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Slick prequel to The Sopranos hits all the right notes, writes BRIAN VINER
DailyMail.co.uk ^ | September 23, 2021 | Brian Viner

Posted on 09/23/2021 9:07:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde

The film whisks us back in time to a four-year period beginning in 1967, when violent race riots erupted in the New Jersey city of Newark. It introduces us to the generation of mobsters we only ever heard about in the TV series, and explains their formative influence on the young Anthony Soprano. [snip]

Fans... will appreciate how well Gandolfini’s son Michael, who was just 13 when his father died eight years ago, plays the future crime lord as a teenager. It’s not just sentimental casting; he’s completely convincing.

They will rejoice, too, in the portrayals of familiar characters as younger men and women...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonysoprano; brianviner; dailymail; gandolfini; manysaints; manysaintsofnewark; michaelgandolfini; newark; newjersey; sopranos
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To: Albion Wilde
1967 riots

Anything to make it more diverse, I see...

21 posted on 09/23/2021 10:31:14 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: hinckley buzzard
#3: "Never did figure out why I should watch a series all about a bunch of criminal scum. So I didn’t. Won’t be starting now."

I couldn't have said it better. You speak for a lot of us here at FR.

22 posted on 09/23/2021 10:41:02 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; Theophilus
You mean Vito? It was his blood pressure medication. Screwed with his head.

I hear he got a letter from his "doctah" to prove it...

Regards,

23 posted on 09/23/2021 10:49:44 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Oh boo hoo Hink

Relax


24 posted on 09/23/2021 10:55:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short supply)
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To: peggybac

True


25 posted on 09/23/2021 10:56:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short supply)
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To: LottieDah

La Mala de Brenta

‘Ndrangheta

La Camorra

Cosa Nostra

Bascillichi

Sacra Corona

La Banda

Societe Foggiana

No question organized crime groups we often collectively call Mafia are endemic to Italy in all but the Germanic and Swiss provinces in the north

An yes it did carry to here and first took off in New Orleans which was our first major Sicilian immigrant concentration much larger than New York area until post WWI immigration era

Fortunately outside of the northeastern big three cities and Chicago it never took off behind outposts and union control

And it some Anglo and German descended areas the pushback against the corrupted influence was harsh and often lethal....even in New Orleans mafia were hunted down and lynched before Carlos Marcelo learned how to be a Coonass and be pals with his host culture....and he mastered it

Our fascination is Hollywood based...its always been there....Coppola and Puzo and later Scorsese elevated that further

For disclose I count a number of made men and one powerful associate as friends in my life

Luchese and Genoese and the former head of the West Virginia rackets

But honestly maybe 5-7000 made guys nationwide and maybe a dozen families of note and all on the wane

It’s incalculable how few Italians are mob here unlike Italy

In New York every Italian family knows a mob guy for sure

Like Miami Cubans or Colombians in the 80s

Every family had a relative in the coke business

I do have a pal here in Nashville whose dad was Camorra in Naples ....his dad tried to kill him when he was 12 .....shot him.....his mob family excommunicated the dad for it...

They do have a code...


26 posted on 09/23/2021 11:12:59 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short supply)
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To: Leaning Right

Do U expect all tv or movies to be positive morally?

That kills a lot of literature

It’s a story....a sad but entertaining one

Tony’s life is a mess and he’s a sociopath obviously

I’ve watched it four times

With each time Tony looks worse and worse

A bad man with a hint of a conscience who chooses instead to ignore it

And the way he treats women....awful

The ambiguity.....intentional....of his reaction to the horses death with that of the hopelessly naive daft stripper prostitute at the hands of Ralphie is somewhat redeeming.....and the fact he never kills stupid Artie shows he knows right from wrong

That’s about as good as he gets morally ...he loves his kids too I guess

Only truly somewhat decent character is Bobby Bacalao

I think it best tv series ever done .


27 posted on 09/23/2021 11:25:35 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks .....empathy always in short supply)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Never did figure out why I should watch a series all about a bunch of criminal scum. So I didn’t. Won’t be starting now.

So you're more of a Harry Met Sally movie kind of guy. That's ok. Chick flicks need to have fans, too. I'm not judging.

28 posted on 09/23/2021 11:42:29 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I’m going to watch when I can. I watched the show and thought it was ok.. It was interesting enough to watch all the seasons (fwd the unnecessary homo mafia parts).


29 posted on 09/24/2021 12:10:05 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: hinckley buzzard

Takes your mind off the bunch of criminal scum sitting in power in Washington.


30 posted on 09/24/2021 12:20:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: hinckley buzzard

I think it was posted to provide info that others are interested in. Why do you even bother replying to it then? Slumming it, are ya?

You’re just being rude and trying to sound superior. hinckley buzzard, you’re making yourself look like a fool.


31 posted on 09/24/2021 12:35:54 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: LottieDah

Tony’s shrink’s Italian family was embarrassed by being associated with the mob as well. In one scene, Dr Melfi’s effeminate ex husband goes on and on about the achievements of Italian Americans and gripes about how Italians are stereotyped as gangsters.

In one episode, Dr Melfi is raped in the garage beneath her office. She identifies the rapist. The cops totally failed her. The rapist goes free. Her ex husband was impotent because he was too afraid to exact revenge.

Melfi took great satisfaction knowing that if she asked Tony for justice, he would crush the rapist like a bug for her. Like Bonasera asked Godfather I to punish the men who raped his daughter. The mob provided a justice system of its own for the Italian community.


32 posted on 09/24/2021 2:08:31 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Albion Wilde

Cannot wait to see this!


33 posted on 09/24/2021 2:30:47 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Great post.


34 posted on 09/24/2021 2:34:34 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: LottieDah

The Series portrayed Italians as mobsters....and as FBI agents....and as upper middle class professionals. The latter two groups having nothing but utter contempt for the former.

It definitely did not portray all people of Italian descent as being mobsters.


35 posted on 09/24/2021 4:08:40 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Leaning Right

They did get away with a lot, but look how almost all of them ended up. Dead. In a permanent vegetative state. Locked up for life. Most of them met a very bad end one way or the other.


36 posted on 09/24/2021 4:10:15 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Pelham; Albion Wilde

amen!


37 posted on 09/24/2021 4:20:28 AM PDT by Theophilus (Dems fear fear. Christians fear God. )
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To: Albion Wilde

From what I’ve seen in the trailers the actress who plays a young Livia (Tony’s mom) is just incredible in the part. I remember her from the movie The Departed.


38 posted on 09/24/2021 5:03:14 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Albion Wilde

‘The Sopranos’ scenes were eclipsed by the MadTV skits. Will Sasso’s parody versions of Tony Soprano are hysterical.


39 posted on 09/24/2021 5:08:22 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DeplorablePaul

The only problem was, you would be getting in bed with criminals and their criminal activities. Rough justice from an otherwise non-criminal person is one thing, but rough justice from career criminals who expect you to return the favor in some criminal way is another.


40 posted on 09/24/2021 5:12:55 AM PDT by Cecily
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