8/1/2023 0 Comments Luca brasi![]() ![]() Sollozzo promises to release Hagen in 3 hours with a proposition that Sonny must take seriously. After Clemenza leaves, the phone rings - it's Sollozzo, who tells Sonny that he has Tom Hagen. Sonny angrily asks what Paulie was doing that evening instead of being a bodyguard, and Clemenza says that he'd been calling in sick. It's only Clemenza.Ĭlemenza claims that word on the street is that Don Corleone is already dead. Sonny grabs his gun and goes to the door. All of a sudden, there is a clattering noise and their baby starts crying. Cut to Sonny and Sandra's home - Sonny hangs up the phone and embraces Sandra, who is clearly on edge. He rushes across the street to a pay phone and calls Sonny - who says that the Don is in bad shape and asks Michael to come home. She pulls Michael to a newsstand - and he picks up a copy of the Daily Mirror with the headline "VITO CORLEONE FEARED MURDERED." Frantic, Michael flips through the paper, but it doesn't say if Don Corleone is dead or alive. They are in good spirits until Kay stops short. Michael and Kay, in a luxurious fur coat and hat, walk outside after watching a show. Bystanders start to gather as Fredo cries out in agony.Ĭut to the outside of Radio City Music Hall. Fredo, in shock, sits over his father and weeps. They shoot him multiple times and run away, leaving Don Corleone collapsed on the hood of his car, bleeding. As the fruit merchant bags up some oranges, two men in fedoras and trench coats come from around the corner and rush towards the Don. The Don asks Fredo to wait while he buys fruit from the stand across the street. Meanwhile, Don Corleone walks out of the Olive Oil building to see Fredo leaning against their car. He runs into Virgil Sollozzo and tries to avoid him, but Sollozzo insists that Tom get into his car. ![]() Later that evening, Tom Hagen exits a toy store, juggling a child's sled and other gifts. After a lengthy struggle, Brasi collapses to the ground - dead. Meanwhile, a third man appears from behind and strangles Brasi with a garrote. ![]() In a close-up, Tattaglia grabs Brasi's hand and presses it onto the bar, while Sollozzo stabs him. Luca Brasi pretends to consider but instead of shaking Sollozzo's extended hand, he pulls out a cigarette. In Italian, he tells Brasi if he is not happy with the Corleone family, then he should join Sollozzo - who can pay him $50,000 to start. Moments later, Virgil Sollozzo emerges and confronts Luca Brasi. The camera follows him as he walks through the corridor into an empty bar and sits down. Over at the Olive Oil offices, Fredo goes to get the car for Don Corleone because Paulie Gatto has called in sick once again.Ĭut to Luca Brasi in the lobby of a well-appointed apartment building. Cut to the interior of Luca Brasi's small apartment, where he puts on a bulletproof vest under his clothes and checks his gun. Meanwhile, on 5th Avenue in New York City, Kay and Michael come out of Best & Co after doing their Christmas shopping. He asks Brasi to go undercover to the Tattaglia family (who support Sollozo) to find out more information. Corleone summons Luca Brasi and asks him to find out what Sollozzo has "under his fingernails". Then, Tom Hagen brings in a large, garish bouquet of flowers from Johnny Fontane, who has been cast in Woltz's film. He chastises his hot-headed son for speaking out of turn during the Sollozzo meeting. Sollozzo leaves the office and Don Corleone asks to speak to Sonny privately. Don Corleone, however, turns down Sollozzo's offer down - saying that "drugs is a dirty business" and could cost him some valuable political connections. As Don Corleone stands and considers the offer, cut to a wider shot - revealing that Tom Hagen, Fredo, Tessio, Clemenza, and Sonny are seated in a circle around Sollozzo. He requests a million dollars in cash, protection from the police, and access to the Don's political connections - and for that, Sollozzo will pay the Corleone family 30% of his annual take, which will amount to $3-$4 million the first year. Cut to a medium close-up of Sollozzo sitting in the Don's office in the Olive Oil building. Hagen thinks that the family needs to get in on Sollozzo's narcotics business because it is "the thing of the future". Hagen's voiceover continues over an exterior shot of the Genco Olive Oil Company - which is where the Don conducts his business. Hagen, fresh off the plane from Los Angeles, fills the two men in on Virgil Sollozzo, "The Turk". Don Corleone sits in his living room, across from Tom Hagen and Sonny Corleone. ![]()
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