Fruit of destiny

The Godfather: Part II

Godfather 1 and 2 are great movies. The greatest effect of the movie is to put the fate of others in front of the viewers, so that the viewers will find some experience of traveling with each other when they are on the path of their own destiny, instead of walking alone. From this point of view, the first two works of The Godfather are excellent materials for fate, from which everyone can find their own partners. And the most important thing in this movie is not Marlon Brando's deep and sophisticated conversation, Al Pacino's stern eyes, nor Robert De Niro's firm and confident smile, but the orange that has appeared many times. That is telling the viewers straightforwardly that everyone is harvesting the fruits of their own destiny. The oranges, whether it is the spring breeze, the horseshoe disease, or the maple leaf, the flowers, will inevitably become your life. prove. The Godfather 2 is full of contrasts in the context of parallel narratives, and the first thing that appears is not the various comparisons between the two generations of Godfathers that have been talked about, but the fact that Victor Corleone fled to the United States in 1901 because of smallpox. The contrast between the solitude when he was quarantined and his grandson, Anthony, when he attended the sacrament ceremony at his luxurious manor in 1958. From then on, the lonely and helpless little Vidor and the glamorous little Anthony, each fled with their backs to the place where they started. Widow grew from an orphan with a miserable life experience to a godfather who loved the family megaphone, and Anthony grew from a heir to the gangster who was adored by thousands to an opera actor far away from the family. Although the contrast is so great, there are many traces of the fruit of destiny. Victor inherited his father's bravery to challenge power, and Anthony actually inherited the part of his father Mike's pursuit of self-realization. Victor's father lost his life because of his impulsive bravery, which made the family be cautious and cautious, but he loved his family deeply. Never repeat the fate of his father. When Mike was young, he bravely pursued a self-fulfilling rebellious family to become a navy, but later he was influenced by his father to provoke the burden of the family. Anthony turned to his family history and himself, swearing his bravery by immersing himself in other people's stories and operas. These inheritance and rebellion against family and self, these bravery, self-realization, or cautious characteristics, but because of different soil environment and time, produce different fruits, it is indeed embarrassing. 1. Personality and destiny are different. Personalities determine different destinies, and the contrast of destiny is the core method of constructing the story of the Godfather series. Just like the brother Paul of Little Victor mentioned at the beginning of Godfather 2, he should be a strong and bloody boy. He vowed to avenge his father, but the result was the same as his father. Mutually Vidor, who is anti-stubborn and less-spoken, is able to escape from danger and miraculously escape. It's like the comparison between the second generation Sonny and Mike. One Kong Wu is powerful but too impulsive, the other is calm and low-key but bold, and the fate of the two brothers is surprisingly similar. This is a direct portrayal of character determining destiny. Similar examples abound in this series. The most obvious contrast is that the hot side of Vidor's character corresponds to the cold side of Mike's character, which makes the two generations of godfathers differently dominate the road. The same goes for the supporting actors. The two big bosses Clemenza and Tessio, one is careless and somewhat reckless, and the other is calm and shrewd. These different personalities lead them to make different judgments at critical moments, and the clever ones are instead clever. By mistake. There are also some more marginal supporting actors whose character and destiny are portrayed closely, which makes the Godfather series of movies show a real to cruel atmosphere. Like the Moglin mentioned by Hymen Ross when he spoke to Mike, he knew that Mo's temper was easy to offend, so he didn't feel surprised when he learned that Mo had died. And Frank Pantancurie said when he mentioned his brother that he could have been king here, but he stayed in the small village of his hometown with only two donkeys. The group images formed by the echoes between these personalities and destiny made me take care of my own personality and destiny, and call for correspondence in my heart. This is Godfather 2's deep and excellent way to impress the audience. 2. Times and Destiny The Godfather 2 has another distinctive feature compared with the previous work, that is, the portrayal of the background of the times. This is said to be the result of the Godfather 1’s big sales and the winning of the production budget. The Sicilian villages at the beginning of the century, the craze of European immigration to the United States, the changes in New York City, the turbulent Cuban revolution, and the rise of Las Vegas are all portrayed magnificently and exquisitely. The theme of the influence of the times on the fate of people was brought out by the phrase "the times have changed" when Mike asked his mother helplessly about his father's secrets to uniting the family. In the era when Widow grew up as the godfather of the gang, ethnic relations were the bond that maintained human relationships. For example, when Clemenza threw a pack of guns to him, he would first ask "Are you Italian?". For example, when he went to find the landlord Robert, he would identify with the hometown as a breakthrough in the conversation. In that era, Widow became the godfather of the gang by becoming the representative of the interests of this ethnic group. In fact, before this, the gangs survived by squeezing their own clan. Sicilian gangsters would yell in the square in the middle of the night to frighten the villagers. In that closed environment without foreigners, the earth emperor who killed Widow’s father could use this pattern. It lasted for many years, until Victor returned to contact the new local forces for revenge, and in the original square Accept the blessings of the folks. However, in New York of the same era, Van Lunqi, who was dominating by bullying his fellow clan, was unsurprisingly replaced by Widow, who was able to integrate the interests of his fellow clan, in that fast-developing environment. Because Italians need such a representative to protect them. The Fruit of Destiny is also present here. Van Lunqi directly used the vendor's oranges to play, while Victor wanted to pay the Italian vendor to buy oranges but was given as a favor. It is worth noting that in Godfather 1, the old Widow also went to buy oranges before he was assassinated, but at this time he bought oranges from a Chinese vendor, which shows the meaning of the changes in the times. Against this background, Victor married an Italian wife. She did not interfere too much with Victor. For example, when Victor said not to mention business affairs at the dinner table, she naturally stopped asking questions, and she was also Italian. Ethnicity, she absolutely trusts and supports her husband, even if her husband grows by relying on crime. Mike lived in an era when the American nation’s melting pot was formed. He aspired to enter mainstream American society, so he would give up the exemption from military service that his father had won for him to join the Navy, and would marry a standard American woman like Kay as his wife. . But Kay is destined not to agree with her husband's Sicilian crime, and has a different concept of family. Therefore, when Mike has to follow his own family tradition and maintain a new generation of family, he will lament that the times are different. In his career, Mike has to face more complicated times. It has already been mentioned in The Godfather 1 that some Italian gangs have begun to uncontrollably hire foreigners and participate in the drug business. From this point of view, the life-and-death struggle between the gangs and the misfortune that befalls individuals are also caused by the pressure on them as the wheel of the times moves forward. Although the Victor faction won in the end, the old godfather had to endure the pain of losing his son during his lifetime, and Mike, who had won the war, had to move out of New York to the interior of the United States to adapt to this new era. In The Godfather 2, the feeling of leading the fate of the characters in this era becomes stronger and stronger-without the craze of European immigrants flocking to the United States, it is unknown whether Widow will survive, and without the rapid development of the United States, he will not be able to find opportunities to become. godfather. The torrent of the Cuban revolution can instantly disperse the powerful gangsters. The perfection of the American legal system has also forced Mike to move around, cautiously responding to the pressure from the government. It can be seen that no matter how powerful an individual is, he cannot resist the storms of the times. Third, the reincarnation of destiny, the way of heaven is more than damage, but not enough. Everyone's fate is entangled by the two forces of inheritance and rebellion. To get rid of the fate of being a miserable orphan since childhood, and letting Victor attach great importance to family and affection, inherit Following the seed of love in this heart and the harsh environment of rebellion and confrontation, these two forces combined to make Victor show a strong love for his family and his sons. The caring and distressed look in Fredo's pneumonia, and the kindly whispering that he hugged Mike after he killed Van Lunqi, were both rewards for his love for his mother and compensation for the love he had lost. Mike grew up in a rapidly growing gangster family. What he felt in his heart was his father's deep love for him, and the surrounding environment made him not lack of love. As the youngest son, he did not bear the pressure of the family business at the beginning. Therefore, his initial plan for the future was related to self-realization. He must want to use his own independent efforts to not only repay the love of his father and family, but also to compensate for the lack of freedom since childhood. It’s a pity that after the family’s sudden changes, he must take on his own responsibilities, so he chose to inherit between the family and the self. These two destiny forces did not completely converge to the same place, but began to entangle each other. Let's look at Mike's brother Fredo. He has been tortured by pneumonia since he was a child. He was a weak person. Even her mother would joke with him that he was picked up from a Gypsy. His weak physique and personality made him magnify the contempt from his relatives. The seeds planted made him too weak to control his drunk wife and rely on family thugs. But he also has a desire to get rid of and fight against this fate, which makes him speak for outsiders one after another, and finally aim at his younger brother, but still surrounded by this sense of weakness, unable to truly determine to usurp the throne, these two are opposite. The power finally announced his end. I am not a psychologist, and I don’t know if this is really in line with certain psychological laws, but I still want to extend from this simple discovery and think about how the fruits of fate are formed? Why, as an orphan, Victor finally reaped a relatively complete family and love, while his three sons grew up in a complete family, but why did they all face various problems and conflicts, each with a nearly tragic ending? Whether the family's influence on people is really positive and negative at the same time. There is part of inheritance and part of rebellion. It is his misfortune for Victor to be an orphan, but it is also a kind of luck in the dark, because the object of his rebellion is not the family life faced by ordinary people, but the lack of family, so he will build a stable family. These are two different forces that will weave their destiny like two strands of thread. In life, such examples are everywhere. For example, children who grew up in poverty are very easy to Money is fascinated and used to rebel against the initial lack, but they can't get rid of the character developed in the initial poverty. If you don’t have the character to handle money properly, coupled with the mentality of rebellion against the rich, it’s easy to lose out. So it makes sense to say that you are not rich for three generations. The influence of the family on a person is profound. How to discover the two forces of inheritance and rebellion against the family in the heart, and to seize the right time to awaken one of these modes, may be the key to planting the fruits of destiny. The scene in which Widow assassinated Van Lunqi was undoubtedly the climax of Godfather 2. He calmly completed every step, and finally completed his coronation ceremony in the crowd of fireworks celebrating. The first step for him to become a godfather is so natural, because this is what he wants to do most, so the whole scene is bright and pleasant, and the soundtrack is deep and firm. Compare Mike’s first step to become a godfather. The blurred and wandering eyes before he assassinated the police chief and the Turkish drug lord are said to be the reason why the director Coppola chose Al Pacino to play the role, and this look and the whole assassination process , The pictures are all dark and trance, and the soundtrack also reveals a tragic meaning. The reason is that this path is not what Mike really wanted to take, but the path he had to choose in order to bear the responsibility of the family. At the end of The Godfather 2, Mike was thinking haggardly under the background of falling leaves. He once pursued freedom and shouldered a heavy burden for his family, but in the end he became lonely. Fate is indeed so unpredictable. In many cases, maybe we are on the same footing, enjoying the applause of the crowd, or maybe we can't pursue it so hard that we indulge ourselves. But remember this is just fate that brought you here. If this destiny has not yet produced sweet fruits, then please don't be unwilling and feel sorry for yourself, because it is just planting new fruits. No matter what you are harvesting now, please accept it. Because it is a gift from the past. Success and failure can also be celebrated at the same time, and hope to live with the abyss, because you can only accept it, like everyone else, no matter what it feels like. Ruodi finishes every step, and finally completes his coronation ceremony among the crowd celebrating with fireworks in the street. The first step for him to become a godfather is so natural, because this is what he wants to do most, so the whole scene is bright and pleasant, and the soundtrack is deep and firm. Compare Mike’s first step to become a godfather. The blurred and wandering eyes before he assassinated the police chief and the Turkish drug lord are said to be the reason why the director Coppola chose Al Pacino to play the role, and this look and the whole assassination process , The pictures are all dark and trance, and the soundtrack also reveals a tragic meaning. The reason is that this path is not what Mike really wanted to take, but the path he had to choose in order to bear the responsibility of the family. At the end of The Godfather 2, Mike was thinking haggardly under the background of falling leaves. He once pursued freedom and shouldered a heavy burden for his family, but in the end he became lonely. Fate is indeed so unpredictable. In many cases, maybe we are on the same footing, enjoying the applause of the crowd, or maybe we can't pursue it so hard that we indulge ourselves. But remember this is just fate that brought you here. If this destiny has not yet produced sweet fruits, then please don't be unwilling and feel sorry for yourself, because it is just planting new fruits. No matter what you are harvesting now, please accept it. Because it is a gift from the past. Success and failure can also be celebrated at the same time, and hope to live with the abyss, because you can only accept it, like everyone else, no matter what it feels like. Ruodi finishes every step, and finally completes his coronation ceremony among the crowd celebrating with fireworks in the street. The first step for him to become a godfather is so natural, because this is what he wants to do most, so the whole scene is bright and pleasant, and the soundtrack is deep and firm. Compare Mike’s first step to become a godfather. The blurred and wandering eyes before he assassinated the police chief and the Turkish drug lord are said to be the reason why the director Coppola chose Al Pacino to play the role, and this look and the whole assassination process , The pictures are all dark and trance, and the soundtrack also reveals a tragic meaning. The reason is that this path is not what Mike really wanted to take, but the path he had to choose in order to bear the responsibility of the family. At the end of The Godfather 2, Mike was thinking haggardly under the background of falling leaves. He once pursued freedom and shouldered a heavy burden for his family, but in the end he became lonely. Fate is indeed so unpredictable. In many cases, maybe we are on the same footing, enjoying the applause of the crowd, or maybe we can't pursue it so hard that we indulge ourselves. But remember this is just fate that brought you here. If this destiny has not yet produced sweet fruits, then please don't be unwilling and feel sorry for yourself, because it is just planting new fruits. No matter what you are harvesting now, please accept it. Because it is a gift from the past. Success and failure can also be celebrated at the same time, and hope to live with the abyss, because you can only accept it, like everyone else, no matter what it feels like. There is unwillingness, self-pity, because it is just planting new fruits. No matter what you are harvesting now, please accept it. Because it is a gift from the past. Success and failure can also be celebrated at the same time, and hope to live with the abyss, because you can only accept it, like everyone else, no matter what it feels like. There is unwillingness, self-pity, because it is just planting new fruits. No matter what you are harvesting now, please accept it. Because it is a gift from the past. Success and failure can also be celebrated at the same time, and hope to live with the abyss, because you can only accept it, like everyone else, no matter what it feels like.

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