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Who's gettin whacked tonight! (Sopranos) (pg. 5)
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| sheila-neil |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennifera
When tonys walking in the diner,you see the camera focus on him, then it switches to his perspective, and you see him looking @ the booth hes gonna sit at...
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I was totally bugged by the above camera perspective stuff and by the fact the all the non-speaking diner patrons were credited. Your workmate's conclusion explains both of these things. This by far the best explanation I've heard! |
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| knittybone |
| quote: | Originally posted by steven-neil
i think you nailed it,,that is the best post in this thread yet....i think your bang on...but also it gives them an easy out if they want to make a movie...
plus Aystar i think ur just a bullter |
Someone else was telling me about all of the other characters that had ties to the show that were coming into the diner... interesting.
Couldnt agree with you more about Aystar... |
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| DJ Eco |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennifera
Bobby says "at the end, you probably dont hear anything, everything just goes black"
part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the last seconds of it, when tonys about to go to sleep and he flashes back to the memory of him and bobby on the boat... "You probably dont hear anything everything just goes black"
so in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door sounded but when meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out and killed tony...
its the reason you aint hear, or see e when he died.... it was from his perspective.... and everything went black, then the credits rolled." |
yepppp, that's it... i finally figured it out.... plus, the guy that sat down was Phil's nephew from Season 2 or 3.... wow, now that i look at it, this ending was amazing! |
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| magikb |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennifera
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That totally makes sense. I need to go back and re-watch it.
I was left completely unsatisfied after watching it this afternoon tbh.
But if this is it.. it really does make for a brilliant ending. |
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by steven-neil
Sheila pointed out sumfin to me and its ed up....The fact that every person in the diner at the end was listed in the credits means that they originally had speaking parts that were eventually cut... |
no, they were instead in previous episodes, like the man with the American Flag hat. |
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by AY STAR
what are your sources? Imdb? |
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| AY STAR |
| quote: | Originally posted by steven-neil
i think you nailed it,,that is the best post in this thread yet....i think your bang on...but also it gives them an easy out if they want to make a movie...
plus Aystar i think ur just a bullter |
yea iam a bullter cause they filmed 3 diff endings and they chose the one i didnt know about
http://www.topix.net/forum/tv/the-s...DR3737LVH0V/p12
you can read it there mr know it all |
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| knittybone |
Your source is suspect...
http://www.usatoday.com/life/televi...-analysis_N.htm
'Sopranos' left fans in the dark
By Gary Levin, USA TODAY
Debate is raging among fans and critics about Sunday's Sopranos finale, a fitting end to one of TV's most analyzed series.
Some are angry that Tony's fate was never revealed. Others are content that, as in many of the show's 86 episodes and in life, its ending was untidy and inconclusive, leaving Tony and his family munching onion rings in a New Jersey diner.
FAN REACTIONS: What did you think of the finale?
Viewers did tune in: Preliminary ratings from Nielsen's top 56 cities jumped 42% from last week, which projected nationally would translate to about 11 million viewers, its biggest audience since March 2004. Final figures are due today.
As the cast finished a read-through of the final script, "we all kind of sat there," star James Gandolfini recalled in a March interview. "I think for five minutes nobody said anything. It just kind of felt satisfying. Nobody was like, 'Whaaaa?' "
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But that's exactly the reaction fans felt Sunday. Just as Meadow rushed into the diner, the screen abruptly cut to black for a seemingly endless 10 seconds, leaving some to fear that their cable or DVR had gone on the fritz. And that was that as producer David Chase closed the book on one of TV's most fascinating families.
"I can understand people feeling like Chase stuck a middle finger in the face of a lot of dedicated viewers," wrote entertainment website Zap2It.com's Rick Porter. On the other hand, he added, "who else but Chase would think to end his masterwork on such an uncertain note?"
No alternate endings were shot, so none will appear on the final-season DVD due in October. But a final page of the original script, in which Meadow takes her seat at the table before the episode fades to black, was scrapped.
And though the finale might seem to beg for a sequel, don't expect one. With the TV series definitively ended, there are no plans for a Sopranos movie, HBO says.
Chase declined interview requests and told other Sopranos writers not to talk, preferring to let viewers imagine in their own way the off-screen aftermath to the ending he'd conceived three years ago.
"David didn't want us weighing in on what the ending meant or what it is," says writer Matthew Weiner.
But theories abounded on the Net and e-mail volleys: The silent ending signaled that Tony was killed, harking back to a conversation with now-dead brother-in-law Bobby Bacala, who said that when you die, "everything goes black."
Or Tony was indicted. Or maybe his mobster life just went on, now that nemesis Phil Leotardo had been whacked, his skull crushed under the wheels of an SUV.
Viewers had expected a variation on one of these long-rumored ends but got no end at all. So they flooded message boards and HBO's website, which crashed for at least 30 minutes Sunday night with 10 times the usual volume.
Contributing: Gary Strauss
No alternate endings were shot, so none will appear on the final-season DVD due in October. |
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| Stassi |
I Highly doubt they would film 3 endings and just throw two of them away. The show ain't cheap to produce its alot of work. I would believe that they wrote three seperate screenplays as a way to avoid a leak because HBO runs a pretty tight show. |
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| BiG MiKE |
Gay ending. The whole series was great, but to make that crap ending felt like the whole series was crap. Not really, maybe o_o
I have to talk with my friend to see how pissed he was when he watched the ending. He was watching this religiously. I bet he's just as pissed as I am :P |
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| AY STAR |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stassi
I Highly doubt they would film 3 endings and just throw two of them away. The show ain't cheap to produce its alot of work. I would believe that they wrote three seperate screenplays as a way to avoid a leak because HBO runs a pretty tight show. |
nah i though that also
but after the end of last season vito was on the ktu morning show talkin about the show and he said they filmed 3 different endings
one where he just runs back off with the guy johnny cakes and we never see him again
another one was he secretly relocates down to atlantic city like how he was telling tony he wanted to do
and he was gonna live there on the dl and kick money up to tony but eventually phil would find out and there would be sick beef
and the last ending they did was where he dies
he even said that only david chase knew which ending was gonna be used
the cast and crew had no idea till when they were watchin it for themselves |
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| AY STAR |
my personal review of the show
i though the ending was pretty good
for those last few min you actually got to feel how he has been living his life and would for the rest of his life, always lookin over his shoulder, to me it was good but its not shocking he has been doing that his whole life pretty much
a few things that pissed me off was first how out of no where phils crew didnt seem to mind that tony was gonna kill their boss and gave them the ok to do it, meanwhile last week they were plotting against tony very weird
and typical soprano bull where they start on a topic and never finish it like when tony gave paulie the promotion and they ended with paulie giving him the nasty look as he seemed he was pissed off
but we will never know what happens
i think paulie should have atleast fough tony or somethin
i mean tony took ralphies side and vitos side over paulies in the past
and paulie has been with the crew since uncle junior days
i just feel paulie should have stood up for himself a lil more
that would have atleast solved that problem
other then that episode was ok not the best for after watchin it for 7 years but it was ok |
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