Dog Day Afternoon--Absurd Comedy and Authentic Acting

Enos 2022-07-21 15:58:26

There are many kinds of jokes in the world. Some are funny in words, a cold joke, you can laugh for 5 seconds. Some are funny in behavior, funny performances, which made us laugh for 10 seconds. I just watched this movie. The actors were serious, I always felt that the title must be wrong, how could it be a comedy, and later I found that when absurdity and real acting skills are combined, serious comedy is the most profound.

Many of the plots of the film are very absurd, such as the comparison between the relaxation of the hostages in the bank and the nervousness after they come out, the excitement of the American imperialists on the street, and the passive helplessness of the police. The real events and the creation of the director and screenwriter magnify the reality.

This kind of funny bank robbery film reminds me of many similar films in China in the later period, but they seem to have not captured the essence of comedy for the sake of comedy, so that the robbers are blindly unorganized and unplanned. Obviously, Sunny has many advantages that enable him to have been entangled with the police for so long. I will mention this later. This comedy made me feel the different absurdities between the East and the West. I saw Devils' Come and Pan Jinlian. I think this kind of absurdity is a kind of absurdity. It's different. Maybe there's no funny BG to set off.

In any case, the hero of this good movie, Al Pacino, is the shining point of the movie. After seeing the woman and the godfather, he became a fan, and after the phone call with Leon, he looked desperate and finally got caught. His eyes made me feel his deep acting skills, and his outbursts and the scenes that mobilized the atmosphere were also very explosive and confessed.

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Dog Day Afternoon quotes

  • Sonny: Who are you?

    Sheldon: FBI. Sheldon.

    Sonny: Ah, good. About time. Maybe we can get this thing started, huh? Look, get the lights back on and the air conditioning. We got no air conditioning in here!

    Sheldon: No more favors. That's all over, Sonny.

    Sonny: Favors? You been doin' us favors all night?

    Sheldon: I have a jet. I'll have limousine here in a half hour. I want the hostages.

    Sonny: No, no, no. Bullshit.

    Sheldon: I'd like to work with you on this Sonny, not against you.

    Sonny: Well, the hostages are what's keeping me alive.

    Sheldon: When do I get them?

    Sonny: Didn't anybody tell you anything?

    Sheldon: I'd like to hear it from you.

    Sonny: You get one hostage for the limousine that you bring me in. One hostage. One hostage for the jet. Then, I get to the airport. I go into the plane. I check it all out. And if it's all okay, they all come out.

    Sheldon: I want to go inside.

    Sonny: Why?

    Sheldon: To see if everybody's alright.

    Sonny: They're all right.

    Sheldon: No, I have to see.

  • Sal: What'd he say?

    Sonny: He was talkin' about arrangements . we were talkin' about the TV.

    Sal: Why couldn't he talk about that here?

    Sonny: He was showin' me how the airport bus is comin' in, like that, Sal.