Daily Dialogue — October 17, 2011
SONNY: Ah, say — what do you think of the nerve those Japs — those slanty eyed bastards, huh. Dropping bombs in out back yard — and on Pops birthday ya know.
FREDO: Now they didn’t know it was Pop’s birthday.
SONNY: They didn’t know it was Pop’s birthday.
TOM: We should have expected it after the oil embargo.
SONNY: What do you mean expect it — expect it or not they have no right dropping bombs. What are you a Jap lover or something — are you on their side?
TESSIO: I understand thirty thousand men enlisted this morning.
SONNY: A bunch of saps.
MICHAEL: Why are they saps?
CONNIE: Come on we don’t have to talk about the war.
SONNY: Hey, beat it — you go talk to Carlo alright. They’re saps because they risk their lives for strangers.
MICHAEL: Now that’s Pop talking.
SONNY: You’re god damn right that’s Pop talking.
MICHAEL: They risk, they risk their lives for their country.
SONNY: Your country’s not your blood — you remember that.
MICHAEL: I don’t feel that way.
SONNY: Well, if you don’t fell that way, why don’t you just quit college and go to — go to join the Army.
MICHAEL: I did — I enlisted in the Marines.
TOM: Michael why — why didn’t you come to us? I mean Pop had to pull a lot of strings to get you a deferment.
MICHAEL: I didn’t ask for a deferment — and I didn’t want it.
SONNY: What’s wrong.
TOM: Come on, come on knock it off.
TESSIO: Sonny –
SONNY: Punk!
TESSIO: Sonny — Sonny, sit down.
SONNY: Go on.
TESSIO: Sit down.
TWIN: Mommy, Daddy’s fighting again.
SONNY: Go show Carlo the tree.
TWIN: — Uncle Michael, Mama.
SONNY: Nice — real nice — break your father’s heart on his birthday.
FREDO: That’s swell — congratulations.
SONNY: Go on, encourage him. I want — I want you to get me a drink — go on.
TOM: Now you don’t understand but, uh, your father has big plans for you. Now many times he and I have talked about your future.
MICHAEL: Talked to my father about my future? My future.
TOM: Mikey, he has high hopes for you.
MICHAEL: Well, I have my own plans for my future.
SONNY: What’d you go to college to get stupid? You’re really stupid.
CONNIE: He’s here come on.
[Every but MICHAEL walks out.]
SONNY: Come on — come on — stupid.
[MICHAEL sits alone at the table.]
EVERYONE: Surprise — For he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s a jolly good fellow — that nobody can deny — that nobody can deny.
— Sonny (James Caan), Fredo (John Cazale), Tom (Robert Duval), Tessio (John Aprea), Michael (Al Pacino), Connie (Talia Shire), The Godfather: Part II (1974), screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s novel
The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is mealtime conversations, suggested by Deaf Ears, who also suggested The Godfather: Part II.
Trivia: The first sequel to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Dialogue On Dialogue: It’s considered one of the best ending scenes in movie history. Why?