".......because it had nothing to do with business!!"
As I have watched The Godfather, it appears that to a great extent, the heads of the five families already know how one family will react in a big situation and the other family plays into that.
A great example from The Godfather, Sollozzo goes to Don Vito Corleone to ask for protections the Coreleone's possess to aid him and the Tattaglias in the trafficking of narcotics and the Coreleones will receive a cut of that. But Vito politely declines because it may harm the relationships with their political resources. Vito gets suspicious, sends his trusted enforcer Luca Brasi to fish out information from them under the cover that he's not happy with the Coreleones and wants to do business with Sollozzo and the Tattaglias. Sounds like a good plan, but the Tattaglias knew something like that was going to come their way, so they opened up to Luca so that a piano wire garote could lock him in for the kill.
This isn't the only example.
The tricky one is Barzini. But Vito figured out in the big meeting that Barzini was behind everything, and the person who came to Vito and Michael about a big meeting which is an ambush for Michael to be killed would be the traitor. Vito warned Michael that this would happen.
I've watched Godfather Part II so many times because I love Robert De Niro playing young Vito. But both the 1950s Michael timeline and the young Vito timeline leave a lot to be desired. Even in a long movie with somewhat gradual plot developments and changes, they go from A to D, barely grazing B and C rather quickly. Made it hard to establish what triggered the decision to go after Hyman Roth, or why, or Vito moves in for the kill on Fanuci. It's not too hard to understand, but the necessary plot tying filler would be nice. But what's why I'm trying to get my hands on The Godfather Epic. I started to watch it on HBO, but it got yanked from me before I could finish. But it puts those deleted scenes back in. I understand that in the theatrical version, it would have made the movie far longer than it's originally super long package was.
So anyway, as Michael finds that Hyman Roth was the mastermind behind the hit on him (which failed), it's not hard to understand why. Hyman Roth worked with Vito Corleone from almost the beginning. Hyman Roth worked with and was close friends with Moe Green in the early days of the establishment of Las Vegas. Later, the Corleones moved into the casino business and eventually killed Moe Greene to gain full control. It doesn't take much for a close invested party who has that insider information to make the connection that the Corleones bought into the Casino of Moe Green, and when he ended up dead, it would have been at the hands of the Corleones. I'd be bitter too if I was Hyman, even if I made a speech of ".......because it has nothing to do with business!" A vendetta is going to be in order.
The theatrical version of The Godfather Part II doesn't give a lot of indication why Vito sets his aim on Don Fanucci, but when you see Vito in his power over the neighborhood, it's easy enough to see why. The epic version puts those deleted scenes back in where Vito finds conclusively that Fanucci doesn't have protections except the intimidation he puts ahead.
It seems that especially in the Michael timeline, all the families can anticipate each others actions, and it just turns into a bloody war. But the Corleone crime family cleverly break this cycle with 2 big actions: get around Sollozzo's protective measures by retrieving a secretly stashed weapon, and finding out the predictive routines of the heads of the other families and ambushing them right there.
The tricky one is Barzini. But Vito figured out in the big meeting that Barzini was behind everything, and the person who came to Vito and Michael about a big meeting which is an ambush for Michael to be killed would be the traitor. Vito warned Michael that this would happen.
I've watched Godfather Part II so many times because I love Robert De Niro playing young Vito. But both the 1950s Michael timeline and the young Vito timeline leave a lot to be desired. Even in a long movie with somewhat gradual plot developments and changes, they go from A to D, barely grazing B and C rather quickly. Made it hard to establish what triggered the decision to go after Hyman Roth, or why, or Vito moves in for the kill on Fanuci. It's not too hard to understand, but the necessary plot tying filler would be nice. But what's why I'm trying to get my hands on The Godfather Epic. I started to watch it on HBO, but it got yanked from me before I could finish. But it puts those deleted scenes back in. I understand that in the theatrical version, it would have made the movie far longer than it's originally super long package was.
So anyway, as Michael finds that Hyman Roth was the mastermind behind the hit on him (which failed), it's not hard to understand why. Hyman Roth worked with Vito Corleone from almost the beginning. Hyman Roth worked with and was close friends with Moe Green in the early days of the establishment of Las Vegas. Later, the Corleones moved into the casino business and eventually killed Moe Greene to gain full control. It doesn't take much for a close invested party who has that insider information to make the connection that the Corleones bought into the Casino of Moe Green, and when he ended up dead, it would have been at the hands of the Corleones. I'd be bitter too if I was Hyman, even if I made a speech of ".......because it has nothing to do with business!" A vendetta is going to be in order.
The theatrical version of The Godfather Part II doesn't give a lot of indication why Vito sets his aim on Don Fanucci, but when you see Vito in his power over the neighborhood, it's easy enough to see why. The epic version puts those deleted scenes back in where Vito finds conclusively that Fanucci doesn't have protections except the intimidation he puts ahead.
It seems that especially in the Michael timeline, all the families can anticipate each others actions, and it just turns into a bloody war. But the Corleone crime family cleverly break this cycle with 2 big actions: get around Sollozzo's protective measures by retrieving a secretly stashed weapon, and finding out the predictive routines of the heads of the other families and ambushing them right there.
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