![]() Is there an explanation from filmmakers on why there were no English subtitles provided for this particular scene?įirstly, Coppola states somewhere in the DVD commentary that the actors spoke too quickly for the subtitles to be read properly and that was a distraction for the audience, so he let the scene play out visually instead. This scene appeared to be an important plot to the film. My question is, Why wasn't there English subtitles provided for this scene? The film is an American film with English dialogue. This answer provides the English translation for the conversation between Sollozzo and Michael. (Perhaps there is some non-English dialogue while Michael courts Apollonia, but I cannot remember) The Godfather is an American film and the dialogue is in English with the exception of this dialogue between Sollozzo and Michael. Then MICHAEL, havingĭifficulty expressing himself in Italian, accidentally lapses into The WAITER occasionally brings food and they ![]() MICHAEL listening carefullyĪnd nodding every so often. There is dialogue spoken in Sicilian (according to the script) that does not have English subtitles. We fade from the distressed Michael reeling from Kay's miscarriage to a flashback of Vito watching the infant Fredo wailing out of pain with pneumonia.In The Godfather, there is an important scene in an Italian Restaurant with dialogue between Michael Corleone and Virgil Sollozzo. We see empathy and worry in Vito's face, qualities that, we're starting to notice, are rare in Corleone men. Cut to Vito driving a car as Don Fanucci hops in, demanding a cut of the money Vito and his friends are making off of stolen goods. After Don Fanucci lays out the terms of the protection racket he's proposing for Vito, Vito goes and tells his friends. They mull their options and, ultimately, Vito says he'll reason with Don Fanucci and get him to take less, talking his friends into an agreement it seems like they don't quite understand.ĭuring morning celebrations at a big street festival, Vito meets with his friends to get their share of the money and assures them that he'll get Don Fanucci to agree to his deal. Vito meets with Don Fanucci in a dark restaurant, and offers him $100. At first, Fanucci seems offended, but after Vito offers a half-hearted explanation for coming up short, Fanucci shows his impressed. He says Vito has a lot of balls, and ends up praising him, telling Vito that if he ever needs anything to come see him. On his way out, he says Vito's done well. Vito doesn't seem to take much pleasure from this. Soon, we are in the middle of the San Rocco festa in the streets of Little Italy. As priests wade through the crowd and an effigy of the saint with dollars bills taped to it is carried through the street, Don Fanucci makes his rounds, greeting the people he so regularly extorts. Vito walks along the rooftops, stalking Don Fanucci from above. Don Fanucci watches a puppet show with knights battling and, ironically, says it's too violent for him and walks away. Vito, on the rooftops, grabs a gun hidden behind a chimney. ![]() From the roof, he enters a building-the same building that we see Don Fanucci walk into. Vito unscrews a lightbulb in the stairwell, and after Don Fanucci fiddles with it to make it works, he turns to see Vito clutching something wrapped in towels. It's a gun, and Vito shoots him three times as fireworks go off at the festa. The towel catches fire and Vito snuffs it out.īack on the rooftops, Vito quickly moves to dispose of the gun. ![]() He splits it into many pieces and drops those pieces down the chimneys of several different apartments. ![]() He walks down to the street, fireworks going off in every direction, showing him in light for the first time in this entire sequence. Vito joins his wife and small children on the stoop of their brownstone to enjoy the festa happenings. The young Fredo and Connie play with American flags while Vito tells the infant Michael that he loves him very much. We flash forward to Michael returning to the Nevada compound in the heart of winter. It's quiet and dark, and from the dirty dishes on the table it has the air of having been suddenly abandoned. Michael finds Kay sitting at a sewing machine, but they don't even acknowledge each other. Michael finds his mother and asks if by Vito being strong for the family he ran the risk of losing it-clearly asking his mother if he himself will lose his family. ![]()
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