Coppola stated in the film's commentary that Duvall demanded the same salary as Al Pacino (who portrayed Michael Corleone). He left and was surprised by Nick Geraci who had been hiding in the back of Tom's car and secretly following him for days. Tom was almost a smart as Michael and he would have known that Barzini was going to lose the upcoming war. Jump to navigation. He had a one night stand with Kelly O'Rourke, unaware that she was Luca Brasi's girlfriend. Knowing that he was very close to Sonny (who was now acting Don) they needed his diplomacy skills to convince Sonny to take the narcotics deal, as both he and Sonny had realized its' potential when Vito refused it. According to The Godfather Part III, Hagen has already died before the time frame of the film, which is 1979–1980. Hagen was instrumental in both securing the friendship of powerful Senator Patrick Geary and defending Michael as his lawyer during the Senate hearings on the Mafia. In response, Michael confronts Hagen about his competing job offers, and obliquely threatens to inform Hagen's wife about his mistress. Though his body was never found, Michael Corleone was sent by Nick Geraci a dead baby alligator with Tom Hagen's wallet in its mouth, to imply that Tom Hagen "slept with the alligators" (an allusion to Luca Brasi's death years earlier, in which his murderers sent the Corleones a dead fish to signify that Brasi "slept with the fishes"). Since the start of season five, Michael and his new wife Gina (Anya Taylor-Joy) have been positioned as potential antagonists with Tommy fearing they will betray him. In August 1964, Geraci kidnaps Hagen and drowns him in the Florida Everglades. Woltz rebuffs Hagen but becomes friendly after learning he works for the Corleones. In the novel, it was said that Hagen's ascension to consigliere caused certain rival Mafia families to refer jokingly to the Corleones, behind their backs, as "the Irish gang" due to Hagen's Irish ancestry. [4], When Tom came to, he realized that his hands and feet had been duct-taped together and that his car was sinking into the swamp and quickly filling with thick, brown water. What exactly did he do though? Vito is initially reluctant to give Hagen the post full-time, considering Hagen is not a Sicilian. Auge. His German-Irish ancestry precluded his formal membership in the Mafia, which did not accept non-Italians. Hagen makes a deal with patriarch Mickey Shea (Joseph Kennedy) that the Corleone family would help get his son, James, (John F. Kennedy) elected President on condition that his youngest son, Danny (Robert Kennedy), the new attorney general, would take a soft stance on organized crime. He immigrated to New York, United States. Vito makes peace with Philip Tattaglia and gives his word he won't break the peace. Tom would have set Barzini up and betrayed him when Michael ordered it. Michael sends Tom there to persuade Kay to return. In mid-1945, longtime Corleone family consigliere Genco Abbandando became seriously ill, and Hagen was named acting consigliere. Thomas Hagen is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's 1969 novel The Godfather and Francis Ford Coppola's films The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). Sonny Corleone finds the orphaned Hagen living on the street and suffering from an eye infection, takes him home, and demands he live with the Corleone family. However, he was never much of a fighter and, though well-intentioned, was never brutal enough to be a great wartime consigliere. Tom accepts the decision. Vito was more than willing to take Tom into his employ, saying that a lawyer could steal more than a phalanx of gunmen. Unbeknownst to Hagen, Sollozzo and Bruno Tattaglia have already murdered Brasi, a murder of which Sollozzo feigns ignorance. Despite considerable misgivings about Michael's vendetta with Roth, Tom helped Michael defeat Roth and his other enemies, and ushered the Corleone family as it regained its position as the most powerful crime family in the nation. Robert Duvall. Tom delivering the offer at of Jack Woltz's home. Geraci then sends Michael a package containing a dead baby alligator along with Hagen's wallet. Sollozzo requests a meeting and proposes that Michael be sent to broker a truce. The novel and first film establish that he is of German-Irish ancestry. When Vito semi-retires in 1954 and his youngest son Michael Corleone succeeds him as the head of the family, Michael removes Hagen as consigliere, preferring his father informally assume the role; Michael claims Hagen is "not a wartime consigliere". Pentangeli was born in Partinico, a town in the Province of Palermo, Sicily. 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