By the early 1930s, Vito has organized his criminal operations as the Corleone crime family, one of the most powerful in the nation. Genco Abbandando is his consigliere, and Clemenza and Tessio are caporegimes.
Who was more powerful Vito Corleone or Michael Corleone?
Vito had “made” the family business while Michael had merely “inherited” the same. Vito was calm and cool to an extent more than Mike. Before Mike came at the helm of affairs, the Corleone family did not have the tag of “ruthless” mafia family. Mike gave the family that tag.
In reference to Fredo Corleone being the weaker and less intelligent of his brothers, the term "Fredo" has come to refer to a weak member of a group, especially one of a number of siblings in a family, regardless of ethnicity.
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.
Considered the weakest link in the trilogy of Godfather movies, The Godfather Part III was heavily criticized for its convoluted plot and Sofia Coppola's awkward performance as Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III cast.
In The Godfather II, Vito Corleone chooses his younger son, Michael, instead of his older son, Fredo, as his successor. This decision is based on Michael's intelligence and ability.
Vito and Genco start the Genco Pura Olive Oil Company, an olive oil importer. It eventually becomes the nation's largest olive oil importing company, and the main legal front for Vito's growing organized crime syndicate. Between Genco Pura and his illegal operations, Vito becomes a wealthy man.
Though a ruthless, violent criminal, Vito is also a warm, loving father and husband, and the paradox of his character is that it is precisely the warmth of his humanity that makes him appear superhuman. In his later years, Vito comes across as relaxed and playful, even mellow.
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.
Michael is the third son of Vito Corleone, and he takes over the role of godfather when his father retires. Originally Michael is not involved in the family business, although he is aware of what the business is.
Because Michael was the brightest of his sons. He was university educated and Vito deep down knew that Michael was the only one who could lead the Corleone family into the legitimate world. Vito knew Sonny would be a bad Don but had no other choice but to train him to be a Don since Sonny wanted nothing else.
With Fanucci dead, Vito earned the respect of the neighborhood, becoming known as a "Man of Respect" in the neighborhood, and was soon asked to intercede in local disputes, gaining a reputation for never turning down someone who came to him for help and for being able to "reason" with "unreasonable" people.
Don Vito would not have been proud of Michael as a son. Michael did not take care of his family as an honorable man would. He abandoned Kay, then married Appollonia and later returned to marry Kay.
No Vito nor Michael are ever even hinted at being unfaithful. It's not because they were Sicilian and faithful Catholics . Sonny and Fredo spread the love quite frequently. Even Tom (an honorary Sicilian of sorts) has mistresses in the books.
Corleone is a small town of approximately 11,000 inhabitants (2018) in the province of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. It is known primarily as the birthplace of Mafia boss Salvatore Riina and the Cosa Nostra. Even though the name of the city means “Lionheart”, the Mafia dominated the local community in the 1980s and 1990s.
By The Godfather Part II, Kay has decided that Michael is a cold, distant, inattentive husband and father, but only after an attempt is made on his life in the family home does she resolve to rebel against him. At first, Kay's rebellion is silent and private: she aborts the child she is carrying.
Immensely talented and powerful, he is undone by tragic flaws: his insatiable desire for vengeance, which creates a web of violence and recrimination that he cannot escape; his illusions of omnipotence, which blind him to the fact that achieving legitimacy is impossible; and his sense of being perpetually at war, which ...
Toward the end of the film, Michael names Vincent as his successor, on condition that he break off his relationship with Mary. After her brother's debut concert, the assassin Mosca tries to kill Michael. One bullet grazes Michael's shoulder, but the other accidentally hits Mary in the chest, fatally wounding her.
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.
Michael tries to turn the family into a legitimate enterprise, but his ruthlessness and obsession with revenge keeps him in the criminal underworld, and ultimately destroys his family and his life.
What makes Michael Corleone so scary is that he is so smart. He strategizes so well that almost none of his enemies can get at him. And if they do get the upper hand, it's safe to expect that Don Corleone will already have an idea in mind for his revenge. He never even gets his hands that dirty.
