Goombah: At the beginning of the VHS movie of GFI, there are some interviews of the various actors/actresses and a lot of stuff by FFC and MP. Near the end, FFC talks about Sonny's assassination scene and mentions how the bullet holes were created and how they got the holes to spurt out blood and all. In the process, he mentions how many bullet holes there were. I don't remember the exact number, but it was over 100. He said that he wanted it to be like Bonnie and Clyde and he surely accomplished that! He said that one of the hardest obstacles with this scene was that James Caan had all these wires attached to him (to detonate the little blood pouches) and they had trouble getting him in and out of the car during the shooting scene. I think he said that they had to kind of shoot the scene backwards or something like that in order for the wires not to be seen and for the blood pouches to not explode at the wrong time. Pretty interesting stuff...amazing what they come up with to make the scenes look authentic!

I have a question: I am just now reading the book and I am at the point where Don Vito tells Johnny Fontane that he will take care of the movie business, so I'm not too far. My question is regarding one of the posts here that talks about Fannuci's having his throat slit and him putting his white hat to catch the blood from his neck. Does that mean that in the movie where Don Vito shoots Fannuci in the stair well didn't happen in the book? Or does it mean that Fanucci didn't die from having his throat slit? Or is there some other reason? One of my favorite scenes is that scene where Vito kills Fannuci--Fannuci being such an Italian blowhard!

Thanks!

~~ Lollie