And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would become my enemies.” He lifts his finger. If you’d come to me in friendship, then the scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. “What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully. How much shall I pay you?” Corleone gathers his thoughts and the board moves, Hagen setting his drink down and Santino shuffling. Your daughter is still alive,” replies Don Corleone. “I ask you for justice,” Bonasera tries to clarify. You don’t even think to call me ‘Godfather.’ Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter’s to be married and you ask me to do murder, for money.” But now you come to me and say, ‘Don Corleone, give me justice.’ But you don’t ask with respect. Police protected you and there were courts of law. And you were afraid to be in my debt….You found paradise in America. I can’t remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee.” This is a clever psychological ploy the godfather uses in establishing power in the relationship.
“We’ve known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. The don is cradling a cat (one of the film’s many wonderful on-set improvisations). The three Corleones are stationed like chess pieces, their movements perfectly blocked as the pressure of darkness weighs on the pleading undertaker. Closer to the foreground and sitting with his back to us is the consigliore-in-training, adopted son Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall).
To the don’s right is his son and protégé, Santino, or “Sonny” (James Caan), drink in hand. “I’ll give you anything you ask,” Bonasera pleads.Ĭut to a wide shot of the office, the don at his desk. Bonasera, in his adherence to an official idea of America, wants to “buy” a favor from the godfather, but Don Corleone is trying to communicate the idea that a favor from him is symbolic, with debt and repayment based on reciprocity and not money. Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is declaring this division between his paison and the American government. “Why did you go to the police? Why didn’t you come to me first?” asks the shadowy figure with his back to the camera. As much as southern Italians have tried to assimilate into the larger portrait of a country, they are still detached, an ethnic tribe separate from the mass culture. There are two Americas in the world of The Godfather: the official one of a governmental structure, and the private one of heritage, blood, family, and tradition.
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They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me! Then I said to my wife, “For justice, we must go to Don Corleone.”īonasera’s introduction establishes the pertinent themes, in addition to a sense of atmosphere, as he’s surrounded by shadow, silence, and framed in a close-up that slowly zooms out. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. I went to the police, like a good American. Beautiful girl…now she will never be beautiful again. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. She couldn’t even weep because of the pain. When I went to the hospital, her nose was broken, her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. They made her drink whiskey, and then they tried to take advantage of her. Two months ago, he took her for a drive with another boyfriend. She went to the movies with him, she stayed out late…I didn’t protest. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. “I believe in America America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion.
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