His father, Michael, orchestrates a celebration that seems more a coronation than communion, a boys choir praising the young lord among them while powerful men - politicians, even - come to pay their respects to King Michael and to thank him for his patronage. Young Anthony, compared to the bloodbath his grandfather endured, accepts symbolic blood and flesh (the Eucharist) to confirm his adulthood, and where Vito sang quietly to himself, the boy is sung to. He watched his family murdered one by one and narrowly escaped to America with literally the clothes on his back, and he commemorates this radical shift by sitting in quarantine for tuberculosis, making the first noise he's made thus far by singing quietly to himself. Illustrating the progress of Vito's family is the sharp contrast between the two: Vito must become a man because he's lost everything. Its predecessor closed with a baptism juxtaposed with a killing spree, and The Godfather Part II opens with violence set to a communion, showing a young Vito barely surviving the murder of his family by the don of Corleone, Sicily and escaping to America, before Coppola cuts to Vito's grandson, about the same age as the Vito we just saw, coming into symbolic manhood just as Vito did with the dissolution of his family. The Godfather Part II is a portrait of a tragic hero who is neither tragic (in that he is not deserving of a sliver of pity) nor heroic though the film bifurcates and splits focus with another character from another time period, it is ultimately about the fall of Michael Corleone. Irony and cynicism pervades its narrative and its aesthetic, the golden hues of its tinting a comment not only on our sepia-toned nostalgia but America and its amber waves of grain. I'm a teacher, using the trilogy in my classes, and would love to present some photos to my students, so any help would be appreciated.If The Godfather served as a haunting eulogy for the American nuclear family, its sequel charted the death of the American Dream, ironically through those who unquestionably achieved it. This is where young Michael, in his fathers arms, makes such a cute face when he tastes an olive. The olive oil mill/facility of Don Tommasino. It is obviously a small country train station, with the signs changed. First, for Vito's arrival, as an adult, and later, for his departure. No, it is not Castello degli Schiavi, as commonly believed. Then seen later, when Vito returns as an adult to kill Don Ciccio. As seen early in the film, when Vito's mother is killed, and he escapes. All three are from The Godfather Part II. I'm heading to Sicily next month, and would like to shoot some images of them, if I can find them. All three have been falsely identified on numerous sites. Question: There are three filming locations that I haven't been able to identify.