like Zasa, I'm working on an outline for a GF4 story.. I was inspired by Ricardo's treatment and mainly because he never completed his version. I took the liberty to adapt his first two acts and extrapalate (?) it... I adapted so far a few acts in different time periods, and have completed about half the outline.

this is an overview of all fragments:

The order of scenes
“Mario Puzo’s The Godfather PART IV”
*1 1997. Funeral of Michael Corleone. Image of Vincent, fading into image of young Santino (his father)

*2 1924. Vito&Carmella’s 10th wedding anniversary. This is five years after Fanucci’s killing. Within these five years Vito ought ot have built up some reputation. {He kills Don Ciccio in 1927, so there should be a gap there. The Vito in 1920’s story would be two parts: one prior to the Ciccio killing and one after the Sicily trip. The one after deals with the Castellamarese war, the one before (this one) with Roth, Greene, “Genco’s”, the Corleone Family rise, etc.}. This second scene covers roughly 1924-1926, includes a lot of Clemenza, Tessio, Genco, Moe Greene (some Roth) and all of the succesfull businesses of the Family, including all smuggling activities.

*3 This scene covers 1984-1986. Vincent is left alone in NY by Michael who moved to Sicily in 1984. After four years of semi-legitimate business, Vincent lost his position as boss-of-bosses to DiCanio, get’s threatened by him and in the end of this scene, Vincent kills him (similar to Castellano killing). During this chapter, Vincent’s contacts with Russia, Japan, Columbia, Mexico and Florida become clear. He also meets Santino JR and makes him his own Luca Brasi, while Neri becomes his wartime advisor.

*4 1927. Vito returns from Sicily. He tells Clemenza and Tessio back home about his trip, and why he killed Don Ciccio>cut to: 1888, the Antonio Andolini story.

*5 1986-1989. Vincent goes on a world trip. He makes Victor Rizzi (Connie’s son) his consiglieri, and takes him with him. They go to Columbia, Japan, Russia and stop by on Sicily for a bit. Here is the only scene with Al Pacino! Willy Cicci, the former head of the Corleone Family, tells Vincent to stop with the drug-ring for he’s disgracing his Family. Vincent doesn’t listen, Cicci wants him dead, but instead Victor Rizzi kills Cicci and makes his bones.

*6 This scene covers 1927-1931, ending with the formation of the Five Families. In these scenes a Ciccio relative wanting to avenge Ciccio’s death by killing Vito. Also the Castellamarese wars. Maresia gets killed. Start of the Maranzala Cosa Nostra. Maranzala gets killed on Vito’s order. Five Family structure goes on without boss-of-bosses, but Vito becomes the most powerfull. His rivality with Tattaglia get’s nastier by the day.

*7 Vincent scenes. Vincent has full power over the NY mafia. The old boss-of-bosses is dead, and the old Corleone Family patriarch Cicci as well. Vincent keeps an eye open for his enemies, Cavanio and Damanerio. His foreign partners pressure him to show more and better financial results, and it get’s worse when Neri starts to resist Vincent’s orders. More trials concerning Vincent come, all with a lot of media attention. Vincent is taken to court. BJ Harrison is his attourney, Dominic Abbandando his PR advisor, coming over from Rome a few times a year.

*8 The Irish war. Vito gets shot, Tattaglia enters picture as a succesor of one of the original five heads. Two other heads get killed in this war, like a lot of Irish gangsters too. Luca Brasi kills a lot of men for Vito, including the one who shot the Don. The scene ends in 1935, the beginning of a ten year period opf untouchability of the Corleone’s.

*9 1990’s. The final trials with Vincent Corleone. The pressure from the Yakuza & drug cartels grows. Years of trials follow. Vincent becomes a media-personality, and press coverage of the trials is enormous. A hitman hired by Cavanio (the Cuneo Don) murders Santino JR to avenge the death of DiCanio many years before, a close friend of Cavanio. Vincent reacts by the most brutal slaughtering in history, of a Cavanio underboss. Then a close Fam.member gets scared of being the next victim, a pray for either an avenging Cavanio or for a distrustfull Vincent. He rats on him and makes a deal with the FBI (1994).

*10 Final Old-story scenes. Sonny gets succesfull, becomes a killer. In the end, the Family moves to the Long Island compound. Moe Greene realizes his idea for a desert stopover in Nevada. Vito and Rothstein have arguments and stop business relations.

*11 1997, Vincent is condemned, but in prison appoints a capo as the working leader, who coordinates the murders of the heads of the Yakuza mob, the Russian mob, the Columbian drug cartels, the Mexican, the Florida Family and two other NY families (including Cavanio himself). This all happens just after Michael Corleone’s funeral. The rat, Victor Rizzi, is put into witness protection program, leaving him no chance to run the Family he betrayed. With Vincent in prison, Michael and Santino JR dead, the Corleone family is dead as well.

So there you have it. A 3+ hour movie in 11 parts: 6 of Vincent (not too long ones), 4 long ones about Vito & Sonny and 1 short one about Antonio Andolini.

so far, act 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 are finished, and I'm halfway through act 5 and 8

Not bad. Think it would be a nice part.

I like it!
Maybe you should write the actual screenplay?

I don't know about the screenplay. I never actually considered writing dialogues and all. I think that would be too hard, since you'd be expecting historical phrases like "I wanna make 'm an offer he cant refuse" and "just when I thought I was out"... you know.

besides, english is not my first language and maybe some dialogues would either be weak or be funny, when not ment to be.

The plot outline/script
(mainly based on Ricardo’s script):
1: 1997
Michael Corleone dies lonely on Sicily, where he lived the last years of his life with his sister Connie. After she sees Michael laying on the ground, she orders Dominic Abbandando to arrange the funeral en have the other Family members come over from America. All of them come to Italy one last time, to pay their respects to the former Don. Michael’s son Anthony picks up Vincent at Palermo Airport. Their nephew Andrew Hagen leaves his charity tour of South America. Andrew had not seen his family since the funeral of his mother Theresa, in 1993. Vincent’s mother, Lucy Mancini, did not come to Sicily. She struggles with a serious disease for over a year now. His other halfsisters Fransesca and Katherine did come, with their husbands, children and grandchildren, even though the late Sandra Corleone, their mother, had swore never to get involved with the Corleonesi again. But her twindaughters always liked their Uncle Mike a lot. The tragic death of their younger brother Santino Corleone JR, Sonny’s youngest son, restored the relationship between the twins and their cousins. Also, their aunt Kay was a big support, from the moment Sandra past away. She became a sort of replacement grandmother to their children, as to the children of Andrew Hagen and his brother Frank, who unfortunately was unable to come to the funeral. The last person there was Frank Corleone, Sonny and Sandra’s oldest son.

The funeral was held outside the town of Corleone, on the other side of Sicily. Michael once found a beautiful spot there on a hill, in the sun, when out for a walk one day with Constanzia. Vincent acted brave during the ceremony. The tragic images of the casket going down made him remember Mary, who was killed 17 years earlier in Palermo. He never forgout about her. She will for ever be the love of his life. After Mary’s death, Vincent, onces the biggest ladykiller on the East Coast, never touched a single woman again. For the first time as well, the old Kay Michelson (now 73 years old), came up to him to comfort and support him. His thoughts drifted away, as the casket went down. He looked, and closed his eyes for a few moments. There goes a man who was his example, his mentor. His thoughts were almost visionable in his eyes: ‘Terrible things have happened since, uncle Mike. I’ve lost my brothers...I was betrayed by my own Family, but I betrayed you too. I once had the world...now it’s all gone. Tell me, will I ever be forgiven...Godfather?’

(the italic lines were voiced-over by Vincent who was looking at the lowering casket, and are his thoughts. Vincent ‘thinks’ this, after which he bends down his head (after the word godfather) and the music (Godfather theme) starts. then on screen the text comes:

VINCENT MANCINI
SICILY
1997

The image fades and cuts to the wedding anniversary party in New York, 1924, with the Corleone family over there, and the text says:
HIS FATHER
SANTINO CORLEONE
NEW YORK CITY
1924.

this is mainly Ricardo's work

2: 1924-1926
Vito & Carmella Corleone celebrate their 10th wedding anniversay with a lot of friends. At their table are their children. Santino, Frederico, Miguele and Constanzia.
Vito’s partner and friend Genco Abbandando is there with his family (his beautiful wife Carla, who’s an stage actress, and their two daughters). Genco’s parents, Oreste and Francesca Abbandando are Vito’s special guests. When he arrived in America as a little boy, Vito got taken into the Abbandando house. Oreste was an old friend of Vito’s father Antonio Andolini, back in Sicily. Vito and Genco grew up together, and both went to work in Abbandando Grosseria when they were old enough.
Oreste Abbandando wheeled a cake over to Vito, while a tarantella played by the band. Vito gave a speech to all guests. He and Genco played Bocce with their pals Salvatore Tessio and Peter Clemenza, Vito’s old neighbour. Between two games, Vito told them to meet him the next day at Genco’s. A friend of Clemenza’s, Hyman Rothstein, asked him to, and told he had some sort of business proposition. The three men agreed to go to Genco’s the next day, to listen to what Roth’s got to say. After that, they discussed Prohibition a little bit.
Clemenza later that night got to Vito in private, telling him Giuseppe Maresia, known as “Joe the King”, forced him to pay protection he couldn’t afford anymore. Vito said he would think about the situation.
When all guest were left, Vito talked with 8 year old Santino. He told him to be a nice boy, to always respect your friends, to be a good boy at school, and be nice to little girls.

The next day at GPOC Vito & Co met with Hyman Rothstein, who was introduced by them by Clemenza. He brought with him a man called Moe Greene. He just started running molasses on Cuba, and Rothstein joined him. Rothstein saw collaboration possibilites with Clemenza’s truck smuggling activities, the main illegal business from Genco’s. Rothstein talked about this Smuggling Ring and asked Vito if he would like to participate. Vito agreed and sent Rothstein to Chicago to set up the ring with John Riotro.
Clemenza had informed Vito, after coming back from Sicily, that the local boss, Maresia, recruited Carmine Cuneo, the nephew of the slain Giuseppe Fanucci. Cuneo had been collecting protection for Maresia in Vito’s neighbourhood. Vito started the Corleone Family.

After all conversations, Genco informed the GPOC workers of the new Family, while Tessio recruited neighborhood men. Clemenza walked over to the school to walk his son, Richard, and his Godson, Santino, over to Abbandando Grosseria for Cannolies. While at the Grosseria, Clemenza talked to Genco’s brother, Ernesto, and young baker Nazorine Paniterra. Oreste Abbandando walked out from the back room with Carmine Cuneo. Cuneo and Clemenza glared at each other as Cuneo left. Oreste told the men that after working at AG for 8 years, Cuneo was quitting his job to work for Sal Maranzala. He had come back to tell Oreste that for his help he would be exept from paying protection. Later that night as Vito was having dinner with his family, Clemenza called and told him of Cuneo’s meeting with Oreste.

From the on, when Vito went to GPOC, all of the workers, and his friends, kissed his hand and called him “Don Corleone”. Carmella’s brother, Bruno DeSapio, and Augustino Coppola were members of the new Family and escorted Vito to his office. Vito hung a picture of his family in Sicily on the wall behind his desk. He told Tessio and Clemenza how his friend Tommasino was now the Don and that most of Sicily was under his control. The remaining members of Ciccio’s Family had left for America with Joe Maresia. Vito presented Clemenza with a picture of his brother Domenick, and told how he had met his cousin Stefan Andolini for the first time. Later that week, Rothstein returned from Chicago and showed up at GPOC with Ola and Greene. He told Vito that Riotro was retiring but that they had set up the operation with Ralph Capone. Rothstein told Vito that they were supposed to meet ships at the docks and then load the alcohol and molasses into GPOC delivery trucks and drive them to Buffalo, NY, where they would be smuggled into Canada and through Detroit to Chicago. Vito put Rothstein in charge of the operation and told him he would handle meetings with Capone and others if there were problems. Rothstein, his brother Sam, Johnny Ola, Moe Greene, and others took part in the smuggling operation. Sal Tessio kept an eye on them and reported back to Vito.

On a night in June, Filomena Simonetti awoke to find a huge man, Luca Brasi, knocking on her front door. He told her he needed her help, and he would pay her. She agreed and Luca rushed her to a Ford. When they arrived at Brasi’s Apartment in Long Island, he hurried Filomena into the bedroom. On the bed was an Irish woman ready to give birth. Luca told Filomena she was his girlfriend, Claire, and that he needed her to deliver the baby. She did and Luca forced her at knifepoint to throw the baby into the basement furnace. Only after Luca cut her arm did she reluctantly toss the baby into the fire and run from the house. Luca went upstairs and stabbed Claire to death. The next day Carmine Coronda who worked for Vito and lived next door to Luca told Vito that Filomena had ran to his home last night. She told him of her horrible deed, and when Coronda told Vito, Vito told him to get Clemenza to kill Luca. Clemenza told Vito that Luca was in jail, but that he was a powerful man and if Vito persuaded him he could be a great use to the family. Vito went to the jailhouse to talk to Luca, but found out that Luca had just slashed his throat with a piece of glass, and he was receiving medical attention. After that, Vito talked to Luca and told him he would help him out of his troubles. Luca told Vito he wanted to die, and that nothing could stop him. Vito persuaded Luca to work for him by telling him that either he could kill for Vito, or Vito would see to it that rather than die he’d spend the rest of his life in jail. Luca agreed and Vito posted his bail. He told Luca that if he thought a cut throat was a quick way to die, that if he ever betrayed Vito he would suffer for weeks while slowly dying. Vito was the only man that Luca ever feared.

A week later Vito met with Police Chief O’Malley at Scarpato’s restaurant. Vito proposed to pay the entire force for their services and the first service would be to pardon Luca for the murder. The chief agreed but said he would not partake in any other illegal activities such as Gambling, Prostitution, Smuggling, Alcohol, Murder, or armed Robbery. While at the restaurant, Vito talked to Augustino Coppola’s cousin, Al Fontane. Fontane told Vito that his son, Johnny would be receiving Confirmation the next Easter. The boy’s Godfather, Rafilo Valenti had been murdered the year before over a disagreement with an Irishman, Seamus McGhee. Fontane’s Godchildren, Nino and Romane Valenti, lived with him and he couldn’t afford to pay protection to Maresia. Vito told him he would help, but that Johnny deserved a Godfather, and asked if he could be Godfather for Johnny’s Confirmation. Fontane happily agreed. On Easter 1929, Vito and his family, including the Abbandandos were present at Johnny’s Confirmation. Vito became the Godfather, and gave Johnny a Twenty-Dollar Gold piece.

For quite some time, the smuggling ring went without a hitch.

Then in May 1925, Santino came home late one night with a boy whom he had played with a couple of times. The boy had very bad eyes. He said his name was Tom Hagen. Santino told his father he’d found him on the street. Tom explained that his mother was very sick, blind, and died. His father, a hardworking carpenter, destroyed his Family never the less by being addicted to liquor. He past away drunk, leaving Tom Hagen parentless. Heartbroken by the story of the poor young kid, Vito decided to take him into the Corleone house for a while. He had his eyes fixed by a doctor, so he wouldn’t have to go through the same pain his mother did. While listening to Tom’s story about his father, he thought of the area the Hagen’s lived in. Perhaps his father’s drunkness got him in trouble with Maresia. When asking Tom about his father’s relationships, the only name Tom came up with was “Signor Giueseppe”. Vito knew enough. He asked Clemenza to go to the Hagen house. Clemenza found out the house was deserted. Vito feared the father had fled or worse, been murdered, for not paying protection fees to Giuseppe Maresia. Soon after, Vito met with Maresia in Central Park. Maresia said he hadn’t heard from Hagen and that he thought that he had skipped town to avoid paying him. A few days later, Bruno DeSapio ran into Vito’s office at GPOC with a newspaper. Vito read the paper and found out that the body of Tom Hagen’s father had been found in a basement in Brooklyn. The police didn’t have any suspects. Vito knew Maresia must have been involved.

Later he set up a meeting disguised as discussing Prohibition. The meeting took place in July 1929 at the Utica Zoo, in Utica, NY. Sal Maranzala, Tommy DeBono, Gaetano DiGriogio, Carmine Cuneo, Joe Maresia, Vito Corleone, Sal Tessio, Hyman Rothstein, Moe Greene, Ralph Capone, John Riotro, Philip Tattaglia, Dutch Saietta, Ceasar Malare, Gaetano Isabella, Hector Mangano, Richard Pelley, Louis Bocchicchio, Christophe Ferrano, David McKigney, and Seamus McGhee were all at this meeting. Tattaglia was a Maresian Capo like Cuneo; Saietta was a Jewish Friend of Greene and Rothstein’s who drove the trucks to Buffalo, where they were picked up by Hector Mangano. Mangano sent them to Don Malare in Detroit. Pelley was a Jewish man who was involved with Johnny Ola. McKigney and McGhee represented the Irish Mob. Isabella was the Don in the Long Island districts who informed Rothstein when the smuggling ships came in. Ferrano was an independent Don who had been pressured lately by Maresia. Bocchicchio was alone in America but was close with his brother Guido in Sicily, who sent the alcohol to America on the same ships that Vittorio Tommasino sent Olive Oil to Vito. Riotro was there to head the meeting before retiring to Sicily.
Rothstein informed the others that a man named Gianni Prodi from Carson City, Nevada, was sponsoring a man from President Hoover’s Party as Governor of Nevada who was going to legalize Prostitution, Gambling, and Alcohol in Nevada. He needed monetary backing from New York to sponsor the Governor. Maranzala, Corleone, DiGiorgio and Isabella agreed to back the Governor, but Maresia refused. He left the meeting with Tattaglia, Cuneo, Capone, Ferrano and Malare. The Irish Mob declined to get involved since they wouldn’t benefit in New York from actions in Nevada. They left the meeting. Maranzala proposed that they should eliminate Maresia to insure the rest of them that they would benefit from Nevada’s Legalization and later Legalization in New York. Vito suggested they should wait to kill Maresia. Fierra wanted Maresia killed right away to get him off his back.

3: 1984-1986
By 1984, Michael restored all of the Family’s businesses. The Family was completely legitimate, and while owning Immobiliare, Michael became one of the richest men in the world. The operational leader of the Family, his nephew Vincent Mancini, took over completely, when Mike decided to retire.
He moved to Corleone, to be followed by his sister Connie a year later. His son Anthony, who would have a series of succesfull opera’s in Palermo and other Italian places, would join his aunt and father on the Tommasino compound. His mother Kay never returned to Sicily, and to have contact with her, he went to New Hampshire a couple of times a year. She and her husband Douglas Michelson lived there quite anonymously. Michelson was a big shot attourney for 30 years now, and Kay lived a quiet, jobless life.
Michael turned over leadership of his Immobiliare-share to BJ Harrison, his old legal advisor. Harrison stayed on as Don Vincent’s legal advisor. Vincent ran the Family business from New York, where he bought a house, not far from the old Family compound on Long Beach. He sent old Al Neri to Nevada, to restore the old Family business in Las Vegas. Dominic Abbandando, Michael’s previous PR advisor, became Vincent’s contact in Rome to run the Family business in Italy, also in charge of the contact between New York and Sicily.

As soon as Michael left, a letter arrived at Vincent’s compound. He lived there with two maidens, a couple of bodyguards and a few pets. He had no consiglieri or an underboss. He’d met with BJ only once a week, and saw his operating capo’s a couple of times at a social club owned by one of his old friends, somewhere in Brooklyn.
The letter was anonymous. It said: “I know who you are. I believe I know what you can do. I know what I can, and I think we can help each other out. A friend”
Soon after, Vincent found out who was the sender of this mysterious message. At first he did not want anything to do with the person, a hispanic called Alex Rodrigo Cuesta, also know as “The Arc of Brooklyn”. He was said to be Puerto Rican or Cuban, nobody really knew. Others claimed he was Mexican or Colombian. Cuesta was very mysterious, and did not gave away much details. He wanted Vincent to join him. Cuesta was interested in some new, major, drug trafficking via the New York docks. He bribed some boat lines between Panama, Colombia and Venezuela and the US, and he needed a place the dope could safely enter the US border. The docks were in control of the Tattaglia Family, nowadays runned by Paul DiCanio, a tall, 70 year old guy with a big face and large glasses. Some of his capo’s were the leaders of the docks, controling the unions, the companies and the transport business from and to the harbor. DiCanio had his own interests in drug dealing, and it did not concerned the South American drug cartels. He was very clear about it: who ever tried to infiltrate from that area, into his dock businesses was to be taken out. Cuesta knew this, and was very careful. He tried talking with DiCanio, but the old man was VASTBERADEN and wanted to keep his narcotics business within his own activities, which were dealing-routes between New York and Europe, mainly Sicily, Libya and Morocco. DiCanio thought that when he let Columbians or other Pan-American gangs enter his territory, they would be to big of a threat. At first it would go well, but in a while all those hispanics would get over enthousiastic, and the way DiCanio saw it was that, either they would mess things up for him by being caught, or they would want more and more power within the operations that smooth cooperation would get impossible, also resulting in a catch. Because DiCanio knew that if it got out he was dealing in narcotics, both the federal institutions as The Commission would turn against him. He was already out of line with his European drug routes, but as long as he kept it small and did no harm to the other Families, he’d be okay.
Cuesta left DiCanio with a doubled feeling. He didn’t get killed, DiCanio wasn’t mad at him. He was reasonable as a businessman and turned down his proposal. But on the other hand, Cuesta had a lot of supplyers to satisfy. After traveling back and forward from NY to Cali, before going to Vincent Mancini in secret.

Vincent was kept out of The Commission since he became the head of the Corleone Family. Some of the Don’s disagreed with Vincents actions in Sicily in 1980, when he killed Don Lucchesi, amongst others. At first he thought of Cuesta’s idea as bad. But Vincent also had some negative feelings of DiCanio and a few other Dons. For being held out of the Commission, for being cut out of the big unions, the judges, the docks and the real estate, and mostly for being unrespected ever since he became the Don. He was a young Don, that’s true. But his uncle Mike proved this would be no reason not to be a powerfull Don.
Also, he hated that the other Families would mock him for being a sissy-Don, only because he let his uncle legalize all the companies owned by the Family. By the time Cuesta came to Vincent with his offer, Corleone was completely legitimate.

BJ found out about the letter, and asked Vinnie what’s going on. Altough Vincent says he wants nothing to do with it, BJ strongly advises him several times not to step into the narcotics business. BJ was a smart man, he knew what a vague letter like Cuesta’s ment. But even so, Vincent decided to have some talks with Cuesta and his men.

On one night he got a mysterious phone call. It was from a police officer from Tampa, Florida. He was recruited by an old police chief in the Tampa Police Department, who was an old friend of Al Neri. He and Neri used to work together on night shifts when Neri was still a New York police officer. He owed Neri a little favour, and Neri, feeling a bit responsible for all affairs Michael left behind, ordered the Chief to keep an eye on Santino Corleone JR, Sonny’s youngest son. He moved from Miami, where Sandra past away a few years before, to Tampa and got involved in some gambling and prostitution businesses, runned by the local mafia. The local Don was a friend of Cavanio, the new Cuneo boss. Responding to Neri’s request very well, the Tampa Chief of Police was afraid Santino JR would get killed by the Tampa Don, called Rogerio Malona, and he had a junior cop inform Vincent about it in New York. Vincent sent Neri to Florida right away to take care of things.
Al Neri personally went to Tampa to visit Santino JR and to thank the Police Chief. Meanwhile, he was ordered by Vincent to keep an eye open for what goes on in the streets of Tampa. Cavanio was a dangerous man, a friend of DiCanio, and with a outerstate sidekick like Malona, the collaboration could get very threatening to Vincent and his regime.

Neri brought Santino JR to Vincent, and he explained how he got messed up with Malona’s activities. Vincent advised Santino to stay with him, and also asked Neri to stay in New York for a while. He responded with asking Vincent if he couldn’t get some time of. It was no secret Al Neri wanted to quit working, especially for the Corleone Family. And the job he got from Vincent in Vegas was a full-time job, very hard. Neri, single for a long period now, was very depressed and neede some serious time of. Vincent always said he couldn’t afford Neri to leave. If he would find a proper successor to his Vegas jobs, he would need Neri close by rightaway, as he always was near Michael. Things between Neri and Vincent weren’t getting better. Vincent admired him, for what he’s done for the Family, but Neri never felt comfortable working for the young, tempered and unexperienced Don. He proposed Santino could run things for Vincent in Vegas. Vincent disagreed, for Santino JR would have to little experience and knowledge. And he would need either him or Santino by his side when he took Cuesta’s offer. Which he did a few weeks later. Vincent convinced BJ into going alone as well, and with the four of them, and a couple of bodyguards, they met with Cuesta and his men in Miami. They made a nice deal. For every dollar Cuesta would make with the new narcotics trade, the Corleone’s would get 30 cents. If something should happen to the Corleone’s, the Cuesta Family would immediately be responsible and would cover for all harm done financially. Both knew this also ment physically.
Basically, the deal was Vincent arranging the shipments in the New York and New Jersey harbors would go directley to some delivery trucks from companies owned by the Corleone’s. Vincent also persuaded another Family to join, the Parisi family. Alfredo Parisi took over Victor Stracci’s Family when he was killed on Michael Corleone’s order in 1955. Parisi originally was a Barzini capo, but left the Family Salvatore Rossi took over. Rossi was an old fashioned guy, while Parisi was his time far ahead. Parisi saw of himself as a modern gangster, similar to Michael Corleone. Rossi wanted things to be restored, and strongly condemned Mike’s assasination of the other heads of the New York Families. The Barzini capo became the Don, and his old colleague Parisi got the Stracci Family. In the 60’s, Rossi (without permission of The Commission) tried to assasinate Michael on one of his charity festivals. It failed, and the other heads convicted Rossi dead. A young Corleone capo by the name of Joey Zasa took the job, a massive Family collaboration in which Parisi was the peacekeeper. Zasa killed Rossi, his consigilieri and his underboss, as well as two capo’s. Only one Parisian capo was killed. Eugenio Romano took over from Rossi in the Family once lead by Barzini.
Zasa got promoted to Underboss of the Corleone Family, which he took over in 1974, with the blessings of Alfredo Parisi. In 1979, Zasa was the one who arranged a gian massacre in Atlantic City, a hit mainly on Michael Corleone’s life. Among the men killed there were Parisi and Romano, as well as Donald Volpe, grandson to the old Pennsylvanian Don from the 1920’s, and Leo Cuneo, son to Carmine Cuneo.

Parisi’s successor, Carlo Pochettino, now teamed up with Vincent to disturb all of Cavanio and DiCanio’s activities in the harbors. For a few months a bloody mini-gangwar was held, but in those days, the Corleone men were practically unhurt. The Corleone’s arranged the transport from the docks to the dealers, Cuesta’s men in the suburbs of New York. Pochettino got men together to unload the shipmens from the boats, with all the bloody shootings with Cavanio and DiCanio’s men. On board the ships was the dope, protected by so called “travellers”. Those were Columbians only working on the boats. They would make sure all of Cuesta’s shipments would arrive safe and sound in New York.
Regarding his capacities as an overview leader, Vincent put Al Neri in charge of the transport operations between the boats and the dealers, most of them Cuban, Costa Rican, Puerto Rican and Columbian, all living near Harlem and The Bronx.
Santino JR turned out to be as tempered as Vincent, but Vincent learned to control himself now he was done. Santino obviously didn’t, and besides fighting, there wasn’t much Santino could do very well. Vincent made him his personal assistant. This basically ment the 39-year old had to be awear of any danger, and had to physically be responsible for all harm done by Vincent Corleone to others. On a night when Vincent was a sleep, Neri told Santino JR some stories. First he started to talk about Rocco Lampone. Neri admired Lampone, who got killed after he succesfully assasinated Hyman Roth. Santino JR loved the story. As Neri went back in time, he also talked about Santino’s father Sonny, whom he had never met in real life, but heared a lot about. He also knew both Sandra and Lucy Mancini, and conversations about these two ladies often led to outrageously funny moments between Santino JR and Vincent, mocking each other with their mothers. To Vincent, Santino JR wasn’t a capo or a soldier, but a relative, he was equal. So was Al Neri, who he loved. Neri continued telling Santino JR stories, and the further back in time the stories took place, the more Neri loved to tell them. For him these stories before his entrance into The Family were just as legendary. He heard a lot about Luca Brasi. He heard that once, Luca had to kill some of Vito Corleone’s enemies. He was torturing the man so hard, that altough it was in a basement, the entire neighbourhood could hear the man screaming. Some people think this was because Luca never actually killed him, but left him on the edge of dying, strapped and tied up, slowly bleeding away, losing his breath, his ability to think, control over his eyes, control over his blatter and finally collapsing to death, after being painfully tortured for days. The reason Luca was linked with this tortured man was not only because it was one of Corleone’s enemies, but also because there were found some cigar-holders from a very rare brand of Mesican cigars, Brasi was known to smoke. It was to be his only error when leaving a body behind, and the story therefore become so legendary.
It was one of many stories Santino heard from Neri. Altough he liked the story of Luca Brasi going Johnny Fontane’s bandleader with Vito, and was thrilled when he heared how Michael met Filomena in Sicily, telling him the story of Luca killing his own just born baby, the torture story was his favorite. But it was the most vague Brasi-story ever, no one ever confirmed any of it.
Neri obviously got older over the years. He got a bit weak, a bit tired, he certainly seemed restless but had no interests in active work anymore. He wanted to get out, but were to go? Neri wasn’t rich. He had no contact with Michael anymore. He had not done a single legal job in over 30 years, was getting weak, basically, he would never get a job. Not a legal one. And the illegal ones he didn’t want. Working for another Family was no option, he only hoped to be supported by Vincent, financially, when retiring. Deep inside he wanted to be a modern consiglieri, he wanted to share his experience with Vincent without being too active. Vincent agreed on this, wanting his experience, but never the less sent Neri out to keep an eye to all transport activities.

For two years, the drug trafficking route was a success. A lot of people were killed, yes, but most of them were either enemies (from DiCanio mostly) or Pochettino men. Sometimes a “traveller” become corrupt, hiding the cargo claiming it to be stolen by ‘boatbandits’ or ‘pirates’, only to keep it for himself. Vincent had no worries about these men. Cuesta had ‘em removed by his own crew.
Cuesta was known as a tough guy in Cali. He wasn’t involved in any political war, and that kept his troops large and strengthened. Also, afraid for being assasinated in the political wars, some of the soldiers from junta groups joined the Cuesta crew to focus only on the drug traffic. Outside of Colombia though, Cuesta had never got enough help to be a big shot. He knew some Russians succesfully infiltrated in the Chicago gangs, and that there were excellent relations between Californian gangs, mostly black gangs, and Mexican cartels. He admired all of those who got on international ground without losing strength. He was never interested in Europe, there were too many Cali drug lords shipping to Europe, mainly to England, The Netherlands and Italy.
Cuesta was well respected in Columbia. He had control over a very large Peruvian supplyer, but was willing to share his ‘goldmine’ with the other drug lords, for very low prices. For this, he got eternal respect and was seen as the most centralized person in the Cali drug cartel. Only one other drug mafia boss did not like him, threatening him. Due to Cuesta’s arrangement with the Corleone and Parisi Families, they got the other drug lord killed, and Cuesta got all of his men, as well as his income. The Cuesta-Corleone collaboration was a succesfull one, a friendly one, and one of respect. They helped each other out, and it worked very well.

In the summer of 1986, Paul DiCanio was expecting a big liquor shipment. On the same day one of Cuesta’s ships arrived. DiCanio had extra soldiers sent to make sure everything went well. The DiCanio men still messed up and confused Cuesta’s cargo with their original one. As soon as Pochettino’s guys, who were supposed to have an easy day getting the drugs, noticed this they contacted Parisi who called Vincent. The two Dons decided this was a big chance of getting DiCanio. They called same of their friends at the Police Department, and at the end of the day, over 30 DiCanio crew members were arrested with loads of cocaine. Vincent and Pochettino thought at least one of them would mention the name of DiCanio. Meanwhile, the ‘left’ liquor cargo was taken in by Pochettino’s men and Vincent said they should throw theselves a big party!

DiCanio was pissed off. He decleared war to Vincent, but his grip on The Commission was slipping. They thought it was his own fault, and wouldn’t support a hit on Vincent Mancini. DiCanio did give the go ahead though to attack some of the trucks used by the Corleonesi to transport the narcotics, having 5 Corleone soldiers killed in 2 months in autumn. Vincent was outraged, and asked The Commission permission to murder DiCanio. He went to one of the four non-New York members, Alphonse Damanerio, the 70 year old successor to Fransesco Molinari, who was Don of San Francisco from the early 1940’s til the late 1960’s. Molinari was personally responsible for the protection of Vincent’s uncle Fredo from 1947 til the Corleone move to Nevada, in 1956. Damanerio was a respected old Don. Vincent knew DiCanio didn’t like Damanerio. In fact, DiCanio only liked Cavanio and no other Don. Vincent expected Damanerio to O-K the hit on DiCanio, but he didn’t. The old Alphonse expected a major gangwar, and with the current FBI attention on organized crime, the Families couldn’t afford that. Vincent told Damanerio he was making a big mistake.
Vincent and his partners, Neri and Santino JR never forgot about the truck shootings by DiCanio. Others affected by this were, off course, Pochettino and Cuesta. Pochettino sided with Damanerio, claiming it was a bad idea to take out the major boss, but Cuesta was furious. He wanted to liquidate the person responsible for the loss of some of ‘his’ men as he saw the Corleone truck drivers, himself, in person!

Cuesta came to New York and met with Santino JR. After a few weeks of planning, they decided to go ahead. They were about the organize a hit on Paul DiCanio. On a cold December evening, when DiCanio and his underboss were driving downtown to one of the Tattaglia social clubs, a couple of big black cars followed them around. One car had Santino JR and Cuesta in it, with two of Santino’s muscled ‘friends’ on the backseat. The other had two of Cuesta’s Cuban friends who lived in Harlem. They parked a few miles away from the Tattaglia-club. The third car had Al Neri driving it and Vincent Mancini sitting next to him. They were off to a street three blocks away from the club. Before a traffic light, to which Neri stopped, Vincent noticed in the car next to them were DiCanio and his underboss, Pete Lario. “Quick, drive on” Vincent yelled, and the car took off towards their position. The car with Santino stopped 50 metres from the Tattaglia nightclub. Suddenly, the car driven by Lario entered the street. It was driving very slowly, definetly going to stop. A parking space in front of the club was kept open for them especially. Lario drove the car into the parking space, when the car with Santino stopped right behind it. The moment Lario sees this and tries to yell at DiCanio not to step out, the old Don already does, to find Alex Rodrigo Cuesta and two hitmen and the sidewalk. The hitmen shot him three times each in his chest and stomach. Cuesta hit him very accurately in the head twice. Before shooting a third bullet, he got distracted, and shocked a little bit, and theferor shot the Don in his leg once too. Santino JR took care of Pete Lario, who was trying to escape on the streetside of the car. After Santino hit the underboss twice in the back, on of the hitmen aimed his gun just over the car’s rooftop and hit Vario right in the back of his head. He was dead instantly after this impact. Quickly, the two hitmen dissapeared in the large crowd of Christmas shoppers. Santino and Cuesta ran off the other way. They kept on running until a car stopped to let them in. It was Vincent and driver Neri, who while picking up Cuesta and Santino drove through the street where the assasination took place, and Vincent could see and aprove for himself the brilliant job he organized. The four of them drove a couple of blocks, until they reached the third car with the two Cuban friends. It was a big car, and the six persons fitted in easily. The car Neri left behind was set on fire immediately.

4: 1927/1890-1892
On Sonny’s eleventh birthday party, Vito invited a lot of his friends to celebrate not only his son’s birthday, but also the welcoming of Tom Hagen, who has been with the Corleone’s a couple of months now.
Everyone was there. The Abbandando’s, the Clemenza’s, Sonny’s schoolfriends, the neighbours, Segnora Colomba, the Coppola’s, the Fontane’s.
Carmine Coppola played a Flute solo for his Godfather Vito. The tune reminded Vito of his father, Antonio Andolini, back in Sicily. Vito remembered his father’s funeral when his brother Paolo was killed. He remembered his mother, Maria, being murdered and his immigration to America. He remembered being adopted by Oreste and going to work for him at Abbandando grocery. When the song ended Vito embraced his Godson, and walked him back to his father, Augustino Coppola.

Vito and his Family just came back from Sicily. Don Altobello became Connie’s godfather, Don Tommasino Michael’s. In the evening, Vito, Clemenza, Genco, Tessio, Rothstein and Greene were in Vito’s home-office. Vito talked of killing Ciccio, Mosca, and Strollo in Sicily. Rothstein and Greene looked a bit funny at each other, when Vito, still having Carmine Coppola’s flute theme in his mind, started to tell the emotional story of his father, Antonio Andolini.

Antonio Andolini was born in 1858 in Corleone, Sicily and married sixteen year old Maria Castellano in 1880. Antonio was a hard working farmer, who had a little piece of land outside of his hometown, where he managed olive plants. The Andolini couple was a poor, but happy family.

In Sicily, for decades, the people were protected from bandits, armies, police and even politicians by the mafia, who offered the Sicilians protection and sometimes work in exchange for profits and support. The old Dons were very succesfull in minimizing the governments influence in the daily rural life of most Sicilians, and the people were glad to have such a strong force watching over them. They contributed the Dons with shares of their harvest, and everybody was happy. The current Don of the Corleone area was Don Francesco Ciccio. His way of ruling the area was easy. Everybody must pay to him. He wanted shares of their profits, or physical payments, and in return offered full protection from governmental institutinos, who were distrusted by the people. Most of the Sicilians were happy to pay to Don Ciccio for his protection was very welcome. Those who didn’t want to pay immediatly were forced too, with some threatenings or beating ups. Those who’d even refuse to pay after that were done some serious harm; their farmhouses or lands were set on fire, their daughters or sons were physically hurt and, in some extreme cases, Don Ciccio ordered a family member killed. Very rarely he had the farmer himself killed, for he was too important in the farming business. Don Ciccio liked all contributions from the farmers, as well as the local shopowners, the bakers, the locksmiths, the carpenters, everybody. He didn’t really ask for the little money these people had, for he would earn plenty of it when using their products in his own business. He had some business contacts with men from the mainland (Italy), and some of France and Northern Africa. He exported some wine, grapes, oranges and other fruits, vinegar and olive oil, but also weapons he had made.
Don Ciccio himself was a respectfull man. He was in his fourties, and had become very wealthy of his business ruling the area as a Don. Altough a lot of the Sicilians were very poor due to his cashings, they still respected his personality and his power, as well as his choice to keep everyone alive, and most importantly, protected from evil men. Ciccio had some enemies on the island. Strong, tall men who formed a group with other strong men, who all did not want to pay anything to Don Ciccio and together formed to strong a group for Don Ciccio’s troups to force them into paying him. The group of men were the only enemies Don Ciccio had.

Don Ciccio was not a tall man, physically. But he also became too little to run every operation he planned, his ‘empire’ just got too big. He decided to give away some authority to his nephew, Mosca Donatone. Mosca got control over the collecting business, and soon travelled around the country to collect protection fees. Mosca wasn’t a respectfull man like his uncle, yet. He was young and unexperienced, and some farmers had few confidence in him. Mosca got frustrated when the collecting activities weren’t going so smoothly as when his uncle did it. Soon people got to knew the real Mosca Donatone. He forced the poor to pay him, threatening to kill them or their families. He was much more brutal than Ciccio. He was no diplomat, and wouldn’t wait untill the people got their senses together. There was no negotiating with Mosca Donatone. When his profits went down, he was furious, and demanded from everyone to pay him twice as much as they used too. Antonio Andolini was among the smaller farmers, but was a very clever man, and used his capacity to the fullest to ensure he harvest enough to make a living ánd pay the raised fees from Mosca. But there were other farmers, who couldn’t pay up. Farmers who had far bigger land than Antonio, but simply did not have the knowledge to harvest it effectively. Very few had the brains of Antonio Andolini when it came down to the crops. And those who had smaller pieces of land than Antonio did were helpless. Mosca’s reign was one of some sort of terror, without getting things out of control.

Ciccio admired Antonio though, for many reasons. He liked the way Antonio worked on his land; hard, fast and efficient. Antonio would use his property land to the maximum to conceive his harvest. Not only did he reaped quite a lot on a small amount of land, but he also had by far the best olives reaped. Ciccio loved the taste of Andolini olives. He managed Mosca to ease up on Antonio, and never to beat him up or anything. But there was another reason Andolini had some credit with Ciccio.

One quiet Sicily day, Antonio was on his way back home late in the afternoon. In the deserted streets of Corleone, he found a young man, sitting to a wall of a small house, screaming out of pain. Antonio went to see what was going on, and saw the man was hurt. Without doubting he took the man under his arms and brought him to his house quickly. His wife Maria, who was taking care of their son Paolo, rushed towards her husband and the wounded man, to take care of him. She cleaned the wound, and washed away some blood from his dark brown pants. The look in his eyes was a from a scared man, still breathing heavily and sweating a lot. The man must have been running just before Antonio found him, and he told the Andolini’s he fell and tripped. “Why were you running”, Antonio asked. At first, the young man said something about today being the day his favorite uncle would pay his family a visit, and he couldn’t wait to get home after work so he’d ran home as fast as he could. A few moments later, suddenly he claimed to be running because it was his hobby to do so, like the ancient Greek would run in the same conditions, a hot summer afternoon, for prestige and bravelyhood. Antonio thought the boy’s different statements were a bit odd, but decided not to care much about it. After a while, the young man was rested and went on his way back home. He thanked Maria Andolini for the hospitality, and Antonio for his support. He offered his help in the future whenever Antonio needed it. When the man left, Antonio started thinking. What was going on with this young man? The entire time he was in his house, he said very few words. The afternoon was hot, sunny and quiet. Except for a brief moment, when some men walked by the Andolini house and talked out quite loud, the whole afternoon went by without any events. The boy just sat in their house, accepting the medical support he got from Maria Andolini.

Some days later, Don Ciccio came to Antonio Andolini. He praised him for being such a good man. He said he had arranged with Mosca that he would let Antonio work peacefully and without disturbs. He even managed his nephew to cut back on Antonio’s protection fee, for which he would now pay less then everyone else in the area. But why, Antonio thought. Ciccio told him why. The young man Antonio had rescued was Vittorio Ciccio, the only male heir of Ciccio’s late brother Georgiano. When Georgiano died, Don Ciccio took Vittorio into his house to raise him. Don Ciccio adored his little nephew, but this admiration wasn’t mutual. Vittorio didn’t like his uncle, and ran away from home a lot. When away from home, to provide himself a living, he would steel or kill, or brake into people’s houses to have a place to stay in the nights. He even terrorized some of the few Sicilian prostitutes outside the city of Palermo. He was said to search for luck in Palerma a while, but got kicked out by the Palermo police. In distrust of his rebelness against his uncle, he was not protected for this, and Vittorio was forced to go back to Corleone again.
Suddenly, it all became clear to Antonio. He remembered the group of men walking past his house on the afternoon he had taken Vittorio in. The group of men had to be the landlords who hated Don Ciccio. Vittorio must have been invading their compounds to steel or something, was spotted and ran for his life when the landlords came running after him. Antonio remembered all at once, why Vittorio had such a big wound in his leg, and why there was so much blood. He found it strange he got this kind of a wound from tripping. It was quite a big cut. Antonio realized the wound was a shotwound from a gun. One of the landlords chasing him must have shot at him with a barrel in the pursuit. The bullet must have brushed against his knee, not really impacting it. Vittorio though was hurt enough to fell and to be unable running any further. Now Antonio knew why Vittorio was so eagered to come with him. The shooting must have been only a moment before and the landlords were about to be very close. Afraid of being killed, Vittorio accepted Antonio’s helping offer.

And this help Antonio gave proved to be very profitable for him. In the months after, Antonio was secured of full protection from Don Ciccio, and had to pay little money to Mosca. His financial status bettered, and as long as he kept on providing such great olives to Ciccio, he would be sure to be well respected. Antonio and Maria became a wealthy family among the Sicilian farmers, who were very poor. Not to say they were rich by now, but at least they could afford enough food, they provided their son Paolo a descent living, and a few years later, they could even afford to have another son. Don Ciccio was delighted with this news, threw a big party of which the three Andolini’s were to be the special guests, and had some arrangements for the nursery of the new child taken care of. Antonio was very pleased to receive such help, but reminded himself constantly that he was in debt with a dangerous gangster. If he would mess things up, there was no doubt he would sent Mosca to harm him. He then came up with a good idea. He would name his new child after Don Ciccio’s relative, to honour the day their relationship started in a very good way. Maria gave birth to another son, and Antonio proudly named him Vito, after Vittorio Ciccio, who by the way ran off again and was rarely seen in the Ciccio residence.

Now Antonio had a good relationship with Don Ciccio, he had things sortened out with Mosca, and there was no reason to be afraid of Vittorio. The Corleone landlords condemned Antonio’s affairs with Ciccio, but saw he could do no harm.

The only thing Antonio was afraid of, were bandits, stealing his farming equipment, or rivals burning down his fields. There were quite some of those jealous farmers, and because Antonio had created a very effective way to harvest and was a close friend to Don Ciccio, he was about the biggest target for these ‘farmbandits’.

One day the inevitable happened. Antonio’s field was burned to the ground, the barn he had was destroyed and all of his equipment was stolen or left broken. Antonio’s heart was broken. But a neighbour overheard some young men talking about the fire, and told Antonio he knew who was the perpetrator: Strollo Ciccio, the Don’s oldest son, now in his twenties. Antonio was mad as hell and went to Don Ciccio to tell him. He complained about the lack of protection the night his properties were destroyed, not to speak to lack of respect his son had towards a honest and reasonable, hard working man like himself. Don Ciccio felt sorry for Antonio. But there was nothing he could do. Strollo was a selfish kid, and his mind was focused entirely around his personal wishes and ambitions. There was no way Ciccio could talk his son over not to do these things anymore. Besides, like his rebellious cousins Vittorio and Mosca, Don Ciccio loved the aggresive personality of his own son. It reminded him of when he was young and taking care of the orders the Don’s of his time gave him. It was obvious to Antonio that Don Ciccio’s loyalty to him was only to this far, and that his son and nephews would come in first place. Mosca came to collect protection right away, but Antonio didn’t have it. Also, he had no more good olives to give to Don Ciccio, and slowly, his succesfull farmland became a disaster. He got into big trouble when his debts to Mosca grew, only to be rescued by the little bit of pity Don Ciccio had left for him.

Years of sorrow followed. Antonio joined the local landlords, to ask them for help, and they did. They protected Antonio from Mosca, Strollo and other men of Don Ciccio, and helped him getting his act back together.

Don Ciccio’s political strength decreased, and especially the Palermo mafia had a few rough years. As a result to this, the Sicilian government and police forces got stronger, and started to investigate some of the rumours about the terrorizing collecting campaign of a man called Mosca Donatone. The Corleone landlords told the officers they should ask Antonio Andolini to testify for them. Don Ciccio heard about this and warned Antonio, that if he would, his son Strollo would come after him and murder him. Antonio dropped out, and instead was blackmailed to testify for Ciccio in Mosca’s favour. He couldn’t refuse, for Strollo came to ask him about this ‘favor’ with a gun pointed to his head. Antonio testified for Mosca in 1901, but was found dead a few days later anyway.

When Vito finished the story, all the men left, except for Clemenza, his best friend. He embrased him and supported him.

like I said, I'm working on act5 now...

I've written down some feedback for myself:

THE SETUP
I chose the most common set-up: a 20’s&30’s story and a 80’s & 90’s story.

The 20’s & 30’s story is mainly just about how it was described in the novel, as well as the references made in the first three movies (Hyman Roth talking about his old pal Moe Greene, etc.) Luca Brasi’s baby, finding Tom Hagen, etc. I don’t know if we should put too much in it, let’s not visualize ‘aerything’

The modern Vincent story: Michael leaves NY and the business in 1984, and moves to Sicily. BJ gets control over Imobbiliare, Vincent runs the business, which isn’t legitimate anymore. He is not respected as much as a Don like Mike and Vito were, and other organized crime syndicats see a chance to get a piece of the action. Also, Vincent thinks ‘big’, so the Family’s activities are no longer NY/Sicily/Vegas only, but worldwide. His new competitors are, besides 2 or 3 strong Don’s of other families left, the Yakuza, the Russian mob, the Italian mob and the Mexican and South-American drug cartels. He’s into drugs.

Somehow, I think, his story has to be a bit like John Gotti’s. If it would be in the 80’s and 90’s, and the movie would be the end of the saga, why not combine it with the unofficial end of the LCN history, which happened in the early 90’s with the Gotti trial? Maybe it could be like this:

After Michael’s retirement, another Don becomes the unofficial Boss-Of-Bosses (from now on to be called Carlo DiCanio), and Vincent disagrees. Altough from another Family, and altough not permitted by The Commission (this is not accurate!) Vincent kills DiCanio. He’s shot downtown NY when stepping out of his car, so is his driver. Vincent is the new superboss. FBI phone-taps him and his consiglieri and capo’s. On one of the tapes, he talks very badmouthed about his succesor-to-be if something would happen to him. This consiglieri/capo can be a new character, but in the end he rats on him and steps to the Feds, leading the definite destruction of Vincent Corleone. He goes into prison short after Michael’s Death (inaccurate! Gotti went in 92), because the opening scene of the film would be Vincent at Mike’s funeral.

In the years from Mary’s death (“Don Vincenzo”) till the killing of the boss-of-bosses, Vincent runs the Family on a very brutal way (so there’d be something to trial about later on, in the late eighties). This period, 1980-1984, is only to be referred in the modern story.
Vincent also get’s in love with the media during all of his trials, acting like the people’s hero.

Remember this entire story would be parallel to the old story. The destruction of Vincent would be parallel to the rise of Vito and Sonny.

Vincent has no son, nor does he find out Mary was carrying his baby. I think that’s too easy. In fact, the loss of Mary had made Vincent the man he became as a Don: a bittered man, no longer ANY interest in females (which used to be different in the past;) ), and a realtime gangster, taking us GF viewers back to the pre-GF3 Mike, mainly interest in (world-)dominating-business, and destroying his enemies.

I think in the old story crucial moments have to be: Castellamarese War, start of LCN with 5 Families (and sort out once and for all the number of families in the movie), Vito’s shooting, and after that Sonny taking revenge and making his bones.

Not too much about Roth, Ola and Greene. If they were so important to Vito in that period, why weren’t they there then on Connie’s wedding, why wasn’t Roth on the Five-Families meeting in the 1950’s? We saw Greene in GF1 so his appearance would be more logical.

Luca Brasi is in for the action, for the blood, but other characters we ‘suddenly’ see in GF2 or who are not so important in GF1 shouldn’t have big parts either. So no leading roles for Paulie Gatto, Pentangeli, Cicci, the Rosato’s, Geary, Carlo. Instead the story should focus on Vito, Clemenza and Tessio.

Create some new characters, the bosses of the families prior to Barzini, Tattaglia, Cuneo and Stracci. (I made up some names: Christophe Ferrano, Gaetano “Tom” DiGiorgio, Paulie Gagliese and Maranzala’s sidekick Tommy DeBono. These are the names made up by Ricardo: Cuneo, Tattaglia, Stracci, Tessio (!) and Isabella)

Also, did Vito Corleone ‘get’ a Family from Maranzano? Maranzano should be called Maranzala like he is in GF2. Ricardo named Joe Masseria “Maresia” which is okay.

Now to include a pre-Vito story, so a Antonio Andolini story (because some people would like this) on Sicily, some sort of flashback by middle-aged Vito (30’s) would show the relationship between Ciccio and Antonio. Maybe this can be done the same way the opening scene from GF2 was done. Like a Ciccio relative comes to NY in the 30’s to take revenge on Vito, and before or after doing so (failing of course), we would cut to a short Antonio Andolini story the same way as GF2 (text: Antonio Andolini was a etcetera on Sicily in the 1880’s etc.)

Anything from the 40’s and 50’s is out, I think. That is wat the first two movies were about. (a mini-series about Clemenza, Rosato and Pentangeli set in the mid-50’s is a nice alternative, but not much on them in GF4).

A 60’s story would be difficult. This is of course an imaginary script, not intended really to be filmed. But it’s for the fourth movie, so everything not yet shown can be shown. A 60’s story would be interesting to write about, but not in a movie-way. The 30’s Corleone rise has already been written about (the novel) and can be visualized. See my point? We can think up many things in the 60’s, we can not from the 30’s, but would it be necesarry to be seen in a Sonny/Vincent story? Nothing on Lucy, Segal, Fredo, Deanna or someone here therefor.

A 70’s story is out for the same reasons. Basically this is the era of upcoming Joey Zasa, and soldier/private drugdealer Vincent. Off course there’s a lot to make up here, but it wouldn’t contribute to the saga, except for Tom Hagen’s death. There isn’t a lot of info in GF3 about this period (like the Family heads prior to the ones killed in Atlantic City by Zasa).

SUMMARIZED

A 30’s story with the Castellamarese war, the Irish mobwar, the rise of the Corleone Family because of these events, the rise of Genco’s Olive Oil Import Company, and the introducting of gangster Sonny. In the end Tattaglia, Stracci and Cuneo are introduced, so are Theresa and Sandra, maybe Lucy, and the move of the family to Long Island would be some sort of ‘happy end’ to this part of the movie. Within this 30’s story a flashback to Antonio Andolini.

Murders in this part:
-Don Ciccio kills Antonio Andolini
-a Ciccio relative comes to NY to avenge Ciccio’s death (1927 by Vito) and tries to kill Vito. This effort failes and the relative gets his punishment by Pentangeli (the only appearance Frankie makes in this movie)
-Luca Brasi kills an Irish lady and her just-born-baby
-Luca Brasi kills Buster McGurn, and kills the Irish gangster who shot Vito
-Tessio has a restaurant meeting with Maresia, who is shot by four men (among them Moe Greene) when Sal goes to the bathroom (realtime: Luciano goes to the washroom, he and another Masseria capo (Genovese) ordered the killing, that was done by Genovese, Siegel, Adonis & Anastasia)
-Maranzala is killed on the order of Vito Corleone (realtime: Maranzano killed by 4 MurderInc guys dressed up as policemen, on the order of Luciano and Genovese). Along with Maranzala in the same period 40 of his men, including his most important capo’s and his sidekick, DeBono, get whacked. Before shot to death by the hitmen, Maranzala’s stabbed by Tattaglia.
DeBono’s successor is Tattaglia, who sided with Maranzala in Maresia’s death (his old boss), but stabbed Maranzala on the order of Vito Corleone.
-Ferrano, Gagliese are heads killed by rivaling gangs (not necessary Corleone’s), Gagliese by DeBono.
-Gagliese’s succesor Carachi is killed as well, by Tattaglia.
Ferrano’s successor is Stracci. Gagliese’s successor after Carachi is Barzini. DeBono’s successor is Phil Tattaglia, an old Maranzala capo therefore, and a lifetime enemy of Vito Corleone.
-(Ricardo’s scirpt): Luca Brasi kills Ralph Capone
-DiGiorgio dies of old age, and his underboss, Carmine Cuneo takes over in the end.
-also dying of natural causes: Gianni Rizzi, Rafilo Valenti,

A 80’s story with Vincent fighting the current boss-of-bosses, helped by his brother Santino JR, drugdealing with Bolivian, Columbian en Peruvian cokeheads, and all of this with Mike on the background, living in Sicily with Connie and Anthony.
Vincent offs the boss-of-bosses, to become for a short period the new Absolute Don. In the end, when he’s looking to a full scale world gangster war with Yakuza, Russian mob, Mexican gangs and Columbian drug cartels (and one or two LCN heads trying to get a piece of the action), and we’re nearing an ending with a lot of murders, like the other movies, Vincent ends up in prison

Murders in this story:
-DiCanio is killed on the order of Vincent

end scene:
-Masahiro Tanasuke (Yakuza boss), Alex Rodrigo Cuesta (Colombian boss), James Galoppi (Florida boss), Paulo Cavanio (Cuneo-boss), Carlo Pochettino (Parisi-boss), Alexandre Golubnev (Russian mob-boss,)

The Characters
Now the important characters from the old story:
Vito Corleone (30-45)
Sonny Corleone (10-25)
Tom Hagen (10-25)
Peter Clemenza
Sal Tessio
Genco Abbandano
Salvatore Maranzala (the boss of bosses of LCN)
Giuseppe Maresia
Luca Brasi
Moe Greene

The first five Don’s (Ferrano, DiGiorgio, Gagliese, DeBono and Corleone/Tessio)

Less important:
Hyman Rothstein
Maybe some of the later Dons (I’d say Cuneo or Stracci, Tattaglia may have a bigger part, as does his son Bruno. Barzini shouldn’t be in it, he is too important in GF1)
At the end the introducting of Nevadian Carlo Rizzi
Ciccio relative
Johnny Fontane+Nino Valenti
Michael Corleone and classmate Paulie Gatto
DEFINITELY NOT CARLO!

Small parts/references:
Pentangeli
Tommasino
Altobello
Johnny Ola
Theresa (Tom’s girl)
Sandra (Sonny’s girl)
Connie
Lucy (Connie’s friend)
Fredo

New story Important characters:
Vincent Corleone
Paul DiCanio
Vincent’s main capo who becomes the traitor (Victor Rizzi!)

I was thinking of Vincent to get his own Luca Brasi/Rocco Lampone/Al Neri, and his name: Santino JR. I never thought he would leave his father’s death the way it was. He is a tempered guy too, failing to make his own bones in the Tampa mob, where he lived with his sisters and his mother since the late 1950’s. He’s in his fourties now. When he gets in trouble, Vincent here’s about it and makes him his capo.

Also Connie’s son, Victor Rizzi, has a criminal past, he could get involved.

Hyman Roth-like characters should include the Colombian drug-dealer partners.
Enemies should include other left LCN-members, Yakuza members and some South-American drug dealers.

Less important characters:
Anthony Corleone
Connie
Mary (flashback scenes, why the heck not?)
Michael, very little part
Al Neri
BJ
Domenic Abbandando
Andrew Hagen (miniscule part)

Mentioned:
Johnny Fontane (his death)
Joey Zasa (when Vincent talks about His bones )

A COSA NOSTRA OVERVIEW
Maresia and Maranzala fight over absolute power.

With Maranzala are: Cuneo, DeBono, Corleone, Isabella (DiGiorgio), Fierra (Ferrano)
With Maresia are: Tattaglia, Capone, Gagliese

1930-31: Castellamarese War between Maresia crew & Maranzala crew. When Maresia is shot, Maranzala founds the LCN structure. The five heads are:
Corleone, Ferrano (Stracci), DiGiorgio (Cuneo), DeBono, Gagliese (Barzini). He’s the capo di tutti capi.
1931: Maranzala gets whacked, no-longer a upperboss, but Vito Corleone’s is seen as the big boss (so Vito Corleone to me is like a Lucky Luciano character in that period, not forgetting about Gambino and Genovese though).

My five families in the 30’s: Corleone, Ferrano, DiGiorgio, Gagliese, DeBono
Ricardo’s five families in the 30’s: Tessio, Isabella, Stracci, C.Cuneo, Tattaglia

This I made up:
The five families in the 40’s: Corleone, Tattaglia, Barzini, C.Cuneo, Stracci

Other don’s at the 1947/48/49 meeting (From the novel): Carlo Tramonti (Don of the Southern cities, first bigtime Havana-investor), Joseph Zaluchi (Detroit Don), Anthony Molinari (San Fransisco Don/Nevada), Frank Falcone (LA Don), Domenick Panza (Boston Don), Vincent Forlenza (Cleveland Don)
The five families in the 50’s: Clemenza/Pentangeli, Rosato, Rossi, Leo Cuneo, Parisi
The five families in the 60’s: Cicci, Volpe, Rossi, Leo Cuneo, Parisi
The five families in the 70’s: Zasa, Volpe, Romano, Leo Cuneo, Parisi
The five families in the 80’s: Mancini(Corleone), DiCanio (Tattaglia), Massaro (Barzini), Cavanio (Cuneo), Pochettino (Parisi)

FAMILY AFFAIRS
In the old story, the family-story has to be about Sonny being an unhandling kid to Vito and Carmella, Michael being rebelious, Connie being Vito’s little girl sweetheart and Fredo being the sidekick. Zoom in on this family relationships, which we’ve seen a bit in the 1941 Surprise Party scene. Also, Tom Hagen being a non-sicilian relative and how it affects him.

In the modern story, the evaluation of the love between Michael, Vincent and Anthony. Anthony moved in with Mike in the Tomassino compound on Sicily in 1984, so he lived near by the opera house. He learned to love and forgive his father in the 80’s and 90’s. Because Vincent started narcotics and illegal businesses again, Michael wants less and less to do with him, and Vincent is a little frustrated about it. When his brother Santino JR joins him, some emotional “brotherfeelings” arise. Also, when Victor Rizzi enters the picture, the three men (in their thirties now) have some arguments about their fathers’ past. When Vincent and Victor visit Anthony and Mike on Sicily, Victor acts strange. He’s sitting there with the murderer of his father! In the end he brakes emotionally and Michael has a chance to make up for something for once in his life, and he comforts Victor as far as possible.

I’m still worried about Kay, tho. Connie lived quietly with Anthony and Michael on Sicily. Kay never visits them, Anthony comes to NH to see his mother. But I think, as an ode to the old movies and the novel, some brief chemistry between Mike and Kay, who have set peace in GF3, must be in it somewhere.

I have thought al lot about Connie’s influence in Vincent’s business, but I don’t think she would be in it much. Neither does Anthony. First I thought a clash between Vincent and Anthony as a fight over control of the Family would be cool, you know, if Anthony changed to ‘his fate’, like his father has. But this is too unreal, Tony is just as sad after losing his sister as his father is. Mike, Tony, Connie, Kay, none of them have any bad characteristics in GF, they are all peacefull yet somber persons now.

As for the Hagen’s... well, Andrew should get a few lines in the funeral scene, when the entire family (all living ones at least) appear like in the GF3 opening party, but only a few really speak. The other Hagen’s should have only a part as extra. I’m sorry.

About Tom Hagen’s business when Sonny grew up. Genco was Vito’s consiglieri, Sonny became a wiseguy, a killer...what was Tom doing? I know he didn’t really like Connie and Fredo, and Michael didn’t like his family, so who was Tom with? Because of this thought I had to give Tom Hagen just a small part in the old story.

I think I’ve basically covered everyone here.

Back to the mafia story. The Castellamerese war and the killings of Maresia and Maranzala can/should be in it, but it’s impossible to be accurate to the ones who killed ‘em and who was with who after that, who joined which family, which alliance... We cannot say: thát character is Profaci, thát one is young Gambino, thát one is Luciano... I mean, who would be who? Let’s just use these events (a war, two boss-killings and a mass-execution) and then make up ourselves who was on what side etc.

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THIS BASICALLY IS ALL MATERIAL I HAVE GOT NOW.

acts 5 & 8 are almost done, I have completed act 6 and I'm currently working on all the other acts.

If someone feels the urge to responde, or if they want to help me with info about the 1936 Irish mob war Ricardo wanted in his script (as well as if you have any suggestions/idea's), please post it here.
Thank you

Oh everything is copyrighted (yeah right! )

Pherdy...WOW!! How long have you been working on this??? And in your second language!! What about a Dutch angle?? Maybe Vincent "makes his bones" in the Amsterdam Red Light District Maybe I can help you with some of the dialogue of the Irish characters. BTW no-one in Ireland ever says "Top of the Morning"!!

well, I haven't been writing for two weeks now, but most of it I wrote in a few days in that period...some free nights, not having anything to do...

as you see I haven't put in much or any dialogue...I'm not really into writing a screenplay of some sort. I need to know some facts about the Irish war of 1936, because that was Ricardo's original plan.

the only Dutch thing it was that Vincent dealed with some xtc-smugglers from The Netherlands (we are always proud in Holland of our xtc-reputation!)...

so what do you Irish say then?

Usually, pint of Guinness please!! :p

I like the idea - I don't care for the Willi Cicci as leader of the Corleone family scenario, and Ricardo shouldn't have had Ralph Capone be one of the hitmen that Luca Brasi eliminates. He was a real person that died of old age in 1974. He was a minor mobster and owned a legitimate bottled water/soda company in Chicago.

You have worked very hard on this and it is enjoyable to read. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this appears in the final format.

Thanks.

Pherdy,
This is good stuff! I think you should submit your treatment in.

Nice development Pherdy! Sure, we can count on you to make the GFIV delopment better!
Keep your work! We can exchange ideas as ever!

Giorgio Luigi Gambino.

Good job, Pherdy!

Wow!

very good criticism Don Marco!

good point about Ralph Capone. we can always change something, in fact, to just change the name is just a matter of a few mouseclicks!!

as for the Willi Cicci idea, I know what you mean. After the GF2 senate hearing I am confused about his position, and if he would ever take over from Pentangeli. It was also one of Ricardo's ideas I found somewhere on the boards. Being a retired Don disagreeing with Don Vincent wasn't really my go either, but then again, my name is not "Pherdy Puzo"

in fact, Ralph Capone is out right now!

thanks guys for all the comments. I have finished my exams and I have the time now to go on working on whole newer acts.

QUESTION: does anybody have any suggestions about my ACT 5? I don't really like the 'world trip' thing. The Cicci person can be someone else, of course!

From now on, Paulo Cavanio is called Paulo Ravanelli.

5: 1986-1989/1972
Unfortunately for Santino, the two hitmen, who were his personal friends, got killed only moments after the assasination of Paul DiCanio. Not only were they dead, they were also rightfully identified by journalists as Corleone members and their mugshots along with name and reference to Vincent Mancini got in all New York newspapers. From that point on, Vincent was a national suspect of the hit on Paul DiCanio, and New York police claimed to have started a full investigation on organized crime, the Corleone Family in particular.
This bad news was on the news in the entire US, including CNN. Dominic Abbandando saw it in his Rome residence, and called Connie on Sicily. Michael would never answer the phone. His life in Corleone existed of talking with fellow elderly Sicilians about common interests, as long as they weren’t crime topics, walking through the countryside with Connie and just sitting in his garden and enjoying the sun. He hated being too active because it would remind him of old times too much. It would remind him of his first trip to Sicily as a child, with his father and mother, as well as his brothers and little sister Connie. On that trip, Don Tommasino became his godfather. He always remembered the trip as a nice family holiday, a rarity in those days for mediocre families, but when he found out the reason his father Vito took his family there, he got disguisted.
In the 1940’s he had to flee to Sicily himself, where he spent days with his bodyguards Carlo and Fabrizio. Fabrizio would betray him and kill his first wife, Apollonia. Thinking of that time in Sicily also made him disgusted, even though he avenged Apollonia’s death by killing Fabrizio a decade later.
The last time he was in Sicily for a certain period, his daughter was shot, in front of him, dying in his hands saying “Daddy?”... his beloved daughter. What a life she must have had. Torn between rivaling mother and father, and yet never to have known the real truth about her Family. Nor known her real roots. It’s so tragic the way she ended, being in love with her cousin. She was naieve, she believed in mankind’s innocence. If only she saw her loved cousin now...killing respected New York Don’s...

Soon Vincent was called up for trial. BJ Harrison stood by him as his attourney. Neri though advised Vincent to be careful with Harrison. “He’s not Italian” he said, meaning that he couldn’t be trusted, as good a man as he might was. Vincent even thought of calling his favorite nephew Anthony, who studied a short time at Law School, but had no experience nor any interest in law practice anymore.
With his bodyguard Santino by his side, Vincent entered the courtroom with dozens of journalists and photographers around him. It became clear to him that the world was watching with him.
The trial itself was a mess. The DA thaught to have a fair chance of getting Vincent Mancini and his crime syndicate. Not only the murder attempt on Paul DiCanio was a subject, Vincent also was related to some illegal gambling and drug trafficking. Evidence proved to be innacurate though, and hardly enough to convict Vincent. The police and FBI tried everything. Every suspected Corleone member was questioned. The cops even tracked down a certain Victor Rizzi, who they found out to be a cousin of Santino JR and Vincent Mancini. Victor had not seen any of his Family for years. He didn’t even come to his uncle Mike’s papal honor award ceremony in 1979. Victor Rizzi fell into a life of crime at a very young age. His father was a rat - which he knew very well - betraying his mothers’ Family. His mother, while raising him, was weak and irresponsible, and divorced just as quick as she married her second husband, her third only to last longer because he never was around. Victor never really got to know his parents. His father was dead, his mother never home. He was raised partly by Theresa Hagen, partly by Sandra Corleone. In the 1970’s, he even lived in New Hampshire for a while with the Michelsons.
When Vincent was pleaded not guilty and heared about Victor, who he had not seen since the early 1970’s, he wanted him to come around. Victor agreed, and the long lost nephews were brought back together. Vincent especially was interested in Victor’s stories about Mary.

When Mary was a teenager, she was constantly in love with New Hampshire boys. Decent, nice, young, innocent, American boys. When she was 19, Victor Rizzi came to live with them to study in Portsmouth. Kay, Mary and Anthony had been living there, and a year later, Kay also met Douglas Michelson. A 23 year old single, Victor got a lot of attention from Mary, who seemed to be a ‘Family person’ very much. She loved her aunts and uncles, her cousins and most of all her parents, altough she never really understood why they split up, now more then a decade ago. Two years earlier, Michael and Kay were at a party together. They never saw each other since.
When Victor Rizzi went to college, he took Mary with him to guide her on her way to her own school, somewhere else in Portsmouth. They discussed all sorts of topics. Mary was interested in music and literature, she was a child of the pop culture. Victor was very interested in girls of his age, even more with girls from an elderly age. He was a very dedicated student and worked hard and serious in a Rail Road company. The company took care of broken railway tracks and renovated old wagons.
What Mary never knew was that Victor Rizzi, her cousin, had some illegal businesses going on at the Rail Road Embarqments. During the nights, when the railways were deserted, Victor dealed some dope with some underground thugs. He made a fortune ripping off corrupt cops. And he took some broke prostitutes down there to ‘do business’ with them, only to beat them up safely and not paying them afterwards, disposing her unconscious body blocks away, hoping they wouldn’t remember him the next morning.
Victor lived a dangerous and anonymous life, but kept it away from Kay and her kids. He never really liked Anthony, altough Anthony did adore his cous’. Anthony had just finished his third year in Business Administration at college, and was planning to start at Law School in two or three years. Kay was a busy woman, making a living for her ‘three’ children. Later, when she moved in with Douglas, she quite her job to spend more time with Mary and Anthony, letting the experienced attorney provide a living for the three of them (by then, Victor Rizzi moved already).
But Victor always liked Mary.

Vincent just loved the stories Victor was telling him.

Mary had lots of crushes, also at college. Victor always teased here saying things like “you’ll never get them” or “you’re just a little girl, they want wise women”. In fact, Victor did mean to tell her she had to loosen up a bit. She was almost in her twenties and still not very ‘active’ with boys, or men. Victor had no really sexual interest in Mary for himself, but he knew some of his good friends had some interest in quite little, sweet innocent Mary. He even tried to persuade her to go on a blind date with one of them, but she rightfully refused the offer, for the guy she was supposed to go out with wanted to take her to the Rail Road Yards for sure.

When Vincent heared this, he got a little mad at Victor. “But it never happened, Vinnie, I tell ya! And she sure never knew this, man, honestly” He continued his memoirs.

One time Mary was really in love. With an American boy she met at college. He was very nice and polite, and Kay and Anthony also loved him. Douglas arranged a big job interview for him, and it seemed as if he was already accepted as Mary’s future husband or something. Mary also thought the boy, called Mark, was a perfect match. She pictured herself marrying, she imagined having little Markies or little Mary’s later, she daydreamed a lot about Mark, about their future life, about Victor...Victor, her handsome and cute Italian cousin, a blood relative. She remembered most of her cousins were quite nice...Victor, Andrew, Frank, Vincent, Santino JR... but they were blood relatives. And besides, she also loved Americans, and she definitely loved Mark. She decided to put away all her inpure thoughts about her relative and to never think these thoughts again. Instead, she constantly asked Victor for guidance within her relationship with Mark. It was quite new to her, and she need advise especially on when, how and where to commit ‘the act’. A romantic poetic girl she always were, she had doubts all over wether to have pre-marriage sex or not. Victor basically was the one who convinced her to do it anyway, and she did...

Again, Vincent looked very nasty at Victor, asking why he did such a thing. “I don’t know man, she was my cousin. She wanted to know...things. I liked talking about it and I always liked the stories afterwards my friends told. I was curious about a girl’s afterwards stories”

Mary’s first few experiences were positive. A tragic end of her relationship with Mark would soon come. Mark apparently couldn’t waite to begin with sex as long as Mary could, and before he had taken away her virginity, he slept with an old high school girlfriend he had, a young lady known to the entire neighborhood as “Easy Janet”. Mary was furious, devastated, heartbroken. Mark made up, and Mary decided not to tell anyone about it, not even Victor. But Mark’s behaviour wouldn’t change. When Mary found out he was sleeping with another woman again, he even asked her if she would join them. He definitely wanted that. By that time, Mark also started using drugs, and to make matters worse, to finance the drugs he stole cash from the company he worked after Douglas provided him with the job. Mary had enough of it, and wanted to leave Mark. He seemed to be under influence of drugs when he hold her and stopped her from going anywhere. Te locked the door from his appartment the two of them stayed that night, and started to call four friends telling them to come over. “Mary...” he said “I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Some of my friends like you. Really really like you. A lot. They are, let’s say, kind of interested in you. Especially after I told them what an enthousiastic lady you are in the bedroom! They were wondering if they could get a piece of the cake too, and I agreed. Whatd’ya say, sweetie, you feel like having some fun? The guys are coming over soon” Mary started crying, and became very scared. Without really thinking or knowing what she was doing, she jumped out of a chair and attacked Mark like a wild animal. At first, he could get a hold of her, but one of her hysterical armswings hit him in the head and, being high on drugs at the moment, he collapsed and fell on the ground. Mary took the chance to escape the appartment, and ran off.
She immediatly went to Victor, still crying. She was crying and shouting, wanting to have Victor let her inside his home. Victor tried to calm her down, and told her he had to go for some business. He in fact was about to go to the Rail Road Yards with a hooker again. He ordered Mary to go home to her mother and to regain some sense again. She said she couldn’t, that Victor was the only one she could tell this. “Allright” he responded, “stay here then, I will be back in about an hour” “Victor, he’s a loonatic, he’s a loonatic” she kept saying. “he wanted to beat me and later have me raped by his friends” she mumbled. When Victor heard it, he stood still for a moment, absolutely shocked. “You know what, honey, stay here, and I’ll be back with some friends in 30 minutes. Don’t worry, you’ll be safe here...we’re gonna get him, okay”
Mary never understood what he ment by that. What could Victor do? He was a nice and sweet collegeboy, a decent family member and a hard working railroad employee. What contacts did he have to have a drug addict and, not to mention four of his thug friends, done any harm?
Victor met with the prostitue a few moments later, and he took her to the yards. Normally, this would not take much long, but tonight he had an appointment with some dealers concerning a big stash after the act of passion. When he and the hooker were finished, he told her to wait inside the little office they were in. He did want to pay her, and beat her unconscious to take her away, but he had to deal with his drug dealing partners first. The prostitute agreed to wait for him.
He met on the yards with some small time thugs, along with a few of his own friends. There were five of them, a few of which appeared to be high already. It was dark, and getting late in the evening. Victor remembered promising to Mary to be back in half an hour, but twenty minutes already were past and he still had to take care of two things: the deal and the hooker. When the group of five men, to whom he had never done business with, came closer and walked through some of the rare light there was, Victor recognized on of the hoods. It was Mark! And the others seemed to be his buds. Quickly he told his own partners what was going on and who they were, and they knew enough.
The negotiation started, but went roughly. Victor and his partners simply played “hard-to-get” to have some irritation arise with the five young men. One of them fell for it. “Hey listen up you sleezy wosps, you’d all better buy our shit, because you don’t wanna mess with us” while the boy was saying this he hardly could stand still which caused Victor to laugh out loud at him. Then he grabbed the bastard by the nose with his fingers and pulled it up. “What did you say? Can’t I mess with you fellows?” With a hard push he nearly broke the guy’s nose before he let him fall on the ground, when Victor kicked him hard in his stomach. At that time, Mark knew who this man was, and said “Oh shit, I know who you are”...
“Oh do you now, really?” and all of a sudden an very tensed situation arised. The three still standing friends of Mark took out knives and Victor’s partners took out some bats. Some swearing and threatening bothways started, and a big fight was about to start when the prostitute came out of the office building. “Hey, shithead guineapig, where the hell’s my money, huh?” she furiously asked. One of the three guys with knives said to another of them: “Hey Joey, ain’t that your sister?”, to which Joey reacts while his sister is in just walking into the group of aggresive men by saying: “You motherfucker” and he tries to attack Victor. He steps away and falls on the ground with the knive upwards, stabbing himself in his belly. The other men started fighting with each other know. No knives nor bats were really used effectively and most of the fights were with hands. The hysterical prostitute attacked Victor, swearing and yelling and saying it’s his fault her brother’s now wounded. The fighting men lost control over their coordination, and all person there (the prostitute, Victor, Mark, their partners) except for wounded Joey got struggled in and against each other. Some yelling occured, some cursing, when all of a sudden a big light lit up the group. “Police” someone shouts, and a few of them run off. The ones who don’t seem to be too hurt to get away. Joey bled to death, and two of his friends are also on the ground. The prostitute is stabbed in the neck and slowly her life’s bleeding away from her. Also one of Victor’s men is dead on the floor with a big bleeding wound on top of his head.

When taking of Victor saw Mark, desperately trying to get away, ran the same direction as he did, and he decided to wait for him. He surprised him around a building corner and grabbed him by the neck. “You come with me”

The police found the dead bodies on the Rail Road Yards. Victor’s partner was linked to him very soon and Victor lost his job, but remained free from any accusition. The fatal night he took Mark with him to his appartment, confronting him with Mary who was still waiting, very scared. He had humiliated him in front of her, and beaten him so hard and much that Mary even asked Victor to stop the torture. But he wouldn’t listen. Victor took an entire childhood of dispear and frustration out on poor Mark, who succumbed. Victor fled the appartment with Mary just before it happened, so she would not have to see it. He brought her home, and just before getting there, he asked her not to tell anyone about his aggresive actions against her future husband. But in her mind, Mary already decided never to tell anyone anything about all what happened that night between her and Mark...and Victor, eventually. Victor went back to his house, grabbed some personal belongings and set his house on fire. He claimed quit some money from insurance company, got rid of Mark’s body completely and then moved away from New Hampshire, to find his luck in Boston, and later in New York. It took over a year before Mary started dating again.

Vincent was sorry he heard all these stories about Victor’s past. He wanted to hear the sweet and beautiful stories of his little cousin from the old times, the years he missed out on. From the early 60’s till 1979 he had not seen his favorite cousin. When they met again, they sort of fell in love. Vincent was furious to hear these stories. But it also convinced him of Victor’s cold-blooded mentality. If it would ever come to a war again, he could use a man like Victor. And he’s a blood relative. Together with Santino JR, the three of them could act as strong, influential gang members.

Vincent had some important contacts in other parts of the world he wanted to secure before another trial would come up. He knew he wasn’t allowed to leave the country very long. He asked Victor if he could join him on a trip to Columbia and Japan. He did.

In Columbia the two cousins and some bodyguards met with Alex Rodrigo Cuesta. Vincent thought of this visit to the Cali drug baron as a formality. But Cuesta had bad news. “The travellers are being robbed or killed a lot lately. And there’s some pressure from young and ambitious rookie traffickers here in Columbia. I can’t handle wars on three fronts. One here, one on the boats and one in New York. You have to help me!”
“How can I help you?” Vincent asked. “Take over control of my men in Harlem. I cannot run them on my own anymore. I will have someone deal with the travellers, and take care with my enemies here in Columbia and in Peru myself.” Vincent didn’t like the offer, nor the tone of Cuesta. What was in it for him? Why should he risk more men and more days as a free man? “I can’t do it, Alex. The New York Police Department has an eye out for all of my men! The Fed’s are investigating a lot of activities linked with my Family. Rightfully linked, might I add!! I had to tell my men even to keep a low profile for a year, man, I can’t start up new businesses now! You have to buy your own protection!” The police investigations weren’t aware yet of Corleone’s involvment in the drug transporting, and therefore the agreement with Cuesta wasn’t at stake yet. Besides, if a smuggler would get arrested, there would be no way Vincent Corleone would be linked with it. The transporters themselves did not know they worked for him. They all had their leading capo’s, and some of the capo’s told about the control of Neri, but most of these men were young and did not know who Neri was. Vincent was actually keeping his Family out of a lot of businesses for a year.
The meeting with Cuesta wasn’t a pleasant one. When they left on a plane to Kobe, they discussed it a bit. Victor, who was also informed by Neri and Santino JR a bit about the Cosa Nostra history, said that Cuesta was not to be fully trusted anymore in the future. Vincent himself knew that much, his Columbian partner would be very dissapointed with his disagreement. But he convinced hismelf he was right, this offer was too dangerous.

In Japan the two Corleone’s met with Masahiro Tanasuke. Vincent had met Tanasuke once in his town Atlantic City, where the Japanese mobster was on a ‘business-holiday’. They talked a bit and Tanasuke asked Vincent if there were some prospects on future collaboration. Vincent didn’t agree nor disagree with anything, but accepted the offer to stop by a time. Now they were in Japan. It turned out the Yakuza, the crime organization Tanasuke was part of, was quite powerfull, and definitely much bigger than Vincent and Victor expected. Tanasuke was the “oyabun”, the father to which all members, “kobun”, plead their infinite loyalty, of the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicat. This was by far the strongest faction from the Yakuza. Their symbol is a rhombus-shaped pin worn on the lapel of the suits of Yamaguchi-gumi soldiers. In the past, a Yamaguchi-gumi oyabun who was seen as the Yakuza boss of bosses, “kumicho”, survived an assasinatino attempt when he was shot in the neck during a limbo dance contest.

Tanasuke had a major rival, called Hiroshi Yamamoto, who turned against Tanasuke’s gang and started his own crime syndicat called the Ichiwa-kai. A bloody gangwar was going on in large area’s of all of Japan. Tanasuke’s syndicat had about 20.000 members, twice as much as Yamamoto’s, but the military strength of the Ichiwa-kai was bigger than the Yamaguchi-gumi. Tanasuke needed more military power. He wanted to collaborate with an American crime big shot, buying loads of weaponry in exchange for amfetamines and other narcotics. A few of the men he approached refused, mainly telling the mob leader they didn’t have enough power. He then heard about Vincent killing DiCanio, and thought of him as the perfect collaborator. Altough Vincent was eagered to get rid of some of his heavy weapon equipment so the police investigation could never get a hold of it, he wasn’t really pleased with the offer Tanasuke made in return. He ordered Victor and Tanasuke’s men to leave the room.
Kazuo Toake was Tanasuke’s “saiko komon”, his senior advisor. Victor was pleased to hear from the man, who resided in Osaka normally, what power he had as the ‘consiglieri’ of the Japanese supreme boss. He told in return he was practically the advisor/underboss to the New York Family himself, which wasn’t quite accurate yet. But Victor did study Law School back in Portsmouth and Boston, before moving to New York.
In Tanasuke’s office, Vincent talked to him. “I can not accept your offer, my friend. It’s too dangerous. I’m a famous person in America. I’m on the news practically every day, I’m on trial at least twice a year...they are after me, Masahiro. They accuse me of horrible, horrible things, and I am treated as a criminal. You see, I’m still the head of my Family and I don’t want these bad things to be said about my Family. I have an uncle living in Italy who would die if he saw all the reports on American Television. Federal Intelligence agencies are investigating my businesses, my income, my link to organized crime... Please understand, I can not act in such operations in these awful periods.”
Tanasuke answered. “Don Vincenzo, I admire your honesty and your intelligence. You’re a wise man, I can see. I know you have some deals with that Colombian drug baron you want to get rid of. I know there are some.... ‘stones’ in your shoe” the two men start giggling a bit. Tanasuke obviously knew the Corleone history well “who you would like to dissapear. Men who are putting your organization to disgrace. Men with lots of heavy machinery!” Vincent thought the conversation was going to go this way. He still liked the fact Tanasuke could take over his weapons. “And I need those weaponry, my American friend” the Yamaguchi-gumi obayun went on. “Maybe, I can pay you in some other way?”
Vincent thought of the question. Now he had two partners wanting to import narcotics via him into the United States, and he wanted to stay away a little. “There’s some good money in these narcotics, isn’t it?” “Yes, Don Vincenzo, the authorities here can’t take a hold of it” Vincent continued: “Would you be interested in importing some other narcotics? Other then amfetamines? From outside of Japan?” “Mister Corleone” Tanasuke responded, “we allready import from other countries, all over Asia!”
“I’m not talking about Asia, Masahiro. Have you ever considered working with South American dope?” Vincent explained the situation of Cuesta to him. He offered Tanasuke a major deal. Instead of trafficking the drugs from Columbia to the United States, Vincent would have Cuesta send the drugs mainly to Japan. Tanasuke would run the importing and trasnporting businesses there the exact way Vincent and Pochettino did in NY. In order to do so, Vincent provided the Yamaguchi-gumi with lots of weapons and knowledge. This way, Tanasuke’s syndicat was able to resist the terror from the Ichiwa-kai, and make about twice as much money in narcotics then before. Vincent’s army in NY would be a lot less armed, which was good if any governmental investigation would interfear with them. He got rid of drug dealing, made a fortune while at it, and was no threat to fellow Don’s in America anymore, who got off his back. It was a perfect solution. Vincent had a few of his good capo’s cooperate in Kobe and Osaka. Back in NY he did not much. Santino JR and Victor Rizzi stayed with him a lot. He sent Al Neri back to Vegas, who hired a young and succesfull business man to take over most of his activities. The three cousins spent much time in Atlantic City, gambling a little. Santino JR also had lot of interest in the Atlantic City brothels. The next few months were easy yet fortunate for Vincent and his Family...
After Tanasuke agreed to the deal, he suddenly brought up another point. “We will be able to resist the Ichiwa-kai here...but they have some major contacts with Alexandre Golubnev. You know who that is, Vincent?” Vincent had heard of him, but did not know much about this Russian. “Sure, we are close with Korean gangs, but the Russian mob is much bigger, and much more powerfull. They have contacts in Europe, Asia and the Middle-East. They are much bigger in quantity then your American mafia, I tell you! They started interfearing in some foreign business a couple of years ago. Due to a conflict with the Korean’s, they wouldn’t join us, and by joining the Ichiwa-kai they were persuaded into a very hostile way of dealing things here! They might be our biggest fear, when you and I start work together!?!”

Vincent listened to the oyabun, and told him he would go to Moscow to see this Golubnev and to talk with him. Vincent and Victor have been away from home for about a month now. They flew to Moscow, where it was very cold. They met with Alexandre Ivanovic Golubnev in secret, in a Moscovian warehouse. The man wasn’t too tall, nor too thin, nor to hairy. Vincent’s height made him look upon Golubnevs baldy head during the whole conversation. The man had a very low and quite voice, but did say some hard and tough things. He warned Vincent that the Russians are not to be dealed with. After Vincent saying he wasn’t intented too Golubnev responded, with a heavy Russian accent: “You already are! I have some major interests with Yamamoto. I have heard about your little deal with the Yamaguchi crew...the war in Japan would escalate. I have thousands of my men walking over there, I have billions of yen invested there. If I would lose any of those, I don’t know what I’m about to do! You better tell your Japanese friend to keep his nose out of Yamamoto’s territories! Let me be clear to you!” Vincent was surprised by the fact Golubnev was so well informed, only a few days after he was in Kobe. He told Golubnev not to worry, and especially not to get unfriendly with him, since their primary interests did not conflict with each other. “It’s like Vietnam again huh, comrade? Americans and Sovyets, fighting in a war on Asian territory! Let’s not fight each other, let’s just stay away from each others businesses.” “Do you want a drink, Mister Corleone? Perhaps some real Russian whiskey?” Golubnev asked. “Da!!” Vincent answered with a big laugh. Victor, who was sitting behind him, gniffled a bit. While Vincent drank his drink, Golubnev stated: “This could be your last drink ever, Mister Corleone!” Vincent was shocked, and stood up wanting to take some action against this threat, but three of Golubnev’s bodyguards stood very close to him already with guns and rifles pointed to his face. “Like I said, stay..away..from my business.” Vincent’s face looked like exploding, as he was taken away by the bodyguards. Victor Rizzi, unarmed as always, was carried away too. Golubnev shouted something as they were taken off: “Da zvidanje!...Good Luck!”
“That slimey bastard, what the hell does he think he is?” Vincent told Victor on their way to the Moscow International Airport. Victor calmed his cousing down. He saw how tempered he could be.

Before going back to New York, Vincent and Victor went to Palermo. They took the train to Corleone, and went to visit Connie, Anthony and Michael.

6: 1928-1931
Philip Tattaglia and Carmine Cuneo were capo’s under Joe Maresia. They controlled all of Maresia’s businesses, and did it so well they became the biggest Family. They especially had back-up from Chicago from the Capone’s, which did in fact harm the Capone’s relationship with the Corleone smuggling ring. Both the Corleone clan, backed up by Maranzala, as the Capone side inducted by Maresia lost some men and businesses in that time. The killings never got out of control, but a war was inevitable.

Meanwhile, Vito had to act as a peacekeeper in another war himself. His youngest son, Michael, 8 years old, was always bullied by Giovanni Tattaglia, Phil’s youngest son. Giovanni was very enthousiastically helped by much older Bruno, who was eleven. This schoolyard fights seemed harmless to Vito at first, until Sonny got involved. He wanted to protect his younger brothers (Fredo was victim a couple of times too). He was so mad at Bruno that he went to him and broke his ribs. Tattaglia’s oldest of sons, John, challenged Santino to a fight in Central Park. Altough John was two years older and slightly bigger than Sonny, he feared him not. He showed up with Tommy Hagen, Johnny Fontane, Nino Valenti and Dickie Clemenza. Santino proceeded to beat the bigger John Tattaglia, while the others cheered him on and held Tattaglia’s friends back. Philip Tattaglia found out and had Chief O’Malley arrest Santino for Assault. Vito’s previous payroll allowed for O’Malley to release Santino the next day. Vito met with Philip Tattaglia and persuaded him to drop the charges and offered his friendship. Tattaglia spit on the floor and said he’d piss on Vito’s friendship.

By 1929, Governor Rudy Jackson had been elected in Nevada. He had legalized Gambling, Alcohol, and Prostitution just like he said. Gianni Prodi opened the first legal Casino, Lady Luck, in Carson City in 1930. Moe Green was at the Grand Opening for the 4th of July, as well as the Rothsteins, Ola, Vito Corleone, Al Fontane, Peter Clemenza, Dutch Saietta, Phil Volpe, Caesar Malare, and Louis Bocchicchio. Volpe was a friend of Hyman Rothstein and was Don of Pennsylvania. Fontane was a bartender at the Casino and introduced Vito to his new friend, Salvatore Maritato. Maritato was the husband of Gianni’s sister, Victoria. Vito wished both of them good luck. The Casino was a success and Prodi opened Lady Luck’s Hotel soon after. Hyman introduced Vito and Clemenza to Anthony Molinari. He was the Don of San Francisco. He introduced Vito to his nephew Francesco Valliere who was to be his Capo in charge of Nevada. His other Capo Frank Falcone was in charge of Los Angeles.

Clemenza had a drinking contest with a man named Joeseph Zaluchi. When they found that neither could drink the other under the table, they congratulated each other. Joeseph introduced himself as the Underboss to Don Malare in Detroit. Zaluchi told Clemenza that Malare was in big with Ralph Capone, and Joe Maresia, and that they were Moustache Petes who weren’t in favor of new business ventures. He had to twist Malare’s arm to invest in Governor O’Malley’s Campaign. Saietta was celebrating with Moe Greene and Johnny Ola when Ola brought up the fact that Thomas Dewey was running for Governor of New York. If he was elected he would crack down on Organized Crime and chances of Legalization were very slim. Saietta was drunk and said that if Dewey got elected he’d kill the F*cker himself. After the Grand Opening, Vito, Clemenza, and Hyman Rothstein returned to New York together. Rothstein told Vito that Greene had overheard Saietta say he’d kill Dewey. Vito was worried, that Maresia would side with Saietta because he was in favor of Legalization in New York, and Dewey was an obstacle that could be overcome.

The next February, Richie Pelley was shot dead walking out of a Jewish tabernacle. He collapsed in a snow bank, and stained it blood red. The next day, a GPOC driver, Mario Nippi, was walking home from work when he was shotgunned by Philip Tattaglia.

Vito suspected Maresia’s involvement in both hits due to Tattaglia, and Maresia’s hate of the Jewish Religion. Vito retaliated by sending Bruno DeSapio to Buffalo hidden in a delivery truck met by Alfredo Mangano. After the shipment was delivered, Bruno followed Alfredo home. He ran up the fire escape and hid outside Mangano’s window. Alfredo was met at the door by his brother, Hector. When they were together, Bruno drew his gun and blasted three shots through the open apartment window. Both brothers died and Bruno fled the scene reappearing in Little Italy the next day.

After kissing his wife goodbye, Davide Ferrano, Christophe Ferrano’s brother, was shot dead outside of his home. The shooter was identified as Buster McGurn, an old friend of Ralph Capone. He fled New York before the Police could find him.

Now that Ralph Capone was involved, Vito called Hyman Rothstein who delivered a message from Vito to Anthony Molinari. On Independence Day in Detroit, 1930, Ceasar Malare was in his home with his Underboss, Joe Zaluchi, and Frank Falcone, Francesco Valliere, and Victor Stracci from the Molinari Family. Malare asked the men if Anthony Molinari would participate in a hit on Don Vito Corleone. They agreed, and as Malare poured some drinks, Joe Zaluchi rose and said he had a message from Vito Corleone. Stracci, Valliere, Falcone, and Joe then proceeded to Tommy-Gun the Don in his own home. They fled his home and disappeared into the parade outside. They reconvened across town, and the men kissed Joeseph’s hand, calling him Don Zaluchi. Soon after, Don Molinari and Don Zaluchi met with Don Corleone in Buffalo under the protection of Louis Bocchicchio. They planned a hit on Don Maresia. Soon after, Frank Pentangeli, a man recruited by Peter Clemenza, shot and killed Ciro Tattaglia, brother of Maresian lieutenant Philip Tattaglia. Salvatore Ormenta, a man who had roomed with Vito Corleone on Ellis Island in 1902 when he was just a boy, was shot and killed by Carmine Cuneo in Early August.

In late April 1931, Salvatore Tessio and Giuseppe Maresia were having dinner at Scarpato’s Restaurant on Coney Island. Tessio excused himself to go to the bathroom. Shortly after he left the room, Moe Greene, Dutch Saietta, Sam Rothstein, and Victor Stracci burst into the restaurant and fired at Maresia for a full minute. They fled the restaurant to where Tessio was waiting with a getaway car. Gerardo Scarpato robbed Maresia before calling the police. He testified to the Police that it was a robbery gone wrong. They didn’t believe him, and he was called in for questioning. On the morning of the day he was supposed to be questioned, he was found dead in a trunk. Soon after, Sal Maranzala called a meeting at Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Christophe Ferrano, Gaetano DiGiorgio, Paul Gagliese, Dutch Saietta, the Rothsteins, Moe Greene, Johnny Ola, Gianni Rizzi, Don Zaluchi, Don Molinari, Victor Stracci, Gaetano Isabella, Louis Bocchicchio, Philip Tattaglia, Carmine Cuneo, Ralph Capone, Vito Corleone, Salvatore Tessio, Peter Clemenza, and Benito Parri, Underboss to Isabella, were there. Also Maranzala’s own underboss, Tommy DeBono was there. Hyman Rothstein named the men in the room the Commission. Sal Maranzala gave Ferrano, DiGiorgio, Isabella, DeBono and Gagliese their own Families, of which he would be the Capo Di Tutti Capi. Victor Stracci joined with Ferrano, who was like himself original from the Westcoast. Gaetano DiGiorgio was an old friend of Vito, but he was practically friends with everybody. He took Maresian capo Cuneo, once an employee of Oreste Abbandando, on as his most important capo, and the fact he got a Family proved his friendship with Maranzala. DiGiorgio was a well respected man, much like Vito was. Paul Gagliese, who arrived at the meeting with his cousin Sandro Carachi, got control over the horsetracks, the smallest of businesses runned by the mafia. Gagliese was an expert on this area, and was rarely ever seen with any of the other men. Tommy DeBono was Maranzala’s right hand man, and his Family would be the strongest. Philip Tattaglia, once at Maresia’s side, joined the Isabella crew. Isabella was a personal friend of Vito’s and he suspected Tattaglia’s move. Tessio was named DeBono’s underboss, a ‘gift’ from Maranzala for arranging Maresia’s death. For the same reason, Clemenza, Rothstein, Greene and Vito were much appreciated by Maranzala, now the king of the mafia.

Soon after the big meeting, Vito Corleone met again with Zaluchi, Molinari, and Hyman Rothstein. Thomas Dewey had been investigating the War of organized crime, and Vito feared that Saietta would eliminate him. Vito was angered that Maranzala didn’t think enough of him to give him his own Family. On Labor Day, Dutch Saietta was celebrating at the Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey, with his friends Moe Greene, Louis Bocchicchio, Hyman Rothstein, Sam Rothstein, Johnny Ola, Phil Volpe, and some other bodyguards. When Saietta lost $5,000 playing poker, he knocked the table over, and stormed into the bathroom. Rothstein had expected this and his men got up to leave but all turned and fired killing most of Saietta’s bodyguards. The loud shootout startled Saietta and he tired to escape out of the bathroom window. Louis Bocchicchio ran into the bathroom and fired three shots into Saietta’s back. After Rothstein’s men fled, one of Saietta’s surviving bodyguards called for a doctor. Saietta survived for two days, when Captain McCluskey came to interview him all he could mumble was something about Louis Bocchicchio and a $5,000 card game.

That same night, Bruno deSapio, Parri, Isabella, and Frank Pentangeli, disguised as police officers, stormed up the stairs of Maranzala’s Office Building. They found Maranzala in his office with Philip Tattaglia. Tattaglia jumped up and stabbed Maranzala in the chest, and ran out of the room as the four men opened fire, killing Maranzala. Tattaglia was about to avenge the death of Maresia, who was always believed to be ordered by Maranzala.
Other Corleone members gunned down Tommy DeBono in the same night, with about 40 of his crew members.

Vito had almost the entire DeBono Family massacred in the same night, and took over the large group of soldiers and lower ranked lieutenants, and appointed himself as the new Don of the Family. He made sure the other Families would know about this. Also he said that there would no longer be a capo di tutti capi. Together with his friends DiGiorgio and Isabella, the business man Gagliese and the other Don, Ferrano, they changed the structure a little bit. From now on, each Family would have their own territory and own responsibility. The Dons, together with the Dons from other major cities in the US, would form The Commission. Each Family would get an underboss and a consiglieri, at least that’s what Vito wanted for his own syndicat. The Chicago organisation was out. The Families would work together, and share bribed cops and politicians, but run themselves. Vito made Genco Abbandando his consiglieri and appointed Clemenza and Tessio back as capo regimes.

Shortly after, Buster McGurn and Frank Capone, arrived at a Train Station in Brooklyn. Luca Brasi met them and drove them to a warehouse, where he told them Vito Corleone would arrive shortly. As the men got out of the car, Luca attacked them. McGurn went for his suitcase, but Luca put his head through the windshield. Luca beat Capone and dragged both men over to an assembly line. He tied them both to the assembly line and stuffed their mouths with bath towels. Luca proceeded to hack Capone up with an axe. By the time he went to hack McGurn he discovered he had swallowed the towel in sheer terror. Luca dumped McGurn in a dumpster, and boxed the body parts of Frank Capone. Shortly after, Ralph Capone received the remains of his brother, Frank, and a note from Vito Corleone telling him to keep out of NY business. When the Police found the body of McGurn they found the bath towel deep inside of his stomach, nearly into his anus.

The war was over. Vito Corleone arranged the murder of Maresia, after which he got a lot of respect from Maranzala, but not a Family. Maranzala’s idea of him being the capo di tuti capi, Vito didn’t like. He also thought it would never work, and to prevent another war over control of New York, he was the one who ordered Maranzala dead too. He took out Tommy DeBono and named himself the new boss of the Family. Vito thought to have created the perfect structure. He was one of five heads, the other four being personal friends of him. He had by far the biggest Family, and the most powerfull, but was willing to work together with the others in a peaceful way.

This peace would never truly come, though...

ACT 7 is practically finished....

the thing is, in ACT 8 the 1935/36 period should be discussed. in the first movie, Sollozzo and Clemenza keep mentioning the period of 10 year (up to late 1945) where the Corleones have absolute power, to be ended with the Sollozzo killing.

so I think I will have like one last big war set in 1935/1936 and then Vito wins and is for ten years the absolute boss.

the last 'history' scene is set in 1939, when Sonny makes his bones, when Rothstein changes his name and he brakes up relationships with Vito (which would explain him not appearing in GF1) also at the end of that act the Family moves to the Long Beach compound.

but what I want to know, does anyone have any feedback on the mob in 1935/36... what about that Irish war thing Ricardo originally wanted in? what do you guys know about it?

Absolutely marvelous work Pherdy. I'm proud on you as a Dutchman

yeah MM, let's give us Dutchmen a good name! Michael Corleone 14 is with us now too. :p

Another Dutchman. Yeah, were coming in!!!

just out of curiousity, did anyone actually read all of it? it's sooo much...

7: 1989-1990
It was getting colder outside in Europe. The winter of 1989 started. While Vincent and Victor were on the plane to Sicily, the Berlin Wall collapsed. It was all over the news, but in Corleone, the world seemed to be the same as ever.
Only Dominic and Anthony knew about Vincent and Victor’s visit. They picked them up at Palermo Airport, and drove them to the Tommasino compound. Connie was working in a small garden a little bit, when she saw the four men with very dark colored hair step towards them. She had not seen Vincent in a year...but had not seen her son in 10 years! All this time he was wondering around Boston and New York...no one really knew, inside the Family, where he was or what he did. No one seemed to care either. But Victor was used to that. Back in the days when his uncle Mike was still the Don, he was not wanted also. He never liked his uncle...
When Connie saw her son, she started crying a little bit. She stood still and said nothing. When the men came closer she turned away her head, which was covered by a black kerchief as always. She was a bittered woman, gloomy, peacefully and quietly living with her brother on a deserted compound. An old Sicilian lady helped her with the household. Anthony provided most of the income, yet Vincent had Dominic make sure there would be a decent amount of money in the compound at all times to spend. Michael couldn’t care less. He did not care who took care of his dinner, of his clothes, of the household... he could not care wether the garden was maintained or not, whether the rooms would be cleaned up once in a while or not. He talked with his sister sometimes, but only on issues as ‘life’, ‘death’, ‘love’ or other spiritually, earthly subjects. He talked with his son sometimes, about his progression as a singer. Anthony had done some new opera’s, both in Palermo as other Italian, mainland cities. Sometimes Michael would go to a little festival in the towns of Corleone, to watch some puppet shows. He never went back to the Palermo theatre again, though... he never saw the steps, on which his daughter died, again.
Victor started crying too. “Mama!” and he wanted to embrace her, but Connie resisted a bit. And walked away...

Inside the house the maid, a 60 year old woman, made some coffee for all persons. Anthony and Dominic were quite. Vincent comforted his favorite aunt. “Connie, it’s your boy. We have come her for you, for uncle Michael... we wanted to see you. He, wanted to see you. Don’t dissapoint us?” Connie turned around, and looked towards Victor Rizzi...

The next few hours Connie and Victor made a walk in the Sicilian countryside. It wasn’t really warm this time of the year, obviously... meanwhile, Vincent, Dominic and Anthony discussed about the end of the Cold War that morning... Victor and Connie talked about a lot of things. How things went wrong when he was just a little boy. How both of them never wanted to take the first step to make up, and how they both accused the other of being uninterested in the faith of the other... When walking into the town of Corleone, which amazed Victor for it’s beauty and authenticity, they ran into Michael.

Michael was out for a long walk today. It was a nice winter day. In the winter, lots of countryside areas of Sicily were deserted. Michael had a scarf around his neck, and wore an easy fitting suite. He had shiny sunglasses on his face, and most of his hair were grey now. Connie introduced him to Victor. “Victor? Wow, you’ve become a big boy. I have not seen you in, what? 10, 15 years?” “16 to be exact” Victor reacted, “how are you, uncle Michael?” At first he was polite. His uncle responded by saying that things could be better. He have had some physical difficulties in the past, and still needed quite some medication for his diabetes. But considered these facts, he was in good health, and a extremely quiet day like the Sicilian winter days always pleased him. Victor, Connie and Michael talked a bit. About what Vic had been doing all those years and how he became Vincent’s right hand man. “So he tricked you into the Family huh? Satino JR too? Well, it’s nice to see the Family being a real Family again” after which Michael walked on, as if he did not want to spend anymore words on this subject. “You heard what happened today, Victor? In Germany, in Berlin? Have you ever been to Berlin” Victor nodded no. “It’s a historical day, nephew. A historical day! An era has ended, I think. And look, you are reunited with your mother. Isn’t it a special day?”

Later that night, Michael and Connie were sitting next to a fire. “These Family members keep coming back to us, huh, Connie? How many nephews do I have actually? Do you have anymore sons, Connie?” He laughed. He referred to Vincent’s sudden appearance in 1979 on the party of his catholic award. Connie was not amused at all. She was still bittered, still hurt for the fact her children had left them for so many years. “I remember Victor” Michael said. “He once ate an entire birthday cake when no-one else seemed to like it. Enzo still owes me from that one, haha” Connie was still suspicious about the real reason Vincent and Victor came to Sicily. At dinner, no awkard discussions came up. The five men and one woman talked about old family memories.

Victor and Vincent spent a few days on Sicily. Dominic left for Rome while Anthony went for rehearsel in Naples. Vincent and Michael only talked once. During the conversation, Michael did not look at his cousin.
“I heard you killed DiCanio.” “Uncle, Mike, I don’t want you to be a part of this” “What makes you think you can kill a fellow New York Don?” Michael raised his voice. Vincent looked at him, with a little smile coming up, as if he was saying ‘you should say!’, but he kept his mouth shut. “Now I left you in control of the Family years ago, because you were young, you were strong. I thought you’d have the strength to run my Family decently. I left you in control over Neri, BJ, Dominic, all the capo’s. I wanted you to make a fortune for yourself, for your children, for their children, for all of our relatives. For our entire Family. Our Family! I am disgraced to say Our Family to a man like you. I wanted out myself, but I wanted my Family out too. Enough with the killings and the illegal activities, I said. And what do you do? What way do you treat the persons around you?”
Vincent was shocked with this lecture. He was shocked how well-informed Michael was. For five years, he had not ever said a single thing about the Family business. “Uncle Mike, things have changed. I was under a lot of pressure. What could I do? If not him, I would be the one having a tombstone right now!”
Michael said angry: “Oh, is that true? Is that how it is huh? You were under a lot of pressure. You were forced. Forced to kill. Forced to extort. Forced to deal in narcotics!”

Vincent was still for a few moments. Michael had practically replaced about every single statue, photograph or whatever in the room, as he turned towards Vincent for the first time. “Narcotics will kill you, Vincent. It killed my father, and he did not even deal. He refused to go into it, and so did I. Why? Not because we hated the rewards. Not because we did not think it would make us fortunes. Not because we were afraid of the tensed attention from the government, the police if we were dealing in drugs. In fact, I think we could be good at it. Just like you prove right now with that Colombian guy. But we were afraid it would kill us. Ourselves. Our soldiers, our men, would get addicted. They would come home to their wives and children, high and stoned. God knows what people like that do their children! It would ruin their efficiency, that’s for sure. And thén we must start worrying about financial losses, about police investigation, about killings.... Narcotics is evil, Vincent, and therefor my father and I myself too choose not to get involved. I actually turned our business into legitimate activities before leaving you in control. And you just take us back to the damn thirties. Well I have been there, cousin, and it was not such a pleasure as you might hink. I’m sorry to say this buddy, but times have changed, and your way of working isn’t the right one anymore. Stop it, before it’s too late, stop it Vincent! Stop it!”

On the last day of their stay in Sicily, Victor got to speak with Michael alone for the first and only time. “So, are you going back to New York?” Michael asked. “Yeah, we have some business to do, arrange a few things.” Michael shook his head, letting his nephew know he dissaproved. But he continued. “A long time ago, I was in the same situation as you were, Victor. I also hated to see my Family members, my own blood, to be threatened, to be in danger. My father got shot! My brother got kidnapped. My older brother was massacred. I had no choice, but to get involved in it. It changed my life. It ruined my life. I have been ‘arranging few things’ ever since. And look where it took me! Look what it did to me.”
“Uncle Michael, you could have been stronger. You could have turned your back on your Family forever. You were not supposed to become what you have become!” Michael shouted: “How could you even say such a thing? Turn my back...on my Family? Never, ever turn your back on your Family! Your Family is your Family! And it will remain your Family, for the rest of your life” with some cynicism Victor responded: “Wether you like it or not, right?”
“You think it was easy for me? You think I didn’t want to stay out of it? What if you have to, what if you’re forced to? I was, Victor, I was. It was a dangerous time. Me, your uncles, your grandfather, your own father... No one knew who to trust. But us, we were a family. Blood relatives. Brothers. We stayed together, we remained a strong crew. We got through it, we pulled it of. And I managed to supply my kids, my nieces and my nephews...a decent living. We were wealthy, the Family was succesfull and we survived, Victor we survived! I have spent my life accomplishing that, even if it affected my own personal happyness. I have devoted my life to my Family.” Victor interrupted: “And then they took your daugther”
A moment of silence past. Victor continued. “I have no choice either. I felt betrayed by my you know what I don’t even call it ‘my’ family, I call it YOUR family. Your Family did not want anything to do with me. When Kay took me in, you disagreed. When I was broke and homeless and wondering around in Boston, no-one called me. When I was a kid, my mother was away all the time. No one seemed to care. Back in Tahoe, I remember seeing Lucy once in a while. Asking for my mom. And I couldn’t tell her where to go, because I did not know myself. I was forced to go into a life of crime, when I moved to New York. I could not do anything about. Just like you. Vincent gave me a chance to get back on my feet. It’s an honourable job.”
The tension between the two faded a bit when the maid came in to bring them some drinks. The heat was out of the room, it seemed, and they talked ‘small talk’ for a little while. At the end of the conversation, Michael warned Victor. “Willy Cicci backed you up the whole time. If he finds out you quited the active smuggling deal, he might worry about his own income. I think he will come to yóu, Vincent, to ask you if you can change Vincent’s thoughts about getting involved with the Japanese. You do the right thing, Victor, you are the Family’s hope. You can make a difference!”
Victor nodded as Michael left the room. He gave some wise advise. This, from the man who killed his father...

Back in New York BJ Harrison told Vincent he was on trial again. This time one of Santino’s men screwed up. A soldier was, just like Michael said, to messed up from drugs that he forgot where to take it. He was supposed to transport it to one of Cuesta’s men, but instead brought it to an undercover police officer. When he was arrested, and Santino heared about it, he was so mad he wanted to go the police station to beat the soldier up. Al Neri, replacing supervisor of Vincent’s businesses while he was away, had to get an hold of him, so he would not make things any worse than it is. A couple of Corleone capo’s managed to have the soldier not give Santino’s name. In reward, he was promised $50,000 when he came out of custody. When he did, he was shot in the head by one of Santino’s capo’s.

BJ told that Vincent was still a suspect. Not only for interfearance with the caught drug dealer, but also with the murder of him. He was linked to it, and therefore stood on trial a month later.

Meanwhile, Willy Cicci, the former Don of the Corleone Family, who was succeeded by Joey Zasa in the mid seventies, and who was a very old man now, made contact with Vincent through Neri. He said he wanted to talk to him. Victor mentioned to Vincent that he was told by Michael this would happen. “What shall we do?” he asked the Don. Vincent was pleased with his deal with Tanasuke and Cuesta agreed with it. But somehow, neither Michael nor Cicci liked it. The Commission couldn’t realy care, as was Vincent’s intention. His soldiers had not been linked with any crime for months, except for the dumb bastard who was caught and who therefore arranged the next “Vincent Corleone On Trial” newspaper headlines. Vincent told Victor to take care of the Cicci situation, and to take Neri and Santino with him. He would in the mean time discuss the upcoming testimonies with BJ, and Dominic would come over from Rome.

Willy Cicci was in his eightties now. He lived in New Jersey. Since he gave away control over the Corleone crime family in the early 70’s to Joey Zasa, he did not interfear with the business. He was pleased to slowly see it ran by Zasa the way he wanted to, altough he dissaproved Michael turning the other businesses legitimate. When Michael finally retired in 1984, Cicci’s interest ánd involvment in all operations grew again. He was friends with quite some Dons, like Pochettino and Massaro, who was the new Barzini boss after Eugenio Romano was shot in Atlantic City in 1979, by Joey Zasa. John Massaro was originally from Jersey too, and they talked some times.
But mostly, Cicci had Carlo Pochettino come over for cofee some times. Then he heared about Vincent getting his men out of the drug trading business in the NY harbors and providing money and weaponry to Tanasuke. Only a small piece of Cuesta’s shipments to New York kept on going, and Pochettino’s men continued handling these. The rest of the drugs Cuesta delivered went to Kobe, Osaka and Nagoya. The New York shipmenst were not by far enough to make a good living for the Parisi Family Pochettino was running now. He complained and asked Cicci to intercede. He could talk Vincent into changing the deal again. Vincent made his Family a strong one, and them not being active for a long period now made the other Families suffer too. The Commission did not say anything to Vincent, as they were quite pleased for him to drop the narcotics business in America. But Pochettino wanted back to the way it was.
Cicci never went along very well with Michael. Sure, he took care of some jobs for him at first, but after the tragic end of his boss and friend Pentangeli in the late 50’s, Willy Cicci always distrusted Michael a little bit. But who didn’t, in those days? He was pleased to see Michael step out of business in the mid-eighties, and wanted Vincent to run things the way it should be.
Cicci invited Neri, Santino JR and Victor Rizzi to his house to discuss the problem. Carlo Pochettino was there too. They talked a bit about what was to happen. Vincent had instructed the three of them not to let loose any information, and not to accept any offers made by Pochettino and Cicci. He made his decission and it was final. He would have Cuesta and Tanasuke smuggling drugs together, would get quite some money himself from that and would provide both of them with enough arms. There was no business for him left in New York, especially with the trials coming up. Cicci and Pochettino faced Victor, for he was the only in charge of the three. Neri and Santino, they were never more then bodyguards. Like Cicci was, one time, a buttonman. But Cicci avenged and worked his way up in the sixties. Pochettino and Victor discussed for a few hours, but there was no real discussion possible. Vincent made a decission, made an agreement. And it was final.

On the day of Vincent’s testimony, a lot of press was at the courthouse. When Vincent got out of the car at the courthouse, he only had to walk up the stairs, but it took him over a minute to get there. Hundreds of reporters, journalists, photographers and cameramen blocked the way, all asking questions, more like screaming questions. Vincent was guarded by Santino who led the way through the people for his Don. To every question Vincent reacted the same, without giving any answer. Only smiling. The press seem to love his charming way of handling all publicity, and in fact it was true that, as long as he was not yet convicted of any crime, Vincent enjoyed all tv-shows, newspaper reports and magazine covers dedicated to him. Inside the courtoom were BJ and Dominic, guiding Vincent. The evidence of him having anything to do with the drug dealing and the murder was too little to convict him, and once again he survived another trial.

Willy Cicci and Carlo Pochettino informed Victor a couple more times. They said Rogerio Malona and his friend Paulo Ravanelli were planning to take over the harbors and drug trading businesses. They wanted to fill up the gap left behind by Corleone’s step back, by smuggling in drugs from one of Alex Cuesta’s competitors. When Cuesta heared about this, expecting a full scale war in Cali, he informed Vincent to be aware of this. Vincent was suspicious about Pochettino and Cicci knowing this, but in fact was wrong there. Pochettino simply feared his own men, who were running the last pieces of the drugtrade of Cuesta, were going to be killed by Ravanelli’s men (who controled the harbors normally). When Vincent did not want to listen to Cicci, the old man got mad. Meanwhile Neri sent out Santino to see what was going on with Malona in Florida. It was Santino’s first job other than bodyguarding since he joined the team. Victor had some negotiations with Pochettino, who seemed to ease down a little bit, but who was secretly still having meetings with Cicci. Cicci thought of Vincent and his ideas as a major threat. First he stopped the narcotics-businesses for his Family, moving it to Japan, leaving the cooperative Pochettino squad with practically nothing. Then, when his biggest enemies are wanting to take over his position as the biggest NY drug lord, he refuses to fight it, refuses to help the Pochettino soldiers who once fought in harbor-wars for him and refuses (again) to help his Columbian partner stay away from the bullets. Without realy knowing the plans of Malona, Ravanelli and their Columbian contacts, Cicci thought of the dangerous acts of Vincent to be taken away. He wanted Vincent dead. He figured he could talk some sence into Victor Rizzi, who would had full power over the Family once his boss was dead.

Cicci knew Santino JR, Vincent’s bodyguard, was in Tampa. He knew Neri was in Vegas. And he knew Victor Rizzi had never done any serious crime. Vincent himself did not appear in public for over a year now, except for the world trip and public trials. The only way to get to him was through Victor. He asked Victor for a meeting at the Corleone compound. Victor, who like Cicci had no real affection for Michael Corleone (since he murdered his father), still remembered his uncle saying that Cicci will come after them if Vincent decides to pull through the Japanese collaboration. He was aware that Cicci, in their house, would figure out a way to assasinate Vincent. If that would mean assasinating Victor too in order to get to the Don, than so shall it be done. The man himself might be almost 85 years old, but he might have a very scary bodyguard who would try for a suicide attack.
Before the meeting, Victor told all of his thoughts and feelings to Vincent, and he agreed with him. This would be a hit on both him as his consiglieri. In secret, Vincent made a small deal with Pochettino saying Cicci betrayed him behind his back. He also told Santino not to interfear with the Florida Family, and just come back to NY.

On the day of the meeting, Willy Cicci and two young bodyguards came to Vincent’s house. As was arranged, Vincent was not in the room. Victor told he did not want to talk to him. Cicci got a little bit nervous. He followed Victor into a room, when Victor ordered his bodyguards to step out for a moment. When the bodyguards were out, a few of Vincent’s men grabbed them and took them away. Meanwhile Victor listened to Cicci’s words, but never realy heard them. The only thing he could think about was the gun which was in the drawer of his desk he was sitting behind. He knew he had to assasinate Cicci, who never did any personal harm to him and even was on the same level with young Victor, and had a little affection for the young boy. But Victor knew the old man was a serious threat, and had to be shot. When he thought the time was right, Victor got his nerves under control, took the gun out of the drawer, stood up and shot Cicci twice in the chest and once in the head.

A few months later, Santino JR got a call from his sister Fransesca. Their mother died.

Ow, I outta... (I hope you diden´t mean anything by that)

no I remember that post as being positive. Another dutch person joined, an Australian/Dutch girl!

about my homework, MC14... I would be the best of my class if my class was about writing Godfather outlines!! sadly it's not. I studied Business Administration, which I disliked so much I quit last week. Now I'm trying to get into the Film Academy or another Audiovisual Media related study nearby next year. Maybe they will appreciate my work over there

You quit school??? Well, I wish you good luck at the film acedamy. But, there´s something I want to say, not to be rude or anything, and I know you´re older then I am but, have you given it a lot of thought going to the film acedamy, I hope you do realize, (correct me if i´m wrong) that you can only make any good money unless you´ve got talent in the movies, business-administatian is an encurance, or try the K.U.T in Tilburg, it stands for Catholic University Tilburg, i´ve heurt that companys these days are dieng for some good-educated economists.

you're quite right there, actually the chances of even getting into filmschool are slim. but I just did not enjoy my study as it was, so I decided just to take the risk. I know the Tilburg University scores very high in national tests, but so did the study I did before. It just isn't my thing I guess. Film school is my no.1 choice, but I have some other (creative) directions in my mind I would rather do than BA.

What are you planning to do after high school?

Well, i´m gonna do something with technology, probably computers, my parents have their own little restaurant. But, i´m not going to work in the HORECA, the point is that because my parents have their own restaurant I can begin my own business, because I will have a good finance.

"I´m a businessman, blood is a big expense" Virgil Solozzo

"If you call a million dollars just finance, then salut Don Corleone" Virgil Solozzo

Pherdy, why don't you publish it on a websit?? Anyway I'm gonna print it so I will read it completely at once. Maybe you should publish it!