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One of the very first shots of the series, Tony Soprano meets Dr Jennifer Melfi for the first time. While he is waiting, there is a marble statue of a naked woman. There are several possible illusions to this: Livia Soprano, his insufferable mother, the many goomahs he had, or Jennifer Melfi, given that he is entering a signif…
The female body is a subliminal topic of narrative in this episode. In the segue directly after Melfi learns her attacker has been set free, there is a brief scene in which the screen is visually dominated by the nearly nude forms of strippers in the Bada Bing…The message of this segue is perfectly clear. is the social compact. Women may dance naked with thugs and goons nearby to protect them. Men may watch only if they mind their manners and offer money in homage…The strippers of the Bada Bing are valuable: they make money. Yet they are the property of the Bada Bing while they are in residence. In their assent to being viewed as property of the strip club, they need never fear rape or violence (at least within the club).
The shot of Carmela in Dr. Melfi’s waiting room that shows her triangularly framed by the legs of a sculpture of a naked woman duplicates the exact same framing of Tony in the same waiting room in the first shot of the first scene of the series’ first “Pilot” episode in 1999.
In the pilot episode, family patriarch Tony sits in the waiting room of his new psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi (played by Lorraine Bracco), following his first panic attack. As Tony waits, he stares at a sculpture of a naked woman. The camera cuts between the statue’s stony gaze and Tony’s perplexed face, his lips pursed in both confusion and fascination.
