The Godfather is a novel by American author Mario Puzo, which was well received by readers after its publication in 1969 and quickly became the number one bestseller in the history of American publishing at that time. Later, Puzo also collaborated with Francis Coppola to adapt The Godfather into a film screenplay that was brought to the big screen in 1972. Starring superstars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, the film was so brilliant that it won an Oscar and became an immortal classic in the history of cinema. In 2006, Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) adapted it into a game of the same name, which quickly swept the world.
In the summer of 1945, Vitto Corleone, the leader of the Corleone family of the New York Mafia in the United States, held a grand wedding for his youngest daughter Connie. The "godfather" is an Italian Sicilian, and it is said that no Sicilian would refuse a friend's request at a wedding. So, the only daughter of the only daughter was insulted and beaten by the friend found him, although the friend's only daughter is the goddaughter of the godfather's wife, but he has maintained a light relationship with him because he is afraid of owing the godfather's affection and the mafia; in order to fight for the role of "male pig's foot" in a new film, the past singer found him, although his own godfather is the "godfather", he divorced and messed around, completely disobeying the godfather's respect for the family's teachings... The Godfather taught them coldly and harshly, but at the same time generously helped.
The "Godfather" had three sons: the eldest son, Sonny, was generous and lustful, the second son, Fred, was obedient and well-behaved, and the younger son, Mike, had just returned from service in the U.S. Navy and was a combat hero, but in the Sicilian concept, the fighting hero who was loyal to the United States was a joke in itself.
Sonny is his father's right-hand man, and it is only natural that he will inherit his godfather's position in the future. Although Mike is shrewd and capable, he has no interest in the family's "career", and he brings back a girlfriend, a pure Protestant American girl, who is more incompatible with the Catholic, Italian-rich family.
If everything is not variable, the history behind the family may be the death of the old godfather, the eldest son Sonny inherits the boss's seat, the business is in order, and occasionally there are some innocuous bloody conflicts, while the younger son Mike may become a university professor, married Kay from a Protestant Baptist family background, and whether their children have Catholic faith is unknown.
(Mike grew up with no interest in family affairs, but the only person who was more aggressive than his father was him.)
But the change occurred unexpectedly. The "Godfather" is a mafia magnate, but he has his own bottom line, he rejected the drug lord "Turks" to join forces to sell drugs, and thus intensified the conflict with several other mafia families in New York.
Sonny made an incalculable mistake by showing a hint of interest in the drug trade during the negotiations, with the drug lords believing that as long as the godfather was removed, the successor Sonny could become a partner. So, on Christmas Eve, the drug lords kidnapped the "Godfather's" adopted son, the family legal adviser Tom Hagen, and sent someone to assassinate the "Godfather".
The "Godfather" is shot and hospitalized, and the "Turk" asks Tom to try to get Sonny to renegotiate and agree to join forces in the drug trade. The drug lord's judgment is also completely wrong, Sonny cannot restart negotiations with the enemy who assassinated his father, but he is full of vengeance and anger, but he does not know how to proceed.
Mike goes to the hospital to visit his father, but finds that the hospital is empty except for the injured father, and it turns out that the police and the drug lord are in a hurry to drive away all the family's bodyguards. Mike's potential and love for his family are sparked by this particular scene, where he wrestles wits with his enemies in the hospital and ultimately saves his father's life.
Because of the assassination of the godfather, the balance of power between the New York mafia was broken, and the firefight between the major families was on the verge of breaking out. The drug lord and the sheriff demand negotiations with Mike. Inside a small restaurant, Mike kills the drug lord and the sheriff with a pistol hidden in the bathroom beforehand.
From a combat hero to a murderer, Mike flees to his father's hometown of Sicily, where he thinks he may end up old, so he marries Apollonia, a pure and beautiful local girl, and enjoys an idyllic life, but there is always a deep layer of uneasiness and hidden worry in his heart.
Mike's concerns are not unfounded, and at the same time, the feud between the various mafia families in New York has become white-hot, and Sonny has been betrayed by her brother-in-law Connie's husband Carlo and shot and killed by another mafia family at a highway toll booth.
Mike, who heard the bad news of his brother's death, could not stay out of the matter. The bribed bodyguard loads a bomb on Mike's car, and although he escapes, his beloved wife is blown to pieces. The "Godfather" returns from injury and arranges reconciliation between the families, according to the settlement agreement, the Godfather promises that he will not take revenge in his life, in exchange, Mike returns to New York safely, and renews the frontier with his ex-girlfriend Kai and concludes a marriage.
The aging "Godfather" passed on the position of family leader to Mike. The "Godfather"'s promise not to take revenge can be understood as a peaceful life for everyone in his lifetime, in fact, this is to pass on the burden of revenge to Mike.
After the death of the "Godfather", Mike did indeed act. He sent assassins to assassinate the leaders of two other rival families and kill the bodyguards who murdered his ex-wife, as well as to kill his brother-in-law Carlo to avenge his brother Sonny.
The enemy was cut off, and Mike became the shocking "godfather" of the new prestige. The only discordant tone is Connie frantically tearing Mike apart because her husband was killed. Mike grimaced and ordered the psychiatrist to take Connie away, but he calmly explained to his wife, Kay, that he had not killed his sister's husband.
It wasn't until Kay saw the mafia's subordinates respectfully salute their husbands one by one that she finally understood that her husband's defenses were lies, and that he had become a new godfather who was as determined and fierce as an old godfather.
This book is the birth of a word, the set of parents and brothers in one, college, as a navy, as a hero, want to have an ordinary American dream, simply do not want to get involved in family affairs of the young son, and finally avoided, became a new generation of godfathers, which confirms the book has always wanted to express "everyone has only one destiny."
As Mr. Yang Ming said, "Initially drowning in the habit of Renxia, then drowning in the habit of riding and shooting, and drowning in the habit of words and chapters; Four drowned in the habits of the gods, and five drowned in the habits of the Buddha. Zhengde Bingyin, who first returned to the study of the sages (Zhan Ruoshui's "Epitaph of Mr. Yang Ming"), all rebellion and deviation are in preparation for becoming the person he should be.
There must be friends who see this and are angry at the author for putting the mafia boss and Mr. Yang Ming together, and slowly complaining, what the author wants to say is that from the perspective of political correctness, this book may be nothing more than a thief after all, but the brilliance of human nature that shines in it is worthy of a sentence of benevolence.
So, naturally, this book is a man's Bible. Although this sentence has become a cliché for the marketing promotion of this book, what I want to say is that when a person is blackmailed for dozens of dollars by, when a person's family encounters an unprecedented crisis, perhaps ten thousand of them choose to be patient, and the one who does not bow his head eventually becomes the real voter and king - if he chooses to go to the Senate to defend himself, it will not be Caesar; if he chooses to be sent to the left, it will not be the national surname.
Dartmouth College's college education finally could not resist the natural blood of Sicilian in the veins, and the bright Sicily sunshine finally could not stop the pace of the wind and rain in New York, the only thing that made people feel sad was that the fate of the daisy-like Apollonia was only death, and the fate of kai like a rose was only behind her mother-in-law Carmela.