22-01-2010, 01:04 AM
The fictive truth is as close to truth as we're likely to get.
The Corleone Family is modeled, at a relatively superficial level, on ... wait for it ... the Kennedy family.
Draw the analogies ... The Don is Joe Kennedy, Sr.; Sonny is Jack; Michael is Bobby; Fredo is Teddy.
But this holds only to a limited degree.
Michael's attraction to "Cardinal Lamberto" -- Coppola's take on John Paul I -- is, I'd suggest, a manifestation of his sub-conscious identification of a good soul. The soul Michael lost.
Jan is absolutely on-target: P2 and the Masons are both facilitators and false sponsors. Of a lot of things.
The ancient assassin -- whose son, the progeny of an unholy mating, bears the mental equivalent of a cloven hoof and mimics a donkey -- wears the black robe and Roman collar. He is a demon who has gone legit. At least for operational purposes.
Is not Satan's strategy to go legit?
It is all opera -- all drama. The plot to murder JFK is a plot in the artistic sense: A story, expressed in this case in three acts, rich in character and subtext. It succeeds to this day in direct proportion to its adherence to the story form that is as old as Homer -- no, make that even older.
For some American lives, there are no first acts.
The Corleone Family is modeled, at a relatively superficial level, on ... wait for it ... the Kennedy family.
Draw the analogies ... The Don is Joe Kennedy, Sr.; Sonny is Jack; Michael is Bobby; Fredo is Teddy.
But this holds only to a limited degree.
Michael's attraction to "Cardinal Lamberto" -- Coppola's take on John Paul I -- is, I'd suggest, a manifestation of his sub-conscious identification of a good soul. The soul Michael lost.
Jan is absolutely on-target: P2 and the Masons are both facilitators and false sponsors. Of a lot of things.
The ancient assassin -- whose son, the progeny of an unholy mating, bears the mental equivalent of a cloven hoof and mimics a donkey -- wears the black robe and Roman collar. He is a demon who has gone legit. At least for operational purposes.
Is not Satan's strategy to go legit?
It is all opera -- all drama. The plot to murder JFK is a plot in the artistic sense: A story, expressed in this case in three acts, rich in character and subtext. It succeeds to this day in direct proportion to its adherence to the story form that is as old as Homer -- no, make that even older.
For some American lives, there are no first acts.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene