"They shot my father, it's personal" | The Godfather | CLIP 

And Hagen behind soaking every word of this speech, also realizing the sheer importance of this moment for the family.

Expect for the fact they made Michael a U.S. Marine Captain veteran. Who fought two campaigns and won a Purple Heart. If that were true he would be foaming at the mouth with PTSD and make these goons look like Boy Scouts. It’s ridiculous, and disrespectful to portray a WW2 vet this way. Pacino is clearly just acting as a college kid in the movie. Take you out of the movie so many time when they call him a veteran.

I disagree, having known and worked with several combat veterans who acted anything but how you describe. Another thing to keep in mind is that in some ways many WWII vets dealt better with PTSD based on how they disengaged from combat and returned back to normal life in the states differently from more recent generations of vets. Veterans since Vietnam or so, one day they are in-country in a combat zone, then the next they are flown home and have to suddenly re-integrate into life in the US away from the danger of combat. Of course some of them have trouble dealing with it. The WWII generation mostly traveled home from the war via ship, a process that took weeks. During their time aboard ship coming home, they had the opportunity to decompress, relax somewhat, and talk about what they had gone through, with others who had shared the same or similar experiences. Furthermore they were welcomed home by society as the heroes they were, and didn't have to deal much with jackasses treating them as "foaming at the mouth" simply for being combat vets.

Even for Tessio, it was just business, not personal. He made the smart move.

@@PeterT-i1w The only time insurrection is legal....IF YOU WIN. Tessio lost.

He made his bones in the war

@@XenojinX That's when he was shooting them from a mile away, now he has to worry about getting their brains all over his nice ivy league suit.

@@joemckim1183 indeed. It’s not personal. Strictly business

Go before that scene when Mikey goes to the hospital to visit Pop. It was Tessio's men who were all rounded up up by McClusky's men. I don't think that it was a coincidence.

Santino would be head of the family but as the hothead as he is, probably wouldn't last long, especially looking at how Hyman Roth was planning to cut them out. Santino wouldn't have had the wits to outplay the old Jew. At least, that's how I feel about it.

​@@ChrisStavrosread the books idiots, he isn't a hothead but a great don there.

Together the two brothers would have been nearly unbeatable. Sonny would have been the don, but with Michael's voice added to Tom's, his more impulsive tendencies get better moderated. If Michael had been around at the time maybe Sonny gets stopped from taking the bait and getting assassinated. The real monkey wrench was Solozzo and McClusky wanting to meet with Michael. They both needed to die, but that set things up so that Michael was the only one who could realistically get it done. Had that not happened, then not only does Santino maybe live longer, then Michael gets to stay not directly involved in the business, yet is still an advisor behind the scenes.

It actually is great and explains his behaviour. His brothers not understanding what it meant he fought in the pacific (among many other things) shows exactly why sonny could never lead... l think michaels identity is great!

You are grossly misinformed to think the 2 translate to each other. It's not about him being capable to pull a trigger and kill someone - it's the reasoning and ramifications behind it.

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You should watch that scene too, one of the greatest ever filmed. Just search for 'michael solozzo'

Watch the movie!