[lbo-talk] Sopranos

[ravi]

joanna bujes wrote:
>
> The Sopranos works very differently. Tony Soprano is presented as an 
> American everyman who stands for everything that America worships: 
> success and power. Each show, uses the credits, to replay Tony's social 
> ascent, from the armpit of New Jersey into the gated communities. His 
> "arrival" is punctuated by his brandishing his gun, so that we are not 
> mistaken about what has actually gotten him there. Every episode 
> underlines the way in which every established insititution: the catholic 
> church, the ivy league schools, the professional classes, the unions, 
> and the politicians kiss Tony's ass and do his bidding despite their 
> mouthing platitudes about his "immorality." Everyone in Tony's world is 
> complicit in Tony's crimes because everyone takes a little of what Tony 
> dispenses: money, influence, and power.
>

perhaps it is evidence of my naivette that i find the above summary
almost entirely descriptive of the godfather series of movies!

	--ravi