Can someone explain the "Godfather" to me?
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The first movie in The Godfather Trilogy begins with Vito Corleone (Brando) accepting visitors to his offer who ask for favors of him and his political power. Vito can't refuse any of these favors because it is sicillian tradition not to refuse on the day of your daughter's wedding. It just so happens that on this day his daughter Connie (Shire) is getting married to Carlo.\n     Excitement begins as legendary singer Johnny Fontane shows up all the way from California to sing at the wedding for Connie. Johnny Fontane is godson to Vito Coreleone and has also come to ask a favor. Fontane says his voice is going and that he needs a role in an upcoming movie directed by Woltz. The director however won't let him have this part, and he asks Vito to get him this part.\n    Tom Hagen (Duvall), the family lawyer, is sent to Hollywood to meet with Woltz. Woltz still says no to Johnny starring in the movie. Woltz however has Tom over for dinner and tells him he can do anything for Corleone but give Johnny this part. Woltz also shows Tom his prize $600,000 horse. Tom leaves and says he must tell Don Corleone (Vito) about this bad news. Woltz wakes up the next day with the head of his prize horse, he gives Johnny the part.\n    Solozzo, known as a top narcotics agent comes to meet with Vito and his family to discuss a new deal. Sonny (Caan) and Tom say they should get into the business because it is the thing of the future. The Don refuses narcotics though saying that the politicians he carries in his pocket wouldn't be friendly to him if they knew his business was drugs. Vito now sends Luca Brazi to the Tataglias (another mob family) to investigate Solozzo. Luca is killed.\n    With Luca (the main bodyguard) out of the way, an assasination attempt on Vito takes place while he is buying fruit with his son Fredo. Michael, the youngest son who is away (Pacino), reads about the shooting in the paper and returns home to be with the family.\n    With Vito not well enough to take care of family business, the oldest son Sonny is put in charge, with Tom's assistance. Michael, who is not involved with the family, goes to the hospital to visit his family. The guards had left the hospital so Vito could be killed and Michael immediately takes action and questions Captain McCluskey. The captain punches Michael in the face.\n   Michael comes up with a plan of his own, shoot Solozzo and the captain when they meet. Sonny and Clemenza laugh, but Tom listens and says it might work. Clemenza gets Michael a gun and tells him exactly what to do.\n    One of the climaxes in the movie is the scene where Michael meets with Solozzo and the captain. He comes out of the bathroom with a planted gun and shoots them both. He now is banished from America and sent overseas till everything settles.\n    The Don returns home from the hospital.\n     Michael travels to the city Corleone with his two bodyguards. Here, he lies eyes upon Apollonia. He then runs into her angry father and requests her hand in marriage. He agrees and they marry.\n    Meanwhile, in New York, the relationship of Connie and Carlo is not going well and this upsets Sonny very much. He beats up Carlo once after seeing Connie's black eye and warns Carlo that he will kill him if he touches her again. He does beat her up again with a belt and Sonny goes to kill him but is brutally murdered at the toll station. \n    Vito is upset with Sonny's murder, as he was next in line for the family business. Vito and Tom arrange a meeting of the five families to agree on peace and the narcotics business.\n    In Corleone, Michael teacher Apollonia to drive. One of the bodyguards rigs the car and Apollonia is murdered.\n     Michael returns home and sees Kay and asks for her hand in marriage. Michael is put in charge of the family by Vito. The family takes a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada to negotiate buying a hotel and casino from Moe Green.\n    Kay tells Michale that Connie and Carlo want hi
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Choosing just ONE, I'd have to pick 'The Godfather'.  It has political intrigue, action,  love, betrayal, loyalty, revenge, and retribution.
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How he knew about the safety deposit box is not given because it's irrelevant. The title of the movie is to throw the viewers off.  The title just means that he did the job and he hid inside and came out later.  That's why the movie is so good.  The robbers are connected probably from a while back.  That isn't important.  Some things they don't show in the movie because it's already understood or for you to think about it later like you and your roommates were doing.  Good Movie.
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Fredo "rats" to another mob that wants to take over the Corleone family.  Michael has him killed.\n\n"I know it was you, Fredo.  You broke my heart."\n\nEdit:  All...Fredo is the eldest (but dumb) brother.  That's why he was never put in charge.  Sonny was the second son.
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Actually I think he was real.Scarface was the name of a mob person  and I think the movie was a continuation of the Godfather movies
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It's kinda weird.  On the one hand, it's a behind-the-curtains look at how the modern Mob operates.  (Even real wiseguys believe so).  On the other, it's a deconstruction of the Mob myth.\n\nThese aren't young, dapper, cool guys who hang out with hot chicks and break the law because they don't care.  These are real people with real issues trying to lead a life in a seedy, but real world with its own rules and penalties.\n\nBut to be honest, the show lost me after season 2 (No BP, no show)
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"What's in the briefcase in "Pulp Fiction?" -- The Long Explanation.\n\nThe contents of the briefcase are never revealed. It's not explained in the screenplay either. What we know is that people are willing to go to extremes to get it and keep it, and that when the case is opened it gives all a visible glow. (In both cases when it is opened, it is facing away from the camera.) Also, people are very impressed by what they see when they see it.\n\nDid Quentin Tarantino, the director, screw up? Did he accidentally cut out some line of dialog that explains it? No, the omission was intentional.\n\nThe contents of the briefcase is a "MacGuffin," a narrative device that serves to move a story forward. In other movies it is the secret plans, the microfilm, the computer disk, or magic formula. It really doesn't matter what it is, only that characters in the story want it.\n\nThe MacGuffin is used by many film makers, but it was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock who used it very effectively. In his interviews with Francois Truffaut he describes how in his earlier movies he would have an explanation of what exactly was the secret plan or vital formula and why it was important. This explanation would come at the end of a movie, after some exciting climatic action. Hitchcock found these scenes were tedious and anti-climatic and later would make them as short as possible. In "Pulp Fiction" Tarantino simply takes the MacGuffin to a logical extreme, he eliminates the explanation all together. By adding the glow it makes all the simple conjectures implausible (drugs, money, guns). It is intentionally ambiguous and unexplained, leaving it to the imagination of the viewers. It's more fun, it tweaks the viewer, it's more effective.\n\nIn interviews Tarantino never explained the contents. When John Travolta was asked, he said it was two lights and a battery." thx to this link for the answer
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I'm going to have to go with one of these three...\n\n1.  Scarface\n2.  Sent of a Woman\n3.  Godfather
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well, dont worry about leonardo.  hes very religious.  you should be worried about donatello.  he bathes in the blood of sacrificed newborns, and rapes small children, puppies and goats.  HE will be the one going to hell.
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Easiest..... question..... ever\n\n\nMichael Corleone - The Godfather
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Tarentino has said that he would never reveal what is in the case, because he wanted viewers to decide for themselves, which gives creedence to the "McGuffin" idea.\n\nI, however, subscribe to the "Marcellus Wallace's Soul" theory, which goes like this:\n\nThe men in the hotel room that Jules and Vincent kill made a deal with Marcellus for his soul (they would have been agents of the devil), and Marcellus initially agreed.  His soul was taken out through the back of his neck, which is why we see a band-aid on Marcellus in the first scene he has with Bruce Willis.  Marcellus either changes his mind about it, or else feels he has been cheated, so he sends out his two "Guardian Angels" to recover his soul.  They find the briefcase (which has the combination "666"), but are nearly killed when a man hiding in the bathroom (Alexis Arquette, now on The Surreal Life) empties a six-shooter at them from point blank range.  Miraculously, neither man is hit.  Vincent thinks that this is just a freak occurrance, but Jules is convinced that it is the work of God.  He retires from his life of crime immediately after delivering Marcellus' soul back to him. Vincent continues as a hitman, and is killed in his very next assignment.  So maybe Jules was right?\n\nTruthfully, Tarentino probably didn't intend ANY of this, but I like it so much, I tell it to everyone who will listen.
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The old man, Joe Kennedy, enlisted the aid of the mafia and organized labor to get his son as Pres.  After coming to office, instead of assisting the mob ties, Jack appointed his brother as attorney general and went after organized crime.  J Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, would not only not cooperate in this effort, which should have been the function of his organization, but hindered efforts, so the Kennedy bros were after his hide, too.  THis leads me to suspect that elements of the FBI as well as the mob were into the assassination and the coverup.  Wasn't it Dorothy Killgallin or Arlene Francis who had the only interview with one of the assassins and called a friend that night to say she would spill the beans and she died that night?  THen Marilyn Monroe had an affair with both Kennedys and had a diary and called a friend to say she was coming out with some secrets the next day and she died that night and the diary was nowhere to be found and her house was bugged, but nobody knew who bugged it.  THere are some very evil people in the US government who are guilty of many of the things that we have always accused the old SOviets of.
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No one knows for sure. I like the Kennedy theory myself. They got tired of cleaning up his mess incl. Marilyn Monroe. But the mafia theory works for me too. They are just interesting & somewhat believeble unlike Oswald.
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It was fantastic! Here you go...\n\n\n\nTony wakes up in an anonymous business hotel room and heads to the bar for a drink. He calls home and gets the answering machine with...a young boy and girl: "Hi, you've reached the Sopranos." He smiles and leaves a message.\n\nThe next morning signing in for a conference, Tony realizes he has the wrong wallet and briefcase when the picture ID he presents belongs to "Kevin Finnerty", a solar heating systems salesman from Arizona. Tony calls home-but the woman offering consolation is not Carmela. \n\nHe heads back to the bar to see if he can find his belongings-or Finnerty, since he can't get on a plane or check back into his room without his own ID. A group of business travelers overhear his dilemma and invite him to join them for dinner. After dinner, outside the hotel, Tony makes a pass at a woman from the group-she reciprocates briefly but cuts him off. "This isn't going to happen...I saw your face when you got off the phone with your wife."\n\nA helicopter hovers overhead. Tony looks up into its searchlight...and suddenly he is in a hospital intensive care unit, with doctors working on him. Carmela and Meadow are at his side.\n\nChristopher, Silvio, Vito and Paulie wait for news, camped out in the hospital waiting room. It's not good. Tony's on a ventilator; Junior's gun shot damaged his internal organs. "Does he know he's dying?" asks Carmela. "We don't know," the doctor replies. \n\nMeanwhile, business traveler Tony checks into another hotel using Kevin Finnerty's credit card. A couple of Buddhist monks overhear him checking in and thinking he is Finnerty, accost him: "We had a horrible winter at the monastery because of your heating system." They scuffle but flee before Tony can find out more about Finnerty.\n\nAfter another restless night, Tony takes the stairs when the hotel elevator is out of order. When he trips and falls down a flight, we flash back to the hospital room where his family is camped out. Dr. Plepler warns Carmela about possible brain damage and urges them to talk to Tony, maybe play him some favorite music. Janice breaks down when she visits.\n\nIn custody, Junior is being questioned by a psychologist to determine if he shot Tony intentionally. But Junior is confused. "If somebody shot my nephew it was him himself. He's a depression case." \n\nAt Eugene's funeral, Silvio briefs the crew on how he'll run things in Tony's absence. Vito stirs things up asking for Eugene's "sports book in Roseville," bringing up Junior and asking why Bobby wasn't babysitting instead of Tony. "He's gotta make an issue out of everything," Christopher complains to Silvio.\n\nCarmela plays CDs for Tony and reminisces, urging him to keep fighting. "I know that you're really strong, as strong as a bull." \n\nChristopher stops by the Pork Store and sees Agents Harris and Goddard, who test the waters with him as an informant on Harris's new terrorism beat. "If you ever heard of anything going down-Middle-Easterners, Pakistanis-you'd be helping a lot if you picked up the phone." \n\nAnthony Jr., who has been avoiding taking his turn at the hospital, finally sits with his father into the night. He promises to get Uncle Junior for this. "I'm gonna put a bullet in his f&%$in' mummy head. I promise." \n\nCarmela praises Anthony for helping his family and he takes the opportunity to confide that he flunked out of school. Her mood changes: "My God. With your father in a coma." \n\nAt a hospital, business traveler Tony is diagnosed with Alzheimer's after falling down the stairs. When he returns to his hotel room, he stares at the phone, but can't bring himself to call home. \n\n\nThere are video clips and bulletin boards, as well as this summary at the following link...\n\nhttp://
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Hypothetically, you had to do something to &!$$ him off.  I've had people give me the lamest excuse for a threat (usually because they can't beat me up because they're fat) "My (distant relative) is in the Mafia!"  But if you were threatened, technically, join the witness protection program.
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haha i just read that. \n\ni can kinda answer some of them\n\n1. it's a comedy. i don't have time to answer the rest.\n2. there was only 1 scene i knew had music and that was when Portia and Nerissa are singing when Bassiano is choosing a box. (Portia wants him to find the right one and he does) so i guess it's for want or soemthing?\n3. gold is one of the wrong boxes it says summat like "he who chooses me will get all he deserves" so basically whoever chooses it doesn't get the woman because they are greedy and thinking only of themselves. The second time might be where Shylock is so locked on to his worldly possesions and is planning to kill antonio for his money. I dunno\n4. So you know that Shylock and Antonio had a deal that if Antonio doesn't pay him by a certain day, Shylock gets to remove a pound of flesh closest to antonio's heart.There's justice versus mercy in the scene where Shylock is about to take the pound of flesh from Antonio and Portia (disguised as a man) first tries to get him to show mercy to Antonio and forget about their deal and Shylock refuses. Then Portia points out to him that he said a pound of flesh not a pound of flesh and blood so the tables are turned and Shylock is in trouble for deliberately trying to kill a man because taking a pound of flesh would definately kill him. And the justice is that for trying to kill Antonio, Shylock has to turn in all his possessions and become a Christian. I think anyways.
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Acually, you should watch the movie but read this if you need to...\n 1) What do you mean??\n 2) Gluttony, I guess, ate Lyra but Dante took over Lyra's body (sorry if I spoiled it for you).\n 3) Envy went onto the other side of the Gate into Europe and killed Ed's dad (there's alot more-watch the movie..)\n 4) No, wait, he did get his libs ripped off because of the weird thingies in the Gate...\n 5) What do you mean? Okay, in the least possible way of confusion, I'm going to try to explain the Gate to you. There are two sides of the Gate. One side there is a world in which alchemy exsists and where Ed and Al were born and the other side there is a world in which is like what we used to live in-no alchemy exsisted. For ever person on one side of the Gate, there is a person who looks like that person on the other side that looks like that other person. For example, Edward was transported by Dante (in Lyra's body) onto the other side of the Gate with Rose's baby. His original body was stuck inside the Gate and he took over the other Edward's body for a while-until that Edward died and he went out of the Gate. There was another Al on the other side. I hope you get it now...\n 6) Al's memories came back when he grew up-he was found as a 10 year old boy when he transmuted Ed because he offered the four years they spent together for Ed's soul and body.\n 7) Watch the movie, he goes to the other side for a while meets Winry-then goes back.\n 8) Auto mail works on both sides.\n 9) He was taken in by Winry and given Ed'a auto-mail they perpared for him.\n\nSorry if some of this is not accurate...I don't have a good memory...