Her face is a progression of heartbreak and terror as she realizes Christopher has betrayed her. Who knew first: Adriana or the audience? You can see him talking himself into it. It was very much a workmanlike thing he had to do. You can see him almost getting into that mindset during the drive.
Chase: It was meant to agonizing, yeah. Silvio stops the car in an isolated spot and tries to drag Ariana from the car.
At first, she clutches the steering wheel, not wanting to leave the car, and then she scurries on the ground, so terrified that she cannot run, trying to crawl away instead…. De Matteo: Stevie [Van Zandt] was freaking out.
We basically talked about outlaw country music the whole time. Silvio raises the gun as Adriana crawls out of the frame. But it just felt like the right thing to do, filmically and cinematically. It speaks more to how much we fell in love with this character and that actress.
De Matteo: When we were on the stage that last day, they brought out a big cart of champagne and flowers. The whole wardrobe department filled my trailer up with balloons. Van Patten: There was such a sense of reverence on set. It really was like a death in the family. Winter : There was some crazy speculation that she was still alive which was always absurd because we never did stories like that. They thought the Russian was going to come back and he never did. Winter : This is the very same place where the bodies get buried.
Even something as pure and beautiful as nature gets tainted with that ugliness. Van Patton : It was an emotional callback. Are those feet going to come across her body? And what you see instead is Carmela blithely talking about real estate values and what kind of view her place has. Chase : [The title has] a slightly sardonic humor to it.
When I was growing up in New Jersey — in fact, we used this part of a storyline on the show earlier — there were a couple of guys in their 20s who murdered somebody. They shot him in the garage and they took him to Newark airport and they drove him into long-term parking and left the car there.
But they began to worry and came back and got the car … and the cops got them. But there was also a scene you did not see — at least, not until the next season.
The scene made it clear Tony was lying to Adriana on the phone. The scene would later be shown as a flashback in season 6…. Her being in the car would have been a lot less dramatic. Michael and I went to David — and we would never do this normally because he was like a god to us — and I begged him to not include that scene. Incidentally, the audiences gains more sympathy for Adriana, who is shown driving out of New Jersey with a red suitcase.
In another twist, however, The Sopranos reveals that it's just a dream sequence, as Adriana is actually a passenger in a car driven by Silvi0 Dante Steven Van Zandt , who has been tasked with a mob hit. According to Chase via Entertainment Weekly , he decided to kill Adriana off-screen because he didn't want to show a beloved female character and actress in a grisly state:. For audiences, the Adriana death sequence in The Sopranos is especially disturbing because there's no sense of finality.
The overall pacing of the extended death sequence creates an off-kilter effect, as the audience can't be entirely sure what will transpire. Silvia could offer Adriana a way out, but his actions underline the cold reality of his chosen profession. When discussing the construction of the scene, screenwriter Terence Winter expressed the same thoughts as Chase by noting that he didn't want to see Adriana, or de Matteo, covered in blood:.
But it just felt like the right thing to do, filmically and cinematically. It speaks more to how much we fell in love with this character and that actress. When Adriana tries to convince Christopher to enter the witness-protection program with her, he chokes her until her eyes go blank—and then lets go. The harrowing near-death experience lends an intense sweetness to the ensuing scene, in which Adriana fantasizes about their future life, playing a Jersey Juliet to his Romeo.
They can live in a picturesque cabin; he can finally make a go of his screenwriting dream! But during a drive to clear his head, Christopher stops at a gas station and spots an ordinary schmuck in a broken-down car with his rundown wife and kid.
Is Christopher strong enough to relinquish the power and status of his mob-tied life? Like the viewer, she keeps on hoping for the best. So she willingly gets in a car with Silvio Steven Van Zandt , after Tony calls to tell her that Christopher tried to commit suicide and is in the hospital.
The 30 seconds after the car stops, in a beautiful autumnal clearing in the woods, are appalling. We never see Christopher betray Adriana, which allows us to momentarily take comfort in a fantasy that he was not involved in this decision.
She is leading Tony around some property in the woods that she is hoping he will buy her to jump-start her new career as a developer. She has traded in her pious state of denial for conscious complicity.
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