Puzo wrote GF3, but FFC changed EVERYTHING about it!
Puzo wanted Vincent's charcter to be Sonny's REAL son, Santino Corleone Junior.
Search for Ricardo or Member number (I THINK 721) and go to one of the many GF3 topics you'll find!
You wouldn't be the same hypocrite that asks about what luca Brasi does in the novel, by any chance would you?
Luca is the Don's bodyguard, and to cast an evil image Puzo delves into this sick Mob Assassin's murders!
Johnny Fontane is the Don's Godson, and the reason for the FAMOUS Horsehead in bed scene. "Act like A Man" has to do with Johnny leaving his daughters and wife for a hollywood whore.
The Johnny Fontane Vs. Jack WOltz war continues at the Academy Awards. (Puzo has a love for movie making, SEE The Last DOn)
Johnny's friend Nino Valenti is a struggling alcoholic added to cast a pathetic loser hasbeen image on Fontane. After Johnny's fame is over they reunite. Nino later dies from alcoholism. (Perhaps Puzo had a friend who died of alcoholism, after all we hear about Puzo's reallife Gambling addiction, yet we never hear Puzo and Alcohol mentioned in the same sentence, perhaps he didn't drink and wanted to preach against drinking.)
Jack Woltz is the Pedophile Studio Owner who made his way up from the docks at Fisherman's Wharf.
Lucy Mancini is added to cast Santino's hotheaded Playboy image, he cheats on his wife with the bridesmaid. She's partially the reason Santino was in the city so much that he was eventually murdered. After Santino dies, Lucy is grief stricken and Tom Hagen moves her to Las vegas under the watchful eye of Fredo Corleone.
Deanna Dunn is added to portray the typical Blonde hollywood starlet in the 1940's. She later marreid Vegas bigwig Fredo Corleone, but they had a falling out in the late 50's.
Jules Segal was added to bring Lucy Mancini out of depression and to add some romance into the novel, where Mike and Kay were separated for 4 years. Jules has Mike's jaw fixed.
Also, Puzo added the Abortion, Throat Warts, Jaw Restoration, and Vaginary Operation issues to brag about his surgical knowledge.
Moe Greene is the Bugsy Siegel Las Vegas bigwig who watches over Fredo for Don Molinari and is in debt to the Corleones for bankrolling his Casino. He was added to tie the Corleones into Gambling and Las Vegas.
The Moe, Ola and Heyman angle was cast to imitate the Siegel, Alo, and Lansky Gambling Prohibition angle.