Premise: Vito Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo 's novel The Godfather and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola 's three Godfather films , in which he was portrayed by Marlon Brando in The Godfather and then , as a young man , by Robert De Niro in The Godfather Part II . He has two other sons , Santino ( Sonny ) and Frederico ( Fredo ) and one daughter Constanzia ( Connie ) . He informally adopts Sonny 's friend , Tom Hagen , a lawyer and his consigliere . Vito oversees a business founded on gambling , bootlegging , and union corruption , but he is known as a good , generous man who lives by a strict moral code of loyalty to friends and , above all , family .
Hypothesis: Vito Corleone is a fictional setting.
Label: CONTRADICTION