Talk:Luca Brasi

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Garrotte

I've removed this:

George Lucas, who was a protege of director Francis Ford Coppola, shot some footage for the film version of The Godfather. His Star Wars films later made reference to the garroting death of Luca Brasi, when Leia strangles Jabba in Return of the Jedi.

It seems like an extraordinarily weak connection. Sure, Lucas may have been involved in the Godfather, but I'm not going to accept the Jabba connection without any reference. Garrotting is not that unusual and specific a form of murder. --saforrest 05:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If you like weak references, I'm convinced that Luca Brasi is modelled on Lu Bu based on the similar character traits and the initials.94.194.63.222 (talk) 23:45, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

flak jacket?

it has been a long time since i watched the godfather, but as i recall the fish was wrapped in luca's coat, not a flak jacket, it seems highly suspect that luca would wear a flak jacket

It was a bullet-proof vest.Jrm2007 12:47, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Luca Mocked as Weak??

Nowhere is this said in the book or film.Jrm2007 12:47, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. There is nothing to back this assertion and I have removed it from the article. It also seems a very unlikely claim to make given Brasi's violent history and his status as personal enforcer to the Don. Euryalus 06:49, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Source for DOB and exact DOD

We need a source for the date of birth, so for now, it will be removed. As for his DOD (date of death), we know it was in 1945 but as for the day, I am not too sure. Tom Hagen was going X-Mas shopping that day, therefore it must've been before X-Mas, since Don Corleone also says "Merry Christmas" to the fruit vendor just before he is shot, which was the same day of Luca's death. --Victor (talk) 09:32, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

Could someone replace the picture with a picture of Luca Brasi getting killed? --80.44.254.151 (talk) 18:32, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Book Differences

I'm reading the book now. In it, Brasi is said to sleep at the bottom of the ocean, not with the fishes. Also no knife is involved in the book when he is strangled. 98.200.106.255 (talk) 05:54, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

$10,000 →→ $1,000

Reverted to revision 527563728 by IP:82.98.89.2
I have just re-watched the film – for the countless time – just to make sure.
 It is "$10,000" & "$1,000"  – 
 – Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 18:45, December 12, 2012 (UTC)

Now it's time for you to reread the book and make sure it's 20K vs. 10K -- Abolen (talk) 22:27, December 12, 2012 (UTC)

Actually, I did a re-read of the start of the novel up to Brasi's death before re-watching – and I was unable to find any mention of the episode, so the film is the only source. –
– Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 00:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don Corleone entered the negotiations personally. He offered Les Halley twenty thousand dollars to release Johnny Fontane from the personal services contract. Halley offered to take only fifty percent of Johnny’s earnings. Don Corleone was amused. He dropped his offer from twenty thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars. The band leader, obviously not a man of the world outside his beloved show business, completely missed the significance of this lower offer. He refused. The next day Don Corleone went to see the band leader personally. He brought with him his two best friends, Genco Abbandando, who was his Consigliere, and Luca Brasi. With no other witnesses Don Corleone persuaded Les Halley to sign a document giving up all rights to all services from Johnny Fontane upon payment of a certified check to the amount of ten thousand dollars. Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly one minute. Les Halley signed. Don Corleone pocketed his pistol and handed over the certified check.
— «The Godfather»: Signet Book; New York; 1995; ISBN 0451167716; p. 18

Abolen (talk) 14:19, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No arguing with that. Page 18? But where is that in my novel? I have a 600-pages paperback, and I know I was skimming, but I cannot find your block quote anywhere. I have missed that entirely.
arrow books
ISBN 0-09-942928-4
^{ISBN 978-0-099-42928-9}
The lower reference is also printed inside but not the first. Are there two publications? –
– Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 14:52, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Found it! In my book it is on page 47
How odd.
So that is the confirmed in the novel, but what about the film with Michael clearly stating "$10,000" →→ "$1,000" – which do we go with? –
– Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 15:11, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This used to be mentioned earlier (along with the quote above) and had been reverted or something. Abolen (talk) 20:40, 13 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can understand the film-makers needing to précis the scene/dialogue – but theirs would be the version most readers would remember rather than the original. Do you suppose we should add a footnote in this article referring to the film version? –
– Gareth Griffith-Jones/The Welsh Buzzard 07:22, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In-Universe Style

I've done a major overhaul to eliminate the "in-universe" style, as was indicated on the article page. Also streamlined wordy sentences for better flow and deleted those pesky prepositions.PNW Raven (talk) 13:07, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Non intelligible sentence

The following sentence after the word ‘and’ in the opening paragraph makes no sense: “Brasi's loyalty to Don Corleone is unquestioned, and he is said to have a Corleone soldier for making the Corleone family look bad.” I can’t correct it as I don’t know what meaning was intended. BashBrannigan (talk) 23:43, 24 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Biography section

As constructed, the first sentence of the biography says that Vito fears only Luca, but it's the other way around. Just sloppy writing? Luca's called "slow-witted," but that's not in the book, he actually known for his ability to plan solo executions. Is the killing of a Corleone soldier in the prequel? Brasi doesn't subdue Capone's men - he has a team of I think four men with them. I believe that Brasi killed the prostitute after the baby had been killed? Bruno Tattaglia, not Don Phillip Tattaglia, invites Luca to meet Sollozzo and assists in Luca's murder. It might be good to mention that in the book Luca is not a large man.Arnold Rothstein1921 (talk) 18:11, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]