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Michael Corleone murdered his own brother, alienated his adoptive brother, had his father's closest friends killed, his wife has left him, and his children are nowhere to be seen. While the American Dream has brought the Corleones to the halls of power, made them wealthy and feared, they're all ultimately alone in it. The transition from outsiders to insiders, from Sicilians to Americans, is complete. The scene fades to show an aged Michael, sitting silently once again and recalling a brief memory of he and his father leaving Sicily behind. That decision to become American, to join in the American dream, alienated him them. Just prior to this, Sonny remarks that 'your country ain't your blood.' As the family steps away to greet the unseen Vito Corleone, Michael sits silently at the table and smokes. Michael then calmly tells his brothers that he's enlisted in the Marines, and that he wants to serve his country. The day after Pearl Harbour and Vito Corleone's birthday, we see the family together again - though we now know that Michael has either frozen them out, or had some of them killed. This desire to be considered not as a Sicilian, but as an American, plays into the flashback scene.

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The Final Scene: 'Se7en' Movie News 2 years ago In the space of one generation, the drive for vengeance has gone from hot-blooded ferocity to a box-ticking exercise. Whereas the events that led to Vito Corleone were riven with emotion and passion, the events that bookend the movie are icy, distant and closed-off. Frankie Pentangeli, driven to suicide by Tom Hagen's quiet insistence, and then, at last, Michael own's brother Fredo is shot in the back of the head on a fishing boat - all while Michael watches impassively from the shore.Д¬ompared against each other, they're similar scenes of death and murder, but the difference in how they're carried out is striking.

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The closing moments shows Hyman Roth shot dead in an eerily similar fashion to Jack Ruby murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, in full view of TV cameras. The violence is heightened with drama and intensity, yet there is an equal amount of violence in the final moments, but it's done with cold and clinical precision. Vito Andolini's brother dies in a hail of gunfire during his father's funeral, Vito's mother begs for his only son's life to the local mafioso - only to turn in an instant and threaten to slit his throat, driving Vito's escape to America. The opening scene is shot and staged like grand opera, with outsized performances from all concerned. Yet, when we look at the final moments of the movie, it ends in an equally violent fashion, but it's done in such a markedly different way. The opening moments of 'The Godfather, Part II' see the child Vito Andolini arrive in America after the merciless death of his own mother at the hands of a local mafioso.

Throughout 'The Godfather' and 'The Godfather, Part II', the movie charts and explores the rise of American dynasty and mythmaking. With Francis Ford Coppola announcing a new cut of 'The Godfather, Part III' earlier this week, we're looking at the closing moments of 'The Godfather, Part II'. The Final Scene looks at the last few minutes of some of the most well-known movies of the past fifty years.

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