Manny Week Three: Feedback

As I was scanning through other Godfather blog, I stumbled upon and I found interesting. It was on Aaron and Georgia’s bolg and it was about Apollonia and how she affected Michael. I wrote that they should label their blog posts properly and I do not know who wrote the blog. I also wrote that I liked their ideas but I had to disagree on one of their points. They wrote that it was because of Apollonia’s death that Michael came back to the states to save his family. This is wrong, cause Michael came back to New York so he can say with his father. He was asked to come back to the states just after Sonny’s death.

Manny Week Three: Feedback

As I was scanning through other Godfather blog, I stumbled upon and I found interesting. It was on Aaron and Georgia’s bolg and it was about Apollonia and how she affected Michael. I wrote that they should label their blog posts properly and I do not know who wrote the blog. I also wrote that I liked their ideas but I had to disagree on one of their points. They wrote that it was because of Apollonia’s death that Michael came back to the states to save his family. This is wrong, cause Michael came back to New York so he can say with his father. He was asked to come back to the states just after Sonny’s death.

Manny Week Three: Class Act

As we all sat inaudibly staring at the screen that projected the Godfather, we witnessed the transformation of Michael becoming the Don of the Corleone family. As we all know, the Don has the final say and his family must listen to it. Every soul in the room became bewildered when they heard that Tom Hagen was not going to be Consigliere anymore and to make matters even worse, Michael was making Carlo his right hand man. Now why would Michael make Carlo his right hand man when Carlo does not have any experience in the Mafia?

Maybe it is a part of a plan the Michael hopes to execute in the revenge of his brother Santino. We all know how the fate of Carlo ends up in the end of the movie.

I think that Michael wanted to make Carlo feel a part of the family business and that everyone trusted him. When Carlo got comfortable with the Corleone family, he thought that they were on his side. So when Michael told Carlo in the end of the movie to go home and wait, Carlo obeyed him not only because Michael is the Don but also that he feels that Michael is on his own side.

Francis Ford Coppola does a great job integrating a well-known cliché into the story o the Godfather. “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

Comment

Today, I commented on David's post about the Human Condition. He meantioned how important family is to the Don and compared that to Winston in 1984, who lacks family.

--Rushil

Comment

Today, I commented on David's post about the comment he made on Bhanesha's. In his post he mentioned that he agrees that the Don Vito Corleone is a supernatural force, having survived five shots and dying because of a heart attack (something not related to being shot five times). David also mentioned that there is something special about the camera angle at which Michael is portrayed. I asked him what that special thing is, and I hope he replys to my comment. :D



--Rushil

Manny Week Two: Archetypes

During the story, we now experience a new situational archetype, the journey. The character that goes on the journey is Michael. He is sent there for his own safety because nobody in the mafia kills a cop. This trip for Michael is actually benefitting him because he "gained" a wife and if you look at your Hero's Journey handout, it says the journey sends the hero in search of some truth that will help save his kingdom.

An example of Michael getting some truth is were one of his bodyguards tries to kill him by bombing his car. Through this experience, Michael gains the knowledge to trust no one and you see this knowledge in action during the end of the Godfather and during the Godfather Part II.

Manny Week Two: Class Act

While we were watching the Godfather in class, we were given some side questions to think about. Those questions were basically asking what do character's names mean. With some intensive research done, I have found the answers. The name Michael is a rhetorical question and it means "who is like God?" So Michael means no person is like God. The name Santino comes from the word sanctus, which basically means saintly, holy. Finally the name Apollonia means saints, martyr. 

Plenty can be said about the characters by just finding out what their name means.