[Mikan]

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.

Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.

[dark_g]

(10-23-2017 07:33 PM)Mikan Wrote:  

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.

Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.

That was one of my favorite eposodes

[Chris Brown]

Do you think Cleaver was really a manifestation of Chris desire to kill Tony or was it like when Newton invented gravity because some asshole threw an apple at him?

[The PerSev]

I think Cleaver was an interesting juxtaposition of the sacred and the propane.

[Nonpareil]

(10-24-2017 01:52 PM)Chris Brown Wrote:  

Do you think Cleaver was really a manifestation of Chris desire to kill Tony or was it like when Newton invented gravity because some asshole threw an apple at him?

I don't think Chris ever wanted to kill Tony and I don't remember any indications of this, but he did frequently bitch (to FBI asset Adrianna) about feeling unappreciated and how Tony was ungrateful, which at times he was.

'Cleaver' seemed to be him projecting the worst aspects of Tony's personality into the screen.

Speaking of Adrianna...

[DJ-Matt]

I never found Adriana attractive, I'd rather fuck the tennis chick from that video instead.

[captain_shane]

Just rewatched the series for the first time since it aired. I was pretty young at the time it was on, and this rewatch made it infinitely more enjoyable.

Like a lot of people in this thread have said, when I first watched the show I had no idea how Tony kept getting all the fine girls he did. Made complete sense this time around.

My top 5 hotties on the show:

5: Irina the Russian

4: AJ's girlfriend at the end of Season 6B

3: Meadow

2: Isabella

1. Girl that Tony does Peyote with

Honorable Mention: Ginny Sack

[Il Bersagliere]

^What about Charmaine Bucco? Pretty sure she's hotter than Ginny.

[Kona]

The French girl who's brother borrowed money from Artie buco, and the Albanian he and Benny got in a fight over were my two favorites.

Aloha!

[captain_shane]

(12-11-2017 06:40 PM)Il Bersagliere Wrote:  

^What about Charmaine Bucco? Pretty sure she's hotter than Ginny.

Nah, Ginny's mole is hotter than Charmaine's titties.

[dicknixon72]

Is that all you guys ever do? Talk about cooze?

[Piankhi]

Just saw another malapropism in White caps, 'all claims to my HUD business are irrigated'.

[Dusty]

Ginny Sack has a 90 pound mole surgically removed from her ass:

[The PerSev]

(12-12-2017 12:16 AM)Dusty Wrote:  

Ginny Sack has a 90 pound mole surgically removed from her ass:

I love this scene where John buys a Maserati and explains that Ginny can't drive it "because of her knees", meanwhile Tony is struggling to keep a straight face.

[Piankhi]

Ginny can get heavy. She has the weight of the world on her shoulders.

[CodyB]

(10-23-2017 07:33 PM)Mikan Wrote:  

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.

Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.

[RIslander]

^How is Adriana La Cerva not on your list and Meadow Soprano not number one?

I'd replace number 2 with Adriana and exchange 3 and 1.

[Mikestar]

No one here thought AJ's gf Blanca was hot af?

[RIslander]

^Shes hot too. There's too many ties on this show. I'd say tied for second on my scale.

[Sombro]

We lead the world in computerized data collection.

[Piankhi]

I have been completely ostrafied.

[Kona]

You blow your father with that mouth?

So that's a crack ho!

Aloha!

[Lucky]

I just had a realization and have not found any info on whether anyone else has noticed.

As fans know, Chris Moltisanti thought Tony and Adriana had an affair. Tony was able to convince Chris that nothing had happened, but it created a rift in their relationship. The rift magnified when Tony ordered the hit on Adriana.

Later, Chris created a movie called "Cleaver." In the movie, the main character, obviously an avatar of Tony Soprano, has sex with his nephew's girlfriend. When the film was screened, everyone (Carmela, Jackie Jr.'s mom) noticed the uncomfortable implication, except Tony himself.

So here's my realization. In the Shakespeare play Hamlet, the Hamlet character thinks his Uncle Claudius murdered Hamlet's father. But Hamlet isn't sure. So Hamlet stages a play (play-within-a-play) in which a man murders his brother, as a sort of test to see how Claudius reacts to the performance. I think Chris's motivation in making "Cleaver" was the same. It was intended to test Tony.

There are other parallels between Chris and Hamlet. Both bedeviled with uncertainty, both having murderous feelings toward their father figures, both feeling they had to avenge the death of their real fathers. Hamlet appears to go mad throughout the play, and Chris loses his cool too, even succumbing to drug addiction.

Anyway, I found this parallel quite interesting. And would be surprised if it were pure coincidence.

[Sombro]

[deleto]

[Dragan]

(02-06-2017 08:54 AM)TigerMandingo Wrote:  

(02-03-2017 10:13 AM)Meat Head Wrote:  

What I dont understand is how a great actor like Christopher Moltisanti fell off the map and onto small parts in Californiacation.

Like the guy who played McNulty in the Wire. How do great actors like these not make it when Brad Pitt is applauded?

My guess is they've been typecast. Imperioli, Tony Sirico, the guy who played Big Pussy have been relegated to mob movies only. Imperioli is getting some work here and there but it's nothing compared to the success he had on The Sopranos.

You're right though, it's a damn shame that we don't get to see these guys meanwhile Zac Efron or Seth Rogen get $50 million movie deals

I heard a story that the guys typecast in the Sopranos and other mob shows used to hang out together at all the NYC restaurants together... Apparently the real mob guys were eager as hell to hang out with them, because they liked these guy's performances so much.