80
edits
The Godfather: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 12:
Eventually Sonny is ambushed and killed, and Michael is forced out of hiding to try to take over the family. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Michael pretends to be helpless at first]], but after his father dies and he becomes the head of the Family, Michael ruthlessly purges [[The Mole|The Moles]] within the family and his enemies in the other major mob families, leaving the Corleone family as the most powerful force in the mob scene.
The second film continues Michael's story while giving flashback accounts of the young Don Vito ([[Robert De Niro]]) from his troubled childhood to his eventual turn to crime and rise to power (based on parts of the original book which were cut from the first film). In the present Michael is juggling many problems, which include he and
Eventually Michael manages to overcome everything, but the film ends on a theme of [[Pyrrhic Villainy]]: Michael's actions have destroyed his family, ended his marriage, he's killed his sole remaining brother, Fredo, after finding out that Fredo made a deal with Hyman Roth, and ends the movie utterly alone.
| |||