The First and Last Lines Spoken by The Sopranos Characters (130+ characters, pt. 1 & 2 complete)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Methodology:
1. I focused on characters that made 3-or-more episode appearances. Some characters included only made 2. A handful that made 3 were not included. Kids were not included. I included George Pagileri, a single episode character, at the end because it made for a better finale.
2. I focused on first and last lines, not scenes. Tony Blundetto doesn’t say anything before Tony Soprano shoots him so that is not his “last line.”
3. I considered a line to be any word of spoken dialogue that was probably written as dialogue (as opposed to being written as an action line, in terms of the teleplay). For this reason, Tony’s initial “yeah” and Meadow’s final “shit” were included. However, the struggling noises that Eugene makes when he is hanging is probably written as an action line. Similarly, Jason Gervasi’s “alright” in “Chasing it” happens technically before the “envelopes” line to Tony in the video but it didn’t appear to be written specifically as dialogue to me. Similarly, Beansie, greets a customer before the line included in the vid but again, appeared incidental. I did though consider Paulie’s “Ooo” to be written specific to his character which is why that was included. One final example is even though Rhiannon Flamer is seen laughing, watching TV with AJ after the line included in the video, I again considered that that was probably written as “Rhiannon laughs” and not “RHIANNON: Hahahah”. In general, I used my own discretion.
4. I opted to include the two different actors in the pilot who played Father Phil and Irina but did not do this for any other actor changes throughout the series, for example, Joanne Moltisanti, Quintina Blundetto etc.
5. Adrian La Cerva was retroactively determined to be “Adrianna” in the pilot by the writers after it aired. I believe Chris’s line, heard in the video as Adrianna answers the door, is meant to allude to this and she is also listed in the credits as such. I’ve included both scenes though.
6. Anthony Infante technically says the “cheers” line with Bing guys after the “for the best” line included in the vid but since it was a group saying it together and for timing, I didn’t include it.
7. It’s possible Tom Giglione says an ADR/off-screen line after the “Yeats” line included in the vid, but I prefer the Yeats line in any case.
8. You could say Furio’s last line was the answering machine message when Carmela calls him but I didn’t consider that to be the case.
9. I didn’t consider Flashbacks or Dreams when it comes to “first lines” or "last lines", in other words, Jackie Aprile Sr, Livia Soprano, Corrado Soprano Jr., and others, first lines are when they are heard within the general timeframe of the show and not during flashbacks.
10. Technically, Billy Leotardo’s last line is delivered via Flashback from Phil Leotardo but since it was within the general timeframe of the show I’ve included it.
11. You could argue that Vito’s last line is when he is in the car talking to Tony but I distinctly hear a “no”, although come to think of it that was probably written as an action line in the script, oh well, it’s staying.
12. I did not include the Olivia Soprano CGI scene, and I don’t think Chase should have either.
AJ's last line is pretty tragic. He's referring to what Tony said at the very end of Season 1 at Artie's restaurant. It's one of the few decent words of wisdom he tried imparting to his family, but Tony by Season 6 is so corrupted and fallen that he doesn't even remember saying it.
And by most accounts he said it just a few seconds before his father's brains are going to be splattered all over the table.
@@michaelcorcoran8768 I think people who gush over the diner being Tony's end miss the point of why its ambiguous in the first place. It's not there because seeing Tony die is gratuitous, or because its a mental test for the audience. It's ambiguous because the point is Tony is a dead man walking anyways: whether he dies or not here specifically is irrelevant. He's in a life where he either winds up dead or in jail. The foreshadowing of his death that happens in/around the diner scene isnt to show that it happens at that moment so much as it is showing that he is stalked by the grim reaper and sooner or later, it will be his time, just as it almost was at the start of season 6.
And this is true for everyone 'in the life'. Hence why they do this with Tony.
Like OP pointed out, he's so corrupted and fallen that he doesnt even remember saying something optimistic.
@@AndrewJ9673 Man, all these years later and people are still trying to come up with all sorts of nonsense for the scene where he clearly dies.
@@deathtoraiden2080think Chase said what he wrote though.
He didn't die.
Junior’s last line is the most important in the show to me, after everything he doesn’t remember any of the mob life, any of the money, any of the fame. All he still remembers is playing catch with his nephew.
After multiple rewatches, that became my favorite scene in the series.
And despite how apathetic and cold Tony was by the end of the show, he was actually pretty upset after realizing that junior was basically gone mentally since he genuinely loved uncle junior despite the issues they had
😢
U can love each other in this world and still need to take them out @@jakealter5504
Junior saying “we did?” while forgetting his entire past, and Tony saying “I did?” While forgetting he told AJ to focus on the good times, is probably the most beautiful subtlety within the writing of this show. The good, bad and ugly is all insignificant in the end.
but what matters is what good you do especially for nonhuman fellow animals and our planet, and how much you grow… but too many of you live almost a century and don’t learn anything good and not only don’t grow but regress!
Tony doesn't remember the good times and Junior only remembers the good times.
What good you nihilist fart sniffer?
These are the deeds of evil people lmao, Uncle Junior is not some senile loving grandpa, he was a bloodthirsty mafioso.
@@stitchgrimly6167 wonder if that has to do with what tony said very early on in the show, might even be the pilot. where he says that he came at an era where everything good ended. junior is from the previous generation, the one where tony says still had good, while tony is experiencing the fall of the mob first hand. doesn't even have to be about the mob, but america or life in general
Christopher goes from happily driving tony to work to dying in a car accident 😭
Chris killed himself
Uber gone wrong.
In both lines he's explaining (once again) why he fucked up, to Tony
Whatever happened there 🤷🏾♂️
@@steet2I’m sorry T
I love that AJ of all people has the most important last line, and Tony's "I did?" is honestly the most important line in the entire show
I wouldn't go that far Flippy 😅
It is?
@@Grym0626 the fact that Tony forgot he said that. That small moment representing him wanting to be a family man, a better man, a changed man above him wanting to be the boss shows that he failed the question the whole show surrounded, can Tony change and become better? He’s so far gone that he can’t even imagine himself saying what he once said to AJ.
@@jcnom6606 “Hey well, whatda gonna do 🤷🏻♂️?”
@@jcnom6606i thought it was because uncle last words were "I did"? or "we did"?
Meadows last line really says a lot about her taste in boyfriends
Heyyy, what about Phineas DeTrolio (Vito Spatafore's arch nemesis) ???
@@remi1176undah da bat!
what about Turtle? 🐢
The Hacidic Homeboy was pretty irritating...so was Jackie for his blatant stupidity. Finn was just a wimp. This Parisi kid? I don't know 'em.
@@miaouewMeadow wears the pants
Artie had the most positive and laughable ending
Also to add to this Gigi still died taking a shit
Laughable?
@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3 likely a poor choice of words on their part. Artie was the last good spark of light in that show. At least he made it.
@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3laughable in how dated it is, I’d imagine. No one knows or cares who Eric Mangini is nowadays
Jackie Jr's last interaction where he gets beaten by a kid in chess is a nod to him just not understanding the rules of the game he's in
I think that's a representation of the mob life he was in he had no business in that life so tragic
You said it best
He was dumb as fuck. He could only get 3 or four letter words playing Scrabble against Meadow. He was never gonna be anything more than a thug.
HBO love their chess metaphors. Omar being there just makes it more poignant
@@pogo8050king stay the king…
It's funny that Junior's first interaction is greeting someone he literally never communicates directly again in the show (Chris)
Also he was sharp enough to remember AJ’s birthday :(
house arrest does that to you
Yeah right Mr Magoo
Yes, he does. When Ton is in coma, Chris and Bobby speak directly with him.
@@funkyreapercat5280what? That is Antonio jr not junior soprano
I loved when Paulie made up with Nucci, broke my heart when he was mad at her
Maybe it's cuz I see some of my own grandmother in Nucci but it broke my heart when he was mad at her. Biologically or not, she was still Paulie's mother and loved him like a son
Absolutely the most underrated subplot in the whole show.
@@TheWoodIsPoo 🤣
25:45 the transition is like when you skip the cinematics
"I'm gonna fucking kill myself!" "I gotta take this" So cold, and I can't stop laughing.
Adriana went from dealing with shitty customers at a restaurant to begging for her life. Heartbreaking.
She should’ve stayed out of Christopher's life.
everyone makes their own decisions. she prob would have been happier with Bobby deMarco long term
It's not heartbreaking at all. The fact that her end of life, was not much better than her first appearance, showed that her total capacity as a human was not worth much. If she had a good beginning and had fallen drastically, it would have been tragic but living like a shit your whole life does not make for much of a drama.
Did it to herself abused women are so stupid they always come back for more 😈
@@TheEroticGenieWhat? She didn’t do anything wrong except get involved with Chris. She’s obviously a victim. She never hurt anyone, she fell in with the wrong people and paid too much for it.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi's first and last lines form some kind of book-end for her role as Tony Soprano's therapist, from receiving him into her office for his first therapy session to ending her sessions with him by sending him out of her office, realizing that after six seasons, Tony will never improve for the better.
She'd known that by season 2, she was just obsessed with Tony.
The only thing the Sopranos lacks is a character who is introduced as hes getting shot
What about teddy the guy gene kills
Philly Parisi
The guy in Chris's first scene is close, he gets killed within about a minute I think.
@@Supersquigi he gets mentioned before that though.
Paulies first and last scene really shows how things have totally changed since season 1.
11:57 richie dies and immediately comes back
That's why Beansie is shocked
I'm glad to see Livia's actual last line and not her "last" line; going in to the show not knowing when it happens but knowing it did, then seeing her, made that scene so hard to watch, like a forced foreshadowing.
So bad
She was not lying in that last line.
She went into the unknown not knowing.
@@JacquesMesrine94 She went into that prick's face when seeing the gyatt
You can tell that Nancy Marchand was struggling to speak in that last scene, since she was already under the worse conditions while suffering from lung cancer and other illnesses that affected her lungs. Even when she was in pain, she kept on going through with her role. That is some true dedication.
31:00 one of the most powerful lines in the series.
I can only imagine how many times Melfi wanted to tell Tony this
that cut between s1 junior and s6 junior lmao
The last Liz La Cerva scene always unnerves me
Pauley reconciling w/ his aunt, aka thought-2-be mother, was probably the most genuine, true-2-nature scene & emotionally heartfelt moment that took place, definitely out this reel, if not the show as a whole... (MY POV). Reminded me of my G-Mom/RIP 🇮🇹 SNJ.
2nd most loving person I've ever had in my lifetime, as of yet... & after MOM. 🧑🦱🧑🦳❤🥷
@shhh_iamthenight6933 to. Not 2. To.
Phil Leotardo saying goodbye to his grandchildren and dying afterwards is one of the most poetic scenes in the show
9:04 perfectly sums him up
"wird uhp'
Paulie's first line is OOOOOOOh! LoL
Sil's actual last line is "WHEEENHH"
Melfi looks like she has aged 90 years from dealing with tony
yeah from a fresh-faced private to a battle-hardened sergeant.
Stress from having a mob boss as a patient for seven years can take a lot outta ya.
I didn’t want to say it but it looked like 20 years had passed at least when it was only like, what? 8 years?
@@MaryLou913being a SA victim on top of a high stress job does that to you
@@God_gundam36 Good point… even tho it didn’t happen to the actress, right? Either way she’s always been gorgeous!
I like that you didn't make Livia's last lines those creepy edits from S3.
Best part is, shit was like 250K and it looks awful and was unnecessary
@@klompsauceseriously I don't understand why they were so desperate to have another scene for her, makes no sense
@@OQIF87NREUForget about it
@@OQIF87NREUDramatically, they felt the need to have one more confrontation.
“I’ll never pass a drug test.”
That was so sad. 😭
One of the best scenes.
Why? I've never seen the show and don't plan to can you explain
@mr.z2157 The donkey 🫏 couldn't pull the kart so we had to murk the donk
@@ianmangham4570 Wtf does that mean 😂😂
@@mr.z2157 It means the El Burro sleeps 💤 with the 🐟 🐠 🐡 🐟 🐠 🎣 🐡
The perfectly cut gunshots are quite literally killing me 😂
So Meadow's first and last line was both related to shit!? That's an insane level of commitment to a joke.
I don’t think much thought was put into that intentional or not
@@hexagonproductions2019 Sopranos is one of those shows with a lot of thought put into various details so it's hard to tell what was intentional and what just came out that way.
You should see the commitment Vito puts into his
@@yggdrasil2That's true. I used to think that A. J. was going to be the death of Tony, and it turned out to be true in the end. It didn't occur to me that Meadow saved Tony from death twice before, but she couldn't get there in time to save him again. Great writing and great coincidences.
@@Chilliam13 Wait, how was it AJ's fault?
Christopher: “Call me a taxi”
Tony: “You’re a taxi”
Ancient, yet never gets old
@@malalford But Borko told me he invented it!
And that was the
moment when Tony knew he had to whack Christopher
To this day i find Phil coming out of the closet hilarious lmfao
Vin road raging right before he kills himself is one of my favorite moments in the series. He was such a great actor.
Me
I died laughing when he sung so much of the Lionel Richie song.
I appreciate you leaving in the whole "It wont be cinematic" scene
Came to comment the exact same thing 😂
Ray Curto is an interesting character that I never hear anyone mention... He was a capo for the entire series and he was also the biggest rat in the show, and nobody ever thought of him as anything less than a stand-up guy.
I’ve been thinking that during my current rewatch. Every time I see him he’s so nondescript, doesn’t make any waves, but knowing what he’s doing forces me to pay better attention. That’s a sign of a good show imo, one that isn’t just good when watching it again but actually rewards repeat viewings.
@@lindseyclair921 I've seen The Sopranos cover to cover well over 100 times, every time I watch it I notice something new.
1:01 for once Tony was genuinely proud of AJ.
No he wasn’t. He was giddy that his ego was stroked one last time.
Paulie’s first line a full-on “OHHH”, he was the greatest as soon as he walked in the room.
This is ingenious.
I love how so many of them end in the person getting whacked. 😂
Hunter aged like 30 years lol
Don't say that about the boss's daughter
In dog years. She stank
@@namedidii No, no, that's Fielder.
Hunter...wtf is a wood hunter
Chrissy spent his first day on set crashing the car with Tony and his last day on set crashing the car with Tony. Beautiful
What a tremendous undertaking it was to make this. Nice work.
LoL Paulie's first line is ooooohhhh!!!
14:35 Couldn't even say his last words.
1:22 lol perfect cut
Terrific work dude.
"I'm at the World Trade Center." - Jackie Aprile, September 11th, 2001.
His character actually died on 09/09/98 2 days and 2 years shy
season 1 and a bit of 2 had a 90s sitcom vibe with the colors
then in season 5 and 6 everything looks decrepit
14:35
it represents their time frames well. From the colorful 90s to the darker pessimistic 2000s.
WOAH KRIS TYSON CAMEO 0:18
I used to watch Lawrence Welk show with my grandmother.
How I cherish those memories.
Tony's lawyer's last line: "Hey, trials are there to be won." is like me saying 'that professional cage fighter is coming around tomorrow to beat the crap out of you, but hey, fights are there to be won.'
"Shit"
-Meadow Soprano
Her first and last line were dealing with shit.and considering her acting throughout it’s pretty fitting😂it’s a great show
I completely forgot the doctor’s crack about Hoffa. That leveled me.
“In a space where murder is negotiable everyone dies”
You better be kicking up to borko if your posting videos about this thing of ours.
Oh come on we all know Chrissy the Loyle Capo is really running things ever since Borko became a copyright-sabe
You've been told once...
The money goes up to Borko.
i love how whenever theres a gunshot, it gets cutoff in the middle of the sound effect, its hilarious
that 10/10 gyatt in the thumbnail
9:04 Usually I don’t like watching the Matthew Bevilaqua murder. It makes me sick to my stomach.
BUT
Seeing it right after seeing his first line in this context kills me. I was laughing so hard. 😂
Bobby should've went with JoJo Palmice smh
go take a midol!
He should have gotten with Rosalie!
@@SofaMunchershe never would’ve went for a man like Bobby, she seems like she likes more strong willed men
Then he would’ve remained in obscurity. The marriage to Janice was great for him politically.
But he would have lived to old age lmao @@doublem1975x
AJ was such a little critter when the show started, and ended up being a reflection of a juvenile Tony, sad but definitely interesting
Steve Buscemi with the shoulder pads gets me every time😂🤣
Excellent editing and a labour of love!
WE'RE WID DA VIPAHS
Great work. Thanks for sharing.
The show that revitalized television!
The only people who had lines in the end that werent them dying or depressed was the people who were clean.
Chris’s first and last lines both involve him shirking his responsibilities and not admitting when he screwed up. It shows a real lack of character development, which is totally what he was like
Paulie was 100x more of a fuckup than chris, much of the conflict/war season 4 and beyond betwen NYC and NJ can be traced back to him running his big mouth.
Chrissy arc was at first not wanting to wake up a man too be put to sleep by Tony
Lifelong pedants can only hope to end up like Tom Giglione and have their last known words be insufferably correcting someone on how to pronounce Yeats
Or " wes colwell"
Was it really that pedantic? I feel like AJ needed to corrected after trying to paint himself as some poetry aficianado.😂
That "I'll never pass a drug test. call me a taxi" always makes me laugh so hard lol.
Come in I’ll get John.
JOHN JOOOHHHN GET DOWN HERE
This made me realize that Brendan was the deepest character on the show. The irony...
Who in GOD'S name has the time and patience to roll through footage and edit a piece like this together... an A.I. cybernism!? Well, whomever it was, or is, glad ya/it did so... Was entertaining.
1:45 its wierd seeing this knowing Uncle Junior called the hit on chris's dad
Noah hated Tony's racist comments (fair enough) but his first comment when meeting Tony was comparing mafia movies 😬
no mention of vito's first line in the bakery
That's not Vito, that's Gino, it's a joke
Gino had a note from his doctor to get pastries
You don't understand that's not Vito? Holy chit Batman, you do not understand the Sopranos 😂
You think it's funny?!@@asellandrofacchio7263
@@schrisdellopoulos9244take it easy, we’re not makin a western
So Vito started out trying to be Clemenza. Makes sense.
Also you got one wrong. Carmine Senior's last line was "the man upstairs" in The Test Dream, but maybe that doesn't count.
It's so funny how the scenes where some character gets shot you cut them so perfectly
I love the creativity of this video
22:33 Patsy don't play 😅😅 " scrapping your nipples off these fine leather seats" 😬
“Is that okay Tony? That I sit?”
*FUCKING DIES*
The entire series is just depression encapsulated
i find it ironic how Phil whacked Vito because he was gay…but Phil came out of the closet to announce his presence…clever writing
I forgot Irina was played by another actress
Man junior’s comparison is so crushingly sad
I always thought it was really nice of Adriana to cushion the fall of Sil's bullets
Artie and Charmaine seem to have the best final lines
Hesh first line is "How can he not have the money? 2:58 " and throughout that last episode, we see him in he gets mad at Tony for not paying him back but is confused when he sees tony living his lifestyle free of debts the last thing tony said to hesh was "heres your money" I think thier a inner meaning no price is worth this life
Wait, what about the "Oh, shit!" guy? He's the best character in the show!
J.Peeps and Phil's kid brother shooting up Lorraine and Dwayne Johnson while leaving evidence all over the place (peeps drinking an espresso lol) while Billy drops all w a pop gun, was eh..
Ooh what a neat concept
Its interesting seeing the contrast of how bright the show was in the start and how dark amd unsaturated it was in the end
Ralph’s last words were him insulting Tony’s weight 😅
Great work dude
“So what? No fucking ziti now?”
"HEaY!"
So we aren’t counting Livia’s CG as her final words? 😂
I absolutely loved agent Harris excitement for them to win 😂😂
"Your supposed to push webistics." is up there with seeing vito "What the fuck" for best line delivery
The cutoff for Peeps shouldn't have been that funny, same with Coco
Most characters: "Hey, Tony! Hi!"
Billy Leotardo: 29:47
🤣
Amazing work. Sad to watch this though...
damn season 6 is so dark just fear mongering & anxiety kinda sad how the filters change from bright & fun to just dark & eerie towards the end