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Re: Why did Michael have to be the trigger man?
[Re: Geekboy145]
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02/09/21 06:05 PM
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I think Solozzo would have been looking for a hit man in that restaurant--he probably had a sixth sense for that. The noveol says he had a man at another table in the restaurant. When Michael asked to go to the john, Sol looked toward the guy for an ok.
But, I agree that Michael didn't have to be the hit man. Michael told Sonny and Tom, after he volunteered to kill Sol and McCluskey, that the Corleones could get away with killing a police captain because he was "mixed up with murder and drugs...We have newspaper people on our payroll, Tom--they might like a story like that." Carry that a step farther: Tom could have leaked that story to the newspapers without Sol and Mac being killed. It would a major scandal that the papers would have given it such a big sendoff that the Commissioner would have had to suspend Mac, and put his own men to guard Vito. Sol would have been hunted down by police and be killed "trying to escape" before he'd be able to blab about his relationship with McCluskey. And, Michael could have gone on to college. And. we would have had no Godfather Trilogy.
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: Why did Michael have to be the trigger man?
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02/09/21 10:43 PM
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what did that guy do when Michael came out of the bathroom shooting? The guy shows Michael his hands are empty, and Michael walks out.
"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."
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Re: Why did Michael have to be the trigger man?
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02/10/21 12:43 AM
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Sollozzo would have never expected Mike to attempt a move. 1) Mike wasn't at the meeting with Vito and Sol. 2) Mike had no track record of being in the Family business. I don't care what Mike told Tom and Sonny,it was absolutely personal. Had Mike not arrived at the hospital when he did,Vito would have been dead. In Mike's mind, McCluskey was a scumbag outsider who sold out to Sol. For what it's worth,at least with Sollozzo, it was part of this "Sicilian thing". And as we all know,Mike had to kill McCluskey because "he injured me",first by setting up Vito,then by breaking Mike's jaw in public. Christ,Mike killed his own brother for no reason other than Fredo being a doofus who got played by "that Jew in Miami" As far as the whole restaurant set-up,well "the Corleones played this one beautiful"
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