Godfather III — The Last Jedi

You Cannot Understand Darth Vader Unless You Understand Godfather III

 

Darth Vader is The Ultimate Father.

Luke Skywalker is not - He is 

The Ultimate Uncle.

"It turns out massacres are  a lot like sitting through Godfather III - once is enough."

Krevlornswoth of the Deathwok Clan

"I'm Your Little Cousin"

Mary Corleone,

Daughter of Commendatori Michael Corleone

Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sebastian

Hell Hath No Fury Like
Connie Corleone

Mary Corleone walks over to Vincent.

MARY

Hi Vincent. I remember you.

VINCENT

You remember me? From where?

MARY

From the last time we had a party together.

VINCENT

Did you come down to the club?

MARY

No, it was a wedding.

VINCENT

A wedding?

MARY

I was 8; and you were 15

VINCENT

Well I, I had a lot of girlfriends when I was 15.

MARY

8 year olds?

VINCENT

Especially 8 year olds!

CUT TO: Connie.

CONNIE

Where’s Mary? 
Would somebody please hail Mary. 
Excuse me your Excellency.

CUT: Back to Mary and Vincent.

MARY

You know? 
You haven’t kissed me hello yet. 
Relatives always kiss.

VINCENT (Laughs)

Oh, now we’re related?

MARY

I’m your little cousin.

VINCENT (thinking)

Who’s your father?

MARY

I’ll give you a hint: he’s Italian.

******

CUT TO: The cafe. We overhear some of Vincent’s men about a meeting which is supposed to be taking place but isn't due to the absence of a member. 

Vincent and Mary are at a table in the cafe with the old ladies who are just leaving.
OLD LADY #1
I trust you.

VINCENT

Don't worry about it.

OLD LADY #1
Thank you very much.

MARYBye bye.

VINCENT

Enjoy yourself.

The old ladies leave.
MARY

What was that?

VINCENT
The neighborhood's in trouble…

MARY
You keep your eye out for it?

VINCENT
That's right.

MARY

And for me?

VINCENT
From now on.

MARY
I missed you all this time.

VINCENT
I missed you, too, cousin. 

I missed growing up with all my cousins. I didn't even know you and I missed you.

MARY
Do you remember stories about, our fathers, the old days?

VINCENT
Yeah, what do you wanna know?

MARY
What was Sonny like?

VINCENT
He was the Prince of the city. 

Yeah -- he died before I was born but I heard a million stories about him, he was a legend.

MARY
What about my father?

VINCENT
A great man, your father. 

He's a hero, he saved the family.

MARY
Vincent…?

VINCENT
What?

MARY
Did he kill his own brother?

VINCENT (pauses)
No.

MARY
So those’re all lies?

VINCENT
Just stories, sweetheart. Okay?

MARY
Okay. I believe you. I'm glad you're around.

VINCENT
I'm glad you're here, too. 

Vincent and Mary kiss.

*****

CUT TO: The cafe. We overhear some of Vincent’s men about a meeting which is supposed to be taking place but isn't due to the absence of a member. Vincent and Mary are at a table in the cafe with the old ladies who are just leaving.
OLD LADY #1
I trust you.
VINCENT
Don't worry about it.
OLD LADY #1
Thank you very much.
MARY
Bye bye.
VINCENT
Enjoy yourself.




MARY

What was that?

VINCENT

The neighborhood's in trouble…



MARY

You keep your eye out for it?



VINCENT

That's right.



MARY

And for me?



VINCENT

From now on.



MARY

I missed you all this time.



VINCENT

I missed you, too, cousin. I missed growing up with all my cousins. I didn't even know you and I missed you.



MARY

Do you remember stories about, our fathers, the old days?



VINCENT

Yeah, what do you wanna know?



MARY

What was Sonny like?



VINCENT

He was The Prince of The City.

Yeah -- he died before I was born but I heard a million stories about him, he was a legend.



MARY

What about my father?



VINCENT

A great man, your father.

\He's a hero, he saved the family.



MARY

Vincent…?



VINCENT

What?



MARY

Did he kill his own brother?



VINCENT (pauses)

No.



MARY

So those’re all lies?



VINCENT

Just stories, sweetheart. Okay?



MARY
Okay. I believe you. I'm glad you're around.

VINCENT I'm glad you're here, too.

CUT: Back to the drawing room. Vincent and Connie are still talking.

CONNIE
You are the only one left in this family with my father's strength. 
If anything happens to Michael, I want you to strike back.

VINCENT
I'll have everything ready.

CONNIE
You swear?

VINCENT
I swear to you.



CUT TO: A road in Corleone, Sicily. Michael is showing Kay around.


MICHAEL

Here it is. The house where my father was born. This is where they came, to take him when he was a boy. To kill him.

KAY (noticing music playing in the distance)
Wait. Listen to that.


KAY
You know, Mary's in love.

MICHAEL
Yes, I know.

KAY
With a handsome young Italian man. Dark eyes.

MICHAEL
I won't allow it. 
It's wrong. 
It's wrong and it's dangerous.

CUT TO: A square. Michael and Kay are watching a puppet show. A man standing beside the puppet tent provides the dialogue in Italian to accompany the actions of the puppets.

PUPPETEER (as female puppet)

"Oh father, my father! Give me some time to pray to the Lord."

(then, to the audience)

"The Baroness of Carini had betrayed her husband and fallen in love with her cousin."

(then, as male puppet)

"There will be no forgiveness!"

(then, to the audience)

"Her father stabbed her through the heart."

(continues, in Italian…)

KAY
Honor, huh?

*****

MICHAEL

Oh Mary. Mary you're such a warm-hearted girl, you always were.

MARY

I love my family.

MICHAEL

Even your cousin Vincent?

MARY

I really love him.

MICHAEL

He's your first cousin.

MARY

Then I love him first.

MICHAEL

Mary, you can't see him. 
Just don’t see him any more…

ANTHONY

He’s right – it’s too dangerous…

MICHAEL

Mary, listen to me. 
You can't see him anymore. 
Not in that fashion.

MARY

No.

MICHAEL

Please promise me…

MARY

No!

MICHAEL

Obey me on this Mary!

MARY (runs off)

No, dad!

ANTHONY

Mary's smart, dad, she'll understand eventually.

CUT TO: a room in the compound. Mary and Vincent are kissing again to Elvis Costello’s "Miracle Man" blasting in the room. Vincent says something to Mary in Italian.

CUT TO: Michael's Room on the compound. Michael is shaving. Vincent enters.

VINCENT

You wanted to see me?

MICHAEL

Yeah. I want you to do something for me.

VINCENT

Okay.

MICHAEL

It’s dangerous.

VINCENT

Good. I'm in. What do you need?

MICHAEL

I want you to sell your soul to Don Altobello. 
To betray me.

VINCENT

He'll never believe me.

(then, as he offers to shave Michael)

Here…

MICHAEL

That depends.

VINCENT (begins to shave Michael with the razor)

Sit down.

MICHAEL

I have an idea. See if you can learn how high Altobello is connected. 
Arrange a meeting. You say how devoted you are to me. 
Tell him your problems. You ask for his help.

VINCENT

What problems?

MICHAEL

That you want to run away with my daughter. 
Only you know that if you do, I will become your enemy.

VINCENT

You know I'd never do that, Uncle Mike.

CUT TO: Altobello’s residence. Vincent is doing as Michael asked, and talking to Don Altobello. As they talk we can still hear Michael's instructions as a voice over mixed in.

MICHAEL (OS)

I know. You ask Altobello to speak to me. To further the marriage.

DON ALTOBELLO (to Vincent)

You’re cousins … Michael was always a little old fashioned.

MICHAEL (OS)

Explain to him how, you can never be part of my, legitimate world. That you want your own family.

VINCENT (to Altobello)

…straighten out with Joey Zasa… 
If you could use your friendship to persuade him. 
I would be indebted to you forever.

(then, gesturing like Young Vito Corleone from Godfather Part II, with fingers tapping his temple)

A Corleone, knows the value of such a friend.

DON ALTOBELLO

So, then, you would work for me?

VINCENT

Si.

CUT TO: Back to present, with Vincent shaving Michael.

MICHAEL
Remember, if he hints that he wants you to betray me, get insulted. 
Because that's his trap.

CUT TO: Future, Altobello and Vincent talking. Vincent has his back to Altobello.

DON ALTOBELLO
You're not telling me the whole truth, Vincenzo. Isn't it true, with Michael gone, the girl controls everything?

VINCENT (turning to Altobello)
You leave the girl out of this.

DON ALTOBELLO Of course, you love her. 
And she loves you.

CUT TO: Mary's room. Mary is looking at pictures of Apollonia and Michael in a photo album.

CUT: Back to the balcony with Altobello and Vincent.

DON ALTOBELLO
I guessed it Vincenzo, huh?

VINCENT
You're a wise man, Don Altobello. I'm going to be learning a lot from you.

DON ALTOBELLO
The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.


DON ALTOBELLO
It's my duty to make the introductions.

(then, introducing Don Lucchesi to Vincent)

Don Lucchesi…

DON LUCCHESI (to Vincent)
Don Altobello tells me you have good character, strong, a man of respect.

DON ALTOBELLO (to Lucchesi)
This is the hero who put Joey Zasa in his grave. 
If we'd known of his existence, we would never have backed Joey.

DON LUCCHESI
No one wants another Joe…

(then, to Vincent)

Let me be your friend. Even the strongest man needs friends.

VINCENT
I'm flattered. 
But you're a man of finance and politics, Don Lucchesi, these are things I don't understand.

DON LUCCHESI
You understand guns?

DON LUCCHESI (smiling)
Finance is a gun. 
Politics, is knowing when to pull the trigger.

VINCENT
How can I help?

DON LUCCHESI (in Italian)
"Come…"
vincent and Don lucchesi walk away

DON ALTOBELLO
Blessed is the peacemaker, for he can be can be called a child of God.

The Purpose of (a) Man

[Data's quarters]

TAM: 

You do a lot of your work here? 

DATA: 

Yes. I have configured these instruments to display information with greater speed and efficiency than stations used by the others. 

TAM: 

Nice. A little Spartan. 

DATA: 

Spartan? 

TAM: 

Lots of work space, not much room to live. I don't guess you sleep. 

DATA: 

I have tried it from time to time. 

But you are correct. I do not require rest. 

TAM: 

But you paint. 

[Data looks momentarily unconfortable as Tam lifts the veil covering his latest, most recent - and unfinished - work, is about to say something, then thinks better of it, and decides to spare Tam's feelings and ignore the inadvertant offence.]

DATA: 

The creature's anatomy appears most peculiar. 

TAM: 

In what way? 

DATA: 

It is indeed laid out as a vessel with what appear to be corridors and chambers. 

An internal environment suitable for carbon based life forms is being maintained, yet there is no evidence of a crew aboard.

Tin Man is a living being which has been bred or has adapted itself to serve a purpose. 

I find that interesting. 

TAM: 

Why? Must living beings have a purpose? 

Or do we exist for no reason but to exist?

 

DATA: 

I do not believe I am qualified to express an opinion. 

TAM: 

Ah, Data, you're uniquely qualified. 

You think a great deal about humanity and you're an honest researcher. 

You don't treat anything as trivial, or irrelevant. 

You want to try it all. 

DATA: 

You said in the transporter room that you could not read my mind. 

TAM: 

True enough. 

But I think I understand you pretty well. 

It worries you that I can't read your mind? 

DATA: 

Perhaps there is nothing to read. 

Nothing more than mechanisms and algorithmic responses. 

TAM: 

Perhaps you're just different. 

It's not a sin, you know.

Though you may have heard otherwise.

[Pilot chamber]

DATA: 

Intriguing. 

TAM: 

This is the control centre, where Gomtuu's crew guided their journeys. 

The ship and the crew existed symbiotically. They needed one another.

When Gomtuu had no one left to care for, it no longer had a reason to exist. 

DATA: 

Is that the purpose of existence? 

To care for someone? 

TAM: 

It is for me.

Deanna was right. I'll lose myself here. 

(a chair grows up out of the floor) 

DATA: 

I must remind you that our objective is to bring Tin Man out of danger and report our findings to Starfleet. 

TAM: 

I'm not going back, Data. 

I'm staying here.

(Tam is in the chair, and a viewscreen opens in front of him. He looks blissful) 

TAM: 

Explain to them. 

Make them understand. 

DATA: 

But our mission...

TAM: 

Is to save Tin Man. And I will. 

But he's going to save me as well. 

All my life I have waited for this. 

A chance to find peace. 

Finally all the voices are silent. 

Only Tin Man speaks to me now. 

Don't you see, Data? This is where I belong.

PICARD: 

Data, what happened over there? 

DATA: 

Difficult to explain, Captain. 

TROI: 

Tam? 

DATA: 

I believe he found what he was looking for, Counsellor.

Captain's log, supplemental. With all main systems at least temporarily restored, we are proceeding to Starbase one five two for inspection and additional repairs. 

We have had no further encounter with the Romulans. 

As for the whereabouts of Tin Man and Tam Elbrun, we can only speculate.

[Observation lounge]

TROI: 

You sent for me? 

DATA: 

Yes, Counsellor. 

It was Tam's final request that I explain his decision to the crew. 

But I believe his hope was that you would understand. 

TROI: 

What did happen?

DATA: 

I witnessed something remarkable. Individually they were both so...

TROI: 

Wounded? Isolated? 

DATA: 

Yes. But no longer. 

• Through Joining they have been Healed. 

• Grief has been transmuted to Joy. 

• Loneliness to Belonging. 

TROI: 

Data - you do understand. 

DATA: 

Yes, Counsellor. 

When Tin Man returned me to the Enterprise, I realised 

This is Where I Belong.