The Sopranos: Phil Leotardo - The Last Real Mobster

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  • @ratboy462
    @ratboy462 Год назад +2262

    "We're from alcoholics anonymous"
    "What's your name?"
    "Well we're anonymous"
    Best line.

    • @brettbaratheon9776
      @brettbaratheon9776 Год назад

      Now where’s ya son ya fooking twat

    • @isopropyltoxicity
      @isopropyltoxicity Год назад +53

      That shit had me dying

    • @danb1618
      @danb1618 Год назад +22

      😂 one of the best deliveries in the show

    • @gwinyaizhandire7535
      @gwinyaizhandire7535 11 месяцев назад +17

      and "I'll take that disc man, and I'll ram it up your box!!!"

    • @theoriginalsurferbob
      @theoriginalsurferbob 10 месяцев назад +6

      Not quite as good as, I loved him like a brother in law, but close.

  • @genericwhitemale9566
    @genericwhitemale9566 Год назад +3742

    Phil's a real mobster. Unlike that animal who killed his 46 year old kid brother, I can't even say his name.

  • @alcohol-freebeer3642
    @alcohol-freebeer3642 Год назад +2130

    Phil had the best arc in the Sopranos. He went into the can for some indeterminate time, came out of the closet and finally turned into a house. It was a fucking epic.

    • @neut9270
      @neut9270 Год назад +79

      you know who had an arc? Jamal Ginsberg, the hasidic homeboy

    • @alcohol-freebeer3642
      @alcohol-freebeer3642 Год назад +56

      @@neut9270 He was the strong, silent type, like Gary Cooper.

    • @Aint_no_senators_son
      @Aint_no_senators_son Год назад +31

      Indeterminate? He did 20 years in the can eating grilled cheese off the radiator. 😂

    • @alcohol-freebeer3642
      @alcohol-freebeer3642 Год назад +21

      @@Aint_no_senators_son Christ, he missed his kid brother Billy's late 20s to late 40s then. Poor guy, that was Billy's whole childhood right there.

    • @galleryofrogues
      @galleryofrogues Год назад +4

      @@Aint_no_senators_son*RATiator

  • @snail2755
    @snail2755 Год назад +4002

    The Sopranos is the greatest show of all time despite us never learning how long Phil spent in prison.

    • @serotoninsyndrome
      @serotoninsyndrome Год назад +174

      All his charges were knocked down to a moving violation and it cost him $250 in fines and court costs. He mentioned it frequently throughout the series. "$250 in fines, Butchie, not a peep...."

    • @2st_duallist
      @2st_duallist Год назад +48

      my favorite part is when they go to Naples thinking to be accepted as italians and most people are like "ma chi sei? che vuoi?"

    • @aaronstark5060
      @aaronstark5060 Год назад +49

      Or what he did in lieu of manicotti.

    • @shrim1481
      @shrim1481 Год назад +29

      Some things are just better left unsaid

    • @lean.2366
      @lean.2366 Год назад +21

      Whatever happened there, guess we'll never know

  • @SaltyChip
    @SaltyChip Год назад +956

    “Let me tell you a couple of three things” is easily a top 5 line for me.

    • @whiteeyes3743
      @whiteeyes3743 Год назад +22

      Tree things, not three lol

    • @garrom5652
      @garrom5652 Год назад +43

      @@whiteeyes3743 tree tings, not things. “Lemme tell you a couple of tree tings”

    • @hjuikkll
      @hjuikkll Год назад +3

      @@garrom5652 well he sure liked trunks and botanical gardens. nothing wrong wit that

    • @whiteeyes3743
      @whiteeyes3743 Год назад +1

      @@garrom5652 true lol

    • @yaqubebased1961
      @yaqubebased1961 Год назад +5

      Lemme tell ya a coupla tree things

  • @bobbylinton9527
    @bobbylinton9527 Год назад +666

    Phil must've crawled under that tire for warmth.

    • @garrom5652
      @garrom5652 Год назад +77

      The tire was a made man and Phil wasn’t. They just had to take it, real greaseball shit among the Italians.

    • @uTubeNoITube
      @uTubeNoITube Год назад +8

      LMFAO

    • @billzco6137
      @billzco6137 Год назад +5

      Lol!!! Good Christopher call back

    • @rickydlp
      @rickydlp Год назад +11

      His final compromise 😢

    • @suitednate2012
      @suitednate2012 Год назад +4

      very nice. well done. 😂

  • @jasonwolfe3252
    @jasonwolfe3252 Год назад +743

    That Phil turned himself into a house joke never gets old.

    • @jamesgentry13
      @jamesgentry13 Год назад +19

      His head turned into a watermelon

    • @ratedr7845
      @ratedr7845 Год назад +3

      It has

    • @x.x208
      @x.x208 Год назад +7

      @@ratedr7845hasn’t *

    • @brettpatterson404
      @brettpatterson404 Год назад +35

      He wanted to turn into a shinebox but he compromised and turned into a house.

    • @jammin2575
      @jammin2575 Год назад +6

      @@brettpatterson404Now get of his stoop! 😅

  • @kylejameshastings6507
    @kylejameshastings6507 Год назад +604

    “When Vito gets here you are gonna ducktape him while ima hide in the closet. It’ll be like a metaphor”

  • @wezob4569
    @wezob4569 Год назад +630

    I loved Phil like a brother-law 😂

    • @uTubeNoITube
      @uTubeNoITube Год назад

      And the cocksucker fucked me in the ass.

    • @Buugzy
      @Buugzy Год назад +6

      In wasnt In him because he felt it in him

    • @TheSmark666
      @TheSmark666 Год назад +1

      "Brother-in-Law, can you help me? I'm stuck in the dryer."

    • @Buugzy
      @Buugzy Год назад

      @@TheSmark666 ok sure in law

    • @uTubeNoITube
      @uTubeNoITube Год назад

      @@TheSmark666 "What are you DOING step bro?!?!?!"

  • @kartikchandrasekhar7393
    @kartikchandrasekhar7393 Год назад +451

    Phil was a huge asshole. But the guy who played him was supposed to be a super friendly guy! What a fine actor!

    • @dr3dg352
      @dr3dg352 Год назад +38

      I really enjoyed his movie Chicago Overcoat, which used to be on Netflix. Absolutely bog standard mobster B movie, but it was fun to see Frank Vincent as a protagonist mobster living his last glorious mob days in a changing world.

    • @bearok89
      @bearok89 Год назад +53

      Both he and Joe Pesci used to be a comedy duo together, which makes it extra funny when you think of their scenes in Casion and Goodfellas

    • @mrd3016
      @mrd3016 Год назад +27

      Yeah bro, it's called acting.

    • @freebee8221
      @freebee8221 Год назад +8

      Billy bats played him. He didnt die in goodfellas, he just got a new name and relocated into jersey as part of wit pro.

    • @Anon26535
      @Anon26535 Год назад +9

      I wanted more Frank Vincent movies. I compromised...

  • @PolishGod1234
    @PolishGod1234 Год назад +182

    Phil was a formidable opponent, his ability to turn into house gives him huge advantage over other mobsters, but in his final moment he couldnt react in time, and didnt transform

  • @dowie1989
    @dowie1989 Год назад +603

    Phil is a really fun combination of the worst traits of Carmine’s old school mentality and Johnny’s modern yet hot headedness. Ruthless with a massive chip on his shoulder for doing 20 years in the can.
    And as said, that resentment as the most powerful person in a family was just leading to a war.

    • @panchh9228
      @panchh9228 Год назад +34

      He did 20 years in the can?

    • @water9892
      @water9892 Год назад +41

      ​@@panchh9228he doesn't talk about it much

    • @jp05598
      @jp05598 Год назад +9

      How long in the can?

    • @tomz5704
      @tomz5704 Год назад +5

      All I got to say is he compromised, and I never got him looking like the shah of Iran

    • @jasoncarswell7458
      @jasoncarswell7458 Год назад

      The 20 years was fine, it was the jerking off into the grilled cheese that made him bitter.

  • @idontknowhowtonamethings.6905
    @idontknowhowtonamethings.6905 Год назад +641

    Honestly I never thought Phil was literally gay, just that he felt deeply ashamed for “compromising” in jail. This is why he grabs the sheets during Vito’s death, being turned on by the violence. Arguably this is what Chase implies by saying that the “allusions were intentional”

    • @Macks1913
      @Macks1913 Год назад

      Yeah I don't think he's a fag either but Chase is arguably not a good source of info anymore, he constantly forgets details and Many Saints of Newark was just a reminder of that

    • @mrd3016
      @mrd3016 Год назад +145

      He's not gay per say, but he had gay experiences in the joint. That's what Kino means & what Chase confirmed.

    • @Buugzy
      @Buugzy Год назад +51

      Ohh whatever happened there

    • @chainingten3819
      @chainingten3819 Год назад +7

      ​@mrd3016 what episode is this expressed in?

    • @zombieparrot2606
      @zombieparrot2606 Год назад +73

      He literally comes out of the closet in that scene, ha. If that’s not blatant symbolism, I don’t know what is.

  • @paulkenny105
    @paulkenny105 Год назад +189

    Phil was also a master chef who created the “Grill Cheese a la Leonardo” which is now a staple of every Italian restaurant

    • @RM-306
      @RM-306 Год назад +14

      Do they heat it on the Radiator?

    • @jammin2575
      @jammin2575 Год назад +12

      @@RM-306Rad-e-atoor

    • @poleag
      @poleag 11 месяцев назад +6

      It's great how he restored his name for the dish. Not like those bastards at Ellis Island.

    • @opaljk4835
      @opaljk4835 9 месяцев назад +1

      But I heard Rasta’s had a lock on that too

  • @trevorjepsen3300
    @trevorjepsen3300 Год назад +283

    Ya know, Quasimodo predicted all this

    • @RexSonic
      @RexSonic Год назад +2

      Who?

    • @RainBird88x
      @RainBird88x Год назад +51

      @@RexSonic The quarterback of Notre Dame.

    • @AlWah-fj4kf
      @AlWah-fj4kf 5 месяцев назад +1

      Nice Bobby Baccallieri quote😂

    • @daydreamsp
      @daydreamsp Месяц назад

      @@RainBird88x😂😂

  • @nodiggity9472
    @nodiggity9472 Год назад +99

    They took a a respected Italian name, and turned it into a ballet costume.

    • @ADUSN
      @ADUSN Месяц назад +2

      But in ballet they wore tutu's

  • @blondegirlsezthis8798
    @blondegirlsezthis8798 Год назад +61

    Phil accomplished an almost perfect "Meme's-per-spoken-sentence" ratio on the show as well, a metric few have mentioned.

  • @johnnybrix717
    @johnnybrix717 Год назад +68

    I loved him like a brother in law is one of the greatest lines in TV history😂😂😂

    • @littlecarminelupertazzi1357
      @littlecarminelupertazzi1357 Год назад +1

      Why is that line so funny?

    • @clamcrewcarclub6017
      @clamcrewcarclub6017 Год назад +10

      @@littlecarminelupertazzi1357the phrase is normally “I loved him like a brother,” so to say “like a brother in law” (someone you have no real relation to) to his sister to comfort her is backhanded and meaningless lol

    • @royrayburn1503
      @royrayburn1503 Год назад +6

      Phil had had the best one liners on the show.

  • @EronZalez
    @EronZalez Год назад +160

    You wanted to talk about the real value of Phil Leotardo, but you compromised and recorded this video. Great as always

  • @D2attemp
    @D2attemp Год назад +137

    I think Phil might have served roughly 2 months to maybe 300 years in prison. It’s very subtle but the clues are there. David Chase is a genius

    • @jamesbeddus
      @jamesbeddus Год назад +3

      I'd narrow that down I think even further to between 3 months and 299 years

  • @intelligentspeculator7327
    @intelligentspeculator7327 Год назад +491

    Sarcasm aside, Phil's fixation on Vito's homosexuality was to a big extent caused by his wife, let's not forget about that like most people do. At one point Phil calmed down a bit and almost seemed to be at peace and started leaning towards simply letting Tony take care of that issue. It was Phil's wife who then strongly pressed him that it was Phil's responsibility and pride to "take care of Vito", which meant very clearly killing him, which at least subconsciously she very well understood. Let's not blame it all on "toxic and insecure masculinity" here, or "closet homosexuality", not even conceiving that a woman could be equally homophobic in a lot of cases.

    • @sergio_jose
      @sergio_jose Год назад +36

      That's a great analysis, i'm sure you didn't come up with it yourself.

    • @baremangus3576
      @baremangus3576 Год назад +24

      ​@@sergio_josewhy would you say that?

    • @intelligentspeculator7327
      @intelligentspeculator7327 Год назад +65

      @@baremangus3576 Lol it's a joke that references Phil's answer to his wife about the priest, who said "There is nothing gay about hell".

    • @hexagonproductions2019
      @hexagonproductions2019 Год назад +25

      Phil’s wife seems like the straw, perhaps on some level, Phil even unconsciously sympathized with Vito, given his experiences in da can.

    • @sergio_jose
      @sergio_jose Год назад

      @@hexagonproductions2019 20 years in the can.
      I wanted to fuck a woman.
      I compromised.
      I fucked a man 🤌🍆

  • @aaronrowell6943
    @aaronrowell6943 Год назад +266

    Phil is probably my favorite character in the whole show. While he is a retread of the bitter old mobster who is behind the times, since he actually has power he becomes a much bigger threat than Richie or Feech ever were. In a way, he is Tony's ultimate test and is very arguable that Tony fails despite his experiences with his own family. It also helps that the acting is amazing and he is hilarious. The other thing I liked about Phil though is that while he is funny he is also terrifying. He flips from being sweet enough and a loving family man to cold-blooded killer more naturally the most of the cast

    • @TooLooze
      @TooLooze Год назад +16

      Frank Vincent has a couple of lines in Goodfellas, but was a huge presence in the movie. And not just because of that awful smell from being moved.

    • @aaronrowell6943
      @aaronrowell6943 Год назад +1

      @JonnyKay-co4xc i loved him like a brother in law

    • @victordejung5675
      @victordejung5675 Год назад

      @dutyaccountabilitymediaI loved phil! Couldn’t Stand Tony and his hypocrisy!

    • @bretmaverick9434
      @bretmaverick9434 Год назад +2

      Everything you said about Phil also applies to Tony.
      Tony got Phil first, though.

    • @donarthiazi2443
      @donarthiazi2443 Год назад

      @@bretmaverick9434 Huh? Tony is not "a retread of the bitter old mobster that is behind the times". Where do you get that?

  • @JangianTV
    @JangianTV Год назад +148

    Twenty years in the can, and not a peep! 💪

    • @jamesgreenldn
      @jamesgreenldn Год назад +21

      I didn’t know Phil Leotardo did twenty years, did he ever mention that?

    • @DibsEquipped
      @DibsEquipped Год назад +4

      Because he liked it there...

    • @garrom5652
      @garrom5652 Год назад +12

      Whatever happened there…

    • @flameguy3416
      @flameguy3416 5 месяцев назад

      I different kind of peep for sure

  • @KainedbutAble123
    @KainedbutAble123 Год назад +89

    The show really went to another level with the introduction of Phil.

  • @llcooljaz1097
    @llcooljaz1097 Год назад +60

    Me: I wanted to watch a Kino video…. I compromised… I watched cineranter…
    Kino: you get a pass for that.

    • @TooLooze
      @TooLooze Год назад +4

      They're both a bit of a poseur, you ask me.

    • @llcooljaz1097
      @llcooljaz1097 Год назад +4

      @@TooLooze very allegorical.

  • @paulomiguel4249
    @paulomiguel4249 Год назад +24

    You kinda have to admire Phil. It’s not all talk with him; It’s also tissues, radiators, and shineboxes.

  • @braedenh6858
    @braedenh6858 Год назад +50

    I think Phil Leotardo was meant to show that Tony is actually a bad mafia boss. His competence and old school values (which are proven effective) illuminate Tony's incompetence and hypocrisy which are proven ineffective. Phil eliminates his enemies and does what he believes is good for the organization. Tony kills his own family members and does what is good for him.
    In the end, Phil dies fighting Tony, but the NY mafia wins the war and goes on while the Jersey crew is crushed and Tony gets whatever-ed in the final scene.
    I believe that a lot of people miss how ineffectual Tony is simply because he's the main POV throughout the show.

    • @adamantiiispencespence4012
      @adamantiiispencespence4012 8 месяцев назад +4

      Wrong on all counts. His own people sold him is why he died. He took the reigns after eliminating several people higher up the food chain in the Lupertazzi family decimating it upper ranks and spent the war he wanted hiding from Tony. The man turned into a house and then tried to flee the state. Plus he was pretty much manipulated to the point of being Butchie's puppet. When his string got cut his head got squashed.

    • @truthhurts1936
      @truthhurts1936 8 дней назад

      Tony was right about Vito. We're here to make money, who gives af if you like to get fucked by dudes, you make me rich. Vito was valuable, got killed for a old school rule that was outdated.
      If the best employee of mine brings me 10k a week, while I do nothing, what sense would it make for me to kill him for being gay, especially when I'm not homophobic in the first place.

  • @theboard3476
    @theboard3476 Год назад +25

    It’s also poetic. In the first episode, Tony talks about how he came into the game late and throughout the series talks about how he wishes he was in it earlier during the golden years. Yet all his antagonists are people from those years. For how much Tony doesn’t want to admit it, he’s a product of the mafia he supposedly despises. Don’t get me wrong, they all came with their baggage, but it does show how times have changed and his final enemy is Phil. The one who held the old ways closest.
    Edit: I commented before I finished the video, lol op did a great job of articulating it better!

  • @ankitmustafi7795
    @ankitmustafi7795 Год назад +420

    Phil just couldn't bring himself to face the fact that he had wasted his life behind bars for a family that never cared about him.
    He was a bad person in the end but his motivations were kinda understandable.

    • @dr3dg352
      @dr3dg352 Год назад +34

      Speaking of family, his wife Patty is my absolute least favorite character in the show. Lady was worse than Livia!

    • @chinchilla415
      @chinchilla415 Год назад +55

      Phil was in prison?

    • @dr3dg352
      @dr3dg352 Год назад +4

      @@chinchilla415 he understands the plight of women.

    • @hjuikkll
      @hjuikkll Год назад +32

      makes a mean radiator sandwich at least

    • @MrGabol100
      @MrGabol100 Год назад +26

      Well spoken, but he had the right of it. Without people like him, everyone would turn informant, and if you aren't going to be respected when you are out and made to feel like you wasted your life, to hell with everything. He was in the right.

  • @Samuel88853
    @Samuel88853 Год назад +160

    Phil is a stand up guy

    • @skatemobster
      @skatemobster Год назад +18

      Right?! I mean he did 20 years in the fucking can.

    • @davidoneill7554
      @davidoneill7554 Год назад +14

      He’s real allegorical

    • @RustCohle072
      @RustCohle072 Год назад +9

      He's my favourite character in The Sopranos because he ate grilled cheese off the radiator, what a man.

    • @xXClassicUserXx
      @xXClassicUserXx Год назад +3

      Vito was always a come from behind type of guy

    • @gwensstepbro4966
      @gwensstepbro4966 Год назад

      Is this a gay joke? It worked lol.

  • @lean.2366
    @lean.2366 Год назад +65

    What a stand up guy, not one peep about the compromises he made in prison. He even had several mobsters waiting with their shineboxes outside the prison during his release.

  • @tedwojtasik8781
    @tedwojtasik8781 Год назад +218

    Phil is in no way an old-school mobster, he may think he is but he is far from it. He killed Angelo for no reason along with Lorraine. Any mobster would know what would happen as a result...retaliation. Phil's bother getting killed would have been expected. Further, New Jersey under the DeCavalcante Family which the show is based on, was essentially a sub-family shared by both the Gambino & Luchesi crime families IRL as Jersey actually brings in more money than three of the five NY families. No way Phil could have touched ANY Jersey guy without approval from the Commission without himself getting whacked. Old school mobsters knew that, you don't mess with the money, the money is always #1. The last of the true old school mobsters was Carmine sr. who summed it up perfectly when Johnny Sac wanted to whack Ralphie. Phil taking out a big earner such as Vito, regardless of which team he was catching for, would have resulted in Phil being whacked by the Commission. The other thing I am sick about is the jail bullshit. Hey asshole, you committed a crime and got busted, that was 100% on YOU, you did nothing special by keeping your scumbag mouth shut because you caused your own situation. So tired of these clowns thinking they are special because the did NOT rat. Not ratting is supposed to be expected, not rewarded.

    • @dr3dg352
      @dr3dg352 Год назад +85

      In Pauile's book, you get points for stayin' OUTta the can!

    • @theportugueselegend
      @theportugueselegend Год назад +18

      An amazing and accurate comment. Congratulations 👏👏👏
      I think Phil and other characters' exaggerations are done to reflect the decadent mobster lifestyle in the 2000's. There was hardly a guy that wouldn't mix emotions and personal affairs with business, or without needing to kill anybody.
      Also, the Lupertazzi family is based on the Genovese family, which has countless operations in New Jersey and work closely with the DeCavalcantes, bringing animosity to both parties.

    • @miaouew
      @miaouew Год назад +9

      Kill a woman? Come on.

    • @dr3dg352
      @dr3dg352 Год назад +4

      @@miaouew this last time I watched the show I *really* enjoyed Frankie Valli as Rusty. The character perfectly served his purpose, but it also would've been cool to see more of him.

    • @Phil_Burton
      @Phil_Burton Год назад +17

      Uh, he clearly killed Lorraine on Johnny Sack's orders and also Angelo due to an internal power struggle between Johnny and "Brainless the Second". This show's how he's old school, his boss told him to kill someone so he did it, even if that could bring blow back.

  • @sidewinder714
    @sidewinder714 Год назад +36

    It's quite fitting that it was at the point where Tony was at his worst where he went into direct rival conflict with Phil, who is also a pretty despicable and aggressive character, representing the old school made guy vs the new age gangster capitalist. Excellent rivalry between an antihero turned villain and villainous antagonist.

  • @HellNation
    @HellNation Год назад +34

    Tony Soprano faced a lot of bitter enemies in every season: his mother, Junior, Richie Aprile and Ralphie Cifaretto . But it was Phil Leotardo the ultimate nemesis and arguably the cause of his own demise at the end

    • @stairwaytoheaven8
      @stairwaytoheaven8 Год назад +6

      And people wonder why Tony became the irredeemable, unhinged psychopath he was in s6. After having a contact with each of these individuals no one can blame him LMAO

  • @guillermazo3724
    @guillermazo3724 Год назад +6

    Great analysis on both Phil’s character and the show. Very in-depth while also encased in a short and simple 11 min video! We need more analyses like these.

  • @Hammerhead547
    @Hammerhead547 Год назад +157

    Personally I think that phil is actually a secret sexual sadist rather than being gay.
    The fact he so clearly was getting his rocks off at the thought of watching vito be brutalized and violated sexually like he was makes him that much more frightening as a character because he actually gets his jollies from extreme acts of violence.

    • @DBat-sp1tp
      @DBat-sp1tp Год назад +22

      Agree.. Phil wasn’t homosexual. Did he engage in those kind of activities while locked up? We don’t know. But he does get off on hurting people but lots of these sociopathic types do Ralphie, Ritchie April…etc

    • @Hammerhead547
      @Hammerhead547 Год назад +8

      @@DBat-sp1tp
      Ralphie comes off as more sociopathic because he sees violence as a means to an end along with being an outlet for whatever repressed rage he feels about whatever happened when he was young, but he doesn't really get his rocks off to hurting people.
      Ritchie might have some sexually sadistic traits (based on what gets him off when he's having sex) but I don't see him as the type who would get off on actually being in the room watching someone be sexually tortured and murdered.
      As you said, we have no idea what phil did when he was in prison but I don't see him as being gay.
      But he could also have a dangerous paraphilia like pansexuality which is listed in the DSM-V as an extremely dangerous form of sexual deviance which is characterized by gaining extreme sexual stimulation from violence and having an often secret willingness to have sex with anyone or anything, its actually surprisingly common in serial killers/rapists like Alton Coleman and sexual sadists like phil.
      Phil's psychopathy would mask it but it would definitely explain why he seems to almost become sexually aroused when he's watching vito be sexually violated and murdered.

    • @blondegirlsezthis8798
      @blondegirlsezthis8798 Год назад +12

      Phil was actually a rare Shineboxsexual

    • @alexmartin3143
      @alexmartin3143 Год назад +1

      Thats what i thought too

    • @sw33tialucard
      @sw33tialucard Год назад

      Thank you, that was what I thought too.

  • @aheroictaxidriver3180
    @aheroictaxidriver3180 Год назад +22

    I wanted borko; I settled for Pure Kino.

  • @Bentleyyoyo
    @Bentleyyoyo Год назад +16

    "Though we're never given an exact answer on to how long he's been in been in prison" made me spit me drink laughing

  • @RLuca84
    @RLuca84 Год назад +13

    Where I live in Staten island there are a lot of current mob guys in my neighborhood. When I was a kid growing up they were very active in the community and did things out in the open .
    Nowadays they are pretty much relegated to underground schemes. most of them aside from the top top guys struggle to make money . The heydays are definitely over but they are still a large presence in the NYC area . Still having strong ties in labor unions , gambling and drugs .

  • @johnybenua3758
    @johnybenua3758 Год назад +9

    "... there hsn't been another great mafia movie after the shoe ended." The irishman is pretty amazing to be honest, one of the best mafia movies imho.

    • @thenewyearsgrinch
      @thenewyearsgrinch Год назад +2

      Great plot, some great performances. Robert deniro was simply too old to play frank sheeran. The wide angle shot of him beating up the greengrocer was unforgivable. A technical failure that bought me completely out of the movie.

  • @emperorfloch
    @emperorfloch Год назад +6

    A new Pure Kino upload and my lunch break is always a good time!
    🙌🏼

  • @intelligentspeculator7327
    @intelligentspeculator7327 Год назад +26

    1:10 That's true, but my favourite Sopranos theory is that Phil did approximately 20 years in prison. There are a few hints that suggest that the number was somewhere between 15 and 25 years and David Chase also said in an old interview, off the record, that he had always had in mind precisely that number when creating the character of Phil. But I agree, it's all speculation at this point.

    • @Kyle-sr6jm
      @Kyle-sr6jm Год назад +2

      There was some dissagreement about what would be the most effective time frame for the character. Both 15 and 25 years had strong arguments, but in the end they compromised.

  • @johnnyoldenjr.
    @johnnyoldenjr. Год назад +5

    The no more butchy scene with the music in the background is one of the best scenes in the show

  • @christophergetchell6490
    @christophergetchell6490 Год назад +12

    Absolutely awesome commentary about one of the characters who I don't think gets enough respect on the series. That scene that starts with him stirring his espresso and issuing a final takeout of the soprano crew is my absolute favorite of the series. I felt like that was the inevitable end to the series given all of the discord between he and Tony. In the end they both got what they had coming to them!

  • @hknapp-hj2sn
    @hknapp-hj2sn Год назад +8

    His greatest line was when he fake-shoots Loraine: "...because next time, there'll be no next time."

    • @hknapp-hj2sn
      @hknapp-hj2sn 9 месяцев назад

      That's one of the top lines of the whole series.

  • @joelglanton6531
    @joelglanton6531 Год назад +2

    I was JUST rewatching Sopranos clips and you upload this.

    • @jovicatrpcevski209
      @jovicatrpcevski209 Год назад

      I was just thinking about The Sopranos earlier today & guess what I just watched!

  • @adamweisshaup
    @adamweisshaup Год назад +25

    Finally a new video, I was starting to grow mushrooms out my ass!

    • @JangianTV
      @JangianTV Год назад +6

      There's an image!

    • @kevincarter2020
      @kevincarter2020 Год назад

      You did mushroom outta his ass once.....a whole fuckin platter

    • @BM-wh5qk
      @BM-wh5qk Год назад +2

      That sounds like a serious medical condition!

  • @Tobi_Wan_Kenobi
    @Tobi_Wan_Kenobi Год назад +6

    RIP Frank Vincent, gone to the great shinebox in the sky

  • @maxpower2511
    @maxpower2511 Год назад +30

    I do not think Phil was gay. Some people just really hate that way of life and I took Phil’s hatred at face value

    • @RomulusNumitor
      @RomulusNumitor Год назад

      Any sane non zoomer understands "that way of life" is disgusting and degenerate.

    • @tone3400
      @tone3400 11 месяцев назад +6

      Same I was born in the 90s some ppl just don’t like the life style I’m pretty sure it was just hate

    • @VaporRize08
      @VaporRize08 2 месяца назад +1

      There were way too many gay innuendos in Phil's scenes. They didn't do that for nothing. It was kind of overkill of you were paying attention.. Even after Vito died.

  • @Fotosynthesis858
    @Fotosynthesis858 3 месяца назад +4

    Phil wasn’t the last mobster. He was the Shah of Iran 😂

  • @vtorious9102
    @vtorious9102 8 месяцев назад +5

    The death of tradition is even shown in the way Phil was executed. Back in the day, you would never have been whacked if you were out with your family. But Phil was whacked right in front of his wife and his baby grandchildren in the back of his SUV.

  • @WisteriaNerium
    @WisteriaNerium Год назад +22

    Why do discussions about Phil's hatred for Vito always seem the ignore that his wife nudged him into it?

    • @broskiproductions49
      @broskiproductions49 Год назад +6

      I've always wondered this too

    • @nodiggity9472
      @nodiggity9472 Год назад +4

      Well, at least Vito had a son. He may have looked like a Puerto Rican hooer, but a son, nonetheless.

    • @KB-sv7fm
      @KB-sv7fm Год назад

      The way he killed Vito was sick.

  • @HEKVT
    @HEKVT Год назад +12

    You only get to be as formidable as Phil if you spent some years in the can, say 20 years and not said a peep. Although not sure how long Phil himself spent in the can.

  • @markangelou9368
    @markangelou9368 Год назад +28

    Believe it or not, Frank Vincent had a guest role in Law and Order where he played a guy who did 20 fukin years.
    Not joking

    • @JamalMI
      @JamalMI 26 дней назад

      did his character compromise?

  • @Ben-zr4ho
    @Ben-zr4ho Месяц назад +3

    Vito wasnt gay. He just took the wrong medication.

  • @thexen3120
    @thexen3120 Год назад +9

    The Shaw of Iran was epic in this series.

    • @DoggyHateFire
      @DoggyHateFire Год назад +2

      I laughed so hard when someone called him "The Shaw" and realized what a history nerd I am.

  • @paulnewhouse5126
    @paulnewhouse5126 Год назад +5

    Kino your editing is Gold XD

  • @stoat2
    @stoat2 Год назад +6

    Phil, he's a come from behind kinda guy

  • @atlasking6110
    @atlasking6110 Год назад +8

    I took it that Phil wasn't actually gay, but he had "compromised" and been "prison gay" and carried around a deep shame over it.

  • @donaldgilbreath4200
    @donaldgilbreath4200 Год назад +7

    I don't believe Phil was gay. He may have been uncompromising, but in my opinion he was right. I do think he got to power hungry and arrogant once Johnny Sac died, but he was very old school.

  • @SiloSoundStudios
    @SiloSoundStudios 4 месяца назад +4

    Phil took it in the can for 20 years

    • @ITFDAVE
      @ITFDAVE 4 месяца назад +1

      😂😂

  • @kbram7363
    @kbram7363 5 месяцев назад +6

    Phil ain’t gay

    • @ITFDAVE
      @ITFDAVE 4 месяца назад +1

      😂

  • @VanirTraditionalist
    @VanirTraditionalist Год назад +3

    The writers squandered a huge opportunity not having Phil degrade Butchie over his askew eye during one of his angry tirades.

  • @MithDragon
    @MithDragon Год назад +14

    The monologue at the start about Tony coming in at the end is actually so beautiful because its true. By the end of the series the guys try shaking down a Starbucks barista (or w/e coffee shop) and it didn't go over well because times have changed. Everything is run by corporations. No more small mom and pop shops to shake down and offer protection to. It's kind of sad to think about like that.

  • @mikerowave1986
    @mikerowave1986 Год назад +2

    One really important lesson Phil taught us is how to make grilled cheese on the radiator

  • @RobinMarks1313
    @RobinMarks1313 Год назад +7

    He was Dracula. He scared me. Only Nancy Sinatra scared me more !!!!!!

  • @Stephen-gk3ds
    @Stephen-gk3ds Год назад +1

    Great analysis. Thank you.

  • @Pyrrhic537
    @Pyrrhic537 Год назад +3

    I think Phil is an even more old fashioned allegorical guy than Tony is.

  • @Cloud9vegas1
    @Cloud9vegas1 Год назад +6

    Not sure if im late to the party to notice but i really enjoy the editing for this video. I thoroughly enjoy that you use some clips with the actual audio; a prime example of showing rather than telling.

  • @daraghmorrissey
    @daraghmorrissey 8 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderful video!

    • @ITFDAVE
      @ITFDAVE 4 месяца назад

      I agree lol. I enjoy seeing something well thought out that represents the creators opinion get so many people wild up 😂. Hilarious video.. Brilliant

  • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
    @littlekingtrashmouth9219 Год назад +4

    Phil? perhaps not. Richie? Perhaps. Vito…that’s just his blood pressure medication.

  • @SteveBerryhill
    @SteveBerryhill Год назад +1

    Nicely done Mr. Kino. You do good work. Thank you.

  • @varicosevaynes
    @varicosevaynes Год назад +10

    Awesome breakdown of his character! At the end of the day, almost every single person in the show is a massive hypocrite; trying to uphold the pseudo-macho ideals found in the old ways of the mafia, while not fully following them themselves. Even in the context of Tony’s crew going to Italy; they all like to boast about their heritage but then end up feeling so foreign and far removed from actual Italian culture when they visit. A lot of people look at the sopranos at surface value and only see it as another dime a dozen mob drama without realizing the context of how trailblazing it was. It doesn’t glorify the way of life in organized crime besides a few instances, its main purpose is to show the human condition and how the so-called “glory days” of mob life were coming to an end in the late 90s early 00s, and that they never really were glorious to begin with. Most of if not all the major characters suffer serious insecurities as a result of living the lies.

  • @ray.shoesmith
    @ray.shoesmith 10 месяцев назад +2

    In light of recent humiliations, it's an honor to be joined by men...

  • @crispybatman480
    @crispybatman480 Год назад +3

    10:18 Not sure I agree with you there, at least 2 have come out; The Irishman, the Departed, American Gangster, etc. The Scorsese/Coppola styles and their copycats might have faded a bit, but not really. Not to mention period pieces, like Boardwalk Empire.

  • @henryengstrom5426
    @henryengstrom5426 Год назад +1

    i dont understand why a sopranos channel would make a video on the shah of Iran but still it was very interesting!

  • @Harkness197
    @Harkness197 Год назад +3

    I did a personality test for work and was like ESTJ, at the end of the test to showed characters with the same type and it was Tony Soprano.
    I rewatched the show after that and its so accurate in regards to hating 'silly' rules and not caring about someone being gay as hes more focused on the end goal.

    • @stairwaytoheaven8
      @stairwaytoheaven8 Год назад +1

      Tony soprano is an ENTJ lol, he always makes assumptions out of situations and people and plans according to his intuition ability.

  • @RideOnTimePH
    @RideOnTimePH 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for making a video about the Shah of Iran

  • @vincer7824
    @vincer7824 6 месяцев назад +4

    People say Phil was too obssessed with Vito but the guy was married to his daughter and was cheating on her with randos on construction sites and gay bars.
    Like what do you expect a housewarming party and note saying you humiliated my family and broke my daughters heart so 2 points on a vig and 3 no shows and we're good?
    Also he didn't get the satisfaction of torturing and killing Tony B so there was residual hatred there.

    • @warbound91
      @warbound91 4 месяца назад

      It was his cousin. A cousin he didn't really give a shit about because he refused to help her after vitos death

  • @OMSbets412
    @OMSbets412 10 месяцев назад

    Love the video !! Sopronos was the last era of that lifestyle 1000%.

  • @lenin17301560
    @lenin17301560 Год назад +9

    Phil gets a video, while I'm here sitting like patience in a monument, waiting for the Gus Fring analysis.

  • @robhaskins
    @robhaskins 11 месяцев назад

    Your videos are really interesting. Thanks for so much great content! I know it must be very hard work.

  • @LKaramazov
    @LKaramazov Год назад +6

    I disagree about Phil being gay. I think you’re stretching.

    • @lisaroberts8556
      @lisaroberts8556 Год назад +3

      I agree! 😂 It’s ridiculous to say Phil was one of these 👉🌈 guys 😅

  • @ashsgarden1811
    @ashsgarden1811 6 месяцев назад +2

    Tony is like corporations during pride month.

  • @mrd3016
    @mrd3016 Год назад +3

    Hey Kino & fellow fans, here's a list of all the Soprano's character who died by something other than being whacked. Some are gangsters, some aren't. Ya know, just in case someone says all characters are whacked out.
    Gigi died of a heart attack while on the toilet. Carmine Lupertazzi died of a stroke. Johnny Sac died of lung cancer. Jackie Aprile died of stomach cancer. Detective Vin Makazian committed suicide. Livia had a stroke while sleeping. Febby Viola died of cancer. Bobby Baccalieri Sr. died of asphyxiation on his own blood in a car crash. Karen Baccalieri died in a car crash. Gloria Trillo committed suicide by hanging. Furio's father died of cancer. Raymond died of a stroke in the FBI's car. Dick Barone died of Lou Gehrig's disease. Eugene hung himself. Aunt Dottie (Paulie's real mother) died of natural causes after suffering Alzheimer's. Hesh's girlfriend Renata died in her sleep from a stroke. Paulie's stepmom Nuccia had a massive stroke while on a bus. You're welcome.

  • @Davevegasful
    @Davevegasful Год назад +1

    I’m glad they kept telling us how much time he did because I keep forgetting

  • @ジ金
    @ジ金 5 месяцев назад +4

    There's literally no evidence that Phil is gay. It's absurdly overstated and would require David Chase to be an actual child to write it in. The fact Phil was standing in a dark closet for hours waiting for Vito to come home is already goofy. Even the evidence in this is whack. I assume it's a joke.

    • @ITFDAVE
      @ITFDAVE 4 месяца назад

      Easy fella.😂

    • @X988F
      @X988F 2 месяца назад

      Yeah, soprano theories are hit n miss and often become redundant - Phil was Tony’s greatest nemesis, one of the coldest characters besides the memes. Definitely a silly theory

  • @TheTrashStash
    @TheTrashStash 9 месяцев назад +1

    i ate 20 fkin grilled cheese sandwiches off the radiator!

  • @ndogg20
    @ndogg20 Год назад +3

    Odd how this video comes out right after Cineranter puts out a video arguing that Phil ISN'T gay.

    • @MrJchris97
      @MrJchris97 Год назад +2

      Was thinking that. I agree with cineranter tho.

  • @drunkenmmamaster419
    @drunkenmmamaster419 10 месяцев назад

    Just found this channel and its sick af

  • @montebellohighschoolprom
    @montebellohighschoolprom Год назад +4

    Only problem with this video i had was not bringing up Phil's wife, she was extremely homophobic and most likely gave Phil the idea to kill Vito which contrasts him staying quiet about the situation when he's at home.

  • @Nothing-jo8ci
    @Nothing-jo8ci Год назад +2

    Always with the scenarios

  • @spiralmind9216
    @spiralmind9216 Год назад +2

    I just wish the writers of the show would have told us how many years Phil did in the can.

    • @poleag
      @poleag 11 месяцев назад

      I think it was 19.

  • @janiterinadrum1627
    @janiterinadrum1627 6 месяцев назад +2

    People use the word phobia or phobic as a defense mechanism because they’re embarrassed..
    If someone is totally repulsed by the way that you act, and the things that you do,,, you’re way of life…. there’s no fear involved and there’s no ignorance involved. If people are just repulsed by what you do that would seem that it’s on you not the rest of the world if you don’t take a shower people to hold their nose when you walk in the room, and if you do things that are repulsive to people the next, just how it is either deal with it or change your ways.

  • @TheJackjack
    @TheJackjack Год назад +4

    You don't get a pass for having sex with a man in prison

  • @hinault851st
    @hinault851st Год назад

    fantastic appraisal - Thanks

  • @TooLooze
    @TooLooze Год назад +3

    Nailed it, kid. New mobsters are corporate; short term profiteers. As for Philly, whatevea happened there, he's an old fashioned guy; very allegorical.

  • @georgendasowa2295
    @georgendasowa2295 Год назад

    Great video. Awesome Insight

  • @miaouew
    @miaouew Год назад +6

    Borko, is Kino any good?...What am I askin' you for, you probably showed him how.

  • @workingtheories
    @workingtheories 6 месяцев назад +1

    American Gangster is a pretty darn good organized crime flick that came out more or less after The Sopranos.