All Due Respect (The Sopranos)

"**All Due Respect**"
"All Due Respect"
The Sopranos episode
Episode no.	Season 5; Episode 13
Directed by	John Patterson
Written by	David Chase; Robin Green; Mitchell Burgess;
Cinematography by	Phil Abraham
Production code	513
Original air date	June 6, 2004
Running time	55 minutes
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"All Due Respect" is the 65th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the finale of the show's fifth season. Written by David Chase, Robin Green, and Mitchell Burgess, and directed by John Patterson, it originally aired on June 6, 2004.

Starring

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn DiScala as Meadow Soprano

Johnny Sack

and

Tony Blundetto

* = credit only ** = picture only

Guest starring

Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin

Also guest starring

Hugh De Angelis
Ginny Sacrimoni
Max Casella as Benny Fazio
Larry Boy Barese
Devin Pillsbury
Robert Funaro as Eugene Pontecorvo
Vito Spatafore
Patsy Parisi
Joanne Moltisanti
George Loros as
Raymond Curto
Neil Mink
Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi

Jimmy Petrille

Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
Cameron Boyd as
Matt Testa
Chris Caldovino as
Billy Leotardo
Agent Grasso
Jason Molinaro
Louis Mustillo as Sal Vitro
Dante Greco
Bethany Pagliolo as Estela
Bob Shaw as Ignatz Pravalkis
Charles Anthony Burks as Technician
Paul Diomede as Jason Musucci

Synopsis

event planning

. They find some solace in the fact that the boy is at least "fired up about something."

FBI

. Chris says he did not and assures Tony that he is staying sober and exercising.

Tony B

; with Phil seeking revenge, they are all in danger. Tony delivers a speech, explaining that he is saving Tony B from torture and stressing that they must unite as a family.

Phil tries to track down Chris as an alternative target of his revenge, noting his closeness to Tony. After he threatens Chris's mother, Chris goes into hiding with the help of Benny. Phil finds Benny and beats him up, fracturing his skull. Tony goes to Junior for advice, but he cannot help with his dementia worsening. At a consultation, Dr. Melfi reminds Tony that his concern for Tony B comes primarily from his feelings of guilt. Silvio tells Tony of the growing discontent within the family and asserts he is shielding Tony B out of pride, which Tony angrily rejects.

Tony visits Paulie, having heard he is among those dissatisfied with his leadership. In Paulie's living room, he discovers the portrait of himself with his horse Pie-O-My, which he had wanted to be destroyed after the horse's death. Unbeknownst to him, Paulie had kept the painting and had it altered, changing Tony's clothes to those of a colonial general. When Tony demands to know why he had him painted as a "lawn jockey", Paulie says that he did it out of sincere admiration for Tony as a leader. Tony pauses, but then rips the painting off the wall and puts it in a dumpster, much to Paulie's discontent.

Tony B is hiding out at

pump-action shotgun

and kills him. Tony then tells Phil and Johnny where Tony B can be found. Phil arrives expecting to exact his revenge, but only finds the body. Johnny tells Tony that Tony B's death "didn't solve a thing."

Tony meets Johnny at his New Jersey house and offers a percentage of Tony B's

Jimmy Petrille, his consigliere. Tony was not mentioned in the indictment

. He arrives home disheveled and worn out.

Deceased

Tony Blundetto
: Shot and killed by Tony Soprano in order to make peace with the Lupertazzi crime family and to save Tony B from a more painful death at the hands of Phil Leotardo.

Title reference

Vito prefaces his criticism with "All due respect" when discussing the family's problems with New York with the other captains.

Silvio does the same before criticizing Tony for having too much pride. The phrase is generally used before someone of equal or higher status is told something they don't want to hear. When answering Silvio, Tony repeats the phrase with ironic politeness.

It could describe:^[according to whom?] Tony's striving to gain Johnny's respect; Johnny's striving to gain Tony's respect, and Tony's striving to keep the respect of his family.

Production

This is the final episode directed by John Patterson, who died in 2005. Patterson directed all the season finales for the first five seasons.
At the end of the episode, Tony's emergence from the rustling bushes reaffirms the use of the bear as a symbol of Tony's dominating presence in his house. Based on the emerging location of the bear in earlier episodes, there is uncertainty as to the identity of the rustling figure.
Bob Shaw, the production designer for the show, makes a cameo appearance as Ignatz Pravalkis, the architect working with Hugh De Angelis to create Carmela's spec house.
Drea de Matteo reveals in the DVD commentary for the previous episode, "Long Term Parking," that the character of Tony Blundetto was not initially supposed to die in the fifth-season finale.
The scene in which Johnny Sack is arrested is shown again in the sixth-season episode "Soprano Home Movies," but a different take is used.

References to previous episodes

Carmela tells Tony that Adriana was behaving oddly at one of the ladies' "movie nights," which took place in "Rat Pack."
The painting of Tony and Pie-O-My was destined to be destroyed by Tony but then salvaged by Paulie in "The Strong, Silent Type."
Tony mentions the Matthew Bevilaqua and Ralph Cifaretto murders, which occurred in "From Where to Eternity" and "Whoever Did This" respectively.

Other cultural references

Carmela mentions she wants A.J. to fill out an application to
East Stroudsburg State University
.
Tony watches a documentary about
History Channel
.
Silvio calls the disguised Christopher Claude Rains, as he resembles the title character of The Invisible Man.
Despite the episode airing in 2004, there is an exterior shot of the Bada Bing which advertises the Holyfield vs. Lewis rematch which took place in November 1999.
Tony complains that the painting makes him look like a lawn jockey.
Johnny Sack refers to murder as ammazzo, an Italian word.
Tony eats bialys.
The lawyer refers to Petrille's informing as "gambling, homicides, trafficking," a "real kreplach," presumably because like the dumplings it contains so many things.
Carmela tells Tony that A.J. watches the DVD of
54 "over and over again". In the movie, Mike Myers portrays Steve Rubell, a co-founder of New York City’s Studio 54
nightclub famously quoted as saying that only the Mafia made more money than the club brought in.

Music

The song played over the end credits is "
buckshot hits Blundetto, we heard the verse that opened with "And we'll send you glad tidings from New York" and closed with "Hope that you will come in right on time."^[1]

In the scene wherein Tony is sitting on the steps of an elementary school, "Mr. Tambourine Man" is heard being sung by a children's choir.^[2]
"Smoke N' Mirrors" by Grade 8 plays when Benny tries to leave after he saw Phil walk into the Crazy Horse.

References

^ "'Sopranos' finale: One hit, bottom of the fifth". Star-Ledger. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
^ Carroll, Matt (June 6, 2004). "Singing on 'The Sopranos'". The Boston Globe.

External links

"All Due Respect" Archived 2016-08-18 at the Wayback Machine at HBO
"All Due Respect" at
IMDb

[1] "'Sopranos' finale: One hit, bottom of the fifth". Star-Ledger. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2007-08-11.

[2] Carroll, Matt (June 6, 2004). "Singing on 'The Sopranos'". The Boston Globe.

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