The Godfather: Al Martino - I Have But One Heart

A tribute to The Godfather
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[@adelefarough5123]

This movie was so well-acted and performed.

[@7own878]

Fun fact: The actor, who played Luca Brasi, was genuinely nervous during the film shoot. He stumbled and messed up his lines in the interaction with the Godfather. Therefore the genius director decided on the spot to capitalise on that. The actor in his role as Luca got filmed while learning his lines from a sheet and had to intentionally play fear while talking to Vito. That was a lot easier for the nervous actor, than to be the hard killer his role demanded for the movie. The director probably saved the scene with that decision.

[@tryarunm]

@@7own878 brilliant! That's what makes a movie great.

[@roop94]

Beautiful. The juxtaposition of unforgiving violence assisted by gentle music perfectly captures what gangster culture was like in America up until the 90’s. The irony is one of the many things that make mob films interesting. They were complex characters.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

I, personally, can't get enough of mob films.

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

I disagree. I think the two things are very separate. The wedding and traditional Italian family values are one thing, that's normality. The family feuding over the narcotics was something entirely different and came much later in the film and novel story line. The Don himself (the character) was not a man given to using violence or murder to achieve his aims, it really was a last resort.. he didn't need to use violence. His power lay in his reputation and the traditional Sicilian values of respect, honour because he had the political and legal connections, the trade unions, the newspapers. The brutal murder on the other hand, was the up coming Turk. And that was a very different kind of element. Sure, the 1930's era NY families were extremely violent. But Don Coleoni and that family don't come across that way in the novel...until that is, Michael takes over the family and seeks revenge for the attempt on his father, and the earlier killing of his brother, and betrayals by his own brother and others. That's really the way, tit for tat and killing to survive and preserve the family, in 'the life' it's often do or die. As one well known gangster put it, "murder is expensive..it's bad for business"...(which is why many families contracted killings out). I don't think by the 1940's and 1950's era the film is set in, that the organised crime families of NY took killing people likely. It just brought unwanted law enforcement attention and created violent family feuds. The violent street war clashes of the 1930's prohibition era were a distant memory by this later era. The crime families were much more organised with a Commission and a way of settling family disputes. The Turk was not part of the Sicilian tradition or a proper family.

[@thelocation6063]

For those of u complaining about the scenes used for this song, thats the whole idea! the irony of it all, the gentle italian music played over the gruesome realities of italian mob life is the whole point!

[@adelefarough5123]

TheLocation: I agree completely. This scene perfectly encapsulates why so many of us are so drawn to Italian gangster films. In this scene, we see opulently-dressed people, we hear beautifully-sung music (and the singer cast for the role is an actual singer, and a good one at that), and any of us who has ever eaten good Italian food in our lives can probably close our eyes and smell the sumptuous aromas. Overlaid on this are the violent scenes that everyone talked about when this movie came out in theatres. I grew up in an Italian community. I can't be sure, but I have a suspicion that there was some mob involvement going on. Regardless of what the people I knew did for a living (and their occupations were not the type that would generate a high income), there was always a lot of money and a lot of very good living. At the time, it never crossed my mind to wonder; however, it does now.

[@alexkije]

I like this song.

[@djangorheinhardt]

Hey,ain't you heard of Omerta.You gonna end up with horses head in your bed,disrespecting made guys like that.

[@miltonmoore8369]

It's not irony, rather morbid contrast. Irony is when what you do to prevent something from happening actually CAUSES it to occur. The other type of irony is the harbour fire-tug boat going out to sea to put out a blaze on a ship and catches on fire itself en route. RESPECTFULLY

[@JessiePinkman-ls9cr]

Just one words: Beautiful. It feels like life and life's bad things.

[@thatguycmk7548]

The music and the violence is simply amazing. brilliant even. well done

[@ethan33]

I went to a 50th anniversary showing of The Godfather in Los Angeles last night. Still an all-time classic movie. This video here is just perfect I love the juxtaposition of the beautiful vocals with the horrible violence from the movie. Well done

[@motog22-pj8tr]

Que hermosa canción 💞

[@surajrajesh3989]

It works wonders in a way when a soothing song plays amidst the brutalities. Love this video.

[@eduardotapia5954]

It's a shame that they don't make any more music like this.

[@TDKiller415]

Powerful video illustrating the truth that Johnny Fontane's career was built by these men who spilled so much blood for nothing but greed, which reflects the outside world of today.

[@jankiel3284]

Bullshit. Don didn't care about money, he cared about honour, respect and his Family. It seems you haven't understood the movie nor the novel (which I recommend wholeheartedly).

[@TDKiller415]

Jan Kiel I read the book, and I still see the Corleones as common crooks. For a murderer to control judges and politicians like a group of whores? Well, not that it's anything unreal, now that Trump is in the White House.

[@Rao665]

Johnny Fontane? Try Frankie fucking Sinatra. Who was the inspiration for Fontane. Oh and the band leader story? Happened with Sinatr.

[@TDKiller415]

Boom Do I know, I heard Sinatra hated Mario Puzo for writing it. I think both Al Martino and Frank Sinatra were great singers, but their alleged connections just put me off.

[@frannycardillo2396]

@@TDKiller415 Martino was a victim of his contract sold to the boys,Lost almost a decade of performing in the U.S.Years later the New Boys tried to make it up to him.

[@princec663]

That's my Family That's Not Me.

[@goback3spaces]

You didn't tell me you knew JOHNNY FONTAINE!!

[@carrietezeno6327]

Beautiful 💕

[@adelefarough5123]

For you Godfather afficionados, I just got The Corleone Cookbook. It has recipes that either appear or are mentioned in the movie. Remember the scene where Clemenza makes up a batch of spaghetti sauce? That is one of the recipes. I am especially looking forward to making that one.

[@TheEriluc13]

Che fortuna e la nostra storia 🤌🤌🤌🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹👍

[@SouthJerseySam]

"That's my family, Kay... it's not me..."

[@PanPeter1966]

Best Movie

[@adelefarough5123]

I just did some nosing around. I wonder how many of these singers are mobbed up. We have Tony Bennett born Antonio Benedetti; Bobby Riddell, born Roberto Ridorelli; Jerry Vale, born Genaro Louis Vitaliano, and Dino Croccetti, whom we know as Dean Martin. Not to mention Frank Sinatra and Al Martino. Get the picture?🇮🇹

[@alexkije]

hahaha no such, amica mia

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

They were definitely mobbed up and so were a lot of actors, politicians. JFK was a mob hit. His bootlegger old man, Joe Kennedy, was thick with Cosa Nostra. Bobby Kennedy was killed by the mob, also. Jimmy Hoffa will never be found, btw.

[@alexkije]

Tis but a myth. They were liked by the job. But not controlled by the mob.

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

Oh many were back in the day. The most well known was Frank Sinatra. I think the character in the movie was loosely inspired maybe by Sinatra or one of the other Italian singers financed or helped by the Mob. They had tremendous influence in Las Vegas and nearly all the big stars of the day even Elvis were contracted to play in Mob owned or financed hotel casinos.

[@alexkije]

@@paullangton-rogers2390 hahaha, Don't believe everything you read in the papers.

[@LaRoche_]

I keep earring those girls crying loud

[@CanalRodrigamer]

Filme incrível, música sem comparação, combinação perfeita 😍

[@michaelhougardy2789]

Master Piece !!

[@alexkije]

Such a hoot!

[@striker7469]

It is what it is.

[@andrewcharley1893]

Very well put together!!!!! 👍🏾

[@mauziki]

Wonderful edit but I missed the kick on Sonny's face. I don't know but somehow I find it more brutal than all the bloodshed, gunshots, and violence.

[@LexisScott-i7j]

NOW LOOK: THIS SCREEN IS LEXIS SCOTT. MY FRIEND IS ALEXIS SCOTT. TYPED BY: MRS REGINA ANN REALI-GARIBALDI, JD, ATTORNEY-IN-FACT.

[@bellamartino730]

My last name is Martino 🖤

[@thefloyder]

Bellisima Martino

[@saullima1587]

The Batman

[@Michael-vr3fb]

👏

[@russelljohnson7067]

Just this one time I will let you ask me about..my business

[@mrpeel3239]

Please pass the pasta!

[@viknendranmahalingam3177]

Wrong scenes for this beautiful song.

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

I agree. What a pity to put such graphic violence in place of the wedding scene and lovely song.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

@@paullangton-rogers2390 It's supposed to be ironic.

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

The irony was lost on me then.. this is an edited video. The murder scene was never cut into the wedding scene and I just dislike this kind of selective editing on a classic movie like the Godfather I. The murder scene came much later as events unfolded with the Turk planning his move against Sonny and the Don for refusing his narcotics venture and then family tensions arising from the other families who backed the Turk.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

@@paullangton-rogers2390 You're reading too much into this video. I know these scenes are inserted over the wedding, but that was done intentionally by the creator of this video. The person who spliced this together was being creative in their own way...

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

@@josephdockemeyer4807 probably, fair point

[@JohnR22926]

lol. This is a Vic Damone song. Guess they didn’t dare pick a Sinatra tune.

[@vernielcutar]

this video forgot to include the hit on don vito. LOL

[@dc6461]

What a moronic edit with this song. Michael and Kay are at the wedding, she is asking him to tell her Luca Brasii story. Michael takes her hand and tells her " Let's listen to a song".... Johnny begins to sing,after a while of singing Michael turns around and looks at her and smiles. She keeps insisting so he begins to tell her.... Song was played again in Saga when Michael sits in a chair in back yard of his lake house ( endingof gf2), he remembers Kay.....

[@adelefarough5123]

As a musician, I find it offensive that Johnny Fontaine should be expected to sing at his cousin's wedding for free. If the family isn't going to support him in their usual style (you know what I mean), then pay him for the gig and cut him loose. A wedding is about the bride, not some quasi-amateur singer who made it big because of his connections and his looks.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

But did you like the movie?

[@adelefarough5123]

Joseph Dockemeyer: yes, I like the movie. But in the book, It is made clear that Johnny is attending the wedding to please the godfather, and also to seek help from him. Inviting him to the wedding and asking him to perform for free is what we in the music world call "a fiddler's bid."

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

Jonny would do anything for his Don, you know that! The horses head and film part favour? After that he even did a contract in their Las Vegas casino hotels, by that time the character was a big star but he still said anything for the Don Mikey lol

[@paullangton-rogers2390]

@@adelefarough5123 well said. A lot of people who haven't read the novel miss a lot of stuff like that. But it was obvious in the film...the Sicillian traditionl that no brides father could refuse favours on the wedding day..there was a long list lol...and that singer wasn't there to sing for sure..he was reluctant as we saw...he was there out of respect for the Godfather but with acting on his agenda..although I think he thought that film role was a lost cause as they were already casted and shooting in a week, still he knew and hoped that the Godfather might be able to swing it, or at least help him get another big movie part to launch his acting career. He badly wanted that...and who better than the Godfather to turn his impossible dream into a reality! Italian American actors (with a few exceptions) at that time were usually stereotyped by hollywood or shunned for serious roles..still true today to some degree. And that came across well in the film..the movie producers derogatory language and Italian-American hostility, even aside their personal issues over the girl.

[@benjamincox4211]

Adele Farough as much as Don corleone did for Johnny, he couldn’t refuse such a small request as to sing one song at a family member’s wedding. It’s not like they asked him to do a whole set. And this is coming from a fellow musician

[@LexisScott-i7j]

LIFE LESSON.

[@raybrown1725]

look at these whiners

[@tryarunm]

Disgusting. Why would you interpolate these gory scenes over this beautiful song?

[@lufsolitaire5351]

Because Al Martino played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, and sang it at Connie and Carlo’s wedding?

[@sandraestlow6861]

Why in the world would they spoil this song with such horrid scenes!

[@dannyemery6944]

because the mob is both sweet and violent

[@rubenrubinos982]

Like Sour Patch Kids!

[@ed008ue]

The Star Wars Trilogy of the mob movies!!

[@geoffreyturner7761]

Discusting video over a great song.

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

That's the whole point. Irony... The song was in this movie.

[@josephmichel7784]

0ll

[@wagner9050]

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[@qayyummohddiah3663]

666

[@wagner9050]

You

[@vedmore6428]

I didn't watch the video

[@adelefarough5123]

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