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what did they mean by this? edition

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I laughed so hard at that. Like imagining having to audition and actually getting a role on HBO's biggest show in the first episode of its final season and that is your role.

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>post yfw this happened

>get paid thousands of dollars for taking a shit

fine by me.

My favorite part of The Sopranos was in season 1 when he gives his fuckhead neighbors a box and tells them to hold onto it for him and they spend hours wondering what's in it

>>get paid thousands of dollars for taking a shit
How much do you think actors with roles that small make? I guarantee you it wasn't more than a few hundred dollars.

bro if someone wants to pay me hundreds of dollars to be on one of the goatest of all tv shows for TAKING A SHIT, I'd be pretty happy

Ever notice how Carmella also sees the beacon when she's in Paris?

Fair point. I just think it's funny .

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where was he

Essex County jail.

you know Quasimodo predicted all this

to the victor belongs the spoils

The Sopranos definitely had some spooky moments. The wine glass in Calling All Cars always rustled my jimmies.
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haha what the hell

You probably don't even hear it when it happens

that's a good one, I forgot about that

I like how the supernatural is real in Sopranos

Always thought this dream sequence from the same episode was really creepy
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No, nice checking. Fits very thematically

For context, this happens as they're eating Karen's last baked ziti.

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pulls the napkin closer to her dummy

I made a reddit thread about this and consensus was she moved the silver tray and thus the cup moved.

The glass makes two distinctive and relatively abrupt movements. I'm not saying you're wrong, but it just seems kind of unnatural.

Yeah, that was probably one of the most genuinely unsettling scenes in the show. Another one is when Paulie sees the Virgin Mary. Notice how she appears in the mirror before Paulie turns to look at the stage.
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is The Ride one of the best episodes of The Sopranos? I think it is.
>Christopher's "Dolphin" montage
>Those comfy scenes at the fair
>"W-w-w-we're with the Vipers!"
>Paulie being a man and accepting responsibility/forgiving Nucci.
>That fucking ending with Tony making Mika laugh like Vito Corleone.

I think that is playing on the fact that his mother wasn't really his mother, being a nun and wasn't a virgin etc.

As far as it's meaning, who the fuck knows. I think all the dream sequences make zero sense and were just thrown in to fuck with people.

Maybe they really are dreams and are supposed to represent realistic dreams, where they make no sense.

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eh, I didn't like that vipers sequence, it was out of character for Tony to just randomly jack two dudes. Especially knowing they were probably armed and almost getting killed in the process, all over bottles of wine.

It felt like a forced relationship advance between Tony and Chris all to deepen the oncoming events where Tony murders him.

>eh, I didn't like that vipers sequence, it was out of character for Tony to just randomly jack two dudes.
Heyyyyyy whoa wait a minute the whole episode is about how Tony has become bored with life after his recovery and this little excursion with Christopher was an exercise in letting loose. Unplanned, impulsive. The Vipers were armed but they got the drop on them by about a whole minute and Christopher is a total marksman. You do see Tony is noticeably a little tense when the Vipers show up though. It was a great little scene.

I think you're right to some extent, but the writers were also extremely well-educated and well-versed in areas like semiotics which is what makes the dream sequences so effective. Like there are definite connections between horses and whores in Tony's subconscious, which is kind of hilarious honestly.

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That's what makes them so great, they're totally ambiguous, just trying to decipher that one sequence is giving me many different interpretations.

>Tony likes to ride horses like he rides whores
>in front of Carmella, she knows and doesn't care to much

or

>he bought the whore horse on a total whim because that woman was into horses
>led him like a horse to water

shows how easily he's led on by whores

This shot from Whoever Did This always gets to me.
"She was a beautiful, innocent creature."

SHE WAS A HOOOAHH

B) she hit me

Is it my fault she's a klutz?

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Also, check out the ring on Pussy's finger. It's a horseshoe, just like the horseshoe jewelry he buys when he wants to cut ties with the whore.

Thank you for this awesome gif of based Ralphie

He has the best shit-eating grin. I love it.

I'm gonna shove that book of quotations up your ass

anybody know what the whole 3 oclock thing was about?

It's either to fuck with people or the position from which Tony was shot in the last episode.

It's one of those intentionally ambiguous things that never gets resolved like the psychic visit, the Russian in the woods, or the apparition of the Virgin Mary. Strangely enough, they almost all have to do with Paulie.

So I recently re-watched the show and tried to DISPROVE the idea that patsy ordered the hit on Tony. One part of the theory is that Patsy was still grieving over his twin brother and resented T because Meadow's marriage plans. Well even though he exchanges some weird looks in some scenes he clearly is happy about the marriage in other scenes to the extend that he is the on offering Tony to celebrate.

And Michael Corleone didn't have that guy who got Sonny killed killed because they clearly made peace.

Point is their argument is "Patsy looks suspicious" when he only looks that way in a very limited amount of scenes. In the scenes that is essential to the argument Carm asks Tony to refill Patsys glass. So his look could easily be explained by being concerned that this will backfire because of Tony's ego.

What do you make of Paulie's reaction when Tony mentions bumping up Patsy to take over Jackie's old crew?
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Dunno, what are you implying? Paulie sure as hell didn't know about the plan to wack T if there was a plan. I mean he could just have taken the job to make Tony feel save and all.

>EVEN IF I DID SO WHAT
>IT WAS A FUCKING WHORE-SE

Do you think he did it?

Of course

I mean, the insurance company said it was accidental. When Silvio burned down Vesuvio there were two arson investigations. Just think it's interesting.

No, Tony just spergs out because he dislikes Ralph and immediately blames him for the fire. Killing one of his captains over a horse that he didn't even own, this is the one time Tony was in the wrong.

It was an accident, she slipped.

when the fuck did this happen?

ralphie was a snake among snakes, he deserved to die eithe rway

Livia's wake

Ralphie did literally nothing wrong.

Time to rewatch

Tony also sees it right before suffocating Chrissy

tony had a hapa kid irl

>Hating on based Ralph

You're awful, he's one of the best characters in the entire series.

it's not like he was white to begin with

Damn, that's a really nice catch. It's pretty unreal that people are still picking apart a show that first aired in 1999.

fuck ralphie

paulie 4 lyfe

he also had a heart attack

i thought that black guy was a fucking statue and the screenshot was made only to illustrate the hilarity of tony assuming the same position of it

Gandolfini is GOAT actor and man.

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that's when he wakes up in Miami and Beach Boys play over the credits right? very good understated ending like The Sopranos always does. I like the one in Live Free or Die when Vito is in the antique shop and begins to seriously consider living in New Hampshire

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I love how a big part of this show, seemingly about the mafia, is just exploring existancial feelings and angst through the eyes of a sociopathic crook.

do you reckon paulie did some stand up to entertain the troops

Those are both great endings. One of my favorites is in No Show when Kid A starts playing. Whoever was in charge of music selection/editing was a master.
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Ralphie, Sil and Richie are the only things i dislike about this otherwise 10/10 show. They don't feel like real people

he all but admits it

I heard Gandolfini was depressed all the time cause his wife was a golddigging whore and he didnt divorced cause he knew shd would divorce rape him and also because of the kid.

>being this retarded

>you will never take Hunter Skankarello out behind the Bada Bing and fuck her brains out.

I finished the series for the first time like a week ago but already feel like rewatching it. Go for it y/n

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David Chase has the best taste.
>"I'm Not Like Everybody Else" over the long tracking shot of Tony walking out of Janice's house
>"Evidently Chickentown" over Phil talking with Butchie and Chis' kid's baptism
>"I Saved the World Today" over Tony sitting on the couch with Carm after disposing of Richie
>"World Destruction" as the camera zooms in on the dollar Chris pins to the fridge that he took from the bent cop that killed his Dad
I could literally post a hundred more of these

>>being this retarded
What? They feel forced. No one is a villain in real life. Tony is an exceptional example of a sociopath. Paulie is also realistic when he's not being used for comic relief.

watch the pilot and wonder who the svelte, slightly balding guy is in Melfi's office?

they feel like psychotic mobsters, which is what they are. they're all very different characters though.

Steve Van Zandt was the music supervisor IIRC. you can credit him for picking most of the music.

Add to that the cat in the final episode. Paulie and the supernatural seem connected

they dont make em like sil or richie anymore really, dont work in today's society

count your lucky stars youve never had to meet a ralphie though

he was becoming more sympathetic because his son was dying. Him then killing the horse, then Tony righteously killing him over some animal love autism doesn't really fit what the show was about. It makes more sense thematically that Ralphie was in fact innocent that time, and essentially died due to his earlier crimes (in particular murdering Tracie)

He really care about animals. In the show his shrink's fried told her that it's a sign of psychopath

Chase worked with him, yeah. But I doubt Van Zandt would even know who Aphex Twin was, let alone want to pick "Blur" to put over the credits of one of the episodes.

Fuck, those are all so good, but I think the best of the bunch is Evidently Chickentown. I wish I could watch that sequence for the first time again.
>Leotardo, that's MY fucking legacy

This is probably babby's first observation but when I rewatched Sopranos I noticed how reoccuring hospitals, health and sickness are. A lot of story archs are about illness and the fear of death

>No one is a villain in real life
There are mobsters in real life tho. Also you are ignoring that especially Paul is a well fleshed out character and not a mere villain.
>World Destruction
That song was so fucking great.

You'd be surprised about how much professional musicians know about contemporaries or underground scenes. Especially one as famous as Van Zandt. I'm not saying Chase probably didn't have a few choice moments either, but Van Zandt came up with the brilliant move of using a brand new (at the time) Bob Dylan song at the end of Amour Fou.

SHE WAS A HOAAARSE

Come, it's not staring at the picture. A rat died in the wall or something.

there are plenty of guys around like Sil and Richie, it’s just most of them end up dead or in jail (similar to the show)

Yeah I think this is the best interpretation. They even include lyrics from Sympathy For The Devil into the dialogue for that episode in order to make Ralphie seem like a more sympathetic character.

Yeah it's pretty amazing
I read Dylan wrote that song for the show because he liked it so much

Did Barry Haydu do it?

>horse
>hoar
Sounds a lot a like. Coinkidink? I think not