Originally posted by dontomasso:
Well, Tony "mi dispiace" means "I'm sorry." For some reason I always thought it referred to the injury to Michael's face because the Turk was pointing to his own face at the time. Later in the conversation he says the hit on the Godfather was "business."
Wow ... another good possibility about the damage to his face. I hadn't even thought of that.
Actually, I just took a look at the script ... I see that Mike actually told Solozzo "Lassi" (essentially to "forget about it") immediately after Solozzo says "Mi dispiace" ... and right before Solozzo says that what happened to his father was just business. So ... that would knock out the apologizing for the hit on Vito idea. So it would either be for the face ... or for resorting to Italian.
(btw: yup, familiar with "mi dispiace" ... I speak a little Italian :-)
