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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: dfwgator
That is a great observation about how Little Italy had shrunk. The show was really about the decline of the mafia. The show certainly did not glamorize the mafia, as many who have not seen the show seem to assume. Almost every character on that show came to a bad ending.

Another scene from that show that brilliantly demonstrated how the mafia was losing their grip on power was when they tried to shake down that Starbucks-like coffee joint for protection money. The manager of that shop basically said that every nickel had to be accounted for out of Seattle and that he simply had no access to any discretionary funds whatsoever to pay out protection money. So sorry. They ended up slinking out of there totally defeated.

41 posted on 09/24/2021 5:27:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 290 days away from outliving Andrew Gold)
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To: Cecily

Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.

Ya know, I think the funeral director Bonasera made a big mistake by being afraid of doing business with the Godfather. I bet he could have made inconvenient bodies disappear for the godfather and turn a nice buck too.


42 posted on 09/24/2021 6:41:43 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Pelham
That has to be the best description of The Sopranos that I’ve seen.

I should have included how funny it was. That was part of the seductiveness, due to its excellent writing. Hope this new one is able to hold a candle to the original.

43 posted on 09/24/2021 9:02:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: Captainpaintball
"1967 riots"
Anything to make it more diverse, I see...

I read somewhere that a Hollywood organization, possibly the Screen Actors Guild or a union, has recently passed some kind of regulation that every movie has to have a quota of POCs, gays, etc. So you're going to see some statistically distorted storylines going forward.

44 posted on 09/24/2021 9:09:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
You speak for a lot of us here at FR.

If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it.
If you don't want to hear about it, don't read about it.
That's freedom!
We do us, and you do you.

Don't be a Cancel Karen. Live and let live.

45 posted on 09/24/2021 9:25:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: circlecity
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.

That's another movie I've seen multiple times. It was even worth bearing with Alec Baldwin and Martin Sheen, because their Irish-American background fit in the story's location. There were so many layers to that film. Someone pointed out the "X" symbol appearing and reappearing in subtle ways throughout the film.

46 posted on 09/24/2021 9:38:17 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: Cecily; DeplorablePaul
The point is, even though Dr. Melfi knew she could have exacted rough justice by asking Tony to "take care of" the rapist, she rose above the temptation to avenge herself and broach her profession unethically by asking a patient to revert to a behavior that was already giving him panic attacks, as well as being illegal and immoral.

This scene came up for discussion because freepers above were defending the TV series' inclusion of Italian-American characters who were morally upright. The role of Dr. Melfi challenged Lorraine Bracco (who had been offered the role of Carmela, but asked to play Melfi instead), demanding that she depict a therapist who must walk a fine line between helping a man of potential who had been corrupted by his criminal parents, and the objectively evil acts in which he engaged.

Her decision to avoid telling Tony about the rape, even when he confronted her and asked what was bothering her, was a sharply defining episode. Bracco played it well.

47 posted on 09/24/2021 10:10:31 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Is this coming to theaters? streaming? or both?

Here's the Official Site for The Many Saints of Newark. Looks like you can do either, as well as book a private screening for close friends and family. Wonder if the FBI will be snooping on those, like the black cars that showed up at Connie Corleone's wedding? These days they can remotely hack the security cameras.

48 posted on 09/24/2021 10:22:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: dfwgator

“they didn’t even realize the whole time the world was starting to pass them by”

one of my favorite scenes in the entire series perfectly illustrates what you said, namely when Paulie Walnuts tries to extort a Jamba Juice franchise for “protection”, and the store manager said he had no authority to respond to that and would have to contact corporate about what to do ... it’s absolutely hilarious to imagine a guy like Paulie trying to extort the Jamba Juice corporation for “protection” ...


49 posted on 09/24/2021 11:28:15 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: wardaddy

“Only truly somewhat decent character is Bobby Bacalao”

yeah, i thought that too until i saw bobby threaten the union guy’s family by pointing a finger-gun at the guy’s in multiple places, explains that’s where the bullets would go into the heads of the guy’s family..


50 posted on 09/24/2021 11:34:51 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Albion Wilde
Don't be so touchy. No one suggested it should be canceled or that you shouldn't watch it. Some Freepers commented that it isn't their cup of tea exactly, suggesting that the show is tawdry and immoral. But no one here wants to stop you from enjoying it or cancel it (heaven forbid). And no one is forced to watch it either. As they say: whatever floats your boat.

51 posted on 09/24/2021 12:31:07 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: Captainpaintball

One thing about the Sopranos, in the episodes involing black activists, they were not painted in a positive light.


52 posted on 09/24/2021 12:31:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: FLT-bird

And Agent Harris certainly came across as the typical FBI Agent.


53 posted on 09/24/2021 12:33:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Albion Wilde

“It won’t be cinematic!”


54 posted on 09/24/2021 12:35:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Oh, my, another lecture. This isn’t your cup of tea, so quit posting just to snark and denounce. Haven’t you got some tweets to flag?


55 posted on 09/24/2021 1:57:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: dfwgator
And Agent Harris certainly came across as the typical FBI Agent.

I'll never forget the time Adriana was so scared during an interrogation that she barfed on the table.

56 posted on 09/24/2021 2:02:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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To: dfwgator
“It won’t be cinematic!”

That series had so many great quotable lines!

Mad Men was in the same, rarified league.

Regards,

57 posted on 09/24/2021 11:19:19 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dfwgator
And Agent Harris certainly came across as the typical FBI Agent.

"Yes!!! We're going to win this!!!"

Said exultantly while sitting in bed after telephoning Tony and illicitly giving him some "inside" info that will benefit Tony.

Harris stunk.

"I hope that parasite eats his < expletive > ass out!"

Regards,

58 posted on 09/24/2021 11:22:37 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: dfwgator
One thing about the Sopranos, in the episodes involing black activists, they were not painted in a positive light.

That be before wokeness.

59 posted on 09/25/2021 7:51:07 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
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To: nutmeg

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60 posted on 09/26/2021 3:40:23 PM PDT by nutmeg (NEVER trust democRATs with national security)
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