The Sopranos
Season 1.Episode 08
The legend of Tennessee Moltisanti.
Chris: -You ever feel like nothing good would ever happen?
Paulie:- Yeah. And nothing did. So what? I'm alive, I'm surviving.
Chris: -That's it.I don't want to just survive.It says in movie-writing books that
every character has an arc, understand?Everybody starts out somewheres and then they do something...it changes their life. That's their arc.Where's my arc? All right, take Richard Kimble, right? No, that's no good. His arc is run, run, jump off the dam...Keanu Reeves, Devil's Advocate.
Paulie:- AI.
Chris: - Right. Keanu's a lawyer, gets all turned on by money, power and the Devil.
Then his wife says, "You're not the man I married," leaves him. You see the arc?
He starts down here, he ends up here. Where's my arc, Paulie?
Paulie: -Kid...Richard Kimble, the Devil's whatever, those are all make-believe. I got no arc either. I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the Army, a few more in the can. And here I am. A half a wiseguy. So what?
Paulie:- Yeah. And nothing did. So what? I'm alive, I'm surviving.
Chris: -That's it.I don't want to just survive.It says in movie-writing books that
every character has an arc, understand?Everybody starts out somewheres and then they do something...it changes their life. That's their arc.Where's my arc? All right, take Richard Kimble, right? No, that's no good. His arc is run, run, jump off the dam...Keanu Reeves, Devil's Advocate.
Paulie:- AI.
Chris: - Right. Keanu's a lawyer, gets all turned on by money, power and the Devil.
Then his wife says, "You're not the man I married," leaves him. You see the arc?
He starts down here, he ends up here. Where's my arc, Paulie?
Paulie: -Kid...Richard Kimble, the Devil's whatever, those are all make-believe. I got no arc either. I was born, grew up, spent a few years in the Army, a few more in the can. And here I am. A half a wiseguy. So what?
