I'll concede that Michael probably loved his daughter, Mary, but he never knew how to express it. To get to her he named her the head of some foundatiion he started, and even Mary questioned the legitimacy of that operation. Bottom line? He tried to buy her love.
As for this shibboleth that Fredo had a good heart, and which permeates everything about the GF Trilogy, I fail to see anything Fredo ever did that showed he had a good heart.
Examples anyone?
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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