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Why let Fredo join the Family?
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02/02/08 06:12 PM
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Why did the Don let Fredo join the "olive oil" business in the first place? If it was readily apparent to Vito that Fredo wasn't quite cut out to be a ruthless or cunning mobster, why not have him only be involved in less risky, more legal facets of Vito's empire?
The Don was judicious enough to refuse to let Nino get involved in Family business, knowing he wasn't that kind of person.
I think there's somewhere in the book where it states that Fredo, like Sonny, insisted on joining right after high school. But Sonny had many of the skills and temperament; Fredo did not, imo.
What do people think?
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Re: Why let Fredo join the Family?
[Re: ibarramedia]
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I think it depends, as SC says, if your talking about the Fredo from the original novel, or the films. In the films he is a coward and generally stupid, in the book he is a bit tougher, so I think he would be good enough to join, at least with the position Vito gave him he was fine. As long he got a less important buisness that would be fine, but of course he wasnt as cunning as Micheal and Sonny.
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Re: Why let Fredo join the Family?
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09/26/09 07:41 AM
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Doesnt anyone else feel bad for Fredo? Obviously he was born his fathers son, but i feel the guy spends his whole life just trying to live up to his brothers in the eyes of their father. He wants to join as soon as he can, he wants to keep up with Sonny and perhaps see's a way to impress his father in a way that Michael seemed to fail. The poor bastard was the one who was with the Don when Sollozzo tried to have him killed, imagine the guilt he would have carried around!
Number Two expands on it, with his "betrayal" (which i always saw more as naivety and stupidity then intentional betrayal) and his outpouring to Michael, the speech were he seems to be voicing a lifetime of pent-up shame and rage (John Cazale RIP), ultimately to pay with his life for his mistakes. A guy who lived in the shadow of his father and brothers.
Winegarders novel, blech, what a cop-out. "Fredo was weak because he was gay all along" Bullshit. If i was a champion homo i would be really friggin insulted by this.
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