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Originally posted by Sophia:
...they were on top and now with the demise of the king/emperor things were changing. LIfe had changed and the empire was slowly coming to an end.
Yes, I think that's it, exactly. Frankie constantly looked confused in GFII. He was a man of simpler, earlier times. He said it all when he told Michael, "I don't have your head for the big deals...but why don't we hit 'em now, while we have the muscle?" He used the Roman analogy to evoke an earlier time in the Corleone Family when he understood the rules and had complete faith in his Don.

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.