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April 07, 2007
The 7 Minute Sopranos
To honor the last season of HBO's "The Sopranos," which begins Sunday night, comes this fan-created montage of the show's previous seven seasons.
Two 20-something fans of the show distilled 77 prior episodes into a manic and hilarious 7-minute video and uploaded it to YouTube. It's a spectacular example of citizen marketing from everyday people who also have a keen sense of tongue-in-cheek fun.
The New York Times gave the montage a glowing review and asked Sopranos' creator David Chase to weigh in, too; he gave his blessings. Now that it's been made, if you will, by the series' godfather, HBO is smart to let the clip accumulate views and commentary on YouTube.
Via Lost Remote.
UPDATE: Virgnia Heffernan, who wrote the original review of the video in the New York Times, now says that the video has a tie to HBO. After the review was published, she found out that one of the "fans" is actually a full-time freelance editor who works for HBO. He claims he put the video together in his free time, and HBO claims they weren't behind the video. Who knows the truth, but it certainly taints the work as not that of an independent fan.
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To honor the last season of HBO's The Sopranos, which begins Sunday night, comes this fan-created montage of the show's previous seven seasons. Two 20-something fans of the show distilled 77 prior episodes into a manic and hilarious 7-minute video [Read More]
HBO should be glad they did this; nobody can remember what was going on the last time they showed new episodes. I can't even remember where I was living back then. Having seen this, I might bother to watch it now.
