Vito's Character: Family, Violence, and Early Movie Stakes #thegodfather #vitocorleone #ghostwriter

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]That's another part of his character, is that Vito is extremely family-oriented.

[00:00:04]Again, the writers are compressing all of this information about the character that is going to pay off throughout the rest of the movie into this first scene.

[00:00:12]It's like fireworks. There's so much happening all at once. The stakes are being set, the characters are being developed. This is a world of life and death. This is a world of violence. We know that all immediately from 5 minutes of film, and also know that from five pages of screenplay.