EDIT: See the comments below. They make good points, though I'm pretty sure the Carlo is very much a part of the family and both Fredo and Carlo betrayed the family in a similar way.
Fredo gave out crucial details about Michael's routines. Someone opened the drapes that allowed a clean shot through Michael's bedroom window.
It was only his instinct that allowed him to figure out just in time that the drapes were opened by someone who had no reason to do so or even to be in his bedroom alone. As to the question, a more forgiving man would have forgiven Fredo -- and have him watched all the time. And next time, Michael may not figure it out in time. And of course, Michael is not a forgiving man.
I forget in what movie it was, but Michael once wondered why it was that he was so feared. It was precisely because Michael does not forgive. He does not forget. And he gets even. So Michael killed his brother, making his son hate him. He killed his brother-in-law, making his sister hate him for quite a few years. I'll add my two cents. In The Godfather After Fredo took Moe Greene's side when Michael confronted him about casino and hotel buying out Michael warned Fredo never to take sides against the family:.
Michael : Freddie, you're my older brother. I love you. But don't ever take sides with anybody against the Family again. Fredo didn't listen to it. Even though Fredo didn't want Michael to be killed he probably knew that it was going to be a kidnapping. Michael: I want you to reach Fredo. I know he's scared, but have one of our people reach him. Assure him that there will be no reprisals. Tell him that I know Roth misled him.
Hagen: My information is that Fredo thought it was a kidnapping. Roth assured him nothing would happen to you. Taken from answer of paul: What exactly did Fredo do to betray Michael?
At this moment Michael was precautious cold-blooded criminal that protected himself and his family. When speaking to Cardinal Lamberto:. Michael: I killed -- I ordered the death of my brother. He injured me. I killed my father's son. Fredo, while good-intentioned, was dim-witted. Michael obviously loved his brother and trusted him, as with the fact that he allowed his children to go fishing with Fredo.
He knew Fredo would never intentionally betray him again, but that didn't eliminate the idea that Fredo was weak and dumb, and could eventually be exploited again somehow in the future. Michael from an ordinary man turned to cold-blooded murderer. He had lost feelings of pity and compassion. Any feeling of empathy was gone since the moment of murder attempt on his father, death of his brother Sonny and his wife Appolonia.
All his human feelings atrophied. He became suspicious and cold to everyone, even his family members. He was cold to his wife, he was cold to Tom, he was cold to Fredo.
Michael as a Don is contrasted to his father Vito. Vito since his youth to old age was always kind, fair and generous. He loved greatly all the family's members. If place Vito on Michael's place regarding Fredo's betrayal, he would never kill his brother, even for so many mistakes. Michael turned to heartless criminal and considered his safety as most prioritized matter. I looked through the other answers and this seems to be missing: In either the book or the movie perhaps Saga Michael says or thinks, that the problem is not forgiving Fredo but that it is Fredo forgiving himself -- he feels that Fredo will never do this.
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. Michael broke down in tears when confessing the crime to the future Pope, Cardinal Lamberto , in while at the Vatican. It also irreparably harmed Michael's relationship with his son and Kay, who found about it through their son Anthony. Described as the child Italian parents prayed to the saints for, Fredo was the weakest and least intelligent of the Corleone brothers; his own brother, Michael, dismissed him as weak and stupid.
Fredo was also known for being incredibly gullible and making poor decisions, as evidenced by his secret dealings with Johnny Ola, thinking he was helping the family. Summary Plot Overview. Important Quotes Explained. Quotes Important Quotes Explained. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5. Popular pages: The Godfather Trilogy.
Take a Study Break. What Michael says to Fredo? Why did they kill Sonny? Did Fredo open the blinds? What happened to Michael Corleone after Mary died?
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