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To: Frank Sheed

That was the point, to paint the Godfather as a sympathetic character, who only killed people who needed killing, not as some raving bloodthirsty madman.


14 posted on 08/13/2011 4:46:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Bingo! The family used people’s vices as a means of income; they were going to drink or gamble anyway.

The Solazzo thing with drugs turned off Don Corleone who saw it as a different means of corruption. That went against the younger, greedier Dons who didn’t emigrate here and go through the hardships he did as a young man. That is why they tried to bump him off and lead to “the mattresses.”


26 posted on 08/13/2011 5:01:13 PM PDT by Frank Sheed (Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
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To: dfwgator
That was the point, to paint the Godfather as a sympathetic character, who only killed people who needed killing, not as some raving bloodthirsty madman.

The book was very controversial because it did portray gangsters in a positive light.

My freshman year in college, my roommate found out that I didn't know about page 28 of "The Godfather". She gave me a copy for Christmas and I stay up all night reading the book because it was so believable. and well written.

Well, I thought it was, anyway.

51 posted on 08/13/2011 5:46:30 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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