I have just finished watching The Sopranos and was a little surprised how the final episode ended. I have googled it and there are some interesting theorys out there so I was wondering what those lifers who watched it thought of the ending.
Please discuss
Comments
Love it
They discussed the fact you probably dont hear it coming and it just goes black, exactly what happened to us, the audience in the diner.
Would love the creator one day to reveal the thinking behind it and the outcome, sadly don't.think that.will happen
He got whacked by the fella in the "Members Only" Jacket who went into the bathroom. An earlier episode on a boat on a lake he and Bobby discuss what it is like getting whacked and say you dont even hear it coming. The camera is from Tony's POV and goes black when he gets shot with Journey playing in the background.
Sadly I think Tony got whacked - there's a lot of extra reasons as to why out there - like Meadow taking three attempts to park, and succeeding third time/Tony being shot at twice before, it looking last the last supper, but the big one for me was the talk with Bobby before about it all going black.
The progrmamme was Tony's programme, he dies, sudden ending.
Think we're just used to big dramatic endings Hollywood style, and when something different comes along, it just knocks the planet slightly off the axis, which is a good thing..............
All this was going on whilst Tony and the rest of the family sat inside looking at the menu and eating onion rings, its almost as if she should have been there but missed it.
It goes black when Meadow "supposidly" comes through the door of the diner?
http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
Basically you switch from the first person view (Tony's view) to the third person view (looking at Tony). So the show (while Meadow is parking) is looking at Tony until the diner door opens and then you get Tony's view. You get this a few times until the end. The hit man goes to the toilet and comes out and shoots Tony in the head just as it switches to his view of the door. Clearly his view (and his hearing) are black as he has just had his brains shot.
Earlier in the series the chap who runs the Bada Bing (I can't remember his name) discusses what happens when one is shot and he says that he read something about how if you are shot your brain stops functioning before you process the sound of the bullet. Thus if you are shot (like Tony is) you don't hear the bullet, it just goes black and quiet - because, basically, you are dead.
Thus, as the series finishes you are Tony and you are killed so it goes black.
So quick to judge!
;-)
I suppose, without writing anything after they are right as well, it's up to the viewer to come to their own conclusions.
They all grassed in the end and didnt have an iota of the charm/ charisma the sopranos characters evoked.
As for the ending - I like that Inception has a definitive end. I think the Usual Suspects cheats the viewer by having no sensible explanation. I like that Lost, for its faults, had a definitive ending. Yet for some reason I am happy that Sopranos was left open.
I gather, if you go to film school, that you can come up with enough evidence to support Tony being dead (the conversation he had in an earlier episode about the sudden blackness, and Silvio's slow-motion experience of being up close to a murder being the big clues) plus the thing about Meadow 'trying' three times to park her car (a possible reference to the amount of attempts on Tony's life over the course of the show), and there's a lot on the POV shots. My personal take is that Tony is probably dead, but if not, the point being made was that he'll always be looking at the door.. always on edge... for the rest of his life.
Ultimately, if David Chase and co. decide to make a movie, I think the theories will go out the window!