>>218299542
Yeah I was confused by that as well.

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Only zoomers and alphas see humanity in the mafia.
In reality, they live in the swamps like rats and die like them too

>>218299557
It's not that he's a machiavellian mastermind it's that he was so utterly ruthless. Vito was a weird outlier in his sense of honor and propriety (at least for a gangster thug) so no one expected goody-two-shoes Michael to be such a vile bastard.
The whole point is that Michael is embracing genuine Evil and is going to make his life, his family, and eventually multiple cities worse with his reign.
>>218299599
I wish this was true but I knew faggots in college that ended up getting themselves used as mules or debt pigs because they didn't believe myself and other guidos about how fucking shit the Mafia and Camorra are.
You could always tell when they got hooked because they started spouting the same bullshit propaganda the Mob always spouts about 'tradition' and 'victimless crimes' and started dressing either like extras from a 1920s movie or like track suit thugs.
In my experience the most vulnerable where pampered WASP types with zero IRL experience and Blacks / Latins who were convinced they would get to be the 'token minority' instead of being used as a fall guy or piggy bank.

>>218299542
bookfag here. His master plan was shooting everyone and no getting blamed for it. No one thought Michael was in charge, since he was a civilian with zero experience in the mafia. As far as everyone knew, it was Tessio the one in charge of the Corleone family, and since he died around the same time, everyone assumed he was also on the hit list. Meanwhile Michael arranged a secret agreement with some underbosses, by the time everyone realized what just happened, half of the Barzini's people changed sides to the Corleones

>>218299542
Let's be honest, an overwhelming slice of problems in the world would be solved if I was allowed to shoot everyone I don't like.

>>218299542

Mike had to pretend his family was broken and on the ropes. Once the other families dropped their guard and were exposed themselves, he had them all buttoned up.

>>218300164
All with a viscuousness no one expected from a civilian loser, to this anon's >>218300105 point.
The other families got uppity and complacent and they paid the price.

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>>218299542
If it's retarded but it works, it's not retarded.

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>>218300119
“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.”
― Josef Stalin

i liked Vitos half better ngl

>>218299542
I mean, if you can get close enough to your enemies to kill them and not get killed or captured yourself then you've done something pretty clever/right. People in that life look over their shoulder non stop and have bodyguards and all that.

>>218300621
"When there's two person, there's two problem"

-Anonymous, 2026.

>>218299542
That is exactly Machiavellian if you actually read The Prince

>>218300105
>Based book reader sets everyone straight
Welp, I guess I don't have to read this thread

>>218300808
"If you kill your enemies you win"
- Picollo Macarovelli

>>218299542
Why didn't he just rape his enemies?

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>Sollozzo was sitting directly facing the door of the toilet, his dark eyes blazing with alertness. Michael gave a smile. “Now I can talk,” he said with a sigh of relief. Captain McCluskey was eating the plate of veal and spaghetti that had arrived. The man on the far wall had been stiff with attention, now he too relaxed visibly.
>Michael sat down again. He remembered Clemenza had told him not to do this, to come out of the toilet and blaze away. But either out of some warning instinct or sheer funk he had not done so. He had felt that if he had made one swift move he would have been cut down. Now he felt safe and he must have been scared because he was glad he was no longer standing on his legs. They had gone weak with trembling.
>Sollozzo was leaning toward him. Michael, his belly covered by the table, unbuttoned his jacket and listened intently. He could not understand a word the man was saying. It was literally gibberish to him. His mind was so filled with pounding blood that no word registered. Underneath the table his right hand moved to the gun tucked into his waistband and he drew it free. At that moment the waiter came to takeheir order and Sollozzo turned his head to speak to the waiter. Michael thrust the table away from him with his left hand and his right hand shoved the gun almost against Sollozzo’s head. The man’s coordination was so acute that he had already begun to fling himself away at Michael’s motion. But Michael, younger, his reflexes sharper, pulled the trigger. The bullet caught Sollozzo squarely between his eye and his ear and when it exited on the other side blasted out a huge gout of blood and skull fragments onto the petrified waiter’s jacket. Instinctively Michael knew that one bullet was enough. Sollozzo had turned his head in that last moment and he had seen the light of life die in the man’s eyes as clearly as a candle goes out.
They adapted this so well, damn.

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Lucy Mancini has a big pussy

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>>218301872
Was this scene as bad in the book?

>>218300164
But what’s the difference between appearing weak and actually being weak? They DID give up territory to other families, they DID lose respect and revenue. How did Michael know they wouldn’t snowball

>>218299542
but that's usually all it takes.