Trump, Jr. For my money, I get more of a Fredo vibe from Eric Trump. Don, Jr. But Fredo is more of a complex, tragic figure than political mudslinging would allow.
Dutiful, loyal, always at the service of his father, living with his parents at age thirty. He was short and burly, not handsome but with the same Cupid head of the family, the curly helmet of hair over the round face and sensual bow-shaped lips.
And yet he fit the character perfectly. Cazale, one of the great and undersung character actors of the nineteen-seventies, excelled at showing weakness, cowardice, and pettiness. But he never reduced his characters to their most mockable flaws, infusing his performances with understated humor, sweetness, and melancholy.
Coppola had a soft spot for Fredo , who reminded him of his less accomplished uncles. Send Fredo off to do that. You broke my heart. Fredo slinks away. He was promised a reward and control - two things he never received in the family. Then, Fredo reveals the root of his destructive angst.
I can handle things. Fredo melts into a chair, and Michael banishes him from the family. But the story is also centered on themes of loyalty, respect and family above all else. And for Italian families, Falco said, those ideas are taken very seriously. His failure to protect his father from an assassination attempt contributed to his sense of inferiority.
Greene never treated Fredo as an equal partner however, becoming irritated by Fredo's womanizing, and even put him in danger by having him dispose of a business partner's body.
When Moe refused to sell out to Michael , Fredo attempted to defend Greene and was told never to side against the family again. Greene was later killed in Fredo's behavior in Vegas was considered embarrassing to the family, largely because of his notorious habit of impregnating showgirls and prostitutes. Fredo was appointed sotto capo , or underboss , by his brother, an appointment that was seen as unqualified nepotism, though Fredo was given little real power and the title was mostly ceremonial.
Michael Corleone's rivals, chiefly Louie Russo , the mob boss of Chicago , hoped to exploit this rumor of Fredo's bisexuality to make Michael look weak. Though hesitant at first, Fredo paid her three thousand dollars to tell Johnny it was the best sex she ever had, before eventually succumbing and sleeping with her. Shortly after, with Fredo's knowledge, Marguerite had a baby , whom she put up for adoption.
The Corleone family would be able to buy up the former cemetery land cheap, now prime real estate, and also be a silent partner in the graveyard business. Fredo would propose this plan to Michael and impress him, reassuring him and others of his abilities. To Fredo's dismay, however, Michael dismissed the idea as unrealistic. At the Christmas of , Fredo showed up at the Corleone Christmas party with Deanna Dunn , a famous but fading movie starlet.
A few months later they got married. Dunn got Fredo to make appearances in bit parts in some of her movies. Later, in September , Fredo's Hollywood connections allowed him to get his own successful TV show, "The Fred Corleone Show", which aired irregularly, usually on Monday nights, until his death in , on a local television station in Nevada.
Fredo's drinking problems continued and accelerated. One day, he discovered Deanna cheating on him with her movie co-star Matt Marshall , and Fredo shot-up the Corvette he had bought her. When Deanna's co-star tried to attack him, Fredo ended up knocking him unconscious with a pistol whip and went to a local jail. Tom Hagen came to bail him out and got in an argument about Fredo's reckless activity and Tom's blind loyalty to Michael.
Tom again got the charges dropped as self defense after paying off Marshall and the hotel. If Fredo was told they could help him with his Colma vision, he'd do anything to help.
Fredo met with Johnny Ola and supplied him with all the information they needed, especially financial information, about the Corleone family. Fredo ambiguously claimed that his goal in that deal was simply to get something for himself, on his own, and swore that he did not realize he was being used as part of a larger plot to kill his brother.
However, in the event of Michael's assassination, Fredo would likely have led the Corleone family, at least as a figurehead. It is unknown if Fredo knew that they planned to assassinate Michael. Michael discovered Fredo's role in the plot during his trip to Havana, when Fredo let it slip out that he and Johnny Ola had been in Havana together earlier that year and they went to the sex show together.
Michael confronted Fredo later and tells his older brother, "You broke my heart. Later, when Michael is being pursued by a Congressional Committee investigating organized crime, he has a talk with Fredo and realizes that Fredo had both withheld important information from him about Hyman Roth's connection with the Committee's lawyer Questadt , was deeply resentful and jealous of Michael's role in the family business as well as the fact that he was treated as an errand boy and that he was stepped over.
Michael therefore disowns and banishes him from the family, although not wanting any harm to happen to him while their mother was still alive. Upon their mother's death, and at the urging of their sister Connie , Michael relented toward Fredo and seemingly offered reconciliation. However, it was only a deception to draw Fredo in so as to have him murdered by Al Neri.
Fredo and his nephew, Michael's son Anthony , developed a relationship with Michael's consent as part of a plan to kill Fredo and were to go fishing on Lake Tahoe. However, Anthony is called away by Connie, who tells him that his father wants to take him to Reno. Fredo is left alone in the fishing boat with Al Neri and he takes the boat far out onto the lake.
His suspicions prior to his death are left up to interpretation. As Fredo prays the Hail Mary which he claimed brought him luck whilst fishing , Neri shoots him in the back of the head, not knowing that Anthony was watching from his bedroom window.
Michael was wracked with guilt over ordering Fredo's murder for the rest of his life. When Michael had a stroke, he called out for his brother.
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