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The Sopranos Swipe
Thawing the mystery behind the series’ most perplexing freeze-frame moment.
!” “It was straight out of an early 2000’s teen comedy where the opening shot freeze frames on a character doing something ridiculous and the voiceover says, ‘You’re probably wondering how I got here.’” Occasionally, you’ll find somebody full of admiration (“Such a hilariously blatant parody of sitcom television”), but the emotions mostly range from incredulity to hostility. In his commentary on the season-five DVD set, Figgis remarks upon the cut briefly: “That’s a really interesting transition, and it wasn’t the way I’d expected the scene to look at the end.” But he doesn’t offer an origin story. Talk about a good sport: He watched “Cold Cuts” again for the first time in years and consulted his copy of the shooting script (which contains storyboards he had drawn, quite the collector’s item) before sheepishly admitting he was “not much the wiser” as to why the transition appears where it does.
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