I thought he shot McClusky an extra time because he missed the previous shot and got him in the throat, while Sollozzo he got clean in the head.
I don't know that Michael, a decorated war hero, would miss at that close a range. I've always felt that Michael intentionally shot him in the throat first as to make McClusky feel the pain, realize that he was shot for that split second and that he was going to die. I feel that it was Michael's way of personally getting back at McClusky for breaking his jaw.
Geary clearly meant Michael's crime family in both instances when he referred to Michael's "family" in that scene. That Michael chose to interpret it as his biological family is part of the "hypocrisy" that both he and Geary were part of.
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Turnbull is a good man."
This is what is great about this movie...the different ways that many of us interpret various scenes and dialogue. It's what enables us to have these forums for these discussions.
My feeling whenever I watch that scene, and God knows how many times we both have, is that Geary WAS initially making a reference against Michael and his biological family being Italian....
"I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country in your oily hair" ... a knock on him and his biological Italian family.
Then, in my opinion, what follows is now a shot at his mobster persona and his mob family...
"I despise your masquerade -- the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself, and your whole fucking family."Again, the many different interpretations and personal opinions that we all have in regards to various dialogues and scenes is what makes this such a well written movie.
