One F.B.I. agent told us early on that on Monday morning they would get to the F.B.I. office and all the agents would talk about The Sopranos. Then they would listen to the wiretaps from that weekend, and it was all Mob guys talking about The Sopranos, having the same conversation about the show, but always from the flip side. We would hear back that real wiseguys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. They couldn’t believe how accurate the show was.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
She had cancer the whole time we worked with her, but it was not spoken of. Nancy said to David, “Please keep me working. That’s keeping me alive.” One of the funnest times I remember is shooting a family scene with a lot of food in the room. It was like three in the morning at the end of a long day of shooting, and they had done Livia’s coverage and then they were doing my coverage. Here’s the camera, here’s Nancy, and she’s actually making faces and she’s eating a piece of pepperoni—slapping on her tongue—in the middle of my scene. She was trying to make me laugh for my coverage, like a little kid does right out of college.
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
So I talked to David on the phone and told him how I thought The Sopranos was like a Russian novel, and he told me how he’d never read any Russian novels
― Number None, Thursday, 22 March 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
I freaking hate that Steve Buscemi is a character in this show. Lots of kind of iffy moments in the Sopranos but most of its flaws are endearing in some way; Buscemi just sucks, comes on the show and does his I'm-the-weird-Steve-Buscemi-guy thing for an entire season.
― sleepingbag, Friday, 8 June 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
"We would hear back that real wiseguys used to think that we had somebody on the inside. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sirico
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 8 June 2012 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Steve Buscemi arc is unbelievably great
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 June 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really see a lot of Buscemi's standard "I'm-the-weird-Steve-Buscemi-guy" thing in that role, personally
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 10 June 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
saw an old cheers the other day w/ nancy marchand as frasier's mom, a psychiatrist. she made a ref to 'scooping sherbet at howard johnson's' also so clearly big episode for the sopranos writers room in general.
― balls, Sunday, 10 June 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa
Which episode was that
― brony ver (s1ocki), Monday, 11 June 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
Netflix is worth its existence for giving me access to the complete Cheerstinuum alone
― brony ver (s1ocki), Monday, 11 June 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPdShWevWoU
Be of good cheer. Rub a humpback's hump.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Saturday, 13 October 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
aw, poor you
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
is there a youtube comp of the number of times this line is uttered cuz it's a lot
whatever happened to gary cooper
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
all due respect
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Sack is in the new Brad Pitt movie. Got mostly bad reviews, but I'll see it for him.
― 2 Chain Pizzas (to go) (Eazy), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMppEcSRAbM
― i want to be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
FUCK, I forgot how amazing this show is.
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
David Chase talks about the ending:
http://observer.com/2007/06/tonys-blackout/?show=all
― the naturalism is fine butt (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Never mind, that's from '07.
― the naturalism is fine butt (Eazy), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
i have decided that anyone who thinks tony didnt get shot is lying to themselves and god
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
don't you get it they just ended the show in the middle of a random moment bcz it was a cool interesting new thing to do, that's all, nbd
― ed ASMR (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 8 June 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
Quantum ending FYI.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 8 June 2013 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
I don't want to accept that Tony got shot, 'cos it's a rubbish ending. Or, like, the rest of the last episode was pointless and boring, then. Actually, I think the last episode blew it. The final scene is extremely well made, but it doesn't fit with anything else.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 8 June 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
crazy talk
― w⚓f♠ (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
the only better ending would be if the whole family got sent to prison and they all shared the same cell and they started talking about buttons
― w⚓f♠ (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, June 7, 2013 5:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
s1ocki you are crazyit is about his anxietythat every moment a car will be revving like the train in the godfather & a guy will be lurking & a prison sentence hanging,he doesn't actually have to get shot
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I thought that the night of but chase has said enough things over the years to sway me to tony's dead
― balls, Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
who cares what chevy chase has to say? death of the author, how many times
― w⚓f♠ (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
well all he's said is that it's all there in the text but if we're ignoring that too maybe a dingo ate tony
― balls, Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
i agree in general that tony dies, but what's so interesting about how its presented is how that assumption is always taking place in an extra-textual space--"death" isn't really something that signifies anything to you while you're alive. so i think it goes both ways: in the terms of the text tony is suspended forever in dread and anxiety and on the "other" side he's nothing.
― ryan, Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
come off it poindexter is he dead or what
― j., Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
you can't be dead in general!
― j., Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Saturday, June 8, 2013 3:01 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark
as someone pointed out, so much of this show is from tony's subject POV, and we never see the anxiety manifest like that, and nothing really suggests that tony is a hyper-aware terminator observation machine
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 8 June 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
so did the autistic kid just make the whole thing up or what
― w⚓f♠ (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
haha sorry j. i guess im saying its schrodinger's tony soprano.
― ryan, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
But who killed him? The main problem with the final episode is the lengths it goes to to get to that 'schroedinger' state. Like, sort of resolving the war, but then perhaps not quite, but then not really giving any reason as to why it would go on. Also I think the preceding scene with junior, exploring what is quite honestly the best cause scenario for Tony, is that much more chilling than the death-anxiety of the end. It should just have ended with junior saying 'that's nice'. Cut to black. imo.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
There isn't one truth about Tony's fate. That's kind of the whole point of the open ending; of any open ending for that matter. We've all been on the ride up to that final cut off point. Tony indeed is like Schrödinger's Cat: he is both dead and alive. All depends on your conviction.
To me he wasn't killed, but I can see why others think he was killed.
― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
you don't have to pick one
― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
He's totally dead.We totally didn't need to see it happen.It totally doesn't matter who deaded him.He's totally dead.S1ocki otm.
― Home Despot (WilliamC), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
― spade ventura (wins), Saturday, June 8, 2013 10:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ This, also.
― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb9sge3iji1qc3wjlo1_500.jpg
― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
The problem is, I don't think any of the possible interpretations of the final scene are very good. Then it doesn't matter how many there are.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 8 June 2013 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
― spade ventura (wins)
thirded
― balls, Saturday, 8 June 2013 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
what kind of weak-ass arguing about tv is that
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 8 June 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
of course you dont HAVE to have an interpretation, but i do!
(and it is the correct one)
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Saturday, 8 June 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Either way, the show's over, so that's the end of (for) the characters.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 9 June 2013 04:43 (eleven years ago) link
well this is fucking comprehensive and obsessivehttp://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 July 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
yah he died
― lag∞n, Sunday, 7 July 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link