The Godfather ATL

[VirginiaHistoryTeacher]

Not exactly sure which slot this should be filed under, so I picked post 1900 because it was the easiest.

Watched the first two Godfather movies over the weekend and had some thoughts about it. It makes me want to read the book again as well. SPOILER ALERTS if you haven't watched either one.

My main big question is this: What if Apollonia had not been killed in the car bomb in Sicily and made it back to the United States as Michael's wife? This represented a real turning point in Michael's psyche and made everything extremely personal.

 

[varyar]

Not exactly sure which slot this should be filed under, so I picked post 1900 because it was the easiest.

Watched the first two Godfather movies over the weekend and had some thoughts about it. It makes me want to read the book again as well. SPOILER ALERTS if you haven't watched either one.

My main big question is this: What if Apollonia had not been killed in the car bomb in Sicily and made it back to the United States as Michael's wife? This represented a real turning point in Michael's psyche and made everything extremely personal.

If you posited "How would the movie have gone if Apollonia hadn't died?", the thread belongs in post-1900, but "WI Apollonia doesn't die?" goes in ASB.

Anyway, as for your query, hm. That's a very good question. I imagine the near future would play out much the same - the attempt is still made, so Don Corleone pushes hard for peace, and thus we get Michael and Apollonia back in America as you have them.

Apollonia's character is pretty thin, since we don't see her in more than a couple scenes, but I'm picturing her as a lot more like Mama Corleone 2.0 than Kay ever could have been. She grew up in Sicily with the Mafia as a daily fact of life, so she'll just go along.

I think it's in the Godfather pt 2 era that things will really diverge. Will Michael even make the move to Las Vegas? How much of that was a vestige of his "In five years, the Corleone familiy will be completely legitimate" promise to Kay? He won't have her as the steadily shrinking angel on his shoulder here. Without the move to Vegas, does he back out of the Cuba deal with Roth?

 

[VirginiaHistoryTeacher]

If you posited "How would the movie have gone if Apollonia hadn't died?", the thread belongs in post-1900, but "WI Apollonia doesn't die?" goes in ASB.

Anyway, as for your query, hm. That's a very good question. I imagine the near future would play out much the same - the attempt is still made, so Don Corleone pushes hard for peace, and thus we get Michael and Apollonia back in America as you have them.

Apollonia's character is pretty thin, since we don't see her in more than a couple scenes, but I'm picturing her as a lot more like Mama Corleone 2.0 than Kay ever could have been. She grew up in Sicily with the Mafia as a daily fact of life, so she'll just go along.

I think it's in the Godfather pt 2 era that things will really diverge. Will Michael even make the move to Las Vegas? How much of that was a vestige of his "In five years, the Corleone familiy will be completely legitimate" promise to Kay? He won't have her as the steadily shrinking angel on his shoulder here. Without the move to Vegas, does he back out of the Cuba deal with Roth?

I wasn't sure where to stick my thread idea because it's both completely fictional yet at the same time it's all post-1900.

I think you're right, she's going to be just like Vito's wife. She's "homegrown" and part of the "Moustache Pete" mentality, just like Vito, Clemenza, and Pentangeli were. I feel like Roth would still rear his ugly head just because of the background he had with Vito. The family would likely continue to prosper even without needing to resort to passing the mantle onto Sonny's bastard in the third movie. Apollonia DEFINITELY wouldn't have even THOUGHT of getting an abortion, thus the direct lineage passes onto a different son of Michael's.