I love his background story from the novel. He was a former policeman and a badass one at that. But he bludgeoned a pimp to death who came at him with a straight razor and he ended up being charged for manslaughter. Someone in Neri's family had connections to the Corleone's and Michael got the charges dropped and asked him to go to work for him. Neri was surprised knowing we was a former cop, but Michael told him that destiny sends men in unexpected directions. Who would know better than Michael ? The police uniform Neri wore when he killed Barzini was actually was one of his own from his police days.
I love that quick expression from Luchessi when the glasses are snatched off of his face. It's that combination of confusion and indignation, both "What the heck are you doing?" and "How dare you do that!" It's a sign of a very good actor when they're able to convey something like that in such a quick moment.
Enzo Robutti, was a great italian actor. Good both in commedy or dramma movies ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NhWfbUp2PRg.html&ab_channel=AtaruMoroboshi
(Calo comes in and sees that Lucchesi is NOT wearing his glasses) Lucchesi: Now, what is the message of Michael Corleone? Calo: It's a very important thing. But I have to whisper it to your ear. Bodyguard: He's clean. (Calo approaches Lucchesi) Calo: Well, err... power consumes those who don't have it...and also...ummm...OK, he wanted to say hi. Was offering you tickets to the opera.
there were other ways to kill an old man. Even just twisting his neck would do the trick. The big pen on the table was another option. Calo is old school, he'll get the job done
Calo was intended to kill Lucchesi whatever the means for the death of Tomassino, his beloved boss. If he had to throw himself out through the window with Lucchesi he would've done it, or at least try it.
Masterfully edited scene, the opera chant as an echo in the background against the powerful images and cut back to Corleone, acknowledging his guilt. Magnificent.
In The Godfather Coda, Lucchesi’s death is far more gruesome as you see blood spurt out of his jugular. The shots fired at Calo now sound AFTER he stabs Lucchesi and you see Calo’s body going down after getting shot.
An accident ? Well he was hit by a tour bus whilst walking across the street with a "walk sign" lit. Pronounced dead on the scene. No charges were filed either. Sad !
Figuretively speaking, not exactly, according to the screenplay's writers Mario Puzo and Francis Coppola, it's complicated to explain, but morally bankrupt monsters hiding behind a facade of wealth, secret outlaw societies like P2 (Propaganda Due) and respectability profits nothing. Not to say Michael Corleone was a saint, but Mafiosi like Luchessi ,were the worst. His crowd was based on the 1978 Vatican Bank scandal and the mysterious and sudden death of Pope John Paul the First.
For people who still don't understand how calo killed lucchesi with his own glasses it was clear he knew what model of glasses he wore I've heard some older ones had a thin blade in the plastic frame you can get to it by breaking off the plastic which is wut calo did very fast.
The problem is that he stabbed him in the trachea. A) that's hard cartilage, probably an even match for those frames; B) that's not necessarily fatal, and he'd have to be really lucky to kill him quickly with a little stabby move there. Jugular vein is the best target for those circumstances.
@@runnerbean6166 They replicated this hit in the show OZ, and the target got stabbed in the neck (the perp used his own glasses and sharpened the point) and the attack was ultimately not fatal. The wound was on the side of the neck, avoiding the trachea.
I don't get why everyone's saying this is a bad movie....true, it's not AS good as the first 2, but it's still really good. It all makes sense and ties in with the other2 stories.
Calo has always been my favorite character in the first movie because of his carefree attitude and comical echoing of Fabrizio's statements. I refuse to accept that he is a murderer now
To those who cant imagine Calo being a murderer, I say this: He carried a shotgun as a bodyguard, it is safe to assume he was skilled at using it. And, when a man loses his kind patron to murder, vendetta will be the only thing on his mind. Vendetta will give you enough adreline, and maniacal strength to kill even Thanos. Lucchese had no chance.
Just saw The Godfather Coda; Coppola thankfully was able to restore the original version of this scene where you see Carlo pierce the glasses into Lucchesi and blood spurts out since he couldn't do it back then out of fear of getting an NC-17 rating.
+David Grinder sure, it's possible if your victim is a statue who lets you grab their glasses and fold them before you thrusts them in his neck. In the real world, people react.
+Ken Cur Not everyone actually, the amount of people who freeze when something happens would shock you, there are people, who when something unexpected happens, they react by punching or hitting. There are people who run, and there are those who just freeze, trying to put pieces together. Lucchesi was a pretty calm man, probably the type of man who is not used to anything like this, he probably never expected it, and is suprised, in a way his brain is saying "my glasses, what the flying fuck, but there's a bodyguard right there, he'll protect me, what's he going to do next?" The surprise and the weirdness of having your glasses grabbed, probably made him freeze for a few seconds. It does happen in real life.
Calo is one of the Michael's body guards in Sicily on Godfather 1. When Fabrizio is talking about Apollonia to Vitelli, before knowing she was his daughter, Calo was that guy who repeats what Fabrizio was saying(about her hair, her mouth...)
"hmmmm...Very disappointing fall for Father Ricci....as you can see, the legs are not fully extended and not nearly enough rotation. I can't imagine that the judges look upon this with any favor."
I've read that this scene was actually supposed to be much more violent - to the point where Lucchesi was spraying blood everywhere. It was supposedly so violent, that the MPAA warned Coppola that the film would be released with an NC-17 rating if the scene was included.
What if the assassin walked in with a pair of glasses on where the piece that goes behind your ear was sharpened and he used his glasses to kill lucchesi
The problem is Calo isn't the killer type. Killing Lucchese with his own glasses is a John Wick move. Unrealistic that Michael would have trusted old Calo to kill his most dangerous enemy with his bare hands.
Calo was a bodyguard to Don Tomasino for decades. He was as solid as they come. When his boss was murdered he swore vendetta. Not much can stop a committed man on a mission who is willing to trade his life for the target
then your clearly quite unintelligent or just don't care, its a very straightforward plot, its a good film in my opinion tho nowhere near as good as the first and second films, I like how it ties in elements of the real life Banco Ambrosiano scandal which was tied to the Vatican bank and most likely had alot to do with one of Banco Ambrosiano's chairman Roberto Calvi(clearly the man that the Keinzig character in the film is based off) disappearing shortly thereafter and turning up dead hung from a bridge(as keinzig is killed in the film) in London with bricks stuffed in his pockets and over 10,000 in various currencies on him(cuz he was on the lamb all over Europe).
Lucchesi's character is inspired by two extremely powerful and mysterious men of Italy after the WW2: Giulio Andreotti and Licio Gelli. Infact, Calò whispers to Lucchesi one of Andreotti's most famous quotes: "Power consumes those who haven't got it".
+Trollsif Stalin It's brilliant because of it's 'MacGyverness", Vendetta is important to sicilians. There was no other way to kill him, no weapons he could use, if only there was a pen lying around or something. Also pair of glasses looked cooler. It's also very possible, as some frames are pretty pointed, and even if they weren't, if the lenses break, then glass is pretty sharp, it would be very easy to pierce his skin. You know human skin especially around the neck area, is only as tough as like a piece of steak.
I never understood why assassins would take jobs that is suicidal. Like when Rocca shot Roth and then gets gunned down afterwards. Or when this dude stabs the guy with the glasses and got shot after.
VatiWah it's all to do with revenge, 'la vendetta'...this scene illustrates the power and importance of 'la vendetta' to Sicilians...all that matters to Calo (not Carlo) is delivering vengeance following the murder of his boss, Don Tommasino...he knows it will end in his death but all that matters to him is gaining revenge, no matter what the cost...
hugodrax71 I think it's got something to do with 'honour'. Could be like in the first movie when Michael first comes to Sicily - "Where are all the men?" "Killed in Vendettas"
The idea is that Lucchesi is so powerful and well guarded that, if you did have a place to set up your rifle, it would have been planned to entrap and kill you. So the only solution to him is a kamikaze. With the archbishop, I do not think that they care that much about concealment.
First of all killing with scope was impossible,because men probably guard Lucchesi house. In the movie Cali is shown as incredibly faithfull to don Tomassini,and does not see his life without him.He wanted to revenge his master and did it with cost of his life.He is just incredibly faithfull,preety much like Japanese people.In World War 2 when emeror asked for Kamikaze,5000 insted of 500 applied.Some people are just incredibly loyal,even at the cost of their life.Its difficult to understand. :D
God... there are only a few scenes in this movie that hold it back from being nearly perfect, and this is one of them. The godfather movies have always been admired for their realism, and even in this movie there's plenty of it, but this scene borders on cartoon, you simply cannot stab someone in the neck with the side of the frame on a pair of glasses. Notice too... there was a perfectly good sharp pen sitting right in front of the Don he could have nabbed and done the same thing and it would have been much more realistic.
This was in the days before shatter-proof plastic lenses. One can't really see but I had always assumed that it was the broken glass of the lenses used for the fatal throat blow.
Norman Dale notice right at 1:21 in the video. The frame of the glasses has barely even been disturbed. In this shot it's very clear, the Don was stabbed with the corner of the spectacles' frame. It just looks silly.
John Wick: "I know how to kill a man using a fucking pencil" Calo: "I know how to kill a man using his fucking eyeglasses" John Wick: "Well......fuck!"
It's just there, nothing more. They tried but it could not capture the magic of 1 & 2. The whole Vincent story is BS. Anyone who read the '69 novel knows that Sonny did not have a kid with Lucy Mancini. Sonny had sons though his marraige. So did Connie. Why couldn't it have been one of them? How about Connie's son who was baptised during the "5-family hits" in 1950? What a twist that would have been. Th family saga now going full circle.
That would been good. It would have been interesting too to have Connie and Carlo’s boy kill Michael as revenge for killing his father just as Vito Andolini killed Don Chici for killing his father.
