How much shall I pay you?īonasera, Bonasera. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder for money. You don't even think to call me Godfather. But, now you come to me, and you say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You found paradise in America, you had a good trade, you made a good living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were afraid to be in my debt. I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. We've known each other many years, but this is the first time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. What do you want of me? Tell me anything, but do what I beg you to do. Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?
Then I said to my wife, "For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."
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Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison, and suspended the sentence. I went to the police, like a good American. Why did I weep? She was the light of my life. She couldn't even weep because of the pain, but I wept. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. When I went to the hospital her nose was broken. She kept her honor, so they beat her like an animal. They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to take advantage of her. Two months ago he took her for a drive, with another boy friend. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. Then I said to my wife, for justice, we must go to Don Corleone. And those two bastards, they smiled at me. Suspended sentence! They went free that very day! I stood in the courtroom like a fool. The judge sentenced them to three years in prison - suspended sentence.
Why did I weep? She was the light of my life beautiful girl. She couldn't even weep because of the pain. Her jaw was a'shattered, held together by wire. When I went to the hospital, her nose was a'broken. And then they tried to take advantage of her. Two months ago, he took her for a drive, with another boyfriend. She went to the movies with him she stayed out late.
And I raised my daughter in the American fashion.
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The rest of the cast, particularly James Caan, John Cazale, and Robert Duvall as the rest of Vito's male brood-all coping with how to take the mantle of responsibility from their father-is seamless and wonderful. Marlon Brando played against Puzo's own conception of patriarch Vito Corleone, and time has certainly proven the actor correct. In the midst of generational strife during the Vietnam years, the film somehow struck a chord with a nation fascinated by the metamorphosis of a rebellious son (Al Pacino) into the keeper of his father's dream. Based on Mario Puzo's bestselling novel about a Mafia dynasty, Coppola's Godfather extracted and enhanced the most universal themes of immigrant experience in America: the plotting-out of hopes and dreams for one's successors, the raising of children to carry on the good work, etc. Generally acknowledged as a bona fide classic, this Francis Ford Coppola film is one of those rare experiences that feels perfectly right from beginning to end-almost as if everyone involved had been born to participate in it.
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