Has it ever been confirmed what exactly happened mechanically? I heard it was transmission/transaxle failure, but I wonder if the diff itself locked/welded?
The quality isnt the best in this upload but another one you can see that his whole body was flung to the ground so fast that his white hat came off and was in the air exactly where it was on his head before falling to the ground
What almost bothered me most with this scene is that Pussy says he costs $4 per pound, but apparently weighs 8lbs. $32 for a tiny fish like that? What a ripoff.
I love this scene so much, the entire episode is one of my favorite in the series. It's solemn, grim, and handled with all the emotion that you would expect middle aged mobsters to show when realizing their lifelong friend and partner was a rat that they now have to kill. Few words are spoken, and with less that's said, more is communicated. The dry and somewhat clever jokes that pussy the fish says...it's all just handled with such a seriousness and sincerity that you can almost feel the tears of laughter and grief battling each other until it balances out to a neutral state of resigned acceptance. (at least for me) It's funny cuz you can actually see that same influence being passed down to spiritual successors like breaking bad and better call Saul, where humor is rarely sacrificed for melodrama to add to the realism of certain scenes and situations. There's so many little details in this scene but in the entire episode as well, like the implication that Tony got E. Coli from the fish that Artie Bucco served (which the episode highlights at the very beginning), and the very clever joke that Tony is not only casually racist, but that Indian spices would actually do the opposite of what he presumes they would. That Tony is sick and nauseous right up until the moment he's on the boat (which he even mentions to Sal as Sal gets "seasick" when he finds out). Pussy being his entertaining self up until the last breath. Big Pussy was by far my favorite character, and watching him get sent off this way truly did hit me in a way a lot of other deaths didn't in this show. "Hey Puss...was she ever real?" The way they capture and shoot the fever dreams feels more realistic than any other depiction of dreams in media, with the absurdity of the situations that sometimes fold in on each other, but somehow make sense and almost feel grounded in reality, like you don't know you're in a dream until a certain moment. This episode really sticks with me. Pussy was a loyal soldier and deeply regretted working with the feds, he was just dealt a shit hand and tried to go all in.
His cornering speed is ridiculous, the cars and drivers as a whole are fast around corners, but his brake timing in impeccable. He's just so much more willing to throw the car into the apex of the turn and brake on a dime to get it back in line.
Someone knows if there's a difference between the car pass him in minute 6:29 ? It's differently category? If they are in the same category why is more fast? 6:31
