Originally posted by Don Matteo:
It seems to me that GFIII would have made more sense if the young, up and coming Don would have been one of Connie's boys instead of creating the bastard character Vincent Mancini, who is never acknowledged in Puzzo's novel. Michael Francis in the role of Vincent would have provided a much deeper relationship with Michael, since Michael is his Godfather.
Yeah, or using either of Sonny's already-existing sons, Santino Jr. or Frank, would have made more sense too.
I never have understood the point of concocting Vincent out of nowhere, which also contradicted some chapters of the GF novel, which dealt with what Lucy Mancini did following Sonny's death.
Again, I would speculate that Connie would have dropped "Rizzi" from the two boys' names - she was aware of the way Carlo betrayed both her father and Sonny, and aware that Carlo's betrayal had led directly to Sonny's murder. And, of course, Carlo continually beat the crap out of Connie and cheated on her.
After the first bitter reaction after Michael had Carlo rubbed out, Connie would have gotten over it real quick and realized she was way better off with Carlo dead, and she wouldn't want the boys carrying on his disgraced name. She'd have changed the boys' names to Victor Corleone and Michael Francis Corleone.
