This is the business we've chosen.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Godfather: Part II
Blue Wave — 4 years ago(October 09, 2021 05:45 AM)
This is my favourite scene in this film. To me it sums up the intensity of the various feuds in the film perfectly.
There was this kid I grew up with.
He was younger than me.
Sort of looked up to me, you know.
We did our first work together.
Worked our way out of the street.
Things were good.
During Prohibition
we ran molasses into Canada.
Made a fortune. Your father, too.
As much as anyone,
I loved him and trusted him.
Later on he had an idea to build a city
out of a desert stop-over
for G. I.s going to the West Coast.
That kid's name was Moe Greene
and the city he invented was Las Vegas.
This was a great man.
A man of vision and guts.
And there isn't even a plaque,
signpost or statue of him in that town.
Someone put a bullet through his eye.
No one knows who gave the order.
When I heard it, I wasn't angry.
I knew Moe, I knew he was headstrong.
Talking loud, saying stupid things.
So when he turned up dead, I let it go.
And I said to myself,
"This is the business we've chosen. "
I didn't ask
who gave the order, because it had
nothing to do with business. -
sidgirl — 4 years ago(November 19, 2021 05:30 PM)
I love this scene/line, too. I say it all the time, when discussing a drawback to a decision made or just general difficulties with a situation. It sums it all up so well.
(But then…did Hyman actually say, "This is the business we've chosen," and let it go, considering what role he plays in the movie's plot? Or is this his way of telling Michael, "This is why?")