Originally posted by olivant:
I thought we settled this a 100 years ago.
Nope.
Originally posted by olivant:
Puzo initially refrred to the five families that controlled Newy York and New Jersey. The Corleones were one of them.
Thats never been established. If anything, Puzo hints at just the opposite (in the 30's the five or six Families other than the Corleones who were too powerful to be eliminated; at the sitdown orchestrated by Barzini where the five New York dons were the last to arrive; etc.).
Originally posted by olivant:
Tom never tells Sonny that the five families would come after the Corleones. He says that the other families would and the Corleones would be outcasts.
Not true. Tom tells Sonny, "Now nobody has ever gunned down a New York police captain -- never. It would be disastrous. All the Five Families would come after you, Sonny. The Corleone Family would be outcasts!"
Originally posted by olivant:
Madonne!
Well, we agree on that!
