TV used to be about pointing and shooting, until The Sopranos came along. The late 90s and early 2000s saw a change in television. We entered the start of another golden era, where complicated characters, darker narratives, and arresting visuals were allowed to come to the small screen and change the way we watched. It's fitting that HBO spearheaded this shift, with its slogan, "It's not TV, it's HBO," which wound up defining the new era. Perhaps the most popular and most influential title to premiere on the network at the time was The Sopranos, a show about a hardened gangster with a family, a new therapist, and a soft spot for the ducks in his backyard. Outside of the groundbreaking content and deconstruction of the gangster genre, the show changed the way we viewed cinematography on television. It took away the standard angles and instead felt much more cinematic. Like we were watching an hour-long gangster film each week. Check out the video from The Beauty Of about the cinematic shots from The Sopranos, and let's talk after the jump. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 22 July, 2021