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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Carter Bays

    Good thread. I'm not sure I agree but interesting argument.https://twitter.com/CarterBays/status/1088830611316445184 …

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    Carter BaysVerified account @CarterBays
    I have a hot take on this. For better or worse, the point of the Godfather movies is not that the mafia is bad and these guys are all corrupt and should go to jail. Michael is NOT corrupted by the mafia. Michael is corrupted AWAY from the Mafia, by America. https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1088811400884076545 …
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      1. Shrill Wolfcryer crying in a Guitar Wolf tanktop‏ @by_caballero 25 Jan 2019
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        @yourewrongabout

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      1. I'm just Jeff, your friend the cliche Wilco Dad‏ @leffjakin 25 Jan 2019
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        Any hot take from the mind that gave the world the series finale of How I Met Your Mother is going to take more than a grain of salt from me.

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      2. Will Doolittle‏ @trafficstatic 25 Jan 2019
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        @CarterBays I love your interpretation and disagree with it completely. Michael is corrupted by the mafia, by power, by criminality, to the point he will kill his own helpless brother in the name of avenging some past wrong. That is the twisted mafia code he follows.

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      3. Matunos  💉 💉 💉‏ @matunos 25 Jan 2019
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        I disagree with all of the above. it's the killing of Sollozzo and McCluskey that initiates Michael into the family business; it literally leads to a forced exile to his ancestral homeland

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      2. Will Doolittle‏ @trafficstatic 25 Jan 2019
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        @CarterBays Same thing with his sister's husband (name?) No mercy. There is no honor. They betray each other, rat to the police, etc. There is only force, and Michael embraces that, so in the end, he rules but is alone.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 25 Jan 2019
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        Yeah, I think that's closer to the mark.

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      1. Sam Rosenfeld‏ @sam_rosenfeld 25 Jan 2019
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        This was Roger Ebert's take--and critique--of Part II:https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-godfather-part-ii-1974 …

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      1. Nathan Williams‏ @nathanmwilliams 25 Jan 2019
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        A good deal of GFII is devoted to deromanticizing the Sicilian mafia. They murder Vito's mother!

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      2. Brian Lyman‏Verified account @lyman_brian 25 Jan 2019
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        Definitely interesting, but the movies make clear (Tessio, Carlo, Fredo) the Mafia code is a venal gloss plenty of members dispose of easily.

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      3. Alan Smithee‏ @Smithee_directs 27 Jan 2019
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        The implication is that it used to be possible to rise in the mob following a code and having a real family, but nowadays this is impossible. The first movie turns on a bad business decision by family man Vito: he refuses to enter the drug trade for moral reasons.

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