Everything I learnt in life was from the Godfather

A recent thread in a mailing list was titled "Everything I learnt in life was from the Godfather" - and off I went with my list of favorite Godfather qutes and scenes.

Movie 0 - I mean the book, it was a movie in itself!

The Don on his death bed- "Life is beautiful'

Don to Tom Hagen - "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men can with guns."

Movie 1

Don to Fontane (looking at Sonny) - "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."

Mike to Kay - "That's my family, Kay, it's not me."

The Don to Luca regarding Solozzo and the Tataglia's"I want you to see what he's got under his fingernails."

Clemenza to the group - (lazily eating his sphagetti) - "It's a Sicilian message - means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes at the bottom of the ocean"

Sonny to Tom - "Now listen up - I want somebody very good -- to plant that gun. I don't want my brother coming out of that loo with just his dick in his hands, alright?"

Movie 2

Michael to the Senator - "My offer is this. Nothing'.

Michael - "My father taught me many things keep your friends close, but your enemies closer, he said"

Roth to a group - "I'd give a million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting"

Michael kissing Fredo on the lips in Cuba - "You broke my heart fredo !"

Michael to Fredo - "You're nothing to me now, not a friend, not a brother. I dont wanna know you or whatcha doing..."

Michael to Hagen - "If histoy has taught you anything, it says you can kill anybody"

Pentangeli to Hagen in the Jail - "Like those old Roman soldiers ..They went home and sat in a hot tub n opened up their veins, and bled to death. And sometimes they held a little party before they did it."

Movie 3

Mike to Mary : "I would rot in Hell to keep you safe."

Vincent Mancini to Al Neri before the killing of the arch bishop -
"Neri, take a train to Rome and light a candle for the archbishop."

Altobello to some sheep herd (Mosca ?!)- "I have a stone in my shoe. I want you to remove it!"

(Wasn't Mosca a main character in the novel Mario Puzo wrote before the Godfather? Its some WW II novel based in Germany where they used cigarette as curency! Voila! The Dark Arena!)

Altobello to Michael - "I've lost all the venom, all the juice of what they call youth"

Kay to Mike - "No, I don't hate you. I dread you."

Mike to Don Tomassino -- "Politics and crime , they're the same thing."

Some favorite moments -

-- Michael staring at Al Neri even as he makes his peace with Fredo at their mother's funeral - Francis Ford Coppola at his bizzare best!

-- Quarantined Vito sings out and the scene shifts to the first communion of Anthony Vito Corleone.

-- The look on Kay Adams Corleone's face when Michael cries out after Mary is killed at the end of movie 3.
(Personally, I think Kamal Haasan copied his crying from Al Pacino's crying at the end of movie 3!)

-- The end of Michael Corleone (last scene movie 3) - and the small puppy. Man, that was some artistic touch.

-- The sad 'ocarina' playing when in movie III while Frank Pentangeli slits his hand and dies in his bath tub.

And finally, Francis Ford Coppola himself on the Godfather ---

I always thought of THE GODFATHER as the story of a great king with three sons. The oldest was given his passion and aggressiveness; the second, his sweet nature and childlike qualities; and the third, his cunning and coolness.

OK ! Thats enough GODFATHER for a lifetime :-)