The Godfather
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Michael: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

Tom Hagen: I'm an attorney for the Corleone family. These men are private detectives hired to protect Vito Corleone. They are licensed to carry firearms. If you interfere you'll have to appear before a judge in the morning and show cause.

Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

Don Corleone: You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me?

Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

Calo: In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Sonny: Goddamn FBI don't respect nothin'.

Clemenza: Mikey, why don't you tell that nice girl you love her? I love you with all-a my heart, if I don't see-a you again soon, I'm-a gonna die.

Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense.

Factual error: In the scene when Michael visits his father in the hospital in 1945 there's a NYC Fire Dept. Sign on the wall with the name of the Commissioner, Robert O. Lowery, who was commissioner from 1966 to 1973.

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Trivia: When Vito is in the garden with his grandson, he puts an orange peel in his mouth, and the kid looks scared. Well, the kid really is scared. Marlon Brando improvised that, and the kid wasn't expecting it.

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Question: What is the name of the melody/song that is played just after Michael shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey? It is played while you see some newspapers with big headlines etc.

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Chosen answer: The mattress montage music is called "This Loneliness." It is written and performed by F.F.C's father.

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