Originally posted by JustMe:
...We don't see Clemenza either. Maybe, they were celebrating Christmas (In that script it is Christmas for unknown reason, not Vito's birthday)
In the movie, it is BOTH Christmastime (early December) and Vito's birthday. Remember Sonny makes the reference to Pearl Harbor and then moments later (after Michael's bombshell news about enlisting in the Marines) tells Connie to "...go show Carlo the Christmas tree..."
And a minor note regarding Clemenza's absense in the flashback scene... if Richard Castellano was written out of GFII due to salary and script disputes...there was certainly no way he was going to wind up in that last scene.
Originally posted by JustMe:
...I only know why there must be Tessio: the meaning of the scene is that Michael finally killed almost half people present in that happy room, and Tessio was one of them.
And all were killed (Tessio/Carlo/Fredo) because each in some way betrayed Michael and/or the Corleone Family.
So I agree...for the scene to have full impact...Tessio had to be there, Clemenza did not.
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