Wise Guy David Chase and The Sopranos Trailer - Plot Synopsis: 25 years after the show first debuted, HBO's paradigm-shifting series THE SOPRANOS remains a cultural phenomenon and a touchstone for prestige television. In WISE GUY, David Chase and The Sopranos, acclaimed filmmaker Alex Gibney delves deep into the psyche of renowned Sopranos creator and writer, David Chase, to illuminate his life and career while offering a unique window into his unparalleled work on the iconic program. On a replica set of Dr. Melfi's psychiatrist's office, Gibney flips the script on David Chase, excavating and analyzing the origins of THE SOPRANOS, his creative process, and the intimate connections between his own life and many of his characters.
directed by Alex Gibney
release date September 7, 2024 (on HBO and MAX)
directed by Alex Gibney
release date September 7, 2024 (on HBO and MAX)
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00:00For years, everybody told me you should write a show about your mother and yourself.
00:09She was so out there.
00:10Stop telling me how to live my life, you just shut up.
00:13I thought, who's going to watch that?
00:17You're making me out to be some fucking mama's boy.
00:19Then I realized, maybe if he was like a really badass guy.
00:28So what happened with you and the Sopranos, it was like, HBO said, go for it, man.
00:32Well, nobody else wanted it.
00:35David was a TV veteran, but hadn't really directed.
00:37I had no idea what I was doing, but I knew it was going to be about money and death.
00:43Could you have a killer as your lead?
00:46Is there a place for that on television?
00:50I would lay it all out for the writers.
00:52David starts filling the whiteboard.
00:54This thing gets done, then he goes, this is fucking horrible, erase this.
00:58It took us hours.
00:59We said things that nowadays would be frowned upon.
01:02We're writing about bad people, and we got to access those parts of ourself.
01:06The story comes out of those characters.
01:08The garbage business is changing.
01:10Let me pick the energy up, I'm very tired.
01:13Ow!
01:14That stuff is sort of my specialty, because I was from Queens.
01:17Carmella was something that HBO had discussed, but I went in wanting Dr. Melfi.
01:24Mr. Soprano?
01:25Jim had his own way of becoming Tony.
01:28Unless you're really diligent, you can end up taking your work home, and as an actor,
01:32that's not always a great idea.
01:34He probably quit the show every other day.
01:38Did you see elements of yourself in Tony?
01:43The Sopranos really redefine what people are willing and what people want to watch at home.
01:48In that writer's room, we went through divorces, and children being born, and the stuff of
01:53life.
01:55The more I did The Sopranos, I began to realize that the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and on.
02:05It's always mesmerized me.
02:09How are you doing?
02:10You okay, David?
02:11Yeah, I'm just talking my hat off.
02:12As Tony says, remember when it's the lowest form of conversation.
02:23It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:24It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:25It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:26It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:27It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:28It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:29It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:30It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:31It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:32It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:33It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:34It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:35It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:36It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:37It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:38It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:39It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:40It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:41It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:42It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:43It's the lowest form of conversation.
02:44It's the lowest form of conversation.