# The Godfather: Why the Sicily sequence?

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**Created:** [March 29, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-godfather-why-the-sicily-sequence/443138 "2008-03-29T03:52:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-godfather-why-the-sicily-sequence/443138/21 "2008-03-29T19:55:24Z")

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[QUOTE=indian]  
He made the midwife who held his newborn child to incinerate the baby, since he didn’t want it..  
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Actually it was never made clear that **was** Brasi’s child, though it was strongly implied.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-godfather-why-the-sicily-sequence/443138/22 "2008-03-29T23:07:58Z")

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[QUOTE=indian]  
He made the midwife who held his newborn child to incinerate the baby, since he didn’t want it..  
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Ah ok. To be honest, I was hoping it would spur a memory of the scene in the book, but it didnt.

And I really didnt want to slog through the damned book or movie again, I really REALLY dont see why some people seem to worship the damned movie, just like PorkLips Now [although the helicopter Ride of the Valkyries scene is pretty cool]

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-godfather-why-the-sicily-sequence/443138/23 "2008-03-30T02:19:35Z")

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It also showed Michael’s attitude towards Kay. As we later see, she was waiting for him to return after he basically disappeared. He meanwhile met another woman and married her. Does anyone think he would have ever bothered to contact Kay if Apollonia had lived? He had dumped Kay, who he probably saw as a college fling, and never even bothered to tell her.

But when Apollonia was killed and Michael needed a wife, he called Kay up. Notice that he never told her that he had married another woman who had died; Michael didn’t see the need to be truthful to Kay even as he was proposing to her.

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