From Godfather II - Vito has had enough of Don Fanucci and he wishes to eliminate him, however he dosen't say it that exactly that way. When he does Vito is recognized as the New Don of the neighborhood.
Carmela’s the ideal wife. Understands poverty and is grateful to receive a simple pear as a gift, makes his man and his boys dinner to help them remove a local poverty-causing parasite while not getting involved at all. She’s truly beautiful.
The book had much more of these badass moments where he basically takes out two assassins sent by Al Capone to aid Maranzallo.. and asks Capone that a Neapolitan like him should stay away from matters of two Sicilians.. and he gets Maranzallo killed by infiltrating his organisation making him completely weak and powerless in the end and then combining his regime to build the Corleone empire...
This scene would make more sense if they hadn’t left another scene on the cutting room floor. In the cut scene, Fanucci is attacked in an alley by some young punks. He calls for help and eventually they run off. Vito sees this from a distance, and realizes that Fanucci is not that powerful because one, he would have had the punks punished (or the punks would have known better) and two, Fanucci wouldn’t be caught alone in an alley without security. So Vito realizes that the guy’s a fake, and especially if he takes less extortion money. So that also gives Vito the green light to murder him.
In the book, Fanucci had one of the guys who cut him from ear to ear killed I think.. and other guys' parents paid money to him to keep them alive which proved as a blessing in disguise to him because it made him fearsome.. but vito because he saw the entire thing is sure that fanucci doesn't have the important standing with mob that he claims he has because he let the guys get away by essentially raising their hands on him.. which is a big no-no in the mafia..
@@SK008 in the book, I believe the guy who was cut ear to ear was killed by the mob, but it had litterally nothing to do with Fannuci. The guy was a fake in every sense of the word. Vito knew that threatening a maffioso is basically death sentence and he proved his theory by giving him less he asked for in payment.
@@blaky626 in the book, it is described as Fanuccci proved himself to be a murderer.. so it could be that the families had the boy murdered or maybe it was his goons that killed that boy.. Vito took precautions before killing him which meant if were to fail, there could have been repercussions.. so I think Fanucci was a murderer..
It's been a few years since I've read it so I'm sure I'm missing some pieces, I just know Fanucci was a fraud all around. However I wouldn't put it passed him to be a murderer
Underrated Performance here by Bruno Kirby as Clemenza. This is my favorite scene of all The Godfather movies when he taps on the table and he looks at Tessio and points his open hand to Corleone indicating Tessio to explained and then the dumbfounded look he has staring at Don Corleone sideways when Corleone tries to get them to agree to let him handle it and pay less . His expression really captured his thoughts as he is looking at Corleone like he’s crazy his mind trying to figure out what the hell Corleone has planned and even at the end when he hesitates to toasts and he has that dumbfounded look. So great!!!! Kudos Bruno Kirby!!!!
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This is the moment Vito became Boss. Tessio understood right away. Clemenza was a bit dumbfounded but belatedly got the hint that he was now working for Vito.
Vito is smart. Earlier in the movie, Don Fanucci asks Vito for $200 each from the 3 of them and says '"well even if you don't have that much, I'll take a little less". Vito cunningly doesn't tell Clemenza and Tessio this and says 'I'll reason with him" to make them believe that Vito is an incredible negotiator (rather than Don Fanucci being a pathetic low life) and thus Vito is much more likely to gain their respect and loyalty in the future.
Good read. I like it. Vito doesn't technically lie, but just let's them believe what they'd think was implied, which leads these leaders of men, into being lead by him.
Yeah, but they know its Vito who kills Fanucci. I think Tessio knows Vito is going to at least strong arm Fanucci which is why he agrees so quickly. Clamenza is dumbfounded all the way through and only agrees after Tessio raises his glass. Vito more or less tricked them into paying him for a hit.
My take is that Vito has the inner-gall that his older brother and father had, but also the cunning skill of concealing it like his mother, who did not fear death.
Wow this scene is very comparable to the scene in godfather 1, where no one is taking michael serious about killing sollozzo and the cop. They tell him to stay out of the business and are shocked at how serious he is about the plan. Wow.
they explain the dynamics between vito and his men in the book, cause clemenza acted like he ran the crew, but after vito kills fannucci both clemenza and tessio are scared shitless of vito and didn't go to see him for days. But later they did and vito organized his crew with both guys as captains, and had both guys get their own crew, told them not to hang out and socialize with each other. Its very old school
THIS is when De Niro just cemented himself as one of the all-time greats...to take on THAT role as a young Brando, how many actors could have filled those shoes.
@@carlinytc7431 some of them are still good.. there are actors who exist but there is aura of pretentiousness around them that greats like de Niro, Pacino and Nicholson never had.. I think the best actors working today are Gary oldman(a case can be made that he is old school because his career has spanned 3-4 decades), Christian bale and Joaquin phoenix...
@@SK008 Joaquin is a one trick pony. Don't be surprised he fizzles out. I would add to your list Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, and Michael Fassbender.
@@shreddykrueger3776 Cumberbatch is pretty good.. Jake Gyllenhaal is also pretty good in some movies i have seen him in.. as of now Joaquin has a pretty solid track record.. so I can't say about his future..
It actually makes me hungry for Chinese food because they're all scarfing it down during the scene where they're waiting to find out where Sollozo is going to take Michael for the sit-down (hit).
this scene was all about power. He didn't want to tell Tessio and Clemenza on why he would give less to Fannucci. He didn't want either one of them to get this idea and do it first to Fannucci. Vito knew that if he went to Fannucci and gave him half of what was owed and Fannucci took the money then Vito knew that Fannucci wasn't as powerful as everyone though he was. Thats when Vito was going to strike. Tessio was the Brains, Clemenza. the muscle but Vito had both.
I wouldn't say Clemenza was stupid after all he survived and Tessio didn't. Tessio may have been smart but he was blind where his treachery was concerned having known Vito for decades you'd think he'd know better than to betray him he was a close friend can you imagine what he knows about Vito's past misdeeds and he thought he'd get away with it! Clemenza on the other hand whilst not as smart as Tessio and Vito clearly has street smarts and other useful skills plus he was 100% loyal to Vito and the Corleone's until his own death.
His father, Bruce Kirby, was an actor and acquaintance of Coppola. When Bruno was looking for his first big movie role his father asked Coppola if he had any parts in the upcoming GFII for his son, Coppola laughed and said "I've got LOTS of parts!". Copolla did give Bruno a screen test, was impressed and cast him as Young Clemenza.
Because at that time, women know how hard it is to earn money, and he and his friends are always busy plotting their rackets to put food on the table, also they are talking about Fanucci who extort them and planning to end his tyranny.
Maybe she could have intervened and helped Vito invest in a legit business early. Saved him about 7 gunshot wounds and a couple of murdered sons. But, hey, I guess she's just better off in the kitchen, right?!
@@hikariamendola193 That is exactly my point. It is The Godfather movies and maybe 1 or 2 others where I dont need to read the subtitles. That is the exact dialect that I speak, the only one I now how to. I was born in the U.S and both of my parents were born and are from Sicily.
@@rukiddingmeNJ exactly, your relatives have not grown up and do not live in sicily. it's absurd how you presume to know more about the Italian language and its dialects than an Italian does, and I'm an Italian. among Italian Americans you speak like this perhaps. but here in Italy and in Sicily it is not spoken like that. I am stunned. you Americans always want to know everything. I am Italian and I know my language and my dialects.
@@hikariamendola193 my parents DID grow up there, they arrived in the U.S when they were in their 20s. I still have a lot of family in Italy. Hikari, I am actually agreeing with you. This scene takes place in NY and yes it is not proper Italian. That is the point. I do not speak proper Italian and yes it is exactly the way they speak in the film. Relax. I am a proud American and I DO NOT always want to know everything. What is with “you Americans” ? Wtf is that?
@@rukiddingmeNJ caro mio tu sei americano, non italiano, non hai i nostri valori. Voi Italo americani pensate di rappresentare l'Italia, ma centrate poco con il nostro paese, è un dato di fatto. Le radici dell'essere italiano, non si basano sangue e su una serie di principi " medioevali " inutili e che non rappresentano il nostro paese. L'Italia non è quella di 70 anni fa', e il meridione di quel tempo non esiste più. L'Italia è un altra
@@robertctea - I might remember wrong but I recall from the book that when Vito uttered the word "reason", it was a sign to his opponent that negotiations were about over and other, more unpleasant, measures would follow. I seem to remember an anecdote being told where he stormed out of a meeting saying "No one can reason with this man". Whoever it was, overcome with fear, sent his people scurrying after him begging him to return to the meeting. Do I remember wrong?
Don't you just love Vito's way of minimizing the three's methods of skulduggery? "Why should we give him the money we've sweated for?" As if they're out breaking their backs like hard working steveadors on a dock. 'Course then, they'd be up against some real hard cases; Arnold Rothstein, Salvatore Maranzano or Joe the Boss Masseria. About this time, Charlie Luciano and Meyer Lansky were involved with one or all three of those mugs. Suddenly Fanucci doesn't look so tough compared to the big 3 of that era.
Lansky got a lot of press because he was a Jew and flashy. Luciano, Maranzano and Masseria were real tough guys but they weren't the only ones. There was Gagliano, who founded what is now the Lucchesi Family and who is almost totally unknown. There were very tough Irish gansters like Owney "The Killer" Madden who transferred to Hot Spring, Arkansas; mentored Bill Clinton (his mom was one of his secretaries and mistresses - he was the closest to a father figure Bill ever got); who died in the late 1960's still running Arkansas. There's good reason to believe he killed over 60 men in shootouts. There were Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia and Vito Genovese in the early stages of their careers. Just slightly later were guys like Sonny Franzese who became a made member of the Mafia at only 14 in 1931, back when you had to "make your bones" to be made. He passed away in 2020 and killed between 30 and 60 men. These were far from the only ones. Fanucci was a punk compared to many of them.
Great acting by Robert DiNiro as a young Vito Corleone in The Godfather II and Bruno Kirby as a young Peter Clemenza also did great acting. The Godfather movies are great and I had read the book 4 times which covers more and is very good reading.
Don Fanucci, he’s old school. Very allegorical. But this dustup between him & Vito was a total debucle. And it put them at the precipice of a major crossroads between the sacred and the propane. Now Clemenza, he should go get his shinebox.
Wow. See the wife just minding her business and not getting involved at all. She is just there doing her duty in the kitchen and the moment she's done, she left the kitchen to let the men discuss their business. What an ideal wife. And thats exactly the kind of wife that Apolonia would have been for Michael Corleone until a wicked soul took ger away from him that moulded Michael into the ruthless gangster that we all knew him to be
If this was Sopranos I could hear Carmela yelling "TONY! TONY!" Then after they fight, she wonders what she'll get out of it...new tennis bracelet, new car, a project home to sell...
Which is Sicilian and Neapolitan based. American Italian is largely derived from southern dialects and speaking styles. Watch any Italian TV series or movie shot in Sicily or the South and you'll realize this. Northern Italians differ as much from southern Italians in speaking as much as Newfoundlanders differ from Louisiana Cajuns in their English.
As a non- Sicilian, non-American observer from a distant land, would you expect pure Sicilian from a boy who had to make his way from the age of nine in America? There would be some American colouring in the language he (and people like him) spoke
You taped this off of your TV screen. Don't do that. The picture is cheap, the sound is lousy and it's in bad taste. I have no interest in watching someone else's tv.
I'm glad vito killed fanucci, he was a tyrant. It also paved the way for vito getting retribution on don ciccio for having Vito's father, brother and mother killed when vito was a child. Because I doubt vito would have been able to make a deal with tommasino for vito to kill don ciccio so tommasino would take over don ciccio's position.
Vito saw he could finally take care of his family the way he wanted. He recognized Fannucci was just a hood. If Vito knew he could eliminate this adversary, he'd gain the respect to well beyond just the neighborhood. Then, he would be in a position make make REAL deals with other Bosses, police, politicians, even business tycoons. Then, he would create an opportunity to take his vengeance.
@@Euripides_Panz thats exactly what happened; quite nice description of the chain of events that we all supposed happen (because we dont see that level of detail in the movie; maybe in the book?)
@@gadget00 I don't believe it was written how many steps ahead Vito planned, so it's speculative. It could be even as a child, he was unusually deliberate. I'd assumed his mother claimed he was slow-witted merely to save his life, but he may have been developing his intuitive thought processes that would serve him prodigiously for decades.
