You know what the problem with Hollywood is? They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. Now, I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker that's searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke or something. No, it’s easy to pick apart bad acting, short-sighted directing, and a purely moronic stringing together of words than many of studios term as prose. No. I'm talking about the lack of realism—not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision. Take 'Dog Day Afternoon' for example. Arguably Pacino's best work (short of 'Scarface' and 'Godfather' Part One of course). Masterpiece of directing. Easily Lumet's best. The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top notch.But they didn't push the envelope. Now, what if in 'Dog Day,' Sonny got away with it? What if he started killing hostages right away? No mercy, no quarter. "Meet our demands or the pretty blond in the bellbottoms gets it in the back of the head." Bam, splat! "What, still no bus?" Come on. How many innocent victims splattered across the window would it take to have the city to reverse its policy on hostage situations? And this is 1976, there's no CNN, there's no CNBC, there's no Internet! Now, fast-forward to today. Present time, same situation. How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this? In a matter of hours, it would be the biggest story from Boston to Budapest. Ten hostages die. Twenty. Thirty. Relentless—bam, bam! One after another. All caught in hi-def, computer-enhanced, color-corrected—you can practically taste the brain-matter. All for what, a bus? A plane? A couple of million dollars that's federally insured? I don't think so…it’s just a thought. I mean, it's not within the realm of conventional cinema. But what if?
Thanks, I forgot this movie existedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqQSxgX0SrE
if someone takes hostages and kills them then negotiations are over and the police go full breach because all hostage deaths can be blamed on the hostage takers.
>>223610164Jeet defense forces just did that to some chad who had taken hostages, they claimed they learned that all hostages were dead and proceded to nuke the building with thermobaric rounds. Good for them actually, who even misses a truckful of jeets anyways
