Godfather And Scarface: Does Family Matters?

Does family matter? Yes family always matters. It is necessary to have some sort of family structure in order to have a stable foundation. This need for stability and structure is how the family survives and the children find safety. In the movies The Godfather and Scarface we will discover how the two differ when it comes to family and family business. These two patriarchs have different views on family and how the family is involved in the business. In this discovery one struggles to gain and maintain power but looses everything in the process. While the other maintains the family through peace negotiations and understanding business and revenge can not always go hand and hand in order for the family to survive.
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The cohesiveness of the family is paramount to their survival. It is the key to their power and how every thing is run. In the movie we also learn about five other families and then one in particular that comes against the Corleone family. In this there is much blood shed and death brought unto the Corleone family all due to the refusal of entering the narcotics business. This is due to he believes it will ultimately destroy the families and those politicians that support the Corleone family and leave the other five families to due there business will ultimately not support the drug cartel of the family business and eventually this will cause the down fall of the family. It is understood most importantly is togetherness makes the family strong. It is that very principal that this movie tries to display for those watching can understand. That with out a family life can be rough but that family is the foundational bases and who ever is in charge being it patriarch or matriarch that who is head of the family is never disputed. This type of nuclear family structure is not often viewed with in the 21st century. This family structure is often seen before the eighties and most often with foreign families. The patriarch structure is often found with in Sicilian Italian Chinese and Japanese. In other cultures like Native Indians and with some tribes with in the Amazon Rainforest there are matriarch tribes. Even cultures of today such as the Haitian Jamaican and Cuban family know that family needs to be together and that no one takes an outsiders position over the family. These values of family that is held in high regards are the backbone and strength that keeps the family in order and with dissention. This how many of these families built with this foundation found in the Godfather are successful in one keeping the family together and to allow for decisions to make swiftly and in the best interest