Originally posted by Don Cardi:
Side Note : I'll tell you this though. It's been quite a while since we had a really good intelligent discussion about The Godfather. I'm really enjoying this! It's been a long time coming.
You mean you wouldn't rather be discussing hockey?
Just kidding.
One of the questions we need to answer here to effectively deal with the main question is "Exactly what was Fredo told was gonna happen?"
If he was told - as Turnbull likes to joke - that he simply had to open the drapes so that they could take pictures of Kay getting undressed and blackmail Michael with them by threatening to give them to the newspapers, that's one thing.
If Fredo was told that Michael was to be assassinated, that's quite another.
Of course, we don't know what he
was told, but I always accepted Fredo's "You guys lied to me" comment at its face value, so we can assume, I think, what he
wasn't told.
The only answer available is the one in the alternate script, in which Fredo is led to believe that it would be a kidnapping.
To me, that's bad enough. If that's what Fredo thought was gonna happen, he is guilty of intentional betrayal.
