The film ends as Sonny watches Sal's body being taken from the car on a stretcher. After all, when you think of Dog Day Afternoon, when that came out, it was the first time we were seeing the media dealing with a live situation. [2]​, Wojtowicz fue arrestado, pero Naturale fue abatido por el FBI en los últimos instantes del incidente. [28] Roger Ebert called Sonny "one of the most interesting modern movie characters" and gave the movie three-and-a-half stars out of four. Inspired by a 1972 Life magazine article "The Boys in the Bank" by P. F. Kluge,[5] Dog Day Afternoon is largely a dramatization of the 1972 bank robbery masterminded by John Wojtowicz. But for the crew in “Point Break,” or the career criminal Forrest Tucker, it seemed to be merely an adrenaline-charged stunt. [17] Wojtowicz died of cancer in January 2006. On-screen text reveals that Sonny was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Angie and her children subsisted on welfare, and Leon, who changed her name to Elizabeth, was able to have the surgery. Arnold, Gary (October 15, 1975). During this era of strong opposition to the Vietnam War, "anti-establishment" Sonny repeats the counter-cultural war cry, "Attica! It's no longer a question of whether Sonny and Sal will escape with the loot, but whether they'll escape at all. Not only do Sal and Sonny fail to escape with the loot or their demands met, but Sal gets killed and Sonny is arrested. he does it so he can have the advantage on Sal when he draws his own hidden gun and fatally shoots him. Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture – Male, "The Write Stuff: Magazine articles that make it to the Big Screen", "Homosexual robs bank, asks release of 'wife, "25 new titles added to National Film Registry", "Complete National Film Registry Listing | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board | Programs at the Library of Congress | Library of Congress", "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry", "Elizabeth Eden, Transsexual Who Figured in 1975 Movie, "Robber Sentenced In a Holdup to Pay 'Sex Change, "1975: "Dog Day Afternoon" Filmed in Brooklyn", "Dog Day Afternoon Movie Review (1975) | Roger Ebert", "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time: 500–401", AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition), "100 Greatest Movie Performances of All Time", King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dog_Day_Afternoon&oldid=985950327, Films based on newspaper and magazine articles, Films whose writer won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, LGBT-related films based on actual events, United States National Film Registry films, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Police Sergeant who originally negotiates with Sonny, NYPD Police Chief of Detectives Louis C. Cottell, FBI agent who replaces Moretti in negotiations, Insurance salesman from across the street, This page was last edited on 28 October 2020, at 22:29. Back inside, Sonny writes out his will, leaving money from his life insurance to Leon for her surgery and to Angie. The film shows Sonny making out a will to give Leon his life insurance so that if Sonny were killed, she might still be able to pay for the operation. For the protagonist in “Cherry,” it was to fuel an opioid addiction. Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical neo-noir crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. Not to be confused with the 2011 Heroic Fantasy Anime called Dog Days.