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Authors never intend those silly lit criticized interpretations. People who can't actually create make them up later. The creator of the Sopranos has also addressed this and said he didn't die.

Tony lived. The members only jacket is just one more fake out in a scene full of fake outs. You'd have just as much reason to say an SUV bursts through the front of the restaurant and kills Meadow.

David chase said he didn’t die idiot

no he doesnt David Chase literally said he was killed

radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-01-12/david-chase-may-have-accidentally-confirmed-tony-sopranos-death/

He slipped up and called this scene a "death scene"

This. How Fucking stupid are people

Chase says he died in a interview

He said the opposite actually. Intentionally. The closest you get to Chase saying he dies is him misspeaking, while he has explicitly said he doesn't die.

He said that was his original plan THEN CHANGED IT reeeeeeeeeee

This is alsp a braindead take besides its pointless - they already spent multiple episodes demonstrating his life of paranoia, including the ending of the second to last one, why would they end the show on a repeat of theme instead of covering Tony's death from a first person perspective? Its such an empty idea compared to how meaningful the obvious death scene is

>his family
Dumb fuck

>heckin chonker kys
Get cancer reddit nigger

Wrong, he specifically calls it a death scene then shows frustration at having spilled the beans. Your zero-subtext 'tony is paranoid' ending is redundant and offers nothing

Jamal punched his fucking lights out

No one cares about lit crit, especially actual creators. Quit trying to convince yourself that "analysis" if entertainment products is a valid academic pursuit. Tony lives and it's been explicitly said.

vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/08/tony-soprano-didnt-die

Though Chase wants it to remain ambiguous, he has specifically said that he's not dead. Even in the case of ambiguity, all those fake outs weren't meant to foreshadow anything. The scene just ends, that's the point.

Its not analysis, its the blatant loss of conciousness on screen, and it doesnt take a lit essay to see that. David Chase literally called in a death scene no matter how much you deny it.

vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/08/tony-soprano-didnt-die

Chase literally says he doesn't die. It's not the loss of consciousness. The scene just ends. We entered Tony's life at a random moment, and we left it at one.

He wrote the scene to imply death, and the inability to perceive or be sure of death when dead, so he's coy about it because the ending shot is actually an impossible quantum state of consciousness. He literally doesn't show Tony dying because Tony doesn't get to see himself dying, he purposefully only shows what the individual would perceive, and he avoids conciously referring to it as a Death scene to maintain the theme of not being able to perceieve or understand your own death

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>entire show portrays hits as quick out of nowhere events that happen in the most mundane of places
>characters in the very same season discuss how getting whacked would probably be like just cutting to black
>Tony sits in a mundane restaurant with several suspicious characters eyeing him up
>a strange man walks past him and is last see behind Tony
>he looks up
>cut to black

I agree Tony lived all that set up was just a red herring.

>Yup! Just like that, Chase lays it out. Or, that’s how Vox.com has packaged writer Martha P. Nochimson’s long and interesting look at Chase’s life and career, anyway. What Chase actually says is this: when asked by Nochimson, “Did Tony die?” he responds with a head shake and, “No, he isn’t.” Which isn’t exactly the same thing as, “No, he didn’t die,” is it? Maybe he just means that Tony lives on in memory? Maybe? Nah, he probably meant that Tony doesn’t die in the last scene of the show.
Wtf id his horseshit lol? Did you even read your own article? Once again David Cage is toiling to provide quantum half-answers to avoid giving the proof of death that scene was designed to avoid

He died at the end. Hence.. the end of the show let it go weirdo

Right, but also the scene was written ro gove the effect of first person instant death. Tony the chaeacter loves in our hearts, is just a charicature in a slice of a fictional life, is avaliable for replay on DVD, and also has a final scene that intentionally invokes first person instant death

Everyone thinking Tony is definitely dead should google "Sopranos movie".

Either the ending was deliberately ambiguous, or Tony was meant to live all along.

In any case, the ending was never ever intended to imply his death, because the first reports of a movie already surfaced before the last season finished.

Yep. The Tony's dead crowd read those dumb analysis articles that came out around the last episode and bought into the pseudo-intellectualism.

They can't let go now, even with explicit statements to the contrary, because they can't admit that lit crit is nonsense. It'd be akin to admitting that dropping out was a bad idea or that their transition surgery hasn't cured their mental illness.

Its not lit crit it's an element of the finale that it ends abruptly, much like death as discussed in the show, with the question of if the jacket guy is his assassin.

You've been proven wrong already. Post Paulie pics or dilate.

Like literally everything in that scene points out he died. You literally just don't see it in detail, but the abrupt stop in sounds implies death in any case.

He died, fucking deal with it.

No, no he didn't die. The show ended, and therefore the cut to black implies that the world that David Chase created has come to a conclusion, not that Tony himself died.