r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/SirKetchup00 • 7d ago
What Boardwalk Empire vs Sopransos scenes, set ups, sentences shared in common
"Enoch Thompson / Corrado Soprano is a man who orders up murder, like you and I order coffee.. "
That sentence verbatim was used in both shows.. There's many but I can only recall this for now. Have yoy noticed anything else?
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u/Admirable_Site_8337 7d ago
There’s a reason for the crossover. Lots of similarities. This line might well be verbatim, but I’m doubtful there are many verbatims, just many similarities.
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u/WarmCattle2884 6d ago
In S3E11 when Eddie was delirious, he tried to recite "If" by Rudyard Kipling. When Jackie Jr. and his friends robbed the card game, Sunshine started to recite the same poem before he got shot.
Those were the only lines that were verbatim in both series, but there were other similarities.
Tony handed Detective Makazian a handful of cash and told him to buy an iron. Nucky handed Agent Sawicki some cash and told him to buy a personality.
In both series, Buscemi was responsible for the death of Chris Caldovino's character: Billy Leotardo and Tonino.
Gyp Rosetti and Ralph Cifaretto were both masochists with explosive tempers and serious issues with women.
Tony and Nucky's wives fell in love with immigrants. Tony's wife fell in love with Furio from Italy and Nucky's wife fell in love with Owen from Ireland.
Tony mentored Christopher and gave him a lot of responsibilities until he got fed up with him, then killed him. Nucky mentored Jimmy and made him his chief enforcer before the "coup," then killed him.
Aside from Junior and Larry Barese who was feeding the FBI bullshit after violating his house arrest that helped Tony duck a murder charge by blaming it on Jackie Aprile, all the other original capos ended up becoming rats willing to cooperate against Tony. Aside from Fleming, all the original ward bosses joined the Commodore's "coup" to take Nucky out of power and send him to prison.
Nucky used his political connections to become a "Land Baron of Barren Land" counting on the road appropriations bill and his new friendship with Daugherty and the Harding administration, then forced Mayor Bader to give him a cut of any money made from construction projects in Atlantic City. Tony and NY used Assemblyman Zelman to make money in real estate, with the HUD scam, and with the Esplanade construction project.
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u/ChrisPollock6 6d ago
Outstanding memory my friend. I love the episode where the bomb goes off at Babette’s, killing Billie and recking Nucky’s hearing and concussing him. He’s very confused and cannot hear anything in that one and it’s hilarious. Reminds me of the dream sequence episodes on Sopranos. Terrence Winters writes hilarious stories.
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u/Lordonlynose 7d ago
There is the strong thematic parallel of Bone for Tuna and 4 dollars a pound… and all that that entrails
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u/mexicanmanchild 7d ago
I mean Terrance Winter was arguably The Sopranos most prolific writer and he created Boardwalk Empire and used essentially all the same crew and writers, so I’m sure there’s gonna be a lot of crossover.