We Are All Reasonable Men Here (from the original script) During a meeting of the heads of the Five Families and associates from the greater New York area in a downtown city boardroom, godfather Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) chaired as the head of the Sixth Family. He refused to allow drug trafficking, but he also wanted to stop the endless months of slaughter. He was reluctantly willing to compromise and allow controlled narcotics operations: ...I believe this drug business is gonna destroy us in the years to come. I mean, its not like gambling or liquor, or even women, which is something that most people want nowadays and is forbidden to them by the pezzonovante of the church. Even the police departments that have helped us in the past with gambling and other things are gonna refuse to help us when it comes to narcotics. And I believed that then - and I believe that now...I hoped that we could come here and reason together. And as a reasonable man, Im willing to do whatevers necessary to find a peaceful solution to these problems... You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance gonna bring your son back to you? Or my boy to me? I forego the vengeance of my son. But I have selfish reasons. Corleone also announced his intention to make arrangements to bring his youngest son Michael (Al Pacino) back safely, but warned: My youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. All right. And I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely, cleared of all these false charges. But Im a superstitious man. And if some unlucky accident should befall him - if he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if hes struck by a bolt of lightning - then Im going to blame some of the people in this room. And that I do not forgive. But that aside, let me say that I swear on the souls of my grandchildren that I will not be the one to break the peace that weve made here today.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 22:23:47 +0000
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