The Godfather: Part II Page #2

MOSCA:

(Sicilian O.S.)

...misery to any family who harbors

the boy, Vito...

INT. A BARN - NIGHT

Four little girls watch with wide eyes as their mother and

father bind Vito tightly in swaddled cloth, and then lift

him up to the side of a mule; counter-balancing a heavy load

of firewood. The father looks at the boy's almost stoically

calm little face.

FATHER:

(Sicilian)

Vito...We pray for you.

He pulls the fabric over the boy's face.

MOSCA:

(Sicilian O.S.)

...Andolini...

STROLLO:

(Sicilian O.S.)

Our Friend promises misery to any

family...

EXT. THE CHURCH PLAZA - NIGHT

The men continue on their night-walk, up to the plaza of the

church.

STROLLO:

(Sicilian)

...who harbors the boy Vitone

Andolini.

The figure of a single man on a mule passes them.

MOSCA:

(Sicilian)

Let no one give help to the boy

Vito Andolini...

The man on the mule makes his way out of the village and

disappears into the distance.

We begin to hear, very quietly, the Waltz repeated once again.

EXT. STEAMSHIP - CLOSE VIEW ON VITO - DAY

huddled in blankets, on the deck of the ship in Steerage.

He does not say a word. The Waltz grows louder as the VIEW

ALTERS, revealing the hundreds of immigrant families huddled

together with all their earthly possessions on their way to

America.

Then, suddenly, the Waltz stops.

THE NEW YORK HARBOR - DAY

SILENCE. We glide past the Statue of Liberty.

VIEW on the IMMIGRANTS standing on shipboard silently;

looking. Vito is standing with them, his eyes wide.

CAMERA MOVES IN on the statue, then MOVING PAST, on to the

beautiful buildings of Ellis Island.

EXT. ELLIS ISLAND - DAY

A tugboat pulls a barge brimming with immigrants into the

Ellis Island harbor. Uniformed officials of the Immigration

Service load them up toward the main building.

INT. ELLIS PROCESSING HALL - DAY

The hundreds of immigrant families sit on rows of benches in

the great hall. Various painted lines lead to the steps and

processing rooms above.

There is the babble of many interviews going on

simultaneously, uncertainly, in different languages.

Vito is bundled in an old coat, with a large tag pinned on

it:
"Vitone Andolini -- Corleone, Sicilia."

He stands, moves up in the line, when several other immigrant

boys, older than he, rush up an push him back in the line.

Weak from the trip, he falls to the floor. The boys laugh,

derisive in a language he cannot understand. He struggles

to his feet, lifting his makeshift bags; staring at them in

an icy hatred.

INT. PROCESSING ROOM - DAY

Three or four interviews are crowded into the small room;

they are conducted in English. From the expression on

Vito's face, and from the fragmented of the English, we

realize that he doesn't understand a word of it.

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