Question about Connie
If the point of Don Altobello having Connie take a bite of the poisoned cannoli if she didn't end up getting poisoned by it?
shareLike what I meant is if the point of having her take a bite was to prove that it wasn't poisonous, but she did take a bite why didn't she get poisoned? She didn't ingest enough? The poison was at the bottom of the tin?
shareShe just took a tiny nibble from the end, maybe the poison had been injected into the middle(s).
shareyeah, that's what i thought, but then like that don is quite stupid to be fooled so easily. You'd think he'd make her eat a whole piece of cannoli, and that every piece would be poisoned
shareAgreed. He seemed to swallow Vincent's story a bit easily too, so there is some consistency in his character there - somewhat overconfident.
shareLOL well I mean yes I suppose overconfident, but then why have her try some of the food first? Like he looked her in the eye and it was very obvious that he suspected it being poisoned, so why would her having taken a small bite reassured him enough to eat the whole tin? I guess I just expected her to die after the show too or something xD Thanks for the conversation all the sma.e
shareLet's face it, edwardliu168, and all due respect, Don Altobello, rest in peace, was -- slippin'. Ten years ago, could the Corleones have gotten to him? Well now, he's dead. He's dead, edwardliu168, and nothing can bring him back.
shareBeing a NY Italian myself, I can answer this.
You have to understand that there is a deeper cultural significance in the relationship between Connie and Don Altobello. The Don is Connie's religious godfather (the guy who stood with her when she was baptized). To us old school NY Italian's, your godparents are, in a way, equivalent to your biological parents. Choosing someone to stand godfather/mother was a very serious business up until recently. Don Altebello has trust in Connie and is overconfident in that relationship because, as with a real Italian godparent/child relationship, a godchild would NEVER knock-off their godparent, except without VERY good cause.
There is another angle here that needs to be pointed out. In old school mafia times, women were NEVER involved in the family business. Business was a men's only thing, women were the family caretakers not mafiosi. Being a very old school Sicilian mafiosi Don Altebello would never have suspected Connie of being a part of any conspiracy to kill him, women simply did not have those types of roles.
As an aside, the role Connie took in the 3rd Godfather was a real sticking point to my mother and other older members of my family. They all said the same thing, "in the real world, Connie would NEVER have injected herself into Michael's business like that."