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Genco
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04/15/08 03:18 PM
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FrankWhite
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Is there any reason that we (the audience of the movie, solely) should know that Genco was consigliere besides the reference Santino makes to him while arguing with Tom?
"From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn." (King of New York)
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Re: Genco
[Re: FrankWhite]
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04/16/08 08:07 AM
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Is there any reason that we (the audience of the movie, solely) should know that Genco was consigliere besides the reference Santino makes to him while arguing with Tom? Well when you watch GFII, you are shown a young Vito working in a grocery store and eventually losing that job due to Fanucci shaking down the owner of that store by forcing him to give his nephew a job. This causes the owner of the store to have to let Vito go because he cannot afford to keep two employees on staff and at the same time he cannot say no to Fannucci or he will be out of business. It's quite obvious that Vito feels indebted to the owner of the grocery store and his family for basically taking him in and providing him with a job for as long as he did. So later on when Vito does eventually rise to power he basically repays the owner of the store's son by 'going into business with him' ;)....Genco Olive Oil Company....and making him his second in command (consigliere) in the family business. So actually there does wind up being some significance in us learning that Genco Abbandando was indeed Don Vito's consigliere. And with GFI as a stand alone, it's purpose is to show us that the Don's Sicilian Consigliere was on his death bed and would eventually die and was being replaced with the Don's foster son, who happened to be a NON Sicilian and instead of German Irish background. That probably was the real significance in FFC's reason for briefly mentioning and introducing Genco..... It opened the door to set up the sub plot in the character of Tom hagen, of a Non Sicilian, becoming Consigliere.
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