[00:02.91]You know what the problem with Hollywood is
[00:07.17]They make s**t.
[00:08.49]Unbelievable unremarkable ss**t.
[00:11.70]Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker
[00:14.52]That's searching for existentialism
[00:16.02]Through a haze of bong smoke or something.
[00:18.60]No it's easy to pick apart bad acting short-sighted directing
[00:22.17]And a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose".
[00:26.37]No I'm talking about the lack of realism.
[00:29.04]Realism not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.
[00:35.76]Take Dog Day Afternoon for example.
[00:38.61]Arguably Pacino's best work short of Scarface and Godfather of course.
[00:45.90]Masterpiece of directing easily Lumet's best.
[00:52.02]The cinematography the acting the screenplay all top-notch.
[00:55.05]But they didn't push the envelope.
[01:07.83]Now what if in Dog Day Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it
[01:12.66]What if -now here's the tricky part -what if he started killing hostages right away No mercy no quarter.
[01:20.19]"Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head."Bam splat
[01:25.77]What still no bus Come on How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policy on hostage situations And this is 1976 there's no CNN there's no CNBC there's no internet
[01:42.54]Now fast forward to today present time same situation.
[01:46.71]How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this
[01:49.29]In a matter of hours it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest
[01:55.53]Ten hostages die twenty thirty bam bam one after another.
[02:04.11]All caught in high-def computer-enhanced color corrected.
[02:07.98]You can practically taste the brain matter.
[02:10.38]All for what A bus a plane
[02:12.15]A couple of million dollars that's federally insured
[02:17.49]I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean it's not within the realm of conventional cinema but what if