Tom is more vicious than people give him credit for. He's the one who orchestrated what happened to Senator Geary. I don't even think Michael would have thought of that
Tom’s way of solving the senator Geary problem is an example of Tom’s way of peacefully solving issues instead of using violence. Michael’s way of dealing with Geary would have been killing him, but Tom thought of another, smarter way. Tom wasn’t vicious, he was a negotiator and a businessman and he was peaceful to a fault. His peaceful nature made him ineffectual as a wartime consigliere. Tom, like Vito, only resorted to violence as a very last resort, when there was no other way.
@@quinndeskimo4132 if the senator killed the prostitute, you are right. If however, the senator was drugged and the prostitute was killed an placed beside him...
Luca Brasi was Don Vito’s enforcer - he was tough, ruthless, sadistic, psychopathic, so much so that Vito actually feared him. But he also knew that Luca was extremely loyal to him. Somebody in Vito’s position needs an enforcer like Luca - one who works alone, doesn’t leave traces or witnesses, and would rather die than implicate him. And the Don gave his toughest assignments to Luca.
I especially agree that Luca was always given the toughest assignments that required sheer force of will. The book makes it clear that Luca’s loyalty to the Don was beyond question. That alone is very useful. Luca inspired fear, and no one would cross him. Even Sonny was nervous around him, and the Don never felt quite at ease. The film does well, but only in the scene where the Don listens to Luca’s speech at the wedding do we get a sense of how important the man is to Vito. It is clear that the Don is uncomfortable and inconvenienced, yet he makes sure to focus all his attention on Luca. It is perhaps one of the few times the Don does not seem comfortable in his own skin.
*Luca Brasi:* "honor requires that I kill your son Tom." *Vito Corleone:* "that's not very nice, have you considered how that would make me or Tom feel?"
It was perhaps a strategic failure on Corleone’s part: his lack of trust in subordinates. History had taught him that trust is a rare commodity and this lead to the circumstances of the madman’s death.
From the book we know that even before he met the Don, Luca had a foul reputation which culminated in the murder of his child and the mother of his child. Afterwards the Don used him as a psycho for hire, judiciously unleashing him as a particularly savage Rottweiler might be used. Luca’s murder and mutilation of the Capone hoodlums ‘convinced’ Capone to stay out of Vito’s affairs. During the Don’s attempts to cull the organized crime milieu of independents, Luca by himself murdered the entire Irish gang who had resisted Vito. Luca also murdered another Family boss who had tried to interfere. Presumably there were many other murders. Even the kill crazy Sonny doesn’t match Luca’s malevolence or body count.
Luca Bassi"s presences evokes extreme fear, which is most likely the reason why he didn't continue on in the plot where anyone that needed to be taken out would become predicable Lenny Montana had no acting experience the wedding scene before the meeting was . Montana memorizing his lines. The presence of Montana makes Luca"s back story believable
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I always found the use of food in the recruiting of ‘family members’ in the original book to be fascinating. Tom, Neri, and even Micheal are all introduced to the business with food. The movies use oranges, but the book uses the deep red of grapes. Spaghetti and a deep red sauce, wine, and Michael’s Appolonia always having deep grape colors mentioned. It’s blood, it always has been.
Never been around Italians I guess they will find any reasons to feed you in the book it’s more of the Italian custom than a recruiting technique The Don was big on custom and hospitality tho small gestures that would lead up to a big ask
Watching the dining scene in GF 1 where Clemenza teaches Michael to cook for 20 guys (some day) and when McClysky is eating Scaloppini al Limone in Louis' restaurant, Bronx always makes me hungry for spaghetti with just Beauvais ketchup and parmesan and nothing else - no meat, no tomatoes, no sausages, no nothing. My favorite hot in between meal since youth and favorite dish since childhood. (my luck it is so cheap)
The key elements of his usefulness were Luca could not be reasoned with, frightened off, bribed or extorted. He doesn’t care about anything or anyone other than his choice to be loyal to his Don. He doesn’t need or want any help in committing murders. So there’s less chance of detection or arrest. In the back of their mind anyone who opposes Vito or gets on Vito’s bad side has to worry about Luca shoving them into an oven or chopping them up or insert horrible death here. Having Luca around keeps people in line.
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Tom is terrifying. Lucas is scary like a Brutish tool to be aimed and fired. He is a land mind and Tom would be the sergeant strategic ingredient the placement of the mines and inducing enemies to trigger them.
I would love to see a movie of how Don Vito got to where he was at in the first movie. Seeing him back in the day was one of my favorite parts of those movies.
That was supposed to be part of the cancelled Godfather Part 4. Along with the story of Vincent, after Michael made him the new Don in Part 3, they were going to intercut flashbacks of Vito rising to be the most powerful Don in the Mafia. It was going to be structured just like Part 2, obviously.
They did film more young Vito scenes for Part 2, but the movie was trimmed down to 3 and a half hours. Paramount has the footage but haven’t released it.
@@josecarranza7555 yeah I remember seeing a documentary about the Godfather series and saying how at first couple I had filmed loads and loads of prequelle scenes and kept cutting back and forth between Michael and young Vito and that it was like a mess confusing and it's just too many time where as when he turned it down it's fit perfectly two cuts with the fiends matching up so that as Michael rose up you two rows down and they linked thematically and it worked out perfectly
It was a good sub-plot Luca really was no joke in “the family Corleone” He was always a few steps in front of people before the stroke...But the best part was how Clemenza was begging Vito not to meet Luca in person alone.... as they were driving to Lucas office the meeting was top notch it was a little bit of cat and mouse between Vito and Luca but as always Vito came out on top...
Mario Puzo constructed the most complex and fascinating storyline in any novel with the godfather. The characters are so compelling they leap from the written page and explode across the theatre of the mind. Puzo paints Luca Brasi in particular as such a sadistic monster he makes Al Capone look like a choir boy by comparison. Brasi is such a loathsome creature hell itself would spit him out. Vito Corleone brilliantly employs Brasi as a weapon because Vito is the only man he fears. Don Corleone always tried reason first, but if diplomacy failed he had five aces in the hole with Luc V
Holy S**T😳 Luca was an absolute monster I'm often conflicted sometimes I wish they would've done more with him like maybe the storyline with tom and Kelly in the movie then I go back to thinking the less we know about guys like him and Al Neri the better their backgrounds being a mystery does make them scarier
The Family Corleone was a terrible book. I know there was a lot of background for the real thing, but the dialogue was moronic and unrealistic. Way inferior to Mario Puzo's masterpiece.
When Bettye McCartt broke her watch, a cheap red one, Montana noticed. “He said, ‘What kind of watch would you like?,’ and I said, ‘I’d like an antique watch with diamonds on it, but I’ll get another $15 one.’ A week passes, and Lenny comes and he’s got a Kleenex in his hand wadded up, and he’s looking over his shoulder every step of the way.” He placed the wad of Kleenex on her desk. She opened it, and there was an antique diamond watch inside. “And he says, ‘The boys sent you this. But don’t wear it in Florida.’”
We do NOT KNOW if the infant was Luca Brasi's son, his woman gave birth to the baby, but perhaps he killed the baby because the baby was the product of infidelity, the novel does NOT give enough info about the why.
Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that in the first take of their scene together, he flubbed some lines. Director Francis Ford Coppola liked the genuine nervousness and used it in the final cut. The scenes of Luca practicing his speech were added later.
Luca Brasi rehearsing his wedding wishes for Don Corleone as he waits outside the Don’s office is actually Lenny Montana rehearsing his lines, and his classic, stammering homage to the Don (“And I hope that their first child be a masculine child”) is actually the result of the wrestler’s blowing his lines, in a way no trained actor could ever have accomplished. “We were doing the scene in the office where Luca Brasi comes in and says, ‘Don Corleone, I am honored to be here on the day of your daughter’s wedding,’” says James Caan, and the hulking Montana froze. “Francis comes to me and says, ‘Jimmy, loosen him up or something.’ So I grabbed Lenny and said, ‘Len, you’ve got to do me a favor. Stick out your tongue, and I’m going to put a piece of tape on your tongue, and it will say “Fuck You” on it.’ And Lenny says, ‘No, Jimmy, stop. Don’t make me do this.’ And I said, ‘Lenny, you’ve got to trust me. We need to get laughs in here. Everybody’s going to sleep.’ He had a tongue like a shoebox. So I put this tape on his tongue, and I said, ‘Remember, when you say, “Don Corleone,” stick your tongue out.’
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With filming well under way, the part of Luca Brasi, Don Corleone’s ruthless henchman, was still not cast. “After I made the deal with the league, some of the guys used to come around,” says Ruddy. One day, one of the young dons was accompanied by his bodyguard, a six-foot-six, 320-pound behemoth named Lenny Montana. He was a world wrestling champion who moonlighted in various jobs in the Mob
I always found it odd that Tom admitted to Solazo that not even he could call off Luca Brasi. Why give away that Luca was still working for the Corleones? Hope this video sheds some light on that. Cheers.
I’ve got a question how was Sonny and Lucas relationship did they ever fight, respect each other, like each other as friends, good friends? Also Sonny being strong or has a heart to be tough was he ever scared to fight Luca? Or was scared if it ever came with Luca having a one on one right. Also how was Sonny and his drinking? Was it bad, was it just normal? Sorry so many questions but how was it for Sonny in jail? How many times was Sonny in jail? Also how was vitos reaction with Sonny in jail.
This story makes no logical commonsense at all when it comes to the original story. If Luca wanted to kill Tom over sleeping with his Woman and also go to War with Vito over it, then the Corleone would've had to kill Luca and it would've been no way Luca would've join plus be so loyal to Vito after his son Tom had sex with his girl. Also Luca Girlfriend plan to have sex with Tom, then telling Luca because she can get a better home is ridiculous.
To this day, women play games like this. Many women slept with a guy's enemy and etc just to see how her boyfriend will react or if her boyfriend will kill the guy. Sometimes the girl want the guy killed and know her boyfriend wouldn't do it unless he had an issue with the guy. Smh.
@CineRanter Your claim is just SO FAR FETCHED !! 3:30 - the wedding scene. To read the meaning from a book written after the Death of Mario Puzo into this 1971 produced scene is absurd. And the absurdity does not just stop there. The scene with Michael and Kay talking - except for the later inserted part where the camera looks straight at Kay, asking Michael to notice Luca Brasi talking to himself - was not even supposed to be in the film. The footage is just actors rehearsing their lines where Lenny Montana/Luca Brasi just happens to be the actor in the background . It could have been James Caan or Talia Shire for matter. Lenny Montana/Luca Brasi was rehearsing his lines - just like Al Pachino and Diane Keaton did - later to be used in the scene with Brando - of whom he himself as a film debutant had tremendous respect. Which also is expressed in scene with the great actor in the office. Actually Lenny botched that scene because of his insecurity - but only to make Luca Brasi's God like impression of Don Corleone appear even stronger Francis Ford Coppola watched it afterwards and decided to expand on it to use it in the released film, because he accidently got something which further expressed Luca Brazi's submission to Don Corleone. Since you are financed by TH-cam to prey on these masterpieces, of course you have an interest in having as much fan service material considered authentic as possible - but go so far pursuing your own agenda to blatantly lie about the meaning of this iconic scene to validate books Puzo could never have read is simply disgusting. SORRY !
Why? Never happened, except in the mind of another writer. Why give credence to an unauthorized story. It's like sketching a stick figure next to the Mona Lisa.
Vito saw that as an opportunity to talk to him and make a deal that involves Luca joining the Corleone Family and him forgiving Tom Hagen for the affair with his girlfriend. Luca said yes. With that deal done, the Corleone Family became the powerful family that we all saw on The Godfather I, mostly after a shooting involving Luca getting shot in the heart and surviving the wound because of a plate armor he was wearing. And that’s why the Tattaglia family and Virgil Sollozzo got rid of Luca Brasi as soon as they could
Honestly, when i read this part of the book. I was scared for Tom and sunny. How could Lucas girl do something so careless like that? And knowing full we'll the kind of monster Luca was considering the strongest mob family that employed him we're all terrified of him as we'll with good reason.
He seemed weak to me all this is speculation, and when he actually came out in the movie he got killed like nothing right away. Al Neri was more effective.
Neri was more effective because we saw what he did. Luca was extremely effective before the events of The Godfather novel and film. At least as effective as Al Neri. They just don't show it in the movie they talk about in the book and a little bit in the movie, especially the uncut versions where they restore all the cutscenes
In the book The Don says this about Luca after pointing about that there are lots of people in the world with short tempers looking for conflict and death: “ Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be used. The idea is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.”
When I was locked up they put this movie on I was in there with so many gang banger that are all supposed to be such gangsters only me an a Irish guy out of 150 people new every single movie and everything about it I mean a few knew the name of the movie but knew nothing about it really
Aside from the other things that Luca did (the many hits, the horse’s head), the reaction to Luca’s absence tells us that he was very useful. When the Don was hit, Tom tells Sollozzo that no one can call off Luca Brasi. In the book, Tom is surprised by Sollozzo’s nonchalant reaction. Sollozzo seemed more concerned with Sonny, who was indeed fierce, but he did not equal Luca, and Sonny knew that. Sonny kept having people call Luca on the phone. Aside from the Don’s condition, people wanted to know where Luca was. Sollozzo made sure to neutralize Luca so that he would not have to deal with him. So that should tell the viewer plenty. Sollozzo’s one mistake was not realizing that the Don was just not ready to die. And really, how could he know such a thing? But he accounted for everything else, especially Luca. So when everyone finds out that Luca is swimming with the fishes (in the book, it is Tom who explains the symbol to everyone else), Sonny and the capos are devastated. Luca only cared about one thing: taking care of the Don. Losing that with his physical prowess, intimidation and ability to carry through on all promises is useful indeed. Neri became Michael’s Luca Brasi when he took over the empire.
Uh well there is enough backstory here to make a prequel what are you waiting for?…ah wait the studios will never let that be good .they’d interject some political bullshit instead that’s why the reason why these movies were good was because he had arguably more control over his project I’m sure it was a struggle but he did win a lot of the battles al Pacino being one of them they wanted him to put Ryan O’Neal that guy is about as Italian as ketchup and egg noodles
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The Jack Woltz (studio head) assignment wasn’t a typical Luca assignment but it was tricky. He had to sever the horse’s head in the stable without waking the house staff, find a way into the house, into Waltz’s bedroom without waking him up, place the head at his foot without waking him up and then leave in secrecy and silence. Luca had the brawn for it and he demonstrated brains by the finesse with which he executed it. The horse’s head in the bed was a cinematic masterstroke both inside the film and outside of it. It made Don Vito a legend the Godfather a legend. The reason I have attached the clip is to show Don Vito’s distaste for the assignment. Vito had strict codes of personal behavior and he considered Johnny Fontane’s fooling around with the “actress, this child” an “infamia”. But more than that he was bound by the godfather-godson covenant which Sicilians considered very sacred. Therein lies the significance of the title of the film.
He was never the same after the suicide attempt which kind of made him a little dim. But yeah, after the setup they gave Luca Brasi, especially in the book, it is amazing that they had him go out like that. It's also weird, like cineranter said, that Vito even sends Luca to pretend that he wants out of the family when everyone knows that Luca would never betray the Don. That in the way Luca dies both of them seem to not be in line with how both Vito & Luca are talked up in the book
I think that comes down to Vito not expecting Luca to fall so easily. The guy had survived much greater threats before, thus him dying so easily played completely contrary to all expectations. Gotta remember that while we all know what happened in the book/movie, I don’t think anyone expected a bold action like that.
So everybody got set up, and Francis says, ‘Roll ’em.’ Boom! Lenny goes, ‘Don Corleone,’ sticks his tongue out, and ‘Fuck You.’ Everybody’s laughing. Brando was on the floor. Luca got loose. The next day, he comes in and goes, ‘Don Corleone,’ and Brando went, ‘Luca,’ sticks his tongue out, and he has ‘Fuck You, Too’ on his tongue.”
Luca Brasi was the boss of a small gang that worked on its own. Luca and his gang were terribly feared by the other New York families because of the cruel, smart and incredibly fast ways to do business. Even Vito Corleone himself feared Luca Brasi and he talked with him several times trying to make an alliance so Vito can beat the Mariposa family’s Don: Giuseppe Mariposa, (which he could, but for different reasons). Luca Brasi said ‘no’ to Vito’s deals every single time because his interests were money and narcotics. But, one day, Luca Brasi had a child with his girlfriend, who Luca knew was having an affair with Tom Hagen, and he killed the girl, and threw the toddler into a heating oven and caused himself an overdose that damaged his brain so badly that he lost the abilities of talk properly or to think about something for more than 5 seconds.
Coppola fell in love with him immediately, and he was cast as Brasi. “He used to tell us all these things, like, he was an arsonist,” says Frederickson. “He’d tie tampons on the tail of a mouse, dip it in kerosene, light it, and let the mouse run through a building. Or he’d put a candle in front of a cuckoo clock, and when the cuckoo would pop out, the candle would fall over and start a fire.”
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Tom is more vicious than people give him credit for. He's the one who orchestrated what happened to Senator Geary. I don't even think Michael would have thought of that
You're right and I think tom is the most vicious one besides luca
very cunning and meticulous. he sees the bigger picture.
I have always felt that too.
Tom Hagen is a very dangerous man.
Tom’s way of solving the senator Geary problem is an example of Tom’s way of peacefully solving issues instead of using violence. Michael’s way of dealing with Geary would have been killing him, but Tom thought of another, smarter way. Tom wasn’t vicious, he was a negotiator and a businessman and he was peaceful to a fault. His peaceful nature made him ineffectual as a wartime consigliere. Tom, like Vito, only resorted to violence as a very last resort, when there was no other way.
@@quinndeskimo4132 if the senator killed the prostitute, you are right. If however, the senator was drugged and the prostitute was killed an placed beside him...
Luca Brasi was Don Vito’s enforcer - he was tough, ruthless, sadistic, psychopathic, so much so that Vito actually feared him. But he also knew that Luca was extremely loyal to him. Somebody in Vito’s position needs an enforcer like Luca - one who works alone, doesn’t leave traces or witnesses, and would rather die than implicate him. And the Don gave his toughest assignments to Luca.
I especially agree that Luca was always given the toughest assignments that required sheer force of will. The book makes it clear that Luca’s loyalty to the Don was beyond question. That alone is very useful. Luca inspired fear, and no one would cross him. Even Sonny was nervous around him, and the Don never felt quite at ease. The film does well, but only in the scene where the Don listens to Luca’s speech at the wedding do we get a sense of how important the man is to Vito. It is clear that the Don is uncomfortable and inconvenienced, yet he makes sure to focus all his attention on Luca. It is perhaps one of the few times the Don does not seem comfortable in his own skin.
Very good comment.
Focusing on the person in front of him was part of Vito's genius.
When the don was told Luka was waiting to see him,his response was….IS IT NECESSARY?
That spoke volumes.
@@marksheppard6498 Exactly, that revealed he didn't give a shit about Brasi.
@@CamcolitoNot at all. Listen to Marlons voice, that’s not a tone of “I don’t care” it’s a concerning, unquestionable tone.
*Luca Brasi:* "honor requires that I kill your son Tom."
*Vito Corleone:* "that's not very nice, have you considered how that would make me or Tom feel?"
Luca had all the makings of a varsity athlete
I always found it hard to believe that Don Corleone only had two captains in his family.
It was perhaps a strategic failure on Corleone’s part: his lack of trust in subordinates. History had taught him that trust is a rare commodity and this lead to the circumstances of the madman’s death.
From the book we know that even before he met the Don, Luca had a foul reputation which culminated in the murder of his child and the mother of his child. Afterwards the Don used him as a psycho for hire, judiciously unleashing him as a particularly savage Rottweiler might be used. Luca’s murder and mutilation of the Capone hoodlums ‘convinced’ Capone to stay out of Vito’s affairs. During the Don’s attempts to cull the organized crime milieu of independents, Luca by himself murdered the entire Irish gang who had resisted Vito. Luca also murdered another Family boss who had tried to interfere. Presumably there were many other murders. Even the kill crazy Sonny doesn’t match Luca’s malevolence or body count.
LUCA BRASI went out far to easy, considering his brutal background.
I think it means something more. It goes to show, no matter how bad you are, you can't beat the element of surprise
Luca Bassi"s presences evokes extreme fear, which is most likely the reason why he didn't continue on in the plot where anyone that needed to be taken out would become predicable
Lenny Montana had no acting experience the wedding scene before the meeting was .
Montana memorizing his lines.
The presence of Montana makes Luca"s back story believable
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I always found the use of food in the recruiting of ‘family members’ in the original book to be fascinating. Tom, Neri, and even Micheal are all introduced to the business with food. The movies use oranges, but the book uses the deep red of grapes. Spaghetti and a deep red sauce, wine, and Michael’s Appolonia always having deep grape colors mentioned. It’s blood, it always has been.
Never been around Italians I guess they will find any reasons to feed you in the book it’s more of the Italian custom than a recruiting technique
The Don was big on custom and hospitality tho small gestures that would lead up to a big ask
In the Italian dialogue in the movie, the ribbon in Apollonia's hair is described as "pruna"--plum-colored.
Watching the dining scene in GF 1 where Clemenza teaches Michael to cook for 20 guys (some day) and when McClysky is eating Scaloppini al Limone in Louis' restaurant, Bronx always makes me hungry for spaghetti with just Beauvais ketchup and parmesan and nothing else - no meat, no tomatoes, no sausages, no nothing.
My favorite hot in between meal since youth and favorite dish since childhood.
(my luck it is so cheap)
It’s rhetorical
The only thing with your theory is...
In the movie oranges were used to represent death not an introduction into the family.
The key elements of his usefulness were
Luca could not be reasoned with, frightened off, bribed or extorted. He doesn’t care about anything or anyone other than his choice to be loyal to his Don.
He doesn’t need or want any help in committing murders. So there’s less chance of detection or arrest.
In the back of their mind anyone who opposes Vito or gets on Vito’s bad side has to worry about Luca shoving them into an oven or chopping them up or insert horrible death here. Having Luca around keeps people in line.
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Tom is terrifying. Lucas is scary like a Brutish tool to be aimed and fired. He is a land mind and Tom would be the sergeant strategic ingredient the placement of the mines and inducing enemies to trigger them.
I would love to see a movie of how Don Vito got to where he was at in the first movie. Seeing him back in the day was one of my favorite parts of those movies.
That was supposed to be part of the cancelled Godfather Part 4. Along with the story of Vincent, after Michael made him the new Don in Part 3, they were going to intercut flashbacks of Vito rising to be the most powerful Don in the Mafia.
It was going to be structured just like Part 2, obviously.
They did film more young Vito scenes for Part 2, but the movie was trimmed down to 3 and a half hours.
Paramount has the footage but haven’t released it.
@@josecarranza7555 yeah I remember seeing a documentary about the Godfather series and saying how at first couple I had filmed loads and loads of prequelle scenes and kept cutting back and forth between Michael and young Vito and that it was like a mess confusing and it's just too many time where as when he turned it down it's fit perfectly two cuts with the fiends matching up so that as Michael rose up you two rows down and they linked thematically and it worked out perfectly
@@munstrumridcully What documentary is this?
@@josecarranza7555 one of the "making of" things. I'm looking for it now. When I find it, I'll give you a link 🙂
Ironic that Brasi, the fearsome killer, failed to kill himself.
It was a good sub-plot Luca really was no joke in “the family Corleone” He was always a few steps in front of people before the stroke...But the best part was how Clemenza was begging Vito not to meet Luca in person alone.... as they were driving to Lucas office the meeting was top notch it was a little bit of cat and mouse between Vito and Luca but as always Vito came out on top...
Lucas was a has been he got took out buy bums got ambushed he was a joke Luca didn't do shit but die
@@jerryjuliangutierrez7536 clearly u never read the books
Mario Puzo constructed the most complex and fascinating storyline in any novel with the godfather. The characters are so compelling they leap from the written page and explode across the theatre of the mind. Puzo paints Luca Brasi in particular as such a sadistic monster he makes Al Capone look like a choir boy by comparison. Brasi is such a loathsome creature hell itself would spit him out. Vito Corleone brilliantly employs Brasi as a weapon because Vito is the only man he fears. Don Corleone always tried reason first, but if diplomacy failed he had five aces in the hole with Luc V
Don't think they're were not people like luca in real life who liked to hurt people because in the real mob they're are.
@@ronaldclate5092 reminds me of Roy DeMeo
Holy S**T😳 Luca was an absolute monster I'm often conflicted sometimes I wish they would've done more with him like maybe the storyline with tom and Kelly in the movie then I go back to thinking the less we know about guys like him and Al Neri the better their backgrounds being a mystery does make them scarier
Luca story in the family corleone was interesting one of my favorite plots of the book
The Family Corleone was a terrible book. I know there was a lot of background for the real thing, but the dialogue was moronic and unrealistic. Way inferior to Mario Puzo's masterpiece.
When Bettye McCartt broke her watch, a cheap red one, Montana noticed. “He said, ‘What kind of watch would you like?,’ and I said, ‘I’d like an antique watch with diamonds on it, but I’ll get another $15 one.’ A week passes, and Lenny comes and he’s got a Kleenex in his hand wadded up, and he’s looking over his shoulder every step of the way.” He placed the wad of Kleenex on her desk. She opened it, and there was an antique diamond watch inside. “And he says, ‘The boys sent you this. But don’t wear it in Florida.’”
I think Luca is the only godfather character that is truly evil (worst than Michael )
If luca is purely evil so is michael and sonny and vito and every other mobster
@UCYFRYRH-sTbNcN70hI8ihIw Any character who would have his son burned alive in a furnace is EVIL,
He's certainly a sociopath at any rate.
@@publicslum6495 none of them except Luca threw a baby, let alone THEIR OWN BABY, in a furnace.. Luca steals the evil pie..
But Veto used him like a killer dog. That says a lot about Veto.
We do NOT KNOW if the infant was Luca Brasi's son, his woman gave birth to the baby, but perhaps he killed the baby because the baby was the product of infidelity, the novel does NOT give enough info about the why.
I never noticed Luca's hairline is pretty close to that of the Shah of Iran
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Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi) was so nervous about working with Marlon Brando that in the first take of their scene together, he flubbed some lines. Director Francis Ford Coppola liked the genuine nervousness and used it in the final cut. The scenes of Luca practicing his speech were added later.
Luca Brasi rehearsing his wedding wishes for Don Corleone as he waits outside the Don’s office is actually Lenny Montana rehearsing his lines, and his classic, stammering homage to the Don (“And I hope that their first child be a masculine child”) is actually the result of the wrestler’s blowing his lines, in a way no trained actor could ever have accomplished. “We were doing the scene in the office where Luca Brasi comes in and says, ‘Don Corleone, I am honored to be here on the day of your daughter’s wedding,’” says James Caan, and the hulking Montana froze. “Francis comes to me and says, ‘Jimmy, loosen him up or something.’ So I grabbed Lenny and said, ‘Len, you’ve got to do me a favor. Stick out your tongue, and I’m going to put a piece of tape on your tongue, and it will say “Fuck You” on it.’ And Lenny says, ‘No, Jimmy, stop. Don’t make me do this.’ And I said, ‘Lenny, you’ve got to trust me. We need to get laughs in here. Everybody’s going to sleep.’ He had a tongue like a shoebox. So I put this tape on his tongue, and I said, ‘Remember, when you say, “Don Corleone,” stick your tongue out.’
Dear Host, your explanation about Godfather is so unique and excellent that despite of me seeing the movies many times and reading the book in detail, I am again going to binge watch them. Hope you get all the success you are aiming for.
3:35-3:40 did anyone else catch that little joke there?
In the end Michael took a huge L his daughter was killed.The game is wicked.😂
Tom Hagen was my lawyer for yrs. He was top notch. This ‘committee owes my client an apology!’
Would you consider doing a video on Hyman Roth from godfarther part 2 ? Maybe what he was doing during godfather part 1.
With filming well under way, the part of Luca Brasi, Don Corleone’s ruthless henchman, was still not cast. “After I made the deal with the league, some of the guys used to come around,” says Ruddy. One day, one of the young dons was accompanied by his bodyguard, a six-foot-six, 320-pound behemoth named Lenny Montana. He was a world wrestling champion who moonlighted in various jobs in the Mob
I always found it odd that Tom admitted to Solazo that not even he could call off Luca Brasi. Why give away that Luca was still working for the Corleones? Hope this video sheds some light on that. Cheers.
Kelly sounds as dangerous as Livia Soprano.
I’ve got a question how was Sonny and Lucas relationship did they ever fight, respect each other, like each other as friends, good friends? Also Sonny being strong or has a heart to be tough was he ever scared to fight Luca? Or was scared if it ever came with Luca having a one on one right. Also how was Sonny and his drinking? Was it bad, was it just normal? Sorry so many questions but how was it for Sonny in jail? How many times was Sonny in jail? Also how was vitos reaction with Sonny in jail.
Read a book...💋
@@baikhous Read the book*
Wtf did I just read?
Vito and Luca have a similar dynamic to Tywin Lannister and Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane.
I said that in a Gregor Clegane character analysis video pointing out the similarities between Clegane and Brasi
@@RyanRFC oh very nice! I'll have to check that one out. 😄
@@dr3dg352 the video is called “Game of Thrones the mountain- Gregor Clegane character study”
@@dr3dg352 if you’ve watched the video look in the comments and you’ll see my comparison
This was great, can’t wait until the next one.
Thank you for inviting me to your daughter's wedding ,,,,
on the day of your daughter's wedding..🥲
The Godfather: "Is the really necessary?" huh, Tom?
😬 Woooooah, this is *great* stuff!! 🍿
This story makes no logical commonsense at all when it comes to the original story.
If Luca wanted to kill Tom over sleeping with his Woman and also go to War with Vito over it, then the Corleone would've had to kill Luca and it would've been no way Luca would've join plus be so loyal to Vito after his son Tom had sex with his girl.
Also Luca Girlfriend plan to have sex with Tom, then telling Luca because she can get a better home is ridiculous.
This theory is from a non canon source. That should be mentioned.
I would have liked more Luca in the movie. As badass as he was, it’s difficult for me to believe he died the way he did.
To this day, women play games like this. Many women slept with a guy's enemy and etc just to see how her boyfriend will react or if her boyfriend will kill the guy. Sometimes the girl want the guy killed and know her boyfriend wouldn't do it unless he had an issue with the guy. Smh.
psycho's. I've had too many
Wow, this explained so much I didn’t know by missing the book
Bro. We need a backstory about Luca and the rest of them before Godfather.
Luca was the perfect weapon
Could anyone tell me all of the books associated with The Godfather? Would be much appreciated
Great book. Wish they made this into a movie or a limited series.
Amen I would love that.
dont know if you get there... but was the baby toms?
oh... nvm... but would work for killing the kid right?
I love your videos soo much.
They never would have taken Luka the way they did.
I’d like to see this as a movie.
@CineRanter
Your claim is just SO FAR FETCHED !!
3:30 - the wedding scene.
To read the meaning from a book written after the Death of Mario Puzo into this 1971 produced scene is absurd. And the absurdity does not just stop there.
The scene with Michael and Kay talking - except for the later inserted part where the camera looks straight at Kay, asking Michael to notice Luca Brasi talking to himself - was not even supposed to be in the film. The footage is just actors rehearsing their lines where Lenny Montana/Luca Brasi just happens to be the actor in the background . It could have been James Caan or Talia Shire for matter. Lenny Montana/Luca Brasi was rehearsing his lines - just like Al Pachino and Diane Keaton did - later to be used in the scene with Brando - of whom he himself as a film debutant had tremendous respect. Which also is expressed in scene with the great actor in the office. Actually Lenny botched that scene because of his insecurity - but only to make Luca Brasi's God like impression of Don Corleone appear even stronger
Francis Ford Coppola watched it afterwards and decided to expand on it to use it in the released film, because he accidently got something which further expressed Luca Brazi's submission to Don Corleone.
Since you are financed by TH-cam to prey on these masterpieces, of course you have an interest in having as much fan service material considered authentic as possible - but go so far pursuing your own agenda to blatantly lie about the meaning of this iconic scene to validate books Puzo could never have read is simply disgusting.
SORRY !
Why? Never happened, except in the mind of another writer. Why give credence to an unauthorized story. It's like sketching a stick figure next to the Mona Lisa.
"Tom somebody" - god the cringe is real. Awful dialogue, bet the books are crap.
Vito saw that as an opportunity to talk to him and make a deal that involves Luca joining the Corleone Family and him forgiving Tom Hagen for the affair with his girlfriend. Luca said yes.
With that deal done, the Corleone Family became the powerful family that we all saw on The Godfather I, mostly after a shooting involving Luca getting shot in the heart and surviving the wound because of a plate armor he was wearing. And that’s why the Tattaglia family and Virgil Sollozzo got rid of Luca Brasi as soon as they could
Im down for half hour videos homi
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if i was in godfather i would wat be the most poweriest mafia
Ed Falco?? Like Brian Herbert s work I guess.
It’s makes sense Luca tried to come afte the Dom
None of these pseudo novels has any more place in The Godfather canon that Part III. THEY SHOULD ALL BE IGNORED.
Honestly, when i read this part of the book. I was scared for Tom and sunny. How could Lucas girl do something so careless like that? And knowing full we'll the kind of monster Luca was considering the strongest mob family that employed him we're all terrified of him as we'll with good reason.
What book was this in?
Luca is a Rare Animal
He seemed weak to me all this is speculation, and when he actually came out in the movie he got killed like nothing right away. Al Neri was more effective.
Neri was more effective because we saw what he did. Luca was extremely effective before the events of The Godfather novel and film. At least as effective as Al Neri. They just don't show it in the movie they talk about in the book and a little bit in the movie, especially the uncut versions where they restore all the cutscenes
I’m going to have to read the books
He suspected Tom
In the book The Don says this about Luca after pointing about that there are lots of people in the world with short tempers looking for conflict and death: “ Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be used. The idea is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.”
So it's from a fanfic. So why even make the video?
When I was locked up they put this movie on I was in there with so many gang banger that are all supposed to be such gangsters only me an a Irish guy out of 150 people new every single movie and everything about it I mean a few knew the name of the movie but knew nothing about it really
Was Kelly the one who got pregnant?
Aside from the other things that Luca did (the many hits, the horse’s head), the reaction to Luca’s absence tells us that he was very useful. When the Don was hit, Tom tells Sollozzo that no one can call off Luca Brasi. In the book, Tom is surprised by Sollozzo’s nonchalant reaction. Sollozzo seemed more concerned with Sonny, who was indeed fierce, but he did not equal Luca, and Sonny knew that. Sonny kept having people call Luca on the phone. Aside from the Don’s condition, people wanted to know where Luca was. Sollozzo made sure to neutralize Luca so that he would not have to deal with him. So that should tell the viewer plenty. Sollozzo’s one mistake was not realizing that the Don was just not ready to die. And really, how could he know such a thing? But he accounted for everything else, especially Luca. So when everyone finds out that Luca is swimming with the fishes (in the book, it is Tom who explains the symbol to everyone else), Sonny and the capos are devastated. Luca only cared about one thing: taking care of the Don. Losing that with his physical prowess, intimidation and ability to carry through on all promises is useful indeed. Neri became Michael’s Luca Brasi when he took over the empire.
I liked this info
Hagan as a consigliere was a cold. He never understood the workings of the mafia.
Lol what
Uh well there is enough backstory here to make a prequel what are you waiting for?…ah wait the studios will never let that be good .they’d interject some political bullshit instead that’s why the reason why these movies were good was because he had arguably more control over his project I’m sure it was a struggle but he did win a lot of the battles al Pacino being one of them they wanted him to put Ryan O’Neal that guy is about as Italian as ketchup and egg noodles
That's what I'm talking about. Why not do another Godfather with the prequel plot. That would be the smart way to go.
That's what I'm talking about. Why not do another Godfather with the prequel plot. That would be the smart way to go.
That's what I'm talking about. Why not do another Godfather with the prequel plot. That would be the smart way to go.
That's what I'm talking about. Why not do another Godfather with the prequel plot.
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sounds like it was written by or for gen z.. in other words, a stupid book
The Godfather novel has as many interpretations and contradictions as the Bible.
I have read the book three times and have been surprised everytime.
Both are fiction with real places and people sprinkled in for authenticity.
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Really enjoy the content. Thanks bro
I really appreciate your understanding and insite on the movies and books of "The Godfather." Your passion and love for these mythos is obvious by the way you describe your perspective and your understanding of these great fiction and perhaps somewhat nonfiction stories. And I look forward to more of your insightful comtent; Brilliant Bro
The Jack Woltz (studio head) assignment wasn’t a typical Luca assignment but it was tricky. He had to sever the horse’s head in the stable without waking the house staff, find a way into the house, into Waltz’s bedroom without waking him up, place the head at his foot without waking him up and then leave in secrecy and silence. Luca had the brawn for it and he demonstrated brains by the finesse with which he executed it.
The horse’s head in the bed was a cinematic masterstroke both inside the film and outside of it. It made Don Vito a legend the Godfather a legend.
The reason I have attached the clip is to show Don Vito’s distaste for the assignment. Vito had strict codes of personal behavior and he considered Johnny Fontane’s fooling around with the “actress, this child” an “infamia”. But more than that he was bound by the godfather-godson covenant which Sicilians considered very sacred. Therein lies the significance of the title of the film.
Johnny didn't mess with the girl it was Wolz
With all of his experience, weird how that incident at the bar easily happened to Luca
He was never the same after the suicide attempt which kind of made him a little dim. But yeah, after the setup they gave Luca Brasi, especially in the book, it is amazing that they had him go out like that. It's also weird, like cineranter said, that Vito even sends Luca to pretend that he wants out of the family when everyone knows that Luca would never betray the Don. That in the way Luca dies both of them seem to not be in line with how both Vito & Luca are talked up in the book
I think that comes down to Vito not expecting Luca to fall so easily. The guy had survived much greater threats before, thus him dying so easily played completely contrary to all expectations.
Gotta remember that while we all know what happened in the book/movie, I don’t think anyone expected a bold action like that.
Luca Brasi’s backstory is actually quite sad no wonder he turns out to be such a scary individual
Luca was the only man that GODFATHER feared and the GODFATHER is the MAN that LUCA feared
So everybody got set up, and Francis says, ‘Roll ’em.’ Boom! Lenny goes, ‘Don Corleone,’ sticks his tongue out, and ‘Fuck You.’ Everybody’s laughing. Brando was on the floor. Luca got loose. The next day, he comes in and goes, ‘Don Corleone,’ and Brando went, ‘Luca,’ sticks his tongue out, and he has ‘Fuck You, Too’ on his tongue.”
Luca Brasi was the boss of a small gang that worked on its own. Luca and his gang were terribly feared by the other New York families because of the cruel, smart and incredibly fast ways to do business. Even Vito Corleone himself feared Luca Brasi and he talked with him several times trying to make an alliance so Vito can beat the Mariposa family’s Don: Giuseppe Mariposa, (which he could, but for different reasons).
Luca Brasi said ‘no’ to Vito’s deals every single time because his interests were money and narcotics.
But, one day, Luca Brasi had a child with his girlfriend, who Luca knew was having an affair with Tom Hagen, and he killed the girl, and threw the toddler into a heating oven and caused himself an overdose that damaged his brain so badly that he lost the abilities of talk properly or to think about something for more than 5 seconds.
It was actually a prostitute he was with.
This guy Ed Falco is a hack writer.
Coppola fell in love with him immediately, and he was cast as Brasi. “He used to tell us all these things, like, he was an arsonist,” says Frederickson. “He’d tie tampons on the tail of a mouse, dip it in kerosene, light it, and let the mouse run through a building. Or he’d put a candle in front of a cuckoo clock, and when the cuckoo would pop out, the candle would fall over and start a fire.”
All nonsense!
Why would Sonny be doing small time robberies if the family were by then multi millionaires
Are those books any good?