What Happened to Vito Corleone's First Consigliere?

[@joemckim1183]

Genco is literally the guy they go visit in the hospital after the wedding.

[@CradaOC]

True...but that is a deleted scene so most people would not have seen it

[@akadama888]

The channel uses the book a lot to provide background to the movies, because the book goes into much more detail in their relationships and thought process. I recommend reading the book. It’s 10/10

[@RobertWWD]

Genco died of Cancer in 1945. Tom Hagen took over for Genco. Genco’s Grandson Dominic became Michael’s Press Advisor.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

I wish they never deleted the hospital scene.i read it in the book. It's a good scene.

[@balancedactguy]

Yes it is!! 👍..AND there are a number of other deleted scenes that were great, especially the scenes where the Adult Don Vito, when back in Sicily, gets revenge by killing the two guys who worked for the local Don, who wanted to find and kill him when he was a young boy, just before he escaped to the US.

[@MsLogjam]

Good and scary.

[@sandranorman5469]

Wish I could buy the entire Godfathers I & II in chronological order. I remember that it was shown on TV without commercial interruptions. I VCRd it and have lost the tape. Would appreciate anyone that could put me in touch with anyone who has a copy. Thanks

[@cuginoeddie8677]

In the book it explains why. Vito wanted to keep Tessio and Clemenza apart from each other so they could never conspire against him giving them different territories. Genco was his trusted friend and that’s why he was made consigliere

[@shineyrow9001]

The novel also confirms that Vito made clear Clemenza and Tessio were not to associate together - therefore they could never plot against him. He made Genco consigliere as it maintained the power balance - and also Genco was a thinking man and a friend. Tessio and Clemenza were more men of action and more criminal in their intent.

[@richardcoughlin8931]

I wish all these scenes were put into a final edit. I don’t care if it will run five or six hours. It would magnificent.

[@gfx2943]

Vito owed much to Genco and Abbandando. Genco's dad was the closest thing Vito had to a dad beyond his own. In fact, I find it remarkable that Vito was taken in by Genco's family, and made Genco into Consigliere - while Vito took in Tom Hagen, and he too became Consigliere to Vito.

[@normsallitt2753]

They absolutely never should've deleted the Genco scene.

[@jonesjack6088]

He died of cancer early in the first film.

[@TheMalmut]

Even believed Vito could have a talk with Death and "Make him an offer he din't refuse".

[@balancedactguy]

@@TheMalmut He said that Death would see Don Vito and be afraid of him and leave Genco in peace.

[@gjman1972]

I know what happened, he quantum leaped to 1990 and changed his name to Carbone and again worked for Deniro in Goodfellas.

[@laurensevenwel8850]

These videos provide insights in a very enjoyable manner. Thanks a lot - great work!

[@MrIreneadler]

Your videos are so good. They are short, really insightful and FREE OF EMPTY FILLER! You reveal so much that is not obvious and do it with clarity and brilliance.

[@MovieMafioso]

Thank you!

[@MrEab2010]

the scene is only a couple minutes, I think the audience would have sat for that long. It sort of humanizes Vito a bit and shows a brief moment of closeness with Michael that reveals a lot about their relationship before the hit.

[@alexrosenthal2887]

great video!!

[@tommyshelby8373]

Genco’s father took Vito in and he grew up with Genco at the shop it also seems as if their families go way back to Sicily and Genco’s family left earlier for America. Genco was also knowledgeable about everything happening in the neighbourhood even in the criminal underworld that on top of being Vito’s best friend made him the perfect Consigliere.

[@nlee8368]

vito intentionally makes clemenza his capo and enforcer before luca brazi because he knew clemenza was a hot head and vicious thus needed more supervision, on the other hand tessio was smart and cunning enough to run his own thing well enough that they thought he was independent from the Corleone family. Also vito made sure that both of them would never be allowed to meet without his knowledge or permission to avoid betrayal. Neither would have been considered to act as the consigliere

[@johnnyola8391]

I liked his character and always wondered what happened to him thanks for this video!

[@zeb5478]

They were from the same village, but not close friends. Vito didn’t talk as a kid.

[@Mike-tu7uw]

I’m sure he did talk as a kid. He probably stopped talking after seeing his family murdered. His mother right before his eyes

[@tommyshelby8373]

Vito stopped talking after his father was killed

[@user-wb4mg2lb3o]

If they would put in all the deleted scenes in GF1 people would know Genco was dying and Vito and his sons went to see him before he died...Tom was named consiglarie because he was Vito was adopted son and Vito put him through law school..

[@brandos83]

he was standing in the crowd when sonny was beating up carlo rizzi.

[@walter2695]

I caught that too. Director probably saw him and was like "Hey you! can you say, its a spicy meatball in an Italian accent? You're hired for the second movie."

[@jeffmiller6954]

One thing that puzzled me: Genco is so proud to show Vito his actress girlfriend (is this whom he marries, Allegra?) but when they go backstage and Fannuci threatena her and her father, Vito seems ready to attack the thug, but Genco shows cowardice and he slinks off even as a knife is held to his girl friend's face. One might think this sort of cowardly behavior would disqualify Genco from being in such a position. However, maybe Puzo and Coppola had show us this deliberately: Maybe Genco's caution is exactly why Vito chose him as an advisor. I feel like this explanation is a stretch, but I would be interested in what others think. As the video mentions, the hospital scene which was important in the book was cut completely and I think this was a very good idea because it lessened the impact of the crucial later scene in the hospital where Vito is recovering from being shot. Another version, The Godfather Saga, shows us a lot of cut scenes and in most cases, it seems to me that removing the footage was a very big improvement although some of it was quite interesting. If you read the book and watch either Saga or I guess search for video of this cut footage, you will see from stuff that obviously should have been edited out, but also interesting footage that was removed maybe to be consistent with other edits or for other reasons. There is the quite sad thing about a child star who works for Woltz -- when Hagen flies to LA and enters the sound stage, he sees a birthday celebration in which the child star receives a pony (and this is interesting based on what happens later to the studio head) -- this and some other scenes are totally removed from The Godfather but not The Saga -- the young actress, who sadly passed away before the film was released, is completely uncredited and I vaguely recall that this was at her parents' request because of the clear implication that Woltz was abusing her. The actress passed as a young teenager and this afaik is her only film role.

[@intelligenthoodlum33]

I think you make a great point about Genco showing caution and logic rather than rash emotion when his girl is threatened. Vito needed someone that would not let bravado interfere with his decision making process.

[@jimfree0]

If we assume that the underboss succession of the Corleone family is anything like that of the Gambino family, it doesn't make any sense to me either. Underboss became repository in 80s/90s Gambino family of their most vile sociopaths: Delacrocce, Bilotti, DeCicco, Gravano. Perhaps a better translation for *consigliere* is "undertaker". Men of reason, disconnected from the daily toil of intimidation might just be the least realistic part of the entire damn movie~!

[@Byrrd51]

@@intelligenthoodlum33 Exactly.

[@afernan5]

The scene also shows how feared Fannuci was. Only Vito had the courage to take him on. Even Clemenza and Tessio, brave as they are, didn't want to stand up to him. Really underscores the bravery of Vito and one of the many reason he became the Don.

[@jeffmiller6954]

@@afernan5 Vito in another cut scene (was it in this video?) figures out that Fanucci is not a real boss, based on the attack by three youngsters. The man, although a genuinely awful person, is essentially a fraud.

[@michaelwilliams369]

I find it so ironic how even a movie like The Godfather which many will call one of the greatest films ever made still had to cut some scenes that would have made it even better.

[@EnjoySackLunch]

Relax

[@baruchben-david4196]

I'd like it if they would release the movie with all the cut scenes - or at least, all the ones consistent with the story...

[@benzkryptek505]

Look up the Godfather Saga, its has every deleted scene

[@nathand4500]

That's not ironic.

[@EnjoySackLunch]

@@nathand4500 don’t you think?

[@Pizza-gb1ch]

@3:20 Genco didn't offer to steal food, in the movie.

[@thomassiirila4927]

That's right, it was Abbandando, Sr.

[@bufordhighwater9872]

A consiglieri wouldn't be involved in any of the illegal activities of Vito, Tessio, and Clemenza. He's the counselor, able to give objective, outside advice. He's the public face who handles delicate situations. He's not a criminal, because there needs to be someone without a criminal record to do those things a criminal cannot do

[@ford-wp1yq]

Idk about godfather lore but irl the consigliere would have their own rackets from before they got promoted and would get a slice of the money kicked up to the administration.

[@cameronjones8641]

​@@ford-wp1yq You are absolutely correct. The original comment is utter nonsense.

[@joemckim1183]

@@cameronjones8641 Exactly, Tom Hagen is a rare case of a lawyer becoming the consiglerie. All real mafias they just promote a fellow gangster.

[@Trwillis9]

Hes also supposed to be a master of the rules of cosa nostra and liason between other families, and help smooth out inner family disputes

[@Filip-db2tn]

Nonsense. Consiglieri is a mobster, to become one you have to be a made men

[@119Agent]

I was lucky enough to see the Godfather Saga as my first Godfather viewing and therefore saw that deleted scene and always knew who Genco was. I really think the films with the deleted scenes is the real version.

[@anthonyhenderson1518]

Yeah, Jencho should of have more time in the movie. The godfather is one of my favorite movies. I have seen it dozens and dozens of times.

[@kingofthejungle3833]

@0:30 later in part 1, Sonny says, "Pop had Genco, and I've got Tom, if I had a wartime consigliere this wouldn't happening" or words to that effect.

[@dontcare9689]

The Godfather 1 & 2 is a masterpiece it's a shame it wasn't a longer movie.

[@herbertbachenheimer1191]

Yes Genco should of been added, the movie is so great making it a little longer wouldn't of had an affect on it, it's a great movie so it works

[@bluefalcon7296]

Genco was killed and hung in a meat locker till he was frozen solid.

[@EnjoySackLunch]

The ladies would agree that he was hung

[@stephenosullivan9016]

😂😂😂😂

[@patricktiglao]

It took two days to thaw him out for the autopsy

[@Nimunda]

@@patricktiglaoA crossover joke! Genious! 👏👏👏

[@danfiorini785]

Never should have bought the wife that damn fur

[@frankyturrizo4240]

According to the book .The Conseliere also relays the information to the Don as a buffer, so the only way the Don can get busted is if the Conseliere betrays him .

[@joachimgoethe7864]

In the book, "Godfather" Genco's three daughters were all plump and homely, and the family feared no man would want to marry them.

[@blucheer8743]

How brilliant was the “Godfather” series?? Game changer in film… as to the character it’s the glue that’s films together these relationships between friends brothers fathers mothers so it was an important element to the story of the rest of the family. Someday before FFC dies we will get a directors cut of the first 2 films of the “Godfather” it will be glorious!

[@dougfrith5001]

I’d love to see a Godfather Redux where all three of the films, together with the deleted scenes, are reassembled into the chronological order, and released as one. Mr Coppola, are you listening?

[@rootfit]

The Godfather Epic is the name of what you refer. It was on HBO in 2016 and is the best version of this...similar to the TV movie version The Godfather Saga from the late 70's. Though, G3 is out of all.

[@MsLogjam]

I'm betting that several years from now, they'll probably make a miniseries out of the Godfather that will have much more material from the book. Of course, that means Lucy Mancini will move to Nevada and live happily ever after with Dr. Jules instead of having Sonny's child and dying young.

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

When did she die young in the movie?

[@cameronjones8641]

If they did, Michael would become Mikhaila, Vito would be Victoria and Sonny would be Sarah and we would all enjoy a gender swapped girl boss movie about bringing down the mafia's evil patriarchal system. I hope they don't, thank you very much.

[@MsLogjam]

@@aishabintabubakr4944 I don't know that she did. The only time I remember seeing her in any of the movies was in the first when she and Sonny were clinching at Connie's wedding and Tom was knocking on the door outside to tell Sonny that Vito wanted to see him. I got the impression that she was dead by part III, which would have meant she died relatively young.

[@MsLogjam]

@@cameronjones8641 A miniseries would be a chance to use all of those great subplots from the book that the film didn't have time for, like the backstories of Luca Brasi and Philomena, Albert Neri, Lucy and Jules, Kay's dilemma and eventual conversion to Catholicism, Johnny and Nino, Johnny's Oscar, Johnny's wives, Nino's alcoholism, young Sonny bringing Tom home for the first time, and too many others to mention. Sounds like you have a personal issue.

[@cameronjones8641]

@MsLogjam I was never questioning the potential of what it could be and I would be all over it if it was done with respect to the source material.

[@sammyvalencia454]

Genco was a distant relative of Vito Andolini

[@timverba4830]

A Genco flashback character counseling a teenage Michael could have helped Godfather 3 in the absense of Robert Duvall. I think Genco was selected as consigliere because he most likely had many of the political and social contacts from his father's grocery. He knew the major and key players for different projects. Also, my impression is that Genco was a legitimate businessman, in contrast to Clemenza and Tessio, who were already in the rackets and gun running.

[@cantrell0817]

I think they made the right choice regarding screentime for Genco. The focus needed to stay on Vito and Michael.

[@viccreed9999]

I think in this world Gencos position operates outside the regular day to day operations

[@seltzer30]

The AI narration is annoying

[@MWD1234567]

AI narration always is.

[@ricebrown1]

It is so monotone and lifeless.

[@jameswright6955]

Always is. No emotion. No intonation. Just flat

[@mikefitzpatrick1213]

Very annoying.

[@balancedactguy]

Agree 100%..How "expensive" must to be to have a REAL PERSON read those lines?

[@moblack5883]

Imagine If this could of come out on Netflix and been longer

[@masclinemancalvindaniels2707]

Book The Coleones. Genco is mentioned a lot.

[@ndogg20]

There could only be so many plot lines and characters you could fit into a film as opposed to a book. What's easy to keep up with as a reader becomes convoluted, hard to follow and eventually boring for a film viewer. What made both Godfather films work was constant flow and narrative of the many stories it did include from the book if not all. It's called 'fan-service' to try and please the original fans who can never really be satisfied.

[@masclinemancalvindaniels2707]

He is mentioned a lot on the Book Corleone's

[@larrylapper586]

Wait a minute, the guy at the broadway show with Vito, the one dating the girl performing isn’t the guy Vito worked with for his father. The one in the scene at Genco store front when the landlord comes. Those were 2 different people. Are you guys all nuts or am I ?

[@zmani4379]

I think it's clear in Part 2 that Genco is already a close friend of Vito before Clemenza draws Vito into the criminal activity - so it makes a lot of sense that Vito might keep this shady aspect of his life separate in its early stages, and then when Vito secures his success, he brings Genco in at that stage as a close confidante - that's already implicit in the scenes they show - and I'm glad they deleted the Genco scene in part 1; it goes too far in sentimentalizing Vito, re the film's brilliant ambiguity in how we feel about Vito

[@jsmcguireIII]

Someone should ask Coppola if he still has any other Genco scenes he had to cut for the studio. I always thought he was too easygoing and interested in the ladies to be a wiseguy. I do remember in the book when they all come to pay respects while he is dying, and the power of the godfather fails to save him. He is one of the last direct connections to the old country.

[@russellparratt9859]

The original Godfather is about the main characters we see throughout the film. Genco's existence is decoration only. Godfather 2 was made to appease film nerds.

[@MWD1234567]

As much as I would have liked to see more of this character, he was actually superfluous. He would have been, at best, a minor character in the first film and the backstory of Clemenza and Tessio was probably more important in the second.

[@christophervasquez7243]

He moved to Milwaukee went by the nickname "Pockets" and got by making fake ID's

[@mikepignatelli273]

Changes his name to Pockets

[@rootfit]

I believe the Abbandando's were family friends of the Corleone's in Sicily and Vito was raised by them in America. I think this is either referred to in the Michael in Sicily portion of the book or in the book the Sicilian if I remember correctly.

[@noelsolo61]

Coppola should put out an extended version for Godfather 1 and 2. Never mind Godfather 3. The only way to improve that movie is to edit out Sofia Coppola scenes and replace it with Winona Ryder, if that is technically feasible.

[@JohnBrett715]

I remember a death-bed scene with the old consigliari. May have been a director cut or something

[@russoantonino6609]

6min to say « he is dying at hospital » 😊

[@StephenIrelandsGrandmother]

Gen I never made sense to me. He was the war time consigliere but showed fear against fanucci (opera and father’s store) and showed fear of death at the hospital. Why would that personality type be great at war?

[@jaxj9813]

I always wanted to know more of Tom Hagen background even though he is adopted i wanted to see him and sonny story as in the book come into film that would be dope. In the book Don Corleone unofficially adopts him meaning he was taken in and became a child of his under the same roof as the biological children out of respect of Tom Hagens biological parents he never went to do that.

[@princejohn6560]

Genko disappeared just like the actor Frank Sivero who played him.

[@balancedactguy]

He magically reappeared in Goodfellas!

[@tonyfelder1206]

To me the actor playing young Genco in the beginning and later scenes look like 2 different guys. f there was a film made about the Olive Oil War, Genco obviously would have played a key role in the story.

[@sreenivasreddy7194]

What were Vito's choices - Genco, Clemenza and Tessio? Genco was the earliest friend before the other two strangers, Genco was a Sicilian and not a rash man.. that and further shrewd dealings would have given the godfather enough reasons to consider Genco as a consiglieri. Hagen - the adopted son- became the new Consiglieri because he was an - "American" - lawyer and wanted to work with the Don. Don trained him to be a consiglieri, so that was always a shortcoming because he was not a Sicilian, because of Hagen the Corleone family was called the Irish Gang as a joke. Hagen failed to control or anticipate the attack on Don, Luka, Sonny and the power of drug business, maybe not his fault but that was under his watch, also he had a mistress- a big issue for don and Michael as it showed lack of loyalty to his own wife and children was the reason enough for him to be side-lined later. The temper and other reason Sonny was never considered to be a good next don was that sonny was a womanizer, and that Old Don knew to be a big flaw. All that Sollozzo mess eventually had a bit of blood cleaning and paved the way to Michael becoming the Don - a shrewd successor. Mario Puzo wrote about family, loyalty and betryal.. like a Greek tragedy.

[@cardinaloflannagancr8929]

Good video except for how exactly would the store owner (papa Genco) steal groceries from himself to give to Vito?

[@kingofthejungle3833]

maybe if they made parts 1 and 2 an hour longer each, then made each movie into two movies, therefore mmaking 5 movies all up

[@johnscott4196]

Who said Genco was stealing the food? Vito just didn't take charity.

[@BrianGoater]

He couldn't trust clemenza or tessio. He knew that you know, but you're spot on bro. You're pretty much spot on because you would have to know jenko since he was a kid for him to trust him that much. He didn't know clemenza or tessio that long

[@sonnycheeba4536]

Sonny said it “POP HAD GENCHO”…

[@shaunfloyd8852]

Gencos family smuggled Vito into America. In the book.

[@eightysevenk]

He's also carbone in Goodfellas

[@aliciagreen7035]

IS IT TRUE THAT THE GUY WHO PLAYED CLEMENZA WAS PAUL CASTELLANO'S NEPHEW?

[@EdwardTCBlake]

Honestly the first movie, no. There was no room. The second movie maybe you could have trimmed some of the Senate hearings or something in favour more time with Vito's story. The third movie however, scrap the entire story with the daughter. Let her be a side character in the background and focus on Anthony and him pulling away from his father with Micheal ultimately accepting that after his performance where its Anthony that dies instead. Then all that time saved can be put towards more Vito story that parallel with Micheals story.

[@BobE.Dancho]

Are you kidding? The movie wasn’t a documentary.

[@Barbarous_Wretch]

Genco was a wily old fox.

[@GenXFarmer77]

The narrator is wrong so many times lol

[@DestinyFilmWorks]

Coppola cut out a lot of scenes that made sense and connected to other scenes.

[@smartchick649]

People on here saying they should’ve left this scene in and that scene. They said it would be ten hours long if they left everything you wanted in the movie. Calm down. 😏

[@evanmoss6185]

I agree

[@Bindle-g6w]

Should have shown genco on his death bed before he died & don Corleone's inability to save him

[@kyleurban20]

Vito should have thought Tom a son and taken him to visit Geico.

[@davidcalderon2011]

Yes

[@TangledAngler420]

Ahhhhh.... you've read the book. Real gangsta! 💯

[@badbadmanly903]

Not Hells Kitchen, they’re in Little Italy,. The Irish were in Hells Kitchen.

[@Paul1958R]

He ended up on a meat hook. It took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

[@tonyliang8099]

Tread carefully bc she “sick”

[@skfotedar]

He ended up in a Freezer in the back of a truck

[@damien5138]

They had to thaw him out for the autopsy

[@slash270]

Yeah

[@jessepena5847]

He died while on the job how is that passed over? Maybe Tessio and Clemenza can make that claim but not this guy

[@anthonyc1629]

Culture Mafia would like to have a word with you.

[@OakLawnSpeedShop]

Genco died of cancer

[@jaybeswick9062]

Genco Died everybody who seen the Godfathers 1 & 2 knows since 1974 😂 what happened. They even had A deleted scene were the Godfather visits a dying Genco who asks if the godfather could ask god to spare his life and Vito saying he has no such power a touching scene which i felt they should have added and i think did in later years in re- releases also why can't people narrate there own videos the lazines what happend? ??? 😂

[@umtozzi]

He died a natural death. Saved you the clickbait annoyance.

[@jmart4197]

Last I saw he was in a meat truck... frozen solid...

[@DBSSTEELER]

Genco died.

[@davidross4102]

We only really know what a consigliere is nowadays. In 1972, people wouldn’t have gotten the importance of the position

[@goldcanyon340.]

Well said.

[@chiladdwhitney4926]

He went to get the papers the papers

[@Infinaeon_Jim]

They found him in an ice truck Took them 3 days to thaw him out bf they could do an autopsy

[@philipwujr.4786]

Little Italy not Hells Kitchen. LI= Italian HK = Irish you lose me everytime

[@aishabintabubakr4944]

Nothing-burger. In the book Genco played a part, but Tom took over when Genco got sick. Viti visited Genco in the hospital personally and Genco asked if Vito could scare away Death. Pretty disappointing....click bait

[@dionruffin3996]

You can go now 🚪

[@stephenkeane5473]

This guy loves to over think the movie. ITS ONLY A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@richdouglas2311]

Consigliere is overblown in the movies. The role wasn't that important. He didn't earn. He often wasn't even a soldier. Heck, it was often the case that the boss's DRIVER often became the consigliere. Why? Because the driver heard everything and was in an incredibly trusted position of both driving and protecting the boss. That's why Vito could make Tom the new consiglieri, despite the fact that Tom was not only not Sicilian, he wasn't even Italian. And it's why Michael could shuffle Tom off to Nevada--he just wasn't that important to the business. The boss got most of his support from his capo regimes. In this case, that was Clemenza and Tessio. Sure, Genco was an exception, but the appointment of Tom show just what an exception it was.

[@intelligenthoodlum33]

I disagree. The consigliere is very important and that's why Vito made Tom his. This move was great for two reasons. One, Tom was a lawyer. What better way to navigate a changing world than to assign the role to someone that can help you find loopholes and stay out of jail. Secondly, it sends a message to their civilian associates that they aren't the conventional greasy haired mob of the old days... they are a 'reasonable' family.

[@richdouglas2311]

@@intelligenthoodlum33 Within the context of the movie, sure. I'm talking about real life.

[@BrianGoater]

And definitely genco helped Vito come into America so that's another big thing

[@BrianGoater]

No, he was a wartime culteliary. That's a different type of conciliary you know what I'm saying so Tom Hagen was a different sort of concierge because he knew you know a lot because he was. You know Corleone's son Vito's son adopted son you know so he was going to be concierge also because he's not Italian. You know that doesn't sit well with me but it's his son. She's constantly. He's a lawyer also. You know so he knows a lot you know and he knows all the businesses they're in. Who else could be better for concealerie than a level-headed Irishman but then again he wasn't Italian