When You Know What to Do but Dont Do It

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I'm gonna make him an offer he tin't refuse. Now, you lot just go outside and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget near all this nonsense. I want you, I want you to leave it all to me.

Where does information technology say that you can't impale a cop? I'm talking almost a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a dishonest cop and a kleptomaniacal cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him. It'south not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.

Get out the gun. Take the cannoli.

The Godfather is a 1972 film about a Mafia crime family and the outbreak of a New York Urban center gang state of war in the late 1940s.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Written by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's novel.

An offer you can't reject.

Vito Corleone [edit]

[to Bonasera] I want you lot to use all your powers, and all your skills. I don't want his mother to see him this way. [pulls sheet to reveal Sonny's bullet-ridden body] Await how they massacred my boy.

I spent my whole life trying not to exist careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

You cannot say "no" to the people y'all love, not often. That's the underground. And and so when you lot do, it has to sound like a "yes" or you have to make them say "no." You have to take time and trouble.

Peter Clemenza [edit]

[to Rocco Lampone, after Rocco has killed Paulie Gatto] Leave the gun. Accept the cannoli.

Moe Greene [edit]

Son of a bitch! Practice you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders!

Dialogue [edit]

Amerigo Bonasera: I believe in America. America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American style. I gave her freedom, but I taught her never to dishonor her family. She constitute a boyfriend, not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She stayed out late. I didn't protest. Two months ago he took her for a drive, with some other boy friend. They fabricated her beverage whiskey and then they tried to accept reward of her. She resisted. She kept her accolade, then they beat her similar an brute. When I went to the infirmary her nose was broken. Her jaw was shattered, held together by wire. She couldn't even weep considering of the pain, but I wept. Why did I weep? She was the low-cal of my life. A beautiful girl. Now she will never be beautiful once more. [sobs] Sorry. I went to the police, like a good American. These two boys were brought to trial. The approximate sentenced them to iii years in prison, and suspended the sentence. Suspended sentence! They went gratis that very day! I stood in the courtroom similar a fool, and those two bastards, they smiled at me. And so I said to my wife, "For justice, we must get to Don Corleone."

Don Vito Corleone: Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?

Bonasera: What practise you desire of me? Tell me annihilation, but practice what I beg you to do.

Vito: What is that?

Bonasera: [whispering in Vito'due south ear] I want them dead.

Vito: That I cannot practise.

Bonasera: I will give you annihilation you enquire.

Vito: Nosotros've known each other many years, only this is the outset time you ever came to me for counsel or for help. I can't recollect the last fourth dimension that you invited me to your business firm for a loving cup of java, even though my wife is godmother to your simply child. Merely allow's be frank here. You never wanted my friendship and, uh, you were agape to be in my debt.

Bonasera: I didn't desire to get into trouble.

Vito: I understand. You found paradise in America, you lot had a good trade, you made a good living, the police protected you, and there were courts of law. You lot didn't need a friend similar me. But, now you come to me, and you lot say: "Don Corleone, give me justice." But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. Y'all don't fifty-fifty think to telephone call me Godfather. Instead, you come up into my house on the day my daughter is to exist married, and y'all enquire me to do murder for coin.

Bonasera: I ask for justice.

Vito: That is not justice. Your girl is still alive.

Bonasera: Let them suffer then, as she suffers. How much shall I pay you?

Vito: Bonasera, Bonasera. What have I e'er done to make you lot treat me and so disrespectfully? If yous'd come to me in friendship, then that scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by take a chance an honest man similar yourself should brand enemies, then they would go my enemies. So they would fear you.

Bonasera: Exist my friend, Godfather. [kisses Vito's hand]

Vito: Expert. Someday—and that day may never come—I'll telephone call upon yous to do a service for me. But until that twenty-four hours, accept this justice as a souvenir on my girl's nuptials twenty-four hour period.

Bonasera: Grazie, Godfather.

Vito: Prego. [Bonasera leaves, and Don Corleone turns to Tom] Give this to, uh, Clemenza. I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away. After all, we're not murderers, in spite of what this undertaker thinks.

Michael Corleone: Well, when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this personal service contract with a big band leader. And as his career got better and better, he wanted to become out of it. At present, Johnny is my father's godson. And my father went to run across this band leader, and he offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go. But the band leader said no. So the next solar day, my father went to see him, but this time with Luca Brasi. And within an hour, he signed a release, for a certified cheque for $1,000.

Kay: How'd he do that?

Michael: My male parent fabricated him an offer he couldn't reject.

Kay: What was that?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father bodacious him that either his brains - or his signature - would be on the contract. That's a true story. That'southward my family, Kay. It's not me.

Johnny Fontane: A month agone, he [Woltz] bought the motion-picture show rights to this volume, a all-time-seller, and the main character, it's a guy only similar me. I, uh, I wouldn't even take to act, just exist myself. [choking upwards] Oh, Godfather, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.

Don Vito Corleone: [shaking Johnny] Yous can human action like a homo! [He slaps Johnny.] What's the affair with y'all? Is this how you turned out, a Hollywood finocchio that cries similar a adult female? "Eheheh! What tin I exercise? What can I do?" What is that nonsense? Ridiculous. You spend fourth dimension with your family?

Johnny: Sure I do.

Vito: Good, considering a human being who doesn't spend time with his family unit can never be a real human. Come here. You look terrible. I desire you lot to eat. I want y'all to rest a while, and in a month from now, this Hollywood bigshot'due south gonna requite y'all what you lot desire.

Johnny: Information technology's also belatedly, they start shooting in a week.

Vito: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. At present, yous just become exterior and enjoy yourself, and, uh, forget about all this nonsense. I desire y'all, I desire y'all to leave it all to me.

The line in bold is ranked #2 in American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations.

Vito Corleone: [to Sollozzo] I must say no to yous, and I'll requite you my reasons. It's true, I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't exist friendly very long if they knew my concern was drugs instead of gambling, which they regard every bit a – a harmless vice. Just drugs is a dirty business. It makes, information technology doesn't make any difference to me what a human being does for a living, understand. But your business is, uh, a picayune dangerous.

Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo: If you're worried nigh security for your one thousand thousand, the Tattaglias will guarantee it.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: Oh, you're telling me that the Tattaglias guarantee our investment?

Vito: Wait a minute. I have a sentimental weakness for my children, and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should mind. But anyhow, Signor Sollozzo, my "no" is final and I wish to congratulate you on your new business. I know you'll practise very well, and adept luck to you, peculiarly since your interests don't conflict with mine. Cheers. [Sollozzo leaves] Santino, come hither. What's the matter with you? I think your encephalon's going soft from all that comedy you're playing with that immature daughter. Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking once more.

Virgil "the Turk" Sollozzo: Your dominate is expressionless. I know you're not in the muscle-end of the family, Tom, and so I don't desire you to be scared. I want you to assist the Corleones, and I want y'all to help me. [hands Tom a drink.] Yeah, we got him exterior his office but about an hr after we picked y'all upward. Potable it. So now it's up to you to make the peace between me and Sonny. Sonny was hot for my thought, wasn't he? And you knew it was the right affair to do.

Tom Hagen: Sonny'll come after you with everything he's got.

Sollozzo: That'll be his start reaction, sure. That's why you lot gotta talk some sense into him. The Tattaglia family unit is behind me with all their people. The other New York families will go along with anything that volition forbid a full-scale war. Let'southward face it, Tom, and all due respect, the Don, rest in peace, was slipping. Ten years ago, could I accept gotten to him? Well, now, he's dead. He's dead, Tom, and nothing can bring him back, so y'all gotta talk to Sonny. You gotta talk to the caporegimes, that Tessio and that fatty Clemenza. It'southward good business, Tom.

Tom: I'll effort, but even Sonny won't be able to phone call off Luca Brasi.

Sollozzo: Yep, well, let me worry most Luca. You lot just talk to Sonny and the other two kids.

Tom: I'll practice my all-time.

Sollozzo: Skillful. Now, you can go. I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a business concern man. Blood is a big expense. [receives news from an arriving car] He's still alive. They hit him with v shots, and he's yet alive! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for y'all if y'all don't make that deal!

[Sonny opens a packet to detect two fish wrapped in Luca'south bulletproof vest.]

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: What the hell is this?

Salvatore Tessio: It's a Sicilian bulletin. Information technology means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Annotation: The line in bold was nominated for the American Movie Institute's list of the top 100 moving-picture show quotations.

Tom Hagen: This is business concern, not personal!

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: They shot my father. It's business, your ass!

Tom: Even shooting your male parent was business concern, not personal, Sonny!

Michael Corleone: They wanna have a meeting with me, right? It will be me - McCluskey - and Sollozzo. Permit's set the meeting. Get our informers to find out where information technology's gonna exist held. Now, we insist it'due south a public place, a bar, a restaurant, some place where in that location's people so I feel safe. They're gonna search me when I beginning meet them, right? And so I can't take a weapon on me then. But if Clemenza tin can figure a way, to have a weapon planted in that location for me, and then I'll kill 'em both.

Santino "Sonny" Corleone: [laughing, along with the others] Hey, what are ya gonna do, nice college male child, eh? Didn't want to become mixed up in the family business huh? Now you wanna gun downwardly a constabulary helm. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is, the Ground forces? Where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close similar this and bada-bing! You lot blow their brains all over your overnice Ivy League suit. [He kisses Michael's head.] You're taking this very personal.

Michael: Where does it say that you tin't kill a cop? I'yard talking about a cop that's mixed upwardly in drugs. I'm talking about a quack cop and a kleptomaniacal cop who got mixed upwards in the rackets and got what was coming to him. Information technology'due south not personal, Sonny. It'southward strictly business organization.

Peter Clemenza: [shows Michael a revolver] This is as cold as they come up, impossible to trace, and so y'all don't worry about prints, Mike. I put a special tape on the trigger and the barrel. Here, try it. [Michael takes the revolver] What'sa affair? The trigger as well tight?

Michael Corleone: No. [He fires] Ah, my ears.

Clemenza: Yep, I left it noisy. That way, it scares any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders away. All correct, you shot 'em both. Now what do y'all exercise?

Michael: Sit down down, finish my dinner.

Clemenza: Come on, kid. Don't fool around. Just allow your hand drop to your side, and let the gun slip out. Everybody'll still think you got information technology. They're gonna exist staring at your face, Mike, so walk out of the identify real fast, but don't run. Don't look nobody directly in the center, just you lot don't look away either. Eh, they're gonna be scared strong of you lot, believe me, so don't worry nigh nothing. You lot know, you gonna plough out all correct. You take a long vacation, nobody knows where, and we gonna take hold of the hell.

Michael: How bad do yous think it's gonna be?

Clemenza: Pretty god-damn bad. Probably, all the other families volition line up against us. That's all right. These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood. Been 10 years since the last one. You know, y'all gotta stop 'em at the beginning, similar they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich. They should never take let him get abroad with that. They was only asking for big trouble. You know, Mike, nosotros was all proud of y'all, being a hero and all. Your father, too.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian, upon seeing Apollonia] Mamma mia, what a beauty.

[Apollonia says something in Sicilian and is startled to see the three men watching her. She and Michael exchange looks.]

Fabrizio: [to Michael, in Sicilian] I think you got hitting by the thunderbolt.

Calo: [in Sicilian] In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Did you lot have a good hunt?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] You know all the girls effectually here? We saw some existent beauties. 1 of them struck our friend like a thunderbolt. She would tempt the devil himself. Actually put together. Such hair, such oral cavity!

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] The girls around here are cute merely virtuous.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] This one had a royal dress and a purple ribbon in her pilus. A type more Greek than Italian. Practice you know her?

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] No! There's no girl like that in his town.

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] My God, I understand! [gets up to look at the cafe.]

Michael Corleone: [to Calo, in Sicilian] What's wrong?

Fabrizio: [in Sicilian] Let'southward go. Information technology's his daughter.

Michael: [in Sicilian] Tell him to come hither. Call him. Fabrizio, you translate.

Fabrizio: Si, signor.

Michael: [with Fabrizio translating] I apologize if I offended you. I'chiliad a stranger in this land and I meant no boldness, to you or your daughter. I'g an American hiding in Sicily. My name is Michael Corleone. There are people who'd pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a male parent instead of gaining a husband. I desire to meet your daughter with your permission and under the supervision of your family with all respect.

Vitelli: [in Sicilian] Come to my business firm Sun morning. My name is Vitelli.

Michael Grazie. [in Sicilian] What's her proper noun?

Vitelli: Apollonia.

Michael: Bene.

Don Vito Corleone: [sees Tom Hagen with a potable] Give me a drib. My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliere of mine, I think you should tell your Don what everyone seems to know.

Tom Hagen: I didn't tell Mama anything. I was virtually to come up up and wake you lot and tell y'all.

Vito: Just you needed a drink outset.

Tom: Yep.

Vito: Well, now you've had your beverage.

Tom: They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead.

Vito: I desire no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I desire you to arrange a coming together with the heads of the V Families. This state of war stops now.

Don Vito Corleone: [to the heads of the V Families] How did things ever get so far? I don't know. It was then unfortunate, and so unnecessary. Tattaglia lost a son and I lost a son. Nosotros're quits, and if Tattaglia agrees, then I'1000 willing to allow things go along the way they were before.

Don Emilio Barzini: We're all grateful to Don Corleone for calling this coming together. We all know him as a man of his word. A modest man who will always listen to reason.

Don Phillip Tattaglia: Yes, Barzini, he is besides modest. He had all the judges and politicians in his pocket, and refused to share them.

Vito: When? When did I ever refuse an accommodation? All of you know me here. When did I ever pass up, except once? And why? Because I believe this drug business organization is gonna destroy us in the years to come. I mean, it'south not like gambling or liquor, fifty-fifty women, which is something that most people want nowadays and information technology's forbidden to them by the pezzonovantes in the church. Even the police departments accept helped us in the past with gambling and other things. They're gonna pass up to help the states when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that and so, and I believe that at present.

Barzini: Times have inverse. It's non like the old days when we could do annihilation nosotros want. A refusal is non the act of a friend. Don Corleone had all the judges and the politicians in New York, and he must share them. He must allow usa draw the water from the well. Certainly, he can present a pecker for such services. After all, we are not Communists!

Zaluchi: I also don't believe in drugs. For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders. If you put upward three, four thousand dollar investment, we tin can make fifty k distributing." So they can't resist. I want to command it equally a business organization, to proceed it respectable. I don't want information technology near schools! I don't want it sold to children! That'south an infamia. In my metropolis, nosotros would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.

Vito: I hoped that we would come here and reason together. And as a reasonable man, I'm willing to do whatsoever is necessary to find a peaceful solution to these problems.

Barzini: Then we are agreed. The traffic in drugs will be permitted, but controlled, and Don Corleone will give united states protection in the e, and there will be the peace.

Tattaglia: Simply I must have strict balls from Corleone. As time goes by and his position becomes stronger, volition he attempt any individual vendetta?

Barzini: Look, we are all reasonable men here. We don't have to requite assurances equally if we were lawyers.

Vito: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance on my son. But I accept selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this land because of all this Solozzo business. All right. Now I have to brand arrangements to bring him back hither safely, but I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him—if he should become shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he'south struck by a bolt of lightning—then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive. But that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will non be the i to break the peace that we accept fabricated hither today.

Tom Hagen: When I come across with the Tattaglia people, should I insist that all his drug middlemen have clean records?

Don Vito Corleone: Mention information technology. Don't insist. Barzini is a man who'll know that without existence told.

Tom: You mean Tattaglia?

Vito: Tattaglia'southward a pimp. He never could've outfought Santino, only I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

Michael Corleone: I'm working for my male parent now. He'south been ill, very sick.

Kay Adams: But you lot're not like him, Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a homo like your father. That'southward what you lot told me.

Michael: My father's no different than any other powerful man – any man who's responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.

Kay: [laughs] You know how naïve you sound?

Michael: Why?

Kay: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.

Michael: Oh, who's beingness naïve, Kay? Kay, my father'southward way of doing things is over, information technology'south finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in v years, the Corleone family is going to be completely legitimate. Trust me. That'south all I can tell you about my business.

Moe Greene: We had a niggling statement, Freddy and I, so I had to straighten him out.

Michael Corleone: You straightened my brother out?

Fredo Corleone: Mike! Yous don't come to Las Vegas and talk to a homo similar Moe Greene similar that!

Michael Corleone: Fredo, y'all're my older brother, and I dearest you, just don't ever take sides with anyone against the family once again, always.

Don Vito Corleone: I knew that Santino was gonna have to go through all this, and Fredo, well, Fredo was... but I never—I never wanted this for you. I worked my whole life—I don't apologize—to take care of my family. And I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologize. That's my life, only I idea that when it was your fourth dimension, that you lot would be the one to hold the strings. Senator Corleone. Governor Corleone. Something.

Michael Corleone: Another pezzonovante.

Vito: Well, in that location wasn't enough time, Michael. Wasn't enough time.

Michael: Nosotros'll get in that location, Popular. Nosotros'll get at that place.

Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: I hope Mike can become us a skilful deal.

Tom Hagen: I'g sure he volition.

William "Willy" Cicci: Sal, Tom? Boss says he'll come up in a divide motorcar. He says for you two to continue alee.

Salvatore "Sal" Tessio: Hell, he tin can't do that. Information technology screws upward all my arrangements!

Cicci: Well, that's what he said.

Tom: I can't go either, Sal.

[Several push button men close in around Tessio]

Sal: Tell Mike it was simply business. I always liked him.

Tom: He understands that.

Cicci: 'Scuse me, Sal

Sal: Tom, can y'all get me off the hook, for old fourth dimension'south sake?

Tom: Tin't exercise it, Sally.

[While Carlo dials the telephone, Michael Corleone enters the room with Tom Hagen, Al Neri and Rocco Lampone. Carlo turns and looks at Michael's new inner circle]

Michael Corleone: You lot accept to respond for Santino, Carlo.

Carlo Rizzi: Mike, yous've got it all wrong!

Michael: You fingered Sonny for the Barzini people. Ah, that little farce you lot played with my sister. Did you think that would fool a Corleone?

Carlo: Mike, I'thou innocent. I swear on my kids. Delight don't practice this to me, Mike.

Michael: Sit downward.

Carlo: Please don't practise this. Please.

Michael: Barzini'southward dead. So is Phillip Tattaglia, Moe Greene, Stracci, Cuneo. Today, I settle all family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo. Admit what you did. [Carlo breaks downwards] Get him a drinkable. Come on. Don't exist agape, Carlo. Come on. You lot think I'd make my sister a widow? I'm Godfather to your son, Carlo. [Gives Carlo a drink] Go ahead, drink. Drink. No, Carlo, y'all're out of the family business organization, that's your punishment. Nosotros're finished. I'm putting you on a plane to Vegas. Tom? [Tom produces a aeroplane ticket] I want you to stay there, empathize? Simply, don't tell me y'all're innocent, because it insults my intelligence. It makes me very angry. Now who approached you: Tattaglia or Barzini?

Carlo: It was Barzini.

Michael: Skillful. There's a car waiting for you outside, it'll accept y'all to the airdrome. I'll call your wife and tell her what flight you're on.

Carlo: Mike, information technology was—

Michael: Go on. Become out of my sight.

[Carlo gets in the motorcar and notices Clemenza sitting behind him]

Peter Clemenza: Hey, Carlo. [strangles Carlo]

[Connie has but accused Michael of having Carlo killed]

Michael Corleone: She's hysterical. Hysterical.

Kay Corleone: Michael, is it true?

Michael: Don't ask me about my business, Kay.

Kay: Is it truthful?

Michael: Don't enquire me well-nigh my business.

Kay: No!

Michael: [slaps the desk] Enough! All correct, this one time. This one fourth dimension, I'll let yous inquire me about my affairs.

Kay: Is it truthful? Is it?

Michael: No.

Kay: I judge we both need a drink, huh? Come on.

Peter Clemenza: [kissing Michael'south hand equally the door closes on Kay] Don Corleone!

Cast [edit]

Marlon Brando – Don Vito Corleone
Al Pacino – Michael Corleone
James Caan – Santino "Sonny" Corleone
Robert Duvall – Tom Hagen
Diane Keaton – Kay Adams
Abe Vigoda – Sal Tessio
Sterling Hayden – Captain McCluskey
Talia Shire – Connie Corleone Rizzi
Gianni Russo – Carlo Rizzi
John Cazale – Fredo Corleone
Richard Castellano – Pete Clemenza
Jack Marley – Jack Woltz
Al Lettieri – Virgil "the Turk" Solozzo
Alex Rocco – Moe Greene
Richard Conte – Don Emilio Barzini
Louis Guss – Don Joe Zaluchi
Al Martino – Johnny Fontane
Lenny Montana – Luca Brasi
Victor Rendina – Philip Tattaglia

Encounter as well [edit]

The Godfather: Part 2
The Godfather: Part III

External links [edit]

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