Ending makes no sense–spoiler alert
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Godfather
Adam60z — 4 years ago(August 28, 2021 02:08 PM)
Why does Michael
have Carlo killed, considering the whole first part of the movie is based on Connie's and Carlo's huge wedding? I makes no sense he was kill his sister's husband, even though he was a rat. The lie he told Carlo would make much more sense: that he's out of the family and going to Vegas as punishment. So Carlo wasn't that dumb to confess, believing that Michael would never kill his brother-in-law. But wasn't that smart not to hedge his bets.
But G2 was totally ridiculous, with the whole Fredo thing, Senator thing, etc. Mediocre followup script, though a much bigger budget riding the coattails of G1.
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Adam60z — 4 years ago(August 28, 2021 03:02 PM)
They conveniently left out Carlo's funeral, which I presume would have been attended by many of his wedding guests. Point is the wedding was a huge event and the center of the whole first part of the film. Then the guy not even part of the family business becomes the Don and kills the man who got married: his brother-in-law?
The other aspect I didn't get was how and why exactly did Carlo set up Santino? He beat Connie knowing she would call Sonny, knowing he would leave the secure compound and drive there using that tollbooth…that's a lot of contingencies.
Just because Sonny beat him up? Wouldn't he know that would spell his own death? They should have gone further into the setup.
I mean I know in real life the Mafia used to hit their own, and not many outsiders. I know that Sammy the Bull killed his brother-in-law. Maybe he was copycatting what he saw in G1!
Mean people suck.