r/thesopranos • u/IllInflation9313 • 19h ago
[Meme] Why isn’t there a Latin American version of the sopranos?
As some of you know, there is a Colombian remake of Breaking Bad called Metastasis which is essentially a shot for shot remake of the original show. The setting is different and characters names are translated. For example Walter White is Walter Blanco (blanco is the Colombian word for white). But for the most part the story and plot is the exact same.
My question is, why isn’t there a Latin American version of the sopranos yet? It could be set in Bogota. Christopher could be Cristiano, paulie could be Pablo, Pussy could be Gato, and uncle Jun could be Tío jr. Furio could be “Enojado” and he could be a Spanish bullfighter from Andalucia.
Instead of running a college football sports book they could take bets on Colombian “futball” (Colombian for “American soccer”). Silvio could get some Latina strippers from across the border who are trying to escape Venezuela. Instead of eating gabagool all the time they could eat chorizo.
Anyway I think this is a pretty good idea and it could be funny. Why hasn’t David chase thought of it yet? Is he stupid?
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u/LitigiousAutist 19h ago
Well The Sopranos ain't Breaking Bad, which is a crime show. The Sopranos is extremely American in it's presentation, and is more of a family comedy with a crime backdrop.
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u/DBCOOPER888 18h ago
Yeah, exactly. Remove the American setting and it may as well be a different show.
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u/Cranstonoid 18h ago
El Dandy is a pretty good Mexican version of Donnie Brasco, complete with certain mob types being complete fuckups and all that entrails.
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u/Pants_Pierre 18h ago
The final episode is named “made in America”…
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u/Alternative_Handle50 16h ago
The show is completely framed by American themes. The entire premise of “getting in too late on something good” introduced in ep 1. Is about the US too.
Because the show is timeless, It’s also easy to miss how contemporary the show was, with the themes perfectly matching the concerns of the American public at the time.
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u/PoodleGuap 16h ago
You don’t listen to the president? We’re gonna mop the floor with the whole fucking world.
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u/Alternative_Handle50 16h ago
Funny how that you could assume that’s the current present and still have it be accurate
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u/Oso_the-Bear 19h ago
I don't know but there are like ten thousand spanish language soap operas about an organized crime family
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u/IllInflation9313 19h ago
The Colombian word for soap opera is actually “telenovela”
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u/ThunderMontgomery 19h ago
Do you mean Spanish?
It’s common knowledge OP is retarded
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u/OG-CJ-GSF 19h ago
He eats grilled cheese off a radiator
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u/P316497 16h ago
Lmao as a Colombian this is cracking me up, yes we Colombians have words for stuff (completely unrelated to the fact that we speak Spanish, actually we are the only Spanish speaking country in the world alongside Spain, hence why he keeps saying “the Colombian word”)
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u/IllInflation9313 15h ago
Some people think they only speak American in Colombia. They are so far behind in the race they actually believe they are leading.
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u/P316497 15h ago
Brother what are you talking about
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u/IllInflation9313 15h ago
Some wise guys who are as sharp as cue balls are making fun of me because they don’t realize that Colombian language (sometimes called Spanish or castellano in the old country) is different from English.
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u/Gnomad_Lyfe 4h ago
I promise you there’s not a single person who looks at fucking Colombia and assumes they speak English
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u/ACTSATGuyonReddit 19h ago
Yeah, but they couldn't push Webistics. What stock would they push?
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u/GuntWersley 19h ago
The story of The Sopranos is uniquely American.
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u/ThunderMontgomery 19h ago
The Colombian version series finale will be called Made in Bogota
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u/BangerSlapper1 18h ago
🎶 Nunca dejes de creer! 🎶
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u/brosophila 19h ago
He came in at the end of it
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u/NegativeCourage5461 19h ago
Because “Italian mother” is its own very specific type of personality disorder.
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u/TheTwerkingClass 17h ago
To be fair, I think latina grandmother could work as an analogue
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u/NegativeCourage5461 16h ago
Yeah. And remember. Every Italian mother had an Italian mother. It’s a negative feedback loop.
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u/mcknight92 19h ago
Is Antonito gonna celebrate Independence Day instead of going to the Latino Day Parade too
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u/cheefkingdom13 19h ago
Blanco is Spanish for white, not Colombian you stunad. Congrats! You’re illiterate in 2 languages!
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u/mostlyfire 17h ago
“Colombian word for white” lmao Jesus Christ they’re just slashing the education budget to pieces huh? The language is Spanish my man. That’s like saying someone speaks American
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u/SuburbanBushwacker 16h ago
hate to break this to you old bean. that’s a piss poor example. from our perspective you are speaking american.
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u/ragnarrock420 19h ago
Frankly op, if you got that type of covert anti-latinism, i would like you to leave this sub
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u/Cynical-Rambler 19h ago
Breaking Bad is a fantasy show and most of the villains are bald latino men. The characters are in the environment. There is enough of them in Latin America.
The Soprano is a sitcom and the villains are 3rd generation Italian immigrants. Which 3rd generation ethnic groups do you think is a suitable replacement in Latin America? Arabs?
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u/Inter_Web_User 19h ago
Once upon on time on NBC... Kingpin) 2003 6 Episodes
Yancey Arias the main character of Kingpin was in ep2 Season one of The Sopranos. 46 Long He stole the Saturn from AJ's teacher. Pussy has to find it. His BF is played by Mike Epps
It was expected to be network television's answer to HBO's hit series The Sopranos, but lackluster ratings forced NBC to cancel plans to extend the miniseries into a full-length series.
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u/AyatollahFromCauca 19h ago
There are like a million narco/crime family themed series in latín América, some better than the others.
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u/BlackOutSpazz 17h ago
As others have already said, it's a very American show told from that perspective in particular
But another reason could also be that when our ancestors started fleeing that sunny peninsula and surrounding islands they didn't just go to the US's East Coast, many went to Central and South America too and to this day there are significant Italian/Sicilian enclaves and with it old world organized crime. They wouldn't need name changes, there's already plenty of people with names like Antonio, Silvio, Pasquale, etc, throughout Central and South America.
So while it's a very American show in some ways, in others it's already mad universal and doesn't need to be remade. Just dubbed.
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u/Training_Onion6685 17h ago
there are already plenty of shows about latin american organized crime families, and probably some that already rip off plenty of ideas from The Sopranos
but so much of The Sopranos is a time and place piece, early 2000's NJ / NY area, italian-american seeing an italian-american in therapy, replete with references to a specific italian-american upbringing and family dynamic ... all of the references, the themes, character personalities and relations ... are all very steeped in the time and place
changing the context to the suburbs of Mexico City or something just makes it a completely different show, latin american family tropes and dynamics would not resonate with the script, you'd have to deeply rewrite everything to the point its barely the same show
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u/DougieJones22 17h ago
If I wanted to worry about Colombia, I’d move to fucking Bogota. You know it wasn’t long ago I remember you used to wait in the car… AND AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED YOU SHOULD STILL BE THERE!!
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u/lovepancakes 16h ago
columbian word for white, lol
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u/HotAd6484 15h ago
How does one say hello in Colombian? I only know how to say it in Mexican or Chilean.
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u/Cool-Group-9471 16h ago
To call David stupid shows more about you. He wrote dozens of dozens of scripts and if you know anything about writing, you would be wiped out now. Still.
If anyone noticed, there was a lot of time between seasons. A couple was about a year in between. Because David had to come up with the writing. He would not oversee another series so similarly again. Even though it is all generally written.
Do not call the Creator and writer of one of the best series ever, stupid. You watched it didn't you?
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u/ddekock61 17h ago
Four Blocks is the Lebanese in Berlin version. The head of the family is even called Tony. “Tony!” they call after him. And it’s weird but right.
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u/RockShowSparky 17h ago
Work in a South Beach Strumpets series crossover and you could be on to something.
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u/Frosty_Foundation_89 15h ago
nah. id rather wait 10 years for it to be retro abd they could just remake the show.
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u/berkeyen 15h ago
Not latin american, but there actually was a high budget but nevertheless short-lived turkish adaptation that only produced 10 or so episodes i believe
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u/84JPG 15h ago
Cartel de los Sapos is the closest.
It features the Colombian cartel landscape after the fall of Pablo Escobar and Medellin Cartel. While still massive, it was a time when the power of Colombian cartels started waning and the power shifted to Mexico.
The show isn’t just about the cartels, but the often ridiculous family, narco-cultural and social dynamics of the members in an often comedic way similar to The Sopranos. As for the cartel drama, the core of the show is about how everyone, in their attempt to save themselves, start cooperating with authorities and becoming informants which eventually leads to the fall of the cartel (funnily, exactly what is currently happening with Mexican Cartels, the Sinaloa Cartel specifically - but that’s another issue).
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u/Direct_Arm_8391 19h ago
Why don’t you stick to what you know and leave your opinions wherever the fuck.