Originally posted by dontomasso:
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I think Michael was far more violent and inclined to kill more people than maybe was necessary.
Perhaps you forget that the younger Vito Corleone had no problem murdering not only Don Fanucci, but Don Ciccio and his buttonmen who had killed his family some 20 years before. While the murders of the two 'Dons' could be considered 'necessary'...the others might not have been, so many years later.
Originally posted by dontomasso:
...when Woltz tells Hagen he "aint no band leader," they ratchet up the fear a level by killing his horse (and not him) and that does the trick.
Lovely as he was, I don't think the horse would've been much help in getting Johnny that movie part had they killed Woltz instead. There was no reason to kill either the bandleader or the producer...as long as both complied with Vito's wishes.
Originally posted by dontomasso:
...Michael also had some of Sonny's temper, which we see flaring up most in GF II in a couple of scenes involving Tom Hagen ...
Sonny's temper was more of a raw, emotional kind...and it was the kind that got him killed.
The temper we see in Michael in GFII is more that of a man under intense pressure not only in his business life, but in his personal life (what little he pays attention to it) as well.
Also remmeber when he loses his temper with Tom at that point, he had just been given the same runaround type of reply with regard to Fredo's whereabouts as well. ("I asked about Fredo...") Though his outburst about the baby was a bit unfair to Tom, it was in a way understandable. He has just been told that he's lost an unborn child which he had desperately wanted to be a boy. Tom might've been a bit smarter by simply replying that he didn't know.
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