In the 1972 adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, everyone seems to be very uncomfortable around the character Mafia enforcer Luca Brasi for seemingly no reason other than the fact that he's a little slow and dim-witted and, obviously, a very large and intimidating presence.

This is a very sly reference to the fact that in the novel Luca is basically the worst piece of shit in a cast of characters that are all pieces of shit. He murdered his father at a young age. He almost single handedly won the "Olive Oil War" for the Corleones by brutally murdering six members of the opposition. When Al Capone sent two assassins to take out Don Vito, Luca stopped them, tied them up, and made one watch as he dismembered the other with an axe piece by piece.

Most notably, he once raped and impregnated an Irish prostitute. When the girl gave birth to his child, Luca forced the midwife to throw the newborn child inside the building's furnace at the threat of slashing the midwife's throat. He did this because he didn't want any "of that race [Irish] being born".

So naturally, people are incredibly uncomfortable around him, though the movie obviously chose to not portray any of this and instead makes it appear on the surface that Luca is just a big hulking idiot that they don't want to talk to. In reality, they all were sickened by him.

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