What Happened To Fabrizio After He Betrayed Michael Corleone?

In the Godfather, Fabrizio is a body guard for michael corleone while he's hiding in sicily. Michael, who lived in new york, was forced to flee the country after killing a cop and another mobster to avoid being put in jail. Fabrizio, his body guard ended up betraying michael and planted a bomb in his car. He unsuccessfully killed michael and ended up killing his wife. Watch to see why he betrayed him and what happened after. #corleone #mafia #thegodfather #vitocorleone #movie #crime #michaelcorleone

[@tatianalyulkin410]

Yes. He killed Michael when he killed Appolonia. Michael died with her that day.

[@Therock007dmx]

@tatianalyulkin410 That my friend is a Excellent point!!!!! The day Appolonia died changed Michael forever and destroyed his trust in people forever.

[@stevindiesel]

Nah, him killing the police chief stopped MC respecting the law and killing his old persona. I don’t know why Fabrizio thought he could get away with it, surely he must have known he was on borrowed time?

[@cha5]

Michael killing Sollozzo and McKlusky may have started him on that path, but it was the killing of his brother and Apollonia that set him on it.

[@JoelBaxter-rj7uq]

And on that day the real Godfather was born, ruthless and calculating and completely merciless.

[@cuchulainn3474]

@@stevindiesel You may very well have a point. We know that Michael was a decorated soldier, so he followed the chain of command. I don't think the killing of McClusky changed him, because he'd already been at war, but possibly McClusky assaulting him and being the bodyguard of Sollozzo, who put the hit out on his father, changed him.

[@seltzer30]

In that world, yes he has to kill Fabrizio. He might not have even needed permission considering Frabrizio killed Michael's wife. It affects the whole outcome of the saga. If Apollonia returns to America with Michael and they have a family, she never leaves him...she's Sicilian...she would be just like Mama Corleone. It changes a lot of his motivation

[@denniskumabe734]

True she was his real wife. In the book Kate became the Don's wife. Like her mother-in-law . Went to mass every Morning to pray for him

[@joejerseyguy2181]

YEP HE GOTTA GO

[@fasteddie4145]

as if being banished to Buffalo wasn't punishment enough.....

[@victordeconquistdor8152]

😆

[@FitzArias]

@@fasteddie4145 they tried to keep him far from the Corleones in NYC. It didn't work. Never does.

[@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt]

You go that right. I went to school for four years in the Buffalo/Niagara area. During the summers I vacationed in Siberia.

[@scottblair1735]

@@fasteddie4145 Banished To Buffalo sounds like a good name for a bro-jam band, don’t you think?

[@knothead5]

Especially in the winter!

[@wardenwilson6725]

Fabrizio got blown up, outside his pizza shop, in Buffalo.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

Inthe book he was shot with a lupe at close range.

[@rocketrudolf3854]

A little on the stereo type side it looks to me.

[@Dredaslime1]

Yup "deleted" scene ✔️

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Yeah, we know, we saw the video.

[@robertlee4172]

Michael was doing him a favour. Buffalo has become a hellhole, these past few years.

[@tatianalyulkin410]

" You threw me under the bus for a pizzeria??? What happened to your dreams of becoming a capo? A frigging pizzeria ! Seriously??? "

[@anthonynaceanceno3013]

Perhaps that was in the works

[@danmidkiff5416]

I can see it. Though this man was a loyal soldier (and was easily recruited) , he may not have had the smarts to move up the power chain. Since he had not been to America, his foresight into what was actually available for trade for such a task was limited. Maybe he had always wanted a pizzeria, and cooking was a favorite hobby of his. But, in the end, he was rewarded for a botched job. The killing of Michael's wife did flush him out of hiding. 🤔 Just my 2 cents.

[@timburr4453]

That look Michael gave Al Neri...one of my favorite moments in cinema.

[@normsallitt2753]

The Fabrizio pizza parlor scene should have never been cut from the film! I've always wondered why Michael never hunted him down once he rose to power, as I definitely would have.

[@FitzArias]

Fabrizio's end is one scene that should've never been cut. I hope they will release an unedited full length version of this movie. Fabrizio paid his price. Everybody does.

[@BrotherNkosi]

I would have to double check but I believe it is in the Uncut chronological edited version. It takes the part with Robert De Niro first(Young Vito. Then brings it up to Marlon Brando, then shows Michael as the Godfather after the death of Don Vito . I use to always put that on when I lived up north and there was snow storm that shut everything down. Followed by Godfather 3. So it would be a day of the rise and near fall of the Corleone Crime Family. I have lost count on how many times I have seen this movie and various remasters and extended versions.

[@wardenwilson6725]

"The Godfather Saga" if you can find it, has all the deleted scenes.

[@FitzArias]

I would love to see all the uncut stuff, relevant or not. Thank you.

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

@@wardenwilson6725 But it has terrible TV resolution. It has never been remastered.

[@wardenwilson6725]

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay It's all relative. If you're old (like me), and can remember the days before cable TV, The Godfather Saga's resolution, ain't that bad.

[@Wyrmwould]

This is definitely a deleted scene that I wish had stayed in the film. But I understand why it was deleted since it was more about unfinished business from part 1 instead of the story they were telling in part 2. Still, I think it is perfectly believable that Michael would have never forgotten about Fabrizio. It's certainly within Michael's character to hold grudge like that.

[@adorejunk]

Of course, the love of his life was killed. Her pure young innocence and his baby were taken. He would never forget, there had to be consequences.

[@Archedgar]

@@adorejunk Apolonia was pregnant?

[@adorejunk]

@@Archedgar in the book she was

[@Archedgar]

@@adorejunk Ah, gotcha.

[@knothead5]

One scene, Hagan asks he want to kill everyone. Michael says just my enemies.

[@allanfischer9417]

Once Michael knew that and where Fabrizio was, he could do nothing else. Payback is a bitch.

AMEN!

[@Nirky]

The sad thing is they blew up that beautiful Italian car.

[@antediluvian99]

Too soon bro, too soon.

[@ange3034]

That bruise on his face lasted years.

[@mrpinguimninja]

Honestly, I think the jealousy, specially towards Apollonia, is a stretch. The book and movie lean way heavier in him just jumping on the opportunity in order to achieve his goal of moving to America. I don't think the jealousy is a fact or even needed for Fabrizio to betray Michael

[@Jojo-fy2ud]

It wasn't jealousy towards Apollonia. It was cold ambition.

[@jeanmarc1821]

You have it all wrong. Fabrizzio did not want to say it because he thought it was too premature to talk about marriage when they just met the girl.

[@HectorHocking]

The fact that they still make videos about this masterpiece trilogy is amazing

[@cruzmizzl]

Michael is more strategic than vengeful psycho. He recognized immediately the gravity of the situation ASA Sonny said- "no more Solzzo tricks". U don't get to be a USMC Captain, in WW2 for nothing.

[@wardenwilson6725]

Michael was vengeful, though. Strategically vengeful. The whole, "revenge is a dish, best served cold", was his, and his father's, thing.

[@rocketrudolf3854]

@@wardenwilson6725 Michael was clearly to product of his father and his equal if not more.

[@davidroberts7282]

I believe it's plausible that Vito wouldve forgiven Fredo for his betrayal in Cuba and not held his weak-willed, unsure, lack of strategic thinking as symptoms or negative defects his son had. I don't think Vito Corleone kills his son realizing his inherent, character defects and weaknesses that Michael so ruthlessly despised, loathed and later on conspired to shoot him on Lake Tahoe in the middle of a lake before evening. Vito clearly saw Fredo was weak-willed and vacous long before those traits led him to betray Michael, so if Sonny hadn't been so hot-headed and allowed himself to be lured into a trap, more then likely Fredo never assumes the large amount of power and responsibility he has in Part II. I do think Sonny wouldve ended up being a more effective, efficient long-term enforcer and partner for Michael to cool off and smooth out some of his rash, impulsive, violent streaks. Whether Sonny or Michael wouldve feuded eventually later on like his son would with Micheal, its possible but what Michael had going into Part II wasnt a strong, reliable, firm older brother, but a weaker, less-reliable, vacillitating brother who probably shouldn't have ever been allowed in the family business.

[@tonyjones1560]

Michael came back from the Pacific with a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Later, during his organized crime hearings testimony, he testified that he had been awarded the Navy Cross (either his Silver Star was upgraded or the script continuity folks should have had one more cup of joe or napped another 15 minutes). What’s not in dispute is that, having served in the USMC during WWII, he would have participated in several brutal battles. The inference is, he joined up after Pearl Harbor and was gone until the end of the war so he might have been in most (or all?) of them. My point is that he had probably seen, and inflicted, as much or more close-up death as Luca Brasi…and was much more “tactical” about it. Sorry for the rant. Movie backstory speculation is a “thing” with me anyway, and IMO “The Godfather” has so many layers!

[@wardenwilson6725]

@@tonyjones1560 Good rant.

[@davidm9618]

He opened a company that sold air fresheners.

[@Dulcimertunes]

🤣🤣

[@edgaraquino2324]

Very nice...😊

[@tatianalyulkin410]

" Michael Corleone sends his regards ..."

[@nomis7749]

Apollonia was a very beautiful woman 🌹

[@Michael-hq1iq]

she still looks good today ! she has a boutique in italy

[@markbulley9949]

Didn't Fabrizio run away with Jack to America on the Titanic? But the ship sunk and Fabrizio got wacked by the funnel... Oh I see how it all fits together!

[@thehair1474]

Michael didn't HAVE to whack Fabrizio, but he WANTED to. What goes around comes around.

[@B_Estes_Undegöetz]

He had to. Michael was obsessed with the idea of “strength” and “weakness” which he claimed he got from his own father. You keep those you love safe, by being strong. Michael says this specifically on at least one occasion i can remember; when he asks his mother about his father being “strong” to protect the family, and whether his father ever worried about losing his family by being too concerned about appearing strong and the behavior that entailed. Michael’s mother clearly finds the question absurd and reveals her entirely different values than the Americanized women he knows (like his wife Kay) and the younger generation (like his sister Connie). “How can you lose your family; they are always your family?” Mama Corleone asks Michael in reply to his question. Michael is clearly unsatisfied and troubled by this answer, for he knows his family is slipping away from him no matter what he seems to do, so the best he can do is be a man like his father and risk the angry or alienated consequences of those he loves and feels responsible for, even if they grow to despise him for it; at least they’ll still be alive to despise or fear him. So he proceeds and, ironically, in trying to emulate Vito, he seems instead to have brought his own obsessions to his conduct, and seems to have missed how flexible, loving, and conciliatory Vito was and instead only saw the violence and firm resolve once his mind was made up. Therein lies Michael’s tragedy. He’s blind to half of his own father’s nature (for example … Vito didn’t want Michael to be involved on the family business, and trusted the world to be a safe place for Michael and even encouraged him to go straight and make the family proud with his legitimate and legal accomplishments. Michael’s own obsession with control and there being only one approach to strength lead to Michael’s own eventual tragic downfall, having lost everything he most wanted to protect, and as a result of his own actions, rather than by any “weakness” he so feared allowing to be seen. Michael’s obsession with needing to be strong to keep his loved ones and family safe was clearly triggered by his failure to see the danger around him and consequently failing to protect his own new wife Apollonia. For Michael this failure couldn’t be allowed to be unaddressed. Fabrizzio would have to be killed, because Michael believes that failing to do so upon his own promotion to “Don”/ “Boss”/“Godfather” would be seen as a sign of weakness, and invite further attacks upon himself and his family and loved ones. Even after all this time, Michael cannot leave this transgression upon him and his family members unanswered. It wouldn’t be “strong” to allow Fabrizio to live after what he had done. Michael knows too that the bomb was meant for him, and for this he feels guilt and shame, for he feels it was HIS fault that Apollonia died, as much as it was Fabrizzio’s. And this triggers his sense of masculinity and personal honor, for as his father Vito told him, women and children can be careless and thoughtless, men cannot afford to be so. And Michael feels it was as much his own carelessness that allowed Fabrizzio to make the attempt on his life that resulted in Apollonia’s death. For these reasons, Michael knows in the world he has just been promoted into … the head of his crime family … he must eliminate Fabrizio in order not to appear weak, which would invite more attempts on his own life which would inevitably result in harm to his wife or children or other close family members. It’s Michael’s obsession with what he perceived to be his own father Vito’s quality of “strength”, and his understanding of what “strength” is, that sealed Fabrizio’s fate the moment Michael becomes Godfather.

[@thehair1474]

@@B_Estes_Undegöetz Michael also killed Fabrizio to get even with him for killing Apollonia. An eye for an eye. Connie forgave Michael for killing her wretched husband, as she said he was just being strong for us, like Papa was.

[@chickenlover657]

@@thehair1474 Wanna bet Connie opened those drapes?

[@hookalakah]

Michael had to take him out. No two ways about it. When President Obama's advisors told him they'd located Bin Laden, did he just wave them off and say let it go? Of course not.

[@Stevesmith-yw7cr]

Fabrizio....sounds like a fabric softener. I didn't know that Fish had a grandfather in the MOB. After all, it was only business.

[@gavvino1]

Poor Buffalo. They lose 4 Super Bowls, and that's where they killed Fabrizio. They should do a spoof of Portnoy at Fabrizio's pizzeria, with its explosive flavor.

[@williamkessler3847]

We knew most of this. However it was new and amazing to see the alternate death scenario that Michael blasted Fabrizio himself. Cool picture. Thanks for digging that one up.

[@davidrubel6295]

There is an alternate scene where Michael gos to Fabrizio's pizza shop in Buffalo and blows him away with a shotgun... it didn't make it into the final cut

[@craiglancastermarr4016]

Coppola felt it was unnecessary and he also didn't like the blood effects, felt it was OTT and fake looking. Photos still exist from the scene.

[@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt]

I heard the shotgun jammed.

[@robertlee4172]

Thanks for this. Fabreezio was a no-good character who needed a Brogan adjustment.

[@Bhatt_Hole]

4:20 AI narration. Get used to it. Soon, channels with real narration will be even more rare.

[@vortega472]

I took the hesitation, not of jealousy but - are you sure you want to commit considering you haven't even had a conversation with this girl.

[@jospenner9503]

Read the book.

[@jacktheripoff1888]

Joining the Marines after Pearl Harbor was Michael's way of showing just how much he did not want to be like his family. He served in the Pacific, shown valor, and you knew he saw his share of death and destruction in its harshest form. So his experience as a Pacific theater Marine veteran of World War 2 ironically prepared him to be even more like his family and be formidable than Sonny or Vito could ever imagine.

[@SovereignStatesman]

Of all places in the world, why the hell would Fabrizio move to New York, after he FAILED his hit on Michael; and why would Barzini reward him? Obviously he was a dead man if he did that. I can see why this scene was deleted, since it makes NEGATIVE SENSE.

[@user-my6ss4mz4l]

He was killed in the book and in a deleted scene from part 2. However since the deleted scene never really made it to canon, then the average viewer can assume he got away never to be found.

[@048et012]

How did Michael out smart a seasoned gangster like Barzini?

[@vortega472]

Because he's his father's son. Also, Barzini underestimated the younger Corleone. The says it took years for Michael to put his assassination plan against Barzini and Tattaglia (In the book he didn't kill the other heads of the family and Moe Greene was killed much earlier) - and even then, he did so with the help of his father before his father passed away.

[@davidm9618]

Because Barzini, while seasoned, was seasoned like a steak. Steaks don't think very well.

[@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt]

@@davidm9618 Stupid comment.

[@adorejunk]

Wasn’t there a scene where it was said that Michael’s wife and bodyguard (Carlos) were killed in Italy? After all Carlos was at the trunk of the car with their suitcases when it exploded.

[@frostqueenmag91]

Ironic that Michael got "revenge" by killing his brother Fredo, but not Fabrizio who killed his first wife. I guess Michael's revenge path was a failed one not just a miserable one. I guess betrayal shaped Michael's worldview and gave the impression that no one could be trusted.

[@JRJ0852]

In the original book. Fabrizio in hog tied , placed in oven after closing (a live) .

[@JonWebb-s3b]

Not true. He was shot in the chest and his executioner said, “Fabrizio, Michael Corleone sends his regards” before shooting him in the head. That was it

[@TheBearGrappler]

4:12 - Video starts

[@MIAZadora99]

I see why the wives are required to be above reproach . The men have their world. The wives have their own..The women can only watch the movie 😂 and figure out its best to ask nothing

[@abrahamgomez653]

It's never luck it's always God

[@OldHickoryAndyJackson]

Eliminated in Godfather 3?

[@vangarcia419]

Your Narration Sux

[@deplorable1-2]

If you decide you must kill the king. Don't miss. Especially if you kill someone dear to him.

[@friedrichruff5357]

Ask the German accountant, he knows everything.

[@patrickjeffers7864]

It was bazini all along lol..also apollonia was 🔥 🔥

[@leechapman-ri9rb]

5:17 "You have to answer for Apollonia!"

[@johnzeszut3170]

In the film he had a pizza joint here in America and his car blew up with him inside. In the book I think he was shot to death inside his restaurant.

[@MrDBSV8]

Fabrizio was played by actor Angelo Infanti who also starred in the steve Mcqueen movie Le mans driving ferrari N0 5 who gets a puncture on last lap

[@larryw.c.4544]

Fabrizio went away. That's what happened.

[@joeylawn36111]

Fabrizio faked his death, and went on to invent Febreze Air Freshener....

[@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt]

Trust me, you didn't get any laughs.

[@joeylawn36111]

@@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt So? Win some and you lose some. Did get 1 like however….

[@MrJinx-vy3bm]

I think you have a imagination easy big fella it is only a movie Remember Proverbs 23 17 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ♥Do not let your heart envy sinners♥

[@frankgesuele6298]

They made enemies of Michael by their actions. If they had not done so he would not have struck back. Barzini put in all in motion as did Hyman Roth. Just as Sollozzo did shooting Vito. By making themselves enemies of Michael the heads of the other families had to go. Strike at the King don't miss. The lesson is leave Michael alone!

[@blueringoctopuss]

NO NO NO!! This is all wrong. Fabrizio went on to star in The Valachi Papers with Charles Bronson. I also can’t get over all the Mo Rons that think of this thing, this boring boring thing called The Godfather as if it’s the greatest movie ever, let alone like it’s real or a true story.

[@richbursary9053]

We’re Michael and Kay married. They’re not shown getting married in the movie. If they were married how could he marry the girl in Italy ? Asking for a friend. Thanks.

[@greenbeagle13]

Oh man, I gotta' watch that movie again. Loved it. Seen it about 3 times now, maybe 4... It is one of the Best. Except, not Part 3, whichever the last part was .

[@jordansmith1b]

Research? It is thought that? It’s fiction, dude. Either it’s in Puzo’s novel or it’s in the script. That’s it. Pretentious crapola.

[@milosciric3679]

What's the point of this,It didn't showed on movie Part 2 1974.Cut scene it's not important.

[@coldisle]

I think he came to The USA and developed a very successful air freshening spray.

[@chrisfrank4267]

Pondering about fictional stories is a sad and complete waste of time. Time is the one thing you can never more of. Yes I'm guilty too

[@AsWellYouShould]

I'll help you out, in the book Fabrizzio is smuggled into America and is running a pizza parlor in upstate NY. Michael finds him but lets a little time go by. Fabrizzio is killed in his pizza parlor with two gunshots to the chest and head by a hit man. In the movie, in a cut scene, he is blown up in his car as Apollonia had been blown up.

[@genepatrickvi8377]

So that shotgun scene of michael is real. I thought it was a contemporary edit..

[@gavinbuczko57]

they should have shown this part in the film....not showing this part, left a gap in the story.... it was as if Michael had let him get away with killing his wife!

[@Zzrdemon6633]

I've tried for years and just can't get through one of these shitty movies yet, just absolute pos! I can't even get though the coles notes of this shitty movie series!

[@drats1279]

They went out for dinner and drinks after the days work was done. It's a movie, pretend, make-believe, not real. get a life.

[@windronner1]

Yes. M would have killed F because F was not a made man. And M would not need council approval.

[@craigtomlin5986]

Theres a deleted scene that shows what happened to him

[@littleblackduck3134]

Just think how different things would have turned out if Sonny just had a EZ Pass

[@carl6352]

If you read the book he was blown away in Buffalo, next to his pizza oven!

[@cherub3624]

Nah, man, we deserved to see Michael get his revenge face to face.

[@XiahouJoe]

Is there a longer cut then with all these amazing deleted scenes back in?

[@dadiscool142laurel8]

He got a job with Tony Soprano in New Jersey

[@JasonStaney]

Now We're have seen the answers We've Been Looking for

[@DwightStJohn-t7y]

Reward: a pizza shop in Buffalo. Ouch. Would have appreciated a pizza parlour in Canada, just across the border. Safer, lots of Italian and French speaking!!

[@FrankRobles-h6o]

I was fortunate enough to attend a sneak preview of Godfather II at the Coronet theater in S.F. in the spring of 1975. I vaguely remember his demise by someone cutting his throat on a boat, but it’s been a long time. The scene was never part of the screen version.

[@SteveBerryhill]

Fabrizio would be revenge, and deservedly so. The rest of Michael's hits were strategic and necessary. "It's a smart move".

[@johnryman-f3c]

TIRED OF ITALIANS GLORIFING THE MAFIOSA

[@kadabagarudadhwajan7768]

If I were to be Michael I would have done exctly the same. "If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer him the other cheek" is strictly for M.K. Gandhi.

[@leechapman-ri9rb]

5:17 Michael Corleone was one of the few most powerful men in the whole world. Seeing him enter a crappy Buffalo Pizzaria with a shot gun would have been brilliant and quite frankly bizarre. Fabrizo needed that personal touch to send him to his grave.

[@peterjohnson617]

just get to the point for crying out loud

[@sreenivasreddy7194]

The motivation for Michael's revenge is not a psychopathic need, he saw his father protect his family and eliminated any threat, survival was the reason in the mafia world (Vito Andolini was a boy when his father and mother were killed by Mafia in Corleone). The day he was punched by the crooked cop, Michael got sense knocked into him, his service to his country meant nothing, his belief in the law and good citizenship all were shattered and he swore to protect his shot up father in the hospital, he just could not be treated like a nobody, he would rain down Vengeance on all who hurt him and his family- he even killed his brother in law Carlo (for getting Sonny killed), his brother Freddo as they were weak and dangerous for his family. His world made him a cold avenger, as no weakness would be excused, he was the one that was chosen by fate to get them to next generation. Never forget this was a criminal world and killing was an option they could not forego!

[@stevearkie5722]

Go to America I rather be in Italy .

[@mariasantana6861]

MICHAEL like his father , always had a well thought out plan, with maximum impact

[@AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp]

Always wondered what happened to Fabrizio Of course Michael would whack him if he found him, especially knowing he was working for

[@pauleramo3382]

Fabrizio sleeps with the fishes

[@henrywheeler8500]

Great job!

[@mad_cat_1st]

Didn't you read the book? Holy click-bait sh!t.....

[@irvy78]

THE BOOKS AWSOME, 100X BETTER THAN THE MOVIE 🎬 SO MUCH BETTER,EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER GETS MUCH MORE WRITING TIME ✍️ IN THE BOOK

[@leechapman-ri9rb]

2:30 I always thought he was checking Don Tom's ankles for a hidden pistol?

[@prakashbora1078]

FBI wiped out the mob.

[@unclepopo]

Fabrizio Romano is now the world's famous football transfer journalist 😂

[@randyrussell9755]

He got what was coming to him.

[@aromalito63]

read the book ,then you know

[@terrygrund6598]

In the book Fabrizio was put in one of his pizza ovens.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Outstanding analysis. (Fabrizio should never have taken sides against the family.)

[@maxidrivemaxidrive4330]

Greatest movie of all time!

[@raypins]

5:44 is key. Michael understands he is not shaken by the daunting task he has in front of him. That pause and look at the lighter, is a masterclass in direction.

[@ricklawrence3068]

Fabrizio got whacked leaving his pizza joint

[@0428733]

To whack?... is this a channel for 12 year olds?

[@Dafuzzinator]

"Apollonia" it is the feminine version of Apollo, not "Abulonia"

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Fabrizio put pineapple on his Pizza. It wasn't a mop related hit