Originally Posted By: Danito


It's one of the moments that I don't really understand even though it's powerful: "Fredo you're nothing to me now you're not a brother, you're not a friend."
Was Michael angry because
- Fredo didn't deliver more infor about the hearing?
- Fredo by his epileptic behavior showed that he knew in fact it was going to be a hit?
- Fredo put his own interests over the family?


I think that Michael was angry because he was going to kill Fredo. The words, "...not a brother...not a friend," are the beginning of Michael's dehumaniztion of Fredo, which is finally completed when Fredo is lumped (unnamed) with Roth and Michael's other "enemies."


"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."