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Godfather logo- Whose hand is up there?
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06/11/04 05:17 AM
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This question has been on my mind for a while and I have not found a hundred percent convincing answer for that yet. I thought I share it here so everyone could say what he/she think of this logo. I've added some lines from this trilogy in the end. In the first line Vito is saying he has not been the puppet on the strings but I don't think he held the strings either because he's saying that he wanted Mike to become a Senator or Governor to hold the strings. Why Godfather is shown like a puppet on the strings and whose hand is up there. I'd like to hear your ideas about this logo.
------------------------------------------------- 1-I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life, I don't apologize, to take care of my family. And I refused -- to be a fool -- dancing on the string, held by all those -- bigshots. I don't apologize -- that's my life -- but I thought that -- that when it was your time -- that -- that you would be the one to hold the strings. Senator - Corleone. Governor - Corleone, or something... (Vito, 1st part) 2-Michael why -- why didn't you come to us? I mean Pop had to pull a lot of strings to get you a deferment. (Tom, 2nd part) 3-You still have your fingers on the strings, even now. Let's see more of each other. (Michael to Don Altobello, 3rd part) 4-Tony says that I’m a front for the foundation. That you’re using me just to pull the strings. To get the money where you want it...(Mary, 3rd part) -------------------------------------------------
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Re: Godfather logo- Whose hand is up there?
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06/11/04 04:53 PM
06/11/04 04:53 PM
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I agree with Ola. The bottomline is this, unlike other movies of the same genre, the GF trilogy shows men of power with the ability to pull strings to get what they want, they have the money and the power to do so. I think the original logo is directly related to Vito, since he had an enormous amount of connections, even more if you consider what's said in the book.
Your first quote is very compelling, but I think Vito did hold the strings. Same with Barzini, Roth, Senators, Governers, etc. There are many powerful men holding different sets of strings. Some putting on puppet shows for each other, some having others dance on strings their strings. I think this is the nature of power. GF almost exclucivly centers around the corleone family so I think the logo refers to Vito. Now if was to be held accuratly as you said, well then there would be about 50 sets of strings and people dancing on them, some entangeled, it would be a big mess.
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Re: Godfather logo- Whose hand is up there?
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06/11/04 10:13 PM
06/11/04 10:13 PM
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Has anyone really noticed, though, how the strings on the logo go into The Godfather. This shows that whoever's hand that is, he/she is controlling the Godfather. I always tought that it was what Vito wanted for Micheal. You know, "I always thought you would be the one holding the strings". I thought that it showed irony that the guy that Vito never wanted to become don, the guy that was suppose to be controlling people legitimetely ended up besomeing one of the most ruthless dons around. I don't know, just something to think about.
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Re: Godfather logo- Whose hand is up there?
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06/13/04 01:35 PM
06/13/04 01:35 PM
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Originally posted by Don Sonny Corleone: A lot of people say that it was Vito's hand, but towards the end, the power (and the strings) were passed on to Michael. I think it was both Mike and Vito's hand. It was the Don's hand. "Just when I thought every thing was covered on the board, they drag me back in with the logo!" Lets look at the time line of the logo. It started being on the dustcover of the novel. The novel was essentially about Don Corleone and his role as "Godfather", following this line of thought I would assume that the hands are that of Don Corleones. To be fair, it could be argued that he wasn't the only godfather, but I would say, "thats true, but he was the Godfather the Novel was written about, ergo they are his hands, "pulling the strings"
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