电影教父英文剧情介绍
⑴ 用英语写出电影教父的主要内容几句话就可以
The story begins as "Don" Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia "family", oversees his daughter's wedding with his wife Carmela. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Through Michael's life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don't want to follow the old ways and look out for community and "family". An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don's fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
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⑵ 谁能介绍一下电影《教父》
教父剧情介绍
主演 马龙·白兰度 marlon brando 阿尔·帕西诺 al pacino 詹姆斯·卡恩 james caan 罗伯特·杜瓦尔 robert vall 更详细电影资料 片长 175 分钟 类型 剧情 犯罪 地区 美国 导演 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉 francis ford coppola 年份 1972年3月15日 语言 英语 意大利语 拉丁语 级别 argentina18 australiar austria16 canada13+ chile18 finlandk-16 finlandk-18 france-12 hong kongiib ireland18 israelpg italyvm14 japanr-15 mexicoc netherlands16 norway18 peru18 singaporem18 south korea18 spain18 sweden15 uk18 usar germany16
1945年夏天，美国本部黑手党科莱昂家族首领，“教父”维托·唐·科莱昂为小女儿康妮举行了盛大的婚 礼。“教父”有三个儿子好色的长子逊尼，懦弱的次子弗雷德和刚从二战战场回来的小儿子迈克。其中逊尼是“教父”的得力助手；而迈克虽然精明能干，却对家 族的“事业”没什么兴趣。 “教父”是黑手党首领，常干违法的构当。但同时他也是许多弱小平民的保护神，深得人们爱戴。他还有 一个准则就是决不贩毒害人。为此他拒绝了毒枭素洛佐的要求，并因此激化了与纽约其它几个黑手党家族的矛盾。 圣诞前夕，素洛佐劫持了“教父”的大女婿汤姆， 并派人暗杀“教父”。 “教父”中枪入院。素洛佐要汤姆设法使逊尼同意毒品买卖，重新谈判。逊尼有勇无谋，他发誓报仇，却无计可施。 迈克去医院探望父亲，他发现保镖已被收买，而警方亦和素洛佐串通一气。各家族间的火并一触即发。迈克制定了一个计策诱使素洛佐和警长前来谈判。在一家 小餐馆内，迈克用事先藏在厕所内的手枪击毙了素洛佐和警长。 迈克逃到了西西里，在那里他娶了美丽的阿波萝妮亚为妻，过着田园诗般的生活。而此时，纽约各个黑手 党家族间的仇杀却越来越激烈。逊尼也被康妮的丈夫卡洛出卖，被人打得千疮百孔。“教父”伤愈复出，安排各家族间的和解。听到噩耗的迈克也受到了袭击。被收 买的保镖法布里奇奥在迈克的车上装了炸弹。迈克虽幸免于难，却痛失爱妻。 迈克于1951年回到了纽约，并和前女友凯结了婚。 日益衰老的“教父”将家族首领的位置传给了迈克。在“教父”病故之后，迈克开始了酝酿已久的复仇。他派人刺杀了另两个敌对家族的首领，并亲自杀死了谋害他 前妻的法布里奇奥。同时他也命人杀死了卡洛，为逊尼报了仇。 仇敌尽数剪除。康妮因为丈夫被杀而冲进了家门，疯狂地撕打迈克。迈克冷峻地命人把康妮送进了疯人院。 他已经成了新一代的“教父”——唐·科莱昂。
⑶ 电影《教父》讲的是什么
电影《教父》讲的是美国黑手党柯里昂家族首领，教父维托柯里昂以及他子女：长子桑尼，次子弗雷德和小儿子迈克。老教父在和其他家族斗争中去世，桑尼也被暗杀，本来与世无争的小儿子逐渐显露出他的才干，天赋，最终成为了新一代的教父。
该片改编自马里奥·普佐的同名小说，讲述了以维托·唐·科莱昂为首的黑帮家族的发展过程以及科莱昂的小儿子迈克如何接任父亲成为黑帮首领的故事。1973年该片获得第45届奥斯卡奖最佳电影、最佳男主角、最佳改编剧本奖。2007年被美国电影协会选为“百年百佳影片第二位”。
(3)电影教父英文剧情介绍扩展阅读：
影片票房
《教父》于1972年在美国上映，上映首周票房就超过了524万美元，首轮上映的票房达到8150万美元，恰好是其拍摄和宣传投入的14倍。影片重新上映后，北美票房总额达到1亿3400万美元。截至1997年5月，影片在全球的累计票房超过2亿4500万美元。
盘片发行
2013年12月，中国首次引进《教父》系列电影，并由泰盛文化发行《教父三部曲》BD四碟套装珍藏版以及DVD三碟套装珍藏版
⑷ 求一篇关于电影<教父>的英语文章
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During a backyard wedding reception for his daughter, Connie, and his new son-in-law, Carlo Rizzi, Don Vito Corleone, a Mafia boss known as the Godfather, concts business in his office. With him are his oldest son, Sonny, and his adopted son and family lawyer, Tom Hagen. Several people come to Vito's office to make requests, including Bonasera, an undertaker seeking revenge for a crime against his daughter, and Johnny Fontane, a Frank Sinatra-like singer and actor who wants Vito to help land him a part in a movie. As the wedding reception draws to a close, Vito dispatches Tom to Los Angeles to talk to Jack Woltz, the studio owner. Despite Tom's prodding, Woltz refuses to give Fontane the part, so the Corleones make Woltz “an offer he can't refuse.” The day after the meeting with Tom, Woltz wakes up in a blood-stained bed to discover the severed head of his prized horse under the covers at his feet.
Back in New York, a gangster named Sollozzo wants to involve the Corleone family in his narcotics smuggling operation. Two other crime families, the Barzinis and Tattaglias, are already in on the scheme, but Sollozzo wants Vito's protection and financing too. Vito arranges a meeting with Sollozzo. Sonny and Tom support the idea of expanding the family business, but Vito cannot overcome his initial skepticism about the scheme and his distaste for drug trafficking. Vito rejects the offer and orders his bodyguard, Luca Brasi, to investigate Sollozzo. Luca is murdered, and shortly afterward a hit man attempts to assassinate Vito while he shops at a fruit market. Vito survives the shooting but is badly hurt, and Sonny temporarily takes control of the family business.
Vito's youngest son, Michael, a World War II hero, is in town for his sister's wedding, accompanied by his WASP girlfriend from New England, Kay Adams. Unlike Sonny and Tom, Michael is a “civilian” who has vowed never to get involved in the family business. While visiting his father in the hospital, however, Michael discovers that the guards who were supposed to be protecting Vito have disappeared, leaving Vito vulnerable to another assassination attempt. Michael hides his father and pretends to be a gangster holding a gun to scare off the assassins. He grills a crooked cop named Captain McCluskey about whereabouts of the men who should be guarding Vito, and McCluskey punches him. Michael is knocked unconscious. Days later, after receiving advice and a gun from members of the family, Michael arranges to meet at a quiet Italian restaurant with Sollozzo and McCluskey to negotiate a peace. At the meeting, Michael kills both men. He then flees to Sicily, where Vito was born.
Newspaper headlines announce the slew of Mafia killings that follow. Vito Corleone returns home from the hospital and is disappointed to learn that Michael has participated in a Mafia killing. While Vito recovers from his gunshot wounds, hot-headed Sonny and cautious Tom debate whether to escalate the war with the Tattaglias, Sollozzo's sponsors.
When Sonny sees Connie with a black eye, he learns that Carlo has been beating Connie, and he attacks Carlo brutally, hitting him with a trash can. After she suffers another beating, Connie calls Sonny, crying. He loses his temper and in a fit of rage drives off to beat, if not kill, Carlo. Unaccompanied by bodyguards, Sonny is an easy target for the Corleones' enemies. When he stops his car at a tollbooth, the car in front of him stops and gunmen hiding in the tollbooth open fire. Sonny staggers out of the car, riddled with bullets, and falls dead.
Meanwhile, in picturesque Sicily, Michael falls in love at first sight with Apollonia, a young Sicilian beauty. He courts her, and they marry, but the marriage is cut short when Apollonia is killed by a car bomb intended for Michael.
Back in New York, Vito assembles a meeting of the five main Mafia families. He announces that he will forgo vengeance for Sonny's murder on the condition that Michael is allowed to return to New York unharmed.
A year after his return, Michael visits his old flame, Kay Adams, whom he hasn't seen in over two years. He tells her he works for his father now, but in the course of their discussion, he promises that the Corleone family will soon become legitimate. He proposes, and Kay agrees to marry him.
Since Sonny is dead, Michael becomes head of the family. He begins planning to move the Corleone family to Las Vegas to enter the casino business. He demotes his adopted brother Tom from the position of consigliere, the primary advisor to the don. Vito serves as Michael's advisor, but old age starts to take its toll on him and he eventually drops dead while playing with Michael's young son, Anthony, among the tomato plants in his backyard.
Connie and Carlo have asked Michael to be the godfather to their son. As the baptism is performed, the heads of the other New York Mafia families are killed by Corleone hit men on Michael's orders. When Michael exits the church, he gets word that the killings have been successful. He has become the undisputed Mafia boss of the city.
The Corleones are set to move to Las Vegas, but Michael stays behind to finish up some business. This business consists of taking revenge on two traitors to the family. First, he arranges for the killing of Tessio, his father's old associate who has been dealing in secret with the Barzini family. Second, Michael kills his brother-in-law, Carlo, who tipped off the other families, allowing them to kill Sonny.
A few days later, a hysterical Connie accuses Michael of killing her husband, a charge he denies to Kay with a forceful, if not entirely convincing, “No.” Then he retreats to his office, closing his door on his wife, to conct further business.
⑸ 介绍教父电影!
教父
片 名： The Godfather
译 名： 教父
导 演： ( 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉 Francis Ford Coppola )
主 演： (马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando) (阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino) (詹姆斯·凯恩 James Caan) (理乍得·卡斯特尔诺 Richard S. Castellano) (罗伯特·杜瓦尔 Robert Duvall) (斯特林·海登 Sterling Hayden)
上 映： 1972年03月15日 美国
地 区： 美国
对 白： 英语 意大利语 拉丁语
评 分： IMDb评分9.1/10 ( 231981票 )
颜 色： 彩色
声 音： 数字化影院系统(DTS) 单声道(Mono)
时 长： 175
类 型： 犯罪 剧情
分 级： 西班牙：13 哥伦比亚：18 加拿大:PA 加拿大：AA 澳大利亚：M 阿根廷：18 澳大利亚：R 奥地利：16 加拿大:13+ 智利：18 丹麦：15 芬兰：K-16 芬兰：K-18 法国：-12 香港：IIB 冰岛：16 爱尔兰：18 以色列:PG 意大利：VM14 日本：R-15 墨西哥：C 荷兰：16 新西兰：R16 挪威：18 秘鲁：18 葡萄牙：17 瑞士：12
教父剧情介绍：
1945年夏天，美国本部黑手党科莱昂家族首领，“教父”维托·唐·科莱昂为小女儿康妮举行了盛大的婚 礼。“教父”有三个儿子：好色的长子逊尼，懦弱的次子弗雷德和刚从二战战场回来的小儿子迈克。其中逊尼是“教父”的得力助手；而迈克虽然精明能干，却对家 族的“事业”没什么兴趣。
“教父”是黑手党首领，常干违法的构当。但同时他也是许多弱小平民的保护神，深得人们爱戴。他还有 一个准则就是决不贩毒害人。为此他拒绝了毒枭素洛佐的要求，并因此激化了与纽约其它几个黑手党家族的矛盾。 圣诞前夕，素洛佐劫持了“教父”的大女婿汤姆， 并派人暗杀“教父”。
“教父”中枪入院。素洛佐要汤姆设法使逊尼同意毒品买卖，重新谈判。逊尼有勇无谋，他发誓报仇，却无计可施。 迈克去医院探望父亲，他发现保镖已被收买，而警方亦和素洛佐串通一气。各家族间的火并一触即发。迈克制定了一个计策诱使素洛佐和警长前来谈判。在一家 小餐馆内，迈克用事先藏在厕所内的手枪击毙了素洛佐和警长。
迈克逃到了西西里，在那里他娶了美丽的阿波萝妮亚为妻，过着田园诗般的生活。而此时，纽约各个黑手 党家族间的仇杀却越来越激烈。逊尼也被康妮的丈夫卡洛出卖，被人打得千疮百孔。“教父”伤愈复出，安排各家族间的和解。听到噩耗的迈克也受到了袭击。被收 买的保镖法布里奇奥在迈克的车上装了炸弹。迈克虽幸免于难，却痛失爱妻。 迈克于1951年回到了纽约，并和前女友凯结了婚。
日益衰老的“教父”将家族首领的位置传给了迈克。在“教父”病故之后，迈克开始了酝酿已久的复仇。他派人刺杀了另两个敌对家族的首领，并亲自杀死了谋害他 前妻的法布里奇奥。同时他也命人杀死了卡洛，为逊尼报了仇。 仇敌尽数剪除。康妮因为丈夫被杀而冲进了家门，疯狂地撕打迈克。迈克冷峻地命人把康妮送进了疯人院。 他已经成了新一代的“教父”——唐·科莱昂。
美国国家电影保护局 / National Film Preservation Board, USA 1990 国家影片登记 / National Film Registry 获奖
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳电影 / Best Picture 获奖
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳男演员 / Best Actor in a Leading Role 获奖 马龙·白兰度
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳男配角 / Best Actor in a Supporting Role 提名 詹姆斯·卡安
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳男配角 / Best Actor in a Supporting Role 提名 罗伯特·杜瓦尔
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳男配角 / Best Actor in a Supporting Role 提名 阿尔·帕西诺
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳导演 / Best Director 提名 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳编剧 / Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen 获奖 马里奥·普佐
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳编剧 / Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen 获奖 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳服装设计 / Best Costume Design 提名 Anna Hill Johnstone
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳剪辑 / Best Film Editing 提名 William Reynolds
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳剪辑 / Best Film Editing 提名 Peter Zinner
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳音效 / Best Sound 提名 Charles Grenzbach
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳音效 / Best Sound 提名 Richard Portman
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳音效 / Best Sound 提名 Christopher Newman
奥斯卡奖/Academy Awards, USA 1973 最佳音乐/歌曲 / Best Music, Song 提名 Nino Rota
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳电影(剧情类) / Best Motion Picture - Drama 获奖
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳男配角 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 提名 詹姆斯·卡安
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳导演 / Best Director - Motion Picture 获奖 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳编剧 / Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 获奖 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳编剧 / Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 获奖 马里奥·普佐
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳男演员(剧情类) / Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 获奖 马龙·白兰度
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳男演员(剧情类) / Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 提名 阿尔·帕西诺
金球奖/Golden Globes, USA 1973 最佳电影歌曲/音乐 / Best Motion Picture Score 获奖 Nino Rota
英国学院奖/British Academy Awards 1973 最佳男演员 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role 提名 马龙·白兰度
英国学院奖/British Academy Awards 1973 最佳男配角 / Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role 提名 罗伯特·杜瓦尔
英国学院奖/British Academy Awards 1973 最佳服装 / Best Costume Design 提名 Anna Hill Johnstone
英国学院奖/British Academy Awards 1973 最佳新人 / Best Newcomer 提名 阿尔·帕西诺
英国学院奖/British Academy Awards 1973 最佳音乐 / Best Music 获奖 Nino Rota
美国影评人协会奖 / National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1973 最佳男演员 / Best Actor 获奖 阿尔·帕西诺
纽约影评人协会奖 / New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1972 最佳男配角 / Best Supporting Actor 获奖 罗伯特·杜瓦尔
国家评论协会奖(美) / National Board of Review, USA 1972 最佳男配角 / Best Supporting Actor 获奖 阿尔·帕西诺
⑹ 介绍教父（电影）写一篇英文作文，80次左右
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⑺ 求电影教父的英文介绍~
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At the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie and Carlo Rizzi in the late summer of 1945, Vito, the head of the Corleone Mafia family – who is known to his friends and associates as Godfather – and Tom Hagen, the Corleone family lawyer and consigliere (counselor), are hearing requests for favors from friends and associates, because "no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day". Meanwhile, the Don's youngest son Michael, who has returned from World War II service as a decorated war hero, tells his girlfriend Kay Adams anecdotes about his father's criminal life, reassuring her that he is not like his family.
Among the guests at the celebration is the famous singer Johnny Fontane, Corleone's godson, who has come from Hollywood to petition for help in landing a movie role that will revitalize his flagging career. Jack Woltz, the head of the studio, will not give Fontane the part, but Don Corleone explains to Johnny: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." Hagen is dispatched to California to fix the problem, but Woltz angrily tells him that he will never cast Fontane in the role, for which he is perfect, because Fontane seced and "ruined" a starlet that Woltz favored. The next morning, Woltz wakes up to find the bloody severed head of his prize $600,000 stud horse in the bed with him. Woltz gives in.
Upon Hagen's return, the family meets with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who is being backed by the rival Tattaglia family. He asks Don Corleone for financing and political and legal protection for the importation and distribution of heroin, but despite the huge amount of money to be made, Corleone refuses, explaining that his political influence would be jeopardized by a move into the narcotics trade. The Don's oldest son, hotheaded Sonny, who had earlier expressed to the Don his support of the family entering into the narcotics trade, breaks rank ring the meeting and questions Sollozzo's assurances as to the Corleone Family's investment being guaranteed by the Tattaglia Family. His father, angry at Sonny's dissension in front of a non-family member, privately rebukes him later. Don Corleone then dispatches his top button man (hit man), Luca Brasi, to infiltrate Sollozzo's organization and report back with information.
Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, the Godfather.Soon after his refusal to support Sollozzo, Don Corleone is shot several times in an assassination attempt, and it is not immediately known whether he has survived. Meanwhile, Sollozzo and the Tattaglias kill Luca Brasi. Sollozzo then abcts Tom Hagen and persuades him to offer Sonny the deal previously offered to his father. Enraged, Sonny refuses to consider the deal, and issues an ultimatum to the Tattaglias – turn over Sollozzo or face war. They refuse, and Sonny responds by having Bruno Tattaglia, son of Don Phillip Tattaglia, killed.
Michael, who is considered a "civilian" by the other Mafia families, not involved in mob business, visits his father in the hospital, but is shocked to find there is no one guarding him. Realizing that his father is again being set up to be killed, he calls Sonny with a report, moves his father to another room, and goes outside to watch the door. With the help of Enzo the baker, who feels indebted to the Don and has come by the hospital to pay his respects, he bluffs away Sollozzo's men. Police cars soon appear with the corrupt Captain McCluskey, who breaks Michael's jaw when he insinuates that McCluskey is being paid by Sollozzo to set up his father. Just then, Hagen arrives with "private detectives" licensed to carry guns to protect Don Corleone, and takes Michael home.
Following the attempt on the Don's life at the hospital, Sollozzo requests a meeting with the Corleones, which Captain McCluskey will attend as Sollozzo's bodyguard, and Michael volunteers to kill both men ring the meeting. This initially amuses Sonny and the other senior members of the family; however Michael convinces them that he is serious, and that killing Sollozzo and McCluskey is in the family's interest: "It's not personal. It's strictly business." Although cops are usually off limits for hits, Michael argues that since McCluskey is corrupt and has illegal dealings with Sollozzo, he is fair game.
At the meeting, after being searched by McCluskey, Michael excuses himself to go to the restroom, where he retrieves a planted revolver and assassinates Sollozzo and McCluskey. For his safety Michael is sent to Sicily, while the Corleone family prepares for all-out warfare with the rest of the Five Families, united against the Corleones, as well as a general clampdown on the mob by the police and government authorities. In Sicily, Michael lives under the protection of Don Tommasino, an old friend of the family. While there, he falls in love with and marries a local girl, Apollonia Vitelli, who is later killed by a car bomb intended to assassinate Michael.
Back in New York, Don Corleone returns home from the hospital and is distraught to learn that it was Michael who killed Sollozzo and McCluskey. Some months later, in 1948, Sonny severely beats Carlo Rizzi for brutalizing the pregnant Connie, and threatens to kill him the next time he abuses her. An angry Carlo responds by plotting with Tattaglia and Don Emilio Barzini, the Corleones' chief rivals, to have Sonny killed. Carlo beats Connie again in order to lure Sonny out. Furious, Sonny drives off alone to fulfill his threat. On the way, he is ambushed at a toll booth and machine-gunned to death in his car.
Instead of seeking revenge for Sonny's killing, Don Corleone meets with the heads of the Five Families to arrange an end to the war. Not only is it draining all of their assets and threatening their survival, but ending the conflict is the only way that Michael can return home safely. Reversing his previous decision, Vito agrees that the Corleone family will provide political protection for Tattaglia's traffic in heroin. At the meeting, Don Corleone determines that Don Barzini, not Tattaglia, was ultimately behind the mob war and Sonny's death.
With his safety guaranteed, Michael returns from Sicily. More than a year later, he reunites with his former girlfriend, Kay, telling her that he wants to marry her. With the Don semi-retired, Sonny dead and middle brother Fredo considered incapable of running the family business, Michael is now in charge, and promises Kay to make the family completely legitimate within five years.
Peter Clemenza and Salvatore Tessio, two Corleone Family caporegimes (captains) complain that they are being pushed around by the Barzini Family and ask permission to strike back, but Michael refuses. He plans to move the family operations to Nevada and after that, Clemenza and Tessio may break away to go on their own. Michael further promises that Connie's husband, Carlo, is going to be his right hand man in Nevada. Tom Hagen has been removed as consigliere and is now merely the family's lawyer, with Vito serving as consigliere. Privately, Hagen complains about his change in status, and also questions Michael about a new regime of "soldiers" secretly being built under Rocco Lampone. Don Vito explains to Hagen that Michael is acting on his advice.
Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen (left) and Al Pacino as Michael Corleone (right)In Las Vegas Michael is greeted by Fredo and Johnny Fontane in the hotel-casino partly financed by the Corleones, and run by Moe Greene. Michael explains to Johnny that the Family needs his help in persuading his friends in show business to sign long-term contracts to appear at the casino. In a meeting with Moe Greene, Michael offers to buy out Greene but is rudely rebuffed. Greene believes the Corleones are weak and that he can secure a better deal from Barzini. As Moe and Michael argue, Fredo takes sides with Moe. Afterwards, Michael firmly tells Fredo to never again take sides with anyone against the family.
Michael returns home. In a private meeting, Vito explains his expectation that the Family's enemies will attempt to kill Michael by using a trusted associate to arrange a meeting as a pretext for assassination. Shortly afterwards, Vito dies of a heart attack while playing with his young grandson Anthony in his tomato garden. At the burial, Tessio conveys a proposal for a meeting with Barzini, which identifies him as the traitor that Vito was expecting.
Michael arranges for a series of murders to occur while he is standing as godfather for Connie and Carlo's son:
Don Stracci and his bodyguards are shot by Clemenza with a shotgun as they exit an elevator;
Moe Greene, while having a massage in one of his hotels, is shot in the eye by an unknown assassin;
Don Cuneo, while leaving a hotel, is trapped in a revolving door by Willi Cicci and shot;
Don Tattaglia and a woman he is with are gunned down while in bed by Rocco Lampone and another unknown assassin;
Finally, Don Barzini is shot on the steps of a courthouse by Al Neri, who is disguised by wearing his old policeman's uniform.
After the baptism, Tessio believes he and Hagen are on their way to the meeting between Michael and Barzini that he has arranged. Instead, he is surrounded by Willi Cicci and other button men. Realizing that Michael has found out about his betrayal, Tessio tells Hagen that his betrayal was only business. Meanwhile, Michael confronts Carlo about Sonny's murder and gets him to admit his role in setting up the ambush. Michael informs Carlo that his punishment is to be excluded from the family business and hands him a plane ticket to exile in Las Vegas. Carlo gets into a car to go to the airport, where he is garroted by Clemenza.
Later, Connie confronts Michael, accusing him of Carlo's murder. Kay questions Michael about Connie's accusation, but he refuses to answer. She insists, and Michael lies, assuring his wife that he had no role in Carlo's death. Kay is relieved by his denial, believing it to be true. The film ends with Clemenza and new caporegimes Rocco Lampone and Al Neri paying their respects to Michael. Clemenza kisses Michael's hand and greets him as "Don Corleone." Kay watches with dawning comprehension--Michael is the new Godfather.
[edit] Differences from the novel
One of the primary parts of Puzo's novel which was not used for the movie was the flashback story of Don Corleone's earlier life, including the circumstances of his emigration to America, his early family life, his murder of Don Fanucci, and his rise in importance in the mafia, all of which were later used in The Godfather Part II.
Many subplots were trimmed in the transition from the printed page to the screen, including: singer Johnny Fontane's misfortunes with women and his problems with his voice; Sonny's impulsive dabbling in street crime as a teenager and his utter lack of the tact and coolheadedness possessed in such abundance by his father; Sonny's paramour Lucy Mancini's new-found love in Dr. Jules Segal (a character entirely missing from the film), who not only repairs Lucy's vaginal malformation but puts Michael in touch with the surgeon who repairs Michael's facial bones (which had been damaged by Capt. McCluskey) and also operated on Johnny Fontane's vocal cords, thus restoring his singing voice; Jack Woltz' increasing pedophilia; Kay Adams's home life; Luca Brasi's demonic past; the Corleone family's victorious rise to power in earlier New York gang wars in which Don Corleone survives a previous assassination attempt and Al Capone sends triggermen from Chicago in an unsuccessful attempt to aid a rival gang; Don Corleone's ingenious plan used to take Michael out of exile in Sicily; the detailed savage attack on the two men who assaulted Bonasera's daughter, which was led by Paulie Gatto and involved retainer thugs (which was only alluded to in the film).
Additionally, the novel makes it clear that Lucy was not pregnant by Sonny when she moved to Las Vegas, thus leaving no room for Vincent Mancini of The Godfather, Part III. Curiously, Puzo wrote the screenplays of all three movies, so the contradiction was well known to him.
Characters with smaller roles in the film than in the novel include Johnny Fontane, Lucy Mancini, Rocco Lampone, and Al Neri (the latter two are reced to non-speaking roles). Characters dropped in the film adaptation beside Dr. Segal include Genco Abbandando (only spoken of, he appears in a deleted scene featured in The Godfather Saga; he first appears on film in The Godfather II) and Dr. Taza from Sicily. Also, in the book, Michael and Kay have two sons, but in the movies they have a son and a daughter.
The novel and film also differ on the fates of Michael's bodyguards in Sicily, Fabrizio and Calo. The film has them both surviving (Calo, in fact, appears in the third installment). In the book, however, Calo dies along with Apollonia in the car explosion, and Fabrizio is shot and killed as one more victim in the famous "baptism scene" after he is tracked down running a pizza parlor in America. Fabrizio's murder was deleted from the film but publicity photos of the scene exist.[6] (He is later killed in a completely different scene in The Godfather Saga which was deleted from The Godfather: Part II).
The ending of the book differs from the end of the movie: whereas in the film Kay suddenly realizes that Michael has become "like his family", the drama is toned down in the book, where Tom Hagen lets her in on secrets for which, according to him, he would be killed should Michael find out. During the film's baptism scene, all the heads of the Five Families were killed. In the novel, only Barzini and Tattaglia, previously at war with the Corleones, are killed.