Gandolfini: (As Tony Soprano) Let's go get a drink. SMITH: They don't get too many tour busses gawking at this sight, but just a few miles away, off of Interstate 80, is a sexier location. MONTELEONI: The action that they take of everything. Because of the, what do you call it, the (speaks foreign language), the true. MONTELEONI: You like it for that, I don't like it. FRANKIE MONTENLEONI (Bergen County Resident): Oh, what's the matter you don't like the language? I love, what you talking about? ANGELA MONTELEONI (Bergen County Resident): I don't like the language.
Angela and Frankie Monteleoni live down the street, and are still arguing-two years after that scene was shot in their neighborhood-about whether the show is a good depiction of their New Jersey. SMITH: In real life, the location is a subdivision in Bergen County. SMITH: In the show, Tony Soprano holds a gun to his nephew Christopher's head on what looks like a deserted road. JAMES GANDOLFINI: (As Tony Soprano) You draw down on the boss of a family? You pushed me to this! You pushed me to this! She also directs me to a Google map on the HBO Web site that matches up locations in New Jersey with clips from the show. SMITH: Sue rattles off a list of places where The Sopranos have filmed that I must visit on this day trip. That's why you couldn't film The Sopranos in Pleasanton, California. SAYDICK: You know, everywhere I go, I can recognize a scene from the show. She knows where all the fictional bodies are buried. SMITH: Sue runs a Web site that collects every bit of gossip about the show. Go through the tunnel just like Tony Soprano, that is fun. SUE SAYDICK (Sopranos Fan): Oh, that's the best.
GOT YOURSELF A GUN SOPRANOS INTRO SERIES
SMITH: The Sopranos opening credits, and indeed the whole series is a sort of love letter to the forgotten side of New Jersey-the highways and toll plazas, the swamps and underpasses, the pizza places and butcher shops have all had their cameos on the show, and a hardcore group of Jersey fans tracks ever fleeting shot of their state.įrom the road, I call up Sue Saydick(ph), better known as Soprano Sue, and tell her I just drove through the tunnel. Your papa never told you about right and wrong. (Soundbite of song, "Woke Up This Morning")Ī3: (Singing) Woke up this morning, all that love had gone. NPR's Robert Smith went out to travel the now familiar highways, byways, and toll plazas.ĭriving from New York City into the industrial expanse of New Jersey used to be an underwhelming experience, but now as you pull out of the Lincoln Tunnel and curve around to the turnpike, a certain song always comes to mind. Although the Sopranos highlights the dark side of Jersey life, it also captures the state's strange beauty. That's bittersweet news for the folks in New Jersey, where the show takes place. This Sunday, the HBO drama The Sopranos returns for its sixth and final season.
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