Both Kay and Michael are quick to regard him as a fearsome presence in the film.
Theres a reason he looks that way.
Lenny Montana, the person playing Brasi, was a real-life enforcer for New Yorks Colombo crime family.
Some people wanted to take over my fathers oil importing business, he explains.
Luca Brasi went after them, Michael continues.
The story is that he killed six men in two weeks and that ended the famous olive oil war.
Take it down to the basement and throw it into the furnace.
On one occasion, though, he asked for more than just a delivery.
Brasi is better kept as a scary onscreen heavy whose worst crimes are left to the imagination.
The Godfather chronicles the Italian-American Corleone crime family from 1945 to 1955. Following an assassination attempt on family patriarch Vito Corleone, his youngest son Michael emerges to orchestrate a brutal campaign of retribution, cementing his role in the family’s illicit empire.
Nevertheless, his backstory sheds a terrifying spotlight on how he qualified to become Don Corleones personal hitman.
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