What about the priest on the bicycle scene giving the flowers to Kay? What was that all about? Were we supposed to think it was a hit?
I think that was what Hitchcock called a Maguffin -- something that is startling but has nothing to do with the story.
As for Michael being funny onlyu in GF III, I beg to differ. Michael is a regular comedian... a really loose and funny guy.
In I he has us rolling on the floor with his "sit down, finish my dinner" routine, and in II his sly way of telling Fredo that Spanish for Bannana Daquari is Bannana Daquari.
