From The Godfather, Part II:
Senator Pat Geary: Because I intend to squeeze you. I don’t like your kind of people. I don’t like to see you come out to this clean country with your oily hair, dressed up in those silk suits, passing yourselves off as decent Americans. I’ll do business with you, but the fact is that I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself and your whole fucking family.
Michael Corleone: Senator. we’re both part of the same hypocrisy….
Even back in the 1950s, when this classic was set, hypocrisy, as Michael Corleone notes, was the coin of the realm in both organized crime and government (oops, that’s a redundancy). The Godfather, Parts I and II, have exerted a unique pull on the popular consciousness and become embedded in the culture. Just consider the actors who were in one or both of these films: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Abe Vigoda, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Sterling Hayden, John Cazele, and Lee Strasberg. Both movies make SLL’s top 10, highly recommended.
