When I saw “The Many Saints of Newark,” I wanted it to immerse me in the lives of New Jersey mobsters in the late ’60s and early ’70s the same way that “The Sopranos&#…
” immersed us in the lives of New Jersey mobsters at the turn of the 21st century. The film more or less achieves that. That’s why, while not nearly as great as the series, it’s a pretty good Saturday night movie. Of course, the other thing I wanted from “The Many Saints” was for it to put me in a time machine so that I could witness the formative teenage years of Tony Soprano, who is portrayed in the film by James Gandolfini’s son, Michael .
He’s on the high school football team and respects the coach. Tony isn’t like his father. He’s basically the early-’70s version of a shining-eyed, long-haired slacker who likes to lay next to his oversize stereo speakers and get overpowered by rock ‘n’ roll. Speaking of those speakers, they were stolen and given to him as a gift by Dickie Moltisanti , Tony’s “uncle” , who becomes his much nicer father figure.
Late in the movie, one of the central characters gets whacked. I won’t say who, but he’s pretty major. And with a kind of consummate “Sopranos” irony, he didn’t even do anything! He didn’t betray anyone; he didn’t get caught in a gang war. He simply laughed at the wrong person. The murder of this person is supposed to hit the young Tony Soprano hard, to knock him for a loop. Yet by suggesting that it winds up nudging Tony toward the life, there is something that the film gets crucially wrong.
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