Fwd: Michael Correleone

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> From: Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@...>
> Subject: Michael Correleone
> Date: December 8, 2012 1:06:59 PM CST
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> To Joanneý..Wowýyou made me realize my fascination with Michael the younger brother in the Godfather! All through the movie, he is seriously thinking, all the time. Analyzing every situation he is iný.the most wrenching, is seeing his young bride in the car, from afar, and for an instant realizing it will blow up. Al Pacino, really "is" Richard III in so many of the scenes. I wonder if the writer of that movie, had the Richard character in the back of his mind, as a templateý..good materialýI feel! Carol D.

His second wife (Diane Keaton) seems to agree with Connie, right at the end, who calls him a cold-hearted bastard- for knocking off his brother-in-law and loads of other people (guilty or otherwise), and then aborts his his child in the second one for the same sort of reason...
...so although it's an intersting analogy, I don't think there's many here to agree with you!!! lol

BTW, I haven't got a problem discussing it personally, but that's because I don't think it really matters if Gloucester was a nice fellow or not... politics, eh?!

PS: Thinking about it, I think you're wrong; Michael Corleone is far clever and more Machiavellian than RIII. He wouldn't have been taken in by Buckingham; can you imagine him putting up with Stanley; and as for charging down Ambion Hill... he would've got someone to do it for him!!! lol

Cool thread though. Keep your friends close, Carol... ;)

--- In , Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@...> wrote:
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> > From: Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@...>
> > Subject: Michael Correleone
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> > To Joanne…..Wow…you made me realize my fascination with Michael the younger brother in the Godfather! All through the movie, he is seriously thinking, all the time. Analyzing every situation he is in….the most wrenching, is seeing his young bride in the car, from afar, and for an instant realizing it will blow up. Al Pacino, really "is" Richard III in so many of the scenes. I wonder if the writer of that movie, had the Richard character in the back of his mind, as a template…..good material…I feel! Carol D.
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Michael does not force his wife to have an abortion. She has the abortion and tells Michael it is a miscarriage. That leads to the famous scene of Keaton saying: "It was an abortion, Michael. All this Sicilian stuff must end."

You can't take this analogy too far. I only meant it in the prototypes of the 3 brothers. And that, amazingly, is pretty accurate.

I also like the fact that Michael - at the end of 3 - has a remarkably similar reaction to the death of his daughter as Richard's to his son. Great, great grief. Maire.

--- In , "blancsanglier1452" <blancsanglier1452@...> wrote:
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> His second wife (Diane Keaton) seems to agree with Connie, right at the end, who calls him a cold-hearted bastard- for knocking off his brother-in-law and loads of other people (guilty or otherwise), and then aborts his his child in the second one for the same sort of reason...
> ...so although it's an intersting analogy, I don't think there's many here to agree with you!!! lol
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> BTW, I haven't got a problem discussing it personally, but that's because I don't think it really matters if Gloucester was a nice fellow or not... politics, eh?!
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> PS: Thinking about it, I think you're wrong; Michael Corleone is far clever and more Machiavellian than RIII. He wouldn't have been taken in by Buckingham; can you imagine him putting up with Stanley; and as for charging down Ambion Hill... he would've got someone to do it for him!!! lol
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> Cool thread though. Keep your friends close, Carol... ;)
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> --- In , Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@> wrote:
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> > > From: Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@>
> > > Subject: Michael Correleone
> > > Date: December 8, 2012 1:06:59 PM CST
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> > > To Joanne…..Wow…you made me realize my fascination with Michael the younger brother in the Godfather! All through the movie, he is seriously thinking, all the time. Analyzing every situation he is in….the most wrenching, is seeing his young bride in the car, from afar, and for an instant realizing it will blow up. Al Pacino, really "is" Richard III in so many of the scenes. I wonder if the writer of that movie, had the Richard character in the back of his mind, as a template…..good material…I feel! Carol D.
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Regardless of abortions (shurely 'like our marriage Michael'?), you right you can't take the analogy too far. In fact you can't take it anywhere. LOL

--- In , "mairemulholland" <mairemulholland@...> wrote:
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> Michael does not force his wife to have an abortion. She has the abortion and tells Michael it is a miscarriage. That leads to the famous scene of Keaton saying: "It was an abortion, Michael. All this Sicilian stuff must end."
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> You can't take this analogy too far. I only meant it in the prototypes of the 3 brothers. And that, amazingly, is pretty accurate.
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> I also like the fact that Michael - at the end of 3 - has a remarkably similar reaction to the death of his daughter as Richard's to his son. Great, great grief. Maire.
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> --- In , "blancsanglier1452" <blancsanglier1452@> wrote:
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> > His second wife (Diane Keaton) seems to agree with Connie, right at the end, who calls him a cold-hearted bastard- for knocking off his brother-in-law and loads of other people (guilty or otherwise), and then aborts his his child in the second one for the same sort of reason...
> > ...so although it's an intersting analogy, I don't think there's many here to agree with you!!! lol
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> > BTW, I haven't got a problem discussing it personally, but that's because I don't think it really matters if Gloucester was a nice fellow or not... politics, eh?!
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> > PS: Thinking about it, I think you're wrong; Michael Corleone is far clever and more Machiavellian than RIII. He wouldn't have been taken in by Buckingham; can you imagine him putting up with Stanley; and as for charging down Ambion Hill... he would've got someone to do it for him!!! lol
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> > Cool thread though. Keep your friends close, Carol... ;)
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> > --- In , Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@> wrote:
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> > > > From: Carol Darling <cdarlingart1@>
> > > > Subject: Michael Correleone
> > > > Date: December 8, 2012 1:06:59 PM CST
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> > > > To Joanne…..Wow…you made me realize my fascination with Michael the younger brother in the Godfather! All through the movie, he is seriously thinking, all the time. Analyzing every situation he is in….the most wrenching, is seeing his young bride in the car, from afar, and for an instant realizing it will blow up. Al Pacino, really "is" Richard III in so many of the scenes. I wonder if the writer of that movie, had the Richard character in the back of his mind, as a template…..good material…I feel! Carol D.
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