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Set in the late 1940s in Long Island, New York, The Godfather tells the story of The Corleone, a Sicilian mafia family. The patriarch, Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) or known as "godfather" or "don," already has four adult children, three sons and a daughter, Sonny (James Caan), Fredo (John Cazale), Michael (Al Pacino) and Connie (Talia Shire). It is Connie’s wedding day with Vito’s new son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). They are about to take a family photo, until Vito realizes that Michael has not coming. Michael is the only son who seems reluctant to be involved in their family matters. He went to Dartmouth University, enlisted in the Marines to serve the country in World War II, and known as a war hero. On his sister’s wedding day, …show more content…

Solozzo is backed up by the two other crime families, The Barzinis and Tattaglias, but he needs Vito’s protection and financing too. In meeting with Sollozzo, Vito declines Sollozzo’s request, expressing Vito’s distaste towards drug trafficking business. It doesn't take long until the whole situation turns ugly. Two hit men are sent to assassinate Vito while he shops at a fruit market. However, Vito survives albeit badly hurt, leaving his first son, Sonny to take control of the family business for the time being. Having seen the news on newspaper, Michael tries to protect his father by visiting him in the hospital. Upon his arrival, he discovers that all the guards that should have protected his father are gone, leaving his father vulnerable to another assassination attempt. Michael instinctively hides his father and stands guard outside, pretending he has a gun to scare off the assassins. Not long after that, Solozzo’s bodyguard, a bunch of cop, headed by Captain McCluskey arrests Michael and even punches him. Not long after that, Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) the Consigliere of Corleone family shows up to protect

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Because of John Gotti’s personal connection with the family, he felt responsible enough to kill the Irish immigrant who killed the Don’s cousin. Seeing his actions as “heroic” in a completely distorted way, the Gambino family accepted Gotti even more than before. In 1973 he was indicted for the murder of James McBratney, the Irish-American gangster who had killed the cousin of boss Carlo Gambino. After Gambino dies, Paul Castellano is appointed as the new boss of the family, despite being thought to be Dellacroce. This was a complete upheaval in the family, changing the order of the Dons.

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As he was born as the first of fifteen in a family engrossed with politics, he rose above his younger siblings and attended Campbell Academy or Westmoreland Academy with his future political acquaintance, James Monroe. Before his education was completed, he was influenced by his father’s friend George Washington, whom his father helped the young Washington survey land and American war hero, to join the Revolutionary War. When he joined the ranks of the army, he was initially appointed as Lieutenant of the Culpeper Minutemen, which was eventually absorbed into the Eleventh Regiment of Virginia. Throughout the war, he was promoted to Captain for his victory in prominent battles of the war. Shortly after the war ended, he went back to school for study in law, where he finally completed his law degree at the College of William and Mary and began practicing law in Richmond, Virginia.

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After Capone’s marriage and birth of his child he wanted to do right by his family and left for Baltimore as a bookkeeper for a construction company, honest job, no illegal activity, only going back to crime and Chicago after the death of his father and the offer of Johnny Torrio. When Capone returned to his life of crime, he used his street smarts and bookkeeping skills to help Torrio’s illegal business operations which led to Torrio promoting Capone to the position of partner. It is rumored that Capone and Frankie Yale killed Torrio’s boss at the time. At one point in Capone’s and Torrio’s criminal career, a mayoral election threatened to jeopardize their business, so they resorted to intimidation and murder to continue on, which led to Capone’s arrest and the brutal murder of his brother Frank. After an attempt on his life by a rival gang, Torrio gave his entire business to Capone and gave him a warning to always keep low profile.

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Torrio was running a gambling operation near Capone’s home when Capone began running small errands for him. Torrio viewed Capone as a valuable asset as he was skilled with numbers and his bookkeeping helped Torrio run his operations smoothly. He immediately recruited Capone into his notorious gang “The James Street Boys”. Although Torrio left Brooklyn

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The Godfather (1972) is said to be one of the greatest films ever made. When this movie was released in 1972, it was nominated for Ten Academy Awards and it won three: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was adapted from the book with the same name written by award winning author of mafia fiction, Mario Puzo. This film takes place in a span of ten years following the life of Don Corleone, the head of the Corleone Crime Family. It was a film that changed the history of cinema, introducing a very talented filmmaker and several acting legends in the telling of a story of a Sicilian Crime Family.

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