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Genre | Drama |
Format | Dolby, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled |
Contributor | Edie Falco, Vincent Pastore, Nancy Marchand, Dominic Chianese, Michael Imperioli, Steve van Zandt, Tony Sirico, James Gandolfini See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 4 |
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Sopranos, The: The Complete First Season (DVD) Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony Jr. A pill of a mother. A hot-headed uncle. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to whom he tells all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss. In Season One, feeling his handle on his family and his business slipping away, Tony (James Gandolfini) suffers a series of anxiety attacks that land him in the office of a psychiatrist (Lorraine Bracco). Opening up to his shrink, Tony relates the details of his life as a 'waste-management consultant,' and tries to come to terms with the professional and private strains that have brought him to the brink of a breakdown. Co-starring Edie Falco as his wife, Michael Imperioli as his nephew and Dominic Chianese as his uncle.
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The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: Like 1999's other screen touchstone, American Beauty, the HBO series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there's the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.
The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his midlevel capo's machismo, yet instantly recognizable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers, and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.
Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatization of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful, and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchmen and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.
The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr. Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional," perceptive, and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what's not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 5.69 x 1.25 x 7.72 inches; 11.2 ounces
- Item model number : 2221469
- Media Format : Dolby, Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 11 hours and 20 minutes
- Release date : August 27, 2007
- Actors : James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Dominic Chianese, Nancy Marchand, Michael Imperioli
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 4.0), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Mono), Unqualified
- Studio : HBO Studios
- ASIN : B00003CXOP
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #35,015 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #5,848 in Drama DVDs
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Note: If you just want an opinion and don't want analysis and stuff cluttering up your experience, (which i humbly suggest, you don't, at least not the first time around), just know that i am one of those people extremely stingy with stars. Five stars, for me, means exceptionally spectacular and more importantly, useful.
I.e. not "just" entertainment.
---- “You know, you have these thoughts, and you almost grab it, and then, 'pfft'.” - Tony Soprano ----
The (presently) Most Helpful Critical Review likens watching the Sopranos as to "eating too much ice cream". In other words, filling and fattening but ultimately empty and probably not very good for you. Unfortunately i read that review shortly after i started watching the series, and having already had a similar impression, i agreed entirely too much and i watched ensuing episodes with that bias. Kind of a self-fulfilling mindset especially since i stream most of my television in bed as a means to numb my mind to sleep, and i often nod off with the tablet in my hands. Right in the middle of all this activity i'm enjoying, my lights go out.
I missed a really lot that way. Which may be a good thing, because it gives me an excuse to watch again, better.
So anyway on account of my prejudice and the way i watched, i was probably somewhere in the middle of the 4th season before i caught on that something more was going on here. The best TV shows, movies, and books do not explicitly spell out their messages but couch them in metaphor and allegory. They make you *think* or better yet, feel, which makes for an ultimately more satisfying experience. If you have to work to extract meaning from some ambiguous wiggle in your gut or itch in the back of your mind, the result is more filling and nutritious even if it remains just a nebulous, um,, feelthink?
The Sopranos is social and spiritual commentary at its very best, and the very fact that it can be superficially taken as gratuitous violence and sociopathic amorality is exactly what makes it so good. Like i said, it took me some time to catch on and when i did it was only because of those nebulous, uncomfortable wiggles and itches inside. I'd like to say that the realization made me sit up and pay attention, and it did to some extent and for some time, but i still kept falling back to my habit of nodding off in the middle of episodes, jerking awake long enough to rescue my dropping tablet and shut off the light.
This is the omnipresent theme of The Sopranos... the striving to be something more. Or at least, something other. It's about the constant reaching for something just... right.... there... and then ultimately falling back to the status quo because the reaching is so damned much work. It's about sin and redemption, it's the ancient story of good and evil with a deliciously ironic and realistic helping of ambiguity. Because the thing about transcendence is, you have to at least be self-aware enough to know that there's something more to be. Tony Soprano's amorality and human failings as compared to my own are only a matter of degree, not of quality. This profoundly evil man who leaves in his wake so much suffering and death, he reckons himself, on balance, a "good guy" because he loves his family. And you know what? By that reckoning, he is. Heck i like the guy, even if i'd treat him as i would a cute fuzzy rattlesnake. The frightening thing is that, watching from the outside, the maths clearly don't balance in his favor. So in all brutal honesty, how does my own equation resolve, and does it even? What quantity of suffering roils in the wake of my willful ignorance, how much harm have i done in my sleep, can i ever be enough to put this balance sheet in the black? Can i even remember that i should want to?
There are other themes and clever allegories sprinkled through this show but that's the big one. Tony doesn't particularly want to be something more or even something other, but his panic attacks (the extreme manifestation of a brain itch or tummy wiggle) pretty much force him on a path of reluctant enlightenment. I found myself rooting for his "aha" moment and a graceful exit from his evil ways, maybe even remorse and atonement, but i suppose that would've spoiled the story. Not to mention it would've probably entailed government intervention and with that, a whole other level of moral turpitude. Not better, just other.
At some point i will watch this series again and i will endeavor, at that point, to give it more respectful attention. I don't have anything against eating too much ice cream, i'm just pleasantly surprised to have gotten more from this than empty calories and i want to get the nutrition i missed.
I'm not saying that this television series offers much in the way of answers. Rather, its value is mostly in the big question marks it leaves hanging in the air, too big to ignore or go around. Albeit, (and whilst trying to avoid explicit spoilers), the huge emphatic exclamation point at the very end of it all is possibly the most brilliant finale i've ever seen to a television series. When i finally figured out what had just happened my confusion gave way to outrage and in turn the absurdity of it all got me to laughing and laughing until i nearly split my gut and let the light in.
Then i shut off my tablet, turned out the light, and went to sleep.
James Gandofini stars as Tony Soprano, a very human individual, who just happens to be a gangster. He's living in modern times though, and so he's plagued with depression and goes to a therapist, played by Lorraine Bracco. Tony's domestic scenes, which include his wife, Edie Falco, his daughter, Jamie-Lyn Sigler, his son, Robert Iler, and - especially his mother, Nancy Marchand, are all unique and slightly off-center examples of brilliant writing and editing. Add to this his criminal activities and his violent temper, and there's a mix that fascinates me completely.
One of the delights of the series is that I can't quite figure what will happen next. I'm constantly on edge as I watch the story unfold, and there are always surprises. I like the humor and the irreverence. And best of all I like the fact that each episode is commercial free and a complete movie in itself. I love it when the scenes move back and forth between the actual crime stuff and his family life. And I love the humanity that Tony exhibits. In a way he is "everyman" as he struggles with decisions and hard choices in his life. And yet, he is larger than life, and a bit of a hero to our culture. Couple this with really fine acting and an excellent script, and a winner emerges.
I'm not into dream sequences and these were the only parts that dragged down the action, but there were only a very few throughout all the episodes. However, now that I look back on it, I'm glad they were there, because even though I was annoyed with them at the time, I can now see how they really helped develop the characters. These on-target characterizations are what drive the series and make it soar above its nearest competitors. The Sopranos on DVD is a winner in every sense of the world. And it is not only recommended for aficionados of the gangster genre. It gets my highest recommended for everyone.
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Gracias.
I am glad I made the purchase because I know I will revisit the Soprano world again in the future.
James Gandolfini RIP