Originally posted by Turnbull:
...But, apparently he couldn't get to America without help from the Barzini Family. Or, perhaps, they promised him something (like his pizza parlor) if he waited until they were ready to bring him over...and lived there on handouts from the Barzinis until they were ready to send him to America.
Why would anyone try to keep someone like Fabrizio (a traitor) on the payroll or even care to bring him back to America
AFTER the deed was done? Is he
that important? Originally posted by Turnbull:
They'd have an incentive to keep him on ice until after the Don died because, if he were captured, he might be forced to blab about Barzini ordering him to blow up Michael's Alfa Romeo.
Granted. However, in Vito's latest years (not when the peace was first made, but rather right before Vito's death) it was known that the main enemy was Barzini. Also, the fact that
it was Barzini and NOT Tattaglia that offered a "Peace deal with Mike" through Tessio indicates that Barzini knew that the Corleones were convinced that it was him who was the main enemy. Therefore, why wait until years after "the massacre" to bring Fabrizio? Why even worry about him spilling his guts out?
I think it was a flaw not to include Fabrizio's killing in the first part. If Fabrizio's killing was going to take place in the second part, I think it would have been "a crueler revenge" (" a dish that tastes best when it's served cold"...Vito Corleone) if he was killed after he had re-paid Mike for a service against a new enemy (i.e. Roth in the second part or even Altobello if we're to wait until part 3).
ps: Isn't there a deleted scene (at the garden with Mike and Vito) where Mike tells Vito he found Fabrizio somewhere in Buffalo? So, Fabri is located around the time of Vito. That is, around the time of the Massacre.
Originally posted by DonsAdvisor:
I would have preferred to see Michael blasting away Fabrizzio, as in the book.
It's been ages since I read the book; are you sure it's Mike? I'll re-check when I'm home. But just a thought, why wouldn't Fabrizio have been alarmed had he seen Mike instead of throwing in a slice of Pizza in the oven? I'm convinced it wasn't Mike (even before re-checking...but I'll do it anyway.).
