The Corleones And Things They Do Quiz

Answer: True

It is the wedding day of Connie Corleone and Carlo Rizzi.
Interesting tidbit: the wedding scenes are very brightly lit. However, those scenes are intercut with scenes of Don Corleone doing business in his office. The director, Francis Ford Coppola, intentionally made the office scenes dim and shadowy, a metaphor for the dark world of organized crime.

Answer: Vito

By the end of the first film, Michael is called Don Corleone.

Answer: The town of Corleone, Sicily

When young Vito Andolini arrives in America, he does not speak English. The officer at Ellis Island looks at his papers and assigns him the name Corleone, the town he came from.

Answer: Luca

Don Corleone's oldest son is Santino (Sonny), followed by Fredo and Michael. Luca Brasi is one of Vito's closest henchman. Although not a blood relative, he is fiercely loyal to the Don.

Answer: Vito's father's funeral procession in Italy

Vito's father was killed for insulting the local mafia chieftain. The boss is afraid that young Vito will seek revenge when he grows up and wants to kill him too. But with the aid of neighbors, Vito escapes to America. The mafia boss was right to be afraid; Vito returns to Corleone as a man and gets his revenge.

Answer: He was a police captain

Captain McCluskey broke Michael's jaw in an earlier scene. When Michael's brother, Sonny, makes fun of Michael for suggesting they kill a cop, Michael points out that he's a dirty cop, working for Sollozzo, a known drug dealer, and that the Corleone family has newspaper men on the payroll who "might like a story like that." Tom agrees and McCluskey's fate is sealed.

It's our first glimpse of Michael's talent for the family business.

Answer: an orange slice

If you're watching "The Godfather" movies and you see an orange, watch out! Besides Vito dying with one in his mouth, he buys a couple and then knocks over a display of oranges when he is shot. Then, in the second film, Johnny Ola gives Michael a Florida orange from his friend, Hyman Roth. Also, Fanucci picks an orange off a street cart and soon is shot by Vito.

These are just a few examples. Keep your eye out for oranges next time you watch!

Answer: True

Tom is a lawyer who acts as Vito's consigliere. Michael tells the story that, as a kid, Sonny brought Tom home and he's "been with us ever since."
In the beginning of "GF 1", Michael introduces him to Kay as "my brother, Tom Hagen." And after Vito gets shot and Sonny discounts Tom's feeling by saying, "...Tom, he's not your father." Tom's response is, "I'm as much a son to him as you or Mike."

Answer: He said a Hail Mary when he threw his line in

Poor Fredo, he was fishing and saying the Hail Mary when Michael's hitman shot him in the back of the head.

Answer: The severed head of his favorite horse

Vito arranges this act of intimidation because the producer won't give Vito's God son, Johnny Fontaine, a part in a movie.
Interesting tidbit: What we see is not a movie prop but a real horse's head that they got from a dog food plant.