The cat is Adriana. She was wearing cat prints when she died while crawling on all fours. She's still in love with Chrissy, and she now catches rats at Satriale's out of guilt for being one in life.
Another supernatural scene that was very brief and brushed over was the scene where, right after Tony’s mother dies, AJ hears a door creaking while alone in the house
Also important: the Virgin Mary appears to Paulie on the pole dancing stage. A figure of innocence and motherhood on the stage of sin and strippers. Definitely some symbolism there.
I think there's a Kubrick influence in how it's done. No wow factor visually, just matter of fact and then let the significance play out in the viewer's head.
I loved the realistic use of the supernatural in the show. Many report these kinds of experiences in real life but many don't believe in anything supernatural. The show portrays them like that.
Can confirm. Sometimes you just see shit like that and... you don't really know what, if anything, to do. Maybe you believe it and maybe you don't. But you usually don't really know how to fit it into your life, and you rarely get answers.
When Livia passes away. AJ is home alone in he's room. He hears noise and foot steps in the hall. Peeks out the door way and says "Grandma?" That was sad and really scary
@@soda989 it comes from the movie "Angels With Dirty Faces." James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids. Cagney plays gangster Rocky Sullivan, who greets others with the above phrase. He runs it together and it comes out like this: "Whaddya Hear ? Whadyya Say ?" -edit, i took this from reddit
She would never appear at a strip joint. It was Satan in disguise,just like the Olivia figure on the staircase. Satan was mocking her the way Sopranos Men mock women life and God.
LOL! It is a creepy scene. Good thing you were only smoking weed. If you had been on mescaline or LSD she would have come out of the TV and sat next to you!
I haven't watched the sopranos since watched it on DVD rented from Netflix YEARS ago. Decided to re-watch the whole thing, one day after I finish the series Tony Sirico (Paulie) died and it felt so eerie to me.
Pussy resembles Tony quite a lot in Paulie´s dream, especially in the posture. It almost feels likes Pussy´s head´s on top of Tony´s body. Which to me, just gives that little extra feeling of unease, exactly how a dream sequence should feel. The simbolism it´s not that difficult to crack, but you´ll probably need one or two more views to get there, and i just love that level of commitment to detail the showrunners consistently showcased throughout the whole of the series.
Vinny Pastore got even fatter since he got whacked on the show, so in the dream sequence like 5 years after his last appearance on the show he looked quite different.
Loving your seorano vids, especially since you tend to do them about all the aspects I love most. The supernatural, mystical, psychological and dreams.
I always saw Paulie turning down the captaincy as a survival thing. I think he knew the Soprano "family" was on its way out, and he didn't want to be part of "management" when their time comes. He's been through a gang war before, after all, and survived the transition. That's just my perspective, though. Love the video, and love how many interpretations this great show can have.
Spirits need a medium, so unless Paulie busted out a Oujia board or visited another Psychic he can't know theyre there. Instead they just weigh on him both figuratively (guilty) and are probably haunting him lol
I tend to flatter myself in picking up on much of the symbolism in shows such as The Sopranos, in relation to my friends and family by comparison. But you make me look like a newbie simpleton, lol! Hope you will continue to provide these reviews for other programs and movies, both past and present (Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, House of the Dragon, etc) as I think you are really adept and intuitive in you ability to pick up on and zero in on the many layers and implied meanings that most of us miss! Thx
@@wnwkrodb3b for instance cats represent many different things for many different cultures . Kind of like in ancient Egypt or different parts of Asia as well they can represent good fortune or passage to an afterlife even revered for bringing good luck it’s just something that runs deep in western culture.
@ the whole show is symbolic have you watched it? Cats and rats curses and plague ,foreshadowing problematic situations on the way. Weather snitching (ratting) or being a sneaky backstabber cursing the crew with bad luck (cat) Js 🤷🏻♂️ it’s all stemming from the Roman curse or let me guess you don’t know about that either. Right bill?
Wow, love this. NONE of the people online who say they love the sopranos have EVER mentioned these scenes or posted clips of these. Least from what I’ve seen.
The whole show is taking place inside Tony’s psyche. If you know about the inner world sciences of freemasonry and esotericism then this will make perfect sense and it’s fascinating
7:12 "The church left him unprotected " is a really good line, Paulie is so used to his way of life his "donations" to the church is nothing but a more religion form of protection money. I know it might be a no shit Sherlock moment, but I'm in the bathroom so bite me.
The funny part is, is that historically for a long time, it might as well have been considered protection money. you would literally pay or give to the church to help “forgive your sins”. Go back 700 years in history and that idea you mentioned would be a lot more literal 😂😂
@lynchlink01 except it wasn't about paying to forgive sins, that was what confession was for The indulgences were about reducing or removing time in purgatory
knowing how much it takes to get whacked when you are in the mob, and living in such uncertainty every day for your entire life, it's very fitting that these guys would be extremely superstitious
There's only a handful of supernatural events in the show, but it's fun that it's dealer's choice on if there's a very tangible spiritual prescience in the show.
The 3 o’clock thing so I think he gets shot by the guy coming out of the bathroom so if he’s facing forward then I guess the guy came out from 3 o’clock
3 o clock is also known as the devils hour. I used to work as a security guard at a large supermarket, me and one other guy and every time we would get the night shift 3AM was what we genuinely dreaded, i could swear that we used to hear footsteps and shit at that hour. Im a bit skeptical about ghosts but im certain the 3am thing is real.
@@boltzy_Heck man. What's up with 3AM? Been waking up around that time for over a year now. I got curious due to my beliefs and searched. Found others who suffered the same sudden waking from sleep. I always knew about the devil's hour being 3 o'clock, but this is getting odd. Especially during these times with many people of faith convinced it's that Little Season. I don't suffer nightmares and I abstain from drugs. Will wake up at 3AM from a dead cold sleep every night.
Funnily enough, the first song that comes to mind for that "Mother Mary" appearance scene for me is "Fortune Faded" by Red Hot Chilly Pepper. The beginning portion of the song is eerily similar to the guitar beats that play when Paulie faces her.
I was such a believer in the Russ Fegoli being Paulie’s biological father connection but David Chase said this isn’t the case. He is not Paulie’s biological father.
why aren’t there any videos about the two inverted pentagrams?? one is in “home movies” in the kitchen. the other is when tony beats hellman over irina. on a planter. i haven’t been able to find ANYTHING about it and it’s making me feel crazy! WHY are they there???
I will say I believe the tiger on the wall is probably indicated of the high-school football team in Bloomfield NJ, the Bloomfield bangels. Holstens is very much so a real place so idk I believe the wall motif connected to that. Love the rest of the analysis though!
This is very well phrased, carefully constructed, and quite insightful. But I gotta say my favorite part is the way you seamlessly transition to a Jersey dialect when quoting Paulie without losing your calm and thoughtful tone of voice.
I think it may have been a small dig at both the Paulie Character and the actor himself. Paulie is loyal, but a poor earner and he saw everyone passing him by. Even Tony really disliked Paulie by the end of the show. Paulie couldn't even hang with the original Italian mob. That should tell you something.
@@thetechlibrarian Good point and I agree with you in part - Chase went further - but I think it started with his wanting to represent that aspect of the culture. Actually, I think Chase went too far in that - to your point - there is really no other explanation for the psychic's statements other than he was really speaking to the other side. I think it would have been better if Chase showed the superstitious mind in action - where the psychic says something that is both ambiguous but also insightful and we see Paulie's psychology read into it - like Chase did with the cat and even Mary in the club. Ultimately though, I don't think Chase was trying to say anything deeper about the series other than exploring Paulie's character. So I dismiss the 3 o'clock stuff etc as being meaningful. But I am a firm believer that Tony did not die in the end - based on Van Zandt's revelation that he persuaded Chase not to have him die in the finale in the event Chase ever rebooted the series. If Tony was dead in Chase's mind - the reboot would not be an option...
One thing I never noticed until now is that Paulie's vision of The Virgin Mary slightly moves her head a bit. I always thought she was like a statue or something.
What's that biblical quote about the eye of a needle and getting into heaven? Also, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth (although as someone once pointed out, I don't fancy their odds of keeping it...) Yours Omnibenevolently, Tenzin Guatsu. 14th Dalai Lama of the Yellow Turban Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (PS: Don't read _'In the Shadow of the Dalai Lama'_ - ever! Never. Never ever.)
You left out that at virgin mary scene. It only shows at split second. Im streaming it so I could go back and see a real glimpse of what it was but if youre watching it on TV just like the old days itll be more spookier. and the fact that that jumpscare came from The Sopranos.
Another episode which takes an _oblique_ look at Paulie's spiritual side is Pine Barrens. It's done subtly, but the whole episode is packed with religious/Catholic imagery. Basically the story of Paulie, Chris, & Valery works as an allegory for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Valery represents Jesus, who is "killed" by Roman soldiers, goes into the tomb (trunk of the car) only to be found "resurrected". He then vanishes into thin air seemingly impossibly (he has ascended to heaven). It sounds a bit silly on the surface, but there are many details peppered throughout the episode which tie it all together. Paulie and Chris spend the night lost in the wilderness, which represents Paulie being spiritually lost as he wanders through life without any real purpose. There's a post on the Sopranos subreddit called "Valery is Jesus" which goes through all the details.
Paulie's superstitions...moreover, the Italian superstitions. The sacred and the propane. We see this in the final scene of "Cleaver", where a cornuto and a rosary is hanging from the rearview mirror. Jesus is watching your back. But if all else fails, the cornuto steps in to ward off the mallochio. We see how Tony struggles with the imagery that appears in his dreams throughout the series. His subconscious is warning him of impending doom. Christopher sees these images too, while in a coma. It's their guilt that leads them to create these prophetic warnings. (the beacon seen from Tony's hotel room window). Paulie imagines the Virgin Mary. Not the actual Virgin Mary, but a statue of a Virgin Mary as depicted by an artist/sculptor. The ones Paulie has seen his whole life, going to Sunday services. So, in effect, his subconscious created that memory at the Bing.
When you mentioned religion as strict doctrine vs lip service in Catholicism, I started laughing remembering paulies "time you serve in hell" mathematics, which sounds like some gibberish some corrupt pope from the middle ages made up, and today would be found ironically still cannon because it was never really looked into and overturned.
why include supernatural elements in a realistic show? Anyone who actually leaves the house once in a while can tell you why. You CANT fully depict real human life without it
10:10 honestly what’s the difference. Aside from more direct and poignant altered states of consciousness, stress is probably the most common state of those looking for religious direction.
Confusion. Cognitive dissonance. Ignorance. Stockholm Syndrome. Don't forget, the original meaning of _'mysticism'_ was befuddlement, confusion, uncertainty. Somewhere alone the line the term got gentrified, and now mystics are holy men. Yours Omniamlbivalently, Yehoshua ben Yosef Risen Son of -Dad- -Yahweh- -Ha Shem- -Buddha- God
Tony Supernatural: Remember, the guy would have panic attacks, pass out, faint and he'd get dizzy and get on medication...the dreams were really more open after this in Tony Soprano's character -- he would tell the psychiatrist about his dreams, get into his nervous energy through his mother and how she'd gnaw at his mind and discredit him which was akin to his friends discrediting him in business and all the crap he had to deal with -- same difference.... So Tony Soprano dealing with the supernatural, he was always there, which is why he was both perceptive and logical being able to see through the cracks, even when he didn't get shot. Paulie: Paulie was funny and I wish they would have went into the supernatural more with Paulie, this guy was really freaked out by the signs and situations that followed his life -- he had this blind innocence concerning his life in what really happened vs. what he did for a living, always knowing good things would happen for him in the afterlife.
Funny tidbit, that was actually Tony Sirricos favorite song, when he was a young man he got married, had kids but ended up cheating on her with a fling of a girl who also ended up dumping him He also was an actual associate in one of the families in New York Tldr it’s a reference to the actual actors past
If you refer back to the scene that Mikey visits Jackie, after he leaves Jackie calls Mikey “the grim fuckin reaper”. This relates very heavily to “3 o’clock” 🧐
As a Catholic I question this myself. How do criminals who murder claim to be faithful Catholics and Christians? You see that in many movies like The Godfather, but you also see in in real life with many obvious evil people having crosses around their neck or tattoos of Jesus and/or Mary.
American Evangelicals disturb me even more. Supposedly they read the bible regularly, but they are constantly engaging in the behavior that Jesus condemns as false faith that is an offense to God.
@6:09 see this is so weird cuz i grew up around a lot of southern baptists and they dont have an anti catholic bias unless they come from catholics themselves like the few cajun baptists i know
I'm liking this just for the concept. Very interesting in depth exploration. Though all of it said he still was a complete sociopath, and psychopath. He's a good landscaper. Ask Christopher.
The supernatural way works is amazing. You can't just have a drama about mafia if characters are sentient molecules. Humans are more than just animals, they can be both holy and evil.
Paulie had the funniest extential crises we all go through this at some point in our mind laugh now cry l8r paulie had layers like an onion love and miss you paulie
Interesting, I’m an Orthodox Christian. A lot of western ideas of hell come from Dante’s Inferno, which isn’t biblically accurate at all. I recommend looking into orthodoxy and early Christian views on hell etc. Would make your videos a lot more fleshed out. Great video, God Bless.
In the diner a wise guy type looking character passes Tony on his right to go to the restroom +presumably to to emerge with a gun to kill Tony.. The restroom is located at Tony's 3 o'clock.
The cat is Adriana. She was wearing cat prints when she died while crawling on all fours. She's still in love with Chrissy, and she now catches rats at Satriale's out of guilt for being one in life.
That’s so disturbing
Now there’s an image
Now there’s an image
@@aanbb48 like the mushrooms growing out my ass
Like this one, it’s gonna be my head canon.
The fact that Paulie went to whine to that priest was priceless! "You left me un-protected... you aint never gonna see another dime from me." 😂😂😂
That's the definition of protection gangsters have, you pay for protection, not providing protection to the ones who pay you is frowned upon
Another supernatural scene that was very brief and brushed over was the scene where, right after Tony’s mother dies, AJ hears a door creaking while alone in the house
"Grandma?" was AJ's first reaction too haha
Just the Soprano mini mansion, settling on the soft underbelly of NJ's wealthy upper class.
what episode is that
@@GAME7ROCK season 3, episode 2. "Proshai, Livushka"
@@robertlee4172with Pine cones all around
Also important: the Virgin Mary appears to Paulie on the pole dancing stage. A figure of innocence and motherhood on the stage of sin and strippers. Definitely some symbolism there.
The sacred and the propane..
Very allegorical
Glad you caught that @MazeMe, very observant
Im reminded of Louis the whatever's finance minister, The Something...
Paulie wasn't a pragmatist. Not like others in the mafia.
The supernatural elements in The Sopranos are executed so well in pretty much every respect imo it's all so subtle and yet powerful just the same
I think there's a Kubrick influence in how it's done. No wow factor visually, just matter of fact and then let the significance play out in the viewer's head.
It’s like Twin Peaks only (way) more contained, which is perfect for The Sopranos’ style of storytelling
@@richardfilandererI’m pretty sure the dream episodes chase asked lynch for advice.
It shows the true genius of this show
I loved the realistic use of the supernatural in the show. Many report these kinds of experiences in real life but many don't believe in anything supernatural. The show portrays them like that.
Can confirm. Sometimes you just see shit like that and... you don't really know what, if anything, to do. Maybe you believe it and maybe you don't. But you usually don't really know how to fit it into your life, and you rarely get answers.
When Livia passes away. AJ is home alone in he's room. He hears noise and foot steps in the hall. Peeks out the door way and says "Grandma?" That was sad and really scary
Yeah, sad that AJ cared about such a toxic human turd, and scary that the damn thing would float back from the grave.
Whaddya hear, whaddya say!
My favorite line
I always thought he sounded like vito there
is there a cultural reference for this line?
is it from a tv show or movie?
@@soda989 it comes from the movie "Angels With Dirty Faces."
James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan and the Dead End Kids.
Cagney plays gangster Rocky Sullivan, who greets others with the above phrase. He runs it together and it comes out like this:
"Whaddya Hear ? Whadyya Say ?"
-edit, i took this from reddit
He he he he
I was watching the Virgin Mary episode stoned at like 2am alone lol that scene had me shook
Me too. Jumped out my skin
It was freaky and so unexpected
Lmao, I was vaping thc for hours alone at my house on a mountain and started to look around for strange things 😂after watching that episode.
She would never appear at a strip joint.
It was Satan in disguise,just like the Olivia figure on the staircase. Satan was mocking her the way Sopranos Men mock women life and God.
LOL! It is a creepy scene. Good thing you were only smoking weed. If you had been on mescaline or LSD she would have come out of the TV and sat next to you!
@@rafa_v1.0 mate, that would be wild lol 😂
You’ve been warned Renagede, the money goes up to Borko!
next time, they'll be no next time
Borko cares about our feelings
Look Joey. Made it all the way to the Rs
HOW ABOUT THIS HUMDITY?!
where’s the gabagool ???
You have the best sopranos analysis ive ever watched.
Paulies superstitions kept him alive the whole show lol
He's paranoid and rightfully so
@@CJVS995 Some say he even lived by the skin of his nuts during the 70's when the Colombos were going at it.
The mind-destroying horror of being superstitious
Tales from the trip in the wild, cool
He did, remember his talk with Tony on the boat, Tony was at Paulie's three o' clock
I haven't watched the sopranos since watched it on DVD rented from Netflix YEARS ago. Decided to re-watch the whole thing, one day after I finish the series Tony Sirico (Paulie) died and it felt so eerie to me.
Danggg I remember the Netflix dvd era , they had literally everything on it back then !
Used to burn all the dvds. thanks Netflix, rest in piss now
You killed him. Stop watching things.
@@youdontknowmegignaWhack this one, whack that one, never enough body count for devilishlybenevolent!
@@youdontknowmegigna 😂😂😂
LOVE THE CONTENT MAN KEEP THE SOPRANOS STUFF COMING !!
I was about to say the same thing man doing the lords work. Everything's hunky dory
Pussy resembles Tony quite a lot in Paulie´s dream, especially in the posture.
It almost feels likes Pussy´s head´s on top of Tony´s body.
Which to me, just gives that little extra feeling of unease, exactly how a dream sequence should feel.
The simbolism it´s not that difficult to crack, but you´ll probably need one or two more views to get there, and i just love that level of commitment to detail the showrunners consistently showcased throughout the whole of the series.
Vinny Pastore got even fatter since he got whacked on the show, so in the dream sequence like 5 years after his last appearance on the show he looked quite different.
I wish his mum got more love and recognition than the one scene after Paulie gets over himself 😥
I was actually going to look for a video like this about Paulie and was so surprised when I seen it on your channel just now. Great videos from you!
Loving your seorano vids, especially since you tend to do them about all the aspects I love most. The supernatural, mystical, psychological and dreams.
2:05 I misheard erraticism as eroticism
he def pronounced it eroticism
@@tetsuya2koIt can be pronounced in that manner as well.
@@APOCALYPSE_X-MEN in what accent? "erratic" vs "erotic" is an important distinction, lest your thesis take a sudden Freudian turn.
_"Is that you, Mom? It's me...Sigmund."_
I always saw Paulie turning down the captaincy as a survival thing. I think he knew the Soprano "family" was on its way out, and he didn't want to be part of "management" when their time comes. He's been through a gang war before, after all, and survived the transition. That's just my perspective, though.
Love the video, and love how many interpretations this great show can have.
this channel is becoming my favorite one. great analysis. very allegorical, my friend
Paulie’s ghosts, whatever happened there
Spirits need a medium, so unless Paulie busted out a Oujia board or visited another Psychic he can't know theyre there. Instead they just weigh on him both figuratively (guilty) and are probably haunting him lol
😂😂😂
Satanic black magic! That's what this is!
I tend to flatter myself in picking up on much of the symbolism in shows such as The Sopranos, in relation to my friends and family by comparison. But you make me look like a newbie simpleton, lol! Hope you will continue to provide these reviews for other programs and movies, both past and present (Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, House of the Dragon, etc) as I think you are really adept and intuitive in you ability to pick up on and zero in on the many layers and implied meanings that most of us miss! Thx
0:07 I JUST realized that the man ignoring Paulie is David himself😂
RIP Tony Sirrico
:(
Never understood the mad love for Paulie. Knowing what we know now, Syl is the true GOAT that deserves all our love.
Paulie is his own man, Silvio a soldier
@@whosmikey9941Silvio>Paulie
I love the music/ambience you choose for this video
Michael Imperioli (Christophuh) wrote the medium episode.
So, he was a good writer afterall.
The more you live the more you encounter supernatural occurrences, you kinda learn to ignore them or look more into them.
In ancient Roman culture they, the cats are represented as a rat or pest killer it was foreshadowing of the removal of pests and rats.
Are they not represented as the same in our present culture?
@@wnwkrodb3b for instance cats represent many different things for many different cultures . Kind of like in ancient Egypt or different parts of Asia as well they can represent good fortune or passage to an afterlife even revered for bringing good luck it’s just something that runs deep in western culture.
Foreshadowing in the last episode of the series? After most of the rats are already dead? Makes sense
Cats don't "represent" rodent killers they do kill rodents it isn't symbolism here
@ the whole show is symbolic have you watched it? Cats and rats curses and plague ,foreshadowing problematic situations on the way. Weather snitching (ratting) or being a sneaky backstabber cursing the crew with bad luck (cat) Js 🤷🏻♂️ it’s all stemming from the Roman curse or let me guess you don’t know about that either. Right bill?
Wow, love this. NONE of the people online who say they love the sopranos have EVER mentioned these scenes or posted clips of these. Least from what I’ve seen.
Idk man superstition is kind of spooky. Black magic. Sick shit!
I get that reference.
Paulie threw a chair
FUCKIN QUEERS! Yeets chair
Satanic shit, sick shit.
Right Paul. Sick satanic shit
I love your content, especially the Sopranos stuff. Very well analyzed!
The Virgin Mary prays always for sinners at all times forever and ever.
The whole show is taking place inside Tony’s psyche. If you know about the inner world sciences of freemasonry and esotericism then this will make perfect sense and it’s fascinating
What do I type to learn more?? Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Yeah, what the guy above me said but in a more normal way. This sounds like an interesting topic and I wanna know how to learn more.
And if you understand quantum physics, it explains the ending!
Put a sock in it dude Jesus
Make a video on this topic
7:12 "The church left him unprotected " is a really good line, Paulie is so used to his way of life his "donations" to the church is nothing but a more religion form of protection money. I know it might be a no shit Sherlock moment, but I'm in the bathroom so bite me.
The funny part is, is that historically for a long time, it might as well have been considered protection money. you would literally pay or give to the church to help “forgive your sins”. Go back 700 years in history and that idea you mentioned would be a lot more literal 😂😂
@lynchlink01 except it wasn't about paying to forgive sins, that was what confession was for
The indulgences were about reducing or removing time in purgatory
The spirit put him on hold
knowing how much it takes to get whacked when you are in the mob, and living in such uncertainty every day for your entire life, it's very fitting that these guys would be extremely superstitious
>>knowing how LITTLE it takes to get whacked when you are in the mob
There's only a handful of supernatural events in the show, but it's fun that it's dealer's choice on if there's a very tangible spiritual prescience in the show.
That was a great analysis! Perfect! TNX.
My thing is I can’t believe how much betrayal Pauli took over the series. I mean he was stabbed in the freaking heart for crying out loud!
The 3 o’clock thing so I think he gets shot by the guy coming out of the bathroom so if he’s facing forward then I guess the guy came out from 3 o’clock
3 o clock is also known as the devils hour.
I used to work as a security guard at a large supermarket, me and one other guy and every time we would get the night shift 3AM was what we genuinely dreaded, i could swear that we used to hear footsteps and shit at that hour.
Im a bit skeptical about ghosts but im certain the 3am thing is real.
@@boltzy_Heck man. What's up with 3AM? Been waking up around that time for over a year now. I got curious due to my beliefs and searched. Found others who suffered the same sudden waking from sleep. I always knew about the devil's hour being 3 o'clock, but this is getting odd. Especially during these times with many people of faith convinced it's that Little Season.
I don't suffer nightmares and I abstain from drugs. Will wake up at 3AM from a dead cold sleep every night.
The time and orientation both being 3s designates this as a potential Code 33 drop.
12:06 I think you mean he told Tony, but regardless, great video!
20 years telling paulie not a peep
Funnily enough, the first song that comes to mind for that "Mother Mary" appearance scene for me is "Fortune Faded" by Red Hot Chilly Pepper.
The beginning portion of the song is eerily similar to the guitar beats that play when Paulie faces her.
A ton of Magical Realism in this show.
He had good taste in art, I'll give him that.
I was such a believer in the Russ Fegoli being Paulie’s biological father connection but David Chase said this isn’t the case. He is not Paulie’s biological father.
why aren’t there any videos about the two inverted pentagrams?? one is in “home movies” in the kitchen. the other is when tony beats hellman over irina. on a planter. i haven’t been able to find ANYTHING about it and it’s making me feel crazy! WHY are they there???
I just smashed the show out this week and I picked up so much of Paulis hand gestures lol
I will say I believe the tiger on the wall is probably indicated of the high-school football team in Bloomfield NJ, the Bloomfield bangels. Holstens is very much so a real place so idk I believe the wall motif connected to that. Love the rest of the analysis though!
This is very well phrased, carefully constructed, and quite insightful.
But I gotta say my favorite part is the way you seamlessly transition to a Jersey dialect when quoting Paulie without losing your calm and thoughtful tone of voice.
_"Not for nothin', Ton'..."_
8:50...Russ Fegoli, aka Bruce Kirby, aka Bruno Kirby's dad.
Bruno played young Clemenza in GFII - discuss.
Is the scene with Tony and Paulie on the boat in front of a green screen?
Asking for a friend of ours
I have to right to defend myself T!😂😂😂 rip Pauline
Was David chase that Italian that mugged off Paulie in Italy?
Looks like him.
Yes, it's him
I think it may have been a small dig at both the Paulie Character and the actor himself. Paulie is loyal, but a poor earner and he saw everyone passing him by. Even Tony really disliked Paulie by the end of the show. Paulie couldn't even hang with the original Italian mob. That should tell you something.
Great vid thank you
I also think Chase was simply trying to represent the very real superstitious nature common among actual Italians and recent Italian immigrants.
Maybe but it was deeper than that because it was shown the physic was real
@@thetechlibrarian Good point and I agree with you in part - Chase went further - but I think it started with his wanting to represent that aspect of the culture. Actually, I think Chase went too far in that - to your point - there is really no other explanation for the psychic's statements other than he was really speaking to the other side. I think it would have been better if Chase showed the superstitious mind in action - where the psychic says something that is both ambiguous but also insightful and we see Paulie's psychology read into it - like Chase did with the cat and even Mary in the club. Ultimately though, I don't think Chase was trying to say anything deeper about the series other than exploring Paulie's character. So I dismiss the 3 o'clock stuff etc as being meaningful. But I am a firm believer that Tony did not die in the end - based on Van Zandt's revelation that he persuaded Chase not to have him die in the finale in the event Chase ever rebooted the series. If Tony was dead in Chase's mind - the reboot would not be an option...
The Virgin Mary comparison to Peter Paul’s real mother is brilliant.
@@joeyg2860 I think she compares a lot more to Nucci. Nucci was a Saint.
@@Marcus007I think he dies they just made a prequel and I think if anything more prequels might get made but I really think he died.
Man this guy's one hell of a writer.
Paulie basically saw the church as a protection racket 😂
One thing I never noticed until now is that Paulie's vision of The Virgin Mary slightly moves her head a bit. I always thought she was like a statue or something.
12:05 tony?
With the way Paulie earned, it's not the like the church was going to miss that $2.23 cent donation anyway.
What's that biblical quote about the eye of a needle and getting into heaven?
Also, blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth (although as someone once pointed out, I don't fancy their odds of keeping it...)
Yours Omnibenevolently,
Tenzin Guatsu.
14th Dalai Lama of the Yellow Turban Sect of Tibetan Buddhism
(PS: Don't read _'In the Shadow of the Dalai Lama'_ - ever! Never. Never ever.)
@horaceosirian8993 ok I wont
I can’t even imagine the Sopranos without Paulie. It would not have been half the show it was.
So smart, this is a beautiful look into this character and his mindset. Pat yourself on the back for this one.
Tiger. A jersey with 38 on it. Revolver to the head from his 3’o’clock
You left out that at virgin mary scene. It only shows at split second. Im streaming it so I could go back and see a real glimpse of what it was but if youre watching it on TV just like the old days itll be more spookier. and the fact that that jumpscare came from The Sopranos.
Bro every single member of the sopranos cast is on that show celebrity ghost stories. That had to have an influence on this.
Another episode which takes an _oblique_ look at Paulie's spiritual side is Pine Barrens. It's done subtly, but the whole episode is packed with religious/Catholic imagery. Basically the story of Paulie, Chris, & Valery works as an allegory for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Valery represents Jesus, who is "killed" by Roman soldiers, goes into the tomb (trunk of the car) only to be found "resurrected". He then vanishes into thin air seemingly impossibly (he has ascended to heaven). It sounds a bit silly on the surface, but there are many details peppered throughout the episode which tie it all together. Paulie and Chris spend the night lost in the wilderness, which represents Paulie being spiritually lost as he wanders through life without any real purpose. There's a post on the Sopranos subreddit called "Valery is Jesus" which goes through all the details.
Paulie's superstitions...moreover, the Italian superstitions. The sacred and the propane.
We see this in the final scene of "Cleaver", where a cornuto and a rosary is hanging from the rearview mirror.
Jesus is watching your back. But if all else fails, the cornuto steps in to ward off the mallochio.
We see how Tony struggles with the imagery that appears in his dreams throughout the series. His subconscious is warning him of impending doom.
Christopher sees these images too, while in a coma. It's their guilt that leads them to create these prophetic warnings. (the beacon seen from Tony's hotel room window). Paulie imagines the Virgin Mary. Not the actual Virgin Mary, but a statue of a Virgin Mary as depicted by an artist/sculptor.
The ones Paulie has seen his whole life, going to Sunday services. So, in effect, his subconscious created that memory at the Bing.
“Tone! I just seen a fuckin’ ghost! A gabaghoul! A fucking spookarettianzo!”
When you mentioned religion as strict doctrine vs lip service in Catholicism, I started laughing remembering paulies "time you serve in hell" mathematics, which sounds like some gibberish some corrupt pope from the middle ages made up, and today would be found ironically still cannon because it was never really looked into and overturned.
why include supernatural elements in a realistic show? Anyone who actually leaves the house once in a while can tell you why. You CANT fully depict real human life without it
10:10 honestly what’s the difference. Aside from more direct and poignant altered states of consciousness, stress is probably the most common state of those looking for religious direction.
Confusion. Cognitive dissonance. Ignorance. Stockholm Syndrome.
Don't forget, the original meaning of _'mysticism'_ was befuddlement, confusion, uncertainty. Somewhere alone the line the term got gentrified, and now mystics are holy men.
Yours Omniamlbivalently,
Yehoshua ben Yosef
Risen Son of -Dad- -Yahweh- -Ha Shem- -Buddha- God
@@horaceosirian8993you’re wrong about the etymology about the word mysticism and are also entirely beside my point with this but thanks for sharing.
I loved the episode where Carmine doesn’t know who Paulie is and then Paulie realizes that he’s a big dope.
Tree o’clock.
12:08 was that a mistake?
Tony Supernatural: Remember, the guy would have panic attacks, pass out, faint and he'd get dizzy and get on medication...the dreams were really more open after this in Tony Soprano's character -- he would tell the psychiatrist about his dreams, get into his nervous energy through his mother and how she'd gnaw at his mind and discredit him which was akin to his friends discrediting him in business and all the crap he had to deal with -- same difference.... So Tony Soprano dealing with the supernatural, he was always there, which is why he was both perceptive and logical being able to see through the cracks, even when he didn't get shot.
Paulie: Paulie was funny and I wish they would have went into the supernatural more with Paulie, this guy was really freaked out by the signs and situations that followed his life -- he had this blind innocence concerning his life in what really happened vs. what he did for a living, always knowing good things would happen for him in the afterlife.
Fun fact, the shooter was last seen on Tony's right, 3 o'clock
Wasn’t he wearing a jersey with 38 on it? .38 Special was the bullet…
How the fuck is this his song?
Funny tidbit, that was actually Tony Sirricos favorite song, when he was a young man he got married, had kids but ended up cheating on her with a fling of a girl who also ended up dumping him
He also was an actual associate in one of the families in New York
Tldr it’s a reference to the actual actors past
Note how Paulie threw the chair at his 3 o’clock 3:18
wow bro literally see shit abt this show so much
Gotta say when i saw the virgin mary scene for the first time it scared the shit outta me
If you refer back to the scene that Mikey visits Jackie, after he leaves Jackie calls Mikey “the grim fuckin reaper”.
This relates very heavily to “3 o’clock” 🧐
He also allegedly sees a UFO over east Rutherford
At 0:28, I think you meant to say subspecies.
As a Catholic I question this myself. How do criminals who murder claim to be faithful Catholics and Christians? You see that in many movies like The Godfather, but you also see in in real life with many obvious evil people having crosses around their neck or tattoos of Jesus and/or Mary.
American Evangelicals disturb me even more. Supposedly they read the bible regularly, but they are constantly engaging in the behavior that Jesus condemns as false faith that is an offense to God.
Good luck shaking the cult. I mean it. I got out at 10, but the circumstances were grim and left a lot of scars. Literally.
@6:09 see this is so weird cuz i grew up around a lot of southern baptists and they dont have an anti catholic bias unless they come from catholics themselves like the few cajun baptists i know
Back in my day!!
I'm liking this just for the concept. Very interesting in depth exploration. Though all of it said he still was a complete sociopath, and psychopath. He's a good landscaper. Ask Christopher.
The supernatural way works is amazing. You can't just have a drama about mafia if characters are sentient molecules. Humans are more than just animals, they can be both holy and evil.
What kind of meat did Dr. Russ Fegoli eat on Fridays during lent?
Nun.
Paulie carried the show
Paulie had the funniest extential crises we all go through this at some point in our mind laugh now cry l8r paulie had layers like an onion love and miss you paulie
Interesting, I’m an Orthodox Christian. A lot of western ideas of hell come from Dante’s Inferno, which isn’t biblically accurate at all. I recommend looking into orthodoxy and early Christian views on hell etc. Would make your videos a lot more fleshed out. Great video, God Bless.
I never thought about the whole Russ thing, possibly Paulies dad, imagine that!
Paulie is very keen on the supernatural because old school Italians really do believe in superstitions and the spirit world
Really good video. I hate analysis from good shows. Merry Christmas. Christ is king
I think that girl Paulie was with for some reason gave the Medium some information about Paulie
I thought the gust of wind that followed Paulie and Tommy was also interesting
The chimy sound at 9:30 is really distracting.
What are you talking about?
In the diner a wise guy type looking character passes Tony on his right to go to the restroom +presumably to to emerge with a gun to kill Tony.. The restroom is located at Tony's 3 o'clock.