Sunday, June 10, 2007

"... And in the end you're completely alone with it all. "

I wrote earlier this year about The Sopranos as its final season began, so I might as well bookend the season with a few valedictory remarks. First, no matter what happens to Tony, whatever happened to the ducks? Second, can we all agree that, forgetting all the goombas that came and went, the sexiest thing week after week was Dr. Malfi's legs? Finally, given that this is, after all, show business we're talking about, does anybody this side of those who really believe the Wachowski Bros. had three Matrix movies in mind all along think there won't be a Sopranos movie?

3 comments:

Grotius said...

...does anybody this side of those who really believe the Wachowski Bros. had three Matrix movies in mind all along...

I thought the story was that they packed much of the meat of the story into the first film because they didn't know whether they would be able to make another film.

Anonymous said...

I haven't seen the show but from what I've read, hasn't anyone posited that the screen went blank because the guy who went to the bathroom came back out and shot Tony in the head?

D.A. Ridgely said...

Anonymous:

Yes, some have considered that; however, the consensus opinion appears to be that, a few obvious dream sequences aside, the show has always been shot from a third-person POV and there was no evidence in the final scene of any shift from that perspective -- there was no "subjective camera" sense that our view was Tony's such that it would go black at his death.