Movie The Sopranos: The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

[RoyMunson]

started watching it the other night and fell asleep. will try again at a later date.

 

[DraftNerd]

It may have been in the re-created fair scene when Johnnyboy was caught with the other crew members meeting at the fair while pretending to take Tony's sister Janice. That's the scene from the Saprano's where Tony as a young kid climbed in the trunk and was pissed when he thought his Dad was leaving him out. The riots in Newark were occurring at that time placing young Tony as a 10 year old kid.

Yet in this movie..."The Many Saints of Newark"...the riots are also depicted as occurring. Only this time Tony is a young man ditching college and being groomed by his mentor, Dickie Moltisanti.

I had Tony maybe 12 when the riots happened. Then it goes ahead about 5 years (in my mind) and he’s about 17.

I’ll need to watch again because I was confused the whole movie knowing the flashbacks from the show he was about 10 during the riots.

I can’t figure out why…but they seemed to have screwed with such timeframes. It was distracting.

 

[DraftNerd]

It’s nice to have a time stamp…..my last post here I decided to go rewatch the Sopranos start to end. Three weeks. Not bad. I’m going to turn around and rewatch Many Saints. I have a sinking feeling it won’t be better this time, might be worse, after watching the series.

I’ll just share this too….I didn’t like the ending of this series way back when it happened. I didn’t hate it with a passion, but it was not pleasing or have any closure. The more I have rewatched this over the years the more I have come to….respect it more, maybe.

I first started watching because….it’s the fucking mob, and I gobble up those stories. But, on rewatches I’ve become more and more aware of all the symbolism that is in this series. Just to put it this way, if you want to believe he died at the cut to black….the theory had its fair share of support in analysis.

 

[calsnowskier]

It’s nice to have a time stamp…..my last post here I decided to go rewatch the Sopranos start to end. Three weeks. Not bad. I’m going to turn around and rewatch Many Saints. I have a sinking feeling it won’t be better this time, might be worse, after watching the series.

I’ll just share this too….I didn’t like the ending of this series way back when it happened. I didn’t hate it with a passion, but it was not pleasing or have any closure. The more I have rewatched this over the years the more I have come to….respect it more, maybe.

I first started watching because….it’s the fucking mob, and I gobble up those stories. But, on rewatches I’ve become more and more aware of all the symbolism that is in this series. Just to put it this way, if you want to believe he died at the cut to black….the theory had its fair share of support in analysis.

I did a rewatch a few months back. And now I fully understand the ending. They were explaining the ending for 2 seasons before it happened.

Tony was sitting there, living life. None the wiser to what was about to happen. Then wham. Lights out. The end. No warning. No follow up. Just the end.

doing a rewatch, knowing how the show was going to end made it so much clearer that it isn’t “open to interpretation”. It just is. And there is no doubt.

 

[DraftNerd]

I did a rewatch a few months back. And now I fully understand the ending. They were explaining the ending for 2 seasons before it happened.

Tony was sitting there, living life. None the wiser to what was about to happen. Then wham. Lights out. The end. No warning. No follow up. Just the end.

doing a rewatch, knowing how the show was going to end made it so much clearer that it isn’t “open to interpretation”. It just is. And there is no doubt.

That’s the thing. I don’t knock Chase for pushing it as open to interpretation to try to appease as many as possible, I guess.

There is just too much symbolism and foreshadowing to this end through the whole series, especially the elongated last season.

I’ve always been self aware of my hypocritical nature when it comes to mob movies. We cheer the bad guys and their exploits, but ultimately demand to see their payment for their sin. Chase was on record with his gross he finds that, and he set out to deny the viewer that hypocritical turn in demanding to see Tony pay.

That last scene in the diner was masterful at doing just that. They used POV technique to not only build tension at what was coming….but to subtly put us in Tony’s POV. Just like they always talked about….you won’t see or hear it coming. He was hit from behind from the guy in the jacket. From Tony’s POV….it just ends. Lights out, darkness.

I don’t begrudge the open to interpretation opinions people want to take from this. I just see with every rewatch this was a very planned approach to Tony’s end. And I’ve gained appreciation for this ending.