Re: A question about the film "The Godfather"
Posted by:
The Watcher
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Date: May 12, 2015 08:20AM
Khartoum Wrote:
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> Ok. I get that. But, no one understood the
> traditions of the business like Don Vito. So, why
> would he go through all the trouble of bringing in
> this stranger off the street as a boy (he was
> Sonny's friend at school), adopt him, pay for his
> education, and install him as consigliere...with
> the knowledge that someday someone would challenge
> Hagen's authority to hold the position?
I think that you're assigning too much prescience to Don Vito. Taking in and adopting Tom Hagen was an act of charity by the Corleone family. As he grew, Vito no doubt liked what he saw in Tom. I think that Vito thought more highly of Tom than he did of Sonny, and much, much more highly than than Frado. With regard to his embrace of Tom as his fourth son, I doubt that Don Vito was much influenced by what he thought might happen after his death.