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Genco
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08/26/07 08:26 PM
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I really wish that there was more about Genco in both the novel and especially the films. If someone had never read the novel they would have almost no knowledge of Genco. Genco would have been very important to Vito's rise to power and in perserving the family during it's struggles. In part II we see more of Tessio and Clemaenza but little of Genco. Hopefully if there ever is a part IV Genco will be featured as a more important role. What are your thoughts on Genco?
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Re: Genco
[Re: olivant]
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12/17/07 11:10 AM
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dontomasso
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With Fanucci out of the way Genco would have been able to pursue and marry his girlfriend, and he would have considered it one of many "miracles" Vito performed for him.
I'll go along with the theory that Genco got tougher as he got older, and I would add that once Vito had Tessio and Clemenza working for him, and as the family started to grow, Vito turned to Genco who had, in effect, been his like a brother. It is clear Genco's father took Vito in, gave him a living and only cut him loose when Fanucci forced him to put his nephew to work. It makes sense that the one person Vito could trust with everything was Genco who became consigliere.
Vito's trust and his soft spot for Tom Hagen may well have been derived from his own experience, because Tom, like Vito was a virtual orphan who was taken in and raised by a family that was not his own.
"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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Re: Genco
[Re: pizzaboy]
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12/17/07 04:18 PM
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Still, it would have been nice to see some actual dialogue between the young Genco and Clemenza and Tessio. There was a bit of dialog between them that was short, but revealing: In a deleted scene from II, after Sr. Roberto makes his clumsy retreat from Vito's office, Genco chuckles and tells Vito that Roberto will probably hide out in the Bronx--it bespeaks a certain brotherly closeness. Then he says, "Vito, Clemenza wants to speak to you..." Clemenza comes in--first doffing his hat and holding it before him--and introduces Vito to the young Hyman Roth, who he says is good at fixing trucks. Clemenza refers to Vito as "Mr. Corleone." That scene shows a remarkable transition in young Clemenza. Previously, he was the de facto boss--he organized the rug theft and the dress heist. And, in another deleted scene, Vito has to wait in the dress truck while Clemenza dallies with a winsome young woman with whom he's exchanging dresses for sex. When he finally emerges from the building and Vito wants to know what took him so long, Clemenza replies that "she couldn't make up her mind." He then orders Vito to deliver some dresses to "Dadino." But after the Fanucci murder, Clemenza suddenly becomes the humble subordinate.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Genco
[Re: Turnbull]
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12/17/07 04:56 PM
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Yes, TB, the novel expresses the same transition, altough it makes it more clear. In fact, in the novel, both Tessio and Clemenza avoid Vito for the next two weeks knowing that he murdreed Fanucci. Only then do they inform Vito that noone is conducting Fanucci's collections anymore as if they are waiting for Vito to give them the go ahead to start. Clearly, they have placed themselves in a subordinate position. of course, in GFII, it is Vito that sits behind the desk while Tessio and Clemenza are out conducting business.
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