Luca Brasi is Don Vito Corleone's personal enforcer and the only man Vito himself fears. While slow-witted and brutish, Brasi is fiercely loyal with a reputation as a savage and remorseless killer.
It's explained quite clearly and logically in the book. Even as he recognized that Luca Brasi was one of his most important tools, Don Corleone viewed the man as inherently dangerous to handle “like dynamite, not truly subject to control” if I remember his thoughts correctly.
In Brasi's mind, maintaining Vito's high opinion of him was the only thing keeping him going, the only thing he could still aspire to; the thought of Vito might decide to kill him was the only thing Brasi ever feared, as it would imply that he had lost the only thing he still valued: Vito's respect for him as a human ...
Marlon Brando envisaged the character to have bulldog-like jowls (hanging cheeks). In his auditions, he stuffed Kleenex tissues between his lower lips and teeth to create this appearance, which were replaced by a custom-made "plumper" oral prosthetic during filming.
Why Did Vito Send Luca Brasi To His Death? | The Godfather
Who killed Sonny Corleone?
At the Long Beach Causeway toll plaza, Barzini's men trap Sonny and shoot him to death. During a meeting with the other crime family dons to establish peace, Vito realizes that Barzini masterminded Sonny's murder. After Michael returns from Sicily, he assumes Sonny's place as Vito's heir apparent.
Luca Brasi : Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daughter... 's wedding... on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.
Luca Brasi is Don Vito Corleone's personal enforcer and the only man Vito himself fears. While slow-witted and brutish, Brasi is fiercely loyal with a reputation as a savage and remorseless killer.
There's a scene in "Godfather II" where Vito Corleone is in his dimly lit apartment worried about his son Fredo. Fredo has pneumonia and is being tended to by his mother and a nursemaid using a glass tumbler with a flame underneath. The thought was it would suck the illness out of his tiny body.
Tom Hagen and Peter Clemenza see Neri as a potential replacement for Luca Brasi, Vito Corleone's feared enforcer, and arrange his release from prison. Normally, policemen are barred from becoming made men, but they were impressed enough with Neri to recommend that Michael grant an exception to the rule.
Tall and solidly built, this Italian-American professional wrestler turned actor was born Lenny Passaforo in Brooklyn, New York, and is best remembered for his first on-screen role as the not too bright but ever loyal bodyguard Luca Brasi in.
The distaste that the star had for the novel's alleged commentary on the star became so severe that Sinatra and The Godfather author and screenwriter even had a public confrontation at a restaurant, taking place while development on the feature film adaptation was beginning.
Sonny got the reprimand because of his impetuous behavior. If you look at Tom and even Fredo, who was there, neither of them spoke. Tom is an expert at keeping his opinions to himself, but Sonny is clearly not.
"The studio didn't want Al Pacino at all," Keaton said, noting that she was cast before him in the Francis Ford Coppola classic. She then explained what caused the studio to change their opinion: their chemistry read.
When Sonny brings Tom home and demands he be taken in, the Corleone family welcome him as a family member. Hagen considers Vito his true father, although Vito never formally adopts him, believing it would be disrespectful to Hagen's deceased parents.
In the novel, Fredo's primary weakness is his womanizing, a habit he develops after moving to Las Vegas and which earns his father's disfavor. In the films, Fredo's feelings of personal inadequacy and his inability to act effectively on his own behalf are character flaws leading to his demise.
From a naive & stoic war-hero, Michael becomes a cold, heartless and vengeful mafia don. The tragedy for Michael is that he couldn't escape the inevitable doom of succession, despite his prior knowledge.
Cupping, the application of suction to the body, as a healing technique has been used in many healing traditions: ancient Greek and Egyptian, Chinese, and Eastern European, to name a few, for many centuries. There's even a scene in “The Godfather II” when baby Fredo gets cupped because he has pneumonia.
Clemenza. No one was more loyal to the Corleone Crime Family than the first capo, Clemenza. Among his most iconic scenes was when he had the traitor Paulie executed and when he trained Michael on how to whack Sollozzo and McCluskey.
Coppola was dead set on directing Al Pacino and Diane Keaton in what would become their first major film roles, as well as the more established screen actors Robert Duvall and James Caan (who was originally considered by Paramount for Michael Corleone).
"Because a man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." — Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972). The Godfather Quote.
👀 It was supposed to be: "Take the. cannoli.” Instead, Castellano improvised the line and. made it "Leave the gun, take the cannoli" — based on a. suggestion from his wife!
