Just watched the rest of it. The deleted scenes from GF 1 were overkill, but the ones from season 2 were great, and should have been in the original movie. The scene where Neri goes to the casino to push Klingman around and then tells the showgirls to continue performing has shades of Fanuci. Contrasts the power Fanuci once had with what the Corleone family now has. Mikes conversation with Sonny's daughter and her fiance about how the wealthy explained what separates his family and their "thing" from the country's traditional barons and tycoons. The Godfather 2 makes so many important political points. The entire narrative of the franchise changes the very second Mike says to Hyman Roth of the Cuban rebels, "they could win." At this point, not only does the Corleone family look weak, but so does the mafia. The Cuban revolution sent the dignitaries and mobsters fleeing for life boats, reduced to the same vermin they once viewed the rebels as.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea