![]() ![]() The first time the two Titans of Tension ever played against each other on-screen, one can only imagine every day on set was a bonanza of passive-aggressive eyebrow-raising and people being told to fuggheddaboudit. One of those cinematic worlds-colliding moments, Michael Mann’s movie pits Al Pacino’s LAPD detective Vincent Hanna in a cat-and-mouse chase with Robert DeNiro’s career criminal Neil McCauley following the heist of $1.6 million in untraceable bearer bonds. Deep down you know there probably isn’t one. Suffice to say, the heist goes wrong, and in one tense scene after another the audience is asked to figure out what a good resolution to the situation might look like. ![]() Pacino plays Sonny Wortzik, a desperate guy who plans a bank job to pay for his partner, Leon Shermer, to have gender realignment surgery. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)Īl Pacino’s early work is so full of gold it’s easy to overlook this curate’s egg, a 1975 movie with themes of masculinity and gender that are still being explored as fresh concepts in movies like The Power Of The Dog. By the end of the decade, the form was pretty much perfected in this Christmas telly staple, which sees Michael Caine planning a ludicrous Italian gold heist in humble British Mini cars and climaxing in what may be the most famous final scene in film history. In the groovetastic 1960s, the heist movie moved away from its gritty roots to become a staple comedy format, the inevitable bungling of a job providing plenty for leads to play against for laughs. ![]()
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