So my father, who has had a FB for maybe 4 years now, posted his 2nd ever status update tonight.
George B.sopranos best show ever i will miss tony very deeply
Dad otm.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
aw
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:39 (ten years ago) link
appearance by young gandolfini here - http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/realestate/the-apartment-gypsies-of-manhattan.html
― balls, Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Too young
RIP
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 20 June 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
There were many, many scenes throughout his career in which his sheer brute physicality was on display. There is one particular scene, and I don't have the time to go and look for it now, but I think it comes from one time in the Sopranos where Tony and Carmella are separated and he's basically living in the home theater. They get into a really nasty yelling match - I think Carm had slept with someone else or, more likely, Tony THOUGHT she had - and out of frustration and anger that is SO FUCKING CLOSE to unleashing total destruction on her but not quite over the edge, he punches two quick holes in the drywall that were the size of his loaf of bread sized fists. SO FUCKING TERRIFYING in a very real sense.
And then he plays these roles like the director of the CIA with lines like "Everybody's smart." And you buy that, too.
Such a great actor, and he seemed like a very real person - both good and bad parts, but still a person, and not a totally detached persona. I feel horrible for his family and his children. Rest in Peace, fellow Scarlet Knight.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah that was one of the more intuitive and real domestic anger scenes I've ever seen and he was particularly good in those moments imo. So good in 'in the loop' as well.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
Glad he lived to see The Sopranos through to the end. Role of a lifetime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn-U6fVvgEQ
― lols lane (Eazy), Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
I just found the scene - It was the "Whitecaps" episode, and Furio. Jesus, he and Edie Falco were just amazing.
Fuck, this is really really bumming me out.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
Only saw The Sopranos once, but he was REALLY good in Not Fade Away and In the Loop.
A friend said he and his wife were at a party in NYC a few years ago and suddenly heard the loudest Yelling Man of all time in the next room. Guess who?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
Tony's Greatest Hits
Look at Season Four, Ep. 13. Man, what a performance by both of them.
I'm curious if Falco is going to issue a statement, and if so, what it might say. To have done so much acting together with so much emotional investment must have been something powerful and unique and so much else.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
So everybody can agree that THIS time he actually dies, right?
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
sorry
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
this is wrenching
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
yeah really can't get past this one, i essentially spent so many hours w/this guy
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:33 (ten years ago) link
To have done so much acting together with so much emotional investment must have been something powerful and unique and so much else.
― Sleep Deprivation Thriver (B.L.A.M.), Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:00 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark
“I’m still in love with Edie,” says James Gandolfini of Edie Falco, the woman who played his television wife, Carmela, for six seasons on The Sopranos. “Of course, I love my wife, but I’m in love with Edie. I don’t know if I’m in love with Carmela or Edie or both. I’m in love with her.” Falco reveals a similar possessiveness over her HBO-wedded husband. “It was weird to sit down at a table read with the actresses playing Tony’s girlfriends. Occasionally I would get a sharp twinge at the back of my neck,” she recalls. “I’d have to kind of keep my bearings and remember, No, no, no, this is your job, and at home you have your life. Even years later, I remember when I saw Jim in God of Carnage on Broadway, and he was Marcia Gay Harden’s husband, and I had this ‘How come I have to be O.K. with this?’ kind of feeling.”
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:33 (ten years ago) link
that's awesome, I love hearing that. <3
I was watching the clip of when Tony kills Ralphie - really good example of him using that bottled anger so perfectly, seeing it in lead up when he's moving so slow and deliberate, like a boxer waiting for the first punch...and then WHAM the brute strength
also the yelling about beautiful innocent creatures while he's slamming Ralphie's head into the floor...
It's like he had all those moods on one big dial, and you could see him twist the dial all the way around from doofus to psycho in the space of a few moments, it was so great to watch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
nice write up by seitz - http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/james-gandolfini-obit-matt-zoller-seitz.html
― balls, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:54 (ten years ago) link
fucking hell. a guy I know just had a stroke. apparently healthy, in his mid-forties. just smoked and drank a bit. this is really making me think i need to start taking care of myself better.
sorry if this seems like the wrong thing to say or something - just really what's going through my head - on top of the gut-punch of losing such a great actor. weirdly feel like i know the guy after all those hours of the sopranos.
― brio, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
When I was searching for YouTube clips, I went straight to the clip of Tony entering the house after Janice shoots Ritchie Aprile. Barely any words at all and his expression at seeing dead Ritchie is priceless.
http://youtu.be/3X6AaNbZZfQ?t=4m3s
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:56 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X6AaNbZZfQ
ugggh otm elvis, so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
ENBB's dad otm
― brio, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:59 (ten years ago) link
have only begun dipping into clips - feel like I might start rewatching from the beginning tomorrow - but he was a terrific comic actor, too, in weird territory. grabbing the pillow, you know? or re: Richie, assuring Janice that they'd buried him on a hill, under a tree, &c
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
His physical appearance that (among other qualities) gave him the role of Soprano,also killed himRIP
― nostormo, Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:34 (ten years ago) link
interviewed at age 26 in the NYT about being an 'apartment gypsy'
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/realestate/the-apartment-gypsies-of-manhattan.html
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:40 (ten years ago) link
lol schlump i was just remembering that, wish i could find that clip of him seeing janice off at the bus station. been meaning to for awhile but i think i'm gonna start rewatching from the beginning also.
― balls, Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:57 (ten years ago) link
I watched the first ten minutes earlier, it was terrific
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 20 June 2013 06:07 (ten years ago) link
Once the current Mad Men season is over, I think I'll rewatch also
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 June 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
Shitty news to wake up to. Great actor. So, so good in killing them softly playing a sad sweaty wreck. I think that'll be another hard-to-watch one for a while. Luckily the bits without gandolfini ain't great.
― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Thursday, 20 June 2013 08:39 (ten years ago) link
oh man wtf, wtf.
― look at my watch/I'm in the club and everyone's looking at me/fuck th (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 June 2013 10:26 (ten years ago) link
RIP big T
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
sorry to hear. his "What kind of man are you?" bit in Man Who Wasn't There stands out for me.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
shit, I have to start watching this goddamn show now? which are the seasons to skip, again?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:59 (ten years ago) link
First three are essential, all the rest have good bits and draggy stretches.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:00 (ten years ago) link
Gandolfini never puts a foot wrong though.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:01 (ten years ago) link
"Good Morning, America" showed this scene: Carm admits to having a crush on Furio.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
Same. I was a bit late to the Sopranos which gave me the opportunity of digesting box sets over weekends. I remember being ill in sync with Tony (the one where he has food poisoning and hallucinates about going to Cony Island and speaking to Big Pussy The Fish) and being crashed out for two days on the couch with a pile of Sopranos episodes for company.
I don't know how deliberate it was to start with but he really used his breathing brilliantly in those scenes where he's seething and getting ready to shout/cry/kill - a noisy sniff then exhaling like an angry bull.
I imagine he'd be an intimidating man to do those kinds of scenes with.
― no man is an islam (onimo), Thursday, 20 June 2013 12:37 (ten years ago) link
― lols lane (Eazy), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:49 PM (
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:59 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
watch them all
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
anyone who tells you otherwise doesnt get it
this is horrible
shit, I have to start watching this goddamn show now?― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:59
shit you have to?? shit! SHIT! fuck.
― am0n, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
the sopranos is the greatest tv show of all time, and it would have been... inconceivable without him.
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
I am extremely wary of proclamations of this ilk.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
It was a damn good show. You'll love the first season best because of Nancy Marchand.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
true, the CGI version of her was not nearly as good
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
if anyone is going to pull out the Sopranos is overrated card, i think it's gonna be Morbs
― Nhex, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realise he was only 51, he seemed to have been around for ever. It's a shame.
― not_goodwin, Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
acc to s1ocki, i can pull it if i think it's not as good as The Prisoner.
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
dunno if it has been said already, but the number of people I know posting on fb/twitter/etc "RIP Tony Soprano" really irks me
if it has been said already, consider this post an otm to that
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Thursday, 20 June 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link