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Godfather 2: Fanucci vs Corleone
Hello guys,
in this scene (sorry, no english subtitles):
Viteo Corleone asks his two thieve friends $100 to settle the matter with Fanucci, instead of the $600 Fanucci is racketting them. He promises them that he'll make Fanucci "an offer he cannot refuse". He argues to Fannuci he cannot give him more money because he's out of work (his job was given to Fanucci's nephew earlier in the move). Fannuci laughs and tells him that he has balls and that he's looking for people like him. He has work for him.
It was not clear for me as I started to write this post but now I understand. This is a genius negotiation move. He uses collaborative frame but has leverage by not giving him the full sum of money while making him an unspoken offer to work for him. He implies that him as an employee is worth more than the missing $500.
There are many layers of sub-communication in this scene. I'm impressed.
Any further analysis or comment?
Yeah, an interesting scene with many layers.
I like your interpretation, to make a small affront as an indirect way of being offered a position.
After all, actions and being asked are higher power than words and asking.
So yeah, you definitely could be onto something.
Personally, I think that if this was real life, this time Corleone would have already been thinking of killing Fanucci. He probably disliked him, including Fanucci's ways. But first, he wanted to explore all possibilities, as well as to test him.
There is also another deleted scene that didn't make into the final cut of the movie, but was shot and it's in the book.
Corleone saw Fanucci being attacked in the street by some punks. He notices he had no backups, and that nobody helped him. That also suggested him that Fanucci was playing a big game, including probably being such a bully just as a front, but that he was lower power than his big talk. And that getting rid of him was not such a high risk as many thought.
