>guy who played Furio
>gets fired from The Sopranos for leaking some dumbass plot point (probably like Tony gets mad at Capo No. #445 because he earns more money than him
>Writers forced to give Furio a based offscreen ending (that he cucks Tony by fricking Carmela and gets away with it by escaping back to Naples
>being a classically trained painter irl, he buys some warehoused old italian art
>he restores the art and it turns out to be the lost works of some Italian Master
>makes millions
>guy who plays Vito
>nobody on set likes him
>pretends to be friends with Gandolfini
>has to play the gay ricchion' mobster
>gets called a homosexual by Artie Lang (https://youtu.be/qb_vHaasMk0?si=WKtUb7zwjCv3f19m&t=370)
>with no employment prospects, he's forced to sell Sopranos merch from the trunk of his car at Sopranos conventions and to tourists going on that Sopranos bus tour where they drive a bus from NYC to Jersey to explore the shooting locations
Was the guy who played Furio the best one and the flambéé who played Vito the worst?
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Why tf would someone buy Sopranos Merch? Why tf would someone want to go to a Soprano bus tour?
people are strange
yeah I don't get it, I hate fandoms in general.
just like things and don't be a homosexual about it.
they're so obnoxious and un-self aware its crazy.
That's funny to me. Someone on Cinemaphile bringing up self-awareness. Here's some self-awareness that I have to give to you, because you're not aware of it: You're trashing Sopranos fans while in a Sopranos thread. I don't think anyone on this site has self-awareness, and that's why they're so unlikeable.
Someone feel free to explain to me what they think self-awareness is while I filter these threads full of people who don't have it.
sounds like he hit a nerve
You are clearly not aware of your lack of self awareness.
A lot of fans are basically fans of fandom itself. It's all about them. They have mastered the Star Wars or Star Trek universes or whatever, but their objects of veneration are useful mainly as a backdrop to their own devotion. Anyone who would camp out in a tent on the sidewalk for weeks in order to be first in line for a movie is more into camping on the sidewalk than movies. Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That's why it's excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They're always asking you questions they know the answer to.
This is a copypasta, and you clearly don't see the irony in making fun of fandoms when you can't even form your own opinion. I'm filtering this thread now. Nobody writes anything worth reading anyway.
It's a Roger Ebert quote
It's fun. I'm not really a superfan myself but I like meeting Sopranos fandom mostly because they're usually paisans who dig their reality being celebrated by others. They get a huge kick out of me saying 'oof madone' in my Midwestern accent.
They liked getting stereotyped as loud mouth greasy thieving violent wops?
He didn’t frick carmella
Not sure why this post dosent have more traction because you’re a lying homosexual OP and this poster is correct.
>>gets fired from The Sopranos for leaking some dumbass plot point (probably like Tony gets mad at Capo No. #445 because he earns more money than him
God some writers are pretentious about plot leaks. The guys behind Mad Men were the worst by far.
This is not true. The show was getting big actors for season 5 (Frank Vincent, Steve Buscemi, Robert Loggia) and needed to get rid of existing actors for budget.
Its the same reason Tony kills Ralph even after starting to mend their relationship during the season.
>that he cucks Tony by fricking Carmela and gets away with it by escaping back to Naples
He had coffee here, Tony, that's all.
The fact that we never got to see T beating the shit out of Meadow or Carmella was such a tragedy
>Tony goes full gorilla mode on that wall
kino
do Americans really?
Get angry and not beat their women? Yeah sometimes. Does Ahmed beat your wife when she's not Halal?
At least they have the self-control not to beat their wives unlike *some* nationalities
Listen, only i coffee carmella. You don't coffee somenody elses lawn
>Was the guy who played Furio the best one and the flambéé who played Vito the worst?
I don't know. Is it important to know?
>Is it important to know?
It is, actually, because Furio was the best character on the show and the other guy is a fat homosexual. Furio was born in Italy and I think those characters are the difference between Europe and America.
>Furio was the best character on the show
imagine a world where we get half the season dedicated to a furio sideplot about him wrestling with his obligations in italy and his love for carmella instead of fat veto firefighter
I always thought the character on the simpsons that threw the painting in the back of his lambo or whatever it was, was based on him.
The German guy who said to Grandpa and Bart, 'hey funboys, get a room'?
Oh he was German? LOL
IIRC, he was the descendant of the Germans that the Flying Hellfish stole the artwork from. Also, that ep predated the Sopranos by like 5 years.
Little more info about Joseph Gannascoli /Vito
Crazy as this sounds, I knew him before Sopranos. He had this crappy soup joint in bay ridge brooklyn (Pic related, I wanna say it was on 83rd street and 4th ave if anyone wants to go fact check or whatever) and when he got that one part where he shot Jackie Jr, the fricker would sit outside his restaurant all day waiting for someone to notice who he was. The windows were covered with photos of him on set (this is before Johnny Cakes or any of that stuff, he literally just shot Jackie Jr) and he'd constantly try to get actors from the show to come to the restaurant and sign autographs and stuff.
Guy was a dick, my step dad did plumbing work for him and he never paid for it.
ah dood i membah that guy after i got a coke and a slice from joey's on 85th and 6th street next to the subway by paulie's subs he was suckin off da dude near the gay bah
You can google the location. I lived in an apartment building on 85th and 4th and walked by his soup place all the time. He covered one of the light posts with colored tile or something.
Place has been closed for awhile, and I hear Joe Soup (that's what everyone called him before the sopranos shit) has been trying to host private dinner parties where he makes shit out of the Carmela Soprano cookbook you can buy from the HBO store.
I have 0 way of proving the part about my step dad but the rest is public knowledge. Look up "Soup as Art" and his name and there might be some pictures of his fatass sitting outside it on one of those green metal benches on a sidewalk.
Heh
We all said he looked like John Travolta
That sounds like bullshit but I believe it
Lmfao any more stories? Hate that guy
Really that's it. I heard it was his idea to make Vito gay, can't confirm or deny it. I never directly talked to him, only heard the SD b***h about him being a hot shot tv star now but can't pay his fricking bill. Not even really angry cause he owed a buncha money to a lot of people, that was pretty well known.
You're really not going to believe me here but idgaf but Tony Sirico (Paulie) was a regular at the off-track betting in Bay Ridge as well. He stopped going after people recognized him from Sopranos, but this was years apart from Joe Soup's antics. I worked in Northern NJ for awhile, and I could pick out plenty of the spots Furio sees when he returns from Italy when his dad died (specifically "Heaven is a Spa" which was a well known rub and tug) but I moved there well after the show ended so no stories. I have actually shopped at the Party City where Big Pussy meets the Elvis Impersonator (there's a bunch of cast photos when you go in, because it's a fricking party city nobody would even think about it unless they told you it was used in the show), which is legit a few stores down from "Satin Dolls" which is the strip club they used for "BadaBing"
Heaven is a Spa burned down, it was on Route 46 near Teterboro Airport.
The Party City and Satin Dolls are on Route 17, a little north of the same airport.
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing. I've heard it was his idea to make him gay as well. To give himself more screentime
At least Sirico was actually in the mob, well afiliated with it.
Frank Vincent back in his youth also used to hustle a bit of coke and claim he was with the mob but apparently he got roughed up by actual mob guys for doing it lol
Tony Sirico was the only guy on set who likely wasn't acting. There's a really wonderful interview with him pre-Sopranos from so biopic where he all but admits he beat someone to death and threw them into Sheepshead bay.
>Tony Sirico was apparently bumbling around Bensonhurst
Sad if true, but I thought he moved to Ft Lauderdale.
I miss the old neighborhood, but everything closed/changed. Even the Century 21 megastore is gone, and all the mom and pop places on 86th and 5th ave became franchises and shit. Real shame.
>it's over for the little guy
(Also, apparently the guy who played Patsy is/was a math teacher at some Brooklyn community college who's by all accounts a nice fella so at least they weren't all douches in the Sopranos cast).
Yeah, it was before he moved to Florida, I think he just went there to go to a home eventually.
I assume I'll see you at the Gaza protests tomorrow, salam alaykum
I moved the frick out of NYC awhile ago. I wanted to own a house and that wasn't happening there.
so as someone who grew up in one of these classic italian american neighbourhoods, what did you think of the sopranos?
They really nailed the dialog and atmosphere. I didn't know anyone in the mob, I grew up in Dyker Heights Brooklyn during the Guillani years anyhow so even if I did they would have left or been put away. But the way people talked, the way they fricked up sayings or history (that sprinkling of education that never went beyond gradeschool, if that makes sense) and the gutteral slang italian (gabbagoo is cappacola, for example) they were classic cafones, as my grandmother would have called them. Remove the crime and sociapaths and these people were my neighbors and elders growing up. And everyone's house smelled of garlic and oil, especially on sunday. I miss that smell, when I cook at home it's like a time machine.
is this a good read?
Haven't read it but honestly, probably not
Tony Sirico was apparently bumbling around Bensonhurst getting into fights as his dementia was getting worse, every once in a while a store owner would tell me a story about an altercation with him that had happened recently
sounds like slandah to me
Soup As Art, and it was on 3rd Ave I want to say just past bagel boy but not quite blockbuster. My sister worked there and they always had underage slavic whooers and coke in the back. Paulie retired here in bay ridge too - bought a condo by shore road. Was a local celebrity for a few years.
Oh God, she didn't have to do 'favors' for Joey Soup did she?
No I think she was pissed about that (too old, like 17). Bay Ridge used to be so comfy. Nowhere near as bad as sunset park but everytime I come back into the city to see family a piece of nostalgia for the old times getting a slice and a soda for a dollar 25, or buying a pack of pokemon cards from the genovese vending machine, venturing too far beyond fort Hamilton fades away
>No I think she was pissed about that (too old, like 17)
Look I worked at a few bar restaurants in bay ridge and I assume that it's like this for most restaurants in the city but they're all run by unscrupulous homies who maintain bad habits and forced to hire underage fresh off the boat prostitutes as a cover. They can't actually work or show their faces so the hang out in the back with the owner if he's around and (you) are not allowed. The comment about my sister is more of her probably wanting some upward trajectory in show biz but in reality Vito is just a fat homosexual with no connections simple as
>gets fired from The Sopranos for leaking some dumbass plot point
was never proven
innocent like jimmy altieri
>>gets called a homosexual by Artie Lang (https://youtu.be/qb_vHaasMk0?si=WKtUb7zwjCv3f19m&t=370)
dude i cant stop laughing
Why tf was Vito randomly in the maintenance hall of a casino?
but seriously tho what was the point of that whole vito is gay subplot? it's the only blemish on an otherwise perfect show
Straight white writers proving to their Hollywood buddies that they can be progressive too!
Allegedly the guy who played Vito gave them the idea because he'd heard of some story of a irl fanook in the mob.
watched the whole artie video
god I hate drunks
Looks
Furio was handsome, Vito was ugly. That's all that matters
>Gets called a homosexual by Artie Lange
I'm an Artie fan but that's a brutal clip, he's in a hardcore blackout and setting fire to everything in sight.
The security guys for the most part seem to be enjoying it.
True but it's completely embarrassing.
t.alcoholic.
I refuse to be filmed when intoxicated for the same reason
>and gets away with it by escaping back to Naples
>if certain people in Naples see Furio, he's a dead man
That's just horseshit from Tony, right? Why would some hardcore Camorre di Napoli give a shit that one their boys fricked around with the wife of some fatfrick Jersey 'boss' in America?
they claim theyre cousins and they have a lot of business together. the car deal from season 2 shown that Naples were going to profit a lot from it.
Furio's uncle also warns him to shut the frick up and forget about it. Safe to say the people in charge in Naples respected Tony enough
tony just said that to get at carmela
furio was one of their best men, why would naples give a frick
imagine the smell
>I make le elaborate italian meal with wine while pining for carmella
>I microwave a big meal made by my wife
The virgin furio vs the chad tony