Originally posted by dontommasino:
Apple and Turnbull's posts raise a point that I find very interesting. That is whether Fredo actually had a larger role in the business before Vito was shot and that his actions proved he wasn't up to the task....
I don't think he had a 'larger' role in the business at the time of Vito's shooting...more likely that up to then he was still included in Family Business in the hopes he might eventually be more useful.
After all, it was Fredo who ended up offering to drive his pop home after Paulie called in 'sick'. Had he had a role more befitting of one of the Don's sons...that task would surely have fallen to someone else.
Which makes it all the more ironic that, years later he was complaining to Michael about: "...Send FREDO off to do this, send FREDO off to do that! Let FREDO to take care of some Mickey Mouse night club somewhere! Send FREDO to pick somebody up at the airport...!!"
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