Originally Posted By: olivant
 Originally Posted By: johnny Ola
 Originally Posted By: olivant
Courage is not necessarily a salient nor required characteristic of a Consigliori; intelligence and cunning is. As the novel noted several times, Genco was wise and cunning and helped propel Vito to the heights he achieved.


With that said, for someone that didn't read the novel, I think that they would have the impression that Genco was a cafone.


Cafone? No. My point is that he was far from it.


I understand that, but again to people that didn't read the novel, and with the limited screen time that Genco got, it would appear that he wasn't that smart of an individual. He was only shown as a man that feared coming to the aid of his girlfriend, and the person who the olive oil company was named after. His only scene in GFI was him dying in the hospital was ended up on the cutting room floor.

I am not denying the fact that he was in all probability a great concler, I am only saying that we really didn't see much of him on the screen, and what we did see, wasn't that impressive.

I love my Chrysler and tuna fish sandwiches.