In the deleted scenes , Vito don't just kill the Mafia Chief , he also separatly hunts down & kills both of Don Ciccios underlings that actually killed his older brother & mother !!!!! Also Mike finally tracks down & car bombs Fabrizio (the guy who killed his first wife with the car bomb) also theres a deleted scene of Don Fanucci getting his throat cut by a gang of teenagers hence the buck 50 scar on his neck , its how Vito realized that he wasn't a real Don of The Black Hand , he was just a neighborhood bully hence why he has no goons with him cuz hes solo dolo
Ok Formal, I'll be that guy! 😄 Actually, DeNiro was speaking Sicilian dialect & it was excellent. He even went to Sicily to immerse himself in it before filming. ☺️
The guy who gets a shotty in the leg when Vito goes back to get his revenge was the boss with the cane who Mike stayed with while he was hiding out in the first movie, as well.
Nah, Sonny is the oldest child, Fredo is second. Michael is the youngest son. Fun fact, the ending scene was supposed to feature the entire original cast, including Marlon Brando as Vito, however, on the day of the shoot when they got all the actors together, Brando was unable to make it, so they shot the scene without him. It's a super important scene though, it shows that Fredo was the only one that gave Michael props for his decision to join the military. This is basically the story of how Michael lost his humanity. Godfather 3 is definitely considered far below the level of the first two movies, it was actually considered a failure when it was released. It attempts to deal with Michaels conscience after losing his family and his soul in this movie. Still worth watching though. PS DeNiro for sure grew up speaking both English and Italian! Watch Mean Streets! Great show y'all got here!
@@terrycullen3302i agree. After hearing this for the first time I was disappointed at not seeing a little bit more of Brando as Vito but looking back now I can’t imagine the scene being any different
51:26 - no one ever makes the connection, but in the first film, Don Tommasino was the guy in the wheelchair who helped Michael hide in Sicily. This scene is how he wound up in the wheelchair; and also explains how/why (with Vito's backing) he took control of what had been Don Ciccio's operation after they killed him here.
That shot of Clemenza pointing the gun at the cops head was in all the trailers for this movie back in the day. I saw it so much that the image burned into my brain when I was 9 years old. I used to go to the library after school to listen to the soundtrack whenever I could. I was hooked early.😎
19:15 “Is he a character from ‘part 1’?” - you’re not paying attention. When he chucks the bag of guns over to Vito, he says: “I’m Clemenza”. Don’t you remember Clemenza from the first movie? The fat guy?
Cich a port. 😂 You said it perfect 😂 yea it's definitely not proper Italian and most people in Italy can't understand Sicilian. Sonny was the oldest. Part 3 sucked compared to 1&2
I’m assuming that because the baby sitting on Mama Corleone’s lap looked like a girl you thought it was Connie. It wasn’t. That was just how they dressed babies in the early 1900’s. The order is Sonny is oldest, Fredo, Michael and then Connie who wasn’t born yet.
Marlon Brando, who played Vito in part 1, didn't die before part 2. He actually lived until 2004. And he was in Francisc Ford Coppala's great Vietnam war movie, Apocalypse Now in 1979. You guys should watch that next.
Brando refused to be in the sequel because of political/Hollywood/industry views at the time or something, I believe. The actor who played Clemanza wanted more money than the studio wanted to pay, so they re-wrote his part in the story and created Frankie. James Caan, Sonny, also asked for a lot of money to appear in the flashback scene but they paid him. Some more seasoned GF experts might correct me on these things.
@@marcuscato9083 Bruno Kirby. Apparently he also had issues with Billy Crystal for the filming of City Slickers. Seems like he may have been tough to work with. Also loved him in Good Morning Vietnam. Passed away in early 2000's of cancer I believe
@@Ryan-xu9zb Bruno Kirby played young Clemenza. The actor that didn't return for GII as the older Clemenza was Richard Castellano. Sorry I wasn't clear.
The guy who steals the rug with Vito is Clemenza -- the fat guy from the first movie. Watch him in Godfather II and you'll notice he is constantly eating.
Buddy with the hat who brought Vito in on his first heist was Fat "take the cannoli" Clemenza from the first movie, their third friend was a younger version of Sal Tessio. The young kid in the hat who lets the flustered landlord in and out of his meeting with Vito was (apparently not) Hyman Roth.
Ahh fuck, I guess I'm wrong about a thing on the internet. How will my ego ever survive? Thank the LORD there are people who check the cast list before commenting!
I agree. I've seen some younger "Reactors" who get totally lost----Never heard of the Revolution or Castro, don't realize it's Cuba or what's happening, still think we're in Miami etc etc-----I learned all that in history class, high school 1977.
Yeah the young chubby neighbor guy that steals the rug & tosses the bag of guns to young Vito through the window is definitely Clemenza (the fat Capo from part one that u guys loved so much) & the other young guy is Tessio , Vitos other Capo (the one that was the traitor in the first film that Vito warned Mike about at the meeting) & the other young guy who's father owns the grocery store is Genco , Vitos original wartime Consigilarie before Tom took that role
@@tmayofour Tessio is literally the one that starts out with Vito and Clemens’s he’s sitting in Vito house with Vito. Clemenza even says leave it to me and tessio.
The guy sitting next to the person heading the commission (who's based on Estes Kefauver) is supposed to look like RFK Sr., who was very active in the Kefauver Commission.
Guys, the sad part about this story is that it was supposed to be about Vito, Clemenza and Tessio’s back story. The actor who plays Clemenza demanded that he have full control over his dialog, so Francis fired him, wrote him off as dead, and then introduced another character named Frank Pantangelis. The story would have been turned up to 11 and made more sense if Peter Clemenza had been in it.😎
Bruno Kirby. Apparently he also had issues with Billy Crystal for the filming of City Slickers. Seems like he may have been tough to work with. Also loved him in Good Morning Vietnam. Passed away in early 2000's of cancer I believe
My favorite character is Frank Pentangeli: “Frankie Five Angels”. From from his last name: which is formed from the Greek-word “penta” meaning "five") and the Italian word “angeli” meaning “angels". What a great movie.
When Vito is given that “package” to hide did you guys think of when Tony soprano messes with his neighbor Cuzamno (cooze) gives him a package to hold onto for a while for him 😂
My grandfather came to NY from Sicily in 1908, was processed through Ellis Island, and lived in the same neighborhood on the Lower East Side, where my mother was born. The Statue of Liberty meant a lot to them.
That thing about Michael bringing up Tom’s offer to go to Vegas, you have to think about what the entire conversation is really about. They’re talking about killing Roth, but what they are really talking about is killing Fredo, who is just outside. So when Tom asks do you have to kill everyone? And Michael says just my enemies, you see his reaction. When Michael asks whether hes going to come along for these things, etc, he’s seeing if it’s too much for Tom.
I actually enjoyed The Godfather Part 2 more than the first one. Mostly because of the flashback scenes about the rise of a young Vito Corleone played excellently by Robert De Niro. He earned an Oscar for his performance. I also enjoyed how Micheal met his match with his enemy Hymn Roth. They basically were playing chess against each other trying to outmaneuver the other. But at the end Micheal was smarter than Roth. I think that Micheal should have let Fredo live but I understand why he took him out at the same time. Fredo was a liability, but he was still his brother at the end! Micheal knew that Kay wasn't about that life, yet he married her anyway. So he should have known the marriage wasn't gonna last. Plus Kay is not Italian. I also liked how they showed at the end how Micheal used to be his own man before he became a part of the family business. Micheal plans for his own future died when his father got shot in the first Godfather. That is the real tragedy of Micheal. The Godfather Part 1 is a Masterpiece but The Godfather Part 2 is the Greatest sequel of all time. The Godfather Part 3 is the weakest out of the 3 movies, but it does have its moments. Connie is my favorite character in Godfather Part 3 you'll see why. 😉 She's different in that movie lol! Great reaction yall! 👏🏾
When Frankie Five Angels brother showed up at the senate hearing the sight of his brother reminded Frankie of “Omertà”…. the code of silence, in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations.
Sonny (Santino) is the oldest; the child actors they used all had curly hair like James Caan did. Then comes Fredo, and we saw him as an infant being sick, which might have had repercussions, then Michael, and Connie is the youngest.
Clemenza was supposed to return in this movie in the present-day timeline but the actor wouldn't agree to the contract, so his character was replaced by Pentangeles.
Yep. And yet it's an ideology I saw UK teenagers promoting in the streets the other day. With their flyers outside the local Arts College... Crazy times now.
I've watched younger "Reactors" have absolutely no clue about what's going on with all this in the movie---Don't realize it's Cuba, never heard of the Communist Revolution there, never heard of Fidel Castro. I learned all that stuff in high school history class (1977).
Vito's boys at the beginning were Clemenza and Tessio!! Do you remember them. Both were capo; but at the end of Godfather 1, Tessio betrayed the family and Michael had him killed...
Sonny was Vito's oldest son and Michael the youngest. After Sonny's death, Fredo should've been the next in line, in theory. The last scene is to remind aynone who still didn't get it that Michael always was a loner with his own plans. He was in the Marines, which means that he fought in the Pacific where the war against Japan was infinitely more brutal than in Europe. The war completely changed him. He was now a decentivised, unforgiving, walking PTSD with no remorse whatsoever. He's a soldier at the core, never a family man like his father. And a monster.
The scenes where Hymen Roth is killed is reminiscent of the time after JFK’s assassination when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby and then Ruby was killed. And Michael’s comment about “if history has taught us anything, it’s that anybody can be killed” foreshadows that entire historical situation.
I love how, before the Cuban military coup, Michael makes a bigshow of the Sicilian kiss of Death and then he's like, "Fredo, follow me, ur still my brother."
Sonny's full name is Santino and you can get his parents calling him that as the first born. In GFI, he's parents always call him Santino. In later scenes when Santino is a bit older, he has curly hair, like the brown up Santino. In a scene when Vito takes the kids to Sicily, Santino is wearing a sailor suit and he's jumping around making boxing motions... he's always been prone to fighting. In the last flashback scene where Michael tells him he's joined the marines and Tom has to hold back Sonny from hitting Michael, you can hear his kids in the background saying, "Mommy, Daddy's fighting again. " which is a great little detail!
My favorite part of the last flashback is when the only one to congratulate Michael on enlisting is Fredo. There is another movie with Pacino and John Cazale that is not to be missed. It's called Dog Day Afternoon, and it's almost as good as the Godfathers...based on a true story about a bank robbery gone very wrong.
@@flarrfan I am very familiar with Dog Day Afternoon. You probably are aware that Al Pacino has said that he learned more about acting from John Cazale than any other person in the world. I heard him tell a story about working with him - maybe it was Dog Day, maybe it was on stage, I'm not sure - when Cazale had a disagreement with the director about how he should play his character. The director said something like, "I appreciate your point of view but this is the way I want it." Cazale said, okay, and committed to playing it like the director wanted and never complained about it. He was a total professional.
Fred is the oldest, Sonny is the 2nd child , then Michael and Connie. Remember when Fredo said “You’re my kid brother and I got passed over, I’m smart I know how to do things”!
Fun fact: the guy who got his legs blown up while helping Vito escape after killing Don Cheach in Sicily was the same guy who was helping Michael when he was there hiding after killing Sollotzo in Brooklyn. 😎 The novel starts with this entire backstory. Francis couldn’t use it in GF1 were it belonged, so he worked it into the new story he wrote. Mario Puzo didn’t like the idea of Fredo being killed on Michael’s orders because he felt the audience would hate Michael. Puzo told Francis they only way he’d go along with it is if it was done after the mother died, and Francis reluctantly agreed because he had no intention of killing off the mother.😎
@@tmayofourit's lightning in a bottle. Not completely luck cause everyone involved was skilled and talented. But couldn't recreate it with all the same people involved no matter how hard anyone would try. Just like lots other movies, shows, rock bands and other music groups. Pure talent with a lot of planets aligning at once
haha...I've watched this movie a billion times, never did I ever think to look twice at 'Johnny Ola'...and somehow Bralik's ass figures out it's mother fucking 'young' Uncle June in 5 mins. 😆🤣
It’s hilarious how much Brahlik says “that’s my boy” referring to junior. LoL I remember early in season 1 when he was on some “this dude is NOT a boss…” and I kept thinking to myself wait till he becomes one of your favorites on the show. Keep up the good content y’all.
In the flashbacks, Vito’s original 3-man crew: Clemenza (he prepped Micheal to assassinate The Turk & the police captain in GFI), Tessio (the old man/traitor in GFI) and in the extended cut version of GFII, they also introduce Hyman Suchowsky. Clemenza called him “Johnny Lips” but Vito changed Hyman’s last name from Suchowsky to Roth. Later, during the end of prohibition, Roth formed the hit team “Murder Inc” as an enforcement arm for the Commission (aka The Five Families). The Five Families territory: NY, NJ, AC, Philly, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, New Orleans, Tampa, Miami, LA, San Francisco, KC, Vegas, Reno, Buffalo, Havana. Also, when the Commission meets in Havana, the cake they bring out is in the shape of Cuba and the Commission cut it up into pieces. Roth asked for a “small piece”. Tryin to be low key.
Fredo didn't want power. He didn't want to be the boss of the family. He knew he wasn't right for that position. What he wanted was independance and validation. As the older brother of the two, he felt insecure that he was being "taken care of" by the baby brother. He wanted to make his own decisions and do things for himself that he can be proud of and get validation from his family. But with Michael being the don, and a controlling paranoid one at that, he didn't feel appreciated just being told what to do and being taken care of. Sure it sounds bratty and unappreciative, but.. imagine being treated by your family the way his family did. I'm sure they didn't mean to make him feel this way as they did truly love him.. but being teased by your mother that you're not her son, your older brother is kinda a violent bully telling you to do this and that, your youngest brother is a war hero - cold blooded and intelligent.. even your adopted brother is treated with more respect as they validate his opinion and intelligence over yours. Fredo has always been the more sensitive and emotional of the brothers who I think just needed his feelings and opinion heard. I doubt he would have betrayed the family like this, if he was treated a little differently.
The og Italian mafia in Italy (especially Sicily) is far more violent towards "outsiders" than a lot of Italian American Mafia. Over there they have and still operate much more like cartels. Targeting judges, journalists and even civilians much more. This is all generally speaking as Italian American crime families have done some sickening and or daring stuff to a few very high ranking people here and there. But it's not as overt compared to their origins. If they were given the chance to? I'm sure they and other gangs would truly go wild. But we all know here in America that the real organized crime group ruling all is the Government itself and large corporations with endless $. The government and megacorps definitely involve the mob or others like contractors (see JFK and his brother). But for the majority of it's time on top, the Italian mob moved as peacefully as they could and only went after their own factions
They couldn't get Marlon Brando to come back to reprise his role for the one scene. That is why they go into the other room to 'meet him at the door'. The Godfather was one script but too big to film. This is why it ended up being 2 movies after the first was a hit.
De Niro is not speaking standard Italian. He's speaking a Sicilian dialect. This film raises an interesting question: Is Vito a bad man or is he a good man in a bad situation? Think about the contrast between Vito and Michael. People feared Vito, but they also loved him and respected him; people only feared Michael. Early on we meet Genco Abbandando, Vito's first consigliere and for whom the olive oil import business is named, and his two friends Clemenza (who gave Vito the guns to hold) and Tessio. The eyelids - checking for trachoma, a contagious eye disease. The mistaken surname at Ellis Island worked in Vito's favor - if anyone was looking for him, he was living under a new name. The actor who plays Senator Geary is the same one who plays the general in Apocalypse Now. The man with Frank Pentangeli at the communion celebration is Willi Cicci - he killed Don Cuneo in the first movie, trapping him in the revolving door. He testifies against Michael in the Congressional hearing. If you listen carefully during the ambush in the bedroom, you can hear automatic rifle fire and then at the end two pistol shots. The hitmen were killed immediately. At the New Years Eve party in Cuba, Michael gives Fredo the kiss of death. Remember the first movie when Michael tells Fredo never to take sides with anyone against the family again? If you pay attention closely, you will realize that Hyman Roth ordered the hits on Michael and Pentangeli. In the congressional hearing, watch Kay's face. She realizes slowly exactly what she's been living alongside. Frank Pentangeli's brother Vincenzo was there to stop Frank from breaking omertà. Omertà is the code of silence. You do not tell on anyone, not even your worst enemy. You get beat up, you go to prison, you die, but you do not tell on anyone. To break omertà is a great dishonor to the family. When Vito kills Don Ciccio, Tomasso gets shot. He's the one walking with a limp in the first movie. You'll see him in Part Three. You saw the look Michael gave to Al Neri at their mother's funeral. Yes, you knew exactly what that look meant. Did you notice that during the end scene at the table, Fredo is the only one who congratulates Michael for enlisting? There are some deleted scenes in this movie. When Vito goes back to Sicily to kill Don Ciccio, he also hunts down and kills the two men who hunted him when he was a boy. Remember Fabrizzio, who planted the bomb that killed Apollonia? In another deleted scene he's living in the USA under an assumed name. The Corleone family finds him; what goes around, comes around. Sonny is the oldest, then Fredo, then Michael, then Connie. The third film closes Michael's story. It's not in the same class as the first two, but it is good on its own.
Kay is not a mafia wife. She doesn’t get the culture and was always kept deliberately on the outside looking in. Michael’s first wife would have been better for him in that life. She wouldn’t be questioning him about his business all the time.
I have no idea if you've already watched the third Godfather by the time this reaction was posted on RU-vid but if you haven't I wanted to give you guys a heads up. There are actually two versions of the third film (released under two different names): "The Godfather Part III" and "The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone." The Godfather Part III is the theatrical cut that was released into theatres in 1990, while "The Godfather Coda" is a Director's Cut that Francis Ford Coppela did in 2020 to better reflect his original intensions.
My family has a story from the early 20th century, that the Italian side got all their luggage stolen at the port by Irish dock workers. Guy supposedly went to confront them, which was considered weird as hell, and they laughed in his face, but somebody respected it and within a decade there were a bunch of inter-marriages. The story comes back to me every time I watch the Vito flashbacks in this.
The Godfather 3 movie I wished they made would have covered the years between DeNiro rise around 1920 and Godfather 1, in 1945. In the novel, its covered, how Vito became the biggest Don, the fights and methods he used. The novel also extensively covers Luca Brasi, who he was and how Vito recruited him. If they made that movie, Luca Brasi would be the scariest character in movies. They gave a taste of him in Godfather one
The “Orange” theme is just a coincidence and was really just a way to add some color to the scenes. DeNiro was buying oranges wile getting respect around the neighborhood in the flashback after Michael was talking to his Mom about losing family. No one picks up or calls that out, but notice the drama scenes because of the internet.
Connie the sister is the youngest. But Michael is the next youngest. Sonnie was the eldest and then came Fredo and Michael and finally Connie some years after Michael. Sonny was already born. In that flashback after Vito had just killed Fanucci when they were sitting on that step as a family, and he (Sonny) was the one in the background, not Fredo. The mom was holding Fredo as a toddler and a Michael was the baby. Connie wasn't born yet at that point.
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BTW the godfather ends here. Everyone hates the next movie. The director put his daughter in the movie and everyone hates her performance. Haven't seen it in years, might have to watch it soon and judge for myself. But most people say this is the last godfather movie.
The dude who stole the rug who brought Vito into the game is Clemenza from part 1. The fat dude who prepped the gun for Michael to do the hit in the restaurant. The one who stayed loyal at the end.
Sonny is the oldest, then Fredo, then Michael, then Connie Another key is Clemenza (with the blanket of guns) and Tessio were Vitos first partners...and they remained his right hand men...Clemenza is the chubby guy that said "take the cannolis" and Tessio was the one who betrayed Michael in the first movie to Barzinni.
