The Sopranos - Columbus Day

Quick backstory - Tony's crew attempted to make life difficult for an American Indian group protesting the Columbus Day Parade.

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Entertainment

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• sopranos
• racism
• indian
• italian
• bigot
• columbus

[shadowpsfp]

The point that Tony is making is to stop complaining about what has happened to you, cause it gets you no where. Do what you have to do, do the right thing! Hence Gary Cooper.

[BowmanSchram]

HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY EVERYBODY!!!

[FullSwagSyceGame507]

@tucsonia i think he is 2nd generation. i think his father tommy was the 1st american born italian in his family.

[tucsonia]

Tony is 3rd generation Italian, at the earliest so he's become Americanized enough to where he doesn't buy the old school Sicilian mobster mumbo jumbo. The first big anti-ethnic pragmatist boss was Lucky Luciano, whose very best mob friend in the early days onward was Meyer Lansky, a Jew. Tony doesn't go around in stereotypical overdressed suits all the time but tends to dress sports shirt casual like a lot of middle aged guys. He in the end is supposed to be an ethnic yet assimilated American.

[manposhi]

Chef Fuckin' Boyardee.

[texasB666]

What Tony was trying to say was: Ethnic or national pride is bullshit.

[CAinfowarrior]

He was gay; Gary Cooper??? 0_o ????

[dr1345]

@kulgan18 Yeah, "Why does everything happens to me?!" That's his catch phrase throughout the series. Although he is the one who usually puts himself in the situation. Tony is a sociopath. He has no set fixed principals. He's just using them to serve himself where he sees it fits. Like this Columbus Parade episode. He could help, but didn't wanna get involved because solving the problem didn't benefit HIM in any way. Yet he would use his Italian heritage as an excuse to be a criminal with Melfi.

[kulgan18]

@dr1345

Yea Tony complains a lot himself, he did said to Melfi that is more that he wants to be like Gary Cooper and is somebody that he admires.

But that he felt that going to therapy wasn't a good thing and made him be like the rest of the "jerkoffs"(his words).

[TheGonzoArt]

@BayAreaOrBust Oh i agree completely, Tony and Sil at their best. JG should've gotten an Emmy for playing him. Did he ever win any award for this show, I can't remember?

[dr1345]

@shadowpsf That's not the point Tony makes because he is a big complainer himself. He complains and blames others for the most of the series. Haven't you noticed his constant bitching and incessant negativity? It's just other people's problems he doesn't want to hear about because it bothers and depresses him. His Gary Cooper thing is more about being more tough and resilient in general. The real point of this scene is that people shouldn't latch on their national pride and let go off the past.