Vito is seen through rose-coloured glasses as perhaps because the way Vito is romanticized and portrayed He too was a cold blooded murderer despite his outward nice guy appearances!
Threat of lethal force for his Godson's contract release Killing of prized horse for his movie part
We tend to romanticize Vito because Brando played him so sympathetically, and because he eschewed drugs. But his businesses were abominable. Everyone knows that the big bucks in gambling come not from the odds favoring the hoouse, but from loan-sharking--a business of broken kneecaps or worse. And as for labor unions: Every dollar Vito made from the unions was stolen from the pockets of working people. He did not hesitate to have rivals wiped out.
