![]() ![]() "The Godfather," also starred Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, and Robert Duvall. He's told it's a Sicilian message: "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes." And what "Godfather" fan can forget the parting shot to the Brasi character, with one of the most famous lines in movie history?Īs the Corleone family is looking for Brasi after a hit has been put on Don Corleone, a package arrives at the Corleone house. It made it all the more shocking when he's dramatically killed not long after. Though it's one of the few times we hear Montana speak in the movie, it's the way Coppola used the legend of Luca Brasi as a brutal killer for the mob family that made the character one of the most memorable in the 1972 movie. Marlon's line was, 'Luca, my most cherished friend,' and when did that scene he had "Fuck you" written on his tongue, too." "They say 'Action!' and that's when he says, "Don Corleone" - he sticks his tongue out and everybody falls down laughing. Montana agreed and did another take of the scene where he walks into Don Corleone's office to pay his respects. James Caan as Sony Corleone in "The Godfather." Paramount Pictures In Puzo’s novel, Luca Brasi’s loyalty to Don Corleone is established through a long history of violencemurders committed on Corleone’s behalf. 'When you say, "Don Corleone," stick your tongue out' - his tongue looked like a shoebox for fuck's sake - 'and I'll put a piece of tape on it that says "Fuck you." He was like a baby, 'Oh, Jimmy, don't make me do this,' and I said, 'Lenny, please, it's humor, everyone's gonna laugh and you'll feel better. You gotta do something when you open the door,'" Caan said. "I grab Lenny and said, 'Lenny, come here. "I said, 'What are you talking about Francis?' He said, 'Do something with him.' I said, 'What do you want me to do with that fucking beast?' 'Do something to goose him up, do some of your shit.'" "Francis comes running out and said to me, 'Jimmy, do something!'" Caan recalled. The actor said Coppola was getting frustrated that Montana kept flubbing his lines. This was evident, Caan said, in the scene where Montana as Brasi goes to Don Corleone to pay his respects on his daughter's wedding day. But Caan, who played hothead Sonny Corleone, recalled to The New York Post that it was clear being on a hyped movie that featured one of the greats like Marlon Brando, who played Don Corleone, was intimidating for Montana. This is my first time truly enjoying life.In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece "The Godfather," one of the stars of the movie, James Caan reminisced about how he loosened up the actor who played one of the movie's iconic characters.įormer professional wrestler Lenny Montana was cast as the Corleone crime family's most feared enforcer Luca Brasi. “I always had something over my head, I always was fighting the court case, I always had a warrant or something pending. The rapper also offers a little more insight into his immediate worldview with the project’s closer, timely entitled “M.A.T.A.,” or “Make America Trap Again.” “This is my first time truly being free,” Gates said. “Luca Brasi Freestyle” is a lyrical showcase, while “Me Too” (very much no relation to #MeToo) is Gates as smooth-talking lothario, a well-established and adored role within the MC’s repertoire. ![]() ( Annotated Godfather, 75) In the film, Brasi is a much-abbreviated version of this ruthless killer, but he is fleshed out just enough, and with singular idiosyncrasies, to draw our attachment. ![]() Topically, at least, the third installment doesn’t veer far from the previous two, with Gates using his unique, warbly croon to sing about his success (“Money Long”), the invincibility he feels as a man of faith (“In God I Trust”), and also to deliver a message to the women who've missed their chance with him (“Shoulda”). In Puzo’s novel, Luca Brasi’s loyalty to Don Corleone is established through a long history of violencemurders committed on Corleone’s behalf. “And there's a lot of things on ‘Luca Brasi 1’ and Luca Brasi 2 I couldn't speak about because I was dealing with it at the time.” “I've been gone a year and a half, so it's a lot of things that I didn't really speak on that I get to speak on,” Gates told Beats 1’s Zane Lowe. But Luca Brasi 3, released by Gates after an extended stint in prison, is much more an extension of the persona (and catalog) he has built as a rapper than a parallel to a fictional gangster. Baton Rouge rapper Kevin Gates has been comparing himself to Luca Brasi, the devoted and doomed henchman of The Godfather since at least 2013’s The Luca Brasi Story.
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