They both are constantly on the hustle, try to avoid violence, and even seem to share a similar temperament.
(Organized Crime), he and Tony have a lot in common. Massive G and his crew are also not fundamentally different from everyone else. In fact, the gentleman says that what goes on in corporate boardrooms is comparable to Mafia behavior, and Cooz adds, “Sometimes I think the only thing separating American business from the Mob is fuckin’ whacking somebody.” The wealthy couple at the Cusamano’s dinner table might look like they were transplanted from a 1987 episode of Knots Landing, but they’re not that different from Tony Soprano in some respects. Everyone exhibits the signs and signifiers that indicate their membership in a particular group, but the differences between them are mostly superficial. All three “gangs” must endure stereotyped perceptions by others, and all three are, in the final analysis, comprised of fairly regular folks, not too different from anybody else. This neighborhood is populated not only by traditional Mafia gangsters, but by capitalist and hip-hop gangsters as well. This hour looks at the Gangster in America not as he exists in the theoretical world of academia or the media, but as he is actually perceived in the neighborhood. “A Hit is a Hit” explores some of the same territory as did “Tennessee” but it is more accessible-it doesn’t have the layered allusions to previous films or the cleverly embedded responses to scholarly criticisms.
#AVI JOINER 2.03 FULL SERIES#
Episode 1.08 was somewhat cold and distant, with its slyly embedded allusions and self-reflexivity and measured responses to the implicit questions that Chase anticipated his series would raise. Previous episodes focused on the gangster as “father,” “husband,” “friend,” “killer” and “manager.” This episode continues mainly in the vein of “The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti” (1.08) which looked at the gangster as an American cultural phenomenon. The Sopranos’ first season has been a steady investigation of the Gangster in America, and this episode is one more variation on the theme. This is not to say that Chase isn’t doing some serious work here. The episode even gets us to laugh at the story of poor cleft-palated Jimmy Smash, whose career as a bank robber is tanked by his speech disorder. But after this early violence, the episode turns hilarious, showering us with puns, ridiculous characters, wry cuts, a funny-cuz-it’s-dull anecdote about John Gotti, bad music, bad musicians, and rounds things off with a practical joke on next-door neighbor Cusamano (whose nickname-Cooz-takes a vulgar inflection when Tony utters it). In the first scene, the Soprano crew whack a Colombian over a business disagreement.
“A Hit is a Hit” is a hit, rollicking with good humor and playfulness-although it doesn’t start out so lighthearted. Tony hangs out with some “meddigans.”Įpisode 10 – Originally aired March 14, 1999ĭirected by Matthew “Yes, that Penn” Penn A smooth-talking rap mogul tries to collect age-old music royalties from Hesh while pursuing an opportunity
0 kommentar(er)
