"Satan" is the choice to do evil to achieve power and success in this world
The Godfather films all unfold with a sense of world history happening around the Corleone family saga, and sometimes the family's fortunes directly intersect with those major events. In The Godfather Part II, it's the Cuban revolution, and in The Godfather Part III, it's the Vatican Banking Scandal and the sudden death of John Paul I. While the film offers a heavily fictionalized version of these events — including the idea that John Paul was poisoned for his part in approving Michael Corleone's Immobiliare deal — it also presents a very interesting portrait of one of the world's oldest institutions and how it might respond to such direct mob involvement.Â
By the end of the film, the Pope is dead, and an archbishop has been gunned down within Vatican City. One way or another, that means the Vatican as it exists in the world of The Godfather will never be the same. Even if Michael's heirs manage to retain his Immobiliare holdings, there will always be a shadow of suspicion. In the world of this film, nothing can ever be completely "legitimate," no matter how benevolent the efforts were.
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