The Sopranos - Tony: "I came in at the end. The best is over." - Season 1

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  • Scene from the first episode of the Sopranos. Tony explains his feelings of discontent about the modern world and his place in it.
    He says: It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
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  • @pockit5107
    @pockit5107 Před 3 lety +2436

    This is easily my favorite Tony Soprano line. It perfectly sums up the entire trajectory of the show and how the glory days of being a gangster are all but gone. It also plays into Tony's unwarranted self-pity since it is being spoken while he is standing in front of his giant house, in a rich suburb.

    • @blazinpuffs
      @blazinpuffs Před 2 lety +177

      Or how Americans feel today. The best is behind us. They had everything in the 50s. Hell you could live on one income. Obviously Tony reflects on the last a lot

    • @heyaytlgno3951
      @heyaytlgno3951 Před 2 lety +21

      let’s be real tho the thing about the glory days ending is bullshit

    • @SDguy3030
      @SDguy3030 Před 2 lety +44

      This is why wr need to make the country great again. Just because our golden years are over, doesn't mean we cant make the best of it. We are stuck paying a bill for a party we didnt get to go to.

    • @daftbanna7202
      @daftbanna7202 Před 2 lety +15

      Not even that the best is behind but it never really existed

    • @erentheca
      @erentheca Před 2 lety +39

      The rich suburb is a vehicle to isolate oneself from the demographic shift. In a better, more homogeneous society, he'd be happier in a denser neighborhood surrounded by his own people.

  • @kathconserv
    @kathconserv Před 3 lety +2716

    You can tell that this is the pilot. Tony’s accent is different.

    • @reinjouke9743
      @reinjouke9743 Před 3 lety +362

      It resembles James Gandolfini's own accent more, harder R's, a different nasal inflection and the 'S' is not turned into a "SH'

    • @christoferprestipino7433
      @christoferprestipino7433 Před 3 lety +119

      It’s better.

    • @bkboy2384
      @bkboy2384 Před 2 lety +11

      Who carss

    • @bkboy2384
      @bkboy2384 Před 2 lety +22

      Who carz

    • @reinjouke9743
      @reinjouke9743 Před 2 lety +3

      @Savage642 does he have these types of R's in the first season (apart from the pilot)? I don't really remember

  • @natmagee7985
    @natmagee7985 Před 4 lety +1409

    This scene, with this music cue, is awesome. Late 90's suburban existential dread!

    • @timomomomo969
      @timomomomo969 Před 4 lety +46

      Nat Magee yes. This scene sets the table for the entire series through the ending.

    • @holiboys
      @holiboys Před 3 lety +85

      That weird bit of national anxiety felt before, and then blown up by 9/11.

    • @quattro4468
      @quattro4468 Před 2 lety +44

      This isnt just any suburb tho. Most suburbs stull have working class people even laborers, machinists etc. This is being able to buy almost anything, fuck anything and eat anyithing and still being empty.

    • @natmagee7985
      @natmagee7985 Před 2 lety +27

      @@quattro4468 True that. Late 90's upper class suburban existential dread.

    • @pats3071
      @pats3071 Před 2 lety +4

      This isn’t the original music, it’s a completely different vibe with the original score

  • @Uhhwhat78
    @Uhhwhat78 Před 4 měsíci +199

    At 0:22 Tony’s bedsheet is folded in such a way it appears he has a sixth finger on his left hand. This is traditionally meant to be an omen of bad luck.

    • @zakenmaru8612
      @zakenmaru8612 Před 3 měsíci +23

      I can't unsee it. Good find

    • @coffinbeard6980
      @coffinbeard6980 Před 2 měsíci +2

      It's very clearly his stomach 🙄

    • @claytonmcmullen
      @claytonmcmullen Před 2 měsíci +27

      @@coffinbeard6980yes, but its intentionally moved to that his stomach makes a sixth finger shape. The guy who left that comment understood it was his stomach dummy

    • @95ye
      @95ye Před 2 měsíci +9

      ​@@coffinbeard6980 jesus christ, are you serious..

    • @Uhhwhat78
      @Uhhwhat78 Před 2 měsíci +35

      @@coffinbeard6980 Nostradamus ova here

  • @nicholaschase768
    @nicholaschase768 Před 2 lety +866

    He sounds sooo different from the final season, it’s pretty crazy. There’s still a bit of spunk in his voice. His problems have truly yet to devour his soul and self worth. Truly some of the best acting and character development of all time.

  • @coffeebeans7912
    @coffeebeans7912 Před 2 lety +288

    Lol if Tony felt this way in the late 90's I'd love to see how he would feel about 2022.

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint Před 2 lety

      He feel there is a bullet in his head.

    • @mrcliff3709
      @mrcliff3709 Před 2 lety +61

      Probably have a aneurysm

    • @ysurfed4648
      @ysurfed4648 Před rokem +29

      He act like he’d be pissed, but in reality he probably wouldn’t care
      Just like he did in the show

    • @Tickerchicken
      @Tickerchicken Před rokem +5

      Well I’m in my 20’s and I feel like that already

    • @TaRAAASHBAGS
      @TaRAAASHBAGS Před rokem +34

      Tony is this depressed in a pre-social media world. The isolation and degradation have just gotten worse and worse

  • @TanstA
    @TanstA Před 3 lety +638

    Sopranos was so ahead of its time. Even in season 1.

    • @jhughes903
      @jhughes903 Před 3 lety +37

      “Lately I’m getting the feeling I came in to later , the best is over” this line from David chase .. Has become more and more relevant since it’s first airing

    • @brunoactis1104
      @brunoactis1104 Před 2 lety +7

      I wasn't ahead, it was simply the first.

    • @RodJeez
      @RodJeez Před 2 lety

      How so?

    • @flowonthego
      @flowonthego Před 2 lety +8

      It wasn't ahead of the times because it created the times.

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint Před 2 lety +4

      You don't know what "ahead of its time" means.

  • @NoellaScott
    @NoellaScott Před 2 lety +833

    It's amazing how accurate this was - for the Mafia, the state of America, all of it. We had this small sense of foreboding in the late 90s. Didn't think it would end up like this.

    • @justinkennedy3004
      @justinkennedy3004 Před 2 lety +43

      If someone told me the West is a dystopia, I'd believe them but it's unlike any dystopic scenario I grew up hearing about. It's far more passive. What did you think it'd end up like?

    • @SlimeJime
      @SlimeJime Před 2 lety +115

      @@justinkennedy3004 most dystopias and utopias were fictional systems envisioned by early 20th century writers, who were fully gripped by modernism, the idea that mankind could master existence itself and consequently engineer it however they wanted. this was the driving force of that time period, and you could see it plainly through all the cross-ideological attempts at societal revolution that were attempted. the soviet planned economy and their transformative vision of a socialist future speaks for itself. a more subtle version of this modernism was the way that the USA consciously build freeways and suburbs as part of a greater effort to create a car-centric culture.
      all modernism was fundamentally optimistic. Yet all its forms failed, or created unforeseen, intrinsic problems that undermined the idea of humanity's ability to engineer solutions. The hesitancy of modern nations to embark on these wildly transformative projects is the consequence of their innumerable failures. The truth of dystopia, and any other human catastrophe, is that they are a collective effort, and so they are rarely as sinister and/or engineered as modernist writers liked to make them. dystopian writing was mostly a reaction to utopian writing, but neither reckoned with the idea that human knowledge wasn't actually being perfected. Of all writers, only Huxley had a prescient view of what future society would look like, but even he envisioned an engineer elite who could think completely independently.
      However, history of the 20th century is like a gravestone of modernist projects, and in light of this there must be a reappraisal. Society's elite are not the independent thinkers envisioned under modernism, they are bound to their society's rules and limitations, sometimes even more closely than the random schmucks on the street. In America, people are disconnected, neurotics, fantasists, and fundamentally lonely, so now American elites are like this too.

    • @christopherjohnson2171
      @christopherjohnson2171 Před 2 lety +70

      It is eerie to go back and re-visit the late 90s and think about how we thought it was sliding then but if only we knew how bad it would accelerate from the 2010s on. I guess the rise of social media has a big role in that.

    • @lt.lasereyez8891
      @lt.lasereyez8891 Před 2 lety

      Wear your mask and donate weapons to Ukraine!

    • @NoellaScott
      @NoellaScott Před 2 lety +51

      @@justinkennedy3004 I think it's more active when you're inside it. The erosion of institutions, personal relationships, the loss of the sense of safety, the decline of rights fought for or achieved in past generations, the rapid fall of mental health, overwhelming noise from too many sources, the rise of an oligarchy - it's death by a thousand cuts. Kids should be safe going to school. We should question institutions or others, not outright dismiss or disown them. We need healthcare, badly, and far fewer billionaires. More than anything, we need to connect with one another as individuals again. All of the old systems failed or died off with no replacement, and nothing has felt safe or secure - I don't mean only literally - since 9/11. It broke a lot of barriers and put America on a much different course, as reflected on the show.

  • @iggycamdon
    @iggycamdon Před 2 lety +377

    I think the part of this scene that really hits differently when you rewatch the show is when you first see Tony with the family of ducks. It's a moment of pure and genuine joy for Tony and I feel like a lot of the audience could empathize with feeling such positivity towards adorable animals. And yet by the time the series is over, the amount of violence and misery created by this character is so enormous it's hard to think he could have ever felt such emotions towards anyone, much less a pack of wild mallards.

    • @JungleCrook
      @JungleCrook Před rokem +1

      its to show hes a sociopath

    • @alexgruzglin4239
      @alexgruzglin4239 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Also, the end of the series explains all this compassion for animals - from the research Melfi read.
      This is just the way a criminal sociopath shows his fake sentiments.

    • @Dextronaut1
      @Dextronaut1 Před 4 měsíci +11

      ​@@alexgruzglin4239I think he genuinely loved animals tho

    • @robertlee4172
      @robertlee4172 Před 4 měsíci

      In 6 years, he reduced the DiMeo family to dust. Under the control of Butchie from NY.
      Paulie is the only captain left. With his testa dura.

  • @JoaoGuilherme-or5cf
    @JoaoGuilherme-or5cf Před 2 lety +234

    I think this scene defines a lot of the show's dynamic with the Mafia loyalty and family myth. When Tony makes the analogy of being late to the party it demonstrates that the show's attitude towards criminals will be less idealized and more realistic.

    • @callmehanson9466
      @callmehanson9466 Před 2 lety +24

      I loved the irony of Tony saying he came in at the end. He became such a terrible Don because he prioritized money instead of holding up to "a code" like the old-timers. Everyone in his crew members were worried about being whacked constantly, so it's no wonder why everybody was flipping, and the ones who didn't flip were whacked because Tony was far too emotional.
      I mean, none of us like Ralphie, but it was unbelievably hypocritical for Tony to kill him, especially since he was an earner. That broke Tony's own code of wanting to just make money, showing how to some extent, he cared more about being right and the power than the money (same issue with Coco and the war with New York). I'm also firm believer that Tony just hated Ralphie because he wasn't ashamed of who he was, unlike Tony, who constantly struggled to try and be a better person, only to become worse and worse as the show went on.

    • @MK_ULTRA420
      @MK_ULTRA420 Před 2 lety +31

      @@callmehanson9466 Nah, I think Tony is referring to the days before the RICO Act where mob bosses were untouchable by the law thanks to fall guys who were well-compensated inside & outside of prison, or the days when Al Capone's gang had more firepower than the cops trying to arrest them.
      Tony watches The Godfather and knows that's not the world he lives in.

    • @Honaro2nd
      @Honaro2nd Před rokem

      @@callmehanson9466 Nah, Ralphie was a piece of shit and needed to go long before Tony killed him. He was a dishonest coked up piece of shit that killed an innocent woman, set a horse on fire for the insurance money, and was a terrible influence on Jackie Aprile Jr. He made a joke that nearly set off a mob war and pissed off one of the top guys in the Lupertazzi family.
      Though I do agree about the money thing. Tony should've let Johnny Sack kill him and just accept the loss, especially considering how furious Johnny Sack was about the whole thing. Carmine not letting Johnny avenge the honor of his wife ultimately ruined their relationship and fucked things up for everyone.
      Tony hated hurting people that didn't have it coming, that's one of his most important things. He made sure AJ never got involved in that thing of theirs, he tried to keep Jackie Aprile Jr out, and god help you if you hurt an animal. Even that traffic cop he got into trouble fucked with him. Guy's had people killed and killed people himself but knowing how hard he fucked that cop over didn't sit well with him.

    • @desiredignorance35
      @desiredignorance35 Před rokem +2

      To clarify, Tony watches The Godfather and finds himself disatisfied with his life because it's not the world he lives in.

  • @johnson7166
    @johnson7166 Před 3 lety +130

    Hell of a way to start a tv show

  • @shussey1446
    @shussey1446 Před 3 lety +233

    The best shape Gandolfini ever was in

  • @jaymeister4850
    @jaymeister4850 Před 2 lety +352

    The mother duck was my favorite character on the show.
    They should have done more with her.

  • @dougcarey2233
    @dougcarey2233 Před 2 lety +275

    Came here today because this scene has always stuck with me, and I wanted to see it again. It's quite profound. Looking at the USA now, I understand why it hit me so hard then. It was more than an observation; it was a prophecy about our society as a whole.

    • @Gwartonium
      @Gwartonium Před 2 lety +35

      The current state of affairs has become too messed up for me to sit down and take anymore. Its only going to get worse from here on out so long as our politicians have no conviction or desire to make life better for the working people of this nation.

    • @dougcarey2233
      @dougcarey2233 Před 2 lety +19

      @@Gwartonium We are the pawns, and they are the kings and queens. The problem is that most of the other pawns willingly work for them.

    • @johnyguitar258
      @johnyguitar258 Před 2 lety

      u still whay to vanilla my friend havent see nothing

    • @nothingleft3473
      @nothingleft3473 Před 2 lety +14

      Agreed. It is quite a baffling time when we have a supreme court justice who cannot, or is too afraid to define what a woman is. If she cannot define something so simple that most of us were able to figure out by the time we were five, we are then in for a wild ride.

    • @rightguy200000
      @rightguy200000 Před 2 lety +9

      @@nothingleft3473 Eh i feel like it's more baffling to think that was an appropriate question to ask the new scj as if it had any relevance. Or to consider anything that came of that statement to be of any importance at all. They just wanted to corner her into picking an extreme stance in something she didn't need to.

  • @blamecanada8525
    @blamecanada8525 Před 2 lety +132

    This scene always depresses me because it's so true, it really does feel like society is way past it's prime

    • @theblondebutthole254
      @theblondebutthole254 Před 2 lety +4

      How?

    • @blamecanada8525
      @blamecanada8525 Před 2 lety +51

      @@theblondebutthole254 There's too many people, society keeps growing, quality of life keeps shrinking, there's not enough to go around, there feels like there's no prospects in life for the average person, at least not ones where you can actually comfortably live, at least in America there used to be this drive to succeed because there was so much opportunity, now it feels like there's nothing and it's impossible to pull yourself up and actually build something for yourself

    • @cheefqueef6494
      @cheefqueef6494 Před 2 lety +45

      @@blamecanada8525 Don't forget gamers. We can't even say the n word anymore. Gives me conniptions.

    • @N0mad342
      @N0mad342 Před 2 lety +2

      @@blamecanada8525 Is there a way we can fix this or are we doomed?

    • @REDEEMERWOLF
      @REDEEMERWOLF Před 2 lety +8

      @@theblondebutthole254 I'm adding overdevelopment, polluted runoff and global warming to the list as well. It just seems like a fact things are only going to get worse.

  • @PauloTheGeek
    @PauloTheGeek Před 2 lety +173

    Gandolfini looks great in the first season. So sad his weight and drink problems overwhelmed him in the following years.

    • @SDguy3030
      @SDguy3030 Před 2 lety +31

      Happens to the best of us. Just cant let it destroy you.

    • @darth856
      @darth856 Před rokem +3

      The pilot was also shot way before the rest of season 1.

    • @southsidesaiyan8641
      @southsidesaiyan8641 Před rokem +5

      @@darth856 way before? It was only one year apart. Pilot shot in 1997, the rest of the season shot in 1998.

    • @darth856
      @darth856 Před rokem +3

      @@southsidesaiyan8641 you're right, that was pushing it a bit. But the difference is still noticeable.

    • @dr.daredvil612
      @dr.daredvil612 Před 21 dnem

      ​@@darth856he still looked alright in season 2

  • @hawk66100
    @hawk66100 Před 3 lety +119

    Tony’s speech is now more relevant than ever. The best days of this country are behind us.

    • @MossoAyre
      @MossoAyre Před 3 lety +16

      That's certainly the case now, but it doesn't have to be going forward

    • @Goldchaingarcia
      @Goldchaingarcia Před 2 lety +3

      I think the speech is supposed to be subjective about that commentary

    • @sidharthsharma2637
      @sidharthsharma2637 Před 2 lety +1

      But our economy is worth 23 trillion now and the profit are all time high

    • @blazinpuffs
      @blazinpuffs Před 2 lety +30

      @@sidharthsharma2637 for the richest. Look at inflation right now. You could afford things on one income. A mortgage the whole nine.

    • @alexfonseca2063
      @alexfonseca2063 Před 2 lety +2

      Inflation has destroyed the American dream.

  • @ctwwtc8761
    @ctwwtc8761 Před 3 lety +87

    He could be talking about the mafia or America when he talks about coming in at the end

    • @EriPages
      @EriPages Před 2 lety +7

      The writers definitely knew it meant both. America was fully subverted by globalist lucirferian freemasons well before this point, and the 2020s will prove it.

    • @pdfbanana
      @pdfbanana Před 2 lety +24

      yeah, david chase is talking about the decline of america. it is the end. people could see it in the '90s even before post-9/11 politics and the 2008-11 recession. the best is over; america as a superpower will decline

    • @pdfbanana
      @pdfbanana Před 2 lety +4

      not bc of the silly@@EriPages stuff tho

    • @Sernival
      @Sernival Před rokem +14

      @@ILubBLOfficial not really, people are more obese, depressed, subject to chronic issues like stomach problems, autism, addiction. Male:female and race relations have been getting worse, harder to own a home and the median income has experienced slower growth while prices have increased

    • @TaRAAASHBAGS
      @TaRAAASHBAGS Před rokem +1

      @@ILubBLOfficial Some rich shareholders are better off at the expense of everyone's health, sanity, and bank account.

  • @merkcityboy834
    @merkcityboy834 Před 2 lety +19

    Tony wasn’t lying about coming at the end the best is over with.

  • @alextorres964
    @alextorres964 Před 3 lety +85

    I know how tony feels I feel it everyday

    • @chickendumpster4345
      @chickendumpster4345 Před 2 lety +9

      Just with this scene I’ve never related to a character more.

    • @ysurfed4648
      @ysurfed4648 Před rokem +3

      You’re supposed “bad days” are the next generations “good old days” remember that

    • @fightingultimatechampionship
      @fightingultimatechampionship Před rokem +10

      @@ysurfed4648 Because life just keeps getting more shitty for those that aren't rich. Inequality has only increased since the 80s and not just in terms of money but in power and independence.

    • @johnsonsmithson45
      @johnsonsmithson45 Před 9 měsíci

      @@ysurfed4648yep it’s just going to keep degrading and getting worst

    • @dr.daredvil612
      @dr.daredvil612 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@fightingultimatechampionshipwell Tony was a rich and he was already feeling depressed when internet was a baby

  • @murray6512
    @murray6512 Před 2 lety +102

    At 00:23, the bedsheets are sculpted to give the impression that Tony has 6 fingers on one hand; symbolic of evil

    • @beezelsub
      @beezelsub Před 2 lety

      Good catch. Didn't notice. Was busy thinking about the near reptilian iris that was shown. Same thing really.

    • @zakenmaru8612
      @zakenmaru8612 Před 2 lety +1

      Shoot, that's a great detail

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 Před 5 měsíci +3

      no its to represent that all the gabagool chemicals mutated him another finger so he can grab into ginnie sac without sinking in

  • @Spazticspaz
    @Spazticspaz Před 2 lety +242

    Tony is so much more tame in the earlier seasons. I feel he gets worse and worse as the seasons go on and proving that his therapy really accomplished nothing besides providing psychedelic experiences.

    • @fletcherpeterson1650
      @fletcherpeterson1650 Před 2 lety +57

      Pressure of being boss builds up gradually. He was a capo before Jackie died probably a fraction of the responsibility

    • @davidr7957
      @davidr7957 Před 2 lety +6

      Yup, he becomes a tyrant

    • @A_Saucerful_of_Secrets
      @A_Saucerful_of_Secrets Před 2 lety +28

      I actually find Tony likable in the first 2 seasons. It's just that he gets more and more neurotically angry in the later seasons.

    • @MrLonely77
      @MrLonely77 Před 2 lety +13

      So false. The therapy was totally helping until the sessions became nothing more than Tony sitting there talking and Melfi just listening. Like the last 2/3 seasons are just like that and it's really frustrating. Because he is capable of change she was literally just not doing enough.

    • @austinvanderveer213
      @austinvanderveer213 Před 2 lety +33

      @@MrLonely77 There was an entire plot thread about how Tony was a sociopath and there was literally no way to help him because he didn't want to change. He was using her as emotional support and nothing else, any advice she gave him was automatically shut down.

  • @snidelywhiplash
    @snidelywhiplash Před 4 lety +97

    Boy, was this ever prescient.

    • @johnson7166
      @johnson7166 Před 3 lety +6

      You got that right

    • @devonchristian3526
      @devonchristian3526 Před 3 lety +13

      He's Right...it's over

    • @shanebrennan8250
      @shanebrennan8250 Před 3 lety +9

      What I'd give to have been born twenty or thirty years earlier.

    • @snidelywhiplash
      @snidelywhiplash Před 2 lety

      @@shanebrennan8250 Yeah. I was born early 70s and even THAT was too fucking late, apparently.
      You know what's REALLY wild? Gandolfini was 37 when he did this part.

  • @kurtwagner350
    @kurtwagner350 Před 2 lety +44

    Little did he know they were still in the good times, you truly don’t know what you got til it’s gone

    • @jonsal123
      @jonsal123 Před rokem

      So true!

    • @ysurfed4648
      @ysurfed4648 Před rokem +7

      It’s hilarious how this scene takes place right at the start of the 20 century
      And yet you got people today in the comments saying tonys time was the “good old days” lol
      As you get older you realize time is a circle and all generations act the same. Looking at the past with rose colored glasses and complaining that the next generation is “losing its values”

    • @kurtwagner350
      @kurtwagner350 Před rokem +7

      @@ysurfed4648 or maybe thing have just been getting progressively worse...I highly doubt people will look back 20 years from now and say 2020 was great and they miss it

    • @ysurfed4648
      @ysurfed4648 Před rokem +2

      @@kurtwagner350 then you’re young and naive

    • @kurtwagner350
      @kurtwagner350 Před rokem

      @@ysurfed4648 apparently you’re old and high on painkillers

  • @theportugueselegend
    @theportugueselegend Před 2 lety +21

    You can see here what promise Tony Soprano showed in the mob. Tony's slimmer, way more focused on the job and healthy. Even the way he changed the accent and started to fatten up show how the character was entering a spiral of loss. By the end, greed and gluttony have consumed him. Seeing him in the pilot, you couldn't have predicted that

  • @TheSwordfish009
    @TheSwordfish009 Před rokem +37

    Currently, western society feels like somebody beat the entire game but all you're left with is the leftover missions, enemies, and maybe a few power-ups here or there.

    • @johnsonsmithson45
      @johnsonsmithson45 Před 9 měsíci +3

      Wow that’s actually a really good analogy I never thought of it like that

  • @bigrags420
    @bigrags420 Před 5 lety +157

    Best Scene Ever!!!! Many American's Feel That Way!!!!!

    • @1JFJohnson
      @1JFJohnson Před 4 lety +6

      agree

    • @ChiefJudge
      @ChiefJudge Před 3 lety +5

      They are weak.

    • @RawOne911
      @RawOne911 Před 2 lety +5

      It depends on what they are feeling it about. He was kind of right about the mafia. The glory days were gone. They could come back who knows, hopefully not but they could. Other aspects of life are not gone. "The good ole days". Are always in the past because no one seems to realize them while they are going on.

    • @bigrags420
      @bigrags420 Před 2 lety +1

      @@RawOne911 Yeah it's all a matter of perspective, but I can say one thing with certainty, these will never be considered the Good Ole Days, well maybe for aspiring Fascists, Conspiracy Theorists, and Submissives:)

    • @RodJeez
      @RodJeez Před 2 lety

      Then do something about it

  • @harrylukedavis7427
    @harrylukedavis7427 Před 3 lety +43

    why is this my head all the time

  • @DrLaurelWeaver
    @DrLaurelWeaver Před 2 lety +119

    Honestly his normal voice was much more realistic

    • @user-md2fm7ik2z
      @user-md2fm7ik2z Před 2 lety +37

      I feel like it lacks character

    • @scottbennici4689
      @scottbennici4689 Před rokem +12

      This still isn’t his normal voice, just a more subtle New Jersey accent

  • @scottfallon1
    @scottfallon1 Před 2 měsíci +3

    His voice was so much better here than with the over accentuated accent.

  • @ramirezmanuel117
    @ramirezmanuel117 Před 2 lety +41

    I genuinely used to get this feeling everywhere I went. Specially at jobs, the railyard, supply house all that shit.

  • @prevara5162
    @prevara5162 Před rokem +7

    hard to not feel like this about life

  • @jonsal123
    @jonsal123 Před 2 lety +8

    Man, Tony feeling that 20 years ago... He should see today!

  • @allykins1767
    @allykins1767 Před rokem +21

    I feel the same way. The country, the world… it’s all going to shit. I was born too late.
    But you know who I feel really bad for? The kids. I have no idea what kind of hellish nightmare awaits them. I doubt any of them will even make it to their elderly years.

  • @cartoonsandcereal3413
    @cartoonsandcereal3413 Před rokem +5

    I've been thinking about this scene a lot lately...

  • @sallydavies9253
    @sallydavies9253 Před 3 lety +341

    This is ahead of its time all millennials feel this.

    • @brunoactis1104
      @brunoactis1104 Před 2 lety +44

      It's one of the most common feeling trough all of human history.

    • @jackbulik7072
      @jackbulik7072 Před 2 lety +25

      I was born in 2003, I came in at the end, the best is over

    • @blazinpuffs
      @blazinpuffs Před 2 lety +4

      @@jackbulik7072 the 90s were awesome.

    • @mikeg905
      @mikeg905 Před 2 lety +2

      80’s will be known as the end of the golden age. Not the 90’s. The 90’s was the beginning of the end and the 2000’s ushered it in. American cultural decline starts in the 1990’s. Historians will look back on it as this I think. But imperial decline in the early 2000’s. Leftists will point to the 1980’s but i truly believe it was the 1990’s that ushered in american decline. This is when u start to see the seeds of political and cultural dissent come to bear fruit. Also the deregulation and financialization of the american economy solidifies itself in the late 80’s and 1990’s along woth the war on terror. Not to mention, the expansion of the ever burgeoning for profit substance recovery industry. The 90’s were the first time it made sense to NOT go to law school. 1st place ribbons vanished and were replaced with participation ones in the 90’s. Our puritan values declined and it became taboo to say you were religious on the coasts. Our politicians solidified their cronyism during this time. Clinton, schumer, ron paul, lindsey graham. The 1980’s in contrast spawned our last great decade. American Technology, culture, art, politics evolved in such a way that much of the population was content with thenselbes and one another. This has largely disappeared since the 90’s.

    • @nino3_
      @nino3_ Před 2 lety +3

      And gen z😭😭😭😭🙏🏽💯

  • @crazycar4015
    @crazycar4015 Před 7 měsíci +5

    I know Tony is just self-pitying that he didn't get to be a mid-level mobster in the era where they could afford to do big scams and rackets, take out/beat up anyone he wanted, and skirt the cops with no fear. But as someone born in 2001, I somehow also get the feeling I came in at the end, after the best times to be American are over and that only the downfall and bad times are here to come in my lifetime.

    • @Avalanche_Hockey166
      @Avalanche_Hockey166 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Born in 96 brotha…Join the Club.
      Ironically that’s an episode name from season 6A. Back to your first point though…
      That’s a massive message of this series that makes us correlate or relate so much to a murderous mobster like Tony.
      He’a still a man. He’s still an American like many of us and overall he’s still human like all of us.
      Keep your head up bruv. You aren’t alone with that thought.

    • @crazycar4015
      @crazycar4015 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Avalanche_Hockey166 Glad to hear it man. I'm glad I'm not alone in this interpretation and feeling.

  • @greggoat6570
    @greggoat6570 Před 2 lety +10

    It’s crazy hearing how more turned down his accent is at the start. Makes him sound softer and more understated.

  • @sebastianlajos866
    @sebastianlajos866 Před 2 lety +22

    If you look closely at 0:21 Tony has six fingers, an omen of bad luck.

    • @oN3xShOtxkilL
      @oN3xShOtxkilL Před 2 lety +3

      Jesus Christ that’s nuts

    • @asandwell
      @asandwell Před 2 lety +1

      It does look like a sixth finger, but it's clearly the way the bedsheet is riding and showing his chest beneath.

    • @WindyTrousers
      @WindyTrousers Před 2 lety +7

      @@asandwell It's just symbolism but It was designed that way. Italians, among others, believe that a 6th finger on the right hand indicates good fortune and that a 6th on the left hand brings ill fortune. This goes back a long ways. And as good as the writing is in this show I gotta believe they knew what they were doing. Every little detail is planned.

    • @rustyshackleford3701
      @rustyshackleford3701 Před 2 lety

      @@WindyTrousers except the ending...

  • @yazdan7774
    @yazdan7774 Před rokem +4

    Literally me , the best is long gone.

  • @kevinmach730
    @kevinmach730 Před rokem +9

    Arthur Morgan from Red Dead 2 kept expressing the same sentiment, while Dutch clung to the old way of life.

    • @snowfrosty1
      @snowfrosty1 Před rokem +2

      it's because this "feeling" is in part contextual, metaphysical, cyclical, & with alot of nuance(s)+caveats.

    • @newfic2290
      @newfic2290 Před 11 měsíci +1

      О, фанаты Рдр2, привет!!!💖

    • @Alexq79-
      @Alexq79- Před 2 měsíci +1

      Arthur Morgan saw the end of the beginning of America, while Tony sopranos saw the beginning of the end

    • @drivernephi2212
      @drivernephi2212 Před 3 dny

      There's a 2500 year old tablet from Mesapotamia that complains about the good times being over and society being in ruins.

  • @Equinsu_Ocha69
    @Equinsu_Ocha69 Před 2 lety +8

    "I feel like the best is over"
    "Many Americans, I think, feel this way"

  • @Tronathon242
    @Tronathon242 Před rokem +7

    I'm pretty sure a citizen of Constantinople in the early 1400's would have thought the same.

    • @Cinderella121
      @Cinderella121 Před rokem

      I feel that way now as an American…

    • @rahatahmed6188
      @rahatahmed6188 Před 5 měsíci

      Exactly, everyone laments about their situation.

  • @waltwhitman7545
    @waltwhitman7545 Před 2 lety +30

    yeah he was right though. in terms of the business, tony did come at the end, hard drugs and RICO and investigative technology demolished them everybody was snitching on everybody

  • @geinikan1kan
    @geinikan1kan Před 2 lety +11

    Love the ducks. That moment of connection between a NJ gangster boss, and a bunch of fucking ducks. From Canada or something.

    • @jaymeister4850
      @jaymeister4850 Před 2 lety +1

      The ducks had the makings of a varsity athlete

  • @CodeWaka
    @CodeWaka Před 7 měsíci +2

    This translates to America so well

  • @AdamFerrari64
    @AdamFerrari64 Před rokem +5

    I think of this quote every day… hopefully “the end” is just a new and better beginning..🙏

    • @noctissky794
      @noctissky794 Před rokem +1

      I'm hoping too. I think an end to what we have is coming.

  • @nicholasfarnolo7238
    @nicholasfarnolo7238 Před 2 lety +20

    It's nearly unbelievable to think this is a television show that aired in 1999.

  • @noctissky794
    @noctissky794 Před rokem +5

    This statement is about modern life.

  • @Goldchaingarcia
    @Goldchaingarcia Před 2 lety +13

    I wish james/the show would of kept tonys pilot accent. I get it they're trying to show you that they're NJ natives, but some thing about his pilot voice just seems way more natural/cool

  • @enak4137
    @enak4137 Před 2 lety +14

    The Sopranos - Vito : "I came in at the end.The best was Ben Dover."

  • @nicka8718
    @nicka8718 Před rokem +4

    I always forget how much each character aged and changed. Tony looks so much different here

  • @USAReject
    @USAReject Před 2 měsíci +3

    I’m starting to realize that this monologue is literally the truth about America. About Western civilization in general. It’s starting to feel more and more like the last days of Rome.

  • @MichalisG1821
    @MichalisG1821 Před 7 dny +1

    When we watched this in the 90's, we thought Tony was talking about life in the Mafia.
    When we watch it today, we realize he was talking about life in America.

  • @stickykitty
    @stickykitty Před 3 lety +10

    Very true in current times

  • @mightymoeish
    @mightymoeish Před 9 měsíci +3

    The show came at the perfect time. Not just for the mafia. For Americans, and specifically white Americans.

  • @whatthedeer4878
    @whatthedeer4878 Před 11 měsíci +2

    This whole scene speaks to me being a fresh outta high school growing up in this post-fucked world that we were blessed as kids.

  • @dingle892
    @dingle892 Před 2 lety +6

    For some reason, ever since I started taking interest in mafia related stories, I wake up like Tony.

  • @MaxMiller614
    @MaxMiller614 Před rokem +11

    Incredible show. Just finished it and I’m so sad I did. Wish I could keep watching like it was the first time seeing it again.

    • @moviereviews1446
      @moviereviews1446 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @TheEsquireofSports.2.0 it gets better with rewatches. you notice more details. sure it doesnt have the same kick as the first time around, but it still is really good, probably the best show ever.

  • @AA-uv3uf
    @AA-uv3uf Před 6 měsíci +4

    I prefer this Tony's accent better.

  • @brodssn
    @brodssn Před 2 lety +12

    This is a commentary on not just this show but the timing of this show in the late 90’s. Everything from the food to the people were the best. Night life, friends, parties, even morals were at a high in the late 90s. It was the best and now it’s over.

    • @southsidesaiyan8641
      @southsidesaiyan8641 Před rokem +4

      Many people disagree with this and say the 90s was a time period full of societal decay, with shows like beavis and butthead and jerry springer, and movies like dumb and dumber jay and silent bob; also the columbine shooting, and gun violence was at an all time high.

    • @circleinforthecube5170
      @circleinforthecube5170 Před 5 měsíci

      the architecture built in the 90s excluding big box stores and mcmansions was amazing, beautiful skyscrapers like one prudential plaza and the ally center went up around then

  • @haerfgvbag7050
    @haerfgvbag7050 Před rokem +4

    It’s amazing how objectively easier and better my parents had it at my age, must’ve been nice

  • @Lp-me7hb
    @Lp-me7hb Před 2 lety

    Its so wholesome and light

  • @dallaslucio9580
    @dallaslucio9580 Před 2 lety

    Great Video! Love it!

  • @timwhite5562
    @timwhite5562 Před rokem +2

    I've been rewatching the series and just started season 6 earlier today, Gandolfini seems to have aged quite a bit since season 1, and his accent got much deeper.

  • @ernstthalmann4306
    @ernstthalmann4306 Před 2 lety +64

    As a 90s kid this is prophetic. America was a great place to be a kid in the 90s. We as a family were happy, young, tons of friends, happy religious community. Since 9/11 it's been one disaster after another. Tony foresaw where things were headed before anyone else. What an amazing show.

    • @Zodroo_Tint
      @Zodroo_Tint Před 2 lety

      You did that you yourself. You had everything, you got away with genocides and war crimes, you were the strongest and richest empire ever existed on earth. And when your leaders decided they gonna start a never ending war you the people did nothing. You chosed to believe the obvious lies because you love War. You did it to yourself.

    • @jerseycitysteve
      @jerseycitysteve Před 2 lety +7

      I'm a retired Methodist minister I was so happy in my work. Our little boy was born in 1992. After 2000, I too began to have the feelings that I came in at the beginning of the end. By 2017 I had had enough and retired. With the mafia, it's once in and never out. I had better options than Tony.

    • @ernstthalmann4306
      @ernstthalmann4306 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Zodroo_Tint I was 7 when 9/11 happened, don't blame me.

    • @cheefqueef6494
      @cheefqueef6494 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ernstthalmann4306 Leaving is an option.

    • @ernstthalmann4306
      @ernstthalmann4306 Před 2 lety +3

      @@cheefqueef6494 no country is perfect. We can work towards a more perfect union if we overcome the oligarchs.

  • @Gameang123acdc
    @Gameang123acdc Před 2 lety +6

    They literally chucked that duck into the scene lol

  • @alexpronti9789
    @alexpronti9789 Před 2 lety +3

    I love when he talks in his normal voice

  • @dr.daredvil612
    @dr.daredvil612 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I think here Tony is mainly mentioning about the mafia era that was at its peak during the 70s. That's why you can hear him say the best is over.

  • @rowanmakesmemes7301
    @rowanmakesmemes7301 Před 2 lety +12

    Weird thing was they were in the best of it. Now thats gone. A post 9/11 world.

  • @vulgardreamah
    @vulgardreamah Před 2 lety

    Fantastic monologue

  • @randclar2037
    @randclar2037 Před 2 lety

    Very Amazing

  • @JJJ111JJJ
    @JJJ111JJJ Před rokem +3

    The quote refers to certain high quality soft drink brands being discontinued before the 1990s.

  • @bmo14lax
    @bmo14lax Před rokem +1

    Instantly pulled me into the show.

  • @bkboy2384
    @bkboy2384 Před 2 lety +4

    I remember seeing this scene living in staten island that this is the closest to that life you'll ever see portrayed...still is....and landmark television never to be outdone...only duplicated

  • @Quado0s
    @Quado0s Před rokem +2

    When you click on a Sopranos clip and it’s already full of funny, witty comments:
    “I came in at the end. The best is over. “

  • @ianrae4049
    @ianrae4049 Před 8 dny

    Then I remember at the end of the show when Phil is talking to his guys who are in little Italy about where Tony is, they get off the phone and see they had already ended up past the outskirts of little Italy, showing how much the Italian presence had lessened, both in and out of the game.

  • @truth2219
    @truth2219 Před 2 lety

    probably my favorite tony scene.

  • @thiskid990
    @thiskid990 Před 2 měsíci

    I love that face he makes with the eye roll

  • @johnsun3854
    @johnsun3854 Před 2 lety +6

    Tonys dad had his people. Tony has his ducks.

  • @FaradaySpeaks
    @FaradaySpeaks Před 2 lety +1

    Where can I find more soundtrack music that sounds like that?

  • @maylabrown4584
    @maylabrown4584 Před rokem +7

    People born in the late 90s be like:

    • @maylabrown4584
      @maylabrown4584 Před 8 měsíci

      @@jazzfan67 Pretty much lol imma 1999 guy too, but there’s still good things in life.

  • @sdn5682
    @sdn5682 Před 2 lety

    You know this is sums everything about sopranos.

  • @VIDEOHOMESYSTEM
    @VIDEOHOMESYSTEM Před rokem

    As soon as the fucking clip started Literally the half a millisecond I noticed the Voice Difference.....Dude was an Absolute Legend.

  • @jerrodbutali3990
    @jerrodbutali3990 Před 2 lety

    Truth. Today "we" have to sell out our own ppl to get ahead. We should be sticking together and selling out those ppl.

  • @manofmayhem4988
    @manofmayhem4988 Před rokem +1

    This is true todays in all American western society

  • @harrisonkrominga1706
    @harrisonkrominga1706 Před 2 lety +1

    I just realized that there was a little ramp built for the ducks to climb up out of and in the pool. Tony probably built that ... or had vito and the other one build it since you know, they were in the building trade.

  • @patarcher9199
    @patarcher9199 Před 2 lety +3

    Fuckin great way to start this show

  • @mjfromjersey
    @mjfromjersey Před měsícem

    The irony of him saying this while sitting in a suburban mansion, built like a castle with a moat, with wealth that far surpassed anything the previous generations had ever achieved.

  • @Stephen7764.
    @Stephen7764. Před 2 lety +1

    0:49 - Holy smokes! That's the Undertaker on the cover!

  • @patricksullivan869
    @patricksullivan869 Před rokem +2

    Every player drafted to the Patriots 2020 or later

  • @thejumpmaster8728
    @thejumpmaster8728 Před rokem

    Damn this scene has a very memorable dialogue

  • @afropick93
    @afropick93 Před 2 lety +3

    You'd think the chlorine from the pool soaking into that bread would kill those ducks....

  • @Ar1AnX1x
    @Ar1AnX1x Před 2 lety

    I always envied this mansion, not only it's in a great neighborhood but it's in the best part of it, at a dead-end, away from the street and it's surrounded by nature.

  • @kale6264
    @kale6264 Před 2 lety

    Awww this was a sweeter tony

  • @glendanielson9006
    @glendanielson9006 Před měsícem

    I love this scene about involving the ducks~the acting in The Sopranos was excellent. I don't like anything having to do with the mob, but this show is so compelling on many levels.

  • @greenmarine500
    @greenmarine500 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Real

  • @Packers786
    @Packers786 Před 10 měsíci +1

    This represents my entire military career

  • @streetMind_Body_Business_816

    I feel the same way...

  • @jamerton18
    @jamerton18 Před 2 lety +1

    This is the moment Tony became Soprano