The Godfather

 

Vito, Corleone resides at the top, father to four children, adopted father to Tom Hagen and Godfather to Johnny Fontane. One of these children will have to take over the family business. The eldest sunny is first in line Fredo, second in line and Michael third in line, but veto had other plans for Michael.
Michael is a former marine. He's not involved in the family business, having chosen, his own separate path for a family, as close as the quarterly ones. Michael's distance makes him something of an outsider. When we meet him he's an outsider, a war hero, intelligent, honest.
His father in visioned, Michael becoming a senator for the family to one day have real links . That was always vetoes aspiration, but life had other plans. The family business was centered mostly around olive oil, but in the 1940s organized crime was about to dip. Its toe into the drug business veto.
Clasping to his vision for the future rejects, the idea of getting involved in narcotics as they destroy lives, and it would make the business dirtier and turns society and the law against them. Vito rejects the offer, and the other families turn against them. And plots an assassination against Head of the Corleone family Vito.
The moment Michel hears about his father's shooting, he rushes back to his family. Perhaps thinking he's above all of this dirty, his father has always shared a different attitude. This one swift action, everything changes, this Michael is now an insider, a war hero, intelligent honest and loyal to his family as a former marine. Michael understands the language and strategies of war more than his brothers. He arrives at the hospital and discovers his father's guards.
Are absent, meaning there is only a matter of minutes before Rival Family comes to finish the job. Being right in the middle of the threat, it emotionally attaches Michael to his role in the family, more and more. As he realizes that without him, his family is at real risk of losing its power.
He had always taken the family business for granted, but once it's a matter of life and death for his loved ones, his training kicks in, and he begins to realize that there is a role for him here after spooken away, the potential killers, the police arrive, and the corrupt Cop. McCluskey punches, Michael, for intervening. This teaches Michael, that corruption can exist Within any power structure that, if the cops can wrongly leverage the law against their family Then what good was Michael, whatever he had envisioned for his future was perhaps built on false assumptions.
This triggers Michael, he's now an insider, but no longer a war hero now becoming an active soldier. He remains intelligent, but his honesty is now replaced with moral ambiguity, but he remains loyal to his family as an outsider coming in. Michael sees the way the game is played very differently to those that are on the field for his brothers, Sunny or Tom.
Michael offers to make a sacrifice for his family that only he can make, he will take out the man who organized his father's shooting and the crooked cop.
Sunny is first in line, but he's a bit of a hot in his head, where Michael is a marine and far more calculated than his brothers. So he's the best person to send in for this job.
This moment changes Michael's life and his family's trajectory in a way he could never imagine, and we see a man think through the potential consequences of his actions more than in his final seconds before the shooting.
His actions trigger a mob war. So he lies low in Sicily.
After he expresses his loyalty to his family through sacrifice, Those possibilities allow for him to focus his concentration on what he has left Back in New York.
Sunny is in charge of the family business, while Vito heals, and everyone is on edge. As Sunny is too easily manipulated by his emotions. And this weakness proves fatal and gets murdered. Michel hears this ,His family needs him, and he finds true meaning in his loyalty to them this catalyzes.
Vito calls for a truce in the mob war. He was once convinced that there was no price he would ever pay to let this change. But the pain of losing his own son was too much for him to bear.
So he allows narcotics to become a part of the business, showing that his loyalty lies with his families Safety Vito was too resistant to change and that's stubbornness nearly cost him his own life and did cause the loss of his son in a world where everything is just business. When Michael returns.
There's a purity to case perception of Michael. This harsh reality to what Vito had in vision with Michael giving him a some life-saving advice about how to spot the traitor in the family, and he then passes away, making Michael the head of the family, as well as the easiest target in the city.
Now, the five families can simply eliminate him and become four families. But just as veto would eventually cave on his own values to protect his family. When it came to drugs, Michael too would have to sacrifice in order to protect those that he is now responsible for, he is no longer the kid brother at the wedding, benefiting from the world.
His father had built for him. Now he is the safeguard for the entire family. Vetoes dream for the future dies with him. And now Michael is left in charge. So as he attends his nephew's baptism, he organizes the murder of the heads of all the other crime families in the city.
There's no mercy, as he has seen what these families were willing to take from him in order to preserve their business. So if that's the case, he has learned that having personal values is a weakness, not a strength. He eliminates every threat in his families way, including his sister Connie's husband Carlo for betraying.
Connie is devastated, but there can be no weak links in the family. Not, after what he just pulled, This solidifies in Michael's transformation. The leader of the family award general, dishonest, ruthless and loyal. Only to his family.
The audience is left to question. Did he choose this life, or did life simply make him an offer? He couldn't refuse