Let’s overanalyze The Sopranos’ The Many Saints Of Newark trailer
Silvio's hair, Tony's father, and Ray Liotta. Bada bing! We're going deep on The Many Saints Of Newark
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Marone! It’s finally here, The Many Saints Of Newark trailer. After several delays, a pandemic, and Warner Bros. pivoting to streaming, we have our first look at the long-awaited prequel to The Sopranos, a TV show that continues to find cultural relevance in our modern age. Some call it “the best show of all time,” others call it “a sequel to The Many Saints Of Newark.” Fans call it their “one true love.”
Now, for those that have seen the trailer, it was probably a bit jarring to see a greenish tint over the faces you don’t recognize. But there are a lot of goodies and old favorites packed into these two and a half minutes. So let’s get to it and go through the trailer shot for shot (or pretty close to that).
0:00 Newark New Jersey
Situating us in the world of The Sopranos is a chyron that might as well read “Welcome to New Jersey.” Instead, it says “Newark,” a place, apparently, that is home to many saints. Just then, a voice from the past plays over the trailer. Why that’s our old friend Tony Soprano leading us to the next shot, and he says, “When I was a kid, guys like me were brought up follow codes.” Um, where does this quote come from? It sounds like James Gandolfini. But it’s not listed on any transcripts online. Maybe some of our lovely commenters can help us out. Is it from an episode, an outtake, The Road To Respect video game?
0:05 Tony Soprano: Origins
Ah, our first shot of Michael Gandolfini taking on the role that made his father a legend, Tony Soprano. One thing’s for sure: it’s that hair that got him, Carmella. What a head of hair on that kid. The ravages of time spare none of us.
But the real mystery of this scene is, who is this kid who calls him a “jerk-off”? The hair and face suggest young Christopher Moltisanti. Although, The Sopranos wiki says that Christopher was born in 1972, so we can rule that out. This is the closest that the trailer gets to that old-time Sopranos feeling. More humor, please.
0:10 “What’d you say”
Here we have Tony pushing “jerk-off kid” against a window displaying pork products—nothing says Sopranos like cured meat.
There’s also a teen girl in the shot. She’s blonde. Could it be a young Carmela (Edie Falco)? Tony met her in high school, so it’s possible. He also met Artie Bucco (John Ventimiglia) in high school, so maybe that’s Artie taking the beating. Is this the moment that turned the future chef into the sniveling coward we know and love? Answers to come in several months.
0:18 Tony the loner
The next few shots reveal a couple of things. First, Tony is a loner that walks through the snowy streets of New Jersey in a letterman’s jacket. He played football and baseball in high school, so this all tracks. So much promise from the boy, but as the perfectly cast Vera Farmiga knows, he’s blowing it. Second, the narrator lets us know that this, in fact, “Antonio Soprano.” Finally, this movie is, in part, about Tony going to high school.
0:23 “Gotta Serve Somebody”
For many people, this is probably when the trailer starts to worry them. The chugging guitars kick off a pretty nauseating cover of Bob Dylan’s 1979 song “Gotta Serve Somebody.” Granted, this feels like the kind of dorky blues-rock that Tony would love, but it doesn’t exactly set the mood or the period.
“Gotta Serve Somebody” actually appeared in a previous episode, but HBO had to let us know that this ain’t your daddy’s Sopranos. This version is by the legendary rock band Mountain, whose hit “Mississippi Queen” might mean something to you. But this track comes from their 2007 record Masters Of War, which is just a collection of Dylan covers. No thanks.
0:26 Parent-teacher conference
Here we go. What we’ve all been waiting for: a parent-teacher conference between Livia Soprano and “Mrs. Jarecki,” a new character. Jarecki and Livia’s conversation plays over the next few shots. “On the basis of the Stanford-Binet, he’s high IQ,” reports Jarecki. Wise beyond her years, Livia knows that I.Q. tests are bunk. She pushes back, saying, “You can’t prove it by me. He’s got a D+ average.” Smart Livia.
0:31 The luncheonette
Ok, so we’re in this luncheonette as Livia and Jarecki’s conversation plays over the soundtrack (along with that awful cover, which gilds the lily on the whole Tony “the American Bad Ass” Soprano thing). This set doesn’t look like the inside of Satriale’s Pork Store, but maybe there was a counter service at one point. We’re well acquainted with its sidewalk service, backroom, and meat grinder, but we never got many scenes inside the front dining room. There are a couple of interior shots in season six, particularly when Tony meets with FBI Agent Harris (Matt Servitto). But in those moments, we mostly only see the tables and deli counter. Regardless, this place screams New Jersey. Get yourself a mean pork roll, egg, and cheese (with salt, pepper, ketchup) at one of these greasy spots. Bada bing!
Update: It has been brought to my attention that this is likely Holsten’s, the location of Tony’s favorite onion rings and the series’ final scene. It has also been brought to my attention that in North Jersey “pork roll” is called Taylor Ham. I grew up in central Jersey, which absolutely exists, where it’s called pork roll. The name of this hog log is an ongoing debate in New Jersey (along with what’s the best chain convenience store QuickChek, Wawa, or 7-11), and I’m sorry to drag everyone into it. My take: It should be called “hog log.”
0:36 Tony’s bedroom
Hell yeah, Tony’s childhood bedroom. Again, the interior of this location looks perfectly north Jersey—the split-level house, the railing, and the wooden door. (It’s a good time to say that I’m sure these styles existed throughout the country, but I grew up in New Jersey, so I’m reading all of this through that prism. Sorry if that’s annoying, but this is the friggin’ Sopranos trailer. If you don’t want to hear about New Jersey, the Clifford trailer dropped today, too). Collapsed between two speakers, Tony listens to this fucking Dylan cover? No way, he’s listening to Humble Pie, which is the only visible record. However, what’s this? A sock and a Playboy? Tony, you dog, you. “Well, he doesn’t apply himself, but he is smart,” says Jarecki. If only she knew that he was spoiling his potential on rock ‘n’ roll and nudie magazines.
0:42 Livia isn’t having it
“The results tell us he’s a leader,” says Jarecki. Livia scoffs. We can only assume she has nothing but contemptuous things to say about her son. This is the woman who once told Tony, “Daughters are better at taking care of their mothers than sons.”
We’ve got to give it up to Vera Farmiga. She scoffs beautifully. Hers is the performance to watch.
0:45 From David Chase
You know, after finishing The Sopranos, David Chase, like George Lucas before him, told the world that he’d go off and make art films. His one directorial effort, Not Fade Away, doesn’t look so dissimilar from Many Saints. Still, it is kind of a bummer that the man never made anything else after the show.
0:48 Uncle Dick
Here’s our second lead: Uncle Dick Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), Christopher’s father and Tony’s mentor. We first see him chugging a bottle of booze in a residential alleyway. The Big Brothers Big Sisters of America must’ve been knocking down doors to get this guy in the program. Dick is something of a storied character in the show’s mythology, fucking up both Tony and Christopher’s lives. Still, Nivola looks great in the role.
0:51 Satriale’s Pork Store
Finally, some real Sopranos stuff. We’re back in Satriale’s, the famed pork store and secret headquarters for the DiMeo crime family, which is the crime organization that Tony leads. It doesn’t look like much changed between when the movie takes place and the series. Those table clothes never go out of style.
0:55 Our first whacking
This dude gets whacked in his car.
1:01 You’re my nephew
Ok, we’re establishing some relationships. It’s around now that it should be clear that this trailer isn’t so much for Sopranos super fans. Viewers that never watched the show, welcome. “You’re my nephew,” says Moltisanti. So that’s why Tony called you “Uncle Dick” earlier. Glad we cleared that up.
1:04 Crime stuff
As Uncle Dick talks about taking care of Tony, we see what is probably the best part of the entire trailer: A grimacing man with a spectacular comb over counting money. The Sopranos is a lot of things to a lot of people. More than anything, it’s about men with lousy hair counting money. It’s unclear who this man is, but we want more of him.
After looking at some publicity photos from the show, we can confirm that this is John Magaro’s Silvio Dante. Additionally, this reveals something huge: Silvio’s hair was a wig. Sure, obviously that wasn’t Little Steven’s actual hair, but the character wore a wig. Big revelation. This is the kind of thing that will shape future rewatches (unless it was just me that didn’t know).
1:06 Riding in cars with Tony
We get an old favorite in this shot: Tony’s gold necklace, which fans of the show will recognize from any scene featuring Tony in a tank top and a robe. According to Chris Seay, the author of The Gospel According To Tony Soprano, the necklace features a medallion of St. Jerome, a scholar known for translating the Bible into Latin and the patron saint of libraries. Tony isn’t much of a reader—though, he does read Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War on the show. Still, Tony is frequently translating between the mob world and his familial one, so there’s probably a term paper in there somewhere.
1:08 Back to crime
Uncle Dick is kicking tires and lighting fires (well, mostly just the latter). One shot later, we see the infamous origins of those speakers Tony was sandwiched between earlier. The trailer is setting up Tony’s conflict in these shots, join Dick or go to college. There is some serious prequel energy going on here.
1:10 Pinkies out
This is most likely our first look at Billy Magnussen’s Paulie Walnuts. Of course, Tony Sirico has such an iconic look in the show that it’d be easy to blow past this moment. That is, if it weren’t for that pinky and pinky ring. Let’s go with 90% sure. The only thing holding us back is this doesn’t much resemble Magnussen. Maybe there’s some prosthetics on the nose or something.
1:13 Tony’s dreams
“I want to go to college,” says Tony. “I can’t get caught with shit like this.” This guy’s about to get caught with shit like this.
“Look, you take the speakers, right?” says Uncle Dick. “At the same time, you say to yourself, ‘This is the last time I’m ever gonna steal something.’” Sigh. Tony’s cycle of bad decisions run deep.
1:27 Big ol’ boat
What’s going on with this? Are we getting some in this movie? Who’s getting off this boat?
No time to worry about because we got some major Bernthal action going on. Jon Bernthal’s role, however, is still unlisted according to IMDB. Given that he’s riding around with Cory Stoll’s Uncle Junior, it wouldn’t be outlandish to assume that he’s playing Tony’s father, Johnny. But we’ll see.
We know Tony’s father was very distant. Maybe that’s why Tony only listens to Dickie. Certainly, Bernthal would make a perfect Gary Cooper-esque “strong, silent type” that Tony obsesses over in therapy. He’s sure as hell not saying much here.
1:32 Riot
These next two shots feature a recreation of the 1967 Newark riots, which finally communicates when this movie takes place.
1:36 Legends aren’t born
This tagline is pretty clever, with “Made” being a crucial word in the Sopranos-verse. There’s also some fun mob violence in this, especially that drill thing. (I would not like to be on the other side of that thing. No siree, Bob.)
1:43 Mister Softee
For the uninitiated, Mister Softee is a North East staple. Founded in Philadelphia in the mid-50s, Mister Softee offers some of the best ice cream around and was the inspiration for a whole Pete And Pete episode. More importantly, it’s great to see that Tony and the “jerk off kid” patched things up in time to beat up this ice cream truck driver. Support local business.
1:45 Ray Liotta
Why didn’t anyone tell us that Ray Liotta was in this thing? Is he playing Eckley DiMeo? Could that make “jerk off kid” Jackie Aprile? Publicity photos label him as “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti. This character didn’t receive many mentions on the show, but he’s probably Uncle Dick’s father.
This leads to more montage of gangland stuff. We get some Bernthal shooting, people smoking, and Newark in flames. This trailer works better if you isolate each part. The Mountain song ruins it.
1:53 Montage
The montage continues. Hard to tell if there’s anything worth diving into here, but it looks like we’re seeing Christopher Moltasanti being conceived in two of these shots, which is fun.
1:59 As far as nephews go
Here’s our Tony Soprano hero shot, leading a group of teens on the path to destruction.
The montage will continue in a second, giving us a shot of Hobby’s Delicatessen in Newark, which, according to their website, was “established before you were born.” In reality, this Zagat-rated Jewish deli was founded in 1962. Also featured in this shot, Adams Theatre’s marquee reading “Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson.” The theater is playing The Dirty Dozen, giving a concrete timeframe: summer 1967. All in all, the recreation of Newark looks fantastic.
2:07 “Stay out of his life”
Ray Liotta’s appearance here hints at the time jumps in this movie. We know it takes place in the late 60s, but what this shot presupposes is, maybe some of it takes place in the 70s.
2:12 A Sopranos Story
Finally, the trailer plays what so many fans were waiting for “Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3. Compared to the Mountain cover, this is a breath of fresh air. However, the party will soon be pooped by the presence of a subtitle that reads, “A Sopranos Story.” What is this 2016? Will there be more of these? Is this the start of a franchise? Either way, don’t be surprised if this subtitle disappears in the months to come. Let’s hope it does.
The Many Saints Of Newark hits theaters on October 1.
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Too much work. Let’s burn it and say we dumped it in the sewer.
El Camino was subtitled “A Breaking Bad Movie”.For a brief window, Ruckus enabled free downloads of DRM-protected music, and I remember getting a live version of Mountain’s “Nantucket Sleighride” that went on forever and had a shout of “Corky Laing” before the drum solo, and I haven’t been able to find it again since because there are SO MANY live Mountain bootlegs.
yeah, I think the “Sopranos Story” is just to connect the movie to the Sopranos tv series for people who are not as pop culture aware.
Vera Farmiga as Livia looks a lot like Edie Falco as Carmella.Also don’t know why you need to explain who Saint Jerome is. I’m pretty sure anyone who plays Bombardment of Bible Questions is familiar with his Vulgate.
My first thought was that it WAS Edie Falco with some de-aging fx ala The Irishman. But no, and good. That would’ve been weird.
I had the same thought, and I was impressed by how well I thought she had aged. I actually wondered for a moment if they had used makeup to make her look older in the original Sopranos.
It’s clear this is no accident however (Tony winds up marrying a women who bears an uncanny resemablance to his mother when she was younger. I wonder what Dr. Melfi would say)
I thought the same thing, but it actually struck me as odd. I recall in the show that there was a dichotomy between his attraction to Carmela, who was supposed to be opposite in looks to his mother vs. all of his various goomahs who are almost identical in looks, supposedly resembling Livia in her youth.Now it looks like they switched it to where Carmela is the lookalike to Livia. Weird.
Maybe Carm didn’t look like Livia when she was younger and they met, but as she aged she became more Livia-like. No matter what Tony did, he couldn’t escape his mother.
“I’m pretty sure anyone who plays Bombardment of Bible Questions is familiar with his Vulgate.”
I went to Catholic school. I attended St. Jerome’s elementary school for 8 years and the best I could have told you about the man was that he was a …lawyer?? Maybe?? And I definitely had to look up the word Vulgate. Definitely never heard that word before. Save your money and send your kid to public school!
Hahaha, this made me wonder if Jerome was his Confirmation name? I’m only nominally Catholic and I dropped out of that stuff after my first Communion, but I remember being jealous of my friends at St. Charles getting to pick another middle name.
and she Sounds like Carmela. Vera Famiglia nails the voice and the accent. It is uncanny.
Let’s see, it’s the adventures from when everybody from Sopranos turns out knew everybody from Sopranos a long time ago? So it’s a dark and gritty Muppets Babies remake?
0:23 Vera Farmiga is onscreen. And I’m already sold.
0:32 This is how to shoot bellbottoms0:52 “Hey Uncle Dick.” *snicker*1:28 Jon Bernthal. What a mug. What a voice. He could be typecast in mob stuff for the rest of his career and be set.2:07 Just ask Ray Liotta
Dickie was Carmela’s cousin. Now he’s also Tony’s uncle? I don’t want to do the math here, but it seems like Tony and Carmela were related. Which would explain AJ.
Actually, in the Sopranos, it was clearly stated that Christopher was a cousin to both Tony and Carmela and that he was more closely related to Carmela.
It’s possible for two people to share the same cousin but not be related themselves, except in the deep sense in which we all are related.
I believe this was the case with Tony and Carmela. if you recall the scene with Carmela explaining the relationships and why Tony calls Christopher “cousin” the relations are extremely complicated.
While hardcore Sopranos fans likely already realized this, the fact that Chris’ father was the one who groomed Tony explains a lot about the way Tony treats Chris, as he almost sees him as more of a little brother (or perhaps even son) then a cousin, and he is trying to fulfill the role for Chris that Chris’ own father played for Tony.
While I realize this was already established in Sopranos backstory it’s easily the kind of thing you could miss if you’re not a superfan (as i did) and this trailer makes this much more explicitly clear.
I used to call close friends of my parents aunts and uncles. It could be that, too.
I think there is also a scene when Adriana becomes friends with the undercover agent where they went over that too. I think Adriana explained it away with “it’s an Italian thing”. Meaning that you use cousin and uncle as terms of endearments for people that aren’t exactly blood relatives.
Thank you! this is what I’ve been trying to get answers about in the other trailer thread. So confused….
Some of my friends kids call my partner Aunt and would call me something similar if a good non-gendered term existed. Since Dickie is in the DiMeo family he’s probably that kind of Uncle. Meadow explains Paulie to Anthony Jr the exact same way when she breaks it to him that Tony is a mobster.
Adriana explains it at some point to the FBI woman I think – something about how Chris is actually Carmela’s cousin but also somehow a relative of Tony’s. I think the use of the terms Nephew and Cousin are a bit hazy for these ethnic types
I have a character in my mob movie named cousin uncle Leo, because there’s constantly debate over who he’s actually related to
I up-voted you solely for “ethnic types” which is how I describe my wife’s large Italian family…
Not italian but I am an ‘ethnic type’ as you say – growing up anyone close to the family who was a member of my parents’ generation was called ‘aunty___’ or ‘uncle___’. This included my parents’ actual siblings, their cousins, my parents’ friends, my friends’ parents, neighbors, people from church… Anyone of my generation was a ‘cousin’.
Tony and Christopher are blood related going back to their families in Italy. Carmela and Chris are directly related. Tony is an older male “mentoring” a younger male, many cultures call that relationship Uncle/nephew. Ive called my my fathers best friend Uncle my whole life, his children are my nieces and nephews and they call me Uncle.
Judging by the food and vernacular, Chase and I come from the same world – southern Italian ancestry, raised in the outer boroughs. Anyone in your extended family who is the generation older than you is called “Aunt” and “Uncle”. I had people at family gatherings I had no idea how I was related to; they were all “Aunt Marie” and “Uncle Bob”. Just using a first name would be disrespectful.
Your right. That was what i was referring to, not Carmela
Yes that’s right, Adrianna lays it all out to the FBI agent. As I recall:Christopher and Carmela are actual cousinsTony considered Dickie as an older brother, therefore he considers Dickie’s son as his nephewTony and Christopher are actually also related by blood, but going way back to the old country
“Uncle” is a really loose term they throw around. Every single one of Tony’s friends was an “uncle” to Meadow and AJ, she even comments to AJ about it that they are all called “uncle” without actually being related.
This seems like a really bizarre question coming from someone who watched any of the show.Beyond this being explicitly explained, it shouldn’t take a superfan to pick up on the informal use of “uncle” scattered across nearly every goddamn episode of the program.
Dickie wasn’t at all Tony’s uncle, it was just an honorary title. I don’t think they were blood related at all. Tony B was related to Chris/Dickie but through his mom’s side.
very observant, Schimkowitz. the sacred and the propane
You’re at the precipice, Rowan, of an enormous crossroad.
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I just hope we get to see young ralphie
They’re still trying to figure out why he was born handsome instead of rich.
At a bowling alley, or at the very least with a bowling bag somewhere in the background.
Dunkey’s in-depth critical analysis video essay of Road to Respect has the makings of a varsity well ok you know
0:55 Our first whacking – What with the sock and magazine choice, I assumed the first whacking occurred at 0:36 Tony’s bedroom
If it keeps that boy out of Anderson’s tool shed…
I always thought Tony and Sylvio were supposed to be roughly the same age. In my mind, Tony, Sylvio and Big P all knew each other as kids and Paulie was a bit older. Shows what i know.Also, does this remind anyone else of the old “sopranos diaries” SNL skit, with Tony and the gang in high school?Maybe a “Soprano babies” cartoon will be next.
timeline got fucked up
Paulie was definitely older, he went to Georgia with Johnny Boy and Johnny tricked him into telling a cop he’s named Barney Fife. He also remembers when Tony was born Paulie was born in the early 40’s to Tony’s late 50’s, so older but not a whole lot older.
Looks good, but SNL already did the perfect Sopranos Prequel trailer
Isn’t Silvio only like a few years older than Tony? Dude’s got some unfortunate genes if so.
yeah I think that’s right, like 5 or 6 years
It was established in the show that Ralph Ciffareto was was part of that young crew too, wonder if he is going to cameo. Also Riche Aprile was Janice’s high school sweetheart, and Tony Blundetto was very close with Tony Soprano as kids. Will we also get a quick shout out to David Scatino and his love of sporting goods?
“..a place, apparently, that is home to many saints.” I hope I’m not pointing out the obvious here, but the title is a play on the name Moltisanti.I’m excited for this – just hope Chase doesn’t go full Lucas and show us a young Jennifer Melfi.
Jen Melfi is working as a roller-skate waitress at a diner when a Camaro full of teen goombahs rolls up. Young Tony orders a vanilla milkshake but then goes into a rage and throws it at a passing duck.“Marone! You’re crazy!” she yells.“What are you, some kinda aspiring head shrink?” says Tony, as his crew rolls away without leaving a tip.Maybe I am, thinks young Jen Melfi. Maybe I am.
… as she shines her Employee of the Month badge
It’s Taylor Ham in North J, not pork roll.
Yup, and I remember there was a Taylor Ham eatery on the Boardwalk in AC back in the early ‘60s. I loved the stuff.
Did I just read a shot by shot review of a movie preview or am I dying
There are too many saints of Newark nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot!
“Old Man Whacks Cloud”
The “luncheonette” is Holstein’s in Bloomfield N.J. Yes, the same spot where Tony and Co. enjoyed their onion rings with a side of Journey. Make of that what you will.
The luncheonette shot is the front of Holsten’s, where the show ended.
So is Dickie retconned to being Tony’s actual uncle or the loose uncle-like relationship? If everybody calls Tony his nephew it seems like it’s a retcon. The other is Tony’s teenager in ‘67, which makes him 10 years older than he was in the show. I wish I could remember the episode but in one there’s a shot of Tony in his late teens and it’s clearly around the time of “Saturday Night Fever”. That’s a retcon people like me will just have to get past if we’re going to appreciate this movie.
With Ray Liotta in there, please tell me they’re not attempting some kind of hackneyed Goodfellas crossover.
I can think of at least three Goodfellas actors who were on the show.
It’s more like 30.
The “luncheonette” is Holsten’s, of the series finale cut to black fame
I remember when The Sopranos promotional poster would come out for the upcoming season and that would be analyzed. Like Tony would be on a boat and the “experts” would be like that symbolize he’s alone. I was like no shit that’s what it means.
I’ve been waiting for someone to write the scene-by-scene breakdown I was wanting. Thank you!I’m hoping David Chase remembers to include the characters that were introduced in the show as having always been there but in prison or elsewhere (even if they were never mentioned previously) like Tony Blundetto, Ralph Cifaretto, Richie Aprile, and Feech La Manna.
Plus Dominic Plesanti, Ricky Delgado, Boom Horvitz and Johnny Guardini.
They did some groundwork on Feech I think (the famous card game hold-up that put Jackie, Tony and Silvio on the map) but aye, the rest you’d have thought would have been mentioned before they showed up.On the flip-side, Ecole DiMeo is mentioned in passing as being in prison and never brought up again, yet the New Jersey family bears his name throughout.
I hope the same thing, even if they’re in the background. I have a feeling a few will be left out.
Pretty sure Tony Soprano wouldn’t have been high school age in ‘67, and some of the cars/clothes/that Humble Pie album point to mid ‘70’s.
That’s Humble Pie’s Rockin’ the Fillmore LP, it came out in 1971, so if they’re trying to faithfully recreate 1967 they already blew it.
Damn, that “Whadya say?” sounded dead on like Tony.
As did the, “I can’t get caught with shit like dis” line.
Although, The Sopranos says that Christopher was born in 1972, so we can rule that out.Well, Tony Soprano was supposedly born in 1969, so not out of the realm of possibility they messed with Chris’ timeline as well.
Wikipedia puts his birthday at 1959, so I was going off that. One thing is clear, the movie has a lot of timeline clearing up to do.
My bad – he was hitting 40 when the show premiered in 1999, so that fits.
I was gonna say I’d find it hard to believe that Tony was only 3 years older than Chrissy
The whole timeline thing still gets to me. I mean, I get it that it’s giving Sopranos fans the best of both worlds: the old regime and a Tony that’s old enough to be interesting. I’m sure there will be people theorizing this world exists entirely in Tony’s head as he’s still in limbo after being whacked in the Sopranos finale.
It really does, especially since the season 1 episode Down Neck has an extended flashback to 1967 and Tony is a little kid which totally fits with him being 8 years old at the time.
He was born in 1959, they show him as a little kid in the 1960s in flashback episodes on the show.
I’m guessing it’s Tony Uncle Al. He and Tony Uncle Johnny were like brothers growing up.
But the real mystery of this scene is, who is this kid who calls him a “jerk off”?Dollars to donuts that’s a young Mikey Palmice 🙂
I’m guessing Tony Blundetto.
Yeah.. was just trying to be funny. That actor does look a bit like Buscemi and would make better sense. I just loved how Palmice and Tony got on each other’s nerves.
So true, that staple gun scene…*chef’s kiss*
Nope, it’s young Jackie Aprile, played by Chase Vacnin.
In the photo at the top, Bernthal is sitting next to Vera Farmiga, at the head of the table. He is almost certainly Tony’s father.
I’m calling it now: Tony unsuccessfully hits on a girl supporting the away team at a high school basketball game, who is definitely not interested in him, yet oddly impressed by his awkward boldness and a little flattered. Her name? You guessed it: Jennifer…………………………………..Stallone!
I didn’t even realize this project was happening and the whole time I was watching the trailer I was like, woah that casting is amazing the resemblance is uncanny (credits) oh.
nevermind
“I need you to whack Schimkowitz.”“What he’d do?”“He’s running around calling a Taylor ham a pork roll, can you believe this fucking guy?”“Consider it done.”(Red Bank, NJ)
Is that “luncheonette” at 0:31 Holstein’s?
I hate that every movie is aggressively teal now. Color grading has gone way too far.
I bet “jerk off kid” is young cousin baby Steve Buscemi, that slicked hair makes me suspect anyhow. They were cousins and ‘hung out all the time’ and both were ‘Tony’ and around each other so much that they were ‘Tony uncle Al’ and ‘Tony uncle Johnny’ to differentiate who was being hollared at.
Don’t bet.
Two things-
1. “Moltasanti” means “many saints” in italian.
2. As far as the seventies/sixties setting, my guess would be the frame story is Tony becoming a made man in the seventies, whereas most of the movie is a flashback to his first getting involved with the mafia back in 1967.
So people have pointed out the weirdness with the timeline- is it possible the events in 1967 are not the main focus of the movie, but rather events in the seventies which would make more sense?
Here’s a really good video talking about everything known about Moltisanti from the show, including some interesting mysteries.
Wonder if the last we see Dickie Moltisanti, he’s carrying in a crib.
The actress playing the school counselor – is that Talia Balsam (Mona Sterling from Mad Men)? As for the movie – it looks fantastic! I’m in at the theatre, with gabagool, mozarell, no compromising after (almost) 20 years in the can!
I was trying to figure out who is playing Mrs. Jarecki’s character. First I thought it might be Nicole Sullivan who did an amazing Carmella for the MadTV spoofs but upon digging through multiple cast lists I discovered the character isn’t even credited. Upon closer look I thought, “Is that Alicia Silverstone?” So I did a search: Silverstone, Jarecki – and low and behold she is actually married to a Christopher Jarecki! I could be WAY off but if I’m right, and that’s her, I want this documented dammit.
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Tony mentions beating up Domenic Tedesco in the parking lot of Pizza World which apparently impresses Carmella. But that doesn’t look like Pizza World and maybe that isn’t even supposed to be Carmella. I think the actor (later seen in the ice cream truck with Tony) is supposed to be playing Jackie Aprile. But putting them in a fight is sort of weird. However, Chase has always exercised creative liberty in the Sopranos World so who knows?Also one thing not mentioned is supposedly the guy sitting next to Paulie in the car is Pussy Bompensiero – you can find that actor connected to the character on various internet references.I believe Silvio is being played by John Magaro, the character with a terrible combover in one frame! Chase always managed to poke fun at the audience’s theories during the course of The Sopranos, so maybe this is a jab at the audience (at the time) obsessing over Stevie Van Zandt’s obvious hairpiece?
Joe jerk off kid is Jackie Aprile sr.. He is also in the ice cream truck robbery along with Tony blundetto, who is driving.