If you don't cry in [insert movie title here] do you even have human emotion?
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The Godfather (1972) -- Luca Brasi's death always brings tears to my eyes. Such a nice man!
shareWasn’t Luca Brasi a mafia hit man? I’m not going to get too choked up when a hired killer has the wheels swing around and he is the one killed.
share> Wasn’t Luca Brasi a mafia hit man?
Yeah. My post was facetious. Luca Brasi was not only a hit man, he was one of the best. His talent (according to the book) was that he could do a hit all by himself, without requiring accomplices. That made it nearly impossible for him or the Corleone Family to be betrayed by someone other than him turning state's evidence.
Lenny Montana played him in the movie. Montana was so nervous and intimidated when doing a scene with Marlon Brando that he gave a truly bizarre performance in one scene; when meeting with Vito Corleone at his daughter Connie's wedding, Brasi offered the traditional wish that Vito's first grandchild would be a boy ... but with a weird emphasis -- "may their first child be a masculine child." Brings to mind an infant who, by six weeks of age, is already drinking Jack Daniel's and smoking cigars!
Coppola kept the take because it fit the character -- Brasi would be very nervous and intimated by Vito -- and because it made Brasi seem even that much creepier.
All things considered, a very strange and unnatural man.
That went over my head. I could see some people really loving his character and being sad at his death. Nothing people do surprises me anymore.
share> Nothing people do surprises me anymore.
LOL -- Agreed. A few weeks ago, I said on here that if Lizzie Borden were still alive today, she'd be a paid spokeswoman for some hatchet company.
Sometimes I feel like an ordinary guy living in the declining years of the Roman Empire. The world's falling apart, I understand the reasons why, I can't stop it from happening, and if things do ever get better it won't be until after I'm dead. For the rest of my life things will only get worse. Ugh.
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The Montana performance was terrific, his awkward, lumbering Brasi fit the character to a tee
In the novel Brasi is described as a man so casual about brutal violence and murder that he scares even Don Vito himself!
His intense loyalty to the Corleone Family is due to their covering up a truly despicable act of murder he committed against a woman and a baby years before
The movie was a long time ago, and memory is fuzzy. Who killed him? How did they kill such a dangerous and formidable person?
shareLuca had been sucking up to the Tattaglia Family, trying to get them to believe he was looking to leave the Corleones for better opportunities and was interested in working for them. Just before Barzini and Tattaglia tried to assassinate Vito, Bruno Tattaglia and Sollozzo met with Luca in Bruno's bar. They murdered him; first one of them plunged a knife into Luca's hand, pinning him to the bar, then the other one garroted him.
Sollazzo, an up and coming gangster wanted to traffic dope in Don Vito's territory and The Godfather forbade it (the old time bosses of La Cosa Nostra knew that the penalty for drug dealing was harsher than even a murder conviction and would inevitably lead to their soldiers turning State's Evidence if caught)
Vito sent Luca Brasi to pose as a traitor against the Corleone Family to get more info on Sallazzo but Sallazzo's crew saw right through that ruse and ambushed him at the meeting
> The Montana performance was terrific, his awkward, lumbering Brasi fit the character to a tee
Montana was scared shitless when he did the scene with Brando; he admitted it later. Probably felt like a junior high school basketball player who without warning finds himself playing "horse" with Michael Jordan. And it does fit Luca to a tee.
> His intense loyalty to the Corleone Family is due to their covering up a truly despicable act of murder he committed against a woman and a baby years before
I think those murders, and Montana's performance, define the Luca character for many people. Everything else about Luca gets seen through that context. At least it did for me.
About a year ago I was discussing the novel and Luca specifically with someone here. It had been a while since I had read it, so to make sure I had things straight I pulled up the Kindle version and did something that I couldn't have done with a printed book -- I did a search for all occurrences of "Luca" and "Brasi" and reviewed the passages. And I noticed something I had never caught on to before. If you ignore the Montana performance and the flashback sections of the novel, Luca comes off as a quite different character.
What I wrote then is way too long to repeat, so here's the link. Take a look if you like ... https://moviechat.org/tt0068646/The-Godfather/5c60b5d294ad9a7fa7578c3b/Question-for-those-that-read-the-book?reply=5c66d0cb1dafc76526f0ee0b
Great thread, I recall it now
As Tex posted you made a great analysis
Puts me in the mood to watch parts I and II again this week...hell, maybe even Part III !
That is pretty much the definitive analysis on that character.
shareSchlindlers List.
If the ending scene doesn't start the water works, you're a reptile. ;)
Schindler's List is one of the few great movies (along with Requiem For A Dream) that I've only watched once...some stuff is just too damn heavy!
However, I will probably watch both again and maybe soon because while very disturbing I do recall the casts of both movies firing on all cylinders, really nailing their roles...
Both are fairly depressing but perfect examples of amazing film making