You know what the problem with Hollywood is

They make s**t.

Unbelievable unremarkable ss**t.

Now I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker

That's searching for existentialism

Through a haze of bong smoke or something.

No it's easy to pick apart bad acting short-sighted directing

And a purely moronic stringing together of words that many of the studios term as "prose".

No I'm talking about the lack of realism.

Realism not a pervasive element in today's modern American cinematic vision.

Take Dog Day Afternoon for example.

Arguably Pacino's best work short of Scarface and Godfather of course.

Masterpiece of directing easily Lumet's best.

The cinematography the acting the screenplay all top-notch.

But they didn't push the envelope.

Now what if in Dog Day Sonny REALLY wanted to get away with it

What if - now here's the tricky part - what if he started killing hostages right away No mercy no quarter.

"Meet our demands or the pretty blonde in the bellbottoms gets it the back of the head." Bam splat

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

Now fast forward to today present time same situation.

How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this

In a matter of hours it'd be biggest story from Boston to Budapest

Ten hostages die twenty thirty bam bam one after another.

All caught in high-def computer-enhanced color corrected.

You can practically taste the brain matter.

All for what A bus a plane

A couple of million dollars that's federally insured

I don't think so. Just a thought. I mean it's not within the realm of conventional cinema but what if