The opening dialogue. "I believe in America." Let that sink in.
@Gizzatow
2 ай бұрын
Vito was a really kind man, you could turn to him, you could ask him. I don't think it was possible to communicate with Michael the same way as with his father, especially to an outsider.He was not even an assistant to his loved ones. Michael is an evil man, unlike his father.
@RJ-hm9gi
3 ай бұрын
Well well well ....what can be said....spoken of respect? Okay okay okay....I respect your time in fact.....I am a burden....just by posting this ...I contribute to those with disorder(s) they cannot control....so have some and I restrain myself from harsh language....respect for yourselves....I live the life I have ....I respect you.....dont waste my time ...I am a person....no more important than anyone else.....
@HowieFeltersnatchMD
3 ай бұрын
The cat should’ve been consigliere.
@GreyWolfLeaderTW
3 ай бұрын
Memes aside, this is an excellent opening scene for one of the most critically acclaimed films of all time, not merely because of Marlon Brando Jr.'s scene stealing act, but because it firmly establishes the character of Vito Corleone right from the get-go. He may be a mafioso, but he's a man who's first and foremost about family, seeing an acquaintance's daughter being harmed stirring his own moral principles and sense of justice, regardless of the fact that he operates outside the law and has his own vigilante concept of justice. His business is (literally) cutthroat, but he still holds onto ideals such as believing in proportionate response to injustice and not taking advantage of another's extreme emotional state to extort, instead falling back on a unique favor-for-favor method of payment, one that you would expect between family members and close friends. Asking for nothing more than that save for gratitude, humility, and friendship from his client. It feels like it justifies calling him "The Godfather" right from the very beginning of the film.
@captainamericaamerica8090
4 ай бұрын
MARLIN BRANDO. AMAZING! ON SCREEN! ON STAGE! LIVE! VARIETY OF ROLES! HE'S THE GOAT👑👑👑🐯🐯🐯🔱🔱🔱🏆🏆🏆🏆
@roberthvistendahl8635
5 ай бұрын
New again? I know I'll last again just a thousand memories from back when to blanket with action, make myself my friend models knockin at my door it aint no secret, I'll try tuna on rye, cos today i aint poor move my hips forward and back is the mechanism 10000 of those and she'll tune in and make me her psychologist so please poirot, next time don't sacrifice a part of yourself , orient your mind like sinatra beforehand....you get the gist
@hemantkulkarni0212
6 ай бұрын
An ideal case of how to write and stage a scene in a concise manner, extract the essence of the scene.This very scene runs over seven long pages in the original novel.
@romuluspojoni
7 ай бұрын
ITALIANS NEVER DO THIS ..SORRY 🎉
@4074092899
8 ай бұрын
Vito's simple hand movement with no words . I could feel the power radianting off him.😮
@ecapessoa8191
8 ай бұрын
Dom Corleone iria se decepcionar com o Michael porque ele mandou matar o irmão Fredo!Dom Corleone amava à Família acima de tudo e o Michael amava os Negócios acima da Família!
@LittleRedRideMeGood69
8 ай бұрын
*_HE BROKE OMERTÁ!_* He wouldn't have left my office.
@mellevala
9 ай бұрын
You can feel in this speach how deeply offended Don Corleone was from so many years of distance with this man
@thequietestengine
9 ай бұрын
4:48 so strange to see Sonny, looking at Bonaserra asking for justice, not realizing HE would be how a debt would be repaid...
@codyking4848
9 ай бұрын
Most well behaved cat in cinema history
@stefanholmstrom1968
10 ай бұрын
I still wonder how Marlon Brando had the audacity to try to steal this scene from the cat. I mean, did he think HE was the main character?
@mariacarnevale8970
10 ай бұрын
I love this and now you want my help
@wangson
11 ай бұрын
The look of dismissal that Brando gives to Bonaserra at 5:23, as the Undertaker asks the Godfather to "be (his) friend...Godfather?" And then kisses Brando's hand...Oh man!! My dad laughs out loud every time he sees Brando's reaction! Same with me now! Brando sort of childishly furrows his brow and slightly swings his body as he considers Bonaserra's petition for friendship...it's such a subtle collection of body language combined with the actual language of the script, the set, the collection of actors here... It just doesn't get any better as far as film goes,...and I'll add the caveat, in my own estimation. Aside from 2001: A Space Odyssey and the original Korean film, "OldBoy" this is the finest that cinema has to offer. I'm 48 and a film buff - if anyone has some obscure, foreign film they'd care to bring my attention to, I'd certainly appreciate it!
@missbelled6700
10 ай бұрын
2:52 The look he shoots him after he whispers in his ear is similarly smacking of quiet distaste.
@e1n17g13l1i14sh
4 ай бұрын
Bashu, an Iranian film
@e1n17g13l1i14sh
4 ай бұрын
Also, seeing ershadi, a separation, and farhadi’s death of a salesman
@Malally2
4 ай бұрын
Parasite was very good
@wangson
4 ай бұрын
@@Malally2 It absolutely was!
@sabrinakurko1624
11 ай бұрын
The cat is the boss
@bobjames5264
Жыл бұрын
Godfather was being awfully generous. I would’ve been like, “Too little, too late, m*****f*****!!”
@Ironheart73
Жыл бұрын
I am Filipino and Catholic. In our culture being godfather to someones child as baptism is a very special honor. It means not only that you are a very close friend, you are also someone whom the parents want to be an influence in their child. You are essentially a second parent, and if anything should happen to the parents, you are going to be entrusted with their childs life. The point is, Bonna Serra did not even need to offer money. He only needed to be friends with the Don as he is supposed to be. He only needed to tell him that his daughter had problems, and Don Vito being a second father to his daughter will take care of it for him
@vonn4017
Жыл бұрын
IF he showed the Don the proper respect
@Ironheart73
Жыл бұрын
@@vonn4017 Yes, even though he is godfather to his daughter
@bullshark3000
2 ай бұрын
his offer of money was disrespectful
@PennyHardaway7
Жыл бұрын
A GODLY scene right there.. Matthew 7:23
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
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@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
When does "The Department of Justice" do its job for the hardworking-innocent?
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
They're not allowed to do their jobs!
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
When do they do their jobs...? Brando goes to him for help. "Look at my son!? What they did to him!?" "Sonny" was a "hot-head"! His enemies used it against his family and them -- and murdered him! They set him up!
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
"I don't want his mother to see him like this!"
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
When has this ever worked for any of us? "Justice"?
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
www.justice.gov/ When do they do their jobs? Maybe that job is too big for them.
@batman-telephoneman5479
Жыл бұрын
How did we go from this... To transmania?
@videodudeX
Жыл бұрын
Y'all know the cat was an afterthought? Showed up on set and added to the scene!
@S_Paoli
Жыл бұрын
wait a minute..... was the Godfather being serious when he said that they didn't do murder? 😵💫
@vonn4017
Жыл бұрын
the mafia doesn't murder people. there are rules and there are consequences for breaking them. just like a teacher didn't give an A or F, you earned it
@kylenielsen5341
10 ай бұрын
They kill people when they're in the way of business, but they don't kill carelessly, wantonly, or for hire.
@lufsolitaire5351
7 ай бұрын
They are businessmen first and foremost. Money is the name of the game, they may kill in pursuit of that goal but they aren’t indiscriminate butchers. A made guy or associate going around murdering is considered a loose cannon and would be punished accordingly. Cowboy-types as they call them don’t last that long. Killing is bad for business and is a last resort or again, if you stand in the way of or threaten the bottom line.
@davidgeslani48
6 ай бұрын
They run a racketeering operation. Sometimes it results in dead bodies, especially when dealing with people outside of their protection. This is generally bad for business though because dead bodies attract a lot of unwanted attention. What they really want is scared people. Scared people pay a lot for protection, dead people don't pay at all. So they'll break your legs if you cross them once, but they won't kill you as long as you keep paying tribute to the family and generally stay out of their way
@happybee7725
Жыл бұрын
The cat isn’t even in the script. It’s just some stray cat that hung around the studios. Brando just picked it up and they just rolled with it. The out come? An iconic scene. Cinematic gold.
@tenfourproductionsllc
Күн бұрын
I wonder if they did mutliple takes on this scene or was the only one and they went with it.. It's not like the cat could redo the scene over and over like actors can.
@happybee7725
Жыл бұрын
I’ve never noticed it before but when Bonasera whispers in Vito’s ear I’m pretty sure I can hear him say “murder them”
@TheDudeDiary
8 ай бұрын
Yeah!!! First time hearing it now too, “mur-der them”
@billherington
Жыл бұрын
I see that a lot of the comments here are about Marlon Brando. Well here is a fact you may or may not know. The actor was not even supposed to be there. During shooting they found him on the street, I guess he took a liking to Betzy the cat so they added him to the scene! Creating iconic imagery and a trope that would be used over and over again.
@kylenielsen5341
10 ай бұрын
Well done
@Dingledingthink
Жыл бұрын
I believe in no atheism in their secularism agenda to gain much more power and mass to misguide generation into further nuclear apocalypse 🤣
@xyber6
Жыл бұрын
Notice how when he stood up, The Don, everyone except sonny got up. Ultimate respect.
@morbius109
Жыл бұрын
When the King rises, everyone else rises. It’s no different with the Godfather. Respect was the central tenet of Don Corleone’s entire tenure. Legendary, plain and simple.
@RedbullKerr
8 ай бұрын
Sonny was underboss plus his son so might get a pass but yeah I noticed it too
@maspro21
6 ай бұрын
Sonny was already standing! 🤷🏽♂️
@TheNerdForAllSeasons
Жыл бұрын
"And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you." Fucking Hell what a sentence.
@1000dannycawley
Жыл бұрын
Justice for my grandmother Elsa Don Roberto
@1000dannycawley
Жыл бұрын
Don Roberto, i seek justice Godfather My Love🍊😍Lion Cubs My Soul😍🍊🧡
@saltymedic85
Жыл бұрын
He should have made friends with the Don sooner
@fritzforsthoefel8031
Жыл бұрын
Or at least with cat the true mastermind of the the Corleone empire
@tempo1889
Жыл бұрын
If you want to murder someone you do it yourself you don't go to someone else to have them do it for you. What the hell is wrong with this guy?
@josephgowling1794
3 ай бұрын
Almost like it’s in the script eh Einstein
@kimmigirlmakeup
Жыл бұрын
Stray cat walking around the set when Sir Brando picked it up and was petting it then proceeded to complete the scene with it! It’s a brilliant scene!!
@kingchrisa4188
7 ай бұрын
@@amitycatra8710nope the cat wasn’t in the script which makes me love the movie even more
@branflakes12341
2 жыл бұрын
This scene teaches us that fake friends Will only come to you when it suits them and throw you in the dirt till then.
@xyz123xxx7
Жыл бұрын
I disagree. He's a man who believes in The Law and not violence. Until they no longer work. He learns a lesson. "Justice" is an illusion. www.justice.gov/
@gavin-1237
4 ай бұрын
You're illiterate. The mob aren't good guys, doesnt take a genius to know that much
@josephgowling1794
3 ай бұрын
@@gavin-1237don’t think you know what illiterate means …. Fucking nonce
@thepageofawesome
2 жыл бұрын
The best part is that the Godfather is correct this was an extremely disrespectful way to approach a man to commit murder for you
@sfitzen
Жыл бұрын
The only thing you’ve got experience with murdering is your sperm every time you rinse it down the drain.
@bigkahuna3534
Жыл бұрын
depends on how much money he was offering.
@antoniosilvapaucar6158
Жыл бұрын
@@bigkahuna3534 I doubt there was no amount enough to cover the disrespect.
@bigkahuna3534
Жыл бұрын
@@antoniosilvapaucar6158 so he ordered the hospitalization of those men for free and you think if the undertaker told him 1 million dollars each he wouldn't do it yeah okay pal
@antoniosilvapaucar6158
Жыл бұрын
@@bigkahuna3534 it wasn't for free. It was a favor for a favor
@Smlll587
2 жыл бұрын
The criminal justice system failing the poor exactly the same 50 years ago and today it only services the rich
@ajerseyguy1
2 жыл бұрын
The cat wasn't planned. It was a stray that wandered onto the set and took a liking to Brando. It wasn't supposed to be in the scene. But, Coppola liked it, so he left it in.
@BoilersRock
2 жыл бұрын
"Look at this cat, he came to me as a friend. He asks me for justice, and as his friend I make sure he has it. I ask him to name the chairman of the Peoples Republic of China, and he tells me MAO." "So you see, come to me first and your enemies will fear you. And you will know the name of a famous Communist"
@carlgodfre6804
2 жыл бұрын
Just class nothing like this
@zacharycat603
2 жыл бұрын
Had a an uncle in Philadelphia who was connected. Used to say to my cousin and also to my sister that if anything like that ever happened, god forbid, don't tell the police, teacher, friend or anyone. Just tell him the name of the boy or boys and it would all be handled by the family.
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