Learn more. Why did Vito negotiate with Don Fanucci? Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 10 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Why did Vito bother negotiating? Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. It's not precisely negotiating Only two hundred dollars. I've been out of work. Let me owe you the money for a few weeks Fanucci doesn't take offence, indeed, he seems quite impressed with Vito.
The Godfather - Mario Puzo. Improve this answer. So, if I'm understanding this answer correctly, the negotiation was more a cultural norm than a step in the assassination. So is there a quick reason why Vito's friends are so against the negotiation? Or is that complicated enough to warrant its own question? Vito's friends are more afraid of Fanucci than Vito. Vito has pretty much worked out that Fanucci isn't as big a deal as everyone thinks he is I really recommend reading the original novel which covers all of this.
Fanucci was very quick to take the money, which means he doesn't have a strong backing. He collared Vito and threatened to turn them into the police unless they "wet his beak" or gave him a cut of their illegal profits, specifically by giving some of the dresses they had stolen to his three daughters. Vito saw a chance to eliminate Fanucci and take his place. Fanucci is killed by Vito Corleone. Fanucci was impressed with Vito's courage, and offered him work.
Vito interpreted his ability to low-ball Fanucci as a sign of the latter's weakness, thus confirming his suspicion of Fanucci's vulnerability. Vito followed Fanucci to his apartment down the street, and prepared to execute him. He grabbed a gun he'd hidden in a chimney, wrapped in a towel to muffle its report.
When Fanucci arrived, Vito shot him once in the chest. Before Fanucci could react, Vito shot him in the cheek, terribly wounding him. He then fired a killshot into Fanucci's mouth before taking back the money. The sound of the gunshots was drowned out by loud music being played and fireworks being launched during a nearby parade. The parade matched the event of the Fanucci hit.
The music sounds dramatic when Vito enters the apartment building but an uproarious happy sound, accompanied by fireworks, occurs after Fanucci is killed. After the hit, Vito retrieved the money Fanucci had taken earlier in the day and then destroyed the gun, dropping the pieces of the gun down pipes of the apartment building.
Of course, Clemenza and Tessio would have known immediately that it was Vito who killed Fanucci, and Vito would have been seen as a kind of "liberator" for the neighborhood, which would have engendered the loyalty of the local residents and shopkeepers.
Clemenza and Tessio recognized that Vito was clearly better suited to lead their organization than they were. He had the balls to cross a line they were unwilling to cross.
That sums it up for me and makes perfect sense. I was surprised to see additional footage that wasn't in the original GFs. They showed a scene where Fanucci was attacked by three teenagers and they managed to cut his throat. Vito was delivering groceries at the time and witnessed the attack. I had always wondered how Fanucci received his scar on his neck. It all makes sense now. Thank you very much! Stevicus-2, thanks so much for this post. It explains a lot.
As the other poster said, they included Fanucci throat cut scene in the Godfather Saga that has been showing on HBO recently, but not the father pleading for their lives.
I guess I had always figured that Fanucci was pissed and was going to get some muscle to teach Vito a lesson. But your explanation makes much more sense.
Fanucci was a BS artist. We had a birdbath at my house growing up. Sometimes When there was a bird drinking, my dad would say "he's wetting his beak like Don Fanucci. I like this post a lot myself, thank you. So in that cafe scene, suppose Fanucci had shown Vito he had a pair, and said "you have 24 hours to get me the rest of the money", or something like that. Would Vito had reconsidered his murdering of Fanucci?
Maybe, although even giving Vito 24 hours might have been too revealing of the weakness Vito already suspected of Fanucci. He certainly didn't give the theater owner 24 hours before pulling a knife and threatening his daughter. Vito saw that Fanucci can be tough with an old man and his daughter, but when a younger man alone comes to face him one on one, then he gets to see how tough he really is.
Fanucci didn't pull a knife or try to threaten Vito, maybe because he was afraid to. Maybe Vito saw fear in his eyes. Great write up. You also missed another little clue that I love.
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