The Godfather: Difference between revisions

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Vito and Michael are aware of many of the trades and tropes of his profession, invoke some of them and make plans and gambits accordingly, hence their success. Many examples in this page: For instance Michael sends Vincent as a [[Fake Defector]] in ''Part III'' but -unlike Luca Brasi- with some dispositions to avoid being smelled as one.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Coppola felt that the first movie had shown [[the Mafia]] in too warm and sentimental a light, so ''Part II'' was consciously made Darker and Edgier.

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Don Corleone's policy of doing favors for people in return for the person in question performing a service for him in the future has ''very'' strong undertones of this, but the Don does not make the people who call on him for help do anything evil. The mortician Bonasera, whose request for help opens the movie, is terrified of being indebted to Don Vito for such a favor and fears that one day the Don will show up at his doorstep with a pile of corpses and a "request" that he bury them. {{spoiler|In the end, Vito calls in the favor to beg Bonasera to clean up Sonny's bullet-riddled body, as well as reconstruct his face so that his mother will be able to look upon him.}} When {{spoiler|Don Vito himself dies, Bonasera is spotted at the funeral he apparently is providing for the late Don and is openly weeping.}}

* [[Death Wail]]: Michael Corleone's scream when {{spoiler|Mary dies}} was supposedly so primal and intense that the audio had to be cut from the movie.