"Adapted from True Events".
This is a subtitle that often appears at the beginning or end of classic crime movies. You can trust this subtitle most of the time - films with completely fictional stories, such as "Frozen", etc., add this subtitle, usually to add a sense of absurdity to the story; and films that are actually adapted from real events, such as Bong Joon Hao's "Memories of Murder", Spielberg's "Cat and Mouse Game", and Sidney Lumet's "Hot Afternoon", adding such a subtitle, in addition to respecting history, can enhance the audience's shared understanding of the film. , which leads to deeper thinking.
Film has been used for documentary since its inception. Excellent realist directors often put themselves in a humble attitude, and use the language of the lens as realistic as possible to narrate, leaving more opportunities for the audience to think. However, only one subtitle cannot completely shape the real atmosphere. The famous Hollywood director Lu Meite used the language of the lens to completely establish the authenticity in the hearts of the audience within 4 minutes of the filming.
With the sound of lazy blues music, the camera zooms from a panoramic view of a cruise ship to a large perspective, showing the whole picture of the New York harbor. The camera then cuts to a dog foraging for food on the street, echoing the title of the film "Dog Day Afternoon", and the shaky camera-hand-held camera pans like a documentary across townspeople talking, walking or doing nothing on the street. A series of montages of still-camera footage followed with vistas over a series of trivial scenes from life such as boys jumping into swimming pools, road workers, watering gardeners, people watering the road, moving vehicles, planes in the air, tennis courts, etc. , to create a life-like scene of a hot afternoon on the streets of New York. After that, the camera began to move, moving and following the mirror across a series of roadside scenes such as garbage dumps, fruit stands, beaches, etc., like the subjective shot of the protagonist, as if following the protagonist to drive to the bank - followed by the gate of the bank into the painting, The three protagonists get off the bus at the door, the music fades out, and a real 70s New York street scene is established. It is worth mentioning that this film does not have any soundtrack except for the title song, which also serves the realistic perspective.
As a result, the clumsy robbers, the criminals who frisked the police, and the easily instigated masses in the film, all the seemingly anti-common sense elements appear very credible, and the anti-climax plot is full of absurd irony. But this is indeed a real event in history. You know, life is far more absurd than movies, as Sonny, played by Al Pacino, said - "Life's so funny."
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