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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Sopranos |
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This original Home Box Office television series, which debuted in 1999, has it all: great writing, terrific characters, excellent acting, and a hot soundtrack from Sinatra to the latest bands. Anthony "Tony" Soprano Jr. becomes head of a New Jersey crime syndicate, handling drugs and protection rackets under the guise of waste management. Gandolfini makes him a remarkably charming and sympathetic anti-hero. Aside from business rivals his own age, Soprano must deal with his aging but canny mother and his deceased father's brother, "Uncle Junior." He has a beautiful but neglected wife Carmela, and two teenage kids, Meadow and Anthony Jr. In addition, stress and fainting spells have driven him to the unheard-of solution of secretly engaging a shrink -- brilliantly played by Lorraine Bracco. (She also pours out her problems with the Tony Soprano therapy to HER therapist, cameo'd by film director Peter Bogdanovich.) Always crude, violent, and racy (one of the gang's hangouts is the strip bar known as "Badda Bing," and Tony regularly has sex with a Russian concubine), the first season was surprisingly funny, the second darker in tone. But its overall emphasis on family -- by blood and business -- and its loyalties and betrayals, makes this show a winner.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Sopranos |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Father
- All family members
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Story of
- criminals stealing from other criminals
- criminals stealing from honest people
- criminals killing each other
- police corruption
- gang conflict
- Mafia conflict
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- main character serviced by a prostitute
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- Italian
Battle with shrink/bum?
- battle with a psychiatrist
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- killer
- criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- (man) fat
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- caring
- happy
- sad
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Italian
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Italian
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 60's-90's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
- homemaker
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Italian
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
Misc setting
- prison
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- full of laughter
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- A huge amnt of foul language
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