#don fanucci

[pedroam-bang]

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

#1974 #film #movie #mafia #The Godfather: Part II #The Godfather #Francis Ford Coppola #Mario Puzo #Oreste Baldini #Vito Andolini #Robert De Niro #Vito Corleone #Don Vito Corleone #Gastone Moschin #Don Fanucci #Al Pacino #Michael Corleone #Red Star Lines #Statue Of Liberty #Liberty Island #New York Harbor #New York #New York City #NYC

[cloud3francois]

How did Vito know that Fanucci had no real connections?

#the godfather #the godfather 2 #the godfather's return #the godfather's revenge #the godfather coda #the godfather 3 #the godfather 4 #the death of michael corleone #the family corleone #michael corleone #don corleone #vito corleone #corleone #fanucci #don fanucci #francis ford coppola #coppola #sofia coppola #mafia #black hand #cosa nostra #fredo corleone #tom hagen #al pacino #robert deniro #scorsese #mario puzo #mafia rp #mafia au #mafia 2

[francis-ford-kofola]

STOP talking shit about The Godfather antagonists

Don Barzini is POWERFUL

Virgil Sollozzo is SMOOTH

Hyman Roth is SMART

Joey Zasa is FASHIONABLE

Don Tattaglia

Don Fanucci is FUNNY

#the godfather #emilio barzini #virgil sollozzo #hyman roth #joey zasa #philip tattaglia #don fanucci

[thousandmovieproject]

Hurricane, Mima, Miami & Fanucci

Hurricane, Mima, Miami & Fanucci

I’ve now spent three days reading coverage of what my dad is breathlessly referring to as the “apocalyptic” situation on the west coast of Florida, following Hurricane Ian’s landing on Thursday. I live on the east coast of Florida and it might just as well’ve landed here and wrought the same havoc. Worst we would’ve seen since 1992. I was a year old when Hurricane Andrew hit my childhood home…

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#cnn #cuban revolution #diary #don fanucci #family #godfather #godfather 2 #godfather II #hurricane andrew #hurricane ian #hurricane katrina #hurricane recovery #mario puzo #memory #miami #miami dade #miami hurricane #mima #new orleans #personal #trauma #tropical storm #wala #war #world war one #world war two

[msfbgraves]

The first Godfather movie is on Y*utube for free now! I rewatched it and it was just as great as I remember, so on to Part 2. But then I went on redd*t to check out some Godfather threads, and was disappointed to see so much discourse on who was hotter, Apollonia or Kay. And why there is so much hate against Kay, mainly because she is “too feminist” and “educated”, doesn’t “obey or support” Michael, and that she’s not as beautiful as Apollonia. All in all a disappointing experience. I didn’t see any male characters reduced to how handsome they were or were not : /

Let me help you there, then, Nonnie - of course Michael was destined to become the new Don - he is far prettier than Fredo, Sonny or Connie. And Vito was prettier than Don Fanucci all along! 😎

All this "Kay isn't good enough for Michael" discourse - he pursued her. Both in film 1 and 3. And the only time I felt Kay was weak, was when she said yes when he returned. Imagine, here is your war hero boyfriend who says he wants a clean American life... and then he shoots two people, leaves the country, ghosts you for a year, tells you he has become a career criminal and then proposes marriage. She should have said no, she really isn't open to this, but is this man, who she knows has people killed with no repercussions, a man she can refuse? As little as Vitelli could really refuse Michael's request to court Apollonia. The first thing Michael says to him is: "If you don't do what I want, I will kill you, and what I want is meet your daughter."

But alright maybe love isn't rational. Maybe they loved each other still. Kay really wasn't suited to mob life and that is on Michael. He knew who she was and it didn't matter, he wanted her. He had barely a clue who Apollonia was, her with no English and he with broken Italian. It didn't matter, he wanted her. Kay would have been perfect for Michael Corleone, aspiring senator, which is what he was when they met. But he didn't care Kay was not suited for who he was now. Why didn't he grieve Apollonia and find another mob wife? Why didn't he remarry after their divorce? Even when he proposes Kay is already reluctant and Michael pushes and pushes and pushes. She must represent something he actually does want, still.

But it's always the woman's fault when relationships don't work out, isn't it? No Kay wasn't a good mob wife. She didn't want to be one. She got out with her children - that is something Michael never managed. And Apollonia is something many men imagine they want, but when they have it, they get bored. I am not saying Apollonia wasn't intelligent, but if you get told to completely erase yourself into motherhood, which means you can't offer more than comfort and sex - that's not enough for a lot of people. And it's not like these women wouldn't have had more to offer but everytime they try they get shut down. And what you get then is Carmella, which may have suited Vito - that man who craved domesticity above all else - but even Sonny and Michael needed more input from her than she could give. So Michael fell for the total opposite. And maybe Apollonia was a fierce presence who might have become to Michael what Connie became, but we can't know. We don't know what she and Michael talked about. We know she was very beautiful and made Michael laugh, and she may or may not have had a slight independent streak. That's it.

I feel that they might have worked because they clicked emotionally and Apollonia knew the life. But Michael didn't look for someone like her again. He looked for Kay, again and again and again.

If she doesn't suit him - and no, she doesn't suit a Don - Michael should try to figure out what itch he was trying to scratch with her. Oh, and that obedience shit - in my experience, boys who go on about that are deeply insecure about something. They couldn't get a well trained dog to obey them, let alone a person!

All these men who think they're owed power while being unwilling to do what they'd have to to obtain it, always want women to fawn. Men who have what it takes to gain power, should they aspire to, usually spend time honing a skill. They rarely throw their weight around putting others down. No matter where they start, the bottom or the top - they put the work in. Michael did, Sonny did, and Fredo mostly complained. As much as we see anyway. If Fredo had done a good job with what he was given, or would have found himself an opportunity, he would have won Michael's respect. Not position,but respect, like Tom. Instead Fredo demanded respect for his position as an older brother.

That's the type of man who whines about having women obey him.

#the godfather #michael corleone #kay adams #Apollonia Vitelli #fredo corleone

[raven-of-domain-kwaad]

Song Challenge

Got tagged by @jedimasterspice, thanks very much for the tag!

So full disclosure I don’t listen to a lot of music that isn’t soundtracks so expect a lot of that here

RULES: Make a new post and spell out your URL with song titles then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL.

R - Rock the Casbah - The Clash

A - A New Carpet - Nino Rota (The Godfather Part II Soundtrack)

V - Vito and Abbandando - Nino Rota (The Godfather Part II Soundtrack)

E - Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

N - Nach Deutschland - John Powell (The Bourne Supremacy Soundtrack)

O - On Bridge Number 9 - John Powell (The Bourne Identity Soundtrack)

F - Fallen Warriors - Lorne Balfe (The Tyranny of Kine Washington Soundtrack)

D - Danza Kuduro - Don Omar/Lucenzo (Fast Five Soundtrack)

O - Over The Hills And Far Away - Nightwish

M - Murder of Don Fanucci - Carmine Coppola

A - Anakin vs. Obi-Wan - John Williams (Revenge of the Sith Soundtrack)

I - Iron - Woodkid

N - (The) Night King - Ramin Djawadi (Game of Thrones Season 8 Soundtrack)

K - Killing Strangers - Marilyn Manson

W - White Riot - The Clash

A - (The) Alien Planet - Jerry Goldsmith (Alien 1979 Soundtrack)

A - Atmosphere Station - James Horner (Aliens 1986 Soundtrack)

D - Dark Discovery - James Horner (Aliens 1986 Soundtrack)

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And now to tag 18 people, yikes. No pressure of course just following the tag rules

@swtorpadawan, @palepinkycat, @a-muirehen, @a-master-procrastinator, @mimabeann, @thedinalixlegacy, @fenrisprime2003, @kyber-heart, @actualanxiousswampwitch, @chaoticspacefam, @chaosandwonder, @darth-bagel, @starknstarwars, @sleepswithvillains, @inventedbyawriter, @villainship, @certified-anakinfucker, @theacedumbass

#about raven #tag game

[tiskycat]

The Godfather Part II, exactly the same, but Don Fanucci wears the same exact hat as Doug Dimmadone, Owner Of The Dimmsdale Dimmadome

[enemyporn]

Meanwhile Luigi Russolo was making a lot of noise

If you are reading this stuff you must be as high as I was writing it.

In 1909, The Futurist movement in art was taking, um, non-shape. Writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder/promoter (eventually Fascist) of this Futurist concept was probably insane though there were people around him that used his concepts experimentally. Marinetti – in my mind – is like “The Black Hand” from “Godfather II”.  Remember?  Don Fanucci?  Like an Italian blowhard, cruising on his…

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#luigi russolo

[mawrgorshin]

A short poem.

[mawr-gorshin]

Beaks

Some, like Don Fanucci, wantto wet their beaks.They peck at us,expecting cash, andquack and chirp until we pay. Sometimes, their beaks let outa song to charm our ears,to make us all agreeto what they’d have us do,so beaks can get at all the worms. But worms don’t want beakssnatching them, andbirdsongmay be pretty, but itoften isn’t honest tunes. If we all had the strengthto stand together,we’d…

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#capitalism #imperialism #leftism #literature #literature promotion #poetry

[all-things-de-niro]

GQ Magazine article from 2020.

I disagree with a few of these film choices/memorable scenes but will post about that another time.

#robert de niro #bobby d #gq article 2020 #robert de niro most memorable movie scenes #articles & interviews

[pedroam-bang]

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

#1974 #gif #film #movie #mafia #The Godfather: Part II #The Godfather #Francis Ford Coppola #Mario Puzo #Robert De Niro #Vito Corleone #Don Vito Corleone #Gastone Moschin #Don Fanucci #Al Pacino #Michael Corleone #New York #New York City #NYC

[josefksays]

RIP Gastone Moschin (1929-2017) - The eternal actor best known as the powerful mafioso Don Fanucci in The Godfather - Part II (1974) passed away today. He was cast in Coppola’s film after the director watched his performance in Bertolucci’s Il Conformista (1970). Another notable role is Rambaldo Melandri in the Amici miei trilogy (1975, 1982, 1985). Moschin appeared in more than 90 projects, between 1956 and 2001.

#Gastone Moschin #In Memoriam #actors #The Godfather: Part II #The Conformist #tribute #my edits #Don Fanucci

[notesonfilm1]

We know that The Godfather films draw knowledgeably and extensively on classic 30s gangster films for their structures and iconography. But watching Little Caesar recently I was struck by how closely and directly the influence of Little Caesar can be seen in  The Godfather  and The Godfather II. Here are but two examples:

On the left, the killing of Tony Passa in the Church Steps in Little Caesar and on the right the finale of killing during the baptism scene in The Godfather.

The funeral sequence in Little Caesar on the left closely resembles the festival of San Rocco scene in The Godfather: Part II where Vito Corleone plans to murder Don Fanucci.

  José Arroyo

A minor observation on the influence of Little Caesar on ‘The Godfather’ films. We know that The Godfather films draw knowledgeably and extensively on classic 30s gangster films for their structures and iconography.

#Don Fanucci #influence on Little Caesar on the Godfather films #Little Caesar #The Godfather #The Godfather Part II #Tony Passa #Vito Corleone

[discovondoom]

The murder of Don Fanucci.

#godfather 2 #don fanucci #vito corleone

[jbk405]

Tony Soprano and Feech La Manna’s card game

The robbery of the protected card game run by Feech La Manna was part of the background mythology of The Sopranos.  Its details were teased out over the course of four seasons, first introduced by Richie Aprile in season two and with the last info given by Feech himself in season five.

As we can piece together from the disparate stories, when Tony Soprano, Jackie Aprile, and Silvio Dante were young petty criminals -- not yet Made men in the Mafia -- they decided to make their first big score and rob a card game.  The card game was run by Feech La Manna, a capo (Captain) in the DiMeo Crime Family, which made it against the rules for anybody to rob it, but they decided to do it anyway.  Despite being against the rules they did it the ‘right way’: Nobody got hurt and nobody Made was at the game when it got robbed, which meant that vengeance wasn’t required by the Mafia code.  Once Feech figured out who did the robbery, Tony, Jackie, and Silvio were able to pay off the right people (Including Feech himself) to forestall any revenge.  Their skill at the robbery, their bravery to do it even at the risk of angering Feech, and their willingness to pay up afterwards gained them all significant respect in the Mafia and marked them for future greatness.  Indeed, Jackie and Tony both eventually became Bosses, and Silvio became consigliere.

As an aside, when telling his part of the story Ralph Cifaretto claims he was supposed to go and was only absent because he was sick, but personally I think that was a self-aggrandizing lie and he would never have been invited.

This story is often told to show Tony’s natural greatness within the Mafia society -- how even when he was a kid he was smart and brave and everybody knew he was Going Places -- and also to show how poorly the current young generation of criminals fails to live up to his example.  The last is of critical importance with Jackie Aprile Jr., the son of the Jackie Aprile who went with Tony that night.  Despite his father’s own wishes and Tony’s best efforts, Jackie Jr. is determined to become a bigshot mafioso just like his father and resents how Tony and the other leadership belittle and look down on him.

Eager to live up to his father’s legacy after he passed away from cancer, Jackie Jr. decides to replicate the robbery that got his father his start.  He recruits some of his fellow ne'er-do-well young punks and tries to rob a game run by Eugene Pontecorvo, a Made man in the DiMeo (Soprano) family.  But unlike his father, Jackie Jr. fucks everything up.  He and his friends were high on crystal meth so they were twitchy and jumpy.  They hadn’t done any prep work so were surprised to find out that Christopher Moltisanti and Furio Giunta, two very dangerous Made men, were at the game.  Worst of all, during the robbery Jackie lost control and shot the dealer, which sparked a larger gunfight.  His two accomplices were killed, and Furio was injured.

Now Jackie Jr. is a dead man, because robbing Made men, let alone actually shooting one, requires vengeance. Eugene, Chris, and Furio couldn’t give him a pass even if they wanted to, since they would look weak to the rest of the Mafia (Sidenote: In the original The Godfather this is exactly what tells Vito Corleone that he can kill Don Fanucci without fear of reprisals.  Fanucci had been beaten up and robbed by some kids, and then accepted a payoff from their families instead of taking revenge.  Vito knew that if he was actually in the Mafia, like he claimed, then he would have taken revenge no matter what).  Jackie Jr.’s only hope is that Tony gives him a pass, since as Boss his word is final.  But Tony doesn’t want to give Jackie a pass, because despite being the son of his best friend, Jackie Jr. is a little shit who cheated on Tony’s daughter and has been a headache in general for over a year.  So Tony passes the buck to Ralph Cifaretto, who is dating Jackie’s mother, and says that he will go along with whatever Ralph decides.  Despite Ralph saying that he wants to give Jackie a pass, he doesn’t have the fortitude to back that up and make an enemy of so many other members of the Family.  So, at the end of it, he has Jackie Jr. killed and moves on.

Perfect ending to Jackie Jr.’s story, and the perfect parallel to highlight that despite his massive ego he was never comparable to Tony Soprano.....except....

Well, except for the fact that as the series went along, some of the details that were teased out said that Tony, Silvio and Jackie weren’t quite as highly regarded for their stunt as it now seems.  In fact, Feech wasn’t happy to let bygones be bygones, he did want revenge.  Maybe not to go so far as to kill them, but certainly at least rough them up badly, and maybe even oppose their later induction into the Mafia.  And the only thing that stopped him was the fact that these three had big, powerful protection.  Richie Aprile, Jackie’s older brother, was already a Made man.  Tony’s father and uncle, Johnny Soprano and Junior Soprano, were capos themselves.  They had the respect, and the muscle, and most importantly the will to back down Feech.  It wasn’t that the kids did the robbery the Right Way, it was that they had protection to skate on the consequences.  Protection that Jackie Jr. didn’t have.  Ralph Cifaretto only cared about Jackie Jr. because he was screwing his mother, so when push came to shove he caved and let him get whacked.

Now obviously Jackie Jr. did screw up big time -- come on, people died -- but even if he had done it the ‘right way’ after all it still may have turned out badly for him.  Because it turns out the original robbery wasn’t a story of three up-and-coming kids impressing the old timers with their spunk, it was the story of three privileged assholes screwing around and getting bailed out by their family.  Just the same as if they were rich kids who tried the same thing for kicks and their parents got them off with fancy lawyers.

It’s not a testament to them at all, and is only viewed as such now because Tony (And Jackie and Silvio) are too powerful to question.  It may not be that Jackie Jr. was as big a screw-up as he seemed, maybe they’re just comparing him to a fantasy that wasn’t true in the first place.

#The Sopranos #Tony Soprano #Jackie Aprile #Silvio Dante #Feech La Manna #Jackie Aprile Sr. #Jackie Aprile Jr. #Jackie Jr. #Richie Aprile #Ralph Cifaretto #Junior Soprano #Johnny Soprano