![]() What made The Sopranos so unique was the unexpected juxtaposition of Tony Soprano’s (Gandolfini) ordinary suburban family life-and his vulnerable inner life, explored with his therapist-against the cold brutality of his mob life. “Something in him understood my ambition or what I felt I needed.” “This was partly a way to acknowledge the fact that my father had some inkling-more than my mother-of who I was,” said Chase recently. But as Gandolfini becomes ill and contemplates his own lost dreams, the seismic rift between father and son tentatively reconciles. ![]() ![]() Gandolfini, in a remarkable, revelatory performance, is enraged by his son’s long hair, hippie clothes, anti-war politics and-worst of all-his dropping out of college to pursue his career as a musician. The transformative events of the ’60s-JFK’s assassination, Vietnam, civil-rights marches, cities burning, riots-form a backdrop to the generational clashes between Magaro and his working-class father (James Gandolfini). With Not Fade Away, he’s finally realized that dream.īeautifully written and intimately lensed, Not Fade Away is based largely on Chase’s own adolescence, telling the story of teenage drummer (John Magaro) who forms a suburban New Jersey garage band. The Sopranos creator David Chase has a shelf full of Emmys-seven, to be exact-but always dreamed of making the leap from television to feature films. ![]() ABOVE: DAVID CHASE SHOOTING NOT FADE AWAY. ![]()
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