The Sopranos Ending SPOILERS DUH!

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Right, i'm still a little confused by this. I've recently bought the boxset for £50 (bargain!) and watched it through. Now, the ending, Tony was killed right? I only ask because a friend is adamant i'm wrong.

Why do i think he was killed? The scene was shot in a manner where it would show Tony looking at something, then what Tony sees in a first person perspective interlaced with other random shots, including a suspicious guy going into the bathroom behind Tony.

Now, the very last moment when it cuts to black, imo that's Tony's first person perspective - he's dead, killed instantly by a gunshot to the head (I'm assuming by the sus guy who went to the loo). He looks up, it would normally cut to what he sees (Meadow coming in the door), but it doesn't. It shows black, what Tony sees, which is nothing as he's been killed.

Amirite?
 
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I read it as the viewer gets to feel what Tony feels all the time, constantly looking over his shoulder keeping an eye on his family and everyone else around him. i.e His worrying will never finish so long as he keeps living the life he does.

Admittedly at the time I was livid when it finished like that, but have come to realise that David Chase ended the series well and in a poignant way.
 
No one gets killed, Tony and his family just goes on with their life. The part where the screen goes black is just for impact.

I think from what I remember David Chase once described it as the audience following Tony commiting all these crimes, enjoying it and then expecting for Tony to pay for these crimes by being killed. But life isn't like that, not everything get tied up neatly in a bow.

Here is the quote:
"They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie, and cheat. They had cheered him on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. They wanted 'justice.' They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. [...] The pathetic thing—to me—was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years."
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More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_America_(The_Sopranos)

I actually like the ending as it is, but then it does split the fans.
 
Its cheap, its what stupid writers do when they don't want to get slated for choosing the wrong ending.

Its wimping out and lots of writers do it on big series, they don't know how to end it so choose a "let the viewer decide for themselves" ending.

There isn't an ending its as simple as that, it can be whatever you want, lives happily ever after like the **** he is, or he got his head blown off.

Then its also one of those endings that makes people talk about your show long after its finished. When writers run out of idea's, they do that, or add "god" into a show, writers seem to make both things make them look inteligent and "deep", where as in general both things just make a writer seem up his own arse.
 
I think that is a bit much, you can hardly call the writers of the Sopranos stupid!

I honestly think it was the right decision, it is still thought of as one of the best Tv show endings of all time.
 
I loved teh ending - even Journey's song blaring was somehow fitting. Until Glee got hold of it, anyway. I think the ending is up for interpretation and tehre is no 'right' answer.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Its cheap, its what stupid writers do when they don't want to get slated for choosing the wrong ending.

Its wimping out and lots of writers do it on big series, they don't know how to end it so choose a "let the viewer decide for themselves" ending.

There isn't an ending its as simple as that, it can be whatever you want, lives happily ever after like the **** he is, or he got his head blown off.

Then its also one of those endings that makes people talk about your show long after its finished. When writers run out of idea's, they do that, or add "god" into a show, writers seem to make both things make them look inteligent and "deep", where as in general both things just make a writer seem up his own arse.
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How would you have ended it?
 
That blog agrees with me, woop!

As i said in my first post, the constant cutting from 'Tony looks at something' to 'First person shot of what Tony sees' is done over and over again in that scene. It's reinforced that this is the formula for that scene.

It ends with, Tony looks up to the door, Tony sees darkness. Hence he's killed instantly basically. Good to see i'm not alone :p
 
Is it just me or does that long blog article have a somewhat conspiracy theory feel to it? It is like he has made up his mind that is what happened and is just picking out the evidence that fits his theory, ignoring the rest? :rolleyes:
 
The black screen is David Chase leaving it up to the viewer to decide what they think should happen, there's no right or wrong answer, just your own interpretation!
 
randal24 said:
I read it as the viewer gets to feel what Tony feels all the time, constantly looking over his shoulder keeping an eye on his family and everyone else around him. i.e His worrying will never finish so long as he keeps living the life he does.

Admittedly at the time I was livid when it finished like that, but have come to realise that David Chase ended the series well and in a poignant way.
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this is the way i saw it too
 
I think he lives.

Pretty much down to the viewer to decide, there is no right or wrong answer.

Hated the ending the first time I saw it, on the second run though it grew on me and now I quite like it!
 
apatia77 said:
Yes Tony gets killed.

Happy reading, I've read everything on this site even though it's a long read.

http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/
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Tony gets killed in one guy's opinion who is arrogant enough to claim his opinion is definitive.

dexterr said:
The black screen is David Chase leaving it up to the viewer to decide what they think should happen, there's no right or wrong answer, just your own interpretation!
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This is correct. My personal opinion is that I don't think Tony would have been killed in that restaurant.
 
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