His time in Italy is so special. It comes at the midpoint of an amazing film that’s been rushing through to this point. And the calm and serenity of Sicily gives a much needed break...we’re all on vacation here, all hiding out with Michael. Such a masterpiece. Can never be topped
Except it's an illusion, as Sicily was the origin of the Corleone story, the place where Michael was doomed before he was even born. I was always struck by the beauty of the garden where Vito's mother was killed by Don Ciccio's men, and the ancient town and church where Ciccio went looking for him, exhortating the villagers to give him up. So much evil in a beautiful setting.
@@texasred2702 oh my goodness, just had a conversation about this very topic with a friend yesterday and she said the EXACT thing you just said: the problem is that “it’s the place where it all started” for the family. Interesting. Appreciate your point. Such beauty and such tragedy at the same time.
Perfect description of such a perfect yet sad unravelling of events. I believe it was the third film where he remembers and tells Anthony about her. You could see he chocked at the thought of her...
"I hear people pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband" Well played Michael well played
I always liked the way Michael took ownership and responsibility for the father getting offended even though he wasnt the one who made the comments, a real class act
The Colonel, Me too. I also liked how Michael sat there calmly when his body guards were ready to run away. This is when you see the transformation happen right before your eyes. He is no longer that war hero at the start of the movie. He is becoming a boss, giving orders to his body guards, "Tell him to come here. Call him." Great scene, and I love the music.
It's because she WORTH IT. How come? Because she is a high value woman, meaning she satisfies these conditions: - virgin. - 19 to 23 years old. - delicate, feminine & cute. - modest, respectful & obedient. - slim & fit. - lives in her father's home. - respects her parents & family. - free of debts. - no tattoos, nor botox, nor cosmetic surgeries, nor eagle claws. Sadly current western women are ALL the opposite of a high value woman...
5:04 very small detail no one would ever notice but that tiny detail is so powerful it tells a whole story. The perfection on this scene is that Appolonia looks at her mother /supervisor is she has the permission to open the gift. It tells the story that Appolonia is either respecting traditions or she honestly doesn't know how to act when a man approaches her. Which in turn tells that women had dignity at the time and self-respect and respected the family law and traditions. Marvelous scene
Another small detail, when Michael says “instead of gaining a husband” and the bodyguard/translator looks like him without saying anything like “are you sure” and Michael gives him the ok also him without speaking. The small details...
Apollonia stumbling on the dirt road with all the old ladies of the family trailing behind is a moment from the book. Her mother is right there and she KNOWS Apollonia has been walking those same roads since she learned to stand upright and is sure as a mountsin goat even in heels. But Apollonia stumbling gives an easy excuse for Michael to touch her in order to help even in front of Family. Her mother is quite proud of her daughter knowing how to play the rules and the Game of Courtship.
Excellent, respect is paramount, when you embrace family values such as these you cannot go wrong. Truly a masterpiece. This scene lets us know why Michael became Don Corleone
When she touches the necklace he gave her during the meal where everyone’s talking....such a subtle but well-placed moment and they don’t even say a word to each other. You have all these fantastical moments in film these days that are meant to show romance and affection and then there’s certain scenes like these that are so easily poignant without being too much. So great.
Tradition has wisdom, familiarity and authenticity inherent to it. This age of modernity where every tradition & culture is thrown out is a failure for society.
Yaaaaa today women are “empowered” there’s no decent honourable chaste woman deserving of this level of honour and respect. Especially when most are fornicating like barn animals with so called “fun guys” by age to the tune of 50 by age 23. Liberated strongly independent women always choose the route of decay and disgrace when giving the freedom to choose. It’s men who held on to dignity morality and honour. Take that away in name of “toxic masculinity” you get höe culture that’s celebrated….
@@jkpnnd5652 Given Sicily was occupied by Greeks originally, Sicilians have Greek DNA, There's still 100,00 Greeks living there. But then you had an Arab invasion and a North African invasion. That place is a smorgasbord now
@@sunworship5080 throughout the centuries Sicily was colonized by greeks, arabs, north africans, germans (ostroghot, vandals), normans, catalans, spaniards...Palermo was founded by the Phoenicians in 734 BC (following the Gregorian calendar), Syracuse by the Greeks, the same year. So it is clear that the place has ALWAYS, been a "smorgasbord". This is not something recent, and it wasn't simply determined by the invasions of the populations of North African origins. The characteristics of the atavian Sicilian populations (the "original" Sicilians, so to speak) were gradually oblitarated by the various colonizations...starting with the greek ones.
I always thought that Apollonia was the perfect wife for Michael, traditional, obedient, non combative/not argumentative when it came to matters of business, in fact much like his own mother. This is the wife he needed but not the one he ultimately got. When she was killed, I felt something sink in me. Great storytelling.
The authenticity in this story line is staggering. Anyone who is familiar with Southern Italian customs and traditions of this time period will know what I'm talking about. Everything from the physical and facial expressions, to the way Michael interacts with her family, and ultimately the wedding scene, are so incredibly accurate. The way Apollonia looks at her mother for approval before opening the gift, to the ladies following behind Michael and Apollonia when they go for a walk. Absolute perfection.
The most flattering complement I ever received in my life was from my grandmother who told me I looked like Apollonia. Heh, I could only dream of being this beautiful.
Difficile de faire un plus beau compliment. C'est que vous devez être tout aussi belle qu'apollonia. ❤ J'en étais amoureux longtemps. J'ai failli appeler ma fille ainsi. 🇮🇹
Make sure she's happy. A house is a building & a home is what you make it. There's all kinds of people that will make your life miserable outside of your home... don't do that to the people you care about & love. A home is where you can tell your spouse that you need a hug because the whole world turned upside down on you. It's where you have the rules that say that you can have someone leave because you don't appreciate them behaving like that in your home. I have done that and had grown adult's look at me//like are you serious?/Yes. It takes 2 or more people to argue. My children were kidnapped and I wear scar's on the back of my head from when I nearly lost my life shortly after the kidnapping of the children and the theft of my identity at that time. I Love You Mom were the last 4 words I heard My children say before they came up missing without a trace. My husband courted me & still does/he buys me flowers for no reason, Etc. Love has no borders. Capish?(sp)?
Michael Corleone, “Tell him to come here.” Then he sits, while the father stands, and tells the father his intentions with his daughter. With all due respect, while being totally in charge. Love this scene!
- and then his bodyguard slings that shotgun over his shoulder before he goes in to talk to the father - because he knew full well it might be a life-or-death encounter! That's cinematic story-telling right there - "show, don't tell!"
@@thx473 he is the mafia boss and the way he talk to the girl's father can be considered been humble from mafia standards. Watch the movie if you want to know how the mafia treat others.
@@thx473 things could have been worse, he could have ordered his bodyguards to grap a hold of the girl and take her along with them...which will be the actual mafia style
I love the way she looks away when she walks downstairs, as if she does not look at him. It is very natural and real. We've all done it sometime in our lives. She is beautiful, she is in love.
We can't say she is in a love yet, she doesn't know him yet. She just knows he has the raving hots for her and has set up the elaborate meeting so he is a Big Kahuna. It shows she is modest and behaving appropriately. Its a traditional courtship. By not getting physical and having chaperones she can say no if she doesn't chose to marry him.
You mad bro? Everyone has different tastes- I think she's kinda overweight therefore unattractive- you think she's a goddess- that's fine by me. You're a chubby chaser, and I like skinny chicks.
Steven Uh, boy? Chubby? Yes, indeed I like chubby girls too, but you really have to go to examine your eyes. She's not even chubby, I don't know what kind of Planet Gay you're living on. Like I said before: It's OK to be gay, we're living in the 21st century, so you don't have to live in a closet anymore.
Haha you're repeating yourself- nothing else to say? She's clearly overweight- look at her cheeks for fuck's sake! I like girls with very slim figures- you can't say that Apollonia is slim.
I recently returned form a holiday to Sicily and was lucky enough to visit the bar Vitelli and the church where they shot theses scenes! A masterpiece of a movie.
@@nicotino2013 c'était incroyable, j'ai adoré la Sicile, les gens, la nourriture, la culture. fantastique! j'aime aussi visiter la France et profiter des choses sensées là-bas.
It is so touching when they glance at each other at the table and she touches the neckless in gratitude and then they both smile at each other......there is nothing like young and innocent love......
Apollonia would have been to Michael what Carmella was to Vito. She would have understood his life. She would have understood that his business is just business. She would have seen what Michael did was ultimately for his family, and if she had lived he would not have become the ruthless man he became. He would have been a Don like his father.
Blackwomantruth yes, they are. I said Appollonia would not have seen it that way, however. She came from the same culture as Michael's parents. She would have seen what he did in a completely different light than Kay. They just had drastically different cultural upbringings, and drastically different standards of morality. I never said what they did was right -- I merely described how she would have seen it.
in the book, Kay accept her fate and deal with Micheal's business. Actually the last scene of book finishing with Kay praying in Catholic church for micheal just like Carmella is doing for Vito.
This really showed that Michael was not only level headed (unlike Sonny), but also capable of adapting and being a real "people person" (again, unlike Sonny). When Appolonia's father got mad, he didn't run or get violent (Sonny would got violent!), instead he showed the father RESPECT!
@@lluviaacida1742 Carlo beat their sister *because* they knew Sonny would fly into a rage and run off from the family home which was practically a fortress. Had Sonny instead sent out a crew to collect both his sister and Carlo and brought them too him he would still have gotten his sister to safety and could even have taken his sweet time working Carlo over with a baseball bat in the yard. But instead his explosive temper got him killed.
@@HeadingForTomorrow yeah Carlo was a gold digger who got friendly with Sonny for monetary reasons, then he saw a chance to be a bigshot by marrying into the Corleones, when the family didnt trust him enough to make him a Capo or something he turned into a bitter asshole who beat Connie. Sonny then kicked his ass for it. And somewhere someone hatched the idea of using that rage, that half the city got to see, against Sonny.
@@larsuppling981 Right. Sonny had a couple faults, his temper, not recognizing it, and not wanting to delegate - gotta do that in any business to succeed. He raced off without his bodyguards because he just HAD to get there and do it himself.
@@doncallangher6177 Too much manly brawn, too little brain. He wasnt an idiot, far from it, but when his temper got going he turned into a dumbass. It was a shame what happened to him.
I agree entirely with your comment. Apollonia & Vito & Mama Corleone would have both been very happy for them. I was in Sicily on both of my Mediterranean cruises on my first ship in the Navy, I enjoyed the scenery there and in Taormina was where I ate the best pizza in my life. I was there in both late 1972 and in the summer of 1973. It was one of the friendliest places in all of Southern Europe.
Absolutely, a young very beautiful shy catholic woman, a virgin, from a respectable family, very well brought up according to Sicily traditions of those times. And charming and healthy, a prospective excellent mother and daughter-in- law.
@Tyrone Koumoundouros Holy shit, is there ANY section of the internet where one can go without running into anti-Muslim propaganda. I can't even watch a damn movie.
Mark Jones I think she would. Anyway, in Godfather III she was in a moment very close to Michael although she was just married with another man. The ghost of infidelity was running near.
I completely disagree that Apollonia was Michael's true love. Kay was a WASP, and Apollonia was Italian. Michael was always trying to get approval in the WASP world that runs the country. Kay provided an entrance for Michael to be in the WASP world.
I first saw this movie when I was a kid. At the time I didn't think she was that pretty, just plain. However, fast-forward forty years and watching it again today in my late 40's, I realize that this girl was a classic beauty! Absolutely no makeup, perfect facial features and beautiful eyes.
In this scene you get a glimpse of what Michael will become in the not too distant future: cool, calculating, shrewd man in charge.. determined to get what he wants. In this case, the lovely, virginal Appolonia. "But then she would lose a father..instead of gaining a husband." I love that line!!
Savoca - was there last week and had a drink at bar Vitelli and at the church. Looks almost the same as >50 years ago and you still feel the magic of the Godfather there.....
Damn. You're right about that. I never noticed it before. He barley smiled through out the rest of the movie, even with Kay. The only time I can think of was the garden scene with Don Corleone.
bitch please, Michael was already dark, knowingly bringing Apollonia into this world. Causing her to get killed. Threatening to kill her father if he doesn't get what he wanted. Ali Jaffery, well considering the politicians were in the Don's pockets, they were just doing what Don Corleone ordered. NOW whose the idiot? The "Godfather" logo used puppet strings for a reason.
Same tbh. It sounds basic but everything is complicated these days. I wish we had kept some old-fashioned values while still being modern in many ways.
her mum takes a great part , understated acting, just so real when he gives her the gift, mum just nods her head to say accept totally real and mesmerising.
Apollonia would have been the perfect wife for Michael. First of all, she understood the role of an Italian/siciliano wife at the time. And she would have never asked him about his business like Kate did.
Except that "it's business" bullshit was a myth within the movie. Michael orders hits based on anger "you want to hit everyone Mike?" "Just MY enemies" it was personal to him. As for Kay, Michael crawled back to her. Supposedly he didn't need Kay, yet there he is crawling back to her after Apollonia is killed (he caused her to be killed, make no mistake).
@@martheresa7550 I know, seductively removing, fake eye lashes, chicken fillets and bumps extensions. "This isn't the girl I was talking to last night" That's if she's a girl!!!
I read the original book on what the movie was based on. And I remember that moment when Michael and Apollonia were taking a walk, she stumbled on purpose to check on Michael. And her mom noticed and smiled by herself because Apollonia grew up running up and down on that hill and she was familiar with every inch of that place. It's proving again that movie never gives you that beautiful nuances of the written story and never shows you what it's hidden deeply inside of it...
@@sequorroxx Agreed. IMO the modern youth culture around Tinder, etc shows how sleazy and squalid we in the West have become! Many centuries of tradition and culture have just been tossed aside within the space of about 50 or 60 years. That's not to say all people were 100% perfect or squeaky clean in the past. But nowadays it's as if sexual relations are almost universally regarded as a kind of cheap throw-away thing. For most young people today, marrying a person is like buying a pair of shoes that has already been worn (for varying periods of time) by at least 10 or 15 other people. It's hard to see how there can be the same mutual respect that there was in former times.
Bill S That's a very typical of the Greek old ladies. They are looking for ideas for gossiping to the village. Most Sicilians are descended from ancient Greeks. Even the name Apollonia is ancient Greek from the God Apollo.
Katrina Patiniotis. You are absolutely right. I have 1 Cugino on my Papa's side named Apollonia and a Nipote named Apollonia. Well Ms. Keterina you take good care of yourself.
Noooo. Older women are not following Michael and Apollonia for gossip. They follow them because they must never be left alone. The family must be sure that they have no sexual contact before the wedding! This was a matter of honor in those years in southern Italy.
The brilliance of this film remains unsurpassed all these decades later. The cinematography, the authenticity of location and period, script and transitions, and the casting and acting are in a class by themselves.
This scene is much effective to me after complete reading the novel. The detailing and thoughts Mike had while seeing his dear Apollonia. He was months away from his home, almost alienated with such unseen culture. He was a lonely man, boredom strikes. And he almost thought that he'll be not returning back to New York. Then he saw this woman with desirable figures. At that time he frgt everything about New York. That first glance at Apollonia was pure magic. Mario Puzo is Genius
Damn just imagine if he'd return with Apollonia... Michael would've been much different. After Apollonia dies, you don't even see him smile after... take a man's woman away from him... that'll make him cold.
@nate big papi kredy cohen its happen in real life too
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True. That happened to me. I loved my wife more than anything else. She started hanging out & listened to pieces of shit when I told her to stay away from them. She ignored me & walked out on me. It's been over three years. I still love her, don't want anyone else to this day. To this day I've grown more and more callous to everything. And I am in a never ending state of rage & anger that she's not with me. I don't know if I'll ever recover. Only her back with me I'll have peace again.
That's how the latins do it my great. Grand father FM Genoa met my great grand ma when she was 9yrs old he asked for her and waited 10 yrs to marry her they had 12 children and lived happily till his death in 1928
I m italian and i don't undestand a lot of words, the sicilian language is different from the standard italian. Anyway i think that a spanish speaker undestand this better than a French.
There’s something profound in the beginning where the women are singing like an angelic chorus in heaven, and her arrival and him falling in love immediately
The scene when Apollonia wears Michael's gift, followed by the blush, don't tell me it did not melt your heart. The blush was so natural, it reminded of the first time I fell in love.
+Leon Davis Family always came first to the corleones especially michael even when they fought he didn't like his family dragged into it Now if you expect someone to respect your family then you respect theirs too Give respect take respect
Simonetta Stefanelli (born 30 November 1954) is an Italian actress, entrepreneur and fashion designer. Internationally, she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. She was only 16 when the production began and 17 when the film came out.
If I could render into words how and what I feel after every tym I watch this part of the movie... The dignity, the respect, the love, the calmness, the serenity and what not you can see in this short clip of the movie. Every small detail about this clip has it's own beauty if you notice. "The way Michael asked his frnd to call appolonia's father# The way he dealt with her father man to man and with respect# The way appolonia asked for the permission to opn the gft only by looking into the eyes of her supervisor#At the same tym Michael were looking at her with love and respect holding in his eyes (my favorite scene)#And when She was wearing the necklace and showing it to Michael and they have looked at each other as if they understood each other's language of love#When they were walking toghtr maintaining the distance, their hands were not touching to each other. This movie has a complete package which is needed in a relationship and also missing at the same tym in today's Era. People really have got changed a lot.
Joan Mulhall -Kay was an educated American woman. Apollonia was a naive young girl who had never been out of the village where she had been born and raised. Her death was very tragic, Fabrizio should have kept her from getting into the car, but Michael did avenge her death many years later.
Kay is classy woman.... every man wishes to get such kind of wife.. Even we see fredo getting jealous of his brother-"Sometimes i wish i could marry a woman like kay" Appolonia is like dream girl...
She is so beautiful. Especially in her wedding dress. No wonder Michael fell for her. I'm so sorry on how it ended for her. They seem genuinely happy together.
This is such a 'Catholic' scene. Maintaining purity before marriage. In old days this type of behavior was considered normal in all Catholic communities. It is completely opposite now I guess.
"There are people who would pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband." Michael made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Michael gives her a present and she looks at her Mother .. Mother says it’s ok open it .. She later caresses the necklace as he’s watching .. That’s pure Love and it shows me total respect of the Old World Sicilian Culture.
How I love this movie, especially music....beautiful and so emotional....masterpiece of the movies ever. Al Pacino and Robert de Niro are my favourites.
Appolonia is breathtakingly gorgeous. I loved the moments between them like when he gave her a gift and later shows Michael that she is wearing it. I love that he wants to court her the old school way all dates are supervised and the reason she slips is so michael could touch her . They didnt even touch til their wedding night. It's made clear with the thunderbolt comment that michael may have loved kay but was head over heels for appolonia and possibly didnt know what love was til he saw her . From the moment he saw her he wanted to marry her. I think after he death it killed any good left in michael. I also think like vitos wife she would have been the same. Kay was a wasp taught to be a feminist who in the end had no problem aborting her child telling michael she didnt love him would divorce him and take his kids away. She said something about " this Sicilian thing going back 1000 years " since appolonia was a Sicilian she just would have gotten michael better
The Old ways were the best and respectable ways. Asking for a girls hand in marriage from her parents instead of sleeping around with her and taking her dignity away! Oh how we as a people move further and further away from Gods teachings. God help us all.
**REALITY CHECK** Right now, this very minute, only 18% of the people in the USA go to church *AT ALL*. This is from the actual church records, not public opinion polls (which said that Hillary would win 70/30 over Trump). Things REALLY started going downhill in the USA in the early 1970's, when department stores & malls started being open on Sundays. From that time, it's been downhill all the way...
Most Sicilians are of Greek descent due to ancient Greek colonisation of Sicily and Southern Italy. Apollonia is an ancient Greek name derived from the ancient Greek god Apollo. That's why they adopt the same wedding customs in Greece. The Greek influence on this scene is very strong!! I'm Greek myself and I see a strong Greek influence in this scene and on the film in general.
My son just took the ME23 dna test. It showed he was almost 98% WASP, with about 1% native american. What was cool is that it indicated who he was related to. And one of the names that popped up was the daughter of my dad's first cousin. I always thought that Sicilian mafia members were overwhelmingly Italian, and not Greek
You could easily see how bright Michael was when with Appollonia, he had been smiling, laughing, joyful and sweet throughout the times with her until her death. Even before he met Appollonia, he wasn't as bright when dating Kay. Appollonia was Michael's true love and surely something inside him died when Appollonia died.
This is by far my most favorite part of the entire Godfather series. From what I understand, these scenes were indicative of the more traditional courtship, dating, & eventual marriage process, for the time. My great-grandmother (Angelina) was born in Sambuca, Sicily, & my great-grandfather (Ben also called 'Blaze') was born in Palermo, Sicily. They both came over to this country as kids, and theirs was an arranged marriage. They had a huge family - 10 kids. He worked on the railroad, while Angelina raised the kids (with a little help from other family members). If they had remained in Sicily, I'd like to think this would have been the roads on which they walked, & in the city they lived. I miss my Little Grandma & her homemade bread. As she'd always say, "Mangia, Mangia!" (Eat, Eat!) :)
The village is called Savoca (Sicily) I was there this summer and the Vitelli bar is still open. I sat on Michael's table. Woow.
Bet they haven't washed a glass or a dish after...or before for that matter!
Leonardo G. Omg Mr. G what words can’t express what I am feeling right now you sat in Al Pachino chair ???
Mi llamo Michael Corleone and I grew up in the South Bronx and Spanish Harlem on Pleasent Avenue with my Wop Goombaahhhs!
You're lucky!
Wow !!! I'm jealous. Good for you. 👍👍
His time in Italy is so special. It comes at the midpoint of an amazing film that’s been rushing through to this point. And the calm and serenity of Sicily gives a much needed break...we’re all on vacation here, all hiding out with Michael. Such a masterpiece. Can never be topped
You put it beautifully. A nice siesta in an epic of action and suspense.
Except it's an illusion, as Sicily was the origin of the Corleone story, the place where Michael was doomed before he was even born.
I was always struck by the beauty of the garden where Vito's mother was killed by Don Ciccio's men, and the ancient town and church where Ciccio went looking for him, exhortating the villagers to give him up. So much evil in a beautiful setting.
@@texasred2702 oh my goodness, just had a conversation about this very topic with a friend yesterday and she said the EXACT thing you just said: the problem is that “it’s the place where it all started” for the family. Interesting. Appreciate your point. Such beauty and such tragedy at the same time.
Perfect description of such a perfect yet sad unravelling of events. I believe it was the third film where he remembers and tells Anthony about her. You could see he chocked at the thought of her...
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"I hear people pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband" Well played Michael well played
I need to use this on you when your daughter flowers.
Then Fabrizio took the money.
He boxes him into a Corner like an Alpha Male ..
@@JulianWKK But then he Died on the Titanic, so he got his .. lol
@@dominiclabriola5955 I'll pay you all of em are a pain in the arse!Good cooks though!
I always liked the way Michael took ownership and responsibility for the father getting offended even though he wasnt the one who made the comments, a real class act
The Colonel, Me too. I also liked how Michael sat there calmly when his body guards were ready to run away. This is when you see the transformation happen right before your eyes. He is no longer that war hero at the start of the movie. He is becoming a boss, giving orders to his body guards, "Tell him to come here. Call him." Great scene, and I love the music.
Yes!
It's because she WORTH IT.
How come?
Because she is a high value woman, meaning she satisfies these conditions:
- virgin.
- 19 to 23 years old.
- delicate, feminine & cute.
- modest, respectful & obedient.
- slim & fit.
- lives in her father's home.
- respects her parents & family.
- free of debts.
- no tattoos, nor botox, nor cosmetic surgeries, nor eagle claws.
Sadly current western women are ALL the opposite of a high value woman...
@@JohnDoe-kg6gyActually she was 16
@@sinanokutan129
Not at all.
BTW, did you READ the book?
It seems you did NOT.
5:04 very small detail no one would ever notice but that tiny detail is so powerful it tells a whole story. The perfection on this scene is that Appolonia looks at her mother /supervisor is she has the permission to open the gift. It tells the story that Appolonia is either respecting traditions or she honestly doesn't know how to act when a man approaches her. Which in turn tells that women had dignity at the time and self-respect and respected the family law and traditions. Marvelous scene
Another small detail, when Michael says “instead of gaining a husband” and the bodyguard/translator looks like him without saying anything like “are you sure” and Michael gives him the ok also him without speaking. The small details...
Apollonia stumbling on the dirt road with all the old ladies of the family trailing behind is a moment from the book.
Her mother is right there and she KNOWS Apollonia has been walking those same roads since she learned to stand upright and is sure as a mountsin goat even in heels.
But Apollonia stumbling gives an easy excuse for Michael to touch her in order to help even in front of Family.
Her mother is quite proud of her daughter knowing how to play the rules and the Game of Courtship.
@@larsuppling981 I always loved that detail as well. You can see the old ladies laughing as they knew right away it was a ruse. Che bellezza.
@@sabatino1977 exactly that. ;)
Such a nice little thing amidst all the old tradition.
Excellent, respect is paramount, when you embrace family values such as these you cannot go wrong. Truly a masterpiece. This scene lets us know why Michael became Don Corleone
When she touches the necklace he gave her during the meal where everyone’s talking....such a subtle but well-placed moment and they don’t even say a word to each other. You have all these fantastical moments in film these days that are meant to show romance and affection and then there’s certain scenes like these that are so easily poignant without being too much. So great.
Everything about them until their wedding, is a long non verbal scene. And in fact he was not so able to speak like native people.
Apolonia and mikele Corleone forever and ever since Ipiales Nariño Colombia América Latina 😅😅
Tradition isn’t always bad. There’s often a nobility and humility to it.
Tradition is nice in most cases
Tradition has wisdom, familiarity and authenticity inherent to it. This age of modernity where every tradition & culture is thrown out is a failure for society.
Yaaaaa today women are “empowered” there’s no decent honourable chaste woman deserving of this level of honour and respect. Especially when most are fornicating like barn animals with so called “fun guys” by age to the tune of 50 by age 23. Liberated strongly independent women always choose the route of decay and disgrace when giving the freedom to choose. It’s men who held on to dignity morality and honour. Take that away in name of “toxic masculinity” you get höe culture that’s celebrated….
That actress has the face of an angel - she is breathtaking.
hambone31000 Apollonia does look more Greek though, but ofc Sicilians and Greeks do look alike
@hambone31000 Simonetta Stefanelli is roman, not sicilian
Michael daughter face is more like angel
@@jkpnnd5652 Given Sicily was occupied by Greeks originally, Sicilians have Greek DNA, There's still 100,00 Greeks living there. But then you had an Arab invasion and a North African invasion. That place is a smorgasbord now
@@sunworship5080 throughout the centuries Sicily was colonized by greeks, arabs, north africans, germans (ostroghot, vandals), normans, catalans, spaniards...Palermo was founded by the Phoenicians in 734 BC (following the Gregorian calendar), Syracuse by the Greeks, the same year. So it is clear that the place has ALWAYS, been a "smorgasbord". This is not something recent, and it wasn't simply determined by the invasions of the populations of North African origins. The characteristics of the atavian Sicilian populations (the "original" Sicilians, so to speak) were gradually oblitarated by the various colonizations...starting with the greek ones.
I always thought that Apollonia was the perfect wife for Michael, traditional, obedient, non combative/not argumentative when it came to matters of business, in fact much like his own mother. This is the wife he needed but not the one he ultimately got. When she was killed, I felt something sink in me. Great storytelling.
So the other one wasn't good enough for him?
@@ddwow566 Not the right woman,
@@ddwow566 for a mob boss apolonia is perfect not kay
@@ddwow566 She was too good for him!
She was ingenuous. For example she didn't understand when he has to speak with friends about "business/work".
I've watched this film a thousand times, and I still mourn for Apollonia every time....
Read the book my friend...
It's 100 times better.
The movie only covers 10% of the book.
he's gentleman.. i love the part when he approach appolonia dad ..and how he look at her..that makes me melt..love this romantic scene!
like a prince
Ananya Perfume I like how she looks to her mom for permission to open the gift
Huge Arab influence in Sicilian history...
An Arab whom I admire told us to “Enter through the door as an honoured guest, not through the window as a thief”.
mind you he never said anything and he apologized.
What a beautiful masterpiece of a film.
Tae Kwando alkjendrbulu
Classic
BarDavid Taxo
The authenticity in this story line is staggering. Anyone who is familiar with Southern Italian customs and traditions of this time period will know what I'm talking about. Everything from the physical and facial expressions, to the way Michael interacts with her family, and ultimately the wedding scene, are so incredibly accurate. The way Apollonia looks at her mother for approval before opening the gift, to the ladies following behind Michael and Apollonia when they go for a walk. Absolute perfection.
These old traditions and values have been lost in the western world we know today.
The most flattering complement I ever received in my life was from my grandmother who told me I looked like Apollonia. Heh, I could only dream of being this beautiful.
🤮🤮🤮🤮
She had great tits
Difficile de faire un plus beau compliment. C'est que vous devez être tout aussi belle qu'apollonia. ❤ J'en étais amoureux longtemps. J'ai failli appeler ma fille ainsi. 🇮🇹
My wife is Sicilian, Im afraid to start my car some days
Make sure she's happy. A house is a building & a home is what you make it. There's all kinds of people that will make your life miserable outside of your home... don't do that to the people you care about & love. A home is where you can tell your spouse that you need a hug because the whole world turned upside down on you. It's where you have the rules that say that you can have someone leave because you don't appreciate them behaving like that in your home. I have done that and had grown adult's look at me//like are you serious?/Yes. It takes 2 or more people to argue. My children were kidnapped and I wear scar's on the back of my head from when I nearly lost my life shortly after the kidnapping of the children and the theft of my identity at that time. I Love You Mom were the last 4 words I heard My children say before they came up missing without a trace. My husband courted me & still does/he buys me flowers for no reason, Etc. Love has no borders. Capish?(sp)?
Little Bit your children are missing😳😳😳😳❓❓
Cornuto!
THE COLONEL Abondanza!
THE COLONEL ....just treat her with respect !
Michael Corleone, “Tell him to come here.” Then he sits, while the father stands, and tells the father his intentions with his daughter. With all due respect, while being totally in charge. Love this scene!
- and then his bodyguard slings that shotgun over his shoulder before he goes in to talk to the father - because he knew full well it might be a life-or-death encounter! That's cinematic story-telling right there - "show, don't tell!"
That's how you win the heart of a woman. With dignity and respect towards her and her family.
💯
He literally threatened her father.
@@thx473 he is the mafia boss and the way he talk to the girl's father can be considered been humble from mafia standards.
Watch the movie if you want to know how the mafia treat others.
@@nehemiahnaga3135 I watched it today before commenting here mate.
@@thx473 things could have been worse, he could have ordered his bodyguards to grap a hold of the girl and take her along with them...which will be the actual mafia style
You can see the pure happiness he felt when he got her name
This... this is everything
I love the way she looks away when she walks downstairs, as if she does not look at him. It is very natural and real. We've all done it sometime in our lives. She is beautiful, she is in love.
We can't say she is in a love yet, she doesn't know him yet. She just knows he has the raving hots for her and has set up the elaborate meeting so he is a Big Kahuna. It shows she is modest and behaving appropriately. Its a traditional courtship. By not getting physical and having chaperones she can say no if she doesn't chose to marry him.
Bloody hell, Apollonia is stunningly beautiful...
Kinda fat
kinda fat? Hell no.
You mad bro? Everyone has different tastes- I think she's kinda overweight therefore unattractive- you think she's a goddess- that's fine by me. You're a chubby chaser, and I like skinny chicks.
Steven Uh, boy? Chubby? Yes, indeed I like chubby girls too, but you really have to go to examine your eyes. She's not even chubby, I don't know what kind of Planet Gay you're living on. Like I said before: It's OK to be gay, we're living in the 21st century, so you don't have to live in a closet anymore.
Haha you're repeating yourself- nothing else to say? She's clearly overweight- look at her cheeks for fuck's sake! I like girls with very slim figures- you can't say that Apollonia is slim.
I recently returned form a holiday to Sicily and was lucky enough to visit the bar Vitelli and the church where they shot theses scenes! A masterpiece of a movie.
Did they give you granita with brioche bread? I thought that was an odd combination, maybe an example of "cucina povera"...
J'aimerais tellement faire ça. Je ne voyage jamais, mais s'il y a bien un endroit où j'aimerais aller c'est devant cette église. 😊😢
@@nicotino2013 c'était incroyable, j'ai adoré la Sicile, les gens, la nourriture, la culture. fantastique!
j'aime aussi visiter la France et profiter des choses sensées là-bas.
@@liguriano no we never tried it but enjoyed gelato “fior de latte” everyday plus seafood
It is so touching when they glance at each other at the table and she touches the neckless in gratitude and then they both smile at each other......there is nothing like young and innocent love......
More erotic than "young and innocent" electric vibes across the table.
Apollonia would have been to Michael what Carmella was to Vito. She would have understood his life. She would have understood that his business is just business. She would have seen what Michael did was ultimately for his family, and if she had lived he would not have become the ruthless man he became. He would have been a Don like his father.
Nate Broadus ----' Do you live in some kind of FANTASY LAND !!! THESE PEOPLE WERE KILLERS STUPID.
Blackwomantruth yes, they are. I said Appollonia would not have seen it that way, however. She came from the same culture as Michael's parents. She would have seen what he did in a completely different light than Kay. They just had drastically different cultural upbringings, and drastically different standards of morality.
I never said what they did was right -- I merely described how she would have seen it.
in the book, Kay accept her fate and deal with Micheal's business. Actually the last scene of book finishing with Kay praying in Catholic church for micheal just like Carmella is doing for Vito.
cause she is an Italian
I was going to make almost the same comment lol.
This really showed that Michael was not only level headed (unlike Sonny), but also capable of adapting and being a real "people person" (again, unlike Sonny). When Appolonia's father got mad, he didn't run or get violent (Sonny would got violent!), instead he showed the father RESPECT!
Carlo hit her sister wtf. I agree with all that except this.
@@lluviaacida1742 Carlo beat their sister *because* they knew Sonny would fly into a rage and run off from the family home which was practically a fortress.
Had Sonny instead sent out a crew to collect both his sister and Carlo and brought them too him he would still have gotten his sister to safety and could even have taken his sweet time working Carlo over with a baseball bat in the yard.
But instead his explosive temper got him killed.
@@HeadingForTomorrow yeah Carlo was a gold digger who got friendly with Sonny for monetary reasons, then he saw a chance to be a bigshot by marrying into the Corleones, when the family didnt trust him enough to make him a Capo or something he turned into a bitter asshole who beat Connie.
Sonny then kicked his ass for it.
And somewhere someone hatched the idea of using that rage, that half the city got to see, against Sonny.
@@larsuppling981 Right. Sonny had a couple faults, his temper, not recognizing it, and not wanting to delegate - gotta do that in any business to succeed. He raced off without his bodyguards because he just HAD to get there and do it himself.
@@doncallangher6177 Too much manly brawn, too little brain.
He wasnt an idiot, far from it, but when his temper got going he turned into a dumbass.
It was a shame what happened to him.
Vito and Mama C would have LOVED Apollonia!
I agree entirely with your comment. Apollonia & Vito & Mama Corleone would have both been very happy for them. I was in Sicily on both of my Mediterranean cruises on my first ship in the Navy, I enjoyed the scenery there and in Taormina was where I ate the best pizza in my life. I was there in both late 1972 and in the summer of 1973. It was one of the friendliest places in all of Southern Europe.
Yes they would of loved her, May she rest in peace
Absolutely, a young very beautiful shy catholic woman, a virgin, from a respectable family, very well brought up according to Sicily traditions of those times. And charming and healthy, a prospective excellent mother and daughter-in- law.
@Tyrone Koumoundouros Holy shit, is there ANY section of the internet where one can go without running into anti-Muslim propaganda. I can't even watch a damn movie.
The TRUE love of Michael. With Kay wasn't the same.
Would K be totally loyal to any man?
Mark Jones I think she would. Anyway, in Godfather III she was in a moment very close to Michael although she was just married with another man. The ghost of infidelity was running near.
He even told Kay "He just need her and a family"...Nothing more than that
Nando Raven .... because this Apollonia is faaaaaaaaaar beautiful than Kay. So everyone fell for her.
I completely disagree that Apollonia was Michael's true love. Kay was a WASP, and Apollonia was Italian. Michael was always trying to get approval in the WASP world that runs the country. Kay provided an entrance for Michael to be in the WASP world.
Good old days when men were men, women were women and family meant something.
We saw hardly any dialogue between these 2 but you could tell they love each other... better than nowadays
Yeah...if Michael Corleone had met the dad today, he would be texting him “Dude, I’m f*cking your daughter”. With a picture.
Back when things were more simple
They had so much chemistry.
@@szahmad2416goddamn 🤣 but true
I first saw this movie when I was a kid. At the time I didn't think she was that pretty, just plain. However, fast-forward forty years and watching it again today in my late 40's, I realize that this girl was a classic beauty! Absolutely no makeup, perfect facial features and beautiful eyes.
how i wish apollonia had lived. things would have been different for michael.
I still feel sad when she dies... 🙁🙁🙁
When the 2 hit men tried to take him out, Dona Apollonia would've come up with a Thompson and gave them the spray!
If Apollonia had lived Michael would have probably been dead
+P Conservatism True that. If anything, her death only made him stronger.
He would have come home and not took over the Olive Oil business.
In this scene you get a glimpse of what Michael will become in the not too distant future: cool, calculating, shrewd man in charge.. determined to get what he wants. In this case, the lovely, virginal Appolonia. "But then she would lose a father..instead of gaining a husband." I love that line!!
Cynthia Hawkins Ironic that he ended up losing his daughter
+Cynthia Hawkins I don't think he was threatening him, just that people would kill him for that information
+Super Rabbit Oh no, he was definitely threatening him! This is Michael's first effective use of intimidation.
These scenes are timeless. Such a beautiful courtship.
Apollonia, even as brief as she was featured, stole the show in this movie. She is as beautiful, innocent and appealing to men, as it gets.
The moment when they engage each other from across the table is one of the greatest moments in film
These scenes are perfect description for pure love. We all had an Apollonia in our lifes at some point.
Blazien indeed we did!
Well I was but a lad so I made the mistakes that lads make.
I was hit with the thunderbolt twice. What a nice memory
True 😢
I had my apollonia once. Jazmin was her name. Cheated on her with her best friend.
These actors this music and this movie is a masterpiece
everything about this movie is incredible
The book is better.
Zack Smith Bro there's only 1 book.
@@BloodofPatriots A book is not a movie.
Old times, when love was something special, even for a godfather, lovely
Savoca - was there last week and had a drink at bar Vitelli and at the church. Looks almost the same as >50 years ago and you still feel the magic of the Godfather there.....
after she died I never see Michael smile again till the Godfather part 3 so yes this made him cruel
Damn. You're right about that. I never noticed it before. He barley smiled through out the rest of the movie, even with Kay. The only time I can think of was the garden scene with Don Corleone.
He smiles in part two several times, yet they don't seem real smiles
This clip is from PART ONE...and he does smile in the movie!
The scene with johnny fontane in las Vegas
He does
In a deleted scene in part 2 with Sonny daughter is another time he smiled.
Masterpiece.
Grande dado
DadoBax Woooo ti ho trovato dadobax !! che sorpresa !!!
Ma ti pare che faccio zapping su YT e becco i tuoi commenti sotto video improbabili? ahah
lorenzomoroni91 padmini dance
DadoBax - Feel th
yes correct now I get it this is why Michael slipped into darkness his soul died with her
that was pure love with them. while kay and God damn I fucking Hate her!
When Kay said politicians don't have men killed, I was like "Kay, you are a fucking idiot."
bitch please, Michael was already dark, knowingly bringing Apollonia into this world. Causing her to get killed. Threatening to kill her father if he doesn't get what he wanted. Ali Jaffery, well considering the politicians were in the Don's pockets, they were just doing what Don Corleone ordered. NOW whose the idiot? The "Godfather" logo used puppet strings for a reason.
I really was born in wrong century. I would like to live when everything was more pure. Relationships, feelings, even love... Everything.
Same tbh. It sounds basic but everything is complicated these days. I wish we had kept some old-fashioned values while still being modern in many ways.
2019 and I still can’t get over this 💎
2021 and i still cant get over this
her mum takes a great part , understated acting, just so real when he gives her the gift, mum just nods her head to say accept totally real and mesmerising.
Apollonia would have been the perfect wife for Michael. First of all, she understood the role of an Italian/siciliano wife at the time. And she would have never asked him about his business like Kate did.
Exactly correct...
Like Vito Corleone's wife.
That’s why you shouldn’t prefer marrying an
American woman. This is a reason most American men prefer Russians/Ukrainians over Americans
Except that "it's business" bullshit was a myth within the movie. Michael orders hits based on anger "you want to hit everyone Mike?" "Just MY enemies" it was personal to him. As for Kay, Michael crawled back to her. Supposedly he didn't need Kay, yet there he is crawling back to her after Apollonia is killed (he caused her to be killed, make no mistake).
I am simply devastated that American men prefer Russian/Ukrainians over me!!! NOT. Their loss.
Lovely girl,plain no make up,but natural, beautiful.
geoff edwards Now it’s all about contours and fake lashes.
@@martheresa7550 I know, seductively removing, fake eye lashes, chicken fillets and bumps extensions. "This isn't the girl I was talking to last night" That's if she's a girl!!!
Another wonderful thing about this courtship not mentioned enough: how small, solemn and simple their wedding was.
Yes
It wasn't that small, the whole village is there.
I read the original book on what the movie was based on. And I remember that moment when Michael and Apollonia were taking a walk, she stumbled on purpose to check on Michael. And her mom noticed and smiled by herself because Apollonia grew up running up and down on that hill and she was familiar with every inch of that place. It's proving again that movie never gives you that beautiful nuances of the written story and never shows you what it's hidden deeply inside of it...
this is my best part of the movie
Bar Vitelli Savoca(Messina) SICILIA!!!
I love it
a heartbreaking scene ~ the happiest lifetime of Michael gone forever after this ~
The movie is a master piece that defies time. Never get tired of watching it
Beautiful! I never tire of watching this movie.
Apollonia was the greatest love of Michael Life, you can't change my mind
I guess this was before Tinder...
God how horrid a reminder. From such a healthy cultural framework for pairbonding to that...
BandB1111111 LOLL
Datuk Rajo rather go old school when it comes to women. Tinder is nothing.
@@juancanturinsilvano5238 He's Caucasian, get it right....uggh.
@@sequorroxx Agreed. IMO the modern youth culture around Tinder, etc shows how sleazy and squalid we in the West have become! Many centuries of tradition and culture have just been tossed aside within the space of about 50 or 60 years. That's not to say all people were 100% perfect or squeaky clean in the past. But nowadays it's as if sexual relations are almost universally regarded as a kind of cheap throw-away thing. For most young people today, marrying a person is like buying a pair of shoes that has already been worn (for varying periods of time) by at least 10 or 15 other people. It's hard to see how there can be the same mutual respect that there was in former times.
When Michael and Apollonia are on that walk and then the herd of old women follows them into the frame I laugh every time.
Bill S That's a very typical of the Greek old ladies. They are looking for ideas for gossiping to the village.
Most Sicilians are descended from ancient Greeks. Even the name Apollonia is ancient Greek from the God Apollo.
Katrina Patiniotis. You are absolutely right. I have 1 Cugino on my Papa's side named Apollonia and a Nipote named Apollonia. Well Ms. Keterina you take good care of yourself.
Noooo. Older women are not following Michael and Apollonia for gossip. They follow them because they must never be left alone. The family must be sure that they have no sexual contact before the wedding! This was a matter of honor in those years in southern Italy.
they are chaperones
old fashion way of courting a decent woman.
The girl playing Apollonia was only 16 when this movie was filmed. Pacino was about 32.
That can't be true, since we see her tits later.
+FunnyVideoMaker77 But they were filming in Sicily. Maybe the laws over there allow juvenile nudity in films.
+lindsey lefrois ....this is an American film.
+Kevin Zhang But she's not an American citizen. And you know how loose things are in Europe.
Wouldnt the film industry in america have rules about this? Or is it that only underage americans cant be nude?
One of the most beautiful woman on screen, she did a short play but Concord millions of harts.
The brilliance of this film remains unsurpassed all these decades later. The cinematography, the authenticity of location and period, script and transitions, and the casting and acting are in a class by themselves.
italian style, its the BEST, elegance on all levels, the girls are nice.
MultiMrMiles my family is from italy..one day I will move back
Italian girls are nice? bro your dealer is selling you some good shit
Bullshits! Donot say shit! Italian girls very beautiful...
dark yes cute under twenty five, after that all they become fat and ugly..
Her mother was Greek of course she's beautiful! Her parents even gave her a Greek name Apollonia!
This scene is much effective to me after complete reading the novel. The detailing and thoughts Mike had while seeing his dear Apollonia. He was months away from his home, almost alienated with such unseen culture. He was a lonely man, boredom strikes. And he almost thought that he'll be not returning back to New York. Then he saw this woman with desirable figures. At that time he frgt everything about New York. That first glance at Apollonia was pure magic. Mario Puzo is Genius
Damn just imagine if he'd return with Apollonia... Michael would've been much different. After Apollonia dies, you don't even see him smile after... take a man's woman away from him... that'll make him cold.
Sounds like what happened to Stalin when his first wife died.
@nate big papi kredy cohen its happen in real life too
True. That happened to me. I loved my wife more than anything else. She started hanging out & listened to pieces of shit when I told her to stay away from them. She ignored me & walked out on me. It's been over three years. I still love her, don't want anyone else to this day. To this day I've grown more and more callous to everything. And I am in a never ending state of rage & anger that she's not with me. I don't know if I'll ever recover. Only her back with me I'll have peace again.
@ you should post this on reddit lol
So smooth, never have I seen such smoothness in a movie. I'm gonna be this way when I get older and find the woman for me👌🏾
That's how the latins do it my great. Grand father FM Genoa met my great grand ma when she was 9yrs old he asked for her and waited 10 yrs to marry her they had 12 children and lived happily till his death in 1928
That's beautiful :-)
even just this video shows the beauty of this film one of the best in world cinema
You can understand about 75%-80% of this scene without subtitles if you speak Spanish fluently. It helps even more if you speak French too.
I m italian and i don't undestand a lot of words, the sicilian language is different from the standard italian. Anyway i think that a spanish speaker undestand this better than a French.
@Roberto Gutierrez sicily and calabria seems like mexico for landscape
I know some French, Spanish, and Romanian. I understand much of the Sicilian here.
Así es!👌
And Portuguese
There’s something profound in the beginning where the women are singing like an angelic chorus in heaven, and her arrival and him falling in love immediately
The scene when Apollonia wears Michael's gift, followed by the blush, don't tell me it did not melt your heart. The blush was so natural, it reminded of the first time I fell in love.
If she had survived, then their children would have been full blood sicilians
Madyson Reed And would have super powers lol
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaa
Her mother was Greek
@@f0otball41 Probably Greek from Sicily given the history. But the super powers would of still took
@@f0otball41 South italians= Greeks
When a mobster tells you he means no disrespect, he's simply clearing his conscience before he does what he has to do.
+Leon Davis Family always came first to the corleones especially michael
even when they fought he didn't like his family dragged into it
Now if you expect someone to respect your family then you respect theirs too
Give respect take respect
Al Pacino’s whole demeanor was so relaxed and cool talking to the father. The man can act his ass off.
Apollonia vitelli is my fav female character in the trilogy
+Lucrezia & Pierotto's Love Theme Why? She's just stupid and boring.
+Liz Clegg it's her opinion.
:)
Simonetta Stefanelli Daily wow, you have her name! 🍷
What made her so intriguing? He thought she was pretty, he married her and she died. No depth at all.
Simonetta Stefanelli (born 30 November 1954) is an Italian actress, entrepreneur and fashion designer. Internationally, she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. She was only 16 when the production began and 17 when the film came out.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Stefanelli
If I could render into words how and what I feel after every tym I watch this part of the movie... The dignity, the respect, the love, the calmness, the serenity and what not you can see in this short clip of the movie. Every small detail about this clip has it's own beauty if you notice. "The way Michael asked his frnd to call appolonia's father# The way he dealt with her father man to man and with respect# The way appolonia asked for the permission to opn the gft only by looking into the eyes of her supervisor#At the same tym Michael were looking at her with love and respect holding in his eyes (my favorite scene)#And when She was wearing the necklace and showing it to Michael and they have looked at each other as if they understood each other's language of love#When they were walking toghtr maintaining the distance, their hands were not touching to each other.
This movie has a complete package which is needed in a relationship and also missing at the same tym in today's Era.
People really have got changed a lot.
this is my favorite scene. I really wanted him to be with her instead of kay
Kay is a bitch
+Setareh DB Why?
+Liz Clegg he truly loved apollonia
+Setareh DB I agree. Appolonia was his soulmate
Apollonia was a nice piece of azz
My favorite part of the movie. She was so stunning....better than that annoying Kay
Yet Michael goes crawling back.
Kay had more style.
Kay is annoying isn't she ? She irritates the hell of of me. She's just so unremarkable.
Joan Mulhall -Kay was an educated American woman. Apollonia was a naive young girl who had never been out of the village where she had been born and raised. Her death was very tragic, Fabrizio should have kept her from getting into the car, but Michael did avenge her death many years later.
Kay is classy woman.... every man wishes to get such kind of wife.. Even we see fredo getting jealous of his brother-"Sometimes i wish i could marry a woman like kay"
Appolonia is like dream girl...
She is so beautiful. Especially in her wedding dress. No wonder Michael fell for her. I'm so sorry on how it ended for her. They seem genuinely happy together.
Pause the scene at any time. You'll definitely notice that each frame also has the elegance of a painting.
I believe this has been the best days Michael had ever have in his life, the truly happy days
5:55 that smile!!
I love his reaction when he hears her name -- his little smile: " Bene !"
Micheal shows the character of a real man. This is th best out of the best romantic scene from any movie. Loved the whole clip.
wonderful acting, effortless, natural, and never to be repeated, ever!
This is such a 'Catholic' scene. Maintaining purity before marriage. In old days this type of behavior was considered normal in all Catholic communities. It is completely opposite now I guess.
Its not catholic, its christian, in orthodox countries, some still indeed keep this tradition...
This is catholic
Милан Пиперски Catholic and Christian can be the same thing
Милан Пиперски it’s Catholic their Sicilian
Greta Gattorno they’re not the same thing exactly, Catholicism is a branch of Christianity
before I asked my fiancee to marry me I always had this scene in mind. As it turned out, I asked in front of her whole family.
Beautiful!
good work man! - from Italy - :-)
MyTwitzWorld so romantic!!
OHHHHH Lawrence of Arabia over here.... lol :)
👍👍👍
Quando si tocca la collana, sorride e chiude gli occhi è il massimo della femminilità. Che bella Simonetta!
"There are people who would pay a lot of money for that information, but then your daughter would lose a father instead of gaining a husband." Michael made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Michael gives her a present and she looks at her Mother .. Mother says it’s ok open it .. She later caresses the necklace as he’s watching .. That’s pure Love and it shows me total respect of the Old World Sicilian Culture.
How I love this movie, especially music....beautiful and so emotional....masterpiece of the movies ever. Al Pacino and Robert de Niro are my favourites.
Nino Rota was a genius, and a name that more people should know. He also scored the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet.
The Sicilians sequences of all thee Godfather films were my favorite in the trilogy.
Appolonia is breathtakingly gorgeous. I loved the moments between them like when he gave her a gift and later shows Michael that she is wearing it. I love that he wants to court her the old school way all dates are supervised and the reason she slips is so michael could touch her . They didnt even touch til their wedding night. It's made clear with the thunderbolt comment that michael may have loved kay but was head over heels for appolonia and possibly didnt know what love was til he saw her . From the moment he saw her he wanted to marry her.
I think after he death it killed any good left in michael. I also think like vitos wife she would have been the same. Kay was a wasp taught to be a feminist who in the end had no problem aborting her child telling michael she didnt love him would divorce him and take his kids away. She said something about " this Sicilian thing going back 1000 years " since appolonia was a Sicilian she just would have gotten michael better
Me encanta esta mujer, Simonetta sos bellísima!
Piece of art. Like poems, paintings and like... the eyes of Apollonia
She is soooo gorgeous!!!
The Old ways were the best and respectable ways. Asking for a girls hand in marriage from her parents instead of sleeping around with her and taking her dignity away! Oh how we as a people move further and further away from Gods teachings. God help us all.
**REALITY CHECK**
Right now, this very minute, only 18% of the people in the USA go to church *AT ALL*. This is from the actual church records, not public opinion polls (which said that Hillary would win 70/30 over Trump). Things REALLY started going downhill in the USA in the early 1970's, when department stores & malls started being open on Sundays. From that time, it's been downhill all the way...
I'm not convinced of that. There is a certain wild freedom to eloping if the parents will not consent. depends on the culture and period of time.
@@CLASSICALFAN100 Trump is about the most non religous person in the world. He worships himself and money to the exclusion of all else.
Most Sicilians are of Greek descent due to ancient Greek colonisation of Sicily and Southern Italy. Apollonia is an ancient Greek name derived from the ancient Greek god Apollo. That's why they adopt the same wedding customs in Greece. The Greek influence on this scene is very strong!! I'm Greek myself and I see a strong Greek influence in this scene and on the film in general.
they even say she looks "more Greek than Sicilian" in the movie.
My son just took the ME23 dna test. It showed he was almost 98% WASP, with about 1% native american. What was cool is that it indicated who he was related to. And one of the names that popped up was the daughter of my dad's first cousin. I always thought that Sicilian mafia members were overwhelmingly Italian, and not Greek
its still Italian
@@DairoMartinez-gs9js In the papers not the DNA.
You could easily see how bright Michael was when with Appollonia, he had been smiling, laughing, joyful and sweet throughout the times with her until her death. Even before he met Appollonia, he wasn't as bright when dating Kay. Appollonia was Michael's true love and surely something inside him died when Appollonia died.
This is by far my most favorite part of the entire Godfather series. From what I understand, these scenes were indicative of the more traditional courtship, dating, & eventual marriage process, for the time. My great-grandmother (Angelina) was born in Sambuca, Sicily, & my great-grandfather (Ben also called 'Blaze') was born in Palermo, Sicily. They both came over to this country as kids, and theirs was an arranged marriage. They had a huge family - 10 kids. He worked on the railroad, while Angelina raised the kids (with a little help from other family members).
If they had remained in Sicily, I'd like to think this would have been the roads on which they walked, & in the city they lived. I miss my Little Grandma & her homemade bread. As she'd always say, "Mangia, Mangia!" (Eat, Eat!) :)
arbutuswatcher You must be a lady?
Magnifica interpretazione👌
I valori di una volta, le usanze, le tradizioni che purtroppo ai giorni d’oggi si sono persi😔