Castellano saw his character Clemenza as a teacher, and that comes through in his scenes with Al Pacino Michael Corleone. Clemenza demonstrates how to use a gun which Michael uses to kill a corrupt cop in one scene and how to make pasta sauce in another.
Clemenza also does a bit of teaching in the scene in which Paulie Gatto John Martino gets whacked. Then Clemenza hops in the car with Paulie and Rocco, the trigger-man later in the scene.
Clemenza instructs him on how to leave the scene. Coppola gave credit to Castellano for coming up with the line. He walks away, unzips, and almost immediately three gunshots are fired. The camera is close to Clemenza, and he turns his head just enough to allow the viewer to see his slight reaction. When the act happens, there is maybe a hint of unexpected sadness that plays over his face, but the dominant look is one of resignation—resignation, we imagine, to the necessity of this act.
Meanwhile the camera is incredibly far away from Paulie and Rocco, far enough to keep the act impersonal, and far enough to show us the Statue of Liberty in the distant background. This kind of coldness and decisiveness is what has allowed the family to achieve the safety and the immigrant dream symbolized by that pillar of freedom, and only this cold slaying will allow them to keep it.
Leave it to be a message; let it show the family has not gone soft, not gotten sloppy or stupid, and let it show what the cost of betrayal is. In the world of The Godfather, your word is your bond. So Clemenza tells Rocco to reach into the bloody car for the special dessert. He is bringing back the cannoli, but also—thanks to the killing—a safer state for the family, one more secure and without the current threat of betrayal.
We can demonstrate why this scene is so important to the narrative, and we can illuminate how well executed it is; however, we may not have explained why everyone loves that quote. I think it has something to do with the economy of its language—how, in the space of six words total, we get two sentences that convey so much about the core of this remarkable film.
The quick rhythm, the parallel structure, and the decisiveness they register are appealing for reasons that go beyond mere efficiency. A film is written thrice — in pre-production through screenwriting, in production through shooting, and in. The scene begins with the camera positioned at a low angle, hovering just above ground level. Nice analysis. The Annotated Godfather While the history behind this little tidbit of Hollywood magic is indeed fascinating, the line itself stands out because, in tandem with the scenes around it, it condenses so much about the values on display in The Godfather : in the world of the Corleones, family comes before all else, protecting children is imperative, and business is business.
When are you going to be home? Look at my sweet husband! From fake cough to a hit planned In the middle of deliberations about the fate of the family, Paulie enters the room with a message, handkerchief in hand, coughing a very pitifully fake sounding cough. IN the book some of these issues get explained. On sitting back down, it was a bit absent minded of him. But he also believed that Sollozzo had a guy there and if he pulled the gun right out he would have been shot immediately.
He figured that if he sat down it would seem more natural. And he was right. In the book one of the other diners was a Sollozzo henchman and he got caught unawares. He basically puts his hands on the table to show he will take no action. IN the book he only shots Sollozzo once because he realized the first shot killed him. IIRC, Mike's thought was he could see the life leave Sollozzo's eyes like he was blowing out a candle.
QUOTE: 1 He was told to come out of the restroom and immediately shoot both McCluskey and Sollozzo in the head, two shots apiece. Although he was advised to shoot when he came out. Michael realized that there were other Sollozzo men in the restaurant and that Sollozzo himself was alert of him. I can't tell if you're joking or not, but As to why Clemenza hid it in the old fashioned toilet box, that was to make it easy for Michael to locate, but difficult for anyone else to see or find accidentally.
Actually, that is not what "cold as they come" meant in that scene at all. In fact, a "cold gun" meant that it would be impossible to trace the gun based on the identification numbers that were kept on guns, as they are even today. In short, a "cold gun" was one that so far removed from use in this case "hot" or "heat" can be used as an idiom for how much use it had in fighting.
Both serial numbers on weapons, as well as forensic testing on bullets, were things to be studied by police before even World War 2 - so having a weapon that had been used in multiple crimes something that the police would search for, especially after Michael killed a Police Captain would be especially damning for Michael to have, as it would make the gun easier to "trace". As for the temperature being a factor - that is not a an issue in this case. A radiator is used to move warm water through a building for heat - putting even a "cold gun" near a radiator would actually heat the metal of the gun, no matter how "cold" it was via temperature.
The pipes behind the toilet were not radiator pipes for warmth; they were the standard pipes used to collect water above the toilet and lower it down into the bowl below - as in an old fashioned toiler sometimes called a "water closet" - and were a good place to hide the gun as no random customer in the restaurant would have any reason to reach behind the water tank to a toilet and feel around by coincidence - so it would be very unlikely that anyone would discover the gun by accident.
So to clarify - in this case "cold" meant the relative distance the weapon had from use in various crimes that could link the weapon to other killings; and since "use in crimes" is often referred to as "heat" then a "cold gun" is so far removed from other crimes that it should not be connected to anything else.
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