Not exactly. When they go to see the dying consiglieri after the wedding just brings the film to a hault. Also, G2 had so many scenes that were a waste like Sonny's daughter coming to see Michael at Anthony's communion asking for his blessing to marry the entertainer. PLEASE!
It was included in one of the versions along with several other deleted scenes. Want to say it's the one where both Godfather and part II are shown as one movie with stuff rearranged in chronological order.
The fact that Michael is married and has a family already, and still wants to avenge her, shows that Apollonia was really the woman he wanted and loved.
I'm not doubting Michael loved her but the car bomb was meant to kill Michael. Fabrizio asks Michael "Is your wife coming with you?" to which Michael answers that Fabrizio is to take her to her Fathers until he knows things are safe. Car bombing Fabrizio was vengeance for both Apollonia and the attempt on Michael.
@@dindrmindr626 People who are unable to understand that works of art are meant to tell stories and portray characters with human feelings and emotions and are to be understood and analyzed as if they were real life are mentally ill or mentally retarded. Everyone knows it is a movie, but good movies have believable characters with compelling stories and motives. Dumb people say "it's just a movie, it isn't REAL". Like congratulations genius! you figure that one out yesterday? God I hate stupid people.
@@dindrmindr626lmao the fact that you get so mad over someone analyzing and connecting to events in movies is hilarious. All the guy did was say that given the circumstances in the movie, the character of Apollonia was the true love of the character of Michael Corleone. Get the stick out of your ass and stop yelling at inconsequential things.
They filmed that scene. Michael goes into the shop and shoots Fabrizio himself, but for some reason they never released it. I saw the pics in a behind the scenes Godfather book.
@@YRS51 I remember seeing promotional photos of Michael holding the kind of shotgun Fabrizio was armed with when he was guarding Michael. That would have been a nice touch, but killing him in a car bombing carried the kind of equitable nature of mafia vengeance.
Michael never has the guts to do it himself, whilst Vito always did. This is explained in the novel as a major flaw on Michael’s character; he’s proper cold. The police captain and Sollozo are the only face to face kills Michael has. I guess having him kill Fabrizio in a scene went against his character.
I watched this movie for the first time a couple years ago and thought it was odd how quickly he got over Apollonia. This scene has it make much more sense.
He was back in the United States preparing to run his family for over a year before he even reached out to Kay, so it may have been two years since Apollonia's death. And Michael didn't simply "get over" her: he needed to marry and start a family, and the selection of Kay was rather cold and based on practicality.
He never "got over Apollonia". His intention in contacting Kay was purely in establishing a marriage and having children. He had affection for Kay, but his love was for Apollonia. Michael proved to be the most ruthless of them all.
His love for Kay could never be what he had for Apollonia… he never really got over her. Yes this should have been worked in but… not sure how. Interesting that this guy was sponsored by Barzinni
That's the genius of the portrayal. In so many films, he's "Pacino-ing." As Michael, he is always in total control. That's what makes Godfather III, to me, a bit underrated: For the first time since he returned from losing Apollonia, he's losing that control, and struggling to maintain it. In the end, everything he's fought and won up until then ends up defeating him: His family's history, his Sicilian heritage, the Church, and the Pacino legacy that he didn't yet have even after Godfather II. It wasn't until Dog Day Afternoon, a year after G II, that he became the non-Corleone Pacino we remember.
They never should've deleted this. It really helps the movie make more sense and have a smoother flow between the changes in settings, not to mention adding a sudden clever sense of closure.
The first time I watched this movie, it was on TCM and it was uncut, including this scene. It doesn't make any sense why this was taken out since then bc there was absolutely no way in hell that Michael Corleone would have allowed Fabrizio to get away with Appolonia's death.
@@golden8972I actually prefer it was cut. For decades in my head canon, I just assumed Fabrizio was found and dealt with within hours or days right there in Sicily. The deleted scene allows him to have immigrated to America and enjoyed years of happiness and success, even beyond Barzini and Michael’s own father and Sonny.
The moment that Apolonia died, at the same time, some part of Michael was "dying", and rising his Dark Side. Michael was becaming in a cold hearted and calculating man. He will have no mercy to anyone, no matter Who it is
He was turning dark due to the attempts on Vito’s life and probably news of Sonny’s murder turned him a bit further, but this tipped him past the point of no return. Had Apollonia lived, he might have forgiven Fredo’s future actions. But who knows how hard he would have gone after the other Families and other enemies if it weren’t for this.
This wasn't just about killing the man who killed Michael's first wife. It was also Michael sending a message to the Barzini family who had hired Fabrizzio in the first place.
You just went with what that other person said lmao. The barzini family wasn’t even a factor to him at this point. It was solely out of revenge for her.
Apollonia is such an underrated figure in Michael's development. Despite appearances, he was serious with her, and in a way she would have taken his mother's place symbolically, as the Padrino's wife from the old country. But Michael's destiny is more tragic, and different.
Agreed, Apollonia would have been the perfect mob wife for Michael. She would have been just like Mama Corleone and probably given Michael about a dozen male heirs.
But, at the point in the movie where Appolonia is killed, we have seen no character development of her character. Likewise, no development of their relationship. By contrast, we know a helluva lot about Kay, and Kay and Michael. Her death may be pivotal to Michael's cold-heartedness, but without more about Appolonia, and no revenge on Fabirizio, the movie seems to make Appolonia an afterthought. I read the book, too. This needed more.
@@josephfernandez4000 Yeah, but this deleted scene compliments what we saw at the end of Michael's life in Godfather III. She's always been with him. Without the deleted scene, the end of Godfather III is abrupt in regards to her suddenly being shown. I never thought about it that way until I saw this deleted scene.
The third movie was a cash grab and everything about it reflects that. I remember back in the late 1980s leaving the movie theater thinking, "What the HELL?" It ties nothing together. You can love these movies all you like but, you have to appreciate that half a subplot in a Godfather movie is not salvageable. Coppola didn't go big and go strong with Appolonia.
@@Pedro91795 Not really. Yea he was open to being a criminal after what happened with his dead but if Sonny lived then Michael wouldn't have become the don. If Apollonia lived Michael wouldn't have become soo cold and heartless. Both of their deaths lead to him being cold hearted
The assassination of Fabriozo is included in 'The Godfather Complete Epic' which combined Part I and II into one long film in chronological order. This scene is far better then the book version which only had Fabriozo shot. The car bomb is what killed Apollonia. This scene was also very well filmed. Noticed the stuntman was in the car during the "explosion" (smoke and flashes of light) and climbed out afterwards. This is not an easy stunt to pull off.
That's okay, we could say it was Fabrizio's last act alive, his body instinctively running on automatic before falling dead in the street. Similar to Sam Rothstein in "Casino".😉
I saw that version many years ago. The two movies were re-edited into a TV miniseries, in chronological order and with the addition of some deleted scenes. Definitely my preferred version.
My dad swears that he saw a chronological version of GF 1 and 2 spliced together on TV back in the 80s. It followed young Vito's life then the events of GF 1 then the 'present day' events of GF2. He also said he saw Fabrizio getting killed in this version. Until RU-vid came out, I doubted him, thinking maybe he misremembered, but here it is! Forgive me dad for ever doubting you!
@@tbone35453 Yes, I saw that too. The old Mustache Black Hander getting his throat cut, Fabrizio and another in a boat, but not to be confused with Fredo!
The Godfather saga.. a novel for television is the thing you're looking for.. might be on some streaming service.. or you can find it somewhere online...
@@steventaylor1197 it was a smaller bomb than the one that killed Michael’s wife, wouldn’t instantly kill him so he can realize what is happening to him.
I agree. Kay was a poor substitute for Apollonia. I wish the authors had allowed Kay to live and follow Mike back to the U.S. Perhaps, with Kay as a wife, Mike would have been a bit less ruthless as the years wore on.
People always ragging on Kay. Michael basically begged her to be his wife. Honestly she was supposed to be level headed. I think people misunderstand her character because she wasn't making meatballs and being quiet
They should have made Fabrizzio a small part in the main plot working for Roth or something and Michael kills him towards the end with a Sicilian revenge, like how Vito kills Don Fanucci in the flashback.
It wasn’t a fast death, dude got out of the car after the bomb went off and struggled for a bit before dying. Can’t see it very clear but just watch the last part and you’ll see him struggling on the ground.
Because Fabrizo wasn't supposed to kill Apolignia Banzini was behind it all Fabrizo did it because Banzini offerd him a lot of money and a way to get to America which he always wanted Fabrizo was puppet on a string Banzini was the real villain and the guy that planned the car bomb.
@@raseltatel6728 The Godfather, by Mario Puzo. We’re in you find out that it was Rocco who killed Fabrizio with a shotgun. “Michael Corleone sends his regards.”
How stupid of them to cut this scene, it made me believe he never got revenge after all these years watching this. I saw a screening yesterday at AMC they have a 50th anniversary screening this scene still not in it
I would have loved it if Coppola would have done this scene exactly as it was written in the Puzo novel with Michael discovering Fabrizio having gotten to America and building a pizza restaurant in Upstate Buffalo and having him executed by one of his own men at the same time as the Baptism of Blood and wiping out the other heads of the Five Families.
Book version was way better taking place during the baptism murders. One of Michaels guys shoots him and before the fatal shot tells him Michael Corleone sends his regards so he knows exactly who took him out
In The Godfather, if Michael Corleone was married to Apollonia and she never died, would his life have been much better over time? Without question… From the second he sees her, Michael is mesmerized by Apollonia. I hate to use the phrase “love at first sight” but it probably does apply here. It’s almost as if he knows he’s going to marry her the second he sees her, and theirs is a passionate, yet comfortable kind-of love. It’s not easy to find both of those things in the same relationship, but the handful of scenes where we see them (including some deleted scenes in the extended version of “Part I”) make it clear he’s found something special. This is a woman he’s extremely attracted to, and who fits his family, lifestyle, and business like a glove. To me, the scenes where he’s with Kay (both before Apollonia and after her death) are very different. He doesn’t seem as attracted to her physically, and also seems a little uneasy around her-almost like he’s trying to prove something or earn her approval. I think his relationship with Kay and his eventual marriage to her is an act of self-denial more than real love. He’s telling himself the family will be legitimate soon (when he reconnects with her) and also that he’s nothing like his father (in their first scene together). This is partly to win over a skeptical Kay, but also partly because it’s what Michael wants to believe about himself. “I’m not really a mobster. I’m a good American-a war hero and good man. I have the blonde WASP wife who’s naive and abhors ‘this Sicilian thing’ and wouldn’t have married me if I was a common thug.” One of the big themes of “Part II” is assimilation and what it takes to make it in America for an immigrant (it’s the best exploration of this on film I’ve ever seen). And if you’ll notice, the scene where Michael and Kay have their marriage-ending fight, the part where Michael smacks her isn’t when she’s asked him for a divorce or criticized him as a father or called him “evil” or even admitted she’s had an abortion; he smacks her when she says “this Sicilian thing” must end. She’s basically rubbing it in his face that he can never fully belong to America the way she does-and this defeats the entire purpose of why he married her in the first place (in my opinion). She’s essentially picked the most stressful time she could to ask him for a divorce-Roth is still out there, his brother’s betrayed him, he feels completely isolated and paranoid-and it just reinforces the idea that she didn’t understand him from the very beginning. Do I think Apollonia would’ve understood Michael better? Absolutely. Do I think she would’ve treated him with the shame and derision that Kay did? No way. And in their marriage, Michael would’ve been the American one who’s trying to assimilate his wife into the upper-class of America (one of their scenes, he’s teaching her English and how to drive), and I think he would’ve liked that dynamic a lot better than with the somewhat-snooty derision Kay shows him. Kay’s love is pretty conditional, whereas Apollonia is probably much more of a “ride or die” kind-of love.
Michael's live would be "TOO PERFECT" if Apollonia still alive. It's too fictional, I mean the "CORLEONE FAMILY" itself already fictional compared to the Real Mafia Family
Geez, i just want Michael who killed Fabriozo himself, bomb car is a great revenge but michael cant see how his enemy die...If i was Michael, before fabriozo entered the car, i would show up and if fabriozo try to run from me with his car, it will explode
Would have been nice, though I suppose the movie decided to be poetic with an eye for an eye, and a bomb for a bomb. Granted, either way it would be different from how the book does it, because in there, Al Neri personally guns him down in the parlor, then lets him know Michael sent him before dealing the finishing blow.
@@charlierenard1221 They actually filmed an alternate version during the first Godfather where Michael personally walked into the pizza parlor and killed Fabrizio with his own shotgun. I’ve never seen the footage, but there were a few behind the scenes photos published
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@gaynorpatterson2915 Nope. In the book he dies with Apolloina. Fabrizio's murder could also be called revenge for killing the loyal bodyguard as well. It's hard not to think so as the movie does show Micahel looking at a photo of both bodyguards just before the car bomb goes off.
He deserved more pain than that! He died instantly without the fear that death was coming! Michael was tortured for years because of his wife death. That traitor got off easy!
The actor who played Fabrizio was Angelo Infanti, a wonderful italian actor from Rome. He was very popolar and beloved in Italy for many italian films, especially comedies. He died in 2010 and he is still remembered for some iconic sentences.❤
I saw this in 1979 when they showed on television parts one and two in order with outtakes like the death of Genco. Haven't seen it since. There was so much amazing stuff that was deleted and I think that there is more than what was shown in 1979.
Did Michael Corleone love Kay or Apollonia? He loved both. However, it was not the same and Puzo goes to details about it. Michael’s love of Apollonia was tender but almost chemical in intensity, borderline insane: Again Michael felt that shortness of breath, that flooding through his body of something that was not so much desire as an insane possessiveness. He understood for the first time the classical jealousy of the Italian male. He was at that moment ready to kill anyone who touched this girl, who tried to claim her, take her away from him. He wanted to own her as wildly as a miser wants to own gold coins, as hungrily as a sharecropper wants to own his own land. Nothing was going to stop him from owning this girl, possessing her, locking her in a house, and keeping her prisoner only for himself. He didn’t want anyone even to see her. When she turned to smile at one of her brothers Michael gave that young man a murderous look without even realizing it. She had his mind, body and heart: He awoke and, feeling Apollonia’s satiny body against his own sleep-warm skin, made her come awake with love. When they were done, even all the months of complete possession could not stop him from marveling at her beauty and her passion. Michael changed after Apollonia: For Kay the lovemaking was almost like it had been before except that Michael was rougher, more direct, not as tender as he had been. As if he was on guard against her. But she didn’t want to complain. Michael’s love for Kay was more cerebral. It was human love. Michael’s love for Apollonia pure physical passion, possession and animalistic..borderline madness.
Thanks for this explanation. My ex boyfriend and I, was like Michael and Apollonia. He was so possesive, didnt want me to have friends. As if he wants me to make him, my world. I really didnt get it. I have so many friends. With your explanation, I understand now, there is such deep feelings a person could feel
1:08 this is somwthing crutial to keep in mind, this deleted scene is in part 2 so looking back at part 1, and how michael ended up taking out all the heads of the 4/5 families. The decision without knowing that fabrizio was payed off by a family trying to tak out Miachael is bad enough but I assume now he really doesnt regret killing all of them in the end.
The best deleted scene in the whole series is where Michael kills Fabrizio with a Lupara shotgun. Its too bad it wasn't left in the movie cause it was easily one of if not my favorite scene of the movie. Its also the only time Michael kills or uses violence period in the film besides shooting Sollozzo and McCluskey. It has to be if not the rarest, one of the rarest scenes to find... I found it a few years back and I've been looking for it ever since. The closest thing I've found to it is a picture of Michael holding the shotgun on Google images. There's also an alternative deleted scene where Fabrizio (who is older) gets into his car and his csr is bombed when he starts it
Wait, have you actually watched the scene where Michael shoots him? I heard that Michael holding the shotgun was just a promotional picture and that scene was never shot.
Michael himself never gone to kill Fabrizio. In the book His hitman says, "Michael Corleone sends his regards". Michael going himself would blow the cover that he was moving out of New York.
The whole purpose of the Appollonia character was to separate Michael from any of the old world connections. When she blew up so did his options to remain connected to the traditions of the "old world." Kay meanwhile is Micheal's attempt to become mainstream in the new one. There is almost an exact copy of the scene of Appolinia leading the children in Sicily than there is the scene when Michael re-appears to Kay after she is leading the children on the street as they walk back to their class. Kay herself, even represent mainstream American life. She is young and beauitiful and uppper middle class. She uses make-up, and she does everything to force Michael away from his family. There is one scene at Christmas before Vito's assassination attempt where Michael calls the house, and tell his family that he is up in Connecticut when in reality they are at a hotel in NYC. And to top it off---Kay is a WASP...which pretty much ran America at the time excluding other minorities including Jews, Catholic, the Irish and Italian. Remember, even the immigrant class are still excluded. JFK is the first Irish Catholic president from a background that was exclusive new world "immigrant." Kay is upper middle class vs Micheal's working class. Kay even becomes more "American" by have an abortion...a taboo that is largely cemented in the working/ middle-class Catholics. ps there was even a scene that made shot where Michael walks into Vabrizo's restuarants and blasts him into obvilion with the same kind of shotgun that Vabrizo used back in Sicily. But it was considred too violent, was cut from the moive.
Why kill him? It's a worse punishment living in Buffalo, NY after sunny Sicilia. Leave him there to rot in the cold and die of pneumonia and depression. He committed murder to escape Sicily and spend his life in Buffalo. What stupidity.
Back in the early 1990s, I bought a 3-DVD box set which was not only an extended edition but it was in sequential order started with Godfather Pt 2 (1st half), Godfather Pt 1, and Godfather Pt2 (2nd half) plus all these extended scenes. It was absolutely fantastic. I just wish they didn't screw things up with Godfather Pt 3.
They shouldn't have Apollonia death scene should not be avoided or deleted from the killer who's responsible I have the VHS 📼 the revenge scene should have been presented
That was for me cause I was looking forward to seeing many more Apollonia scenes! She was too damn sexy to get bumped off 😠 RIP Apollonia 'Thunderbolt' Vitelli ⚡
With the culture and love of family in Italian/Sicilian life, they should have included a scene with Michael speaking to Apolonia’s father (his father-in-law), apologizing for her death. Because Michael blamed himself for her death and he loved and respected her father from their first meeting.
The first scene, with a dazed and likely concussed Michael demanding to 'get Fabrizio', was from the original 1972 film. The next scenes, filmed later, are interesting because they are edited into the story just prior to the early attempt on Michael's life in 'The Godfather Part II'. The idea that the hit corresponds to a hit ordered by Michael seems to reinforce the idea that Michael is continuing a murderous war against his rivals, or in the words of Tom Hagen, 'trying to wipe out every one of his enemies'. All scenes were included in the 1977 television presentation 'The Godfather Saga', and in subsequent re-edits of the Godfather films.
Apollonia would have been like his mother. Obedient and never questioning anything about "the business". In my mind, her death was the turning point of the long term viability of the "family". Kay was considered a "second choice" vessel for his children but became a nuisance to Michael in comparison to Apollonia. That became emblematic with questioning about the hit on Carlo and, ultimately, the abortion; "I had it killed! It was a boy and I had it killed because all this has to stop!" Apollonia's death was the beginning of the end of the Corleone family and the abortion was the end of the Corleone family.
The Godfather Part 3 was the end of the Corleone family. Even the cast members agree. It was a smug showcase for Sophia Coppola to demonstrate her inability to act. Anyway, the movies almost never do justice to the books - especially SEQUELS. MEH. Look at Hannibal. What a waste of time and money. READ PEOPLE! READ READ READ...
Agreed, in a virtually perfect film, this is a crushing loose end. She was the love of his life and his soul died with her. I see absolutely no way that someone as clever and calculating as Michael would let Fabrizzio off with this. I was unaware of the deleted scene here.
For me in terms of continuity, it was better the scene was cut but that doesn't mean this didnt happen in the movie universe. Just it didnt have to be shown.
@@lewisrogers5685 I feel that it wasn't something that necessarily needed to be shown. Considering that Michael even says that he took care of all family business, he tied up all loose ends besides Carlo. Fabrizio likely was also taken care of
I think many people have forgotten that Coppola did an extended TV version of the two movies, call the GODFATHER SAGA that included this scene and others not in the released versions.
Lots of good comments about why Michael didn't do it himself. Seems like by the time they find Fabrizio, Apollonia's death has faded to a deep wound that will never heal. Probably every time he looks at his children he thinks 'They should have been hers.' But again, as Mike says, "It took so long." The rage, the vengeance, the fire of that had been left to smolder dimly. Now it had almost diminished to a clerical error that could finally be cleared up. Almost.
It’s gratuitous. Doesn’t move the plot forward or give us character insight we wouldn’t already expect. Ofc michael would wanna kill fabrizio furthermore if the death is shown prior to him killing the bosses, it’d undermine the impact of seeing just how savage Michael can be