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Re: oil war
[Re: Dakosta]
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01/30/07 09:46 PM
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As Olivant said, the reference to "war" in the film was generic to Mob wars in general--not specifically to the olive oil business. Clemenza was tellimg Michael that, periodically, Mob families went to war. Here is the dialog:
MICHAEL How bad do you think it's gonna be? CLEMENZA Pretty goddamn bad. Probably all the other Families will line up against us. That's alright --this thing's gotta happen every five years or so -- ten years -- helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been ten years since the last one. You know you got to stop them at the beginning,like they should have stopped Hitler at Munich, They should never've let him get away with that. They were just asking for big trouble.
In the novel, young Vito begins his "man of respect" years by achieving a monopoly in the olive oil business. He makes war on other olive oil wholesalers to force them to come to terms with him. The novel doesn't say that his compedtitors are Mafiosi. In fact, the only one of Vito's competitors who is actually killed is characterized as "an arrogant Milanese," scarcely the description of a Mafia guy.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: oil war
[Re: olivant]
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01/31/07 12:39 AM
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