The Sopranos Discussion/Appreciation Thread (Renewed)

[Thomas More]

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I noticed Columbus day on the calendar sometime last week, but I had forgotten all about it until I saw this meme.

I think Columbus day only matters if you get it off, and otherwise nobody pays much attention to it. That being said, it was a big accomplishment for him to discover the New World, even if he never realized it. He thought he had found the East Indies and believed this for the rest of his life. Even after returning to the New World multiple times and spending a lot of time there, he persisted in believing he'd reached East Asia.

 

[GodfatherPartTwo]

In the Sopranos, there's a strange word play between "horses" and "whores." For example, Tony's horse is compared to the stripper that Ralph killed.

I knew that this was in the Sopranos but it wasn't until I rewatched Godfather 2 last night that I realized they lifted it from The Godfather.

In the first film, the Corleone Family gets the Hollywood director by killing his horse and placing it's head in his bed:


In the second film, the scene where they "Epstein" the Senator is a direct parallel to the horse head scene from the first film. Makes you wonder if the "horse head" is allegorical: