Virgil Sollozzo

John Landis, that's right.

Yeah, and she also was dating Salazzo from The Godfather, and he was my babysitter.

So living in those days, even though they were older, I mean, it's so fascinating.

Unfortunately, all those people are all gone now, but I think that, I don't know, there's just something so wonderfully... wonderful about I'm in my I'm in my era of I like movies up until like the 70s but in the 20s and 30s and 40s it was such a wonderful time and do you have a favorite actor of the general of the 30s or 20s or

But w- the legitimacy issue was bridged by making Pharaoh into God, because it's a much more efficient way of maintaining control without or minimizing state violence, 'cause state violence is very expensive.

As Sollozzo said, "Blood is expensive." Now, when I heard that in the movie, I thought that line was out of place, and now I'm sure it is.

It's such a cool line.

I'm saying this to my friend, Family Dee in Tennessee.

But for The Godfather, it went way past the 30-minute mark.

That inciting incident in The Godfather is the scene where Don Corleone tells Sollozzo that he doesn't want to help him with his drug business that he's bringing to the city.

Everything that happens from the rest of the story onward stems from the Don's decision to turn down Sollozzo.

So because that is the spark from which the rest of the plot stems, that's why it's called the inciting incident.

Another

You know, but probably the most famous midpoint in film is "The Godfather" one, where Michael, the law-abiding soldier, exactly halfway through in a dark cave, and he's terrified.

You can see in that restaurant the scene where he shoots Sollozzo and McCluskey, and everything is that terror of, "My God, if I do this, I won't be the same person anymore.

Should I do this?" That prevarication, that sense of doubt, and then he does it, and because it's the scariest thing, that gives you the second half stakes, you know-

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