And he’s not dead, as Ciccio wanted that night when he was a young boy.
When he meets Ciccio as a man, he’s not some immigrant who is begging for money. Only in America does an immigrant like Vito go from pauper to aristocrat in a matter of years. Only when he flees to America does Vito fight and claw his way to an empire and build himself the ultimate dream of a successful business, wonderful family, and justice for those that he lost. Vito’s is only slightly more compelling and disturbingly abrupt as we witness a young Vito be basically run out of his own home by a vicious mobster named Ciccio, who proceeds in murdering everyone in his blood line and then going after the young boy.
Both men were affected by their parents, both men rose to power by eliminating very strong entities in the underworld, and both men sought revenge for the deaths of their loved ones.
In “The Complete Epic” we’re able to view not only the rise of Vito Corleone, but how the journeys of Vito and Michael parallel in striking ways. Michael’s descent ends the moment he breaks his father’s cardinal rule of murdering family. After cutting off his allies, alienating his most trusted friends, assassinating his enemies, and murdering his only surviving brother Fredo, Michael is a man on an island now cursed with the Corleone empire, and tasked with living the rest of life burdened with the cruel deed he committed as a way to protect a family that, in the closing scene, is but a shell of its former self. The entire saga of the Corleone family ends on the youngest of the family, Michael, sitting alone in the garden of his house, and left with his thoughts and crushing guilt that he’s alone, having turned away the love of his life, and bereft of a relationship with his children. As well, what’s considered “The Complete Epic” does not include the often maligned “The Godfather III.” They then injected a lot of deleted and or extended scenes for the purpose of exposition and further elaboration on plot points somewhat evaded and under explained in the aforementioned films. After presenting various cuts of “The Godfather” trilogy over the years presented on television, HBO has decided to offer up their own version of Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” entitled “The Complete Epic.” Clocking in at a little over seven hours and presented in HD, the idea for “The Complete Epic” is that “The Godfather” and “The Godfather II” are spliced together telling the entire saga of the Corleones chronologically.
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