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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: wardaddy

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

That kills a lot of literature”

Seriously, we’d have to get rid of Homer, Greek tragedies, Shakespeare, etc, just to live up to some peoples’ standards for moral purity in art. Then we’d just have really bad art left, because the art that doesn’t reflect the worse parts of our nature is false, and art that is false is worthless.


81 posted on 10/05/2021 7:59:42 AM PDT by Boogieman
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