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The Sopranos Copied A Goodfellas Story (But Made It Darker)
The Sopranos was strongly influenced by Martin Scorsese's gangster classic Goodfellas, including one small story that The Sopranos took directly from the earlier movie but put its own dark take on. Both stories used similar plot details to comment on their lead characters' insecurities as well as the changing world around them, taking a psychological approach to the gangster genre. One of the best illustrations of this is the stories both The Sopranos and Goodfellas tell about their central gangsters having to dig up the buried body of someone they killed.