#Vitelli-Corleone

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SIMONETTA STEFANELLI as Apollonia Vitelli in 'The Godfather' (1972)

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Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather character notes for the extended Corleone family, based on each character's description in Mario Puzo's original novel (from The Godfather Notebook, 2016)

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The Godfather (1972)

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[maleficis]

In   Sicily,   women   are   more   dangerous   than   shotguns.

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Simonetta Stefanelli as Apollonia Vittelli in The Godfather

[august-diehl]

— The eyes, chico. They never lie.

[melis-writes]

Lmao my favourite thing is when deluded Ap*ll*nia stans say that Michael went back to Kay not because he loved her but because she was convenient/he had no choice.

Michael? Corleone? Michael Corleone?? 👀 We're talking about MICHAEL CORLEONE, right? NO CHOICE? 🥱 THIS IS MICHAEL CORLEONE. 💀 That man could have any woman he wants, Sicilian or not, and you think in a world revolving around his choices, he would simply SETTLE? 🤣 Have y'all watched the rest of the movie??? That man did anything BUT settle. Please. 💀

[forgetcakes]

I genuinely don't get the hype over Apollonia and don't get the people either who are saying that Michael Corleone loved her more than Kay and she was his biggest love like are y'all for real? did y'all even read the book? I genuinely think that the half of the fandom only watched the movie and that's all because how can you read the book and say that he didn't loved Kay and Apollonia was love of his life when it's the opposite?

And I hate how aggressive some people get in this fandom if you say that Michael loved Kay lol some people have this fantasies over Apollonia that she was this amazing woman and he loved her so much more than Kay when? where? where did he once showed that he loved Apollonia more than Kay? bffr💀💀

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So, I love to watch videos of people reacting for the first time to movies. Almost every time I’ve watched people reacting to The Godfather movies, I’ve noticed that a large chunk of people (especially men, true, but surprisingly a LOT of women) all hate or strongly dislike Kay. Even growing up, both my parents disliked Kay lol, I remember.

It’s surprising to me, as I like all the women in the trilogy (yes, even Mary! Her character is sweet and affectionate, and I love how close she is with her dad!), and I always did like Kay…though I admit, I simply don’t like her with Michael after he decides to join the family business. Apollonia would have been the best fit. Besides, in Part 3, Michael sobs when Anthony sings the love song and thinks of Apollonia and their wedding even years later. And he chooses to return to Sicily to sit and brood/die in the place where they spent time together. That says it all, for me.

I can't say I've spent a lot of time on whether or not I liked Kay or Apollonia or both or neither in relation to these films. I remember watching the second film with my mother, and when the dancing scene between Michael and Kay came up, she said: "Hm. She's frightened."

I do find it surprising how many people make it about liking or not liking either or both of Michael's wives, when discussing the films as a whole. Kay doesn't fit into the mob world, that's the whole point of her, that's why Michael chose her initially, and that's why the audience may not like her - she sticks out like a sore thumb. She shouldn't be there. She agrees! That has nothing to do with how good she would have been for Michael. I do like Kay, the girl has guts. And I think that Apollonia and Michael would have made a fantastic mob marriage.

Michael ghosted Kay, and that is a shit way to break up whatever the circumstances, and by rights, they should have stayed broken up. Michael would have been nothing but a cad boyfriend who turned into a criminal, so people would have said she dodged a bullet.

Ah, but it isn't that simple, is it. If you share your time and love with someone, there will always be some form of bond. Whether or not you act on it is a completely different matter, and I feel Michael should have started fresh, and left Kay the hell alone. He could have written to break up, thank her and tell her to build a life without her. Or simply let her be one of those sacrifices you make, the same he later asks of Vincent. This life isn't good for Kay.

Would it have been good for Apollonia? I think she might have been more familiar with the codes of mob life, I think both Vito and Carmella would have adored her, I think it could have worked out beautifully. She probably wouldn't have felt the need to escape, or that the American life was better than what she left, she wouldn't feel so torn because she knew her roots. Maybe her children may have felt less at ease, but their father would have grown up completely American and helped them.

But it was not to be. Michael already gave up Kay for the life, and I believe him when he says he thought of her. And I believe in love at first sight with Apollonia, and he lost her, and I feel that if Apollonia is gone completely, maybe he can rekindle the love bond with Kay? And he does, under force, and they spend more time as husband and wife, and of course this strengthens that bond as well. But Kay is unhappy, so she breaks it off this time, and yet Michael refuses to let go of that bond (who do you think Mary gets it from)?

Apollonia and Michael is more romantic, less stressful - the fairytale his mob life cannot be. Kay is more realistic. They share a strong young love, and later, at Michael's absolute insistence, a very painful marriage, and Michael loves her and he loves Apollonia because I think that this is something that can happen. You can love two different people, if you want -widowed people do love again, and that doesn't negate the love they lost. Now of course, there may be sexism going on. A woman should simply be pretty and quiet, huh? Do we know a single of Apollonia's opinions other than her wanting to drive and not wanting to bother with English? Whereas Kay actually challenges Michael the way a wife has a right to challenge her spouse! And some people don't want to challenge their spouse and that is fine too! The point is that a marriage should work between two people and Michael's and Kay's didn't and Kay was the one calling that long before Michael, if she does love him. And Michael does not want to give it up. It's tragic, but it isn't Kay's sole fault. Again, she did move on. She rejeced his proposal, or tried to, he didn't want to hear no, she left him, he won't let her be, because he can't let go of emotional bonds apparently.

And who is to say who Apollonia might have become? These films are so very rarely interested in the world of these women, only looking at them in how they affect the men. And that's fine, the films are about Michael. But it's unfair to reduce all the other characters as people to how they relate to Michael. I promise you, if anyone ever made a biopic of my father, you wouldn't get to know everything there is to know about me simply by watching how I relate to him, or vice versa. People are allowed to exist however good they are, or not, for other people.

[latristereina]

Sweet summer child… Apollonia is the most sexualized character (by Michael) in the book 🤣.

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The Godfather (1972)

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The Godfather (1972)

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