The Sopranos paved the way for a new era of prestige content—but little measures up to the groundbreaking series. Creator David Chase opens up about the show that revolutionized television:
Of all the whackings, beatings, and ritual humiliations served up over the 86 hours ofone of its cruelest assaults is verbal. It comes late—midway through the sixth and final season’s second half—and takes place a 20-hour trip down I-95 from the show’s usual North Jersey locale. Tony Soprano is on the lam and getting paranoid in Miami with his mostly loyal capo Paulie Gualtieri, who is entertaining their much younger dinner companions with tales of the good old days.
It is also indelible. So much so that when, a few years ago, news started getting out that Chase was going to revisit thecharacters for a prequel movie set in part against the Newark riots of 1967, some of the show’s more obsessive online fans held it up to justify their anxieties about the project. Not that such concerns about re-treading the past for new material would faze the man who once had Dr.
As best he can figure, it is our eternal fascination with outlaws, a subject the series probed often. Or it might be the appeal of exploring the idea, expressed in the pilot, that all of us 21st-century Americans have arrived for the story’s last chapters. Also: “I think Christopher and Paulie were probably huge attractions.”with even more anticipation. Chase, who wrote the movie with Lawrence Konner, first began thinking of returning to the characters a few years ago.
Long ago, when Chase first left North Caldwell for L.A., he’d had an idea for a script about four guys riding around in a tank during those fraught days in Newark.is not that movie, so it’s clear Chase still has projects in the desk drawer to play with. He says he’d do TV again, but a limited series is more his speed.
What was going through my head was, “God, it is still the same. I can’t believe it.” And I was surprised at how few young black people that we worked with didn’t know anything about the Newark riots.This one young woman said, “Well, you know, I went to a private school in Manhattan,” and I said, “Well, that’s the school’s fault and your parents fault that you don’t know about it.”originally was a movie. It becomes a TV show that changes TV. Now you go back to these characters for a movie.
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