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Re: Why Doesn't Michael Kill Fredo In Cuba?
[Re: pizzaboy]
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02/05/10 01:56 PM
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Another reason is that Michael is more deliberate than Sonny. He would have wanted to know more. IOW I know you betrayed me but why, who else was involved, how long has this been going on, etc...the same sort of conversation that Tiger and Elin or Jenny and Mark Sandford have been having..  And since Michael had already lost the logically most rational guy (his bodyguard) to do the job on Fredo, would he have done the job himself?
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Re: Why Doesn't Michael Kill Fredo In Cuba?
[Re: Lilo]
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02/05/10 02:10 PM
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Michael was frantic to get Fredo in the car with him and on the plane out--probably because he wanted to pump him for info on who else was involved in the plot against him. And, as soon as he's alone with Tom in Vegas after escaping from Cuba, he asks, "Where's my brother?" But when Tom replies that he's probably in NY, Michael doesn't seem frantic. "Tell him I know Roth mislead him..." etc. He could have had Tom arrange to have Fredo snatched off a NY street and brought to him almost immediately, or even have him whacked in the street. Instead Michael waited weeks, or even months, until he got caught in the perjury trap.
I've never understood Michael's sudden loss of urgency in getting Fredo to the compound.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Why Doesn't Michael Kill Fredo In Cuba?
[Re: Turnbull]
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02/05/10 02:32 PM
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Michael was frantic to get Fredo in the car with him and on the plane out--probably because he wanted to pump him for info on who else was involved in the plot against him. And, as soon as he's alone with Tom in Vegas after escaping from Cuba, he asks, "Where's my brother?" But when Tom replies that he's probably in NY, Michael doesn't seem frantic. "Tell him I know Roth mislead him..." etc. He could have had Tom arrange to have Fredo snatched off a NY street and brought to him almost immediately, or even have him whacked in the street. Instead Michael waited weeks, or even months, until he got caught in the perjury trap.
I've never understood Michael's sudden loss of urgency in getting Fredo to the compound.
Poor writing. Oh, wait. Can't be. This isn't GFIII.  Athough I think calling Michael "frantic" is an overstatement, I think all the posters above make good points. Here's another view... I'm in the minority that believes that Michael did not view Fredo as a threat, but killed him strictly out of vengeance and anger. If that's the case, it makes sense that Michael would deal with more pressing issues (and take his mother's reaction into account) before turning his attention back to Fredo. Like Fabrizio, Fredo's time would come. It didn't really matter when.
"A man in my position cannot afford to be made to look ridiculous!"
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Re: Why Doesn't Michael Kill Fredo In Cuba?
[Re: dontomasso]
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02/05/10 11:27 PM
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... during the chaos of the Castro takeover it seems it would have been relatively easy to knock him off and come back with a plausable story that "poor Fredo" died when the rebels were rioting... And how, in the middle of all this chaos, would it be 'relatively easy' for Michael to knock off Fredo? Poison his drink? Strangle him during that New Year's embrace? Summon his bodyguard to take care of it after killing Roth? (Not knowing of course, that the bodyguard himself was already dead.) Shoot him dead in the streets? Have his driver run Fredo down? Not only did Michael still need information from his lousy traitor of a brother, but it didn't appear to be his way to simply pop anybody on the spur of the moment without a specific plan in place. Apple
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Re: Why Doesn't Michael Kill Fredo In Cuba?
[Re: Sicilian Babe]
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02/17/10 12:32 PM
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SB... I agree with you. I don't think Michael was sure that he was going to kill him until their meeting in Tahoe. I think that's the whole reason why he didn't kill him in Cuba; then, plus, he is human too. I think he was more hurt and shocked than anything, hence the hug n kiss embrace between the two.
"From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn." (King of New York)
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