One of the last acts of Don Corleone
as Godfather is to bring back the peace by calling for a meeting of the five families.
You can watch the scene rel="noreferrer">here.
Corleone
makes the case for why narcotics are something he wants to stay out of. Then another guy
stands up and makes the case for narcotics. Corleone says he came there to reason and
find the peace, and Barzini declares that the narcotics trade will commence despite what
Corleone wants, and that Corleone will give up a lot of his power. Corleone gives a
monologue where he doesn't seem to say much, and then just like that it's
over.
Why did he give in so easily? He didn't
even seem to put up a fight or to argue his case. I don't understand why he felt it was
necessary to give Barzini and Tattaglia and his other enemies exactly what they wanted
just to keep the peace. Surely they all wanted peace as well. Yet it seems like Don
Corleone just got slapped in the face at the meeting.
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