Most Rewatchable Scene
First meeting of Zasa, Vincent and Michael in Michael's office
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- The category opens with the Zasa-Vincent showdown in Michael's office, with Garcia's leather-jacket wedding look and good drunk acting as Connie takes his drink.
- Vincent is Sonny's son with the bridesmaid from the first film, Lucy Mancini, who is seen at the party; her description in the book is recalled.
- Biting an ear to draw blood is described as a Sicilian custom meaning a fight to the death, prompting jokes about a later boxing ear bite.
- "Say it to his face" and "all bastards are liars, Shakespeare wrote poems about it" are praised as stagey but great dialogue, with Mantegna doing Gotti in real time.
- Mantegna's career is traced from House of Games through Bugsy and Searching for Bobby Fischer, originating Ricky Roma on stage, and Fat Tony on The Simpsons.
- The penthouse commission scene is next: Michael's gifts, the helicopter attack, the oranges, Al Neri's return, and Altobello conveniently stepping out.
- That scene feels like a crappy 70s exploitation movie but works, and it could be argued as the best stretch because it leads straight to the kitchen scene.
- In the kitchen, Garcia's "I say we hit back" and Pacino's "just when I thought I was out" line paid off the trailers in theaters; the line is the one Silvio quotes on The Sopranos.
- The feast set piece is praised: the raffle car, the Italian-Americans speech, and Garcia revealed as the mounted cop who kills Zasa.
- The shaving scene, cross-cut with the Altobello and Lucchesi scenes, shows Michael warning Vincent off Mary without forbidding it; "when they come, they come at what you love" is singled out.
- Michael making Vincent the new Don is abrupt but liked, including how everyone in the room reacts.
- Vincent breaking it off with Mary is tagged as Sofia Coppola's only half-decent scene, though the pair's chemistry is not bought.
- The extended opera murder montage is called unbelievable and gets a vote for most rewatchable.
- The pushback is that the montage runs far too long with too much opera, even if it is well staged and a mother's favorite.
- Asked for an alternative, another pick is the first meeting of Zasa, Vincent and Michael with the ear bite, the New York crime movie that was wanted instead of Sicily.