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Subject Matter Of SOPRANOS Mastermind David Chase’s First Big-Screen Project Revealed!!
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It’s been almost three years now since “The Sopranos” cut to black, and about that long since we started hearing about a movie David Chase has been writing for himself to direct at Paramount.
Deadline Hollywood believes it knows what the movie is about:
... a music-driven coming-of-age saga for Paramount about a bunch of guys who form a rock band in the 1960s.
Chase was 15 when the 1960s began and 25 when they ended.
According to Wikipedia, Chase in his youth was a drummer who suffered from depression and a rocky relationship with his parents:
Chase grew up in a small garden apartment in Clifton, New Jersey and in North Caldwell. Chase has stated that as a youth he had many issues with his parents, whom he feels were overbearing. He grew up watching matinée crime films and was well-known as a creative storyteller during his childhood. Chase claims his father was an angry man who belittled him constantly as a child and his mother was a "passive-aggressive drama queen" and "a nervous woman who dominated any situation she was in by being so needy and always on the verge of hysteria. You walked on eggshells." One of his characters on the HBO original series The Sopranos, Livia Soprano is based on his mother. Chase struggled with severe depression as a teenager, something he still deals with today. He graduated from high school in 1964 and attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his depression worsened. "I slept 18 hours a day," Chase later stated. He described his problems as "what's come to be known as normal, nagging, clinical depression. It was awful." He also worked as a drummer during this period, and held aspirations of being a professional musician. After two years, he transferred to New York University (NYU), where he announced his decision to pursue a career in film, a decision that was not well-received by his parents. He went on to attend Stanford University's School of Film.
While Chase has never before helmed a feature, he’s directed a half-dozen TV episodes over the last few decades, including the series finale he wrote for “The Sopranos.” There’s still no title for Chase’s first big-screen effort, but we know the studio’s specialty arm Paramount Vantage is distributing.
Chase wrote for great series like “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” “The Rockford Files” and “Northern Exposure” before he created “The Sopranos,” so I’m excited to see anything he puts his hand to.
Find Deadline Hollywood's exclusive on the matter here.
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That whole era was chock full of Sopranos-like stuff, so godspeed to Chase if he pulls it off.
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Oh yes.
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sounds just like the character of A.J. Soprano.
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is a chicken and egg question. Does the depression (or other mental disorder) cause the creativity or vice versa? What really sucks is if you suffer from depression and are not creative. All that suffering with no pay-off.
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According to Wikipedia, Chase in his youth was a drummer who suffered from depression and a rocky relationship with his parents.
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Let's see how *he* likes it!
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...if I grew up in Jersey.
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The Dad, I mean.
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Two things I have officially gorged on and need about 20 years before I get in line for more: the 60s, and WWII. C'mon, people.
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He said in an interview he still considers himself a favor because he got famous from tv and not film or music. I found that very sad. Sounds like a miserable prick if he can call himself a failure after creating The Sopranos, which would have been a terrible twohour film. He literally only ISNT a failure because of television, and yet he looks down on it as a medium. Unfortunate. Maybe he'll make a big succesful musical film and finally be able to sleep at night. My guess is not though
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after taking a big shit into the mouths of everyone watching the Sopranos finale, he's much lower on the esteem now.
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fuck this movie.
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lets rehash the Sopranos finale debate. that hasn't been done yet. I'll start. Ummmm. I don't mind the cliffhanger style end, I guess, but they could have come up with a mini-climax of sorts, much of the smaller scenes in the last few episodes were just spinning their wheels. A lot of them were just fucking pointless.
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should have seen the obtuse non-ending coming a mile away. The show was famous for not resolving various story lines and loose ends. The ambivalence of the last episode is right at home with the rest of the show.
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Tony father had been involved in payola with radio stations in the 60s. This subject matter seems right in Chase's wheelhouse. And with most of the dreck on television these days, I can't really blame Chase for not wanting to be associated with it.
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Chase gave you everything you need to know to know exactly what happened at the end. You just need to pay attention to the direction of the scene. The finest, most careful television direction I've ever seen.
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There will be a Sopranos feature film. Count on it. So that pretty much squashes all the kooky theories regarding the series finale.
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. . . as long as the music is in a supporting role, like in Scorcese and Tarantino flicks. If they have to rely on it in the lead, like w/ Forrest Gump and Almost Famous, I'll take a pass . ..
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Exactly. Too much evidence is there for it to be anything else. Any other theories completely disregard all of the details about that scene and that is unfair to the meticulous nature with which it was set up.
I think it's hilarious when someone says it represents nothing more than the "paranoia" of the rest of Tony's life. Come on. There is SO much more going on in that episode and in that season for it to be that simple and thoughtless. -
...the movie would HAVE to be a prequel, cause Christopha' is dead for sure. And who wants a Sopranos flick w/out him??? Of course a post-Sopranos film might offer us a chance to see A.J. and Janice finally suffer painful deaths . . .
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who would want Tony dead. Phil Leotardo is dead and he made peace with New York.
Chase never really devolped anything from the brilliant Pine Barrens so there was no set up for the Russian guy killing him while he had that Tony was going to be indited as Carlo had flipped. Personally I think Chase had run out of ideas so left it delibratley and cynically ambigious so he can do a Sopranos film when he needs the cash if the rest of his career crashes. -
First, they don't show it, it didn't happen within the series. Tony is alive when it ends. No conclusive evidence that he was capped = not capped. Anyone saying otherwise is making things up. Maybe he got capped 30 seconds after the fade to black...but it's not in the series. I don't see how anything else can matter
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. . . so Adrianna isn't dead either???
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Is in the very nature of it being so intuitive that he isn't Nothing really seemed to play out the way you thought it would in that series which leads me to believe neither did this.
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Plenty of people have put the pieces together. It's all out there on the net, and it makes perfect sense. Hell, JackSlater stated it quite well right here in the TB.
Chase has discussed how sickened he was by the bloodthristy segment of the audience. They were always clamoring for "whackings." It repulsed him. So, it makes complete sense that he had Tony killed, but from Tony's POV. Chase was simulating what it would be like if you were shot in the head. It's cut to black and you're gone.
Chase wasn't going to give the audience, at least the gorehound part of it, the satisfaction of seeing Tony's brains blown all over the diner window.
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Every time the show is mentioned - *WAAAAH* "Pine Barrens" *WAAAAH* "Those 30 seconds of blackness ruined the WHOLE series" *WAAAAH* "My fan-fic fantasy as to how the series should have ended didn't play out and I'm now going to cry like I have sand in my vagina." *WAAAAH* SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. Or go somewhere that you're wanted, like one of those friggin' looney tunes "Lost" talkbacks where they're still expecting "answers" for that clusterfuck of a series.
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But if he was 15 when they started, he'd be 24 when they ended.
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But with the F bomb being dropped a lot!
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Chase should go back to The Rockford Files.
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That is all.
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That's how much I hated that ending. Call me a troll or whatever, but I feel like I wasted 98 hours of my life on that show, and I'll be damned if it happens again. Of course I've bought miniseries (like JOHN ADAMS) when they come out on DVD, but I'll never follow a series again. They all seem to run out of steam anyway - remember how much you turds liked HEROES? Never saw it.
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We're talking about The Wire now?
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"Chase has discussed how sickened he was by the bloodthristy segment of the audience. They were always clamoring for "whackings." It repulsed him." Then he shouldn't have made it an integral part of the fucking show. The "whackings" made him a millionaire, and allowed him to move to the more civilized environs of Europe. Fuck him.
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You're a fucking stupid cunt.
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That's good to know. Thanks.
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Only low-rent Brits and gay Americans call other men "cunts." Which category do you fall under?
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I watched it for the first time today, and even as a passive fan (obviously if it took me this long to watch the final scene) think Tony's death was pretty obvious. The instant cut of the audio and cut to black (not fade, but cut) was implication enough, nevermind the 10 seconds of silence and blackness symbolizing the nothingness of death.
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Your ignorance just infuriates me, I'm sorry.
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In the feature version of
"Der Humpink". -
I think David Chase is a fabulous writer and director, so I'm definitely fired up about this.
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Cats?! What.The.Fuck.Tony.
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Jackslater is on the money. And for those of you who say "Sopranos movie," Chase has said that, by neccssity, any such movie would have to be a prequel. He's all but said "I killed Tony"
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...I don't believe he's dead. There are a hundred possible ways the show could have continued at the point it goes black. I choose to believe in any of them where those characters remain alive. This movie however, no interest.
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The problem is that he killed everybody else. All that was left was the family being a family and that's just not interesting.
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In my head it's great! : )
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The Wire finale > The Sopranos finale. Make a Sopranos movie, David Chase. Maybe you can beat The Wire finale your second try.
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What bothered me about it was that it was as if Chase had watched Goodfellas a million times and then made a tv series based on it, just changing the names. It even used actors from that movie. It doesn't feel authentic, just a writer's fantasy of a Scorsese piece. In the world Scorsese depicted, gangsters behaved that way. In the contemporary world, they don't act like they live in the seventies, which is how Chase did it. They sure as shit don't dress like that. For more credible gangsters on tv check out Kingpin.
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Simply because Chase wanted something different. I am tipping we have not seen the last of this brilliant show. The tension the last five minutes of the show created was like nothing ever seen on TV before. Watch Gandolfini's face in the final shot. The clue as to Tony's fate is all in acting. He got whacked. Fading to black is exactly that.
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But it was still a gimmicky ending meant to make the "TV as an artform crowd" stroke Chase's cock that went against the character driven nature of the series. I've watched the series back to back three times since it ended, and that finale always feels like Chase was ramming a square peg into a round hole with a ten pound sledge.
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Not a clue. Particularly people who claim to enjoy the show. There is absolutely no reason to believe that's what happened... unless you WANT the character to be dead.
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Are here: http://tinyurl.com/3taayv
And here: http://tinyurl.com/yzlxn3y
Even Michael Imperioli (Christopher) thinks Tony was killed: http://tinyurl.com/yecng3u
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As much as I personally hate the idea, all evidence points to Tony being clipped in the finale. I recently watched the entire series in the span of a week and a half, so it's still fresh in my mind. Season 6 was basically one long build-up to Tony being killed. It's all in there if you're paying attention.
Someone above mentioned there were several small, seemingly pointless scenes - but they either had a deeper meaning, pointing towards the end (or referencing things from earlier seasons), or they were put in there so that when someone was killed in what seemed like a throwaway scene, it was all the more shocking.
I always figured they'd end the show with Tony being killed, or his family going into the WPP (literally, not in the sense they used it!) - it just seemed the only way to give it a real conclusion was to end Tony's mob career in one way or another. And I feel Chase did that, in his own way. -
Thanks for those links - the first one is an interesting read if you can get through all four pages. It reinforced some of my own opinions while introducing some things I missed. Love how they even managed to fit Chris' "3 o'clock" reference into the last moment of Tony's life.
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