Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, Plus An Interview with Director Alex Gibney
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On the September 12, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about Alex Gibney’s new two-part documentary Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, and then present an interview with Alex Gibney.
In Our Feature Presentation: Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos
- Heads up: this conversation will contain spoilers for Wise Guy as well as all of The Sopranos
- Relationship to The Sopranos
- General thoughts about this doc
- Least favorite moments
- Favorite moments
- Alex Gibney interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Thursday, September 12, 2024. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Alex Gibney's new two-part documentary, |
| 0:09.2 | Wise Guy, David Chase and The Sopranos, and then we will present an interview with |
| 0:13.7 | Alex Gibney. My name is Ben Pearson I am an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined |
| 0:18.0 | on today's episode by slash film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello. All right so heads up to our list. editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello. |
| 0:23.9 | All right, so heads up to our listeners. |
| 0:25.2 | This conversation is going to include |
| 0:27.4 | spoilers for Wise Guy as well as for all of the Sopranos. |
| 0:31.2 | So just saying that up front, if you've not watched the show |
| 0:34.0 | check it out. I watch it for the first time a couple years ago and it is tremendous. |
| 0:37.9 | So actually that's how I wanted to start this conversation, Chris. What is your relationship to the Sopranos? I love the Sopranos. I think it's, you know, one of the best TV shows of all time. I watched it when it aired and I actually re-washed it a few years ago and I actually went back and rewashed it again, |
| 0:54.8 | probably the last year I want to say or watch it for beginning to end and good show. |
| 1:00.8 | Show really holds up. It's, it's's probably even better than I remember it being like I don't think I appreciate it as much as I appreciate it now when it was airing. It's just a it's a you know it's the show that sort of like |
| 1:18.8 | invented the the peak TV era and I do think people don't understand how much of a TV show it is. |
| 1:30.0 | I have a review of the Penguin Dropping Today, the new HBO show. |
| 1:35.0 | And it's fair to say that that show was influenced by The Sopranos in a way. |
| 1:39.8 | You know, it's got, it's about a morally reprehensible character, it was also a mobter, and he even has |
| 1:47.3 | mobby issues in the show, just like Tonight Soprano. But the problem with the Penguin that I had is it's very much structured like an eight hour movie and a lot of TV shows now and whatever you want to call the era of TV where now are structured like this. |
| 2:06.0 | So they're structured as like one long movie and I'm genuinely sick of this because it's bad. |
| 2:11.0 | You know, there are exceptions to the role. I do think you can make a TV show |
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