Bingo-
Can’t have Eskimo Pie ice cream anymore because its racist
Can’t have Aunt Jamimiah pancakes anymore because its racist
Have to have movies and animated flicks represent tans/queers etc otherwise its racist.
But a movie based on a series which stereotypes Italian Americans as a bunch of gangster, womanizing, thugs?? Well we’ll give that every award Hollywood can possibly give!!!
I think you may be lumping David Chase (original family name: DeCesare) in with the typical Hollywood product, which has become formulaic and aimed solely at commercial success. The Sopranos was not so much a product to provide a payday to investors as it was a fictionalized autobiography of David Chase's early life in a working-class Italian-American neighborhood, his own struggles with panic attacks and depression, and a form of therapy for him. He had already had two successful serialized shows on television (not movies), and this was the medium of expression he alreadly knew.
I get the feeling it succeeded longer and more than he ever dreamed, and became its own thing with its own momentum; but it started deep in his psyche, and speaks to the immigrant subculture experience of many transplanted Americans. To me, it is literature, not just a way to make money, and certainly not a mean-spirited way to portray his roots. It is a tragicomedy, in which he displays the ridiculousness and fantasy bravado of those who identify with organized crime, and how badly it almost always ends for them.
Except of course it didn’t actually do that.