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The Many Saints of Newark

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The Many Saints of Newark	comment	The Many Saints of Newark: A Sopranos Story is a 2021 film which serves as the prequel to the HBO crime drama The Sopranos. It was released on October 1, 2021—fourteen years after the end of the original series.Set during the run-up to the 1967 Newark race riots, the film centers around Richard "Dickie" Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola), a soldier in the DiMeo mafia family of New Jersey, and his young nephew Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini), whom he decides to take under his wing. As the DiMeo family grapples with unrest between Newark's Italian-American and black communities (and their criminal elements), Dickie increasingly pulls Tony into the violent lifestyle of the New Jersey mob.Previews: Trailer 1, Trailer 2.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: David Chase appears briefly as, appropriately enough, Ercole "Eckley" DiMeo, the actual boss of the DiMeo crime family (who was imprisoned by the time of the series and not referred to past the second season). He's only seen very briefly and not in much detail, walking through the post-funeral gathering.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
The Many Saints of Newark / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The trailers and promos made it seem like many scenes in the film show Dickie Moltisanti visiting his father "Hollywood Dick" in prison. "Hollywood Dick" is actually murdered by Dickie early on in the film and the person Dickie visits in prison is actually his father's twin brother/Dickie's uncle Sal Moltisanti.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Many Saints of Newark / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Tony Blundetto is mentioned by Livia as how she and Johnny Boy discovered Tony, Artie Bucco, and Jackie Aprile hijacked a Mr. Softee truck (Tony B told Janice who told Livia), but he never appears onscreen. Dickie (while gifting a stolen set of stereo speakers to Tony) tells his nephew that his friend Hesh (Rabkin) says "only kids and goyim pay retail".
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Many Saints of Newark / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Played with for Aldo "Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti's death scene. On the one hand, him getting beaten to death by his own son is a genuinely shocking sight, with Dickie ramming his dad's face into their car steering wheel until it kills him. However, the car horn blaring almost cartoonishly every time his face hits the wheel is just downright funny.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Many Saints of Newark / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: A major theme of the film is that back in the '70s, the elder DiMeo crime family members were just as petty as the members of the '90s-'00s and Tony and Carmela were just as unruly as Meadow and AJ when they were teenagers. Tony and Carmela are seen trying to snag beer for a Wild Teen Party while Junior has Dickie assassinated just because Dickie laughed at him for slipping on the stairs at a funeral. On a more tragic note both Dickie and Christopher are responsible for the death of their lovers due to a betrayal; Giuseppina is murdered by Dickie for cheating on him with Harold while Adriana is killed when Chris tells Tony that she became an informant for the FBI.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Many Saints of Newark / int_28cd01ca	comment	His father "Johnny Boy" isn't around much (either due to business or being in jail), so is pretty much a Disappeared Dad. Tony admits to his counselor that even when Johnny's not working, he'd rather go to a game and then come home to complain.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Many Saints of Newark / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Granted, the conflict between Dickie Moltisanti and Harold McBrayer is a case of Evil vs. Evil. However, the film ends with Dickie dead (although through completely unrelated circumstances) and Harold having successfully taken over much of Dickie's territory for his own crime operation.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Many Saints of Newark / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Junior having Dickie assassinated over a minor slight Dickie probably doesn’t even remember is low even for him. It’s also theoretically a violation of the mafia code.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Many Saints of Newark / int_355007c3	comment	Brilliant, but Lazy: The trailer has Tony's guidance counselor explaining to his mother:
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
The Many Saints of Newark / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: Part of the film takes place in the late sixties, specifically during the Newark riots of 1967.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Many Saints of Newark / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The film sets up part of the story as a battle for Tony's soul, with Tony either pursuing an education to fulfill his intellectual promise or joining the mob with his father Johnny Boy and uncles Dickie and Junior. The mere existence of the original Sopranos series fills you in on how Tony turns out.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Many Saints of Newark / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: The film elaborates how Dickie Moltisanti played this role in Tony's childhood and teen years. Tony admires and looks up to his "Uncle Dickie" while his actual parents are more distant and negligent towards him. Though as the film goes on, it becomes apparent that Dickie's influence on Tony wasn't an overly positive one. Uncle Junior is also shown to be this (as per his portrayal in the original series), who actually shows concern for Tony in comparison to Livia dismissing his brilliance and Johnny Boy generally ignoring him completely.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Many Saints of Newark / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: It's implied that Dickie's uncle Sal can tell that his nephew is obviously lying about the nature of Aldo and Giuseppina's deaths, but he doesn't call him out on it, only barely hinting. It's likely he doesn't judge, as he's a murderer himself.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Many Saints of Newark / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Dickie's crew torture one of Harold's men by sticking a mechanical drill in his mouth and revving it up, causing it to grind most of his teeth out.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
The Many Saints of Newark / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: The trailers understandably made a big deal about Michael Gandolfini playing a young version of his father's character, but he only appears in the film's second half in what's still a (relatively) minor role.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Many Saints of Newark / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Dickie dies, Tony ends up following his path into a life of crime, the audience knows that many of the characters will eventually suffer gruesome fates in the '90s and '00s, and Christopher concludes his narration by confirming that he is in Hell.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
The Many Saints of Newark / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: Vera Farmiga was clearly cast due to her resemblance to Edie Falco, and even alters her voice to sound similar, playing into the numerous hints from the series that Tony is attracted to women like his mother. Tony describes a time Livia "snuggled up close to him" and read him a bedtime story as "one of the best memories of his life" to a school guidance counselor, although the implication there is more that this is one of the only happy memories that Tony has of Livia.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
The Many Saints of Newark / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: Tony was supposed to meet with Dickie at Holsten's on the morning of Dickie's death, where Dickie was likely going to talk him out of getting involved in the life of crime, but he never arrives in time to do so. Tony essentially begins his life of crime at the same place it will possibly be ended in the finale of the series.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
The Many Saints of Newark / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: Giuseppina and Harold share a cigarette after having sex.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Many Saints of Newark / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Aldo Moltisanti beats Giuseppina with a belt and throws her down a flight of stairs. When Johnny Boy gets tired of Livia's complaining, he takes his pistol and shoots her hairdo.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Many Saints of Newark / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The film pointedly doesn't reveal the face or name of the hitman who kills Dickie, thereby preserving the ambiguity about whether Det. Barry Haydu from "All Debts Public And Private" killed him or not.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Many Saints of Newark / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: About halfway through, the film jumps from 1967 to 1973.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Many Saints of Newark / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Uncle Junior is an unrepentant gangster who frequently steals and murders, but he genuinely loves his nephew Tony and shows more concern for him than his parents. Dickie deeply cares for Tony, giving him gifts and mentorship, and spending more time with him than Livia and Johnny. It visibly pains him to shun his nephew and stay out of his life, as per his uncle (Sally)'s advice, but Dickie does it as he ultimately feels it would be best for Tony's future.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Many Saints of Newark / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: After remaining very vague in the original series, the circumstances behind Dickie's death are finally revealed. It eventually turns out that it was Corrado Soprano ("Junior") that is behind Dickie's death, hiring an assassin to do it for him. And to twist the knife even further, he seemingly did it just because Dickie laughed at him after having an accident.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Many Saints of Newark / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Big Pussy's actor, Vincent Pastore, is often noted to look very similar to Joey Diaz. Naturally, Diaz plays Lina "Buddha" Bonpensiero, the father of Big Pussy in this movie.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Many Saints of Newark / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Unsurprisingly, the sexism, homophobia, and especially the racism of the DiMeo crime family is on full display. Notably, the idea that Harold had decided to take control of the numbers racket business for himself and his black associates is so foreign to the mobsters that they had initially assumed he was acting on behalf of one of the New York families.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
The Many Saints of Newark / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Tony, Silvio, Paulie, Pussy, Junior, and Livia will all survive into the original series, while Johnny will survive until dying of emphysema in 1986.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_80984829	type	Child Supplants Parent
The Many Saints of Newark / int_80984829	comment	Child Supplants Parent: Dickie murders his father and then proceeds to sleep with his father's widow.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_8af45dbd	comment	A major theme of the film is that back in the '70s, the elder DiMeo crime family members were just as petty as the members of the '90s-'00s and Tony and Carmela were just as unruly as Meadow and AJ when they were teenagers. Tony and Carmela are seen trying to snag beer for a Wild Teen Party while Junior has Dickie assassinated just because Dickie laughed at him for slipping on the stairs at a funeral.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Many Saints of Newark / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: "Hollywood Dick" Moltisanti, Dickie's father, who is accidentally murdered by his own son for being an abusive piece of shit to his second wife (and insulting Dickie's mother, after having been abusive to her as well in the past).
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Many Saints of Newark / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Dickie beats his father, Hollywood Dick, to death.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
The Many Saints of Newark / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Though the film is set in the '60s and '70s, it is narrated by Christopher Moltisanti, who died in-universe in 2007. The film begins with a shot of Christopher's grave before the story begins, and throughout the film Christopher frequently mentions that Tony will go on to kill him. He even seems aware of events that happened after his death as he mentioned that Tony left "pocket change" to Kelly (Christopher's widow) and their daughter some time after Chris died. And at the very end of the film, Christopher confirms that, yes, he did indeed end up in Hell for everything he (mostly) did on Tony's behalf in the series.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Many Saints of Newark / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Even posthumously, Christopher claims that Tony is the man he "went to Hell for." Christopher from the very first episode of the series was incredibly eager to get involved in the mafia lifestyle and over the course of the show refused several opportunities to leave it behind. He also committed the very first murder in the show and did it without any prompting from Tony whatsoever.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Many Saints of Newark / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: As teenagers, Tony, Jackie, and Artie steal an ice cream truck and start handing out free ice cream to the younger kids in the neighborhood. While motor vehicle theft is definitely a crime, the whole thing is more like an elaborate prank compared to the absolutely heinous stuff that Tony will do later in life.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_9ab3da1a	type	Evil Mentor
The Many Saints of Newark / int_9ab3da1a	comment	Evil Mentor: Dickie Moltisanti to Tony Soprano, to the point that Livia says Dickie is the only person Tony listens to.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Many Saints of Newark / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Tony first meets Christopher as an infant, Christopher begins crying, and someone remarks that infants can be born with knowledge from "the other side." Since Tony ends up killing Christopher during The Sopranos, she may have a point. In the original series, when Tony tells Junior that Johnny Sack wants Ralph Cifaretto whacked over Ralph calling his wife fat, Junior says that, in the old days, a made man would not have even had to ask for permission over an affront to their dignity like that. Here, we find out Junior had Dickie murdered for something that is arguably even more petty.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Many Saints of Newark / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In the trailer, Tony wears the Saint Christopher medallion around his neck, which he wears decades later in the original series. Also in the trailer, Tony's guidance counselor discusses his high score on an I.Q. test, which Tony mentions to Johnny Sack in the series. Paulie has a couple of a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments◊ in the film where he does the finger point from the original series◊ he is known for. Dickie hides his heavy drinking from Tony, similar to how his son Christopher will repeatedly hide his alcohol and substance abuse from Tony during the series. The younger Livia looks and sounds very similar to Carmela, playing into numerous hints about Tony's Oedipus Complex during the series. Early in the film, Johnny and some of his associates are arrested at a fairground as Janice and Tony watch. This scene (with differences) was also depicted early on in the series. When Tony and his mother are discussing his participation of the high school football team at Johnny Boy's welcome home party, Junior dismisses it saying he doesn't "have the makings of a varsity athlete". We get to see the incident where Johnny Boy fired a bullet through Livia's beehive hairdo after getting fed up with her nagging. In the original series, Christopher has a near-death experience and imagines himself in Hell along with his father, causing a crisis of faith for Paulie and Carmela. He even states that his uncle Tony is "the man he's going to Hell for". In this movie, his voiceover confirms that he did go to Hell.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
The Many Saints of Newark / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: The film continues the theme from the series by showing that, for all of the talk about the Glory Days of The Mafia, things during that time really weren't that much different than the modern day depicted in the show. More specifically, Johnny Boy and Dickie had many of the same flaws as their sons, the black crime syndicate was more than a match for the DiMeo crew, and Undying Loyalty was never a thing as Junior had Dickie assassinated just because he laughed at him for slipping.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a0a005d1	comment	Protagonist Journey to Villain: Downplayed. Though Tony is not the film's main focus, the events of the film set into motion how he'll grow up to become the infamous mafia boss from the series.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: Dickie is a long-dead Posthumous Character in The Sopranos, and sure enough, he's dead by the end of the film.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: Early on in the film, during Janice Soprano's confirmation, Dickie, Johnny and Junior discuss the trouble black hoodlums are causing their numbers organization. Young Anthony overhears this and uses this as inspiration to start his own numbers racket at school, alongside his friend Artie Bucco.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a55454ee	comment	Malcolm Xerox: Harold McBrayer has shades of this, as his motivation during the second half of the film is for his group of black criminals to be the ones running the numbers racket in Newark's black neighborhoods instead of The Mafia. He makes the decision to fully break from the DiMeo family after going to a black power poetry reading.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Dickie imagines himself making up for his criminal lifestyle by coaching a successful baseball team comprised of blind players. When he comes to, Sal, who he had been explaining his dream to, is gone, then making it ambiguous as to whether all of his interactions with Sal had been an Imagine Spot.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: Harold is victorious in the rivalry and gets to move into a wealthy white neighborhood, but it's a Foregone Conclusion that the DiMeo family will still be active in the future while Harold's empire seems to have had no lasting impact — and worse yet, his heroin operation will destroy the same community he'd set out to empower.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: Junior is incredibly frustrated because he cannot perform sexually after he takes a nasty slip and fall on the mortuary steps. Not because he can't get it up necessarily, but his back gives him too much pain and needs to heal.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: Junior has Dickie murdered because he laughed at him when he slipped in the rain. The DiMeos' later end up losing Dickie’s territory to Harold’s crime syndicate.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_b15ad926	comment	Time-Shifted Actor: Since the movie takes place in the late '60s & early 70s, the entire cast is comprised of younger actors playing characters from the original series. The teenage Tony Soprano is played by Michael Gandolfini, who is James Gandolfini's son.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Earlier supplemental material established Tony Soprano's birth year as 1959. The movie changes it to 1955 to better fit Michael Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony for the 1972 scenes.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Giuseppina, for betraying a murderous made man like Dickie who killed his own father over her, by cheating on him with his enemy and then telling him about it, thinking it would end well for her.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Despite his poor grades, Tony scores high in an I.Q. test and expresses a desire to go to college, and also doesn't hesitate to rough up anybody who slights him.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Near the beginning of the film, during a party for Janice's confirmation, Dickie and Junior talk about how blacks (supposedly) "prey on their own kind", killing each other for money or petty grievances. Later, over the course of several years, Dickie kills his own father, then his lover Giuseppina, and then Dickie himself is whacked on the orders of Junior over an imagined slight.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
The Many Saints of Newark / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: After Livia talks with Tony's guidance counselor, Livia and Tony have a nice moment a few days later when she makes him a special lunch and they have a nice chat. Unfortunately, it goes off the rails when Livia mentions the family doctor wanted her to go on Elavil and she feels insulted after Tony innocently suggests that it might be a good idea to follow the doctor's recommendation since he's the expert.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: During the period the film is set in, before the RICO crackdowns of the '80s gutted the Mafia as a whole, the DiMeo crime family is at the height of its influence in North Jersey. However, it's ultimately Subverted as the film shows that things really weren't all that much better during the height of the organization's influence.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Christopher's narration reveals that he was sent to Hell after his death, but exactly what Hell is is never actually shown or described to the audience, leaving it up to their imagination.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Many Saints of Newark / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: A deleted scene shows Tony and Jackie Sr hanging out together, before having a brief scuffle after Tony loses his patience on Jackie mouthing off. They still remain friends into adulthood.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Many Saints of Newark / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The film puts some focus on Harold rising through the ranks of the African-American crime syndicate, setting him up as a major adversary for Dickie. After a shootout at the halfway point, Dickie and Harold never interact again, and Harold plays no part in Dickie's death.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: There's plenty of misery in Johnny and Livia's marriage already. Most of their shared screentime involves arguing with one another. When Livia puts a surprise party together for Johnny returning from prison, he can only think about his mistress and complain about their new African-American neighbors as though she were personally responsible, leading her to storm off in tears.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Most of the film's promotional material puts Tony front-and-center. While he does play a large role in the film, the story actually focuses more on Tony's uncle (and Christopher's father) Dickie Moltisanti. The ending of the film does make it clear however that despite Dickie being the main focus, this is also still a story of how Tony originally turned to a life of organised crime.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: Junior taking a bad fall after Buddha's funeral mirrors the fall on the courthouse steps that heralds the onset of his dementia in the original series. To drive the point home, he looks like his older self with a bathrobe and cane when he receives the call that the hit on Dickie was a success. Baby Christopher cries instantly at the sight of Tony, who will eventually murder him. A very young Anthony Soprano mentions how he saw a friend of his father's be shot in the back, and how he doesn't want that to happen to him. This is very likely his eventual fate in the final scene of the series.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_eab212a8	comment	Period Piece: In contrast to The Sopranos, which is set in the Present Day, this film goes back further in time to the Mafia's "Glory Days".
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: The film then jumps forward to the early seventies just after Johnny gets out of prison, and continues until the end when Dickie is murdered in 1973.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: It seems Dickie didn't set out to murder his father "Hollywood Dick", but repeatedly smashing his head into a car steering wheel does end up killing him.
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The Many Saints of Newark / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Junior has Dickie whacked for laughing at him after he takes a fall.
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