Sidney Lumet describes the characters and the narrative drive behind “Dog Day Afternoon.”
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TRANSCRIPT
Yeah. What are you doing in there? Who is this? This is detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti, asshole. We got you completely by the balls. You don't believe me, I'm looking you right in the eye. Right now I can see you. Who is it?
Cops.
In Dog Day Afternoon, here's a real-life incident and the actors all portraying real people to whom this actually happened.
The picture was about 'hey we're not these outrageous characters.' Like Pacino's character, these people are not the freaks we think they are. We have much more in common with the freaks than we like to admit about ourselves. Now that immediately defined the way the movie was going to be done.
I don't mean what is it about in a plot sense, because that becomes-- that's self-evident but what is it about emotionally?
