Everyone finds some way to sympathies with one or both of the most powerful characters. Michael is brought into the family business of crime almost immediately after his father is “shot three times in the back”. The movie watcher knows this, and knows that Michael is going to kill the man who tried to kill his father. “Murder is unforgivable”, is a thought that echoes in any ones head when they find themselves learning of how meticulously the murders of (Michaels enemies) are planed, yet it’s never really a thought that is registered because of the circumstances under which Michael must kill his enemys. No one casts blame on Michael killing, but instead feels relief at idea

There are many other characters for which the movie goer feels. One of the many characters is Tom Hagen; he is the man who has grown up with the Corleone family, never quite a son to his accepted father. Tom is a man whose every move is for the “family” , yet he’s not trusted by the people with whom he is closest. His “brother” Michael doesn’t trust that Tom would turn down offers from other “families”, and the movie goer can’t help but think, “what has s a guy got to do to be accepted under these lifestyles”. Only to find that it never happens, not for Tom anyway. On the other hand, there are different parties the onlooker does not seem to feel for, or generally dislikes completely. One Luca Brasi is a character the movie goer learns to hate and loathe once finding that he had his own newborn child thrown into a furnace on his orders, as he watched. Learning of something like this makes anybody cringe with disgust.

The same case is that of Michael’s father, the “Godfather”, here a man whose very hateable, is loved because of the viewers knowledge of him, and not just what he does. For example, the movie goer knows that the “Don” (as he is called) knows of the ways of the Costa Nost

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