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Not a pervasive element
in modern American cinematic vision.
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Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example.
Arguably Pacino's best work.
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Short of Scarface and
Godfather Part I, of course.
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Masterpiece of directing,
easily Lumet's best.
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The cinematography, the acting,
the screenplay, all topnotch. But. . .
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. . .they didn't push the envelope.
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What if, in Dog Day Sonny wanted to
get away with it? Really wanted that.
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Now this is the tricky part. What if
he started killing hostages right away?
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No mercy, no quarter.
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"Meet our demands or the pretty blond
gets it in the head." Bam, splat.
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What, still no bus? Come on.
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How many innocent victims would it take
for the city. . .
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. . .to reverse its policy
on hostages?
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And this is 1966. There's no CNN.
There's no CNBC. There's no Internet.
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Fast-forward to today.
Present time, same situation.
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How quickly would the media
make a frenzy? In hours.
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It would be the biggest story from
Boston to Budapest.
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Ten hostages die.
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Twenty, thirty.
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Relentless. Bam, bim.
One after another.
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All on hi-def, computer-enhanced.
You can almost taste the brain matter.
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All for what? A bus, a plane?
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A couple million dollars
that's federally insured?
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I don't think so, but. . .
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. . .just a thought.
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I mean, it's not. . .
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. . .within the realm of
conventional cinema, but. . .