My fav show of all time....Ive thought about it for years off and on and the only explanation is it was Paulie, Patsy Parisi was behind it....I always watch te last show when Tony offerred Paulie a better higher paying "job" he makes excuses to turn it down and walks outside and stops and looks off camera. Tony had done so many things that would come back and bite him. Plus they never exlained why Carlo flipped.
Who killed Tony Soprano?
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Patsy did it I figure. Tony had his brother whacked remember.
Yeah...but it would be to big for him to pull it off.....thats why i think Paulie was in on it also...little Carmine was out so im sure he was not in on it
I recall thinking I knew at the time, it's been years since I watched it. It was a truly excellent show.
Tony made a lot of enemies, that's for sure. Many had reason to whack him.
Tony made a lot of enemies, that's for sure. Many had reason to whack him.
Paulie and Patsy sprung the idea and arranged it with approval from NY IMO. That scene were Paulie basking in the sun carefree is too obvious of a clue. Also remember the scene on the fishing boat with T and Paulie as well, Paulie knew Tony was thinking about killing him right then and there. If you look at the big picture, Tony basically led their entire crew to ruin, and all that remained was essentially those 3. Patsy likely never got over his brother, and Paulie is a true survivor who will do anything to save his own skin. Why stay under the leadership of an unstable egomaniac. And with the crew wiped out and NY also probably wanting to see Tony gone rather than live, no consequences to taking him out.
I thought he had a heart attack.
Tennessee Moltisanti warned him!
I heard it was David Chase who killed him. A shot from the grassy knoll...
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James Gandolfini, by his unfortunate death. I highly doubt they would have said he died in the diner scene had Gandolfini not died in 2013...
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That's the million dollar question. Or maybe he never got whacked in the show.
I'm with you though. The Sorpanos was one of my favorite series of all times and the first I ever binge watched, 20+yrs ago, by the CD box set.
I'm with you though. The Sorpanos was one of my favorite series of all times and the first I ever binge watched, 20+yrs ago, by the CD box set.
The sence where Melfi told Tony to act as if? the next day he beats his driver up did not go over with his crew....I watched again today looking for anything about Carlo flipping/turning on Tony and there is nothing till the end scene with his lawyer and the ketchup bottle.
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It was Jimmy Hoffa, that's why no one knows who did it, his name would never be thought of in the who did it discussion.
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The Members Only jacket guy did it obviously, but who hired him is the question.
David Chase likes to reference scenes from The Godfather so the members only guy shooting Tony from the direction of the bathroom is like Michael Corleone shooting Sollozo after going to the bathroom to get the pre planted gun.
Tony made many enemies, so it could be anyone but the most likely theory is Patsy, especially since his son was starting to get involved with Tony and he wanted to keep his son from getting corrupted.
Could also be the family of Eugene Pontecuervo getting payback since Eugene wore a Members Only jacket, so the hit man wearing the same jacket could be a connection. Eugene was the guy who hung himself after Tony wouldn’t let him retire after inheriting $2million from his aunt, he was also working with the FBI.
Regardless, the Sopranos were a pigmy thing from New Jersey, just a clown show.
I worked with a guy that in a previous life knew some of the “original” Sopranos aka the Boiardo family that the show is loosely based on. He was in the body shop business which was a popular money laundering and fraud center for the mafia. He complained how the show wasn’t accurate lol.
Anyway. RIP Tony Surico passed away today.
David Chase likes to reference scenes from The Godfather so the members only guy shooting Tony from the direction of the bathroom is like Michael Corleone shooting Sollozo after going to the bathroom to get the pre planted gun.
Tony made many enemies, so it could be anyone but the most likely theory is Patsy, especially since his son was starting to get involved with Tony and he wanted to keep his son from getting corrupted.
Could also be the family of Eugene Pontecuervo getting payback since Eugene wore a Members Only jacket, so the hit man wearing the same jacket could be a connection. Eugene was the guy who hung himself after Tony wouldn’t let him retire after inheriting $2million from his aunt, he was also working with the FBI.
Regardless, the Sopranos were a pigmy thing from New Jersey, just a clown show.
I worked with a guy that in a previous life knew some of the “original” Sopranos aka the Boiardo family that the show is loosely based on. He was in the body shop business which was a popular money laundering and fraud center for the mafia. He complained how the show wasn’t accurate lol.
Anyway. RIP Tony Surico passed away today.
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Glad somebody said it before I did. As someone that used to pass by those three (?) Citgo oil containers by the Turnpike Extension bridge, exit what is it 13A or 14 something like that.. 14 is Newark NJ, get off the last exit and take 1&9 North over the Pulaski to Holland tunnel to avoid toll but okay.. in or around Elizabeth NJ.. the puffing on a cigar scene.. wow it has been so long.. this show was more just a Vaudeville sideshow B-movie production of essentially a Fat Tony and his band of hooligans. The posters at local restaurant in Jersey City from one of the early season scenes (star that became a real life cocaine addict) as well as various other places hung around for awhile.
Maybe people from other places see it different but. The Sopranos has been over a very long time, find another show.. it was so-so, I saw SOME of the episodes, one of my former vehicles was prominently featured in a certain shooting scene under a bridge and I always took note, I could just never get into it.
And the whole last season or two was Tony talking to his therapist.. kind of turned into a comedy show.
Rest in peace to the dead but this show
could never hold my interest and even when we used to get the seasons on home video (remember all that has changed in the last 20 years. It is wild) I would watch something else. Just one of those things.
@Owen Lucas glad you are seeing what I did. Show is basically a "Come on, this sets in motion reality TV with no redeeming qualities to speak of." First time waster show/soap opera ever I ever took note of. But if it sells.. hey.
Did he actually get whacked? He was sitting with his family. I thought that most of the mob hits there was a level of class, that it was not done in front of wives/ children?
EDIT;
I do remember Phil Leonardo was whacked at a gas station with his wife there.
But at a dinner table with wife and daughter?
Maybe he was not whacked?
EDIT;
I do remember Phil Leonardo was whacked at a gas station with his wife there.
But at a dinner table with wife and daughter?
Maybe he was not whacked?
I don't know who killed Tony but what was killing me was having yo listen to Don't Stop Believing by Journey at the end.
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David Chase had a slip of the tongue during an interview and said he was killed in the last episode. In earlier episodes there were conversations about what it's like to get whacked with the idea that you don't hear or realize when it happens. This explains the sudden blackout after Tony Looks up because from his perspective the bullet killed him before he could hear the gun, or at least that's what they talked about in the show. I guess in real life you could technically hear it unless it was a sniper 1000 feet away, but the producers aren't physicists lol.
David Chase filmed an alternate final scene to the series as not to have the crew figure out the ending and possibly leak it to the public. The diner scene was not revealed as the ending when it was shot. It was of Tony getting back into his car and going to New York as opposed to coming home from doing business in NY as every episode begins.
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