The Godfather教父 1972 Movie Script

HAGEN:

Maybe Mike shouldn't get mixed up in this so directly. You know the old man doesn't want that.

SONNY:

OK forget it, just stay on the phone.

MICHAEL is embarrassed to be so protected. He dials Luca Brasi's number once again. The ring repeats, but no one answers.

TESSIO comes back, carrying Luca Brasi's bullet-proof vest in his hand. He unwraps it; there is a large fish wrapped inside.

CLEMENZA:

A Sicilian message:

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.

INT. NITE:

NIGHTCLUB (WINTER 1945) LUCA sits at the Bar of the Tattaglia Nightclub, as we remember him. BRUNO TATTAGLIA had just patted his hand.

LUCA looks up at him.

Then SOLLOZZO pats the other hand, almost affectionately.

LUCA is just about to twist his hands away, when they both clamp down as hard as they can. Suddenly, a garrote is thrown around his neck, and pulled violently tight. His face begins to turn to purple blotches, and then totally purple, right before our eyes; his tongue hangs out, in a far more extreme way than a normal tongue could. His eyes bulge.

ONE of the MEN looks down at him in disgust as LUCA's strength leaves him.

BRUNO:

(making an ugly face) Oh Christ...all over the floor.

SOLLOZZO lets LUCA's hand go with a victorious smile on his face.

LUCA falls to the floor.

SOLLOZZO:

The Godfather is next.

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FADE IN:

EXT DAY:

CLEMENZA'S HOUSE (WINTER 1945) Morning in a simple Brooklyn suburb. There are rows of pleasant houses; driveway after driveway, down the block. A dark, somber young man of thirty-one or two walks with a noticeable limp down the sidewalk, and rings the bell. This is ROCCO LAMPONE. The woman of the house, MRS. CLEMENZA, talks to him through the screen door, and then points to the side of the house. ROCCO moves to the garage, which is specially heated, and in which CLEMENZA is busy at work washing a shiny brand new Lincoln. LAMPONE admires the car.

LAMPONE:

Nice.

CLEMENZA:

Crazy Detroit delivered it with a wooden bumper. They're going to send me the chrome bumpers in a couple months. I waited two years for this car to come with wooden bumpers!

He scrubs and polishes with great affection.

CLEMENZA:

Today you make your bones on Paulie.

You understand everything?

LAMPONE:

Sure.

As he scrubs around the glove compartment, he opens it, unwraps a gun and gives it to LAMPONE.