Michael Corleone's death in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather saga highlights the most important difference between Al Pacino's character and his onscreen father, Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone.

Vito was still a coldhearted killer - he would have ordered the death of Johnny Fontane's bandleader over a contract squabble. Still, several lines from The Godfather suggest Marlon Brando's ...