True stoic advice tbh

Paulie had great wisdom in that scene.

haha i scoffed like paulie unintentionally

Paulie rules

I think about this line so much! So good.

Its layered, different layers are showing who he is talking to. The only thing that broke his inner core is the destruction of innocense. With the ducks and with the HOOOOEEAARR that got killed.

Word. My favorite series is Breaking Bad, Sopranos comes to a very close second, but without Gandolfini as Tony there would have never been a Walter White. I remember watching the show and feeling drowned in it, never have I ever watched a show where all the actors performed so well and so believable :)

C B TRUE DAT 🙌

@@catnoir-a-saurus And? How does that make his talent any less amazing? In fact, it proves how deeply natural his abilities were that even while struggling with addiction and depression, he could still create these amazing characters and give absolutely transcendent performances. Moreover, dismissing someone with statements like that says way more about you than them. But ok sis, pop off I guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@Claoodeeoo2 agreed!

Same. You worded it perfectly, such a massive loss of them both. Jesussss, so much natural talent. There's a "meh" movie called Hope Springs where Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep are in marriage counseling with Steve Carell as the therapist. Apparently it was _supposed_ to be Gandolfini and Streep with Hoffman as the therapist and Mike Nichols directing. THAT would have been a VERY different movie! I mean... can you imagine what we missed out on?!

I have been flirting with Now TV about rewatching The Sopranos and then I watched this vid. Now I’m right there with you. Masterful Tv!

Ha! Great call, and was thinking exactly the same thing ;)

Triggered me too....lol

I'm rewatching weekly, as the Talking Sopranos podcast goes on. It's a great podcast!

Just finished

Breaking Bad and Sopranos, one of the greatest TV series of all time! Definitely my favorites. Unfortunately most great shows fuck it up at some point, like game of thrones or The Walking Dead.

Ben Wasserman Breaking Bad avoided the one mistake The Sopranos made: not having a clear plan for the final season right from the start.

Bryan Cranston is the only other person that can be mentioned in the same breath, his performance was just as incredible but not as honestly vulnerable as James, imo

@@LeMaqnifique Amen brother

Tony Soprano was the birth of the antihero

Literally changed storytelling on TV.

Most people agree that the Sopranos helped start the golden age of television that we’re currently in

Ever since i watched it its been my favourite show. There's some great TV come out over the last decade but nothing has ever gripped me like The Soprano's. Its a work of dramatic art.

Seyi Dada I don’t like to think it as changing, rather it broadened it by a huge margin. And IMO that’s a bigger achievement.

Sopranos and The Wire changed TV forever

thegreatcalvinio more iconic breathing than Darth Vader

Dude's cellphone ringtone would always fill me with dread.....you just knew someone was gonna get whacked!

He was sociopathic right from the start. The reason why we see it more in Season 6 is because he stopped pretending to give a fuck.

yeah, especially when he let his nephew to die

@TubeNut Nuttington sociopaths feel emotion, they usually center around rage and depression, and their emotional response, is usually connected to self interest or like tony, stress and panic over being in to deep with no way out. a sociopath is like a less disconnected psychopath, they have a conscience, they have emotion, but theyre guided still by reckless self interest. the entire show. literally ALL of them, are sociopaths. paulie is pretty close to a full blown psychopath, but id say whats his face, richie aprile, and ralph were full blown examples of a psychopath. no feelings whatsoever, and pure self interest.

And yet, at the same time, he's Narcissus incarnate.

The Sopranos is most definitely literature. And one of the greatest texts of all time, with James at the helm as Tony.

He's also self loathing of his own understanding that he came in at the end of the mob and is king of a dying empire. He wants a past that never exists and lives in a constant state of insecurity about that fact that his role was inherited rather than earned. Its why hes so obsessed with legacy in Christopher because its the only way he can justify his own legacy since his dad did most of the work to place him near the seat of power.

​@@yodabaki970 the quintessential 21st century man

So true and I think that's the part most people can connect with on some level, there's never really been a character like him on screen.

The line really got me too. Great insight into his performance.

I always change the track before it ends....I don't even know why😅

I thought that’s how he was gonna end the video lol

Not that great, he is not in the top 10 actors ever like Brando,de Niro, Pacino, Nicholson, Laurence Olivier, day Lewis etc but he is damn great

@@Gma00001 I think he is but unfortunately was typecast so didn't have opportunities to play various different characters.

@@Gma00001 I think what he was trying to say was that when Brando first came on the scene he changed the film industry in some ways. The same can definitely be said about Gandolfini in TV.

@@oscaroscar7904 Wake up lol

@@oscaroscar7904 I understand. What I'm saying is that Sopranos is the greatest tv show ever and his portrayal as Tony is one of the greatest ever. His performance overall was just outstanding. But Obviously he isn't one of the greatest because he played pretty much the same role- but he was very good and phenomenal at what he did... Brando, De Niro, Day Lewis are in my opinion the greatest actors ever and their range can't be matched

YOU WILL HAVE OUR SAUSAGES!

🐟...“Take me to the river... drop me in the water...🐟

I always notice something I didn't get the last time when I rewatch

It's crazy how true this is. I went in watching this show out of curiosity having heard it was one of the best television shows ever, but I expected just an entertaining show about gangsters, and it somehow, and I can't articulate it well, it touched a part of me that goes beyond simple TV. I like the way you worded it, that it's transcendent and feels like some of the answers of life are within. Silly as that might sound to others, it makes sense to me because there were times I'd end an episode and, while I couldn't explain why, I'd reflect on myself and my life and it was because of this amazing show and the talent within it.

@@liquidalb Yeah. Of all the great tv shows of the last two decades, I think it's the deepest because it's the one who takes a more honest approach to life. The way they depict old age, depression, raising children, psychopathic behavior, cognitive dissonance... all of it is like real life, there's no enhancements. Only the third season of Twin Peaks hit me in a similar way, and I think it's because it's so abstract and weird that you project your own ideas into it.

Woke up this morning!

@@calaphis3468 Got yourself a gun

@@calaphis3468 Alabama 3, from Brixton, London.

I instantly think Band of Brothers. THEN Sopranos comes to mind.

I felt the same, even tho I was watching lame ass season 8 GOT. When the buzzing static tv started, I was like "Woke up this morning". RIP Mr. Gandolfini a true Legend 🙌

The sacred AND the propane.

The roll of a lifetime.

love the carmine jr reference

yeah, whateva happened there, ..god rest his soul

@@randytauren WHATEVA HAPPENED THERE??!!

For sure...

I say the best Italian gangster character, and one of the best performances on tv or film.

At least definitely up there in the top five

I couldn’t have said it better.

@Ryan Akwar Nah, Walter White is right over there.

If you portray that character for 10 years at such a masterful level the yes

People, no matter how successful they are, don't want to admit one thing - success is mostly luck. Where you are born, where you come from, the timing of the opportunities, the people that you connect with.

​@@Iksvomid It's also what we're seeing now with the nepo babies discussion. Being a nepo baby does not mean you're untalented, but it does mean you had all the odds in your favor

I feel like Heath Ledgers Joker did that for him. Usually the actor needs to have a legendary performance and then die, because if they are capable of a legendary performance and it just requires opportunity, they will have more. I have no doubt in my mind that Gandolfini would go on to have many more stellar, award worthy acting performances had he been blessed with more time.

And Boardwalk Empire creator (wich also wrote The Wolf of Wall Street). That's why The Sopranos is one of the most well-written series ever

Let’s refer to them by name, please. Matthew Weiner & Terence Winter.

@@EDFilmsUK Sorry and thank you! Let's also remember their names!

@@LucasFerreira-kq3ye and Martin freaking Scorsese. Boardwalk empire is incredible too

Writers and directors you can see in other hbo shows too... Got, boardwalk, deadwood etc

Ho sh*t, that was him? I have seen this movie a few years before Soprano.

In deed.

And True Romance

@@kaysdash8556 absolutely

Worth watching?

Followed by playing "I'm Not Like Everybody Else". A perfect episode (barring the bad edit lmao).

I wonder where's Harpo eating his Sunday dinner!!

The show in a nutshell 😆

They brought out a book fairly recently that ticks all those boxes. I think its called sopranos sessions

Well, now two of the actors are doing a rewatch podcast, Talking Sopranos. Not as good as something like Sopranos Autopsy (that website is amazing), but good enough and you get some anecdotes.

Came here for this...thank you 😂

Is this a new meme?

Ha, classic!

Nena B Tony: You're f**king crazy. I lettered in Football.

He's a hothouse flower

Same, finished today so this video was a great coincidence. Don't stop-

Now watch Oz and The Wire

And......what did you think?

Same for me too

me too. instant top top 3 show for me. i finished it about six months ago and currently rewatching. one of the few things that is just as good or even better the second time around

Ohhhhhh! BORKO!!!

Gandolfini doesn't just swim, he fucking owns the water.

Could we see some of your work. Any mighty links ?

Husnain Tariq sure! I’m a part of a theatre and TV/Film group which you can find on Instagram. instagram.com/notanotherdramagroup/

Very well said

I concur, but will raise you one Al Swearengen.

Tony and Al are on a different level from Walter White (haven't seen The Shield). I mean, the entire intro of the Sopranos is about passing all those off-ramps. All those choices in life, passing by all those places, ending up at his house. As amazing as Bryan Cranston's performance is, his character and the plot just don't have the comparable depth. Cranston is great at playing vulnerable, but the main point, or eventually the only point, is that the vulnerability is a mask for his ruthlessness, not vice-versa. But Walter White could have gotten off the highway pretty much whenever he wanted. The series does an amazing job of building suspenseful situations that he has to get out off, but at any point, he could just accept his death. Even when he does, he does so very much on his own terms. Cranston played the hell out of the character, but all the tension in the series came from the bad-ass situations he put himself in, not the external pressures of being a lower-middle-class cancer patient. Tony and Al don't have easy exits. They are long past the point in their lives where a quick decision would let them change direction. Bullock had Al immediately pegged as a murderer, but that's hardly how he defines himself or even how the other people in his life view him. And it's not like Bullock, the righteous one, doesn't gun down people left and right. But what was great about Deadwood was that it wasn't interested in a "we're not so different, you and I" trope between the law and outlaw, but that in a muddy shithole, people were trying to come together to build something greater than themselves. Violence is where they all started, but all of them, Al especially, were interested in community. Al was frequently vulnerable in a way that a lot of anti-heroes never are. And I don't just mean his fucking gleet. As for Tony, this video already did a better job than I could. I'll just say that I think Tony's empathy defines him more than any other gangster on the show. He has real insight into other people's thoughts and feelings. But if any shard of insight gets reflected back at him it's back to rage and panic attacks. Because it's not that he can't put himself in other people's shoes, he knows to a certainty that he will never, ever, ever be allowed to be in them. The door shut for him a long, long time ago.

Just pirate it man

If you have Amazon Prime it's on there, or was last I checked.

@@kennethmonson cheers, I'm sure it'll come and go on streaming, wasn't the point of the comment however.

You should just get HBO MAX, with a subscription you get Sopranos in great quality plus other great shows and movies. 😉

@@okStevie too many eternal media IV drips into my bank already lol. No more.

The Italian Screenwriter why shouldn’t you?

@@catatafish6251 mafia?

@@TheItalianScreenwriter I think you being half-italian has nothing to do with The Sopranos being good. Just as the Italian mafia should not necessarily hinder you being "proud" of a tv show, if you have not been part of the CN yourself.

@Richard Lin 1. I am Italian-American, born and raised in Italy 2. Relax

This is what art is meant for.

The sacred and the propane?

Yeah? Maybe you’re a flambé

@Gothamlover 69 the good ship lollipop?

You think this is funny? There's a guy's reputation at stake

i watched a bit of the first episode of the shield. Seemed a bit cheesy though. Should i watch more, is it similar to Sopranos in a way?

@@alfa01spotivo Yeah, stick with it!

@@alfa01spotivo it's a mixed bag. It's cheesy and over the top a lot of the time. Sadly it can't ever commit fully to the fact that it's protagonist is absolute swine and that the institution he's in is a broken psychotic mess that breeds men like him. But Chiklis gives a good performance and the show does some great things with the Goggins character that's a lot more realistically a shitty cop. I'd recommend watching particularly good episodes at the very least and overall its watchable episode to episode. It's not great television like Sopranos, Deadwood, Mad Men... But it has something in it worth watching.

Damn......really? Get ready to spend the next few weeks in New Jersey.....;)

@@Infoseek777 looking forward to it! 😁

Greatest show ever

Head and shoulders above any other series.

Some of season 5 has been spoiled for you tho

It’s not when you came, it’s about the fact that you came. Glad to have you at the party 🤣

That initial denial about having the attack but knowing inside its about to happen. He nailed it

that's why he never got well, the burden of his choices drowned him.

Hah, probably my two favorite shows too! Deadwood and Mad Men are the only things that come close, Mad Men because it shares one of the Soprano writers, and Deadwood for that insane, baroque writing and great actors.

@@MrTomlette those are 2 more favorites of mine. Fargo and Better Call Saul are also up there. Better Call Saul especially surprised me. So much better then Breaking Bad, IMO.

Brilliant comment. 🙌

*furiosly Googles 'Meisner technique*

Tom Oakley offshoot of Stanislavskys ‘Method Acting’ the goal is to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. The goal is to be present and do things honestly as yourself. It involves taking a real person you love and creating an imaginary situation that would work you into the desired emotional state. There’s layers upon layers off it but that’s where it’s heading. The big difference is that it’s imaginary. You don’t use any real life events or trauma you’ve suffered. It changed me as an actor completely. After doing the work and preparation by myself I can go to the heights of an emotion at the drop of a hat, completely drop it to speak after the scene and immediately go back to that heightened state. So when you see Tony fuming and all of rage, that’s what James looks like when he’s full of rage if you get me? Definitely look into, actor or not it’s very interesting!

@@stevenfitzgerald2214 oh that's cool! I don't know the first thing about acting methods but this has kinda stoked my curiosity. I've always felt a respect for actors like Gandolfini, because anyone can watch his performance and get the feeling that he really puts his whole being into every scene. And I can totally see the utility in a method that achieves realistic performances without just triggering an actor's past traumas-- in any other field besides acting, that would surely be a serious breach of workplace conditions or something, but for pure method actors I guess that's just another Tuesday for them?

yes. Doesn't necessarily have to be a Meisner technique either. Very few actors plan line for line. They prepare exactly how you described.

I always tell people my age(millennials) to watch it bc I've met literally no one my age that has watched it and it's a dang shame.

Sure gonna watch it next now

@Ryan Akwar you guys talking about The last OG or a different show?

CARMELA SHUT THE DOOOOOOOR