Ghosts in the Sopranos Universe
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2022
- In this installment, I’ll be analyzing the Sopranos. Specifically, I am interrogating the role ghosts play in the narrative in relation to one very important scene within the series.
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The ghosts in the Soprano's narrative. The characters suffer from a guilty conscience and conflict with morality. This is why their minds conjure up deep vivid haunting dreams, visages in mirrors, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, and hear thumping noises when they're alone.
Tony suffers multiple traumas as a small child. He sees his father beat up a neighbour, chop off Satriale's pinky, his eyesight is threatened by his mother with a carving fork. PTSD when PTSD wasn't even a thing, back in the 60s. He smacks his head every time he faints from anxiety. He further aggravates his mental disorder with multiple car accidents.
In Paulie's case, he is haunted by the unknown. His hyper vigilance, intensifies when he hears noises around him at night. His girlfriend suggests he see a medium, to get a clearer picture of what is going on in the supernatural realm. This does not quell his guilty conscience. It makes it much worst.
These are the symptoms of mental illness brought on by their addictions, dozens of murders, immoral behavior, and unconscionable multiple sex partners. David Chase and his writers, letting everyone know what scumbags these mobsters are.
The scariest thing in The Sopranos: The Gaba Ghoul
Underrated
AH!....
There’s no denyin’ it, I’m dragging a buncha effin Gaba Ghouls around with me, and sodium and nitrates’s their effin ring leader. 👻
My favorite comment about the sopranos supernatural
@@mattmolloy636 Fn quez!
I love horror in non-horror stories.
Why wouldn't you? Last year you believed in flying saucers.
@@johnkeros9109 Aliens have a better chance of being real than anything you believe in, just sayin
@@johnkeros9109 the fuck are you, God?
We could make a fortune selling jugs of holy water.
@@johnkeros9109booo
In one episode Big Pussy’s ghost appears in a mirror reflection to the audience but Tony reacts like he sees it too.
Yeeesss. That was very eerie to me
I think it's even more unsettling that although only we as the viewers actually see Pussy in the mirror, Tony *feels* that something is off without actually seeing him.
Him and the Virgin Mary both appear in mirrors, this is a sign from chase that these appearances are real in The Sopranos universe
Moltasanti actually translates to "many saints"..so the title refers to chris family history
thank you it pissed me off he didn’t know that
Moltisanti also means Many Saints
The medium seeing all the people Paulie had murdered proved that yes, the supernatural does exist in the Sopranos universe
Who you been talkin' to?!
The spirits put him on hold heh heh 🤟
That was the first thing I thought of!
The medium literally plays into it. He goes off Paulies accent, his clothes. He knew he was a POS monster, who guesses correctly that Paulie had killed people, after paulie has already been looking in the air. It could go either way, but I think there is more supernatural happenings, like the wine glass that moves on its own in season 4, after they decide to finally eat Karen's last ziti to the crow when Christopher becomes made and my favorite. The warning of 3 o'clock, they all think it's a time, but its actually a direction- in the last scene, right before black, where does Tony turn? To his 3 O'CLOCK!
Pure Kino made a similar video to this that goes more into the supernatural happenings rather than what this guy is doing, of which this vid is good too
@@jugginator2.068 How could the medium have known about the poison ivy, though?
PureKino, Soprano's Theories, The Worm's Hole, and borko. Now it's time we bring David Stockdale into this thing of ours.
I remember I got so startled by the "Virgin Mary" scene, the first time I saw that it spooked the fk outta me, I was watching it at 2-3am and it fcked me up.
Happened to me too, i was binge watching the sopranos and immediately stopped on the episode where Paulie went to the psychic. What season and episode r u talking about
@@tazrazar4054 It's a scene thats a little more ahead of where you left off, you should look for it here on UA-cam, such a great scene.
@@tazrazar4054s 6 e 9
Oh, you mean the gabaghouls.
This is my favorite subject when it comes to discussions about the show, most of it is a lot more creepy in hindsight than it is when you first watch it.
Those dreams were creepy first time around
The creepiness of the dreams is something I can relate to. I am aware in a lot of my dreams so I remember a lot of them
@Ashw1115
Creepy dreams ? Wow. Bad conscience ?
I get a ton of David Lynch vibes from the dreams in the show, glad to see I'm not the only one making the connection! Also the spooky vagueness of the supernatural
David Chase was a huge fan of David Lynch.
Highly recommend watching Luis Buñuel’s films, especially The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Chase himself said he was more inspired bu Buñuel than Lynch
Yeah, it's better when you're not hit over the head with it.
I think I heard somewhere that the biggest single influence on The Sopranos in the TV medium was Twin Peaks, so makes sense tbh.
@cletusjones9411 omg I didn't know that. I'm obsessed with David Lynch and you don't even want to know how obsessed with Twin Peaks I am. Even I'm scared by my level of devotion. But that's so cool to know, I absolutely loved the supernatural elements of The Sopranos, to me it elevated it to another level combined with all of it's other perfection of course.
THE FUCKING PETERSON VOICE IN THE BEGINNING IS MAKING ME LOSE IT. GOD. FANTASTIC WORK AS USUAL LMFAO
Finally! Someone talks about it!
Also the production quality keeps getting higher, thank you so much
I was looking forward to the next video of yours, like always you didn`t disappoint!
I think mobsters as a whole are superstitious, or at least at a subconscious level. I remember one story told by Michael Franzese (ex-capo of Colombo Crime Family, now a motivational speaker and UA-camr) about one of his guys. The guy asked to give him a lift to his home in Michael's car. When they get there, the guy told Michael "don't turn off the engine". He walked out of the car and towards the door, ring the bell, waited a few seconds, then went back into the car. Michael was weirded out and asked the guy "Aren't you gonna come in?" The guy replied "Why? There's no one home. Michael, ever since that accident with my dad, I have never been alone in the house. I think this place is haunted."
The guy had previously lived in that house with his father and his brother. Some time after both him and his brother got "made", he had to whack his father since he laid hands on a girl that their boss is related to (or something like that). That event haunted them both ever since.
Wild, I was just thinking earlier today how I haven't seen a video from you in a long while. Glad to see you're back at it
awesome, I could fall down that rabbit hole. I've wawtched the show probably 10 times, just read sopranos sessions, and I've read plenty of the essays written over the years. but I haven't watched any that I can recall before this one! thanks for making it!
Thank you for doing this video. I've always been curious about that scene. It always felt so out of place but still perfectly suited for the show.
mr. masterclass your intros just keep getting better and better
I MISSED YOUR CONTENT. THANK YOUUUU 😊 🙏
Thanks for continuing to make videos.
I was intrigued when you talked about parallel universes within The Sopranos. The only thing I can figure that you're referring to is when Tony is in a coma and dreams of being a different person - a salesman, with the wallet of another man called Kevin Finnerty whom he gets mistaken for. Other possible interpretations of this are that perhaps Tony is getting a glimpse of purgatory, being shown a different possibility of what he could have done with his life. That this is a vision of the afterlife would seem to be supported when he is given the choice of entering the big white house, which may represent hell, as I believe he had seen this house before in a previous dream and his mother was inside it - it made him terrified. The "Kevin Finnerty" persona may represent Tony's last chance upon waking from the coma to change his ways. OR, it could also be Tony's sub-conscious playing games with him, for similar reasons - showing him another possible life some part of him may crave. I don't see necessarily that any of it would have to be a parallel universe. Is there more to this?
I'm sure that's what he meant but I agree more with your take. Though I'd say Finnerty represented the evil that hijacked Tony's real life.
After he trips on Peyote in the dessert, the next session with Melfi, Tony says in that moment he became very aware that there was more out there, basically. Melfi asks if he means parallel universes. And he says something along the lines of yeah or maybe, but he doesn’t seem exactly sure.
@@king_supreme1102 Oh, I didn't catch that. I'll have to re-watch.
Tony b wad in a big white house when Tony took hum out as well
Infinity=Kevin finnetty
I've been loving these intros!
It was comedic at the time. I never thought to observe it from your perspective until now. You're right. I never understood if these people were "haunting" them, why didn't this change their behavior? They were always haunted, in living with fear someone in the crew would snitch. Ghost would show up at other services, in dreams, or wherever. But diminished the humanity left behind, moreso? They didn't stop killing. It seemed to justify their rage or anger to hurt more. If not inward then outward. Death seemed transactual. Next man up. Ro was the only one you saw grieve sincerely.
IMA GHOST OVA HERE!!! 👻 😅 Best thumbnail ever.
On a serious note. I really enjoyed your upload. Very cool insight into the otherworldly realm of the sopranos. Well done. And thanks.
Will subscribe now , without a doubt
moltisanti also means "many saints" in Italian, so the movie name is also a reference to Dickie/Chris i.e. the moltisantis aka the many saints of newark
They say there's also a ghost visible in Tony's house during his mother (Livia's) wake, a dark figure walking up the stairs. But I haven't found it.
That was one of the creepiest parts of that show
Awesome video
What if Tony Soprano never came out of the coma and every episode was just a dream and the very end episode where it cuts to black is his life support machine being switched off
Ayyyyyy I call this the SR2 theory
In my opinion the Sopranos turns out to be a show about lost souls and the supernatural elements are just a manifestation of the spiritual dimension that underlies everything being presented.
Good video I liked it. Anything about the Sopranos is going to be good. I think it's an interesting dynamic maybe not seen in other mob movies. Coming from the Chicago area. I do know for a fact that a lot of the old Gangster hideouts are very haunted. I live next to one of the most haunted cemeteries on Earth just 2 miles from where I live and a lot of has to do with the mobsters. It was one of their dumping grounds. So, I feel David added this element to the show b/c it is a part of the story and never really has been told in a movie or series like this in a mob movie.
Loved your petscop vids, glad you're covering this
The real gold in this video is the thumbnail. Ayyyyyyy.
Also, Johnny Sack sees his mother when he's dying in the hospital. In general, the show dives into death itself like no other. Not only mafia killings, but suicide, cancer, coma, egg salads, widow life, pets, and all those flamboyant funeral ceremonies.
Egg salads?
I like how you put this together good eye 👉🏻
I never watched the Sopranos but here I am about to watch an analysis on topics I have no context for
YES no one talks about the damn ghosts !!!!
Can you do an explained on The Starlan Project by GABELTV?
When you said "Is there any show better than 'The Sopranos' my answer was "Twin Peaks" b/c it's my favorite show of all time (I know we can objectively argue that The Sopranos is a "better" show but Twin Peaks is just & will always be my favorite). So when you started talking about "Invitation to Love" I almost had a conniption 😄 ok carry on!
Remember Eugene ponteccaro actually had ambitions of beyond the mob Life
Sopranos started in the late 90s.
Do another Sapranos video
This was interesting, never seen the Sopranos before but it's interesting that there are ghosts in the stories.
Highly recommend it. I would say each season the supernatural elements are increased to the point that the last two seasons look so different compared to the previous 4 seasons. The last two seasons feels cold, blue, mystical, and noire; like something is coming and we can all feel it.
There are some other touches on ghosts/supernatural/the afterlife in the show too
New jersey must be hella haunted
When exactly does The Sopranos elude to "parallel universes"? I've seen the whole show through a few times, but I don't recall any hints of that.
I think he meant dimensions. Like the dimension of the dead and the dimension of the living.
In "The Second Coming" during a session with Tony and Dr. Melfi, he says that when he was on a peyote trip, he realized that there's more to life than what we see. Melfi suggests "Alternate universes?" and Tony says "I don't know. Maybe." I think Dr Schwinn also alludes to the "Schrodinger's Cat" experiment which in itself connects with the larger idea of parallel universes and the question "is this all there is?"
There was nothing we could do, the sopranos was a made guy and the ghouls weren't
I’m just here to recommend the show Mr. Inbetween. Came out in 2017 or 2018 and has 3 seasons. If you loved sopranos, you’ll love the show I’m recommending.
3:14 GhostBUSTers, another fuckin' money machine!
Quasimodo predicted this
Chris's mother, Johanne is a Blundetto. A cousin to Tony Blundetto.
Tony Blundetto is related to Tony Soprano, through a maternal connection. They are cousins.
4:40 I think you missed the point. Christopher's final line confirms he is not just in a generic afterlife, but went to Hell for his many crimes.
9:17 one counterargument for that would be the fact that Paulie is a huge blabbermouth. He could have told everybody from NJ to NY about the poison ivy accident. Then the NY guys could have paid the psychic to scare Paulie for their own gains and so on.
how would they know he was going to visit this psychic ? seems a bit far fetched
@@darrendaly1234 they could have been aware that he'd been having those issues, somebody could have tipped them off about it
I dont buy it, a bit of a stretch
@@mkjaerkjersson7749 what a stretch
@@mkjaerkjersson7749 Bloody hell jumping through a lot of holes with that logic
Where any of paulies victims in the film?
The dark female wraith that tony see in his dream and coma dream scares me.
It’s about a wise guy with a big mouth and even BIGGER dreams
TONE TONE IM A FUCKIN GHOST OVA HERE!
This was a good head canon explanation to why The Many Saints Of Newark is a terrible movie.
The pundit AS
Sopranos is even better the 2nd or 3rd time around.
The greatest damage control the movie should've pointed out more in its script... it's a movie that Crissy wanted to make.
Molti santi means Many saints in Italian ..
I can't imagine being ostrafied as much as Christopher. Tragic arc.
Lmao the IDW ghosts
Ive been banging this drum for years. Its very relevent to "that" scene that finishes the series. I think to a degree that Chase himself doesnt understand the implications of his own work. All the smug folks have been for years saying "Tony got killed, it was all set up when (whatsiface) says its all goes dark". But given that afterlife factually exists in Sopranos verse then "that" ending just sucks. Its sucked then, it still sucks now. It was not clever. I recently heard an interview where Chase there had been a plan to have Tony killed on is way home as a roundout to the opening credits. So, fine , do that. Ah well, its was SO many years ago now. i just hope the smug gits finally shut up and admit the ending was not as clever as they/Chase thought it was.
However do you know Phil did 20 years in the Can and ate grilled cheese off the radiator
Don't forget reincarnation!
Thanks for the spoiler in thumbnail I guess
Dostoyevsky wrote a short story about dead people talking from their graves. It’s called Bobok. Since the Sopranos has many literary references I wonder if the beginning of The Many Saints of Newark was inspired by it?
Nah bruh, it was Billy Budd!
@@eyeswideshut7354 my teacher says its a gay book.
That movie isn't canon to me, even David Chase said he didn't watch the show again before making the movie
BTW since Paulie isn't married, would that really be his goumar? Wouldn't it just be his girlfriend? I'm just saying. And why do we never see her again anyway? She was excellent in Scrubs. But I'm interrupting you again....carry on my good sir, carry on!
This missed so many other context points and was tough to listen to
Movie was a big let down
Would you like a sandwich?
4:20 Just when I thought I was out...
You lost me when you mispronounced Mikey Palmice’s name. And the title, Many Saints, is just a translated version of Moltisante. Nice try but did you watch the show? There are a lot of other, more profound supernatural experiences. Big Pussy, 3 o’clock, Tony’s prophetic dreams, the Virgin Mary at the Bing, the cat staring at that poor dead kid. You got the medium right. But that was the most obvious
Ugh, for the MILLIONTH time, Tony Montana from Scarface is NOT A MOB BOSS. HES A CUBAN DRUG LORD. Not even close to the same thing. Ask a wise guy if he likes being compared to a cuban drug lord. Idc if he was played by an Italian, hes not Mafia
many saints is the direct translation of moltisanti
"Is there really any competition?"
Yes. The Wire.
1:42 the wire all day
I was the 420th like 💨
Phard
the movie fucking sucked
One more thing... For those of you that are wondering or not wondering... The pistol that takes the place of the letter r in sopranos regarding the opening... Is a Beretta nine-millimeter... specifically a Beretta 92 series. An Italian firearm. Well... originally.
You want to know to television show universes that were connected? Breaking bad and The walking Dead. I believe it's the first or second episode where Daryl pulls out a bag and inside that bag is blue methamphetamine... In addition to some other stuff. It's a bag that he takes I believe out of a side saddle on a motorcycle. What television show has blue methamphetamine other than breaking bad?
They must be connected somehow.
The many saints of Newark was a shity movie. I did not enjoy it at all. And furthermore... Christopher's mother in the many saints of Newark and Christopher's mother in The sopranos apparently are two different people all together. 🤦
Is that meant to be Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro at the start?