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In the world of cinema, everybody loves the strain offered by financial institution heist, and of all of the sensible efforts within the crime subgenre, it’s laborious to look past the depth of Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. The movie was based mostly on the 1972 hostage scenario by John Wojotowicz and Salvatore Naturile at a department of Chase Manhattan in Brooklyn and a Life journal article on the incident by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore referred to as ‘The Boys in the Bank’.
Al Pacino performs Sonny Wortzik, a man who robs a bank to be able to purchase funds for his companion’s gender affirmation surgical procedure, in a very riveting method typical of Pacino’s unquestionable high quality. Comedy and drama are interwoven all through, and Lumet completely captures the strain of the scenario because it takes surprising turns and escalations.
The movie has drawn widespread acclaim ever since its launch, being nominated for six Academy Awards and 7 Golden Globes, successful the Oscar for ‘Best Original Screenplay’. It’s additionally been championed by a collection of Lumet’s fellow filmmakers, together with Spike Lee, who paid homage to it along with his movie Inside Man.
“It’s a different kind of bank robbery, but it really showed New York City, and it’s a great film,” Lee as soon as instructed Vulture. “We paid homage to Sidney Lumet. I forget the actress’s name [Marcia Jean Kurtz] — please forgive me — but one of the hostages in Dog Day Afternoon is also a hostage in Inside Man.”
“She’s the one who refuses to take off her clothes when Clive Owen is telling her to take off her clothes,” Lee added. “We also found the guy that delivered pizza to Al Pacino and had him deliver pizza to the hostages in Inside Man. And then, if you look at Inside Man, the pizza is from Sal’s Famous Pizzeria.”
Inside Man is Lee’s 2006 crime thriller, written by Russell Gewirtz. It focuses on a fancy Wall Street financial institution heist come hostage showdown with Denzel Washington starring as Detective Keith Frazier, the New York Police Department’s chief hostage negotiator, Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the person behind the prison operation, and Jodie Foster, a fixer who turns into wrapped up within the scenario.
There’s a brilliance to Inside Man in the way in which it makes use of a non-linear narrative to continuously add layers to its intrigue and pressure. The themes of energy, manipulation and morality are explored, a lot in the identical means that Lumet did in Dog Day Afternoon, and Lee was positive to pay homage to the basic movie, even when solely by way of a hostage and some bins of pizza.
