No, I buy you out, you don't buy me out. Michael : Your casino loses money, maybe we can do better. Moe Greene : You think I'm skimmin off the top, Mike? Michael : [Michael shakes his head] You're unlucky. Moe Greene : You goddamn guineas you really make me laugh. I do you a favor and take Freddie in when you're having a bad time, and now you're gonna try and push me out! Michael : You took Freddie in because the Corleone Family bankrolled your casino, and the Molinari Family on the Coast guaranteed his safety.
Now we're talking business, let's talk business. Moe Greene : Yeah, let's talk business, Mike. First of all, you're all done.
The Corleone Family don't even have that kind of muscle anymore. The Godfather's sick, right? You're getting chased out of New York by Barzini and the other Families. What do you think is going on here? You think you can come to my hotel and take over? I talked to Barzini - I can make a deal with him, and still keep my hotel! Michael : Is that why you slapped my brother around in public?
Fredo : Aw, now that, that was nothin', Mike. Moe didn't mean nothin' by that. Yeah, sure he flies off the handle every once in a while, but me and him, we're good friends, right Moe? Moe Greene : I got a business to run. I gotta kick asses sometimes to make it run right. We had a little argument, Freddy and me, so I had to straighten him out.
Michael : You straightened my brother out? Moe Greene : He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time! Players couldn't get a drink at the table! What's the matter with you? Michael : I leave for New York tomorrow, think about a price. Moe Greene : Sonofabitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene! I made my bones when you were going out with cheerleaders! Fredo : Wait a minute, Moe, Moe, I got an idea.
Tom, you're the Consiglieri and you can talk to the Don, you can explain Tom Hagen : Now hold it right there. The Don is semi-retired and Mike is in charge of the Family business now. If you have anything to say, say it to Michael. Fredo : [Moe Greene leaves] Mike! You do not come to Las Vegas and talk to a man like Moe Greene like that! Michael : Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Don Corleone : Give me a drop.
Don Corleone : My wife is crying upstairs. I hear cars coming to the house. Consigliore of mine, I think it's time you told your Don what everyone seems to know. Tom Hagen : I didn't tell Mama anything. I was just about to come up and wake you so that I could tell you. Don Corleone : But you needed a drink first. Don Corleone : And now you've had your drink.
Tom Hagen : They shot Sonny on the causeway. He's dead. Don Corleone : [speaking at last] I want no inquiries made. I want no acts of vengeance. I want you to arrange a meeting with the heads of the Five Families.
This war stops now. Tom Hagen : When I meet with Tattaglia's men, should I insist all their drug middlemen have clean records? Don Corleone : Mention it, don't insist. But Barzini will know that without being told. Tom Hagen : You mean Tattaglia Don Corleone : Tattaglia is a pimp.
He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn't know until this day that it was Barzini all along. Don Corleone : Call Bonasera. We need him now. Now, you owe your Don a service. He has no doubt that you will repay him. In one hour he will be at your funeral parlor to ask for your help. Be there to greet him. Don Corleone : Well, my friend, are you ready to do me this service? Bonasera : Yes. What do you want me to do? Don Corleone : [staring at the table] I want you to use all your powers, and all your skills.
I don't want his mother to see him this way. Don Corleone : [breaking down for a moment] Look how they massacred my boy Michael Corleone : Where does it say that you can't kill a cop? Tom Hagen : Come on, Mikey Michael Corleone : Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a - a - a dishonest cop - a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.
That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom? Michael Corleone : And they might like a story like that. Tom Hagen : They might, they just might. Michael Corleone : [to Sonny] It's not personal, Sonny. He would publicly renounce Satan and all of his works at the baptism of his godson and promise that he would protect that child from the wickedness of the world while outside his men murdered all of his enemies. Source : Character analysis.
Short answer: just as Michael tells him, Tom is not a wartime consigliere. While Tom is skilled with legal maneuvers, basic intelligence gathering and diplomacy, a wartime consigliere needs also to be ruthlessly skilled at things like espionage and counter-espionage. Much of "Godfather 2" is Michael's struggle with deception and routing out duplicitous agency.
Recall in the first "Godfather" that Sonny berates Tom for not being a wartime consiglieri, specifically, not a Sicilian :. Tom's biggest failure as consiglieri was not seeing the angles which put Barzinni and Solozzo in cahoots - many of which stem from "the old country". Were Tom Sicilian, he might have questioned how Solozzo "The Turk" came to have heroin processing plants in Sicily in the first place and investigated this more deeply.
Tom also suggests to Don Corleone that it might be a good idea to get into the drug business or else the "five families" might. He was unaware that they had already gotten into the business and Solozzo was only looking to Don Corleone for legal and political protection. Tom did not suss out that the Tattaglia's were a front for Barzini - he was playing catch up the whole time:. Given his character, Michael realizes Tom won't be able to rise up to the difficult and international maneuvers which he is planning for the family interests.
Given Tom's strengths, he is also much more valuable to Michael as a legitimate lawyer for the family. Because they're brothers and sometimes brothers lash out at each other.
Tho I don't think he blames Tom for Sonny's death or the assassination attempt on Don Corleone, Michael knows if Tom were a better consigliere, these tragedies may have been avoided. I think Tom did well with the Sollozo ordeal as far as what he gathered. Even Sollozo was impressed by Tom there. What even the Godfather failed to see was Barzini backing Tattalagia from the beginning. Tom being demoted from consigliere was for 2 reasons, neither of which had much to do with Hagen's inability.
Tom Hagen was a great consigliere and Micheal loved and admired him since he's the only individual in the family who could be trusted after Fredo's betrayal. Since Micheal wanted to legitimize the family business, he felt that a war time counselor wasn't needed anymore.
However, Michael assured Tom that should anything happen to him, Tom will become head of the family. The reason he was removed was that when Michael became the New Goodfather in the first part he puts his father as consiglierie. Mike becomes Goodfather and Vito dies So at least he had his father as comsiglieri for 2 years. Mike takes the Corleone family to much higher power than his father.
His father had to fight the 5 families in New York. And There was a commision Where all the maffia heads of families met. After that he becomes the most powerful maffia Don in the USA so the commision has No importances anymore and disappears.
All other Dons has to Ask him so there is No need for a commission anymore because Michael is so much more powerful than all the other dons. He has become the absolute most powerful crime boss in USA. I still haven't found a satisfying answer to this question. What happened to Tom Hagen in The Godfather? Did Tom Hagen kill the horse? Did Tom Hagen know Michael killed Fredo? Who tried killing Michael Corleone? What did Michael Corleone say to Fredo?
Which actor was not in all three godfathers? When Hagen was eleven years old, his mother caught an eye infection that resulted in blindness, and died soon after from venereal disease. Tom also caught the eye infection, which went untreated until he lived with the Corleones. Torn up with grief, Tom's father drank himself to death. Tom and his sister were sent to an orphanage, but Tom ran away.
His sister ended up in a foster home, but the social agencies of the time did not follow up on Tom's case. Tom lived on the streets alone for more than a year. After encountering a homeless Tom on the streets, Sonny took him home and persuaded his father to take him into the family. Although the Don never formally adopted him, thinking that this would have been an act of disrespect to Hagen's parents, Hagen thought of Vito Corleone as his true father.
In many ways, Vito's adoption of the street urchin Hagen paralleled how Vito himself was taken in by Signor Abbandando when he was a child. After graduating from law school, Hagen offered to work for Corleone as though he were one of the Don's own sons.
He did so knowing full well that Vito wasn't merely an olive-oil importer, but the most powerful crime boss in the nation. Vito was more than willing to take Tom into his employ, saying that a lawyer could steal more than a phalanx of gunmen. His German-Irish ancestry precluded his formal membership in the Mafia , which did not accept non-Italians.
Despite this, Tom wielded immense power within the Corleone family under Vito, as he was both Vito's advocate and his most trusted advisor in most matters — his cunning and diplomacy had always been a more valuable asset than Sonny's open aggression.
In mid- , longtime Corleone family consigliere Genco Abbandando became seriously ill, and Hagen was named acting consigliere.
Don Corleone formally appointed Hagen to the post after Genco's death, making him the first non-Italian to achieve that important position. In the novel, it was said that Hagen's ascension to consigliere caused certain rival Mafia families to refer jokingly to the Corleones, behind their backs, as "the Irish gang" due to Hagen's Irish ancestry.
In , shortly after Connie Corleone 's wedding, Hagen was dispatched by Vito Corleone to Hollywood in order to convince Jack Woltz , a big-time movie studio head, to give singer Johnny Fontane Vito's godson the lead role in his new war film.
When Woltz discovered who exactly Hagen worked for, he invited him over to his palatial estate for dinner, and showed him his prized horse, Khartoum. During the dinner, when Hagen again "suggested" that Woltz give Fontane the role, Woltz erupted at him and revealed that Johnny would never get the career-making role because of his ruination of one of Woltz's brightest up-and-coming female stars. Later, men stole into Woltz's stables and Rocco Lampone decapitated Khartoum, then placed the horse's severed head and a large amount of its blood in Woltz's bed.
Shortly afterwards, Johnny was given the role by Woltz. Tom's personal power began to decline almost immediately after the first assassination attempt on Vito, despite the fact that Sollozzo and the rival Families wanted him to remain consigliere for the Corleones. Knowing that he was very close to Sonny who was now acting Don they needed his diplomacy skills to convince Sonny to take the narcotics deal, as both he and Sonny had realized its' potential when Vito refused it.
However, Sonny's temper caused him to ignore most of the advice Tom gave him, and initiate a costly mob war that lasted several years. While he loved all the Corleones, Hagen always idolized Sonny, and when Sonny was murdered, Hagen blamed himself. He had to drink some anisette to calm his nerves before breaking the news to Vito. With Vito still unwell, Tom became Acting Don. After Michael Corleone became operating head of the Corleone family, he removed Hagen as consigliere on his father's advice, restricting him to handling the family's legal business in Nevada , Chicago , and Los Angeles.
When Tom asks why he was being removed, Michael answers by telling him he just isn't "a wartime consigliere", adding that it was no reflection on the work he had done for them in the past.
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