I love how there's always that one guy in the comment section who manages to find an essay's worth of symbolism in the most insignificant detail... like... "The Shoe Polishing represents Tony's subconscious desire to scrub away all the shame he's tracked into his home, and his shoes represent the life that enabled him to walk down the wrong path. David Chase is a genius and only James Gandolfini could scrub shoes with such brilliance. We lost him too soon, RIP." And then 2 comments below that is "Varsity Athlete" guy, followed by "20 years in the can" guy, followed by the occasional appearance of "Shinebox" guy. It never gets old.
There is, however don't be upset that your 6th grade brain can't fathom any of it! Why be butthurt that Sopranos clips inspire such great discussion? Now F off, you sweaty uneducated peasant!
@@dd.4910 Wow, if there was an award for totally missing the mark, it'd go to you. But don't worry sport, the bad internet man is not attacking your favorite show. Wouldn't want you to stress all 9 of your brain cells now, would we.
This is the danger of fiction. The Sopranos tells the story of mob life. Organised crime literally kills innocent people and destroys whole communities if not countries. And look here where you end up with a bunch of people glorifying the mafia like it's a beautiful thing.
i think this scene was supposed to represent the high point in the series - depicting the exact moment where all the characters unknowingly experience the most peaceful moment they would ever achieve
Their life where never peaceful or happy. All they knew was fear. That is putting fear into others, and looking over their own shoulders. They are all fat because of the stress. And they are all angry and ready to go into a fight to protect their fragile ego`s. A life of kissing ass ( the boss ass), and fear of beeing humiliated/mocked by their " friends". All in all a lonely and sad life
This guy uploaded Soprano clips for 10 years. And they all are in perfect HD unlike most stuff you see on RU-vid. True dedication. The best part is it seems he purposefully saved this as the final upload to give everyone the happy ending
True, I don’t know if Paulie is regular tho lmao he went outside and forgot his sauce on the stove, and also how the fuck is he tanning when it’s gloomy as fuck outside 😂😂😂 the sun is nowhere to be seen 😂😂😅
Yeah a group of of grown up men sittin on mid day around and doing nothing, not caring about work oder any other things to do dont look regular to me 😂
No one mentioned it but right after the FBI agents pull up Pussy leaves rather fast with an annoyed face. Really great detail. He's the only one not in the panned shot even though it's meant to be a peaceful and happy little moment in the show. Really shows his disconnect and his betrayal. Sopranos will always be my one of my favorites.
I like how Tony seems genuinely pleased to see Harris, and a brilliant cameo from the new cop. The way he holds his hand out to greet Tony. Such brilliant acting from all involved,
Hes talking neapolitan slang, not italian. He says : " Are you always speeding? you know that kids are here, you can run them over " That goes to show that Furio was a decent fella.
True…..ay something completely random. Through this whole time of this show being out, I never questioned this but now I have to. How the actual fuck is paulie tanning!!?? It’s gloomy outside😂😂 more clouds than sun lmao
Wow, interesting thought to ponder. It’s true. I can almost remember “that last day”, too, though not the exact date. Junior year of high school, I got cut from the high school baseball team for sucking at baseball (but loving it nonetheless), and junior year was my last time going outside to play catch with my friends. Once senior year came around and I got my driver’s license, that’s when I stopped “going outside to play with my friends”. I was a late bloomer and didn’t start dating until college.
TV shows and movies back in the days were so much better, can't imagine how good it felt to live average US citizen life, get back home to warm food and new episode of Sopranos
Such a beautiful scene. Italians doing their thing, outside a pork shop, in an old Italian neighborhood, everyday activities buzzing around, Agent Harris stops for a chat, Paulie tanning his chin, Furio lapsing into Italian when provoked, the smell of meat chops, the golden warmth of a late afternoon sun. This could be the forever ending of the series. It was such a perfect moment in time when they were still alive, and you could forget they were gangsters and just chillin' like Italian guys in their man cave.
And like many mafioso, Tony never held it against Agent Harris for doing his job. It was on him to be better at being a crook than Agent Harris was at catching him doing so. I remember when Paul Castellano was approached by the FBI when it was time to uncover Agent Pistone Donnie Brasco as an undercover agent. The agents told him that if any harm comes to Agent Pistone or his family, the full weight of the FBI would come down on the Gambino's. Paul told them they had nothing to worry about with that because he respected their job too much. True to his word, Pistone was unharmed and the family took it out on Sonny Black who was the capo that allowed Pistone into their family and told him damning evidence.
I love this scene. They're just being normal dudes for like 15 minutes, they send off the muscle to yell at a guy about his driving, then sit down to relax with a cigar and a tan. Then Agent Harris comes by to have a chat about baseball. Just a great scene.
Exactly, one of the many reasons why this show was so great was how they showed these mobsters who were capable of crazy, horrible things, were also just relatively normal people at times.
@@User-ge7ni just funny seeing people sympathise with these people when in reality they're complete degenerates who only leech off society. It's an amazing show don't get me wrong but in reality this would not be a good ending for any person whos not a criminal. The only one crying would be you if you got on the bad side of people like this irl.
@@unrealmagic6519 Oh piss off. It's a show you twat. There's always gotta be that jerkoff who brings real life shit into something like this. So annoying
Tony trying to stop the itching with the shoe polisher was a classic moment in a great scene. The end song ‘You can’t put your arms around a memory’ by Johnny Thunders was one of their best in a very long list of great episode ending songs
What exactly was so classic about Tony stopping the itch ??? The man had an itch !! Don’t you give a fuck about your cousin Tony !! Where do you get your balls ??!!!
When Paulie goes outside, he completely forgets that there's something on the fire. He was making dinner but instead stayed outside to bake his skin with zero sun around. Alright, man. 🤘
@@SaneVSBloodlust1944 - Yeah, but you gotta watch and stir, watch and stir. Otherwise, it’ll burn. There’s nothing worse than burnt sauce. Well, maybe cancer.
@@ceesmith whoa, whoa guys we were just making headway here, I just lost my friend rusty, let's pit all this behind us, your brother Billy, whatever happened there
02:46 This is one of my favourite shots. Look at Paulie holding that silver paper in front of the sun while he got all his buddies around him. But at the very last episode, we get a shot of Paulie doing the same at the same spot (after the convo of Tony insisting Paulie to take over Cipharatto crew) but this time Paulie is all alone, left only with a cat that he hates so much.
easily one of my favorite scenes from the series. It’s just so simplistic, illustrating how their day to day lives are. And it fades off with the music, just beautiful.
It seems like a happy ending, but in the context of the episode, it's pretty sad. Earlier in the episode, Tony was bored at home. He was advised not to do his normal, sometimes illegal, activities (going to the strip club, gambling, hanging out with the other mob guys) so with all the time on his hands he starts think about all the horrible things he's done and the sinful life he lives. Melfi tells him when people like himself are forced to "stop moving" they are confronted with their own thoughts, they see themselves for who they really are and feel guilty over it. Here at the end of the episode, he's back to his normal routine. He's hanging with the guys, there's "action" outside the pork store, Agent Harris stops by for a chat. Tony is once again distracted. He'll stop thinking about his immoral way of living because he's "moving" again and so he'll go right back to his old ways
The subtle humor is great - especially Furio yelling at Carmine in Italian and Sil adding "someone could be fuckin' crippled ya' fuckin' asshole!" in the background. 🤣
The sopranos changed my life ... when I saw breakind bad I thought that no other protagonist would dazzle me more than walther white ... until view the sopranos ... and the great james gandolfini ... god bless this series and michael imperioli and to all the actors that were part of it.
It's difficult to describe why this particular scene got stuck in my mind, could be the end credit music, the vibe or something else. But this scene made me feel good..
This series is & will always remain in my heart. When T died, I was in school at the time & heard in some news channel that he was the protagonist of this show. And when the anchor speller the show name SOPRANOS, it really hit me. Like some magical thing was linked with this show name SOPRANOS. At that point in my life, I promised myself to watch this show.
Absolutely enjoying Sil's and Paulie's small talk with one watching the another to don't fuck up the sauce. Also Paulie was the first to go out to see the crash and stayed outside, i hope the sauce hasn't burnt
0:55 Tony might be a smart business minded Mobster but in the core of Tony Soprano, you can see he's just a big caveman. Look at his Fred Flintstone face, with his bottom lip puckered out like he's fascinated by a technological wonder that is a f*ckin' electronic shoe polisher. Lmao. These little details are what make Gandolfini's acting superb. RIP.
He’s definitely still a little boy on the inside, it shows in goofy little moments like this, when he sings to himself or gets his little bowl of ice cream to watch the movies with.
@@Cole-by9xs It's actually a thing. Italians would call it a ragu, because he has meat in it. But Italian Americans began calling it 'gravy' at some point. And not even they can agree what qualifies as what term. Some say it has to do with color or ingredients. Others call it 'Sunday sauce' because it was cover foods made after mass. Personally, call it what you will. It won't affect the flavor any if you call it sauce or gravy.
The fact the he stood up when the feds came over speaks volumes to the way the world really works. The little the things most people don't even see. He's the police of his own neighborhood.
Just before this scene, Dr. Melfi tells Tony that sociopaths need constant activity to keep their minds off their evil deeds, or they implode. Then we see the guys, cooking, cleaning, playing cards. Tony shines his shoes, scratches his rash. Then they all go deal with the car wreck. Then Tony talks to agent Harris. Constant activity, just like Melfi said. This scene has two layers. One is Tony back with the guys again after laying low from legal troubles. We enjoy seeing Tony and the guys just hanging out. The deeper layer is much darker. It's what I love about this show.
I like how tony never answered Christopher when he was talking about the shipment of cars. Chris was waiting for answer, almost like at this point he suspected pussy to be a rat
That’s a good point. This is probably the only time Tony accepted hearing the answer “nothing” when he wanted to know what was going on. He would normally flip out and be like, well get out there and make something happen then. But, he didn’t seem to want to talk business.
I never got into the Sopranos, homeless without a tv, but seeing this RU-vid clip with mister Johnny Thunders playing it out, makes me gonna download the whole friggin thing.
Funny that Tony gets bored trying to work a 9 to 5 office job so he returns here back to the mafia clubhouse, where a bunch of guys are literally doing nothing all day long but smoke cigars, play cards, and make tomato sauce 😂
Go back and watch the episode the lawyer tells him to start putting in more time at Barone Sanitation where he’s kept on the payroll as a consultant for legitimate income to take heat off him with the feds.
I always loved how serious Sylvio looked when Paulie told him about the moisturizing cream. At first you think he's judging Paulie but then you realize he was genuinely compelled by the advice, as if this has been an issue Sylvio was looking to address for a while but he wasn't quite sure who to talk to.
The song is "can't put your arms around a memory" by Johnny Thunders. HBO always had a way of relating the ending credits song to the final scene of an episode.
It's classic how Tony delegates the confrontational task of scolding Carmine and Sil enlists Furio who enthusiastically joins him. Something about this interaction just works. Where any of them could have and would have happily carried out the task, and they stand watching approvingly how Silvio cusses out Carmine.
That's basically how a military structure works. You also see it in the first Top Gun. Maverick does the tower flyby and spills coffee on the base chief. The base chief reprimands Viper, the chief commander. Then Viper reprimands Maverick. Extremely well done and realistic.
Two things, 20 years later, this scence now resembles me and my friends being the middle age 2nd and 3rd Generation WOPs we are...minus the dead bodies buried in the basement. 2nd, I love how, Big Pussy glares at the FBI guys and then walks back into the store, leaving his friends behind. Talk about artistic foreshadowing.
@@johnlewisbrooks More or less he said: "Che cazzo fai?" what the fack are you doing? "Semp' fujenne vai" You always drive too fast Semp' fujenne vai, tu nun o' saje che c'è stanne e' bambin' che vann'? You always drive too fast, Do you don't know there are children run (meant play) around?
It was scenes like these that made the sopranos truly special. The show gets you SO invested in these characters and their habits/characteristics for life that these type of scenes seem like what you would axtually picture them doin off screen.
That's how it was in real life, the mobsters would send food/coffee/ect out to the guys in the cars staking out their homes/business's ect. Hell they'd ask if they wanted to go get lunch ect. Everyone knew everyone had a job to do and it was just business, gangsters doing gangster shit, law enforcement trying to catch them doing shit.
Agent Harris got his start in a Progresso soup commercial where he uses the soup can as a telephone.....true story! The minute saw him, I remembered this actor. LOVED him in the bugging of the Soprano house!! Baby bing is on the move. He had nicknames for the entire family. Papa Bing,Mrs Bing,Princess and baby bing. Hilarious, yet, a serious undercover operation
