The most striking thing for me in the movie "The Godfather" was the intuition that the main characters have.
The word "intuition" comes from the Latin word "intueor", which means "look intently." It is the ability to comprehend the truth by its direct discretion. Man draws conclusions in a speculative way, without using logical reasoning, only on the basis of what he sees before himself. You can say that the intuition is made up of the ability to observe and listen. Not everyone has a sufficiently developed intuition, because just not everyone can know and listen. How do most of us listen to our interlocutors? Hardly having caught the word that does not agree with its opinion, we immediately rush to interrupt, speak out, insist on our own. As a result, we are missing information that could be obtained from the interlocutor, if we listened attentively. But to us the main thing is to assert itself, and other people's information in general is not important.
This is not the custom of the Corleone family (like all Mafioso in general). For them, the main thing in the conversation is to get as much information as possible. Moreover, to assert itself - why? They are already very self-assured. You will not see in the film that one character interrupted the other. Only once did Sunny allow himself to interfere with the conversation in a timely manner - and immediately received a reprimand from his father for discovering his thoughts with an outsider. "I diluted them," Vito Corleone says of the children. "They talk when you need to listen." Mafioso talk to listen, not to chat. Their goal is to get as much information about the interlocutor as possible. Even the one that the interlocutor does not want to talk about. Moreover, for this, everything is studied in the most careful way, up to glances, pauses, the slightest nuances of speech. Most of us, with our overwhelming desire to "talk", hear only what they want to hear, and sees only what they want to see, and reads "between the lines," tying out from the text only what is beneficial, necessary, interesting and etc. The rest, the very essence of what the other person says or writes, remains unknown to us. In a manner to talk and listen to the interlocutor of the heroes of the Godfather, everything is completely different. In their principles of communication, first of all, there is the ability to watch and listen. This is the ability to see and hear, notice every gesture and put off every word of the interlocutor in your head. It is this ability to see and hear helps the film's heroes draw conclusions, guess who is a friend and who is a traitor.
Italians, Sicilians are very expansive people. However, despite all their emotionality, they always listen to the person to the end. Moreover, do not just wait for him to finish talking, so that he can enter into the conversation himself. They listen to every word. They analyze every word. Moreover, that's why they are good psychologists and that's why they have a well-developed intuition. They do not allow themselves to think up the phrases of the interlocutor, until everything has sounded to the end. And so nothing escapes them.