The Godfather Part II

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The Godfather: Part II is a 1974 film that portrays the early life & career of Vito Corleone, while his son Michael expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate in the 1950's.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo.


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[edit] Michael Corleone

  • I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.
  • Well I have my own plans for my future.
  • There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
    • Note: the bolded portion is ranked #58 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. That portion has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Niccolò Machiavelli, but there are no published sources yet found which predate its use in this film. There is, however,an Italian proverb that follows closely: "Dai nemici mi guardo io dagli amici mi guardi dio!" – I can protect myself from my enemies, may God protect me from my friends. Voltaire said, "God protect me from my friends, I'll take care of my enemies”.
  • [kisses Fredo] I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

[edit] Hyman Roth

  • If I could only live to see it, to be there with you. What I wouldn't give for twenty more years! Here we are, protected, free to make our profits without Kefauver, the goddamn Justice Department and the F.B.I. ninety miles away, in partnership with a friendly government. Ninety miles! It's nothing! Just one small step, looking for a man who wants to be President of the United States, and having the cash to make it possible. Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
  • I'm going to take a nap. When I wake up, if the money is on the table, I'll know I have a partner. If it isn't, I'll know I don't.
  • I'd give $4 million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.
  • If there's anything funnier than a penis, I don't want to know about it.
  • I've loved baseball ever since Arnold Rothstein fixed the World Series in 1919.
  • I want you all to enjoy my cake. So, uh... enjoy.
  • Good health is the most important thing. More than success, more than money, more than power.
  • There was this kid I grew up with; he was younger than me. Sorta looked up to me, you know. We did our first work together, worked our way out of the street. Things were good, we made the most of it. During Prohibition, we ran molasses into Canada... made a fortune, your father, too. As much as anyone, I loved him and trusted him. Later on he had an idea to build a city out of a desert stop-over for GI's on the way to the West Coast. That kid's name was Moe Greene, and the city he invented was Las Vegas. This was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in that town! SOMEONE...put a bullet through his eye. No one knows who gave the order. When I heard it, I wasn't angry; I knew Moe, I knew he was headstrong, talking loud, saying stupid things. So when he turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we've chosen. I didn't ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!

[edit] Others

  • Don Fanucci: [to Vito Corleone] Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don't even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I've got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little. I hear you and your friends cleared $600 each. Give me $200 each, for your own protection. And I'll forget the insult. You young punks have to learn to respect a man like me! Otherwise the cops will come to your house. And your family will be ruined. Of course, if I'm wrong about how much you stole, I'll take a little less. And by less, I only mean - a hundred bucks less. Now don't refuse me. Understand, paisan? Understand, paisan?... Tell your friends I don't want a lot. Just enough to wet my beak. Don't be afraid to tell them!
  • Connie: Michael, I hated you for so many years. I think that I did things to myself, to hurt myself so that you'd know - that I could hurt you. You were just being strong for all of us the way Papa was. And I forgive you. Can't you forgive Fredo? He's so sweet and helpless without you. You need me, Michael. I want to take care of you now.

[edit] Dialogue

Senator Pat Geary: I can get you a gaming license. The price is $250,000, plus a monthly payment of five percent of the gross of all four hotels. [sneers] Mr. Corl-ee-own-eh.
Michael Corleone: Now, the price of a gaming license it less than $20,000. Is that correct?
Senator Pat Geary: Yes.
Michael Corleone: So why would I ever consider paying more than that?
Senator Pat Geary: Because I intend to squeeze you. I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country with your oily hair, dressed up in those silk suits, passing yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business with you, but the fact is that I despise your charade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself and your whole fucking family.
Michael: Senator. We're both part of the same hypocrisy...but never think it applies to my family.
Senator Pat Geary: [exasperated] Okay. Some people need play little games. You play yours. Let's just say that you'll pay me because it's in your interest to pay me. But I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.
Michael: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
Kay: It made me think of what you once told me: "In five years the Corleone family will be completely legitimate." That was seven years ago.
Michael: I know. I'm trying, darling.
Michael: C'mon Frankie... my father did business with Hyman Roth, he respected Hyman Roth.
Frank Pentangeli: Your father did business with Hyman Roth, your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never trusted Hyman Roth!
[Vito Corleone returns years later to Sicily and meets Don Ciccio, the man who murdered Vito's family]
Don Ciccio: Vito Corleone? You took the name of the town. And what was your father's name?
Vito Corleone: His name was ... Antonio Andolini.
Don Ciccio: Louder, I don't hear so good.
Vito Corleone: [leans in closer] My father's name was Antonio Andolini ... and this is for you! [stabs him]
[Michael has just been told that Kay miscarried their child]
Michael: Was it a boy?
Tom Hagen: Mikey, after three and a half months...
Michael: CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER ANY MORE? WAS IT A BOY?
Kay: Oh, Michael. Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael! I wouldn't bring another one of you sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael! It was a son, Michael! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end! I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael... no way you could ever forgive me, not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years!
[Michael loses control and lunges at Kay, slapping her across the face. She falls onto the couch]
Michael: STOP IT! You won't take my children!
Kay: [sobbing] I will.
Michael: YOU WON'T TAKE MY CHILDREN!
Kay: I will! They're my children too!
Michael: [about the unrest in Cuba] We saw a strange thing on our way here. Some rebels were being arrested, and instead of being arrested, one of them pulled the pin on a grenade he had hidden in his jacket. He took himself and the captain of the command with him.
Guest: Ah, the rebels are insane!
Michael: Maybe. But the soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren't.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael: They can win.
[Michael has discovered that Fredo gave Roth the information needed to try and kill him]
Fredo Corleone: I don't have a lot to say, Mike.
Michael: We have time.
Fredo Corleone: I didn't know it was gonna be a hit, Mike. I swear to God I didn't know it was gonna be a hit! Johnny Ola bumped into me in Beverly Hills, and he said he wanted to talk. He said you and Roth were in on a big deal together, and there was something in it for me if I could help them out. He said you were being tough in the negotiations, but if they could get a little help and close the deal fast, it would be good for the family.
Michael: You believed that story?
Fredo: He said there was something in it for me! On my own!
Michael: I've always taken care of you, Fredo.
Fredo: "Taken care of me"?! You're my kid brother and you take care of me? Did you ever think about that, huh? Did you ever once think about that? Send Fredo off to do this, send Fredo off to do that! Let Fredo take care of some Mickey Mouse night club somewhere! Send Fredo to pick somebody up at the airport! I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
Michael: [unmoved] Is there anything else you can tell me about the investigations?
Fredo: [slumps in his chair] The Senate lawyer, Questadt. He belongs to Roth.
Michael: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand? [walks away]
Fredo: [miserably] Mikey...
Michael: [to Al Neri] I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother is alive.
Senator Pat Geary: Mr. Cicci, would you care to amplify your answer?
Willie Cicci: Would I what?
Senator Pat Geary: Would you expand on your response? I'm interested to know, was there always a buffer involved?
Willie Cicci: A what?
Senator Pat Geary: A buffer. Someone in between you and your possible superiors who passed on to you the actual order to kill someone.
Willie Cicci: [laughs] Oh yeah, a buffer. The family had a lot of buffers!
Tom Hagen: When a plot against the Emperor failed... the plotters were always given a chance to let their families keep their fortunes. Right?
Frank Pentangeli: Yeah, but only the rich guys, Tom. The little guys got knocked off and all their estates went to the Emperors. Unless they went home and killed themselves, then nothing happened. And the families... the families were taken care of.
Tom Hagen: That was a good break. A nice deal.
Frank Pentangeli: Yeah... They went home... and sat in a hot bath... opened up their veins... and bled to death... and sometimes they had a little party before they did it.
[discussing how to kill Hyman Roth]
Tom Hagen: It would be like trying to kill the President; there's no way we can get to him.
Michael: Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.

[edit] Cast

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