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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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03/24/05 05:16 PM
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Originally posted by micky2guns the barber:
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And he said when he stpeed off a plane onto Ireland Soil that it was the first time in his life he truly felt Home... What the heck does that have to do with Brando playing and Italian Mafia Don or Andy Garcia playing an Italian mobster?  You missed the whole point that I tried to make! Geez! Plaw, is it me, or does it seem that lately many of the posts in this thread have had ethnic, racial and anti-religious undertones? Don Cardi 
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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03/24/05 05:21 PM
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Originally posted by Don Cardi:
Plaw, is it me, or does it seem that lately many of the posts in this thread have had ethnic, racial and anti-religious undertones? No, there were really only two..... Originally posted by dontomasso:
I can live with new characters.....but Vincent Mancini? Hell he is Cuban! and Originally posted by plawrence: Well, at least Lee Strasberg is safe 
His character is "ethnically correct"  Well, three actually..... Originally posted by Don Cardi: I guess that Brando shouldn't have played an Italian Mafia Don because in real life he was an American Indian!   
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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Now, geting back to the topic at hand, I believe that creating a Vincent Mancini Corleone was FFC's way of bringing a "Sonny" type of character back into the storyline. Mind you, I am not saying that the Vincent character was anywhere near being a Sonny Corleone character, but it was a smart way to draw interest into GFIII. Looking back now, at the time, think about the coming attractions, reviews, and advertisements for the premiere of GFIII which conveyed the message to the potential viewer that "Sonny's Boy" was going to be in this movie! Certainly that kind of advertising would peak any Godfather fan's curiosity! Santino's Son In Godfather III! A smart move by the studio! Don Cardi Don Cardi
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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I know I'm in the minority here, but I liked the Vincent Mancini character, altho I wasn't wild about the Vincent-Mary storyline. But since neither character existed because they weren't in the book......
Seriously though, I like Andy Garcia's work a lot and consider him to be a very under-rated actor.
And one of my favorite scenes in the entire trilogy is the one with Vincent and Grace and Zasa'a hired hands in Vincent's apartment.
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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Plaw, Like I said, Vincent was no where near being a Sonny, but I too liked his character, and I had no problem with the way that Garcia acted. I thought that Garcia did a fine job. C'mon, who else could say it better than Garcia......"ZSA ZAAAA!" As we've said before, GFIII has gotten a bad wrap over the years and was not as terrible as many made it out to be. Don Cardi
Don Cardi Five - ten years from now, they're gonna wish there was American Cosa Nostra. Five - ten years from now, they're gonna miss John Gotti.
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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03/28/05 03:34 PM
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: Originally posted by micky2guns the barber:
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And he said when he stpeed off a plane onto Ireland Soil that it was the first time in his life he truly felt Home...
Plaw, is it me, or does it seem that lately many of the posts in this thread have had ethnic, racial and anti-religious undertones?
Don Cardi [/b]perhaps it is you who misunderstood me! you made the comment that Marlon brando playing an Italian, eve though he was American Indian, I posted what I posted because it's what Brando said, He might have been American Indian but there was some Irish in there too. I am not sure why you thought I was trying to do any harm to the ethnic background of anyone, but I always thought it funny that the man who played the Biggest mafia Don in MOVIE history wasn't even Italian...
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Re: Vincent Mancini is not a Corleone.
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03/28/05 04:01 PM
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Originally posted by Benchgod:
Double J.......the character Vincent Mancini never existed therefore Mikey could never proclaim him to be a Corleone.
My point is that GF3 is based on a fantasy.
Hey, maybe in GF4, we'll see Michael, in bed, waking up from a horrble dream.
Boy, won't that be a freakin' hoot? Yeah, and then he goes to the bathroom and he hears the shower, he opens up the door and surprise!!! There's Bobby!!!
I came, I saw, I had no idea what was going on, I left.
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