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intersting article about sopranos ending......

zenergy47 Posted:

intersting article about sopranos ending......

in fact, the ending was genius if you've paid attention to the show or are
just a fan of well developed well thought out plots that all tie together
and have the memory of a champ to remember it all

the ending was simple, he got killed, but let me tell yall why and explain
in detail... There was 3 people in the room total who had a reason to kill
tony.....

the two black guys, they were paid before to kill tony but he was only
shot in the ear, this was in one of the earlier seasons,

also in the earlier seasons, the trucker who was sitting at the bar stool,
who the camera kept focusing in on, is Nikki Leotardo, Phil Leotardo's
nephew, he was in one of the early season episodes where Phil and Tony
have a sit down....

heres where the genius comes in....

When Tony's walking in the diner, you see the camera focus on him, then it
switches to his perspective, and you see him looking @ the booth hes gonna
sit at...

then the camera switches back to tonys face, then it once again switches
to his perspective, and it shows him looking @ the door and looking @ the
people come in..... Everytime the door opens the Chimes sound.......
Carmela walks in, Chimes, AJ walks in Chimes, this when Meadows parallel
parking, still trying to get inside the restaurant....

at this point the camera switches back to the trucker who goes in the
bathroom......

Then it goes to a scene where meadow finally parks and starts running in
the diner....

the doors about to open, Tony looks up....

and No Chimes......................

No Music............

Everything just goes black...............

In one of the early episodes of the sopranos, tonys talking with bobby
about what it must feel like to die..

Bobby says 'at the end, you probably dont hear anything, everything just
goes black'


part of that was revisited in the second to last episode during the last
seconds of it, when tonys about to go to sleep and he flashes back to the
memory of him and bobby on the boat... 'You probably dont hear anything
everything just goes black'


so in the end, the Journey song was playing, the chimes on the door
sounded but when meadow came in, the guy in the trucker hat came out and
killed tony...

its the reason you don't hear, or see anything when he died.... it was
from his perspective.... and everything went black, then the credits
rolled.
MrsQ-in2007 Posted:

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This actually makes a lot of sense!

zenergy47 Posted:

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it does right... pretty cool

B22 Posted:

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I hate to break it to you, but there are a LOT of holes in that theory. That email has been passed around, and even David Chase has commented on it.

MJDoc12 Posted:

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this is wrong--someone on the 08 board posted it...it's already an urban myth about the sopranos---totally wrong and false:

don't believe it--its been 2 days and already all this urban myth crap has been hitting the net big time. sooooooo many sites have said this, but its untrue, this is an article from MSNBC:

DISSECTING 'SOPRANOS' FINAL SCENE: QUESTIONS ABOUND
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007 5:49 PM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
Categories: TV

The comments on my first 'Sopranos' finale post are just getting too long to wade through, so let's start a new post. And let's delve more into the scene that everyone's talking about, the final scene at Holsten's, the characters who populated the diner, and the Journey song that ended the show.

The Nikki Leotardo question
People have been posting all over the Web that the guy in the diner who disappeared into the men's room was credited as Nikki Leotardo, the nephew of Phil, claiming that the same actor has appeared as Nikki before. But is that true? This Philadelphia newspaper article interviewed Paoli Colandrea, the Italian pizzeria owner who played that character, who says he was just dubbed 'Mystery Man,' and that he has NOT been on the show (or any show) before. In this feature, the man claims to know what happens after the episode ends, leading some credence to the idea that he may have had ulterior motives. When I rewatched the credits, I saw Colandrea credited only as'Man in Members Only Jacket.' I watched the credits twice and never saw a mention of 'Nikki Leotardo.'

The New York Times was one of the ones spreading this rumor, and one of their commenters claims that the guy in the Members Only Jacket was Nikki Leotardo, despite what his credit said. How they can know this, when according to the Philly article above, Colandrea was never on the show before, I have no real idea.

'Members Only' is also the name of the Sopranos episode where Uncle Junior shoots Tony.

The other extras in the diner
What about the other suspicious people in the diner? Or were they only suspicious to those who knew this was the series' final scene? A post reproduced in this Deadspin entry claims that the Cub Scouts seen in the diner were the same little boys in the model-train store when Bobby was shot last week. (Shouldn't those kids still be in 24-hour therapy, after what they saw?) It also claims that 'trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body.' It goes on to claim that the two African-American men who walk in to the diner tried to kill Tony in an earlier episode, 'but only clipped him in the ear.'

But at least one commenter has pointed out that one of those men was killed in his original episode. And the NY Times article I reference above says that HBO is denying that any of the characters in that final scene, Cub Scouts, truckers, African-American guys, whatever, were EVER on the show before.

B22 Posted:

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I just think the ending represents that even though tony is just eating dinner with his family, he is still hella paranoid.
magbride Posted:

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I still say they can't kill Tony!!!! They need to leave the movie option open...even if there is none in the works right now.
CrazyLove Posted:

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Posted by magbride

I still say they can't kill Tony!!!! They need to leave the movie option open...even if there is none in the works right now.



Ditto to that!!
GettinHutched Posted:

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Posted by CrazyLove


Posted by magbride

I still say they can't kill Tony!!!! They need to leave the movie option open...even if there is none in the works right now.



Ditto to that!!



They could do a prequel- and I'd prefer that because Christopher is one of my fave characters!!
th24s Posted:

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Does anyone have it taped?

I would love to know something. I thought I saw Tony in 'two' diiferent shirts at the diner. I thought the shirt he wore when he walked in alone was different when Carm finally met him. Please tell me.

If his shirt IS different, I then think they cut to a day dream sequence while he was waiting for his family and it was all a dream.
GettinHutched Posted:

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See, I dunno if I go for the dream theory...remember the episode a season or two ago when the whole thing was a dream? (not when he was in a coma- this was another time, with all these bizarre images) I just feel like dreams are way too abstract and not very realistic....and the scenes were pretty realistic to me. Nothing bizarre.

Except maybe the cat. That still cracks me up. I keep thinking it's Chris Moltisanti reincarnated. I Chris (even though I hated him after the Adrianna mess).

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