The Janie scenes are a good illustration of why the book is almost always better than the movie.

I thought the omitted Janie scenes were badly done anyway. In the book, Janie is described as 12 and the most beautiful girl that Hagan had ever seen. The actress in the scenes was older and not "shockingly" attractive, stunning, like she was to Hagan in the book.

Woltz was despicable to Hagan, because he saw predatorial sexual opportunity where Hagan saw a beautiful girl, to be admired, not used. This abuse by Woltz parallels the treatment he receives from the Corleones, i.e., this thing that he sees as beautiful and nonsexual, his horse, is abused as an object, but more extreme, because he is more extreme and therefore more deserving.