New poster here - finally found a Godfather related name that wasn't takent (man that is hard to do with you guys - lol).

I definately voted in favor of the flashbacks, but i have a question: last month AMC ran Godfather, Part 2 as their movie of the month, and during it they mentioned something about the original number of flashbacks being cut rather severely from the first run of the movie to what we see now.

Now i don't own any of the DVD reissues of the movie or anything (please forgive me) so i don't know if they were included in a reissue - but what would those scenes have covered?

Hi Genco. Congratulations on finding an "untaken" Godfather name .

Some others were also watching GFII on AMC and were wondering about that very thing. They started a discussion in the thread GFII Flashback Scenes .

Unfortunately, the discussion didn't go into what was in the deleted 8 flashback scenes. I'm sure someone here who's more knowledgable than I must know. We'll "be patient" (as Michael said to Tessio & Clemenza ) and await a reply. I'm sure it won't take long for a fellow member to come to our rescue.

The flashbacks made the movie in my opnion. at the start of GFII how can you watch little vito come to America, and then in his room look at the Statue of Liberty and place his breif case on the bunk, sit down and start to sing. how can you watch that and not shed a tear.

Welcome to the club, Cristina!

There are several deleted scenes from GFII.

1)Searching for Vito (Ciccio's men looking for boy)
2)Fanucci Attacked (gets throad cut by punks)
3)Clemenza: "I'm my own boss" (added to cafe scene)
4)Playing The Flute (visit to the gunsmith)
5)Discussing Fanucci (additional Vito truck footage)
6)Reasoning with Signor Roberto (additional footage)
7)Don Vito Corleone (added footage of Roberto visiting Vito)
8)Introducing Hyman Roth (Hyman Suchowski)
9)Vito's Revenge (killing Ciccio's goons)

Just in case you didn't know, our very own Don Malta, the creator of these boards has an additional website that is strictly devoted to The Godfather and anything related. That site can probably answer almost any movie related question that you may have in regards to additional footage, original scripts, photos, fiming locations, timelines, etc.
Here's the link just in case you were not aware of it :

http://www.jgeoff.com/godfather.html


Don Cardi

The scene with Vito killing Ciccio's men in my opinion is great and should have been left in. There is a cooralation between Vito and Michael in almost every aspect (whether its similiar or exact opposite), so I'm thinking is Vito killing Ciccio's men related to Michael settling all family business or Michael killing Solozzo and McCluskey.