Talk:Michael Corleone/Archive 1

Archive 1

Death

He retired to Sicily and died there in 1997.

How did you know that? The story of the Godfather Part III had taken place in 1979. Where did you get this information? -- Toytoy 10:21, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

According to: IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099674/trivia):

The year of Michael's death is never mentioned, but an insider of Zoetrope Studios said that it was around 1997.

Although the year Michael Corleone dies is never mentioned, the DVD's "Family Tree" feature confirms Michael died peacefully in 1997.

I think this "fact" is usable. -- Toytoy 12:17, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Our Carlo Gambino article says that Michael was, at least in part, based on Gambino. Is this worth mentioning here? john k 07:44, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Apparently someone did put it in here, but I took it out. Aside from the their both being Mafia Dons who died of natural causes at an old age (as opposed to being killed by enemies), there is really nothing at all similar between Gambino and Michael Corleone. Mwelch 03:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

-I don't agree with you. There is several smililiars between Carlo Gambino and Michael Corleone. They were most powerful mafia dons in these same years and they characters was very similiar. They both were very peaceful guys they didn't gets angry often and they didn't spoke loud but very quietly. And they both were VERY ruthless they both kills a lot of people for the power and to keep this power. Carlo Gambino kills anastasia probably joe colombo too and many others to keep his power just like michael. They both were one of the most ruthless and a lot of other dons were very afraid of them. ____

Very little of what you said applies at all exclusively to Michael Corleone and Carlo Gambino. Pretty much all Mafia Dons had multiple people killed for the purposes of advancing their power. That's what they do. And that's what I meant by "both being Mafia Dons". Gambino was an immigrant who grew up poor and took the reigns of his family by killing his boss and never had any qualms about his criminality. Michael Corleone was born in the U.S., grew up well-off, was pushed by circumstances into inheriting the reigns of his family despite previously having other plans for his life, and, though he was quick to exercise his power, he always would have preferred to be able to do so from a position of legal legitimacy. I'll give you that the time period of when they were in power matches Michael better, but on the whole, Gambino is more similar to Vito Corleone (a Sicilian immigrant refugee who advanced upward through criminal endavors, not just inherited his place at the top, and who disapproved of dealing in drugs) than to Michael. Mwelch 09:03, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Pardon the intrusion, but I believe a spoiler warning may be useful in this article (and, I suspect, in the other articles of the Corleone Family). Although I was already acquainted with the plot, had I not seen the film prior it would have been a regretful read. --R

The actual chapter of Michael's passing is named "The Death of Michael Corleone", so anyone can read it and find out that he does indeed die in the film.

-I think Michael was largely based on Bill Bonanno who take care of the family buisness after his father give up his position as don to his son. Just like michael and vito corleone. Michael moves family to nevada and there he operate his buisness just like bonanno family move the buisness to Arizona and there runs their buisness they give up all buisness from New York because the other families want to kill Bill Bonanno and probably his father too. But the Bonanno family start doing great buisness in Arizona just like Corleone family doing buisness in Nevada.

Threat from Vincenzo in Pt ii?

What was the "threat" there is nothing on the pt ii page and the article about Vincenzo only says it was vague but may have implied a threat against two of Frank's kids who were living with Vincenzo in Sicily. That seems extremely unlikely. I always thought Frank was just ashamed.98.249.51.38 (talk)me —Preceding undated comment added 21:34, 25 May 2011 (UTC).

Worthless trivia: book vs. film

I'm assuming that the book noted that he attended Dartmouth. In the movie, it was Furman. Meh. Secretagentwang 21:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

In the line I believe you are referencing (from the flashback to Vito's surprise birthday party in the closing scenes of the Godfather Part II), Tom says , "Pop had to pull a lot of strings to get you a deferment," not "to get you into Furman." --Kajerm (talk) 23:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Ahhhhh, much better. Thanks! Secretagentwang (talk) 18:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy to help. --Kajerm (talk) 19:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

OMG!!! Thanks! That has bothered me for years since I live in South Carolina and we have a Furman University here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.148.215.102 (talk) 18:56, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Picture in Godfather III

If I hadn't watched the movie, by looking at the picture in the article - I'd have thought the Godfather III was a cartoon :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.74.162.121 (talk) 21:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Children

I'm reading a pretty new edition of Mario Puzo's original novel, and it mentions that Michael and Kay have a baby (Anthony) and that Kay is pregnant for a second time. Later on, it mentions she gives birth to a son, and not a daughter, like the movies show. What was the purpose of changing the gender of their second child from a son to a daughter? Just so they could have the abortion subplot in the second movie? I haven't had a chance to read the new books, but how do they deal with the fact that the original novel mentions Kay giving birth to a second son? Morhange (talk) 23:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Michael Corleone in part III

sorry , i want to learn something from movie maybe very simple. what is the name of glass taken by corleone in film ? if anyone helps , i don't forget this. forgive me because of my poor english. i'm a starter so i don't know much words. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.164.171.97 (talk) 00:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)