I think he would not have approved the choice. Hagen loved his adoptive family members, but this would have never obscured his judgment. The Corleone family was meant to end with Michael. I think Vincent would only speed the decline and fall of Corleones empire. It would have been interesting to investigate if Michael had to witness this. Maybe witnessing the decline of the family which he sacrified everything for was the last straw.


I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)