i felt he was sad to do it. they could've just rolled up on her at home and roughed her up and then killed her but the story was supposed to put her at ease, at least until the final moments.
@@Grayto They outright state that that’s why Melfi abandons Tony at the end. She reads an article which says that talking therapy does nothing for sociopaths except make them more effective at emotional manipulation.
I love how the song is a little louder in Adriana’s fantasy, as if she’s indulging in one final moment of freedom. Then, brought back to reality, the same song but quieter/more realistic on the radio. There’s no going back. She sealed her fate the minute she got into that car. And maybe deep down she knew something was off.
@nickys34 first of all, I think you're forgetting about Lorraine. Second, she was a government cooperator/potential witness. Had she continued, somewhere in the near future, though not attempting to, she could have put away all of the major people. This is why she was whacked. Men have honor and what have you because women don't get involved, they don't say anything, but Adrianna did, so this no longer counts for her.
From the song playing on the radio: “You lying so low in the weeds I bet you gonna ambush me You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees Now wouldn't you, barracuda? Oh”
i remember when i first saw it, i was kind of surprised that they did her so dirty, made her so pathetic in her final moments but now i realize it just makes it so much more brutal.
@Molly Evans She had already talked to the feds.. Which is what started this whole arc with Chrissy betraying her to Tony. Chrissy was still loyal to the mob/Tony because he couldn't picture a life without being in the mafia. She was as good as dead once Tony found out she was an actual informant.
@@buddywilliams5650 Not really religious, but I remember reading that a Catholic mystic once claimed that Mussolini himself was able to enter Heaven after a long time in Purgatory. Again, not really religious, but according to their rules, as long as you're Christian you still have a chance of entering heaven, even if you've done some really nasty things.
1:04 The way Tony says, "I'll see you up there" and slowly hangs up the phone like he's saying his last goodbye. You can tell he didn't want to have to do it. The writing/acting in this show is top-teir!
@@jeffc.3639half his sessions with Melfi are him wrestling internally over his decisions and choices and that steadily as the season's go on instead of him examining that and actually changing as a person for the better he withdrew from the pain and became a stone cold bastard. Season 1 he wouldn't whack his Uncle even after he tried to kill him. By Season 7 he'd have put two bullets in his head himself
David Chase is such a genius. Adriana dreaming about Driving away. Getting away from all of it and but then the camera focuses on her sitting next to Sil thinking this might be a setup. So cold yet brilliant by Chase.
Fun Fact, Drea was on a podcast where she said that because of the mania surrounding the Sopranos at that time, HBO couldn't risk word getting out of certain things, so they actually filmed both outcomes for that reason. They couldn't trust ANYONE to release important details from an episode. She filmed both outcomes not knowing which would be in the final cut... turns out both were used. Another detail, Drea pushed for one change when it was time to release the episode. They filmed Chris telling Tony about Adriana and intended to show it in this episode before this scene, but Drea asked them to take it out because it takes all the mystery out of what's going on. She preferred that the audience not know whether what Tony tells her on the phone is deception or not. They obliged (and aired Chris and Tony's scene in a later episode as a flashback). And she was SOOOO right! Witholding that information meant the audience didn't know anything more than Adriana did, and the scene with Adriana driving away gave everyone relief, and then BAM, she's in the car with Sil and everyone fears the worst in a mere moment. I was pretty young when I saw this on HBO. Horrified me quite a bit tbh. I like it when an actor can put their own stamp on their work and make real creative cinematic decision for their character. This is a good one. The story was written by the writers, but this scene right here was Drea on double-duty as actress and director.
@@runthenumbers9698that is the mark of not only a great team but a healthy creative environment as well, it’s common for creative “heads” (like directors, writers, or music producers) to be dismissive the actual talent’s feelings - the people who are actually channeling what’s on paper - as not valid but Drea spoke up on behalf of her character and it ended up being edited into one of the most jarring cuts of the entire show at 1:44 (besides the very ending of course, which is still regularly talked about almost 20 years later) and solidifies her as the most tragic character arc of the entire show.
@@runthenumbers9698 Not showing Christopher going to Tony in that episode was such a brilliant decision. Had they kept that scene, then there'd be no questions, no suspense. I may be naive but I really thought she could make it out alive. I thought maybe she will run away. Or maybe Christopher is really at the hospital and the last image we'll see of Adriana is her watching him on his bed and leaving. I think I was in denial. Her death is so brutal. I was used to watching all these mobsters whacking each other, but what a harsh reminder of their true nature that they'd do this to such an innocent girl (yes I know she snitched but they didn't even bother to check what she's told the feds, which wasn't much).
Manusfilm Studios Furio abandoned the family, therefore you could say he's the least true gangster. I liked his character and wish they'd kept him around, but his actions ultimately make him a pussy.
What I love about this scene from the very beginning there are clues than she's going to be clipped, and it gradually becomes more and more obvious ending with her being pulled out of the car. There's also gradually escalating clues that she knows but is just going along with it anyways. It's up to the viewer to decide at what point in the scene she knew it was over.
I think she knew (at least subconsciously) that Tony’s story on the phone was bullshit and that Chris was never coming back when he left for cigarettes. She knew subconsciously what was happening but she was so tired and depressed that she wanted it to be over so she went along with it. It’s only when it truly hit her & stopped being subconscious that she started freaking out
Slowly coming to the realization that the love of her life gave her up was brutal. She knew in the back of her mind but didn’t wanna truly believe it. Masterful scene.
The same way Tony says "I'll see you up there." I don't think its coincidence. Its almost a nasty thing to throw at her, as if "yeah, he'll get over you, no worries."
@@braddivens5179 that's another thing. Tony knows she's either so dumb she will miss the entendre or that she's so distraught she forgets that she's dealing with a snake pit full of mobsters. And the big man who she has a sexual attraction to just sent his heaviest hitter to pick her up.
The crawl was a fantastic touch. Such a powerful scene, this was that healthy reality check this show throws in to remind you these guys are not your friends/idols.
@SupremePrestige They could quit being gangster low lifes who kill people for convenience. Thats one choice they have. They could get a real job like the rest of us.
@SupremePrestige “They don’t kill ya for nothing.” I beg to differ. On the show pretty much everyone in the life was either a target for assassination or actually assassinated. Some for hardly any infraction. And some were allowed to get away with things that others got killed for. Same goes irl - Salvie Testa was a loyal soldier of Little Nicky Scarfo but Scarfo had him executed because he was paranoid Testa would rise up mainly because a job Scarfo had asked him to do was done “too” well. Jimmy Burke murdered or had murdered members of his own crew because he didn’t want to give them a share of the Lufthansa heist (not all of them spent the money irrationally as Goodfellas portrays). Anthony Spilotro ordered a hit on is long time friend Frank Cullotta because he thought he might rat (even though Cullotta had shown no signs before then) and ironically this information actually turned Cullotta into an informant. Same for scores of others. Honestly, seriously look into the real life of it all, there was virtually no loyalty and people would get whacked for the slightest reason.
"If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you; Doesn't happen that way. There aren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who have cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come at a time when you're at your weakest and most in need of their help." -Henry Hill, Goodfellas
I know there's a lot of swearing in Goodfellas, which is understandable and I can tolerate, but this quote is clean and sober and one of the best series of lines in the film. Thanks for posting
@SaturdayNightSlamMaster The way he shot those cuffs on his way out? He wouldn't have liked shooting an innocent woman, but Adrianna was a rat, and Sil loves to kill a rat.
He rubbed it in too. His commentary about Chris is his way of telling her that Chris is loyal to us, not you, and he’s hard enough to give up the love of his life for the family. Imagine she knows Sil is going to clip her while he is talking about Chris and you’ll see what I mean. Great writing...
What's scary the most to me about this scene is that trough the series you get to see Silvio as a fun and funny character like your good old uncle, but at the part when he says Chris is gonna be fine was just pure evil and then you get to see Silvio true coloors. Brillant Script
Yes it showed she clearly wasn’t sure if Tony was BS’ing or not and she considered fleeing. But if he was telling the truth she did not want to abandon Christopher. She chose to not abandon Chris on the chance maybe Tony was telling the truth, but unfortunately Chris screwed her over
Drea de Matteo is such an outstanding actress. She was amazing here, as well as on Desperate Housewives (how her character took out her ex was one of my favorite moments) but she was really remarkable as Wendy on Sons Of Anarchy.
Wendy had issues as well but she wasn't a terrible person & her last conversation with Jax was actually rather sweet even if she didn't realize, like Nero did, what he was about to do
The part where you see her driving away from Jersey was so well done, just for a moment it appeared she was getting herself out of danger (Which by itself would have been a major step up in intellect for Adriana, which is why when this episode first aired I thought "No way. She's too dumb to run"), but of course it turns out it's all in her imagination and she only thought about taking off, and is now on the way to her own burial, courtesy of Sil.
Your framing there is interesting too. You believed her to be "too dumb to run" but this scene shows that she might not be as dumb as her decisions. She knows fully well what she AUGHT to be doing and she is daydreaming about making the right decision. To me, that's acknowledgement that stupidity might have NEVER been responsible for her poor decisions. Perhaps she has simply never had the nerve to act on her better senses. I wouldn't really call this Adriana getting full-on bamboozled. There's shades of that for sure... but there's also shades of her facing the music. Then again... maybe bravery IS stupidity... who's to say it's not?
It was a complicated situation. Adriana herself was a kind hearted girl who had no intentions of truly harming anyone, yet she fell in love with Chris, who was a mid-level gangster in the Soprano crime family. The way the Sopranos and other crime families perceive and feel about their families is so twisted. They always treat everyone with what appears to be love and respect, yet if you break any of their rules, you're dead. They obviously didn't have true unconditonal love for the girl, or they wouldn't have taken her life. However, it's difficult to breed and experience unconditional love in the cold, heartless world of crime centered around making money fast AT ALL COSTS and BY ALL MEANS. It's an effective system if you don't mind living a life of paranoia and anxiety and can live with the fact that you'll likely never have a real connection of unconditional love with anyone since not getting caught is actually more important than the relationships you have. So not getting caught by the authorities so you don't go to jail trumps the love you give and receive from even your family. Many say they would die for those they love, and I'm sure many would go to jail for those they love too. This doesn't mean that those engulfed in the life of crime will not experience love at all, it just means they will likely not experience unconditional love due to their code and belief system about society and life in general. Yet falling in love with a kind-hearted soul who truly loves you unconditionally could change one's path. Chris had this chance as he truly did love Adriana at the very bottom of his heart, yet he pussied out like a bitch and let Tony dictate the situation he had with Adriana, instead of handling it like a man himself and following his heart. They would have probably had to flee to another country and run for the rest of their lives.
Adriana had one of the saddest and most tragic stories in the entire series. She was really just a naive girl who wanted to be cared for...with a banging body.
Anyone else out there pick up on fact that Carmella had banged several different guys on the series? Chase left subtle, but definitely clues to my statement. Realizing this, TS would have had Carmella clipped, as she could not be trusted either. And people rag on TS for his sleeping around. What a joke! Carmella banged AJ teacher and it was strongly suggested with subtle clues that she also banged the interior decorator guy, Furio, the guy on motorcycle in Paris that Roe wanted to bang, the animal control guy dealing with the bear, the priest and the tennis pro guy who stopped giving lessons and turned it over to the braless lesbian who wanted to bang Ade. I am considering doing a you tube outlining the hints and clues to support this. Chase wanted it to be subtle, not in your face to further show what a hipocrite Carm was. This scene reminded me of how TS would have had her clipped if he ever found out!
@@eastside9049 nah, like these guys said, they do believe they can go to heaven, Paulie thinks he will go to heaven after purgatory, Tony thinks he can go to heaven cuz like he said to Dr melfi they were just "soldiers"
They are, but why was Adriana- with an Uncle and other family members in the mafia- telling a complete stranger that she met in a department store all of her business? Why would she let her into her life so quickly, easily and close? It's a shame Christopher was too drugged up to realize exactly why he couldn't stand Danielle-he probably could've seen through her if he were sober.
So sad. The scene showing Adrianna driving alone showed that she considered fleeing. She knew it was a possibility Tony was lying. She had 2 things to consider: 1) Christopher gave her up and screwed her over 2) Christopher just lost it and truly tried to commit suicide. She wanted to believe the second one, believe in Christopher and went with Sil to be sure. At the end she did not choose wisely
This is the undisputed greatest television show of all time, but, if you told your mob captain boyfriend that you were an FBI informant last night, and the mob boss calls you the following day and says he’s sending someone over to pick you up, you hang up that phone, and you get the fuck out of town.
She went to her grave battered, bloodied, bruised, thinking she betrayed Christopher, that he is is in the hospital, and then realizing, at the moment Sil drives into the woods, that she is going to die. Not one, single, happy thought in her last hours. The fantasy thought of driving away with a suitcase was all she had near the end.
Sure, she did. What makes you think she didn't know anything? She was with Christopher the entire series and she was close to Tony and Carmela, as well. The F.B.I. targeted her, for those very reasons.. and she cooperated with them. That was her undoing. She could have spent a few years in jail and survived.
Jeff Brown Couldn't disagree more. They approached her because they thought she was weak, which was true, and vulnerable because those arab friends of hers were dealing - which barely involved her. They kept the pressure on her and ultimately tried to get her to flip Chris, and this was the result.
they would've made her wear a wire. the way tony felt, chris was his 2 or 3 guy. she was a problem that had to be stomped. NOW, had drea LEFT? that's different. she would've only been wanted by the FBI. tony would've kept looking for her, but would've just let it go cold.
Sil is probably the best character... he’s not even a career actor...he’s a damn good musician in real life. The wigs and the thing with his lips made him a fan favorite. A truly evil man and loyal friend to the end...
Ron Garvin just outta curiosity do u live in Jersey or NY. Cuz Ik it might seem too over the top ive seen a million guys that really look and act like that.
Allen Iverson I'm in jersey, but not particularly near the Italian parts. I can definitely see some aspects of his mannerisms being real but is it really as stated as he makes it?
I grew up close to that overpass on 95 just outside of Baltimore. I know it well. It's changed since 2005. If her daydreaming were reality, Adriana was a touch over 3 hours away from danger and on the road to freedom. When it cuts to the car and the song is on the radio, my heart skips a beat. Back to reality. So tragic. Such great writing.
Oh don't Monday morning quarterback it. When the Boss tells you your drug addled bf is in hospital all that kind of strategy goes out the window. "Chris-to-phah" was in TROUBLE. Everything else is secondary. I'd have got in the car with Sil. Aaaand... I'd be dead. D.A. NYC
Well, she was connected with this mafia family, her income depended on this contact, and she didn't have big problems when the Sopranos killed other people
Adriana La Cerva. La Cerva means The Doe in Italian. Large expressive eyes, a slim beautiful body, a wasp waist, delicate graceful limbs, long legs. Such a beautiful woman. All those predators who used her till there was nothing left. Like a kill everyone feasted on. These evil people destroyed every beautiful young thing that had the misfortune to cross their sights from weak Chris to bloodthirsty Tony. How like a doe she was. Such a horrific scene.
to be fair, she was about to snitch and throw many of these people in jail knowing their families assets would be seized and their families would starve just because she commited a crime and didn't want to do 5 years which realistically would be 2 years served
Don't forget mentioning the FBI, they didn't protect her after she helped them look good for their bosses. Organized exploitation is unlawful unless the feds say otherwise.
I like how sil never acknowledges her while speaking about chris. He says things like "hes gonna be okay" or "hes very resilient" but never says shes gonna be fine or comforts her about her safety.
That had to be the worst feeling in the world, riding in that car. She knew down in her soul, she was about to die, but her love for Christopher tried to hold on the a slim thread of hope....
I like how the scene cuts from Adriana in her car listening to relaxing music with her hands on the wheel to her "trapped" in the car with Silvio. We the audience don't know how she got there and that's exactly how she feels too.
This scene becomes even sadder when you realize that Adriana likely knew she was being set up but she loved Chris so much that she still went with Sil on the off chance that Chris actually was in the hospital. She accepted the risk but panicked when she saw Sil get out of the car because she realized at the last second that she didn’t actually want to die
The biggest punch in the gut of this scene is the brief couple of seconds where Adriana is seen driving off with her red suitcase, finally having the wherewithal to escape the mob life, and then the quick cut away to reality with her in the car with Sil, the song about getting away that was in the forefront reduced to background music on the radio. You almost think she gets what's going to happen as she stares out at those empty Jersey woodlands where who knows how many bodies are buried, but her love for Christopher blinds her to the point that she doesn't get it until the bitter end.
djmixnmagic She wasn't blinded she knew the game. She realized Christopher chose the "life" over running away with her. She loved him, she knew when Tony said "I'll see you up there" as in Heaven. Apart of the life is playing along- She took it better than most men!
part of me thinks she knew.... part of me thinks that maybe they were driving to the woods to evade the FBI, where she remained hopeful? part of me thinks that she was so dazed it never even dawned on her. regardless... it really deosn't click until they're parked. then it's too late.
no way..... sil's name was more than likely at jeopardy to be implicated in murder, theft, racketeering, assault and extortion. he hated her at that point. there was no way he was letting her live.
Can you imagine how terrible this feels and how terrifying/depressing/anxious her last hours were. 1.First she admits to Chris she’s being pressured by the FBI and agreed to cooperate. 2.Then she believes he’s gonna go w her. 3.Then she gets a call that the guy she loves was in an accident and she thinks it’s her fault because she caused him to relapse and try to kill himself. 4. Then she considers just fleeing but stays because she can’t leave Christopher. 5. She realizes they found out she’s cooperating and are going to kill her. 6. BUT she still doesn’t know Chris gave her up. Maybe he really was in the hospital and needed her for support and she won’t be there for him. Maybe they were gonna kill him too. Maybe they did kill him. The thought of that is so disturbing
This scene goes to show that even though we loved these characters and found them to be some of the greatest in TV history, they were still cold-hearted killers.
It gets me every time when she starts crying. It's her realization that she's probably not coming home alive and that they are not going to christopher. Then Sil telling her more lies about how don't cry chrissy will be fine, horrible.
This scene was done really well. She knew she should've gotten out of there. She knew exactly what was going to happen if she didn't. The transition from her driving with the loud music to the music going thin while she sits in regret of her decision... good stuff
The scene with the suitcase is foreshadowing. There’s a folklore or whatever you want to call it, that whenever you dream about a suitcase, it means that someone is going to die or has already passed.
In the Caribbean a dream about teeth is the same. Losing teeth, them dropping out of your mouth, them getting broken. Sad harbingers of things to come. I had some dreams like that and went through some hard times after. A Dominican coworker told me about the superstition and it chilled me to the bone. I haven't had those "reoccurring" dreams since.
@@matthewgilfus1640 there was a scene where in one of tony’s dream sequences he was losing teeth, amongst a bunch of other indicators that “something bad is about to happen” and then tony b kills phil leotardo’s brother
Christopher probably would have killed Artie. Or at least beaten him so badly, that Adrianna would have seen Artie as wimpy. Artie’s relationship with Tony May have only gotten him a beating. He may have smacked Adrianna around, but likely would have brought her back. The people on this world are all nuts.
I love how at first it shows her driving her T bird with a suitcase and then cuts to her in the passenger seat of Silva's car. Shows that she could have easily made the decision to live, but she cared about christopher so much and knew his addiction was real that she actually bought it when tony told her he was in the hospital. Her love for Christopher is what got her killed in the end, when you put aside the fact that she became an informant.
Imagine knowing a friends girlfriend for years, being warm and friendly with them, and watching their relationship grow and progress. Then one day, out of the blue, you get a phone call saying you have to immediately kill this person. That’s the awful reality of organized crime. A life any sensible person would avoid at all costs
Sil's micro expression at 3:15 gives away his contempt for her. He is looking forward to this hit. Her being distraught about Chris and distracted by Sil's small talk robs her of the situational awareness to realize there aren't any hospitals in the middle of the forest.
@@colinjensen8303 There are a lot of Sopranos scenes open to interpretation, but this isn't one of them. Adriana did not realize her peril until Sil slowed down to pull over. The call from Tony, the phony emotional support from Sil, all part of a plan to kill her quietly and cleanly. Her eyes were wide open, but her mind was elsewhere. Classic Mob Hit 101, vulnerable, distracted, and whacked by someone she knew and trusted. She was feisty and would have bailed out much sooner if she saw it coming.
@@bobbyricigliano2799 she realizes they’re driving out into the woods instead of towards a hospital, and that’s when she starts to tear up. She knows. Why do you think we got that fake out of her running away? She wouldn’t have been thinking that if she 100% believed that they weren’t lying to her.
@@colinjensen8303 We will have to agree to disagree. Her eyes are open but her mind is elsewhere. She only snapped back into reality as the car was coming to a stop. She goes from melancholy to panic mode at that moment. "Why are we stopping? Where are we? Why is Sil getting out of the car?" That is when it hits her and it is too late. If she had realized sooner, she would have tried to escape any way she could. Bail out, make Sil Crash, start fighting with him while he's driving, etc. She was young, fit, and wanted to live. He was slow and old. She would have tried if she knew. She was way too feisty to be knowingly compliant on the way to her own execution.
@@bobbyricigliano2799 within the context of the show she's been extremely stressed out and in fear due to the fbi pressuring her to find info on tony. She confessed to Christopher and was told he tried to kill himself. Her mind is very much on the situation at hand. Ade was in despair that there was no way out at that point. All she could do was think about what she should have done, which was grab a small suitcase and run while she still could As they approach the forest, she panics, which led to the crying and the failed struggle
Adriana needed someone to talk to. Christopher emotionally and physically abused her beyond belief. She convinced herself that she loved him. The FBI people lured her into a false sense of security and the tragedy is, they became the only people she could talk to about her feelings. She had so much love inside of her to give and everyone treated her like trash. I'll never forget this character. Both the mob guys and the FBI guys were pure evil and Ade was caught between them like prey for the vultures, being torn apart.
+Messylin Don't cry over Adriana. She was the girlfriend of a mobster, she knew who all his friends were, Ritchie and Jackie Aprile were her uncles. She was part of the family long before she met Chris. She lived off Christopher's money and she chose the life as much as any of them and knew the consequences. She's no civilian victim.Tough shit. Plus, when exactly did Christopher ever physically abuse her 'beyond belief'?
+Messylin I felt so bad for Adriana she was caught between the mob and the FBI. But, Christopher took an oath unfortunately the family always comes first. Bad thing to be involved in.
+Messylin There wasn't one woman who wasn't abused in some way or another physically or Emotionally. Big Pussy's Wife Angie being threatened by Tony with a Bat that he used to smash her car up, Carmela when she and Tony talked about how much money he lost on a Football Game and how she was a terrible businesswoman with the Speck House. Janice going with one bad guy after another, Richie Aprile, Ralph. It's heartbreaking.
@@blipsauce1143 he was enjoying every second of it. she was a rat for them. look at the way how he pulls her out from the car, calling her " cunt ". he truly hates her.
I remember watching this the first time it aired. Man, I was along for the ride until he turned off into the woods. What the hell was i thinking!? It seems obvious in retrospect but one of the greatest plot twists in T.V history for me. 10/10
What gave it away for me was as soon as Tony called her from a pay phone rather than his mobile phone. I knew at that point it was set up for Sil to whack her
Man this still tears me up. I remember seeing this when it first aired. I was so relieved when it showed her suitcase. I thought thank God she saw the trap and got the hell out of dodge. As soon as it cut to reality with her and sil my heart sank. She was clearly done for. So sad to think that her final thoughts were of Chris betraying her and staying loyal to the mob rather than leaving with her. He couldn't leave the life and it got him suffocated on the side of the road by the man who supposedly loved him almost like a son. Sad all the way around.
I'm a big fan of the Car Wizard on UA-cam, and every time the Northstar engine features in his videos, he absolutely burns it down with pure facts. What were they even thinking.
What disturbs me the most is how Sil can interact with Adriana and not feel anything. The ability to interact with your victims, talk to them and see that they are human beings and still kill them is so dark. It makes me look at the mafia in a different light. Even serial killers do not look at their victims as people, but as objects to act upon. So many times on the show we see characters that we love kill people that they have close emotional ties to and they don't seem to care afterwards. How can you laugh with someone, hold them and call them your friend, lover etc and end their life without batting an eyelash?
James Banner Dude killing an informant is deplorable, but its part of their code. Thats how their organization stays alive. Its literally his job. Serial killers on the other hand go to great lengths to kill people for absolutely no reason. Sil isnt killing her because he wants to, he has to. Serial killers or more scum.
James Banner When you kill so much, it darkens your heart and desensitizes you to it. It's simply going through the motions, an ugly job that has to be done. You wake up, eat your froot loops and begin a day of cold blooded murder, then you come home and sing your kids to sleep.
James Banner Seems to be the only way to survive and be successful in that organization. but on the other hand tony did allot of times seem hesitant if he had to take someone out he kinda liked.
+Christopher McCandless I agree he has to but its not like he was shedding a tear for Adrianna. He wasnt sad that he had to do it if anything he as glad to do his duty to kill an informant. You can teel when he says "Why you crying? Hes gonna be fine" that he was fucking pissed and hated her. He hated her and even called her a cunt before killing her. As a character Sil is my 2nd favorite in the series but even us viewers have to admit that he is a complete piece of shit murderer.
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If Tony soprano starts acting like he's concerned about your well being and starts talking to you like he cares about you, that should be a red flag.
@sum body the episode before he takes out Christopher?
Hugs him at the baptism.
He was the same to Adriana when Chris was shot too, so..
Exactly!
My favorite was when he suggested matt bevilacqua choose a regular soda, rather than diet soda..... since it was the last drink he'd ever have.
Whodisdeya probably why hesh was scarred lol😭😂
just when Adriana thought she was out Sil pulled her back in
nice one!
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Nice! Awesome comment. Lol
Her true enemy is yet to reveal himself.
Technically he pulled her out. LOL
I love how Tony’s story was so realistic that it masked the trap. He pulled on her heart strings like he was playing a harp…
It funny how Tony seems to weaponize his softer side rather than letting it truly inform his decisions.
In their world emotional manipulation is just one tool. Whatever it takes to get the job done.
i felt he was sad to do it. they could've just rolled up on her at home and roughed her up and then killed her but the story was supposed to put her at ease, at least until the final moments.
@@Grayto They outright state that that’s why Melfi abandons Tony at the end. She reads an article which says that talking therapy does nothing for sociopaths except make them more effective at emotional manipulation.
The best lie is as closest to the truth as possible. So Tony just took the fact that Chris was a hopeless junkie and dialled it up a little.
I love how the song is a little louder in Adriana’s fantasy, as if she’s indulging in one final moment of freedom. Then, brought back to reality, the same song but quieter/more realistic on the radio. There’s no going back. She sealed her fate the minute she got into that car. And maybe deep down she knew something was off.
First sign of impending doom was Tony calling from a payphone instead of his cell.
When a mobster tells you everything is ok..beware 🥺
Good catch
Yeah it is a huge red flag.
Ohhhhhh 😳
I didn't even notice that
I’m gonna give Sil one star for his Uber skills.
nickys34 Silvio must’ve missed morals and decency class.
@nickys34 Women can't do time? Haha. Sure they can.
@@dujonpompey6262 you'll find many retarded comments on sopranos related vids 😂
@nickys34 first of all, I think you're forgetting about Lorraine. Second, she was a government cooperator/potential witness. Had she continued, somewhere in the near future, though not attempting to, she could have put away all of the major people. This is why she was whacked. Men have honor and what have you because women don't get involved, they don't say anything, but Adrianna did, so this no longer counts for her.
Women are the first to tell the police.
When she crawls away on all 4s, like a child, whimpering...Tears your heart out. Kudos for the stellar acting by her.
She crawled like a dog... and she died like a dog. Spit on her..
Kind of turned me on
From the song playing on the radio: “You lying so low in the weeds
I bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
Now wouldn't you, barracuda? Oh”
Best acting i've seen, but the character should have realized this was the consequence for working with the Feds. Naive or not.
i remember when i first saw it, i was kind of surprised that they did her so dirty, made her so pathetic in her final moments but now i realize it just makes it so much more brutal.
"Why are you crying? He's gonna be fine"
Yes, he's gonna be fine.
not as fine as her. Budum tshhh
actually chris ended up dying too
actually no he won't be either ultimately
It's that millisecond of smirk from Sil that really sells this line
The fine in question: 🤏👃
"Why you crying? Hes gonna be fine!" Damn Sil that's the cold truth.
LOL. Like... He's gonna be fine! ... You? Not so much.
@@mgottpt LOL I read that in Silvio Dante's voice
@@joshuakirschenbaum417 😂 then I have done my job.
@Henk de Tank lol
@J. Professional lol you and everyone else I met in gym class
Just realized the last thing Tony said to her was “I’ll see you up there”. Most brutal hit of the show
Yeah like the sociopath Tony Soprano is going anywhere near heaven. Think again.
@Molly Evans she was talking to the FBI
@Molly Evans She had already talked to the feds.. Which is what started this whole arc with Chrissy betraying her to Tony. Chrissy was still loyal to the mob/Tony because he couldn't picture a life without being in the mafia. She was as good as dead once Tony found out she was an actual informant.
@@buddywilliams5650 Not really religious, but I remember reading that a Catholic mystic once claimed that Mussolini himself was able to enter Heaven after a long time in Purgatory. Again, not really religious, but according to their rules, as long as you're Christian you still have a chance of entering heaven, even if you've done some really nasty things.
@@Hybrid980 Mussolini gassed Ethiopians. That's really fuc#ed up.
1:04 The way Tony says, "I'll see you up there" and slowly hangs up the phone like he's saying his last goodbye. You can tell he didn't want to have to do it. The writing/acting in this show is top-teir!
He's definitley going to hell when he dies
@@lijax9606*after he died
No he didn’t care. The point is these guys don’t care.
@@jeffc.3639 No he cared.
@@jeffc.3639half his sessions with Melfi are him wrestling internally over his decisions and choices and that steadily as the season's go on instead of him examining that and actually changing as a person for the better he withdrew from the pain and became a stone cold bastard.
Season 1 he wouldn't whack his Uncle even after he tried to kill him.
By Season 7 he'd have put two bullets in his head himself
David Chase is such a genius. Adriana dreaming about Driving away. Getting away from all of it and but then the camera focuses on her sitting next to Sil thinking this might be a setup. So cold yet brilliant by Chase.
Fun Fact, Drea was on a podcast where she said that because of the mania surrounding the Sopranos at that time, HBO couldn't risk word getting out of certain things, so they actually filmed both outcomes for that reason. They couldn't trust ANYONE to release important details from an episode.
She filmed both outcomes not knowing which would be in the final cut... turns out both were used.
Another detail, Drea pushed for one change when it was time to release the episode. They filmed Chris telling Tony about Adriana and intended to show it in this episode before this scene, but Drea asked them to take it out because it takes all the mystery out of what's going on. She preferred that the audience not know whether what Tony tells her on the phone is deception or not.
They obliged (and aired Chris and Tony's scene in a later episode as a flashback).
And she was SOOOO right!
Witholding that information meant the audience didn't know anything more than Adriana did, and
the scene with Adriana driving away gave everyone relief, and then BAM, she's in the car with Sil and everyone fears the worst in a mere moment.
I was pretty young when I saw this on HBO. Horrified me quite a bit tbh.
I like it when an actor can put their own stamp on their work and make real creative cinematic decision for their character. This is a good one. The story was written by the writers, but this scene right here was Drea on double-duty as actress and director.
@@runthenumbers9698that is the mark of not only a great team but a healthy creative environment as well, it’s common for creative “heads” (like directors, writers, or music producers) to be dismissive the actual talent’s feelings - the people who are actually channeling what’s on paper - as not valid but Drea spoke up on behalf of her character and it ended up being edited into one of the most jarring cuts of the entire show at 1:44 (besides the very ending of course, which is still regularly talked about almost 20 years later) and solidifies her as the most tragic character arc of the entire show.
@@runthenumbers9698 Not showing Christopher going to Tony in that episode was such a brilliant decision. Had they kept that scene, then there'd be no questions, no suspense. I may be naive but I really thought she could make it out alive. I thought maybe she will run away. Or maybe Christopher is really at the hospital and the last image we'll see of Adriana is her watching him on his bed and leaving. I think I was in denial. Her death is so brutal. I was used to watching all these mobsters whacking each other, but what a harsh reminder of their true nature that they'd do this to such an innocent girl (yes I know she snitched but they didn't even bother to check what she's told the feds, which wasn't much).
A lot of critics say Sil was the truest gangster out of all the characters, and this scene is the strongest example of that.
***** So's your mother
agreed. one of my favorite characters. by how he handles his business in a sneaky and professional manner
Manusfilm Studios Furio abandoned the family, therefore you could say he's the least true gangster. I liked his character and wish they'd kept him around, but his actions ultimately make him a pussy.
you're wrong it was Paulie 100%
+Manusfilm Studios you're 100% wrong it was paulie
If Patsy did the job it wouldn't have been so cinematic.
lmfao
it won't be Sil's face you see, it'll be his
Maybe the camera wouldn't have panned away.
Patsy doing both Adriana & Gloria - very cinematic ! 🤣🤣
😂😂😂
Sil's face when Adriana start crying, Sil's expression was saying "yeah she knows this is the end, no more pretending"
What I love about this scene from the very beginning there are clues than she's going to be clipped, and it gradually becomes more and more obvious ending with her being pulled out of the car. There's also gradually escalating clues that she knows but is just going along with it anyways. It's up to the viewer to decide at what point in the scene she knew it was over.
I think she knew (at least subconsciously) that Tony’s story on the phone was bullshit and that Chris was never coming back when he left for cigarettes. She knew subconsciously what was happening but she was so tired and depressed that she wanted it to be over so she went along with it.
It’s only when it truly hit her & stopped being subconscious that she started freaking out
If u see The pine barrens while u are in a car with a made guy, u know its not gonna be good lol
1:47. Her eyes. She knows.
Slowly coming to the realization that the love of her life gave her up was brutal. She knew in the back of her mind but didn’t wanna truly believe it. Masterful scene.
When he said “Chrissy is a tough kid, he’s very resilient he’s gonna be fine” he was talking about he will be fine about her death.
He wasn't, though. He went to pieces, married a woman he didn't love and died at Tony's hand.
no he wasn't. You're trying to make something out of nothing. He just didn't wanna hear her cry in the car.
The same way Tony says "I'll see you up there."
I don't think its coincidence. Its almost a nasty thing to throw at her, as if "yeah, he'll get over you, no worries."
@@braddivens5179 that's another thing.
Tony knows she's either so dumb she will miss the entendre or that she's so distraught she forgets that she's dealing with a snake pit full of mobsters. And the big man who she has a sexual attraction to just sent his heaviest hitter to pick her up.
tykeboy16 watch ya mout you mutt you
The crawl was a fantastic touch. Such a powerful scene, this was that healthy reality check this show throws in to remind you these guys are not your friends/idols.
Sharp point!
@SupremePrestige They could quit being gangster low lifes who kill people for convenience. Thats one choice they have. They could get a real job like the rest of us.
@@maxcarren112 this guy’s an informant for sure
Surprised she wasn't faster, what with those nails should have had a grip like a cheetah.
@SupremePrestige “They don’t kill ya for nothing.” I beg to differ. On the show pretty much everyone in the life was either a target for assassination or actually assassinated. Some for hardly any infraction. And some were allowed to get away with things that others got killed for.
Same goes irl - Salvie Testa was a loyal soldier of Little Nicky Scarfo but Scarfo had him executed because he was paranoid Testa would rise up mainly because a job Scarfo had asked him to do was done “too” well. Jimmy Burke murdered or had murdered members of his own crew because he didn’t want to give them a share of the Lufthansa heist (not all of them spent the money irrationally as Goodfellas portrays). Anthony Spilotro ordered a hit on is long time friend Frank Cullotta because he thought he might rat (even though Cullotta had shown no signs before then) and ironically this information actually turned Cullotta into an informant. Same for scores of others. Honestly, seriously look into the real life of it all, there was virtually no loyalty and people would get whacked for the slightest reason.
Adrianas mother warned her so many times.
Sil has the most sinister smirk at 3:12 😂 When the ruse actually overlaps with what’s really happening
Gotta respect a guy who loves what he's good at
and how he moves his head side to side like when he would say "that motherfucker" in other scenes
Love that Sil!!🤣
"If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you; Doesn't happen that way. There aren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who have cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come at a time when you're at your weakest and most in need of their help." -Henry Hill, Goodfellas
Absolutely true.If you're lucky enough to escape. Never take it for granted.Never forget.
I know there's a lot of swearing in Goodfellas, which is understandable and I can tolerate, but this quote is clean and sober and one of the best series of lines in the film. Thanks for posting
Absolutely true and love Goodfellas btw
I was thinking of the same Goodfellas scene.
Fortunately for Karen Hill, she understood that. Not so much for Adriana.
One of the darkest scenes in the whole show. Sil sure was a stone cold killer.
@SaturdayNightSlamMaster The way he shot those cuffs on his way out? He wouldn't have liked shooting an innocent woman, but Adrianna was a rat, and Sil loves to kill a rat.
That's why Tony sent Sil. He knew Sil was the most reliable in dealing with the tough, sensitive issues and could do his job under intense pressure.
She got what she deserved. Sil was Tony's most loyal to the end
@A semi decent Progressing artist Well, she seemed like an old hag. so ya gotta admit it is funny damn it
He rubbed it in too. His commentary about Chris is his way of telling her that Chris is loyal to us, not you, and he’s hard enough to give up the love of his life for the family. Imagine she knows Sil is going to clip her while he is talking about Chris and you’ll see what I mean. Great writing...
What's scary the most to me about this scene is that trough the series you get to see Silvio as a fun and funny character like your good old uncle, but at the part when he says Chris is gonna be fine was just pure evil and then you get to see Silvio true coloors.
Brillant Script
Yeah nobody in the series is really a good person
How is he evil? She's a snitch and will go to hell while Sil will be in heaven
"I'll see ya up there" semi-heartfelt moment with Tony. He always has a soft spot for Aide.
For her cooze.
He was just disappointed that he didn't get that blow job.
He didn’t mean Heaven.
He meant up at the hospital. Listen to the entire phone call again. It wasn’t heartfelt at all.
@@Gemmarose9012 lol i think hes kidding. its Paulie after all lol 😆
Probably regretted not getting that blowie he was accused of
The coldest part to me is when she starts to cry Sil trys to comfort her, knowing he was about to kill her. Cold blooded
Actually, the coldest part was Tony, setting her up that way. He was SINCERE.
Stephen Anthony sure was a purrty mouth tho’
Sil didn't want her to panic and grab the wheel.
Look at his dead cold eyes filled with hate around 2:58
Almost as sad as Tony choking out his nephew after the car accident
That scene in her head where she was driving alone with her suitcase was one of the most heartbreaking in the whole series.
Yes it was.
Yes it showed she clearly wasn’t sure if Tony was BS’ing or not and she considered fleeing. But if he was telling the truth she did not want to abandon Christopher. She chose to not abandon Chris on the chance maybe Tony was telling the truth, but unfortunately Chris screwed her over
I agree. The song used in the scene somehow makes the scene all the more incredible in the darkest way possible.
It shows you that she chose to die this way.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 she went against her better judgment.
Drea de Matteo is such an outstanding actress. She was amazing here, as well as on Desperate Housewives (how her character took out her ex was one of my favorite moments) but she was really remarkable as Wendy on Sons Of Anarchy.
At one point in SOA she thinks Jax is gonna kill her, and he says to her, "I'm not gonna Adriana you." or something really similar to that
@@Levi_Tollefson he says it to ottos wife louann not to wendy.
She earned something ridiculous like 300 an episode in the first few series
Wendy had issues as well but she wasn't a terrible person & her last conversation with Jax was actually rather sweet even if she didn't realize, like Nero did, what he was about to do
@@Ukraineaissance2014 not ridiculous at all money is money
The part where you see her driving away from Jersey was so well done, just for a moment it appeared she was getting herself out of danger (Which by itself would have been a major step up in intellect for Adriana, which is why when this episode first aired I thought "No way. She's too dumb to run"), but of course it turns out it's all in her imagination and she only thought about taking off, and is now on the way to her own burial, courtesy of Sil.
Your framing there is interesting too.
You believed her to be "too dumb to run" but this scene shows that she might not be as dumb as her decisions. She knows fully well what she AUGHT to be doing and she is daydreaming about making the right decision. To me, that's acknowledgement that stupidity might have NEVER been responsible for her poor decisions. Perhaps she has simply never had the nerve to act on her better senses.
I wouldn't really call this Adriana getting full-on bamboozled. There's shades of that for sure... but there's also shades of her facing the music. Then again... maybe bravery IS stupidity... who's to say it's not?
Silvio: "He's gonna be FINE!"
Then, the smirk on his face, as if to say, "But, you won't be..." Brilliant scene!
Notice how tony's last words before he hung up were.."I'll see you up there"
+Alberto Arjon Brilliant writing.
+Alberto Arjon Tony went straight to hell when his brains were blown out and splattered all over the table in front of his wife and two children.
+F Dannn lol the ending I pictured tony had soilders with him at the restaurant sitting right by him.
+Son Of Anarchy she would have been fine if she didn't snitch on her friends and family
It was a complicated situation. Adriana herself was a kind hearted girl who had no intentions of truly harming anyone, yet she fell in love with Chris, who was a mid-level gangster in the Soprano crime family. The way the Sopranos and other crime families perceive and feel about their families is so twisted. They always treat everyone with what appears to be love and respect, yet if you break any of their rules, you're dead. They obviously didn't have true unconditonal love for the girl, or they wouldn't have taken her life.
However, it's difficult to breed and experience unconditional love in the cold, heartless world of crime centered around making money fast AT ALL COSTS and BY ALL MEANS. It's an effective system if you don't mind living a life of paranoia and anxiety and can live with the fact that you'll likely never have a real connection of unconditional love with anyone since not getting caught is actually more important than the relationships you have. So not getting caught by the authorities so you don't go to jail trumps the love you give and receive from even your family. Many say they would die for those they love, and I'm sure many would go to jail for those they love too.
This doesn't mean that those engulfed in the life of crime will not experience love at all, it just means they will likely not experience unconditional love due to their code and belief system about society and life in general. Yet falling in love with a kind-hearted soul who truly loves you unconditionally could change one's path. Chris had this chance as he truly did love Adriana at the very bottom of his heart, yet he pussied out like a bitch and let Tony dictate the situation he had with Adriana, instead of handling it like a man himself and following his heart. They would have probably had to flee to another country and run for the rest of their lives.
Probably the most brutal, cold-blooded scene in the entire series.
Staircase scene?
"Why are you crying? Chris is gonna be fine." Ominous foreboding.
“I’ll see you up there.”
“He’s gonna be fine.”
-so chilling when you think about that in retrospect...
Adriana had one of the saddest and most tragic stories in the entire series. She was really just a naive girl who wanted to be cared for...with a banging body.
This may be the darkest, saddest scene in all of television history.
She was a druggie scumbag.
How the hell was she naive?
@Drew P. Nutsack You're on the net defending a dead tv character, dumb ass.
Anyone else out there pick up on fact that Carmella had banged several different guys on the series? Chase left subtle, but definitely clues to my statement. Realizing this, TS would have had Carmella clipped, as she could not be trusted either. And people rag on TS for his sleeping around. What a joke! Carmella banged AJ teacher and it was strongly suggested with subtle clues that she also banged the interior decorator guy, Furio, the guy on motorcycle in Paris that Roe wanted to bang, the animal control guy dealing with the bear, the priest and the tennis pro guy who stopped giving lessons and turned it over to the braless lesbian who wanted to bang Ade. I am considering doing a you tube outlining the hints and clues to support this. Chase wanted it to be subtle, not in your face to further show what a hipocrite Carm was. This scene reminded me of how TS would have had her clipped if he ever found out!
She played that part to perfection. Great actress.
“See you up there” still gets me.
“I’ll see you up there” wasn’t referring to the hospital.
He won't be seeing Ade again, he is going downstairs and she will make it up top.
He wasn't talking about heaven that's the last place these guys are going
he'll be in hell, she seems solid enough to get into heaven
Neither one are going “up there.”
@@eastside9049 nah, like these guys said, they do believe they can go to heaven, Paulie thinks he will go to heaven after purgatory, Tony thinks he can go to heaven cuz like he said to Dr melfi they were just "soldiers"
La Cerva is Italian for The Deer, Adrianna was shot in the woods walking on all fours.
Very observant: The sacred AND the propane.
Additionally deers are seen as naive innocent creatures and largely viewed as prey. Truly tragic, this show.
Noice.
Female deer :La Cerva
Male deer : IL Cervo 🦌
Used for naming a man with a bitch wife
Aww damn good catch
“They’ll keep him a few days. Observation. Do some tests” could definitely be a double meaning about what Chris’s fate is after this without her
Nice
Yeah and afterwards give him a sandwich of choice and a soda to wash it down we're done here.😊😂😂😂
my god this scene is so heartbreaking. Tony, Christopher and Silvio are true animals.
They are, but why was Adriana- with an Uncle and other family members in the mafia- telling a complete stranger that she met in a department store all of her business? Why would she let her into her life so quickly, easily and close? It's a shame Christopher was too drugged up to realize exactly why he couldn't stand Danielle-he probably could've seen through her if he were sober.
Why she a fucking rat she deserves it
Don't disrespect animals. These scumbags were true subhumans. Lower than Neanderthals. Vicious with no emotion.
Hey, they did what they had to do! Omerta, cabish?
In their world, Adriana is the animal. She is the rat, the lowest form of life.
When he says “Christopher will be fine don’t worry, he’s very resilient ” he’s insinuating Chris will get over her imminent death.
So sad. The scene showing Adrianna driving alone showed that she considered fleeing. She knew it was a possibility Tony was lying. She had 2 things to consider: 1) Christopher gave her up and screwed her over 2) Christopher just lost it and truly tried to commit suicide. She wanted to believe the second one, believe in Christopher and went with Sil to be sure. At the end she did not choose wisely
Her whole life was full of bad choices
Not sad at all
@@thernfoster5360 fact
Plus Sil doesn’t seem like the killer type.
at the moment she starts crying in the car, she realizes she's gonna die.
Just when Adriana thought she was in the car, Sil pulled her back out.
Steven Van Zandt said this was one of the hardest scenes he's ever had to do.
This is the undisputed greatest television show of all time, but, if you told your mob captain boyfriend that you were an FBI informant last night, and the mob boss calls you the following day and says he’s sending someone over to pick you up, you hang up that phone, and you get the fuck out of town.
It was 1% action and 99% Tony sitting in Jennifer’s office. This show sucked.
I'd dispute it but you can't argue taste.
@@SteelBuckeye If you want action go watch fucking Avengers or some other superhero bullshit. This show isn't about "action".
@John L why are watching the death of Chris' girlfriend if you hate the show? Very, very bizarre
@@SteelBuckeye thats blatantly untrue. Most of the series was mob stuff
Tony called from a pay phone. Huge red flag!
Ooooh yea lol
the first time I saw that ...she gonna die
Why?
so they can't trace the call
Nestor Alegre they -who? he wasn't relaying any information that could incriminate him.
She went to her grave battered, bloodied, bruised, thinking she betrayed Christopher, that he is is in the hospital, and then realizing, at the moment Sil drives into the woods, that she is going to die.
Not one, single, happy thought in her last hours. The fantasy thought of driving away with a suitcase was all she had near the end.
Bro, this scene is such good acting. Not only that, the song choice is so fire.
the sad part was, adriana didn't know anything. the fbi got her killed for nothing.
Sure, she did. What makes you think she didn't know anything? She was with Christopher the entire series and she was close to Tony and Carmela, as well. The F.B.I. targeted her, for those very reasons.. and she cooperated with them. That was her undoing. She could have spent a few years in jail and survived.
Jeff Brown
Couldn't disagree more. They approached her because they thought she was weak, which was true, and vulnerable because those arab friends of hers were dealing - which barely involved her.
They kept the pressure on her and ultimately tried to get her to flip Chris, and this was the result.
tranurse She knew probably when Christopher left. She wasn't stupid she loved him and he chose loyalty to the mob instead of a life with her.
Jeff Brown Yes they move in on those who will go along with the life they signed up for.
they would've made her wear a wire. the way tony felt, chris was his 2 or 3 guy. she was a problem that had to be stomped. NOW, had drea LEFT? that's different. she would've only been wanted by the FBI. tony would've kept looking for her, but would've just let it go cold.
The way he calmly gets out of the car gives me chills. Just another day at the office for Sil.
I remember the first time I saw this episode and Adrienne is looking at all those trees in the wooded area my heart sank. We knew what was coming
That longer take at 4:04 is amazing. Usually, Sopranos scenes would have fast cuts, but this scene allows us to feel the shock and horror.
Sil is probably the best character... he’s not even a career actor...he’s a damn good musician in real life. The wigs and the thing with his lips made him a fan favorite. A truly evil man and loyal friend to the end...
Ron Garvin just outta curiosity do u live in Jersey or NY. Cuz Ik it might seem too over the top ive seen a million guys that really look and act like that.
A good musician has good rhythm. Same concept applies to dialogue.
I like him in LillyHammer as well.
Allen Iverson I'm in jersey, but not particularly near the Italian parts. I can definitely see some aspects of his mannerisms being real but is it really as stated as he makes it?
Classic Pinball hey is the mob still in jersey?
"Why you crying? He's gonna be fine."...smirk.
You can read his facial expression saying "You Bitch".
Expert level in small talking
They can two faced real good
He's gonna be fine.. (living on without you)
..."but you won't be."
I grew up close to that overpass on 95 just outside of Baltimore. I know it well. It's changed since 2005. If her daydreaming were reality, Adriana was a touch over 3 hours away from danger and on the road to freedom. When it cuts to the car and the song is on the radio, my heart skips a beat. Back to reality. So tragic. Such great writing.
Season 5 is when you begin to see a darkness consume the whole atmosphere of the series.
'Sil's on his way'.
Thats when you go to the garage, grab the go-bag and vanish.
Haha yes that's when you DISAPPEAR
Oh don't Monday morning quarterback it. When the Boss tells you your drug addled bf is in hospital all that kind of strategy goes out the window. "Chris-to-phah" was in TROUBLE. Everything else is secondary. I'd have got in the car with Sil. Aaaand... I'd be dead. D.A. NYC
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, she was connected with this mafia family, her income depended on this contact, and she didn't have big problems when the Sopranos killed other people
@@davidanderson9664 that's your goofy ass.
Adriana's last name La Cerva means "the deer" ("the doe" given her gender), which is commonly hunted. Silvio's first name means "woods".
*hits blunt*
The writers knew her ending - when they gave her the name. Ouch.
Very allegorical
Sil name actually means Wig and Headscarf.
My name means "my balls are sweaty" in Swahili.
Adriana La Cerva. La Cerva means The Doe in Italian. Large expressive eyes, a slim beautiful body, a wasp waist, delicate graceful limbs, long legs. Such a beautiful woman. All those predators who used her till there was nothing left. Like a kill everyone feasted on. These evil people destroyed every beautiful young thing that had the misfortune to cross their sights from weak Chris to bloodthirsty Tony. How like a doe she was. Such a horrific scene.
It was only a film please...let's not get too technical with it....
Go take a Midol.
@@ArmyJames Go duct tape your trash mouth.
In real life he would’ve raped her first this scene was pretty tame
Sil " why are you crying hes gonna be fine" such a savage lol
2014, and I'm still not over this
right
2015 and i still cri evrytiem
longhorns13192 SNAP OUT OF IT!!!
Charlie Coal ohhh, that's fuckin' brilliant, Charlie
longhorns13192 Me either! I cry every time, it amazes me how she knew and never attempted to run.
When all is said and done, no matter how much we buy into the romance of gangsters & organized crime, they're scumbags.
Yes they are. I romanticize it sometimes, but I could never shoot a crying pleading woman down like a dog.
Nx Doyle Amen!
to be fair, she was about to snitch and throw many of these people in jail knowing their families assets would be seized and their families would starve just because she commited a crime and didn't want to do 5 years which realistically would be 2 years served
@Nikolai zazzoslki wow so edgy do you want a cookie?
Don't forget mentioning the FBI, they didn't protect her after she helped them look good for their bosses. Organized exploitation is unlawful unless the feds say otherwise.
I like how sil never acknowledges her while speaking about chris. He says things like "hes gonna be okay" or "hes very resilient" but never says shes gonna be fine or comforts her about her safety.
That had to be the worst feeling in the world, riding in that car. She knew down in her soul, she was about to die, but her love for Christopher tried to hold on the a slim thread of hope....
She clearly never watched Goodfellas. As Henry said, it's your friend that's gonna whack you.
Was Sil ever her friend?
Henry’s wife was way smarter.
@@uioplkhj she thought so
@@HiDesert004 of course she was...she was Dr. Melfi after all.
The GoodRat 🐀 🐁 Is dead. Screw Hill.
I like how the scene cuts from Adriana in her car listening to relaxing music with her hands on the wheel to her "trapped" in the car with Silvio. We the audience don't know how she got there and that's exactly how she feels too.
Uh… we all know exactly how she got there… only morons don’t
This scene becomes even sadder when you realize that Adriana likely knew she was being set up but she loved Chris so much that she still went with Sil on the off chance that Chris actually was in the hospital. She accepted the risk but panicked when she saw Sil get out of the car because she realized at the last second that she didn’t actually want to die
One of the more tragic deaths in the series. She should have told Christopher about her arrest from the very beginning.
That’s what she should have done
One of the few scene to show just how evil these people really are.
@ It was her destiny. She loved the lifestyle, not working at restaurant.
That was the most disturbing scene in the series as far as I'm concerned.
So to be considered evil you need to show them kill a woman? It's ok to show them kill dozens of men? Douchebag femboy.
@@GrumpyGrndad Because she always seemed relatively innocent/naive.
Joni *incel detected*
You start liking one of the guys in this series and then they remind you who and what they are...
Dago triggermen
yes sir
They're soldiers. Soldiers don't go to hell
@@operationlull3742 Ah - but they're in a living hell. And remember what the dead told Christopher.
@@HC-cb4yp quit bein a mook
One of the most tragic and sad endings to a character I've ever seen
Silvio looked at her like: Why are you crying? He’s gonna be fine. (In his head: you’re not, but he is)
🤣🤣🤣
The biggest punch in the gut of this scene is the brief couple of seconds where Adriana is seen driving off with her red suitcase, finally having the wherewithal to escape the mob life, and then the quick cut away to reality with her in the car with Sil, the song about getting away that was in the forefront reduced to background music on the radio. You almost think she gets what's going to happen as she stares out at those empty Jersey woodlands where who knows how many bodies are buried, but her love for Christopher blinds her to the point that she doesn't get it until the bitter end.
She knew.
djmixnmagic She wasn't blinded she knew the game. She realized Christopher chose the "life" over running away with her. She loved him, she knew when Tony said "I'll see you up there" as in Heaven. Apart of the life is playing along- She took it better than most men!
I think she knew her fate as she was in that car with Sil. Her daydream of running away with her suitcase was her last bit of hope.
part of me thinks she knew.... part of me thinks that maybe they were driving to the woods to evade the FBI, where she remained hopeful? part of me thinks that she was so dazed it never even dawned on her.
regardless... it really deosn't click until they're parked. then it's too late.
no way..... sil's name was more than likely at jeopardy to be implicated in murder, theft, racketeering, assault and extortion. he hated her at that point. there was no way he was letting her live.
This was the saddest moment in the entire series for me.
Holton 345 for me it was A.j. trying to kill himself.
Funniest for me
@Ron Garvin Some people are evil; that's why.
She could have beaten him if she tried.
Alex Not likely...
Can you imagine how terrible this feels and how terrifying/depressing/anxious her last hours were.
1.First she admits to Chris she’s being pressured by the FBI and agreed to cooperate.
2.Then she believes he’s gonna go w her.
3.Then she gets a call that the guy she loves was in an accident and she thinks it’s her fault because she caused him to relapse and try to kill himself.
4. Then she considers just fleeing but stays because she can’t leave Christopher.
5. She realizes they found out she’s cooperating and are going to kill her.
6. BUT she still doesn’t know Chris gave her up. Maybe he really was in the hospital and needed her for support and she won’t be there for him. Maybe they were gonna kill him too. Maybe they did kill him.
The thought of that is so disturbing
Of course Tony sends his most trusted guy to do the job.
This scene goes to show that even though we loved these characters and found them to be some of the greatest in TV history, they were still cold-hearted killers.
Tony's face when he spoke to Adrianna said it all....
He knew this was the last time he would speak to her....
It gets me every time when she starts crying. It's her realization that she's probably not coming home alive and that they are not going to christopher. Then Sil telling her more lies about how don't cry chrissy will be fine, horrible.
"I'll see you up there"...... brilliant writing.
This scene was done really well. She knew she should've gotten out of there. She knew exactly what was going to happen if she didn't. The transition from her driving with the loud music to the music going thin while she sits in regret of her decision... good stuff
The late James Gandolfini was one darn good actor
The scene with the suitcase is foreshadowing. There’s a folklore or whatever you want to call it, that whenever you dream about a suitcase, it means that someone is going to die or has already passed.
In the Caribbean a dream about teeth is the same. Losing teeth, them dropping out of your mouth, them getting broken. Sad harbingers of things to come. I had some dreams like that and went through some hard times after. A Dominican coworker told me about the superstition and it chilled me to the bone. I haven't had those "reoccurring" dreams since.
Damn, there were suitcases in folklore times?
@brianotida2642 …. Anyways
@@matthewgilfus1640 there was a scene where in one of tony’s dream sequences he was losing teeth, amongst a bunch of other indicators that “something bad is about to happen” and then tony b kills phil leotardo’s brother
People in the 3rd century AD woke up confused about a small room of clothes.
@2:49 "He's a strong kid, Chrissy. He's tough. Very resilient." Silvo is really trying to tell Adriana the truth -- from the mob's point of view.
Adriana would still be alive today if she left Christopher to be with Artie.
if he doesn't kill her for leaving him lol
Christopher probably would have killed Artie. Or at least beaten him so badly, that Adrianna would have seen Artie as wimpy. Artie’s relationship with Tony May have only gotten him a beating. He may have smacked Adrianna around, but likely would have brought her back. The people on this world are all nuts.
@The Truth about Africa hurts you realize that people discuss stories and shows they're interested in right?
@The Truth about Africa hurts you realize that's how effective The Sopranos story telling was - it almost made them feel like reality.
My estimation of u as a person plummeted after that comment
Sil, can you get me off the hook for old times sake?
Can't do it Ade.
tell tony it was only business.... i always liked him.
"You should've taken the 5 years"
@@deathrager2404 He knows.
Should have let him have the visor moment.
nice....fish
I love how at first it shows her driving her T bird with a suitcase and then cuts to her in the passenger seat of Silva's car. Shows that she could have easily made the decision to live, but she cared about christopher so much and knew his addiction was real that she actually bought it when tony told her he was in the hospital. Her love for Christopher is what got her killed in the end, when you put aside the fact that she became an informant.
Imagine knowing a friends girlfriend for years, being warm and friendly with them, and watching their relationship grow and progress. Then one day, out of the blue, you get a phone call saying you have to immediately kill this person. That’s the awful reality of organized crime. A life any sensible person would avoid at all costs
That's one thing the sopranos did well. Showing people the reality of that horrible life and dissuading people from getting into it.
Sil's micro expression at 3:15 gives away his contempt for her. He is looking forward to this hit. Her being distraught about Chris and distracted by Sil's small talk robs her of the situational awareness to realize there aren't any hospitals in the middle of the forest.
That’s not why she’s crying. She knew she was gonna die.
@@colinjensen8303 There are a lot of Sopranos scenes open to interpretation, but this isn't one of them. Adriana did not realize her peril until Sil slowed down to pull over. The call from Tony, the phony emotional support from Sil, all part of a plan to kill her quietly and cleanly. Her eyes were wide open, but her mind was elsewhere. Classic Mob Hit 101, vulnerable, distracted, and whacked by someone she knew and trusted. She was feisty and would have bailed out much sooner if she saw it coming.
@@bobbyricigliano2799 she realizes they’re driving out into the woods instead of towards a hospital, and that’s when she starts to tear up. She knows.
Why do you think we got that fake out of her running away? She wouldn’t have been thinking that if she 100% believed that they weren’t lying to her.
@@colinjensen8303 We will have to agree to disagree. Her eyes are open but her mind is elsewhere. She only snapped back into reality as the car was coming to a stop. She goes from melancholy to panic mode at that moment. "Why are we stopping? Where are we? Why is Sil getting out of the car?" That is when it hits her and it is too late. If she had realized sooner, she would have tried to escape any way she could. Bail out, make Sil Crash, start fighting with him while he's driving, etc. She was young, fit, and wanted to live. He was slow and old. She would have tried if she knew. She was way too feisty to be knowingly compliant on the way to her own execution.
@@bobbyricigliano2799 within the context of the show she's been extremely stressed out and in fear due to the fbi pressuring her to find info on tony.
She confessed to Christopher and was told he tried to kill himself. Her mind is very much on the situation at hand. Ade was in despair that there was no way out at that point. All she could do was think about what she should have done, which was grab a small suitcase and run while she still could
As they approach the forest, she panics, which led to the crying and the failed struggle
Adriana needed someone to talk to. Christopher emotionally and physically abused her beyond belief. She convinced herself that she loved him. The FBI people lured her into a false sense of security and the tragedy is, they became the only people she could talk to about her feelings. She had so much love inside of her to give and everyone treated her like trash. I'll never forget this character. Both the mob guys and the FBI guys were pure evil and Ade was caught between them like prey for the vultures, being torn apart.
+Messylin Yup. Makes great television.
+Messylin Don't cry over Adriana. She was the girlfriend of a mobster, she knew who all his friends were, Ritchie and Jackie Aprile were her uncles. She was part of the family long before she met Chris. She lived off Christopher's money and she chose the life as much as any of them and knew the consequences. She's no civilian victim.Tough shit. Plus, when exactly did Christopher ever physically abuse her 'beyond belief'?
+Messylin I felt so bad for Adriana she was caught between the mob and the FBI. But, Christopher took an oath unfortunately the family always comes first. Bad thing to be involved in.
+Messylin There wasn't one woman who wasn't abused in some way or another physically or Emotionally. Big Pussy's Wife Angie being threatened by Tony with a Bat that he used to smash her car up, Carmela when she and Tony talked about how much money he lost on a Football Game and how she was a terrible businesswoman with the Speck House. Janice going with one bad guy after another, Richie Aprile, Ralph. It's heartbreaking.
+Messylin the bitch was a rat though and the way they eliminated her was genius, the fbi ended up with nothing hahaha.
Tony's plan/trap was very good and well thought out and is a great reminder on how he became the boss.
The grin on Silvios face. He enjoyed every second of emotionally torturing her. Beautiful scene
you think that's beautiful? wow
He wasn’t trying to emotionally torture her at all lol. He was trying to not make it completely obvious that he was about to kill her
I never feel sorry when rats get whacked! Period.
@@blipsauce1143 he was enjoying every second of it. she was a rat for them. look at the way how he pulls her out from the car, calling her " cunt ". he truly hates her.
@@fernandovales566 You're the kinda guy who roots for serial killers and gangsters in real life, aren't you?
I remember watching this the first time it aired. Man, I was along for the ride until he turned off into the woods. What the hell was i thinking!? It seems obvious in retrospect but one of the greatest plot twists in T.V history for me. 10/10
It had me right up until they showed the look on Sil's face right before he turned off into the woods.
@@rileymurphy559 Sil was a steamin pissed
Yup one feels fooled athe same way adriana might have felt
i'm sorry but you guys are kind of dumb.
What gave it away for me was as soon as Tony called her from a pay phone rather than his mobile phone. I knew at that point it was set up for Sil to whack her
The way she's crawling away, doesn't look like she had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Underrated comment.
@@haveyhav4786 No, it's overdone and unoriginal. Stop supporting lazy jokes.
@@balabanasireti Agree.. it's on every Soprano video!
Just like Lorraine Caluzzo?
That's not true. She lettered in volleyball.
Man this still tears me up. I remember seeing this when it first aired. I was so relieved when it showed her suitcase. I thought thank God she saw the trap and got the hell out of dodge. As soon as it cut to reality with her and sil my heart sank. She was clearly done for. So sad to think that her final thoughts were of Chris betraying her and staying loyal to the mob rather than leaving with her. He couldn't leave the life and it got him suffocated on the side of the road by the man who supposedly loved him almost like a son. Sad all the way around.
Another classic scene I witnessed being filmed live as a kid. This was the lodi strip mall with the buffet where tony was on phone.
The most remarkable thing in this scene is the fact that the Caddy STS made it all the way w/o breaking down.
It was a Silvio Edition
Nah man, you just add a quart of every fluid every 1000 miles, and you’re good.
I was amazed adriana could drive until it turned out to be her imagination
They used a stunt double.
I'm a big fan of the Car Wizard on UA-cam, and every time the Northstar engine features in his videos, he absolutely burns it down with pure facts. What were they even thinking.
What disturbs me the most is how Sil can interact with Adriana and not feel anything. The ability to interact with your victims, talk to them and see that they are human beings and still kill them is so dark. It makes me look at the mafia in a different light. Even serial killers do not look at their victims as people, but as objects to act upon. So many times on the show we see characters that we love kill people that they have close emotional ties to and they don't seem to care afterwards. How can you laugh with someone, hold them and call them your friend, lover etc and end their life without batting an eyelash?
James Banner Dude killing an informant is deplorable, but its part of their code. Thats how their organization stays alive. Its literally his job. Serial killers on the other hand go to great lengths to kill people for absolutely no reason. Sil isnt killing her because he wants to, he has to. Serial killers or more scum.
James Banner When you kill so much, it darkens your heart and desensitizes you to it. It's simply going through the motions, an ugly job that has to be done. You wake up, eat your froot loops and begin a day of cold blooded murder, then you come home and sing your kids to sleep.
James Banner Seems to be the only way to survive and be successful in that organization. but on the other hand tony did allot of times seem hesitant if he had to take someone out he kinda liked.
+Christopher McCandless I agree he has to but its not like he was shedding a tear for Adrianna. He wasnt sad that he had to do it if anything he as glad to do his duty to kill an informant. You can teel when he says "Why you crying? Hes gonna be fine" that he was fucking pissed and hated her. He hated her and even called her a cunt before killing her. As a character Sil is my 2nd favorite in the series but even us viewers have to admit that he is a complete piece of shit murderer.
"t makes me look at the mafia in a different light."
Uh, are you telling me you didn't already know they were scumbags?
Dude Tony is a genius for how he handles that phone call, unreal manipulation
One of the most memorable scenes... I mean.... it gave me chills.