The Sopranos is an American television drama series that follows the life of a fictional Italian-American Mafia family. The story of the everyday life of gangsters became known all over the world and won the love of the audience with its unusual plot for 1999.
All about the film
The main plot of "The Sopranos" is based on the life of the DiMeo family, living in northern New Jersey. Her boss, Tony Soprano, is forced to bravely face and overcome various challenges that come his way. In addition, Tony has to constantly maintain a balance between his family's personal life and criminal activities, which require enormous mental and physical strength from him.
The Sopranos have age rating restrictions due to scenes of violence, nudity, drug use and obscene language.
After the show was launched on television in 1999, it exploded as a culture bomb. The violent reaction of the critic was associated with the fundamentally new approach of the Soprana Clan to the description of mafia everyday life, the problems of American respectable families and the problems of the Italian diaspora living in the United States. The series also became very popular due to the naturally filmed effects of violence against human consciousness and violation of the boundaries of generally accepted morality.
Seasons and episodes
There are six seasons in The Sopranos in total, five of which consist of thirteen episodes in each season. The last sixth season was filmed in the number of twenty-one episodes, divided into two parts from twelve and nine episodes. The end of the series took place in 2007 - for all the time, eighty-six episodes were shown to the audience. Before filming The Sopranos, screenwriter David Chase planned to shoot a full-length film about the life of a gangster visiting a psychotherapist due to problems with his mother, but later decided to release the story in a multi-part format.
Chase used his personal experiences and childhood memories of life in New Jersey to write the script.
The complex relationship between the main character of the series Tony and his mother, the writer borrowed from his relationship with his own mother, and the introduction to the series of the psychotherapist was also taken from the life of Chase. The plot of "The Sopranos" is also based on real events - the story of the DiMeo family was written off from the activities of the real mafia clan Dekavalkante, which was the main criminal group in New Jersey. With the help of the series, the Italian David Chase hoped to illuminate the nature of violence, the sore question of the ethnic self-identification of the Italian-American community and many other pressing problems of modern America.
