The Godfather - Great Scene - 1972 When Michael Corleone Takes Command - HD WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
It's not personal!
DISSOLVE TO: Corleone mall, during the day. Tom, Clemenza and Michael get out of the
car and walk through the gate, noticing armed men all over the mall. Tessio greets them.
-day
CLEMENZA
What's with all the new faces?
TESSIO
We'll need'em now. After the hospital thing, Sonny got mad. We hit Bruno Tattaglia 4
o'clock this morning.
CLEMENZA
Jesus Christ...
(then, motions to Michael to come on)
It looks like a fortress around here...
CUT TO: Inside the Corleone office -day
SONNY (to Tom)
Tom-anuch! Hey, a hundred button men on the street twenty-four hours a day; that Turk
shows one hair on his ass, he's dead --
TOM (going to sit down)
Yeah?
SONNY
-- believe me...
(then, to Michael, whose face is bruised from McCluskey's punch)
Hey, Michael, come're, let me look at you. You look beautiful! Beautiful! Just gorgeous!
(then, to Tom)
Hey, listen to this -- the Turk wants to talk. Eh gosh -- imagine the nerve of the sonofabitch,
eh? Craps out last night, and wants a meetin' today...
TOM
What did he say?
SONNY
What did he say -- Badda-beep, badda-bap, badda-boop, badda-beep -- He wants us to send
Michael here to proposition. And the promise is, that the deal is so good, that we can't
refuse. Eh...
TOM (as Tessio enters the room)
What about Bruno Tattaglia?
SONNY
That's part of the deal -- Bruno cancels out what they did to my father...
TOM
Sonny, we ought to hear what they have to say...
SONNY (standing in front of Tom, who's seated)
No; no; no! No more! Not this time, consiglieri. No more meetin's, no more discussions, no
more Sollozzo tricks. You give'em one message: I want Sollozzo -- if not, it's all-out war --
we go to the mattresses...
TOM (stands)
Some of the other families won't sit still for all-out war!
SONNY
Then they hand me Sollozzo!
TOM
Your father wouldn't want to hear this! This is business, not personal, Sonny!
SONNY
They shot my father -- that's business? Your ass...
TOM
Even the shooting of your father was business, not personal, Sonny!
SONNY (now seated behind the desk)
Well, then, business will have to suffer, alright? And listen -- do me a favor, Tom -- No
more advice on how to patch things up. Just help me win, please, alright?
TOM (after they settle down)
I found out about this Captain McCluskey who broke Mike's jaw...
SONNY
What about 'im?
TOM
Now he's definitely on Sollozzo's payroll, and for big money. McCluskey has agreed to be
the Turk's bodyguard. What you have to understand, Sonny, is that while Sollozzo is being
guarded like this, he is invulnerable. Now nobody has ever gunned down a New York police
captain -- never. It would be disastrous. All the Five Families would come after you, Sonny.
The Corleone Family would be outcasts! Even the old man's political protection would run
for cover! So do me a favor -- take this into consideration.
SONNY
Alright. We'll wait.
MICHAEL
We can't wait.
SONNY
Huh?
MICHAEL (who's seated with his arms on the chair's arms)
We can't wait. I don't care what Sollozzo says about a deal, he's gonna kill Pop, that's it.
That's the key for him. Gotta get Sollozzo.
CLEMENZA
Mike is right...
SONNY
Lemme ask you something, Professor, I mean -- what about McCluskey? Huh? What do we
do with this -- cop here?
MICHAEL
They wanna have a meeting with me, right? It will be me -- McCluskey -- and Sollozzo.
Let's set the meeting. Get our informers to find out where it's gonna be held. Now, we insist
it's a public place -- a bar, a restaurant -- some place where there's people so I feel safe.
They're gonna search me when I first meet them, right, so I can't have a weapon on me then.
But if Clemenza can figure a way -- to have a weapon planted there for me -- then I'll kill
'em both.
[Clemenza, Tessio and Sonny laugh. Tom shrugs]
SONNY
Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family
business, huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain, why, because he slapped ya in
the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot'em a mile
away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! you blow their brains all over your
nice Ivy League suit. Come're...
MICHAEL (as Sonny kisses his head)
Sonny...
SONNY
You're taking this very personal. Tom, this is business and this man is taking it very very
personal.
MICHAEL
Where does it say that you can't kill a cop?
HAGEN
Come on, Mikey...
MICHAEL
Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop -- that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about ah
- ah - 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?
[Hagen nods in the affirmative]
And they might like a story like that.
HAGEN
They might, they just might...
MICHAEL (to Sonny)
It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.