Every time someone dies fruit is usually shown. Fruit is a sort of reference to life, death, and being. Fruit generally starts out fresh and delightful, but usually dies from non-use or being eaten. Oranges play a major role amongst bereavement during the film. During a meeting with Woltz, a businessman, oranges are in front of him, and later that night his treasured horse was killed. Vito Corleone is eating an orange while playing with his grandson, and he dies out in the yard right after. There are also oranges around when Sollozzo enters The Godfather’s office. Sollozzo begins to be the antagonist throughout the film, and also executed. Right before Vito Corleone was shot he purchased 2 oranges, and the minute he was shot he knocked a crate of oranges into the street. Before Sonny was killed, he drives past a billboard that was indorsing Florida Oranges. During the Five Family meeting dishes of oranges are placed in front of Vito, Tattaglia, and Barzini, all dead by the end of the
Every time someone dies fruit is usually shown. Fruit is a sort of reference to life, death, and being. Fruit generally starts out fresh and delightful, but usually dies from non-use or being eaten. Oranges play a major role amongst bereavement during the film. During a meeting with Woltz, a businessman, oranges are in front of him, and later that night his treasured horse was killed. Vito Corleone is eating an orange while playing with his grandson, and he dies out in the yard right after. There are also oranges around when Sollozzo enters The Godfather’s office. Sollozzo begins to be the antagonist throughout the film, and also executed. Right before Vito Corleone was shot he purchased 2 oranges, and the minute he was shot he knocked a crate of oranges into the street. Before Sonny was killed, he drives past a billboard that was indorsing Florida Oranges. During the Five Family meeting dishes of oranges are placed in front of Vito, Tattaglia, and Barzini, all dead by the end of the