http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/dont-stop-believing-david-chase-analyzes-the-final-scene-of-the-sopranos
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:24 (nine years ago) link
Or, wait, this link's better:http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1502-Spring-2015/Shot-to-Remember-The-Sopranos.aspx
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 04:25 (nine years ago) link
i have a theorythat david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it
― slam dunk, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Chase basically confirms that huge blog post about it saying Tony got shot.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Nah, he's saying that it's one reading of it, and def one reading he intended. I don't think that many people have said that there was nothing menacing about Members Only Guy, or that it wasn't intended to remind of us what Bobby said in Soprano Home Movies about not hearing the final bullet.
Either way, it's a crappy ending. Having two readings of something doesn't really matter when neither reading is interesting.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
It's one of the best-edited TV sequences ever.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
I love the ending
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
set the standard for how to conclude a long-running series imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
Ending has really grown on me. I was pretty ambivalent when I first saw it.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
I like that his goal w/ the final scene was to evoke a feeling rather than to provide some narrative explanation
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
There's only 3 minutes left in the episode! Why is nothing ~happening~?? Why is Meadow taking SO LONG to park her car??? Who is that dude in the jacket???? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?!?!?
― gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 April 2015 12:55 (nine years ago) link
he's either going to be shot Then or SOMEDAY or expecting it FOREVER. What's ambiguous?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
we will all be shot one day. shot right in the heart by death's death gun. but the symbolism of the onion rings.
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
the circle of badabing
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
did you end up watching the whole series, Dr.?
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
r u crazy? no, left off a few months ago like, 4 eps in s2. I DO NOT bingewatch.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
you people... "watch all Sopranos, watch all Mad Men, watch all The Wire, watch all The Americans," just no more art films that fly in and out of theaters for the rest of your life.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it
― slam dunk, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
it's as if the mediums of television and film are... approached and delivered differently.
― Clay, Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
time, dude. not enough.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
Most of these shows aren't running concurrently so it's basically an hour a week. If you are playing catch up it's definitely more daunting.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
no one should peer pressure someone else into binge watching its totally unhealthy lol
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:43 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
that said i don't think it takes away from the ending which is the most memorable & best of the major series i can think of ... i mean a montage showing what happens to all the characters set to a country-rock song or w/e a la The Wire is cool & all but
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 16 April 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
as much as i do love the ending i kind of wanted to see tony face down in a plate of linguini tbh
― slam dunk, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
They should've started the season off with that, Meadow going OMGWHAT HAPPENED? And Carmella saying, well, it all started right around the time Vito came out of the closet-- then FLASHBACK
― pplains, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
would have been cool if tony woke up and the entire series was a dream
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 17 April 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
W tony in bed next to bob newhart
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 April 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
Finding the posters on Meadow's wall rather surprising. Ulver and GVSB, didn't think she was 'alternative' and didn't think they were mainstream so are they consciously part of her character or were the set creators just sticking up things arbitrarily/randomly?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
THere's a scene where Janice gets out of her car outside her mother's house after Meadow's party where you hear the music she's been listening to in the car. It is a weird yodeling thing that sounds like it might be Tim Buckley's Jungle Fire or possibly something by Leon Thomas, anybody got any idea what it is or if it is that? It's just a small snippet but it does sound like that Jungle Fire snippet
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
when tony and carm visit meadow's college apartment the shins are playing in the background
― nose, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZXQMtmd3A
― nose, Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
Frederik B so bad itt
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 3 August 2017 00:12 (six years ago) link
I just finished the O.J. mini-series, and found out that the guy who played Fred Goldman--uncanny lookalike, but not a good performance--was Joseph Siravo, "Johnny Boy Soprano" in five episodes. Drawing a blank.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 August 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
I still dislike the ending. + I was rewatching the first season of OZ last week, and it's honestly more audacious and interesting than most of Sopranos.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 3 August 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
haha, I watched quite a bit of "Oz" and yer insane.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 August 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
the audacity of shankings
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 August 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
Obama sequel
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 7 August 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
― clemenza, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:15 PM (four days ago)
wait, you don't remember tony's DAD?
― k3vin k., Monday, 7 August 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
Thanks. Definitely remember the dad, just not the name. (I shouldn't have said "uncanny lookalike," by the way; what I meant was, uncanny makeup job.)
― clemenza, Monday, 7 August 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), 3. august 2017 02:20 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I can't really honestly say that Oz > Sopranos, but it's a really fun version of what a 'prestige' television show could be, all weird visuals and sex and death. There are ways that Sopranos became the prestige template, which, looking back, seem a bit unfortunate to me. David Chase always had a chip on his shoulder about doing 'tv' and really wanted to do a film, but his taste in film seems pretty boring and vanilla, pretty boring nineties indie stuff. The irony is that it was Tom Fontana, not Chase, who ended up having a real influence on modern cinema, as Lars von Trier has admitted being very influenced by Homicide in his nineties stuff like Dogme, which of course then was hugely influential on a bunch of stuff.
I just think today, with peak tv and hundreds and hundreds of tv shows, every success has so many imitators that it's kinda fun to see stuff that people don't really bother making anymore. I miss shows like Oz :( Even though something like Orange is the New Black is probably a better show as well, strictly speaking.
― Frederik B, Monday, 7 August 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
BAD INFLUENCE
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 August 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Orange is the new black is awful though
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/sopranos-movie-prequel-david-chase-1202721680/
― scotti pruitti (wins), Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
Clearly the lead characters figure to be Tony's parents, Junior, child Tony, and related associates, ie not even the actors who played them in the '60s episodes of the series (cuz they're too old).
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
My brother made the same observation - I'd forgotten there were flashback scenes tbh
― scotti pruitti (wins), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link
i'm slowly watching this for the first time, i'm early in season 2 now. what is the name of the character who is part of the gang who looks like chevy chase? i feel like he's there and they never say his name and he just hangs out looking like chevy chase
― na (NA), Friday, 20 April 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
this dude:
https://i.imgur.com/FwUrkqW.png
― na (NA), Friday, 20 April 2018 15:26 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Curto
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 April 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
uh but maybe don't read all that (spoilers)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 April 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
there are a bunch of (usually minor) recurring characters who are only partially introduced when they initially appear
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link