>In the film, ringleader Sonny (Al Pacino then, Jon Bernthal now) simply sighs and lets him go. Which does eventually happen onstage, too, but not before Ray Ray loudly complains of stomach issues and then promptly soils himself. >The chief police negotiator’s last name has been changed to Fucco, perhaps only so a swaggering FBI agent can repeatedly call him “Fucko.” The bank teller characters — women of varying ages all fearing for their lives while warily bonding with their captors — are turned into floozies or sardonic sitcom moms. Sal, the edgier and less predictable robber softly played by John Cazale in the film, is 2026-ified into a dumb, loose-cannon maybe-closet-case by The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach, doing a tired riff on his character from that show. Sitting through the play, I kept thinking to myself, “Wait, is this what the movie is like?” I then rewatched the film afterward and can confidently state that, no, of course it is very much not.>It’s quite something that a film from 50 years ago is far more sensitive to Sonny and Leon’s complicated relationship than is a play made in the present day. Guirgis paints Leon (played by Esteban Andres Cruz) as a flighty, feisty, man-crazy sex worker. It’s all a big gag, another bit of crassness to join the rest — like, say, the wheezy jokes about how one bank teller is supposed to see Deep Throat with her husband, or how another slept with their uptight boss. (I probably need not remind you, but none of that is in the movie.)>Bernthal takes center stage, waving his arms and asking those in attendance to repeat “Attica!” and to applaud (or perhaps echo) him when he says, “Fuck you, NYPD!” I don’t know that Broadway audiences (especially at the matinee I attended) are exactly the right cohort to try to sway toward such public displays of anarchy, and thus the moment is rendered achingly limp and awkward.
Matinee audiences don't know about burning local, shameful.
>>219182998>the movie is more subtle in every aspect while the play is bombastic, simplified, and much more of a raunchy spectacleThis is because plays are a lower form of entertainment. I dont know where this idea comes from that its higher or classier. Its literally just wrestling tier slop for plebs. You have to be over the top in order to project to the people in the back row.
>>219183550Everything I know about theatre I learned from South Park two.
>Sal>maybe-closet-case >maybe
Fraud
>>219182998Does he expect a nom from Odyssey and is building up theater cred now to upgrade his image? Andrew Scott did the same leading up to his gay movie
>>219182998Do they do a sex change on stage?
>>219185117 “maybe” as in the playwright takes out a highlighter and circles it for the balcony seats.The whole point of Cazale was that you couldn’t quite pin him down, he was just volatile and weird and sad. Now everything has to be taxonomy’d and announced like a Tumblr bio. Subtext is apparently discriminatory in 2026.
>>219182998His dad was a powerful Washington lawyer and lobbyist. Bernthal from one of the wealthiest families in the country.
>>219182998>It’s quite something that a film from 50 years ago is far more sensitive to Sonny and Leon’s complicated relationship than is a play made in the present day.>Modern shit having zero subtlety? No way
>>219189151Go back to your containment threads.
