The Godfather教父 1972 Movie Script

TWO OFFICE WORKERS are carrying an enormous floral display with the word "THANK YOU" spelled out in flowers.

DON CORLEONE:

What is this nonsense?

HAGEN:

It's from Johnny. It was announced this morning. He's going to play the lead in the new Woltz Brothers film.

INT DAY:

WOLTZ'S BEDROOM (SUMMER 1945) It is large, dominated by a huge bed, in which a man, presumably WOLTZ, is sleeping. Soft light bathes the room from the large windows. We move closer to him until we see his face, and recognize JACK WOLTZ. He turns uncomfortably; mutters, feels something strange in his bedsheets. Something wet.

He wakens, feels the sheets with displeasure; they are wet.

He looks at his hand; the wetness is blood. He is frightened, pulls aside the covers, and sees fresh blood on his sheets and pajamas. He grunts, pulls the puddle of blood in his bed. He feels his own body frantically, moving, down, following the blood, until he is face to face with the great severed head of Khartoum lying at the foot of his bed. Just blood from the hacked neck. White reedy tendons show. He struggles up to his elbows in the puddle of blood to see more clearly. Froth covers the muzzle, and the enormous eyes of the animal are yellowed and covered with blood.

WOLTZ tries to scream; but cannot. No sound comes out.

Then, finally and suddenly an ear-splitting scream of pure terror escapes from WOLTZ, who is rocking on his hands and knees in an uncontrolled fit, blood all over him.

INT DAY:

OLIVE OIL OFFICES (SUMMER 1945) CLOSE VIEW on the GODFATHER. Nodding.

DON CORLEONE:

Send Johnny my congratulations.

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FADE IN:

EXT DAY:

FIFTH AVENUE (WINTER 1945) Fifth Avenue in the snow. Christmas week. People are bundled up with rosy faces, rushing to buy presents.

KAY and MICHAEL exit a Fifth Avenue department store, carrying a stack of gaily wrapped gifts, arm in arm.

KAY:

We have something for your mother, for Sonny, we have the tie for Fredo and Tom Hagen gets the Reynolds pen...

MICHAEL:

And what do you want for Christmas?

KAY:

Just you.

They kiss.

INT DAY:

HOTEL ROOM (WINTER 1945) CLOSE ON a wooden radio, playing quiet Music. THE VIEW PANS AROUND the dark hotel room, curtained against the daylight.

MICHAEL (O.S.) We'll have a quiet, civil ceremony at the City Hall, no big fuss, no family, just a couple of friends as witnesses.

The two are in each other's arms in a mess of bedsheets on the two single beds that they have pushed together.

KAY:

What will your father say?

MICHAEL:

As long as I tell him beforehand he won't object. He'll be hurt, but he won't object.

KAY:

What time do they expect us?

MICHAEL:

For dinner. Unless I call and tell them we're still in New Hampshire.