A Moral Never

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A Moral Never Never LandIdentifying with Tony
Soprano

• By Monique García
• Isabella Mejia

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• I like Tony Soprano I cant help it. I like
  him dispise the fact that i recognize that hes a
  vicious and dangerous criminal.
• Tony Soprano isnt real- hes fictional.
• TV shows like The Sopranos make very bad
  people seem, well, likeable.
• Tony Soprano has attracted its fair share of its
  kind of criticism.

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When is art dangerous?

• PLATO was the 1st western philosopher to worry
  seriously about the effect of fiction on its
  audience.
• Poetry can be dangerous b/c it can lead us to
  sympathize with ficitonal characters the
  feeling of the fictional character comes to
  infect the audience.
• Tolstoy though the same was as Plato, he rejected
  all art, expet popular chritian peasant art.

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• Its a ongoing TV serie not a 2 hour movie. Vieers
  of the Sopranos spend a long time w/ these
  characters, getting to know them and care for
  them
• Tony is portrayed in deeply psychological and
  often quite intimate. Through Tonys session w/
  Dr. Melfi we get to know his feelings, get tu
  udnerstand his childhood, hopes, concers, and
  fears.
• The Sopranos strive for versimilitude. It does
  not have the ironic stylishness of Goodfellas,
  not is it and idealized period piece like The
  Godfather.
• -The of gang killin in the show is
  stinkingly realistic. Psycoloanalysis, New
  Jerseys settings, thelanguage, Tony Carmelas
  family dynamics, FBI serveilliance tecniques, mob
  structure and organization is very close to what
  is found in real life.
  

The show is sent in our times and what we deal
with Prozac, teen drug use, competitiveness of
college acceptance, Attention Deficit
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Is it morally wrong to watch The Sopranos?

• This show lead its audience to identify with a
  terrible person. Not ALL characters are gangsters
  some are good people like Dr. Melfi Meadow
  Soprano. Many who are not good, atleast suffer
  pands of conscience for the evil they do and try
  to do good like Carmela, Artie Bucco and Adriana.
• The audience identify themselfs with Tony
  Sopranos victims.
• We see things from more than one point of view.
• The Sopranos provides us with multiple moral
  perspectives on evil characters which offer
  room for moral reflection, might even be good for
  us, rather than evil.