Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American crime drama directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penelope Allen, James Broderick, Lance Henriksen and Carol Kane. The title refers to the sultry summer "dog days".
The film was inspired by PF Kluge's article "The Boys in the Bank" in the LIFE magazine about Brooklyn's similar bank robberies by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale on August 22, 1972.
The film received critical praise for its release in September 1975 by Warner Bros., some of which refers to its anti-establishment tone. Dog Day Afternoon was nominated for several Academy Awards and Golden Globe awards, and won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the film was considered "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation at the National Film Registry.
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Plot
On August 22, 1972, Sonny Wortzik's first impostor (Al Pacino), his friend Salvatore "Sal" Naturale (John Cazale), and Stevie (Gary Springer) attempted to rob First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan was immediately messed up when Stevie lost his courage shortly after Sal withdrew his gun, and Sonny was forced to let him escape from the scene. In the vault, Sonny discovers that he and Sal have arrived after cash-taking every day, and only $ 1,100 of cash is left in the bank.
To compensate, Sonny took some traveler's checks. To prevent checks from being traced, he burned the bank list in the trash, but the smoke warned businesses across the street for suspicious activity. Within minutes, the building was surrounded by police. Unsure of what to do, the two robbers camped at the bank, detaining all workers hostages.
Police Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti (Charles Durning) called the bank to tell Sonny that the police had arrived. Sonny warns that he and Sal have a hostage and will kill them if anyone tries to get into the bank. Sal tells Sonny that he's ready to kill the hostages if necessary. A security guard, has an asthma attack, so Sonny releases him when Moretti asks a hostage as a sign of goodwill. Moretti convinces Sonny to step outside. Using the head teller as a shield, Sonny starts a dialogue with Moretti culminating in his scream "Attica! Attica!" (Requesting a riot at the recent Attica Prison), and the civilians started cheering for Sonny.
Sonny demands a vehicle to drive him and Sal to the airport where they can ride the jet. He also asked for pizza for the hostages (who were sent to the scene) and his wife was taken to the bank. When Sonny's wife, Leon Shermer (Chris Sarandon), a pre-operative transgender woman, arrives, he reveals that the reason for robbing a bank is to pay for Leon's sex-change operation, and that Sonny also has a divorced wife, Angie (Susan Peretz) , and children.
As the night began to set, the lights at the banks were all dead. Sonny goes out again and discovers that FBI Agent Sheldon (James Broderick) has taken over command. He refuses to give Sonny more help, but when the bank manager, Mulvaney (Sully Boyar), has diabetes, Agent Sheldon let the doctor (Philip Charles MacKenzie) pass. When the doctor is inside the bank, Sheldon convinces Leon to talk to Sonny on the phone. Leon reveals that he has attempted suicide to stay away from Sonny and his rude behavior. He had been hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital until the police took him to the scene. Leon rejected Sonny's offer to join him and Sal wherever they boarded the plane. Sonny told the police that Leon had nothing to do with the robbery.
Sonny agrees to let Mulvaney go, but Mulvaney refuses, insisting on staying with his employees. The FBI calls Sonny out of the bank again to talk to his mother. He did not succeed in trying to persuade him to surrender. Once back in the bank, Sonny writes his will, leaving money from his life insurance to Leon for genital change and to Angie.
When the limo arrives, Sonny checks it for hidden weapons or booby traps. When he decides the car is satisfactory, he lives in Agen Murphy (Lance Henriksen) to escort Sonny, Sal, and the remaining hostages to Kennedy Airport. Sonny sat in front next to Murphy while Sal sat behind them. Murphy repeatedly asked Sal to point his gun to the roof so Sal would accidentally shoot him.
As they waited at the airport runway for the plane to get a taxi into his position, another hostage was released and gave Sal the beads of the rosary to help him through his first plane ride. Murphy again reminded Sal to direct his gun so he would not shoot in an accident. Sal does it, and Agent Sheldon forces Sonny's weapon into the dash, creating a diversion that allows Murphy to pull the revolver hidden in the armrest and shoot Sal in the head. Sonny was immediately arrested, and the hostages were released.
The movie ends with Sonny watching the body of Sal taken from the car on a stretcher. The translation revealed that Sonny was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Angie and her children living in welfare, and Leon underwent a sex change operation.
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Cast
The LIFE article describes Wojtowicz as "a dark and skinny man with a good face from Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman". Hoffman was then offered a role when Pacino briefly withdrew from production. The 18-year-old actor will initially play a role in Sal's role to match the true age of Salvatore. The table below summarizes the main character of Dog Day Afternoon .
Historical accuracy
The film is based on the story of John Wojtowicz and embraces the basic facts of what happened, according to The Boys in the Bank "LIFE article in the Sept. 22 issue. Wojtowicz, together with Sal Naturale, held a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn, on August 22, 1972.
After being arrested, Wojtowicz was sentenced to court and sentenced to twenty years in prison, where he served six.
Wojtowicz wrote to The New York Times in 1975 for fear that people would believe the version of the events depicted in the movie, which says "only 30% is right." Some of Wojtowicz's objections include his wife's depiction of Carmen Bifulco, a conversation with her mother Wojtowicz claim never happened, and the police refusal to let her talk to his wife, Carmen (not as described in the film). He did, however, to praise the depictions of Al Pacino and Chris Sarandon about him and his wife Elizabeth Eden as accurate. Also, although Sal was 18, he was portrayed in the film at that time John Cazale was 39.
The film shows Sonny issuing a will to give Leon his life insurance so that if Sonny should be killed, Leon may still be able to pay for surgery. The real life of Wojtowicz was paid $ 7,500 ($ 37,200 today) plus 1% of the movie's net profit for the rights to the story, from which he gave Eden enough to pay for his sex change operation. Aron became Elizabeth Debbie Eden. He died of complications from AIDS at Genesee Hospital, in Rochester, New York, in 1987. Wojtowicz died of cancer in January 2006.
The robbery took place at the Chase Manhattan Bank branch on 450 Avenue P in Brooklyn, at the crossroads of East 3rd Street, in Gravesend. ( 40.6089 Â ° N 73.9707 Â ° W / 40.6089; -73.9707 )
Production
The original inspiration for this film was an article written by PF Kluge and Thomas Moore for LIFE in September 1972. This article included many details that were later used in the film and recorded the relationships Wojtowicz and Naturale developed with the hostages and police. Bank manager Robert Barrett said, "I should hate you [Wojtowicz/Naturale], but I've laughed more tonight than I have in a few weeks." We have some kind of friendship. " Teller Shirley Bell said, "[I] they are my guests on Saturday night, that would be funny." The novelization of the film was written by the author of organized crime Leslie Waller.
The film has no musical value besides three songs, diegetik - "Amoreena" by Elton John (who first appeared on his 1970 album Tumbleweed Connection ), which Sonny, Sal, and Stevie are listening to in their car on opening credits - Faces song "Stay with Me", and "Easy Livin" by Uriah Heep, who both briefly play on the radio during the scene inside the bank. Although many scenes inside the bank set the temperature to be hot enough during the robbery, some outdoor scenes were shot in cold weather so the actors had to put ice in their mouths to stop their breath from appearing on camera. The exterior photos were filmed on location at Prospect Park West between 17 and 18th Street in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. The photos of the bank's interior were filmed in a set made in a warehouse.
Although principals continue to use the basic text of the script as written by Frank Pierson, Lumet's director encourages them to improvise and create scenes to create more natural dialogue. Changes made through this process include an unforgettable Cazale answer when asked which country he wants to go ("Wyoming"), and Durning and Pacino's aggressive dialogue after shots are released inside the bank.
Response
Although Dog Day Afternoon was released nationally in 1975, it was based on the events that took place in Brooklyn three years earlier, in August 1972. During the era of strong opposition to the Vietnam war, Sonny's "anti-formation" repeating the war of counter-culture, "Attica!", referring to the Attica Prison riots in September 1971.
Critical reaction
Upon release,
As time passes, the film continues to generate positive critical reception. For example, Christopher Null wrote in 2006 that the film "captured perfectly the zeitgeist of the early 1970s, a time when optimism scratched the lowest point and John Wojtowicz is the best hero we can get."
P.F. Kluge, co-author of the article that inspired the film, believes that filmmakers "stick with the surface of a living journalistic story" and that the film has a "strong and fast story" without "reflection" or "a contemplative outlook".
Dog Day Afternoon ranked 443 on Empire's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Vrij Nederland named the bank robbery the third best bank robbery scene in the history of the film, behind the bank robbery scene of Raising Arizona (1987) and Heat ( 1995).
Accolades
Dog Day Afternoon won an Academy Award for Writing - Original Screenplay (Frank Pierson) and was nominated for five other Oscars:
- Best Picture (Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand)
- Best Director (Sidney Lumet)
- Best Actor in Main Role (Al Pacino)
- Best Actor in Supporting Role (Chris Sarandon)
- Best Movie Editing (Dede Allen)
The film was also nominated for the following seven Golden Globes, no winners:
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Director - Motion Picture (Sidney Lumet)
- Best Moving Movie Actor - Drama (Al Pacino)
- Best Scenario - Moving Image (Frank Pierson)
- Best Supporting Actor - Charles Durning
- Best Supporting Actor - Moving Image (John Cazale)
- Best Acting Debut in Moving Images - Male (Chris Sarandon)
The film won other awards, including NBR Award for Best Supporting Actor (Charles Durning) and Writers Guild Award for Best Screened Direct Drama for the Screen (Frank Pierson) as well as the Best British Academy Award for Actor (Al Pacino). The movie is also # 70 on the list of AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills . Also quote Al Pacino, "Attica! Attica!" placed at # 86 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes . It was nominated for AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies in 1998 and 2007. In 2006, Premiere magazine released "100 Greatest Performances of All Time", citing Pacino's performance as Sonny as the fourth largest ever. In 2012, Motion Picture Editors Guild lists this movie as the 20th best movie of all time based on its membership survey.
See also
- List of American films of 1975
- The Dog (movie 2013), a documentary about "the true story behind Dog Day Afternoon"
References
External links
- Original magazine article Life in Google Books
- Dog Day Afternoon on IMDb
- Dog Day Afternoon in the TCM Film Database
- Dog Day Afternoon at AllMovie
- Dog Day Afternoon in Box Office Mojo
- Dog Day Afternoon at Rotten Tomatoes
- Loft Al Pacino
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