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David Chase confirms Tony was whacked in the final scene of The Sopranos
Posted on 1/11/19 at 1:21 am
Posted on 1/11/19 at 1:21 am
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In The Sopranos Sessions — a new collection of recaps, conversations, and critical essays covering every episode of the show — TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz share an interview with Chase in which he appeared to give more weight to the popular theory that the screen cutting to black was intended to signify Tony’s death.
Sepinwall: When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s, you just meant, ‘I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me.’
Chase: Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end. I remember talking with [Sopranos writer and executive producer] Mitch Burgess about it. But it wasn’t — it was slightly different. Tony was going to get called to a meeting with Johnny Sack in Manhattan, and he was going to go back through the Lincoln Tunnel for this meeting, and it was going to go black there and you never saw him again as he was heading back, the theory being that something bad happens to him at the meeting. But we didn’t do that.
Seitz: You realize, of course, that you just referred to that as a death scene.
[A long pause follows]
Chase: F—ck you guys.
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Posted on 1/11/19 at 2:49 am to Bench McElroy
Posted on 1/11/19 at 4:00 am to Bench McElroy
I prefer this theory:
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Saw someone post it on fb today with it being the 20th anniversary and thought it was very interesting
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Saw someone post it on fb today with it being the 20th anniversary and thought it was very interesting
Posted on 1/11/19 at 6:09 am to Bench McElroy
Of course he got killed.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 6:43 am to Bench McElroy
Glad they cleared that up for those people who denied the inevitable.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 7:05 am to Bench McElroy
There are only 2 legitimate interpretations of that scene:
1. Tony gets literally whacked
2. The audience gets metaphorically whacked (from Tony's POV, which also implies Tony is whacked)
In fact, you can interpret it as both (which I do).
Everything you need is contained within the scene, although you can also harken back to shite tons of foreshadowing (you never hear the one with your name on it, etc.)
1. Tony gets literally whacked
2. The audience gets metaphorically whacked (from Tony's POV, which also implies Tony is whacked)
In fact, you can interpret it as both (which I do).
Everything you need is contained within the scene, although you can also harken back to shite tons of foreshadowing (you never hear the one with your name on it, etc.)
This post was edited on 1/11/19 at 7:07 am
Posted on 1/11/19 at 7:13 am to Bench McElroy
Tony is still alive before the screen cuts to black.
Due to television death rules without seeing him die on screen at all, Tony didn't die in the finale.
Due to television death rules without seeing him die on screen at all, Tony didn't die in the finale.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 8:37 am to Bench McElroy
No one with a brain thought that murdering sociopath lived. He was a fun protagonist to watch, but I wasn't sad to see him go.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 11:35 am to Bench McElroy
David Chase is a fricking tool.
You don't rat-frick the entire public into making this into some long mind-game where people speculate for years.
You let them watch the fricking finale and move on.
Lost respect for the show in how he treated his audience at the end.
You don't rat-frick the entire public into making this into some long mind-game where people speculate for years.
You let them watch the fricking finale and move on.
Lost respect for the show in how he treated his audience at the end.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 12:05 pm to Bench McElroy
I guess he kind of has to say that since Gandolfini died, thus eliminating any chance of Tony's return.
Posted on 1/11/19 at 5:20 pm to Bench McElroy
Nope. Tony didn’t die. frick you, David Chase.
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