Net cost for the whole series = $50, after selling S2 and S3 boxes on Amazon.
― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
* Steven Van Zandt — Silvio "Sil" Dante
^my vote - the tilted head walk fuckin kills me
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 June 2009 07:40 (fourteen years ago) link
btw i want to read this thread but im only through season 1 - should i read it or is there too many spoilers wrt deaths and what not
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 June 2009 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
There are a few spoilers up there, if you really don't know anything about what happens after Season 1.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of amazed you guys thought the Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie was fulla Eyetalian stereotypes when you LOVE all these characters. (leave 'quality' whatever that is aside for a minute)
i mean, Little Steven is fine on this show, but it's like he stepped outta the pages of MAD magazine.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 September 2014 05:30 (nine years ago) link
* Jerry Adler — Herman "Hesh" Rabkin 0
>:(
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone accused David Chase of making his grand theme Blame It All On Mom? He has broadcast that Livia is quite directly based on his mother, which is a pretty cold move. It could be an Achilles heel he shares with Ingmar Bergman (they both do better with dream sequences).
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
i'd be curious if he had another plan in mind for livia that was altered due to nancy marchand's passing.
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
that theme recedes somewhat in the post-Marchand seasons but it's always there. and dealt with pretty explicitly imo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
the plot arc that was planned for season 3 was for Livia to testify against Tony on racketeering charges related to the airline/bus tickets iirc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
(that all went out the window, obviously)
also i really find Steve Van Zandt's always-screwed-up-face caricature as Silvio distracting. He's almost always in sketch comedy realm even compared to the other frequently funny goombahs.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
DC says on one of the DVDs that when he thought he was going to have to make Sopranos as a single movie, it was all about the capo and whether his mom would betray him.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:42 (eight years ago) link
it's a bit of a caricature but also i think SVZ looks like that irl a lot of the time.
― nomar, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
Silvio's probably the most one-dimensional of Tony's inner crew, apart from some stuff that happens later ("University" for ex.) that I won't go into for Morbz sake
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:43 (eight years ago) link
that being said, he never really gets as fully fleshed out as Paulie or Bobby or Junior or Hesh. there's no "day in the life of silvio dante" episodes.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
I'm on the fourth season; my favourites thus far have been Bobby, Junior, Hersh, and Johnny. Richie's been the scariest--and until I looked at the list above, I never realized he was Tony from Mean Streets.
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 August 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link
Michael: Once, we were in New Jersey in a working-class neighborhood, and there were crowds of people around. It was Friday night. I was sitting in my set chair on the sidewalk, and this Italian grandmother comes up to me and says, "Christopher, why you gotta wait out here. Come inside, I got some pasta lenticchie," which is pasta with lentils, something I really like. It's kind of almost like a soup, but not quite. More like a pasta. I had some time between scenes, so I go in the house, she lives alone, I sit at her kitchen table, she serves me the pasta lenticchie, which was amazing. And then after I ate, she says, "You look really tired, why don't you go relax on the couch." I sit down on the couch, she turns on the Yankee game, and I fall asleep!
Steve: You're sleeping on the couch in this grandma's house, and meanwhile they're setting up for your scene?
Michael: Yes, and the PAs come to get me to shoot the scene, and she says, "Christopher is tired. He's taking a nap. Come back later."
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link
He always made a very convincing junkie-nodding-off...It was just that he needed a nap.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:27 (two weeks ago) link
"Your hair was in the toilet water...disgusting"
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 18:20 (two weeks ago) link