"Sopranos" creator explains ending
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2015
- "Sopranos" creator and executive producer David Chase explains some of what happened to Tony Soprano at the end of the HBO series in 2007. CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers explains why fans are still wanting answers.
No, the creator didn't explain anything. You talked about something and posted a click bait video.
AMEN...AND MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!
USRaider Exactly wtf was that?
every time the bell over the door rings the camera switched to Tony's POV. watch the whole scene. the last bell ring is his daughter coming in the door and Tony getting shot by the guy coming out of the bathroom. it is actually too clever for its own good.
Another commenter pointed out that Meadow saved Tony twice but Chase goes to great lengths to show she can’t save him this time. First time was when she was calling for him and he was in a coma thinking he was Kevin Finnerty. He almost handed over his briefcase to Steve Buscemi which represented his life but he heard a girls cries, Meadow, which woke him up out of the coma. Second time was Meadow taking the basement lamp to college which thwarted the FBI from getting incriminating evidence on Tony as the basement was where he discussed “business” with associates. But Meadow attempting to parallel park her car kept her from sitting next to Tony, being in the line of fire and thus thwarting MO guy. With no one sitting next to Tony, the MO guy came out of the bathroom, an homage toTony’s favorite Godfather scene, and whacked Tony.
Agree 100%
The most life-like ending in the history of television.
It won't be cinematic...Patsy Parise
Shawn Brodrick One of the all-time great gangster lines!
@@shawnbrodrick8673 the last scene should have just cut to Patsy's face instead of black. "And here's the thing, my face will be the last one you see, not his"
"They say that when it happens, you don't even hear it"
6string42 also said an indictment is conning. I think he got arrested
bobby did
Bobby certainly heard, and felt it.
Ask your friend in there, on the wall.
I think the ending was absolutely perfect.
It's pretty clear that Chase simply loved Tony too much to show him getting gunned down in front of his family even if that was the ending he felt was the right one...
Absolutely no better way to end the show and nearly 15 years later we’re still talking about it. Which proves why it was so good.
I agree amazing ending loved it best tv show ever made
We still talk about it because it was a great show with the worst ending ever
@@columobrien3528 tf you want everyone walking off into the sunset? i like the artistic route
he told the shrink that when death comes it's boom fade to black. does no one remember this line from early on in the series.
he never says that to her. he says it to Bobbi in the boat when Tony is at the lake house.
ken phillips apologies i thought he said it to the shrink when he was telling her about the son being suicidal over the girlfriend my mistake yours is the correct answer.
cas that was literally the best approach to a comment reply I've had since being on CZcams. much respect, friend.
Still. Him saying that pretty much confirms that's what happened.
Because David Chase gave a interview one time and said that was his own take on death so that's was why he ended it that way,
The ending was perfect.
Blackjack.
There’s a lot of symbolism in that last scene. He did explain what it was, tony died. Meadow was always his guardian angel. That’s why the whole scene of her having trouble parking was important. Bc meadow always shows up when tony life was in danger and prevented his death. Plus many other reasons. With Paulie etc.
The idea of "we are not allowed to be with them anymore" is heartbreaking actually, I really loved the characters, they grow in me.
Flagged by me for click baiting.
Anybody who was a fan of the show and had been paying attention and could read the many visual clues, would know right away what happened.
No, the creator will not confirm or deny if Tony died. If you choose a side, he will bring up a contradictory point. He wants to remain relevant.
@@GMAMEC Chase said at one point that the clues are all there in that final scene. So it has to be clues to something happening, not nothing happening. He just doesn’t want to spoon feed it to the audience as that’s not his style in any episodes of the series that’s been made. Face it, Tony got whacked, that’s why the cut to black and 10 seconds of black and silence before the end credits roll.
@@CR-vj6vvtrue
The show has always made it clear that there is always the unexpected and life is not like the movies. So the guy going to the bathroom and coming out to shoot Tony is not what should be expected. Sometimes nothing happens. It doesn't mean that Tony won't get killed in the future when he's alone.
I kinda get it, it seems to show that he will never feel safe like all the other families in the restaurant, he will always be looking over his shoulders especially when his family is around, the price to pay for being a mobster
Another interesting fact, Tony is wearing almost the same exact shirt as when he was shot in the 1st episode of season 6
When Tony's looking for a song to choose, he chose Journey (we've all been on this journey together) & we could A) Don't Stop Believing (in Tony being alive, dead or whatever) or B) we could take it Any Way You Want It.
Or, you know, the jukebox could just be listing the artists in alphabetical order and both of those songs are by Journey. Unless they specifically built or rearranged that jukebox for that purpose, I doubt it means much at all.
Super old thread, but I just watched it for the first time, so. I think “Don’t Stop Believing” ties up the general theme of the show, or one of them. The song is about reaching for something in life, you may never achieve it but you’ve got to try. Tony is constantly depressed about the mundane nature of life, but even after the gunshot and coma he never changes. The rest of his family is moving on; Carmela might become a successful real estate developer, Meadow might become a successful lawyer, even AJ might make it into show business. But Tony is right back where he started, having learned nothing, and look what that gets him- shot in the back of the head and cut to black. Like the shark that he is, he stopped moving and now he’s dead.
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@@godofspacetime333 well said
The title of this video has got to be one of the most despicable examples of click bait in the history of bait. Ten times as many thumbs down as up. How proud you must be. Now then, having watched this pitiful excuse for commentary, in which the Sopranos creator does not even have a cameo, I want to scream, "There is no mystery!" Tony got whacked. That cut to black was in a sequence that indicated the black was his point of view. POV. Google it. The last episode was a great piece of work. If you can't understand it, try some brain food supplements or something. And quit making videos. And show some remorse by removing this one.
JiveDadson they try to make it too obvious but the deeper meaning is we all die. Not about Tony. Tony is just symbolic.
The lyrics stops at "Don't stop". I think it may represent Tony's feeling of this moment. Family is having a tasty meal peacefully. Ordinary, but a nice and relaxing moment of life.
He got killed, that's what the creator set up with the shady guy in the bathroom , and when you die everything goes black soooo since the whole show we mostly look through the eyes of tony we saw what he saw in the end
Christian Barajas that can never be proven in real life, because nothing is not an entity, and can never be proven. Also blackness isn't nothing.
You are correct-a total borrowing from "The Godfather"-the director spared us the ghastly murders of the Turk and Capt. McCluskey. Can you imagine if Tony got two in the hat? gasping for breath-while the gunman calmly drops the gun and exits?
@@maxfieldnuckels9075 it's a TV show dude, nothing gets 'proven.' It's all up to interpretation which was nice of David Chase to do, it ends how we want it to, however we choose to look at it.
what about the black guys? what the FBI indictment that's about to come?... the guy in the bathroom is just another chekhov's gun shown for suspense, cutting to black before any can fire to create an emotional effect of how Tony's six season long struggle to unite his family and be happy can be taken away in an instant
Yea if there's no afterlife then death would be like before you were born. That is nothingness but there is no you to experience it so at death there is no you to experience it but there still is a you as in the physical object.
Tony was shot by the guy in the bathroom, end of story.
the guy who shot him was little Auggie Aprile
i think one of the cub scouts got him
a nod to the scene where Micheal Corleone goes to the bathroom then comes out after finding gun in the old time toilet, then rubs out the dirty cop and the
aspiring heroin kingpin in GF1?
+Kenneth exactly
Idk if you noticed but all along everything in the sopranos was symbolic and important whether you noticed at all. The director wants you to see things without it telling you. He always has.
Tony gets one in the head, it's obvious. I don't know what the problem is with that ending. It was brilliant.
some folks identified with him. that's why he could escape death... just like super heroes always do... because otherwise you lose a good part of the audience as well... but not at the end of a series.
If you want the explanation of the ending, don't read this.It doesn't explain anything
David Besser it’s tv he made it a mystery
Having watched the Sopranos long after the show ended I thought it made since. The show was primarily invested in Tony and all of his families. Without him the show ends.
I just finished it 2 or 3 days ago and I just have a weird feeling of not knowing what happens to ol boy Tony.
It's a terrific ending whether he's killed or not it's the life of a gangster as Al Capone one said it'd be nice to go to restaurant and just once be able to sit by the window the director gives you a point of view of a gangster always looking up always looking behind you decide whether he was killed in that
People that got mad at this ending don't understand the central themes of this show or the point chase was trying to make. I'm glad he made you all mad.
we were wacked, not tony
Literally the most stupid conclusion I've ever heard
Actually you have to have a pretty low IQ to not recognize all the painfully obvious clues throughout the last episode and a few others. Tony was whacked.
Luke Jackson Foreal the whole season was about not feeling death and tony slowly letting his guard down.
Best comment EVER!
Mecha Anim That is just silly
Ti could be taken two ways. One, tony dies. He looks up everytime someone enteres the door the you see his POV of who enters. The last time he looks up he sees blackness. Becaause as soon as the door opens, pow. bullet to the brain.
The other option is that is the last time WE as the audience see tony. its a commentary on viewing a tv show. We want the show to go on and on . But the show has to end. So, they literally just ends while the characters and life go on and on. And this is just where we, as the audience have to get off. Tony is always going to be looking up when the door opens to see if its someone there to kill him. But we as the audience are no longer part of their story, so.. blackness.
I used to think it was the latter. Now I think its the former. He gets shot.
+John R you also don't hear the song he plays on the table jukebox any more because he died.
Yea if he didn't die chase sure did emphasize the members only jacket guy a whole lot for nothing
John R it’s not the former or the latter. The message is that we just got whacked. Not from watching the show but the message was that it can happen to anyone in an instant and the scene was symbolic of that.
Shydawg hanbowski it’s symbolic that we die and that it can happen when you least expect it. At expected tony to die but we didn’t expect that ending.
@@joebudd6716 now if James Gandolfini hadn't died in real life then they would have made the movie because that will always make more money then any prequel. But if you watch the entire season there were clues scattered all throughout it. The obvious one being Bobby quote and then Tony remembers it later on you got the bell on the dock and hes not paying attention to it which sounds just like the bell at the diner. A few episodes before the finale the opening scene is you see Tony sleeping from above with funeral music playing in the background like we are staring at his casket. All the clues are there.
As he talked about to Bobby maybe ya don't even realize when it happens...at the time Meadow walks in it cuts out because Tony was shot in the head from the side (the bathroom)
Definitely 💯
Meadow, his guardian angel, was wearing black leather. He looked up and saw darkness.
“When it happens, you don’t see it coming” Silvio Dante
This ending is pretty simple, it shouldn´t even be a debate if he was killed or lived, now the door beel rings, we see Tony´s face then what he sees, this happens everytime each member of his family comes in, now when Med comes in and the bell rings we see Tony´s face and then all gets black which means he got shot by the hitman, and obviously after he died all black was he ¨could see¨. The gun was obviously already in the bathroom like in the Godfather movie.
agree
Yeah, that's the most logical explanation so far.
why would the gun need to be in the bathoom? lol he wasnt frisked upon entering the diner, there wasnt a metal detector. theres no reason for that logic. if anything it was to get a clear shot on the way out of the bathroom.
anyone else love the ending? i did!
I liked it too, I thought it was brilliant.
one of the best endings ever
I thought it was awesome.
yes
@Clemmy Magee people just hate the show ended wish it kept going and like happy endings everyone can agree it was good but doesn't mean you have to like it
This ending was so controversial they had to explain it on the news.
Oh come on. The bell? For whom the bell tolls? The snap to black? Do they have to draw you a picture?
I don't know how anyone can watch a show that's entirely about ambiguity and then expects the ending to be unambiguous.
misleading title
The fade to black harks back to Livia Soprano for me "Its all a big nothing.'
For the record, it's not a fade, which is gradual and gentle. It was a cut to black, sudden and jarring.
@@KutWrite true.
A lot of allegory in this...rip,tony..rip,James g. The greatest show of all time. I wonder what mr. James g thought about the ending
Man was wacked in front of his kids
I think the ending was purposely done ambigous and open ended in case they decided to make a Movie out of the Sopranos. Remember they 2 Movie out of Sex and the City and one Movie out of Entourage. That I think was the reason Message of the Ending which I also didn't like. When James Gandofini died, this basically derailed any Possibility of a Movie being made from the Series.
HoldenNY22 Its wasnt open ended though he slowly lets his guard down over the last season and got shot.
Lim Jahey don’t remember seeing him get shot unless it was the uncle
Well thanks, that was as vague as the actual ending
Can not skip the Ad , never buy the product
I'd have ended it with it turning out to be Kevin Finnerty passing time on his cI'd have ended it with it turning out to be Kevin Finnerty passing time on his commute from NYC to NJ by writing each episode, which is why they are different lengths, with the theme song playing in his head, a kind of fantasy life.
My question really is not if he died, I think he did. I want to know who was the one who ordered the hit.
starcrafter13terran he wasn’t Carlo was talking the feds would be all on him
The crew of the guys he went to war with decided that Tony was too much of a loose cannon and finished him off with the rest of his crew
Paulie?
@@MrChileno13 czcams.com/video/hy4AGeuQ5pM/video.html. This video sums up that theory so well, it’s hard to deny…
It doesn't ''fade'' to black, it cuts to black. Big difference.
It's all about the father-son connection because Tony's dad (from his childhood) walks in with AJ. Nobody ever mentions this. He walks in with him and sits at the counter and even looks at Tony.
They do make it obvious that Tony was killed. The sequence of shots in the diner make it perfectly clear, plus the conversation with Bobby about "you probably don't even hear it when it happens" in season 6B, which they flash back to in the Blue Comet episode. All that, PLUS the fact that the first episode of season 6 is titled "Members Only" and Tony gets shot in that episode. How many clues do you need?
...and David Chase has said (regarding the outcome of the ending scene) - "All the clues are right there on the screen". There are plenty of clues that Tony gets killed. There are NO clues to suggest that he lives.
Thanks for wasting my time with your click bait
I can understand that some may not like the ending, but to insist that Tony´s fate is unclear to them is just sheer denial.
I wasn´t particular fond of the ending either but it was absolutely resolute that Tony was dead.
best show ever made,wish they did more,everyone was killed off way too soon in last season,should made at least 2 more seasons.how cool it would been if new characters like william forsyche or tim roth were brought in.
Sopranos is the best show of all time for many reasons
Producer was NOT thinking
It ended perfectly. Their life continues on, and we get to think on what that is.
Thanks for telling us absolutely nothing. I wish I would have just stared at the wall for 2:40. It would have been more enjoyable.
Very inspirational->✓
This is going to be the same debate as "what was in the briefcase?" in Pulp Fiction. It's really healthy if the creators and producers need a cash grab and can go back to it.
i feel as if one more shot of the 'memebers only jacket guy' coming out of the bathroom either before or after meadow arrives would have been more effective.
when i was consulting with chase during shooting, though, he shot the idea right down.
sküll düggery Yeah, suuuure. 👌🏻😂
in my opinion, the explanation is that there is nothing to explain: what you see, is what you get: a song that plays 'don't stop' and then it stops, leaving spectators behind looking desperately for meaning, while there is no other meaning than that it stops. there is some mild irony in that: the makers are playing us, because humans cannot help themselves: they need meaning, and if it isn't given to them on a plate, they will fill the void with their own phantasies and speculations. but it is almost as life itself: there is no meaning and it simply stops.
Members only,that's your guy,they guy wearing the members only jacket.
Once you're mobbed up,
That's That. No more Shinebox.
he said rubbed out lol
So he didn’t explain a thing in this video. Thanks for the misleading video title, aka clickbait. 🙄
I didn't care for how it ended, I Do feel bad J Gandolfini passed and can't do any more movies.
This would be the first time I have heard "rubbed out" in reference to somebody getting whacked
The guy that went to the bathroom shot T
The first woman through the door looked like a slimmer Janice.
I loved the ending
Easy way out for writers, they start great, but have no idea on how to end it.
The guy killed him, Thats all he sees it black in the end. The whole scene was shot in Tony’s POV. It’s super obvious. Didn’t understand at first, But once I thought about it, I realized he’s dead. Guy came back out the bathroom and shot him in the head from the side out of his POV.
We see Tony’s face then see what he sees about three times, then when meadow enters we see Tony’s face and then black. That’s what Tony is seeing cos he has been killed
...and David Chase has said (regarding the outcome of the ending scene) - "All the clues are right thereon the screen in that final scene".
Most definitely he died!💯
in the final scene they are in the same eatery where a young Tony would wait for his Uncle Dickie to meet him. Dickie would never show having been whacked the night before on the orders of Uncle Jun.
"Sopranos creator explains ending"
Click the video to find out he indeed did not explain ending.
Mainstream media clickbait as normal
And the guy behind the tv monitor shakes his head in disgust. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Stick to the Disney channel if you don't understand the ending
Don't bother watching. Another clickbait video giving no definitive answer. It ends with "if you want to know what Chase says read the article" which I'm sure gives no definitive answer either.
Tony got shot by the guy in the Members Only jacket, who had entered the bathroom just off to Tony's Right and behind him, a perfect angle for him to take Tony out the moment that he exited the bathroom again.
This was also a reference to the most famous scene in the original "The Godfather," when Michael (Al Pacino) goes to the bathroom and retrieves a revolver from behind the toilet tank that he later uses to whack his rival and the crooked cop (played by Sterling Hayden, btw).
Very creative->✓
It didn't fade to black. It went black. He's over. It's over. Done.
Not for nothing, but @ 1:27, it cut to black, not fade to black, a very telling element in what happens to Tony and the guy in thr Members Only Jacket was the shooter, not the gut pointed on in this video. Not the best explanation of the ending.
'I did not like it'. Literally no one cares what you think.
Who shot J. R.?
This was perhaps one of the most creative endings of any show. POV from Tony, so when Tony loses consciousness, all goes to black. If guy in Members Only jacket put bullet in Tony's brain, this is resultant POV. Contrast this to the hackneyed, film school cliche endings of character lying in pool of blood with camera zooming out, while some corny music is played of most other shows.
I loved 'Breaking Bad' but the cartoonish A-Team-like machine gun gag in finale was a great disservice to that series.
The ending was bs , it's an endless ending with your imagination
Phil Leotardo put the hit on Tony with the caveat that if he goes down Tony goes down.
I don't think it was conditional. He told Butch "Make it happen."
Well that’s 2 mins of my life i will never get back, thanks for explaining absolutely nothing
So the title is a LIE and I wasted my time...
David Chase finally disclosed that Tony did not die. The series ending scene was cinematic art at it's best. It was left to your own interpretation.
That's a load of crap, where did he disclose this information at?
@@marvinallen7117four years later, but I’ll explain. He didn’t necessarily say Tony didn’t die, and he implied there were clues, but he said it was also left up to interpretation what actually happens. So you can go with the Tony got shot, you can go with some sequence where Tony survives. Personally, it was obvious the ending signified Tony getting whacked. But because of how it shows that, the viewer is allowed to interpret however they do as explained by David Chase. I agree with others that it was purposely not explained because despite it being implied Tony’s brains are splattered on his wife and son, it leaves it open ended for something down the line if David Chase wanted to. And if James didn’t die maybe we would have gotten a sequel rather than a prequel to the show.
It ends with them sitting down eating dinner at a diner as a family what so bad about that????? The show is over. Final episode was great lots of action. Show over. What do you mean what happens??
The last episode didn’t complete the story arc. It had exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and then it just cut off. It didn’t have proper closure or resolution. It was frustrating because it was awkward and jarring, and at first I thought there was some technical issue with my television, as did many people. Whether Tony lived or died wasn’t the issue; it was the fact that the episode just stopped midstream, which was bad television/story telling on every level. It wasn’t artistic or innovative and it didn’t work. It was a glaring mistake and poor use of craft.
Tony died as he lived.
If Tony got shot and killed, what about the rest of the family?
So basically its lights out he got shot
Everyone is dead.
He didn't explain anything
My father always said you never hear the gunshot that takes you out. I figured that the very uncool guy looking at Tony took him out when he comes out of the bathroom. My disappointment was we didn't get any information about the family. These mob guys always fire off more then one shot. He would have been firing from a slightly higher position, in Tony's blind spot (I think) so he might have shot Carmela & AJ. too. Collateral damage, perhaps? The only one we know (probably) wasn't shot was Meadow because she's just opened the diner door at the moment Tony is killed.
I think you are possibly right!💯
I think it can be taken one step further and say that the whole family got whacked - because they wouldn't want anyone from Tony's family to come out with information for revenge on anyone in the Mafia because of Tony's killing. That's just my opinion but I say all of his family got killed.
he's dead... only an idiot couldn't work this ending out.
this ending is more worse than the finale of dexter. live by the gun die by the gun. the director should have shown tony getting whacked
kurram hussain he didn’t he got indicted and he’s getting 15 years
(Probably not,but for fun)What if it was all a coma dream from when he was shot. And it fades to black when he finally succumbs or they pulled the plug on him🤷🏻♂️🤔
how did the daughter ever get a divers licesne?