‘Sopranos’ Creator, David Chase Reveals if Tony Soprano Died in the Finale
Earlier today, writers at Vox published a piece entitled, “Did Tony die at the end of The Sopranos?”. In a matter of a few hours, the article went viral and fans went crazy.
According to the article, the showrunner behind ‘The Sopranos’, David Chase, answered the question quite bluntly by saying “No he isn’t.”
Several hours later, it seems it wasn’t necessarily accurate, because David Chase’s publicist later issued a statement saying his comments were “misconstrued” and Tony didn’t live at the end of the series. However, Tony also did not die. Get ready to get confused:
“A journalist for Vox misconstrued what David Chase said in their interview. To simply quote David as saying,” Tony Soprano is not dead,” is inaccurate. There is a much larger context for that statement and as such, it is not true. As David Chase has said numerous times on the record, “Whether Tony Soprano is alive or dead is not the point.” To continue to search for this answer is fruitless. The final scene of The Sopranos raises a spiritual question that has no right or wrong answer.” (Vulture)
Despite millions of people finally being able to go to bed at night knowing there was an ending to The Sopranos, Chase’s publicist ruined it like a crying baby in the movie theater.
At the end of the day the ending to ‘The Sopranos’ is demonstrate that you should believe whatever you want to believe in. If you think Tony Soprano died, then he’s dead and vice versa.
In David Chase’s interview with Vox he explained the ending behind ‘The Sopranos’ was based on the poem “Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe, which centers on what is reality and what is fantasy. “Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?”. So there’s a possibility that ‘The Sopranos’ never even happened and it was all a dream.
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