It's Strictly Business - The Godfather (2/9) Movie CLIP (1972) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Michael (Al Pacino) devises a plan to kill Capt. McCluskey.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and Corleone is, in the parlance of organized crime, a "godfather" or "don," the head of a Mafia family. Michael, a free thinker who defied his father by enlisting in the Marines to fight in World War II, has returned a captain and a war hero. Having long ago rejected the family business, Michael shows up at the wedding of his sister, Connie (Talia Shire), with his non-Italian girlfriend, Kay (Diane Keaton), who learns for the first time about the family "business." A few months later at Christmas time, the don barely survives being shot by gunmen in the employ of a drug-trafficking rival whose request for aid from the Corleones' political connections was rejected. After saving his father from a second assassination attempt, Michael persuades his hotheaded eldest brother, Sonny (James Caan), and family advisors Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) and Sal Tessio (Abe Vigoda) that he should be the one to exact revenge on the men responsible. After murdering a corrupt police captain and the drug trafficker, Michael hides out in Sicily while a gang war erupts at home. Falling in love with a local girl, Michael marries her, but she is later slain by Corleone enemies in an attempt on Michael's life. Sonny is also butchered, having been betrayed by Connie's husband. As Michael returns home and convinces Kay to marry him, his father recovers and makes peace with his rivals, realizing that another powerful don was pulling the strings behind the narcotics endeavor that began the gang warfare. Once Michael has been groomed as the new don, he leads the family to a new era of prosperity, then launches a campaign of murderous revenge against those who once tried to wipe out the Corleones, consolidating his family's power and completing his own moral downfall. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning for Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay, The Godfather was followed by a pair of sequels.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1972)
Cast: James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino, Abe Vigoda
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Producers: Gray Frederickson, Albert S. Ruddy, Robert Evans
Screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo

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[kjellolofsson]

Tom didn't laugh.

He knew Michael meant it.

[nebilika]

Sometimes I forget that is Al Pacino. I think that Michael Corleone is a real person

[SuperKing]

It never occurred to be before as a WWII vet Michael has seen more violence, bloodshed and death then anyone else in that room

[bcanalogo]

In the book it is explained that the reason Sonny laughed was because he knew it was going to happen. He knew he would be like them and was waiting for him to drop the college boy act. Sonny was really proud of Michael. It's something Sonny would do. He would shoot them himself if he had the opportunity. The fact that his little brother was going to do it, made him happy.

[ZergSwarms]

Tom is the only one in this room who does not laugh at Michael.

[LinkMarioSamus]

Someone needs to go back in time and tell Al Pacino to never show up in an Adam Sandler movie.

[SOPARAk]

That cold look and tone of voice when Michael say's "It's not personal Sonny, it's strictly business" send chills down my spine every time.

[TheLastOfTheFinest]

1:03
I like how Tessio, Clemenza, and Sonny are laughing because they believe Michael's well-thought plan was probably the most absurd thing ever while Tom looks so dumbfounded. Such a brilliant scene.

[MrTrendyLev]

Michael becomes the godfather in this scene...

[whowiseedet]

I love how the movie opens with a long shot pulling back, to reveal a Godfather who refuses to kill for money; now in this scene, the camera slowly pushes back in to a rising Godfather whose first act in the family business is murder.

[vegasrenie]

I love how the camera tracks toward Michael as he gives the plan. This film = great cinematography.

[FeliciaShani]

This is another of my favorite Godfather scenes. Michael's metamorphosis is awesome to behold. In this scene, you can see the beginnings of the hardness and coldness that cost him so much over the course of this series.

[terrywilder]

... and they all learned at that moment the quiet man in the middle was the ruthless one.

[kevinzhang]

Mike: "..then I'll Kill 'em both."
*they all laugh*

Mike: Ah, nevermind, you guys figure it out your own way.
*End godfather trilogy*

[darthkahn]

Love Tom in this scene.
Like Vito he has finally come to understand and respect how Michael wants to live his life and sees him being dragged into a world he wasn't meant for, a world he never wanted. And as the scene ends he realises Michael has made his decision and there is nothing he can do to stop him. And so all that's left to do is sit back and let it happen.

[blazeboy]

I love this scene. You can detect Michael's innocence still present and then compare it to how deadly he became towards the time he confronted fredo

[RichieDb]

Jimmy Caan inventing the phrase "Badda bing!"

[terrywilder]

Notice how he said to insist that it is a public place where he would feel safe.
He already knew they were underestimating his resolve.

[cheaplaffsarefree]

The laughing from Clemenza, Sonny, and Tessio is what you immediately notice from this scene (and I'll admit, I could watch it for 12 hours straight just for the laughing), but what might get overshadowed is Tom's quick and quiet realization of what Michael is morphing into. In less than 20 seconds, he goes from "come on, Mikey" to "this just might work." Whatever you might have thought of Mikey the wayward college boy who resists his father's plans, he ain't that any more. He's gone from Ivy League war hero to popping a made guy and a police captain so fast you could get whiplash. Tom's the only one smart enough to see that and adjust right away.

[theseageek]

The way Michael was sitting in the chair as he laid out the plan to kill Sollozo and McClusky was just epic, already telling you who the new Don is gonna be.