Maybe they should fear you!

The Godfather

[i1ovetonystark]

Tom's face when Vito rejected the flowers

Tom when Sonny yelled and said Vito's not his father

Tom drinking wine after he learned that Sonny died and being hugged by Vito

Tom's face when Michael removed him from consigliere to just their lawyer in Las Vegas

Tom looking at Michael after he was pulled aside at Vito's funeral

Tom telling Michael that Kay lost a baby

[nk-salinger]

REST IN PEACE

Robert Duvall

1931 – 2026

[melis-writes]

Rest in peace, Robert Duvall. Our favorite, one and only, consigliere of our hearts. 🌹

January 5, 1931 - February 15, 2026. ❤️

[realotaku1212]

아기마이클

[alpacinoloves]

[ironwoodatl01]

The death of Apollonia was a good thing.

This point is better established in the novel instead of the movie.

In the novel, it is made more explicit that the idea of the Mafia was a system that would cause more harm than good and that Michael, during his sojourn in Sicily, was aware of the negative impact of the Mafia lifestyle.

However, Michael meeting Apollonia kept Michael within the status quo of the Mafia system despite him knowing the dangers of that life. Apollonia's family had connections with the Mafia, and Michael's courtship of her was done within the context of the Sicilian traditions which are strongly connected to the concept of Mafia.

More importantly, Apollonia clouded Michael's reasoning and logic. His possessive desire of Apollonia replaced the logical reasoning that was Michael's strongest trait and made him comfortable in the lifestyle that he knew was harmful in the long run.

Thus, Apollonia's death broke Michael from the fantasy and galvanized him to take over the family Corleone. So he could make the family legitimate and break away from the Mafia lifestyle that would doom him in the future.

This was a good thing in the Novel as the story ended on a triumphant note. Michael succeeded in going legitimate, his family was secure, and he took revenge on all fronts for all debts incurred. All this was because Apollonia dying broke the dream of the Mafia life. The movies ended more ambiguously and made the story about Michael's fall from grace as it ended with Michael becoming Don, but not with Michael going legitimate. In that context, Apollonia became the straw that broke Michael.

Instead of the hammer that broke Michael from his chains, and freed him to take the right actions and to break away from the Mafia once and for all.

[remoenino]

🏹 the godfather is always a good idea!

🏹 like or reblog if you use, xo ♡

[rosecoloredblues]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Goncharov wouldn’t be half as entertaining if Tumblr weren’t completely and utterly willing to “yes and” all the initial flaws. Katya’s name should be Goncharova? Her calling herself Goncharov reflects her complicated relationship with both her gender and her queerness. Andrey’s name should be Andrei? No, because he’s actually a Ukrainian being mistaken for a Russian by the Italians, which is central to his character and the themes about identity and nationality in the wake of the collapsed USSR. The USSR wouldn’t even fall until 20 years after the film was made? Matteo JWHJ0715 was ahead of his time.

It’s a great example about how good faith approach to writing can really enhance the reading, when you treat flaws as opportunities rather than just nitpicking them or erasing them. The mistakes being folded into Goncharov makes for a deeper, stronger, and more interesting story than if those mistakes had never happened at all.

[monte11ctt]

I quite like Sunny. haha，so cute

I can't speak English. I use a translator. I don't know if what I say sounds strange.

In short, there is a creation about the godfather.

[spikejohze]

[godfatheraccountant]

Analyzing the Post-Meeting Meeting

Going back to some notes I made on a prior Godfather reread. This is about when Vito meets with Hagen, Clamenza and Tessio following the Five Families Meeting and Truce

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Ok, I've been turning the Hagen-Clamenza-Tessio meeting in my head overnight and come up with a few things 1) Having realized and planned the upcoming transition to Michael's rule… these three men, his closest and most reliable courtesans, now become his biggest threats and liabilities. Transitions are where it makes the absolute most sense to try for the throne, and if anyone's going to pull it off it's one of these three. In a very real way, the Five Families meeting was an appetizer--here is where the true maneuvering happens 2) For the first part, before Tessio and Clemenza leave, he's actually encouraging shots at the throne--by telling them he will be semiretired and growing tomatoes, he's telling them his influence is down and not going to stop shrinking, he doesn't have the heart for this business anymore. If they're going to be a weak spot, he wants them exposed and out of the action soon 3) This is also why he pretends he is so amazingly mad at Freddie and wants him to stay in Vegas. Trying to break in with a resentful passed-over son is textbook overthrow, and he highlights it--possibly even keeping Freddie safer in the process than he'd otherwise be. (Unless he goes for it, of course.) 4) But Tom is a bigger problem. He flatly doesn't believe this put-on, and he is in a lot better position to screw him than the caporegimes. It's in the consigliere job description: "Between the head of the Family, Don Corleone, who dictated policy, and the operating level of men who actually carried out the orders of the Don, there were three layers, or buffers. In that way nothing could be traced to the top. Unless the Consigliere turned traitor." The Consigliere is the man with the keys, and there's probably no shortage of mobster fables Vito's witnessed where they used them. The way things have been, he would never; Vito's shaped him, built him, and has all his buttons and levers down dead to rights. But that strength is the weakness in a transition. This creature you've built to care only about your wishes, to lay your own good as the center of his moral universe… what happens during this shift, where True North goes spinning out of alignment? It is difficult to predict, and messy. Tom cannot get wind while he can still mess things up, and he's too smart and involved not to pick up on it. ("You know me better than anybody else" develops a double-meaning.) So… you smother his brain, just a little. Some men can be distracted with girls or entertainments. Tom Hagen can be baffled by spoiling out just a bit more of that paternal affirmation. It's important to keep him on the back foot, to state it more clearly, because Vito doesn't trust him to keep the Corleone's needs at heart absent his specific machinations to keep him there. He's not family.

[rabdoidal]

completely platonic cigarette lighting with the worstie while u nurse a broken rib

🚬 kofi link in bio if you’re feeling generous 🚬

[kittesencula]

[sonimage1965]

[cinemafannotes]

Фан-арты

[sunflowermp4]

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