The point of this meeting was supposed to be to settle the gang war between the Corleones and the Tatagglias, with Barzini acting as a neutral negotiator. Vito didn't believe Tattaglia acted alone in Sonny's murder ("Tattaglia's a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino"), so he's trying to read the room here, to see who else could be involved.

If this meeting was JUST about settling the gang war, then the other family heads should have been happy to accept Vito's opening proposal to, "let things go back to the way they were." But Vito gets suspicious when Barzini takes charge of the conversation right away and starts dictating terms. Also, Tattaglia constantly defers to Barzini throughout the meeting, checking with him to see if he's said too much (or not enough).

'I will not broke the peace today' ..... (but my son will)

The moment Barzini mentions a bill, he has insulted Don Vito. Remember how The Godfather  reacted to Buonasera's offer of money at the beginning of the film?

He is agreeing to all of this to give his son safe passage and buy time for his family. Appear weak when you are strong, appear strong when you are weak.

This is one of the scenes where you figure out Don Corelone is a prophet and a genius.

not even Don Corleone believes in people hanging themselves in the jail cell

The beauty of this scene and the ending is Vito was willing to even let himself be talked down to or even ignored. But all he wanted was confirmation of who killed Santino. And he got it.

I love how everyone's shocked that there's a racist mobster.

My favorite scene in the whole movie

And he was not the one to break the peace. He left that for Michael.

That mafia meeting was held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank????!!!
😂

5:14 Some people laugh at the Don mentioning Michael "being struck by a bolt of lightning" because, out of context, it is funny to assume mere gangsters could orchestrate that...
what these reactors fail to realize is that it is in fact the part of his threat that carries the most weight, because it's Don Corleone's way of saying to them "not only are you to stay away from Michael, but you better pray nothing bad happens to him in general, because if it does I'M GOING TO RAIN HELLFIRE UPON YOU"

edit: I wanted to write "IMMA RAIN HELLFIRE ON YOUR ASSES" but the Don wouldn't say it like that :P

Nice Reactions Everyone 😊

If you repeatedly press 0 you hear something interesting....

Mafiosos don't talk to each other directly
They always have a mediator

I just like that when Brando speaks the reactors comments go mostly silent.

Gli Italiani sono buoni e cari.
Ma è molto meglio non farli incazzare.

Yall just talking through the whole damn thing

Who’s that guy with hat and yellow glasses?