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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 6, 2020 20:02:38 GMT
You could make the argument he did what he did for his family and perhaps less reprehensible than Michael, but he is still a violent criminal.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 6, 2020 20:22:13 GMT
The only violence we see from him is when he sliced the stomach of Don Fanuccio because he killed his father and brother.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Jul 6, 2020 20:28:33 GMT
The only violence we see from him is when he sliced the stomach of Don Fanuccio because he killed his father and brother. That wasn't Fannuci (Fannuci was the guy he shoots that was extorting money from his crew). Beside the violence he did himself, he also ordered the horse to be killed and used Lucca to force (by gunpoint) to order that band instructor to tear up Johnny Fontane's contract. On top of that you pretty much have to be a violent sociopath to run a criminal empire. There is no getting around that. |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jul 6, 2020 20:36:33 GMT
Yes.
Committing the violence isn't what makes him evil.
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Post by Marv on Jul 6, 2020 20:37:40 GMT
He doesn’t appear to be an evil family man, but he runs an organization that undoubtedly enacts and condones evil actions. So shades of evil for sure.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 6, 2020 20:42:08 GMT
Vito Corleone is a very stylized Mafia Boss. All the rest had a lot of blood on their hands. He killed Don Fanucci in II. One of my five favorite scenes in any movie. The music, the look on Vito's face after Fanucci leaves, the orange, the music (!), Fanucci's white suit. Tapping the light bulb, the buttons hitting the floor. Amazing in every last detail. Even Fanucci wiping the dog crap off his shoe
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 6, 2020 21:05:38 GMT
The only violence we see from him is when he sliced the stomach of Don Fanuccio because he killed his father and brother. That was Doc Ciccio
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Post by millar70 on Jul 6, 2020 22:27:18 GMT
In the book, on his return to Sicily, Vito kills more than a few guys in vengeance of his parents murders.
I'm not saying he's Osama Bin Laden evil, but Vito definitely ain't no saint.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 6, 2020 22:40:50 GMT
In the book, on his return to Sicily, Vito kills more than a few guys in vengeance of his parents murders. I'm not saying he's Osama Bin Laden evil, but Vito definitely ain't no saint. He also sent Luca Brasi to chop up a few Chicago gangsters with an axe in the book. Just because you have someone to do your dirty work doesn't mean the blood isn't on your hands. See Hitler, Adolf for example
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 7, 2020 16:09:33 GMT
Well he certainly wasn't a saint, that's for sure. Yet Vito lived by his own code of ethics that included family, friendship, and loyalty. And as other posters said he wasn't exactly completely evil either. He would arrange a killing or beating only for somebody who would truly deserve it, at least in his eyes.
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Post by hobowar on Jul 7, 2020 19:00:39 GMT
Who's to say?
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Post by angel on Jul 7, 2020 21:53:32 GMT
"We're all part of the same hypocrisy."
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