. If that's how they always felt about him, why didn't Vito just not allow Carlo to see Connie from the start?
In the filming of The Godfather that was actually a real beating that James Caan delivered to him. The reason was because that actor Carlo was abusing the woman on the set. They were threatening to go to the police on him but the director said we will take care of this in house. So that was a real beating that took place on the set
I believe that tessio was killed by being shot in the head once or twice. Because it was a merciful death compared to being garroted as carlo was. And also because tessio had a long career in the corleone family, tessio's betrayal was strictly business, and tessio's plot was not successful.
Actually there was a deleted scene where carlo sees clemenza and does a double take and says to himself "geez clemenza how in da hell did you squeeze your pasta eatin italian bread lovin behind in this car."
Carlos had it all and screwed up. Respect? High position? Who needs that?! He married until Royalty to a loyal wife. Him and and children were set for life! Yet he threw it all away because he was greedy and pathetic. Sad.
3:38 Have never read the book, so basing what I am about to write on the movie alone. To Me, Carlo planned none of it. It was all done by Sollozzo. Sollozzo knew Sonny had a hair trigger. While dangerous when angry, Sonny was also predictable when angry. Sollozzo knew if Carlo beat up Connie badly enough, Sonny would charge right over seeking revenge. Carlo was also known for beating Connie for the slightest thing, especially when in a bad mood. So he had a woman call Connie to get her angry. She takes it out on Carlo and he explodes as he always does and beats the hell out of her. This of course sets Sonny off and he goes charging off alone into the trap. If Carlo planned it, there would be no reason to have anyone to call Connie, he would just have to beat her to get Sonny to come over and kill him. - Carlo may not be that bright, there is no way he would have either planned, or agreed to knowingly anger Sonny to the point that he would be killed by Sonny if they failed to kill him at the tool booths. Suicide.
In the book it does it goes into a little more depth. Carlo wanted in on the business but he felt he was at a dead end which is why he made the deal with Barzini (along with nearly getting killed by sonny). Even then, though, Michael had doubts that Carlo was involved which is why he asked Carlo who put the hit on Sonny. Carlo’s fate was already sealed whether he was directly involved or not. (think of Pauli, because he wasn’t there when the Don was shot) Michael just needed to know for sure to be at ease.
Bro, Sollozo was long dead before the war of the 5 families. It's his killing by Michael that started the war after the failed attempt to eliminate the don
@@isaabdullahi9097 Then one one or all the other bosses from New York. The main point is Sonny's execution was not planned nor done because of Carlo. Carlo was just a pawn in setting up Sonny. So Carlo planned nothing. He had neither the brains, the temperament nor the position to set up an ambush on Sonny.
@@Wailwulf as you said you haven't read the book and base your point on the movie. That's fair. Sonny was a known loose cannon and known to be emotional especially with respect to his family. Baiting him therefore wasn't a hard proposition especially when Carlo(who actually met Connie thru Sonny as he was his friend initially) was a willing accomplice after the beat down from Sonny. Even the Don always implored Sonny to calculate and think before making decisions. As he drove out, Tom was calling him to come back and tried to hold him back.... In the end he could only send the boys to follow him but too late. Carlo didn't set him up deliberately but was an informant and ally in the plan by Bartzini
@@a.sandoval5990 exactly. In the book Tom was taken aback by Michael's need to hear it from Carlo's lips. The Godfather would never have needed any confirmation.
Cor-LeO-nay if we want to be pedantic. But pronounce it however you want when you read the book. Nobody cares, pronounce the names in your head how you like.
Proceeds to properly *pronounce Barzini’s name, but completely butchers and “💩s” on Sollozzo’s!!😂🤮 Even a Portuguese guy from NJ & NY gives you a C!!!* AAAAAAAnd that’s only because of your effort, Sir!
As a further comment, Carlo wasn't murdered. He was executed. As was Paulie. Two idiots for the price of one. If revenge "Is a dish best served cold," then both goons shattered all their teeth on that meal. Frozen Glacier Surprise.
Not only in the mafi or the godfathere in real life to u betrayed u will see how death will find u especially if I had u like brother your will live less then a week
