WISE GUY: DAVID CHASE AND THE SOPRANOS (USA, 2024) – Documentário excelente sobre o criador de OS SOPRANOS, com boas entrevistas com o elenco e membros da produção. A parte mais emocionante, claro, é com James Gandolfini e sua contribuição visceral para o sucesso da série. A segunda parte do documentário é dedicada a ele, com toda justiça. Atenção para a influência de 2001 – UMA ODISSÉIA NO ESPAÇO no episódio final da série. What made “The Sopranos” rare if not unique was the amount of freedom the show was given. Because most of us got to know him as Tony Soprano before we ever met the actor, Gandolfini comes across as almost shockingly sweet. Much of the second episode is devoted to him, the toll of living inside Tony, or Tony living inside him, and of the long hours the part required. Analysis of the show, by Chase and others, is thorough, sometimes surprising — the staging of the finale was influenced by “2001: A Space Odyssey” — and sometimes poetic. You may not have grasped the importance of the lyric, “The movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on,” from Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” which plays through the last scene, but it illuminates that abrupt black screen. HBO.
