Is Micheal the weakest part of the Godfather? Especially in II,

The redhead Italian bro from 1 was the kinoest character

Low tier bait

>>86125276
Tom Hagen?

>>86125262
Yeah, when he goes bad he practically becomes a black hole. I think it's interesting, actually, but he's almost vacant and without personality at that point except for a quiet, slow-burning anger.

He was the best part. What the fuck?

I miss the days when understated performances were still possible. Nowadays big budget crime sagas need larger-than-life blowhards like that guy from The Departed.

>>86125262
I think it's fitting, it contrasts the Michael that he was in the beginning of the first movie before he does his business and goes to Italy. I see it like him falling into the darkness, or maybe falling into an addiction or some kind of dark inevitability that he'd wanted to get away. When he tells Kay at the wedding that that's his family but not him, I believe him, I think at that moment he meant it and it's interesting to watch that dissolve away.

>>86125421
>he's almost vacant and without personality at that point except for a quiet, slow-burning anger.
This is exactly why I like Michael

>>86125421
Even in moments where he attempts to be tender with his wife. You're right, anger seems to be his only prominent emotion.

>>86125472
It's more that he was void of the charisma that you would expect a boss in his position to have. Probably again to contrast with his dad. I think

>>86125587
It's interesting though. He's so boringly nice and proper at the beginning, no personality. And then becomes kind of vacantly, silently evil; again no personality.

Whereas Pacino has such an excess of personality in all his other roles.

But anyways, it still really works.

>>86125587
>>86125631
He's also a combat veteran, who knows what he say or what happened to him over there.

>>86125421
>>86125600
>>86125615

I wonder what it was that made him so angry?

The attempts on his dad's life? The deaths of his young, first wife or his brother?

He suddenly just seems so fully of hate, and it doesn't quite seem like it's because of any of those events, but more to coincide with him taking on the Don role and then seemingly putting so much emphasis on whether people respect and obey him or not. It's peoples' subsequent disobeying or betrayal, or betrayal of the family, that seems to fill him with hate the most.

>>86125689
maybe his inability to live up to his fathers expectations.
>but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn't enough time, Michael. It wasn't enough time.