Talk:Corleone family

Comment
-Corleone family is based on the others families from New York but this family is based most of the Bonanno family.

dates
Now that is interesting. Where does Michael's death year (1997) come from? :-P In the movie it looked like his daughther's death made him grow grey hair, and then die shortly after... Multi io 22:11, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ha ha! No, he already had grey hair in the beginning of the movie. His death scene takes place much later after his daughter's death and he had gotten much older. You can see the old age makeup put on Pacino. MrBlondNYC 20:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

apollina/ sonny
Just a quick point. Apollina's death is stated as 1947 here. However, in the film she is in the scene where Don Tomasino breaks the news about Sonny's death (which is listed as 1948). Is this wrong, or does this family tree follow the book rather than the film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.225.234 (talk) 01:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Came to make same comment.. where is the family tree information from? No source is attributed. 98.222.61.151 (talk) 16:46, 17 February 2009 (UTC)


 * It's been a long time since I made the tree, but the dates come from The Godfather DVD (it's an extra). Whether it's accurate, I don't know. On the issue of "Carmella" or "Carmela", again the DVD says "Carmella". If any of this is wrong, feel free to make a change. K1Bond007 (talk) 07:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

So, any good reason why this article (which has no info about Apollina) links to her name? She isn't even mentioned in this article. WTF? 50.135.92.66 (talk) 00:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Location in NYC
Where exactly they were settled? (in which area of NYC) Anything about it would be welcome. 95.59.82.66 (talk) 04:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm fairly certain the mansion was on Long Island. The one that I'm absolutely certain about is the apartment in their younger years. That was located in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. The author grew up there too, thus he made his character live there during the same time period. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 18:24, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The Corleone compound was in Long Beach, per the book.Arnold Rothstein1921 (talk) 04:56, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Carmella
Carmella is always spelled Carmela, never Carmella. The name is the feminine version of Carmelo. The family tree needs to be cahnged as Carmella Corleone's article has been moved to Carmela Corleone.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 08:36, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Tom Hagen
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when was Tom a Don? As far as I knew, he was the family advisor and lawer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.139.119 (talk) 16:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Tom was Don during the time after Sonny's, while Vito was still recovering and Michael was in Sicily184.90.134.34 (talk) 22:40, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Michael handed him the position early in GFII following tha assassination attempt. — &#124; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard&#124; — 23:03, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Genovese?
There is a badly written line that says: Compared with the real-life Five Families the Corleone family has the most in common with the Genovese family There is no punctuation whatsoever, but that's not the problem I have with it. The problem is that this is incorrect. It is actually common knowledge that the Corleone family is patterned after the Bonannos. I have three reliable sources that say this. This one compares Michael C. to Bill B., this one compares Joe B with Don Vito C. on their similar views with narcotics and how the family still dealt with it, and this long article has a slew of comparisons. For this reason, I am changing the sentence and citing these as sources. If someone has better sources for the Genovese family, then that's fine, but please fix it and cite the sources. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 18:16, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

What is canon? (movie vs book)
This article is titled Corleone Family, but no indication about whether it is book or film. As in most films, the movie is sometimes different than the book and this is the case here as well. A decision needs to be made about canon here. I believe the book should be canon and then the movies should be secondary. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 18:36, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Suggest infobox should be removed
I think the Template:Infobox criminal organization should be removed. I don't think it is appropriate to use that infobox for fictional criminal organizations. Using the same infobox for both fictional and real criminal organizations tends to confuse the fictional with the non-fictional, since people who do not read the page carefully and whose eyes go directly to the infobox might not pick up on the fact that they are a fictional organization. SJK (talk) 10:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Since no one has thus far objected, and User:Dennis_Bratland expressed support (at Template_talk:Infobox_criminal_organization) for the general principle that this infobox should not be used for fictional entities, I went ahead and removed it. SJK (talk) 07:37, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Family tree
The reason to have the family tree as a template is if most members have their own pages to link to from it, like with the Skywalker family tree page.

Per I am bringing this to the talk page as asked before doing anything else. Cassandra872 (talk) 19:28, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your cooperation brining this here to discuss, Cassandra. I have added the nice family tree template Cassandra made to this page, but she started also adding the large tree to every individual character's page, which I think is unnecessary. Other thoughts are welcomed. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 19:34, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Gareth Griffith-Jones (contribs) (talk) 12:20, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The Cassandra872 account has been blocked indefinitely because CheckUser evidence confirms that the account's owner has abusively used multiple accounts.

Sonny's death
Changed to 1946 rather than 1948, a date which may come from a timeline in the special features of one of the DVD sets. That timeline also has Vito dying in 1953 when he actually died in 1955 according to the tombstone. Sonny's year of death being 1946 makes more sense as Vito wouldn't have been bedridden for 3 years. He still has a bandage around his neck from the wound. Also the novel states that Michael and Kay didn't see each other "three years" after their final dinner in late 1945. Michael goes to Italy late 1945, Sonny is killed around summer of 1946, the Five Families War ends and it takes Vito another year to bring Michael home (as stated in the novel), and Michael is back a year or more before seeing Kay again near the school. Edimeo25 04:09, 20 May, 2021

Per WP:BLAR
Per WP:BLAR, blanked and redirected due to a lack of reliable sources discussing the family as a whole, not individual characters. The article was seriously bloated with overdetail and in-universe fluff. —Ganesha811 (talk) 19:19, 23 January 2023 (UTC)