Nothing." In that one moment, Michael Corleone says that all corruption is equal - that...
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[quoting "The Godfather: Part II"] Arthur Fleeber, NYU Professor:
"Senator, my offer is this: Nothing." In that one moment, Michael Corleone says that all corruption is equal - that there is no separation between politics and gangsterism. Now, in the Fleeber treatise, "Guns and Provolone," what point is made about the similarities between Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," and the Lake Tahoe scene from "Godfather II?"
"Senator, my offer is this: Nothing." In that one moment, Michael Corleone says that all corruption is equal - that there is no separation between politics and gangsterism. Now, in the Fleeber treatise, "Guns and Provolone," what point is made about the similarities between Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," Immanuel Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason," and the Lake Tahoe scene from "Godfather II?"
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Senator my offer is this
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Nothing
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In that one moment Michael Corleone says that all corruption is equal
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That there is no separation between politics and gangsterism
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As discussed in the Fleeber treatise Guns and Provolone
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what are the similarities between Karl Marx's Das Kapital
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lmmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
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and the Lake Tahoe scene from Godfather II
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Movie Summary
An N.Y.C. film school student accepts a job with a local mobster who resembles a famous cinema godfather and who takes the young man under his wing, after demanding total loyalty.
