The Godfather: Part II Page #3

OFFICIAL:

(English)

What is your name?

The man waits, impatiently.

OFFICIAL:

Your name?

Vito doesn't answer. The Official pulls the tag pinned onto

his coat and copies to down on his form, using a typewriter.

OFFICIAL:

(speaking as he types)

Vito...Corleone. Step up, over

there.

He hands the form to another official.

CLOSE VIEW on the form. The name has been entered as Vito

Corleone.

INT. MEDICAL EXAM - DAY

Vito is stripped to the waist, as other immigrants wait.

The DOCTOR is just finishing his examination. He shakes his

head, and then writes on the medical form.

DOCTOR:

Can you understand me?

Vito stares blankly.

DOCTOR:

You understand? Smallpox. Smallpox.

He doesn't understand. The doctor turns to the Immigration

Official.

DOCTOR:

Quarantine...six months.

UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY - MOVING VIEW - DAY

Officials move a group of immigrant men, including Vito, to

the quarantine section of the Island.

INT. QUARANTINE HALLWAY - DAY

The official stops at each doorway, and reads off a name.

OFFICIAL:

Salvatore Ormenta.

The man moves into the room, and the group proceeds.

OFFICIAL:

Vito Corleone.

No one responds. The guard moves to the boy, reads his new

name tag. And then, not unkindly:

GUARD:

That's you.

He opens the door, and Vito enters the room.

EXT. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY - DAY

The VIEW slowly begins to pull back, revealing this to be

the view from inside the quarantine cell, where Vito stands

on his bench, looking out to the statue through the barred

window.

Then he turns, and sits in the corner. He is silent for a

long time.

Then, in a sweet, pure voice, he sings to himself in Sicilian.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. CATHOLIC CHURCH - MOVING CLOSE SHOT - DAY

A nine year old boy, dressed immaculately in white, with a

large white silk bow tied to his shoulder, moving slowly

down the aisle of the church with a group of other children

dressed in white. He has dark black hair, and his face is

unmistakably similar to young Vito's. He moves slowly, his

hands clasped around a golden missal. We HEAR only the pure

voice of Vito in Sicilian, his sad song reaching out from

the past, as ANTHONY CORLEONE, his Grandson, moves on the

way to his First Holy Communion more than fifty years later.

FULL VIEW:

The little children move in procession down to the Altar,

where the PRIEST raises the Host, and performs the Communion

Mass in Latin.

PRIEST:

Ecce Agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit

peccata mundi.

MOVING VIEW ON THE PRIEST

and Altar boys, as he moves along the row of kneeling

children, blessing them, and administering their first

Communion.

CLOSE MOVING VIEW

as the innocent faces receive the Host; finally, the Priest

comes to Anthony.

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