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| show | The "Godfather". He is shot while buying some fruit but makes a partial recovery. His control of the state's judges and politicians has helped maintain Corleone power for years. He retires from his Godfather role but dies playing with his grandson.
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| Who is Santino Corleone? | show 🗑
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| show | Exiled to Vegas, associate of Moe Green. His role in the film is a minor one. We see him at the wedding but he does not appear again until Michael tries to buy Moe Green's casino.
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| show | Begins the film as an ex-army, college boy. The film is set in 1946 and Mikey has just returned from war. At Connie's wedding he remains an outsider to the family's "business" but this dramatically changes after Sonny's assassination.
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| Who is Tom Hagen? | show 🗑
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| show | Michael and Sonny's sister. Marries Carlo but the marriage which starts the entire film in such a grand way is never happy. By the end she is a widow as Carlo is killed for his betrayal of the family.
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| show | Marries Michael Corleone. They have a son, Anthony. She is a minor character in a male-dominated world that she is never allowed to understand. She is kept out of the family "business".
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| show | Vito's enforcer. Helps to secure the release of Johnny Fontane's original contract. Killed by Virgil Sollozzo in a bar by strangulation.
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| Who is Clemenza? | show 🗑
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| Who is Tessio? | show 🗑
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| show | A singer who performs at Connie's wedding. Very famous but most of his contracts and appearances in films have been arranged by Vito. Johnny says he owes Vito "everything".
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| Who is Woltz? | show 🗑
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| show | Rival gangster. Destroys a the film of a journalist who tries to take his picture at the wedding. Behind Sonny's death. Promises peace to Vito but is killed on Michael's day of mass killing by an assistant disguised as a police officer.
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| Who is Virgil Sollozzo? | show 🗑
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| show | Corrupt police officer. Bribed by Tattaglia family. Killed by Michael which results in New York police cracking down on organised crime groups. Michael has to be exiled to Sicily to avoid arrest.
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| show | Casino owner who refuses to sell his casino to Michael. Dies when he is shot in the face on the day of the christening/Michael's day of mass killing.
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| show | Head of one of the 5 families. Dies in revolving door shooting.
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| Who is Don Tattaglia? | show 🗑
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| show | Connie's violent husband. Sonny beats him up badly in the street for hitting Connie. As a result, Carlo betrays Sonny to Barzini an arranges his death but Michael realises. Carlo is garrotted by Clemenza after Michael tricks him into getting into the car.
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| Extreme close-up (ECU) | show 🗑
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| Close up (CU) | show 🗑
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| Medium close-up (MCU | show 🗑
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| show | Figure framed from the waist up.
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| show | Also known as "establishing shot". Indicates the environment and places the human figure in a setting.
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| Low angle shot | show 🗑
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| show | Camera positioned high, looking down. Emphasises the vulnerability of the object or person in focus.
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| show | Special lens gives a wide angle view- gives context or setting of action.
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| Subjective/point of view shot | show 🗑
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| show | The subject remains in relatively the same position.
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| Zoom | show 🗑
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| Pan | show 🗑
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| Head on | show 🗑
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| show | Subject walks away from camera, often a final shot.
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| Tilt | show 🗑
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| show | Camera moves along a track on a dolly, keeping pace with a moving object which is being filmed.
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| show | Camera moves back from an object first seen in a close-up. It places the object in context and is sometimes used as a surprise technique.
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| show | Camera is placed on a crane and can move in any direction.
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| Freeze frame | show 🗑
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| show | Abrupt end to a shot. 1 shot is instantly replaced by another. This is sometimes used to emphasise a change in mood o to point to a contrast.
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| Cross-cutting | show 🗑
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| show | Usually a long shot, it shows the audience the whole scene once again slowly.
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| show | Image slowly fades from the screen, usually to black.
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| show | As one image fades out, another fades in. The two images will be mixed together for a time.
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| show | Focus is clear in only one plane, the rest of the image is blurred.
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| show | All areas from foreground to background are in focus.
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| show | A single image. 24 projected frames per second create the illusion of movement.
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| show | The composition, the placement of objects within the frame, the setting, the lighting, what is happening.
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| Shot or take | show 🗑
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| Scene | show 🗑
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| show | A segment of film involving a complete stretch of action.
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| show | noises other than the spoken voice.
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| Voice over/voice off | show 🗑
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| show | Lettering or drawing by artists, e.g. for credits.
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| Background noise | show 🗑
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| Background music | show 🗑
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| What are the 5 different types of music used in films? | show 🗑
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| Natural Light | show 🗑
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| show | Towards the subjects face at eye level. Gives the effect of natural shadows.
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| show | This is a lower powered light nearer to the camera. It softens the key light so that the shadows are not so dark.
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| Back light | show 🗑
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| Who directed "The Godfather"? | show 🗑
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| When was "The Godfather" released? | show 🗑
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| When is "The Godfather" set? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote the book "The Godfather"? | show 🗑
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| show | Hats and Doors
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| What are the 4 main themes of the film? | show 🗑
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| show | Before Michael becomes involved in the family business, he doesn't wear hats, but as he becomes more involved he wears one. He wears a classic, dark gangster suit complete with fedora hat when he visits Carlo before having him killed.
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| What do hats symbolise in the film? | show 🗑
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| show | Any time business is discussed, the door to the study is closed, blocking out the women. The classic example of this is the end of the film when the camera cuts to show the door closing on Kay.
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| show | Doors represent the divide between the male and female world.
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| Give 2 quotes to support the "It's business, not personal" theme throughout the film | show 🗑
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| show | The mafia uses phrases such as "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" to try and convince themselves that they are in a legitimate business so that they can look themselves in the mirror without being overwhelmed by guilt
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| Analyse the Family vs. Business theme in the film. | show 🗑
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| show | In the world of the mafia, Vito tells his son men and women live in vastly different realms. Women can not only be careless but carefree. Kay has doors closed on her. Women are kept away from any discussion of business.
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| Give a quote to support the fact that men and women live in different worlds in the film | show 🗑
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| show | The film charts the corruption of Michael. The film also features a corrupt police officer- McCluskey. We learn at the beginning of the film that various judges and senators have sent gifts to the wedding,
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| Give quotes to support the theme of corruption in the film. | show 🗑
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| show | -Opening sequence- office and contrast with wedding outside
-Hospital scene- turning point and scene of great tension
-closing sequence- Baptism an executions (climax)and final office scene in which door is shut on Kay.
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| show | -Wedding scene
-Hospital scene
-Restaurant scene
-Returns to Italy wearing Mafioso suit.
-Baptism scene
-Final office scene
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| Describe Michael in the Wedding scene | show 🗑
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| Give a quote to describe Michael in the wedding scene. | show 🗑
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| Describe Michael in the hospital scene. | show 🗑
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| show | -"I won't panic."
-"I'm with you now. I'm with you."
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| show | Very Angry. He kills Sollozzo and McCluskey.
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| Describe Michael in the Baptism scene. | show 🗑
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| show | -Priest- "Do you renounce Satan?"
-Michael- "I do renounce him."
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| Describe Michael in the final office scene. | show 🗑
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| Give the opening quote from the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| show | The opening scene includes both the office scene and the wedding scene. We learn a lot about the characters. Establishes the theme of women and men living in very different realms in the mafia world. Introduces the family business.
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| show | Fredo, appearing drunk, is not included in the discussions taking place in the office. He is portrayed as foolish.
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| What do we learn about Vito in the opening sequence? | show 🗑
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| What do we learn about Sonny in the opening sequence? | show 🗑
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| What do we learn about Tom in the opening sequence? | show 🗑
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| Give a quote about Tom in the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| show | -Godfather theme tune at the beginning of the movie sets a sombre mood.
-Wedding party outside contrasts with the heavy silence in the office.
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| State 4 important aspects of the Mis En Scene of the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| Analyse the rose and cat in Vito's office in the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| show | He belongs to a different family at the beginning of the film. He is a man of honour who does not fit in with this criminal life, he is an outsider.
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| show | Shows the highly secretive nature of the family business and the mafia underworld.
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| Analyse the dark suits in the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| show | -Wedding scene- very bright lighting, creates happy carefree atmosphere. Contrasts with office.
-Office- very dark lighting appropriate to the conversation of murder. Creates serious, dark atmosphere.
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| Comment on 5 aspects of the movement of actors in the opening sequence. | show 🗑
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| show | -Wedding scene- high angle establishing shot establishes setting of the wedding (The Corleone garden)
-Office scene- zoom out over the shoulder shot builds suspense about the character of the godfather.
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| show | The factors within the film which help you to decide what genre it belongs to.
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| show | Gangster film.
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| show | -dialogue, props & costumes
-Respect: people rehearse what they are going to say before meeting with Vito Corleone and kiss his hand
-Seriousness of conversations- business-like tone
-Immediate introduction to them of violence
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| Why is the hospital scene significant for Michael? | show 🗑
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| In what essay questions would you focus on the hospital scene? | show 🗑
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| show | -Hospitals are usually places of safety. But the danger in the scene subverts the feeling of security and makes the viewer feel uneasy.
-This effect is also achieved by the Christmas lights which frame the large, dark entrance. They contrast.
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| What is non-diegetic sound? | show 🗑
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| show | -When Michael sits with Vito and tells him that he will take care of him, the title track of the film plays over the scene. This indicates that he is to become the new godfather and take the reigns of the family business.
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| What is diegetic sound? | show 🗑
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| show | -Echoing footsteps suggest a ticking clock or heartbeat and ratchet up the tension of the scene
-The stuck record
-Thunder when McCluskey arrives- signifying that the police are NOT there to help.
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| show | -Long shot is used.
-Makes him seem isolated and vulnerable.
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| What type of shot is used in the hospital scene when Michael runs up the stairs to his father's room and what impact does this have? | show 🗑
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| show | -Positioned from behind Enzo.
-Adds tension and develops a sense of mystery about him.
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| Comment on 3 key aspects of the lighting in the hospital scene and state what impact they have. | show 🗑
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| show | -half eaten sandwich/stuck record- hospital has been vacated quickly.
-Michael casts away Enzo's flowers- casting away his soft side
-Michael lights Enzo's cigarette with steady hands- he is suited to this world of violence
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| State 3 key aspects of the movement of actors in the hospital scene and state what impact they have | show 🗑
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| show | The baptism scene montage.
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| show | A rapid succession of images that link different scenes.
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| show | Placing of images beside each other to show contrast and/or to reveal similarity.
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| show | There is a moral contrast between the expectations of the Christian lifestyle Michael obviously adheres to and the violent brutality of his crimes. Michael is committing sins whilst renouncing Satan.
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| show | -There is a contrast between the purity of the child to which Michael is becoming godfather to and the moral stance of organised crime members
-He is becoming godfather to the child while simultaneously becoming "Godfather" to the family business.
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| State 3 key aspects of the Mis En Scene of the baptism scene. | show 🗑
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| show | Whilst the organ music is initially diegetic, it plays throughout the whole scene acting as a non-diegetic addition to the montage. It is ominous, representing the threatening nature of the gangsters. Develops tension and suspense as the volume increases.
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| State the impact of the organ music stopping during the baptism montage. | show 🗑
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| State the impact of the baby's screams during the baptism montage. | show 🗑
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| show | It juxtaposes baptism and the assassinations, highlighting the hypocrisy of Michael's character and the result of his descent into evil.
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| show | The fact that we see numerous people being killed demonstrates the sheer brutality of Michael and his "business", showing how widespread the killings are and the severity of the attacks. This stresses that Michael has become fierce, cruel and vicious.
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| show | How carefully and meticulously he has planned everything.
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| show | -Tessio, then Carlo.
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| What does the killing of Carlo in the closing sequence reveal about Michael? | show 🗑
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| show | "Do you think you could pull the wool over a Corleone?"- Michael.
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| Why is the location of the final scene of the film important? | show 🗑
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| State 2 quotes by Connie in the final scene of the film which are particularly significant. | show 🗑
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| What do Connie's accusations that Michael waited until Vito's death to kill her husband say about Michael? | show 🗑
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| show | - The scene is dimly lit- just like the opening scene in the office at the beginning.
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| show | -Kisses Michael's hand and calls him Don Corleone
-Clemenza previously mocked Michael and questioned his judgement as Don so the fact that he now accepts and respects him cements Michael's power and position as head of the family.
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| What is the final symbolic event in the final moments of the film? | show 🗑
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