The Godfather

The godfather is about a ton of different things, but if you want to look at it from the prism of michael corleon, whois sort of s the central protagonist. The inciting incident for michael is when his father gets shot in the street. So that's progressively lating his life. He has to make a choice. His choice is, you know what? I'm going to go to that hospital and protect my father. And he changes from some one who wants nothing to do with the family business to becoming a martyr,. martyr to the one who gets revenge.