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Swordfish | (2001) |
| 00:00:36 You know the problem with Hollywood? |
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| 00:00:38 They make shit. Unbelievable, unremarkable shit. |
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| 00:00:42 I'm not some wannabe filmmaker... |
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| 00:00:45 ...searching for existentialism through a haze of bong smoke. |
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| 00:00:49 No, it's easy to pick apart bad acting, shortsighted directing... |
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| 00:00:52 ...and a moronic stringing-together of words the studios term as prose. |
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| 00:00:56 No, I'm talking about the lack of realism. Realism. |
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| 00:01:01 Not a pervasive element in modern American cinematic vision. |
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| 00:01:05 Take Dog Day Afternoon, for example. Arguably Pacino's best work. |
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| 00:01:10 Short of Scarface and Godfather Part I, of course. |
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| 00:01:15 Masterpiece of directing, easily Lumet's best. |
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| 00:01:20 The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all topnotch. But... |
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| 00:01:32 ...they didn't push the envelope. |
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| 00:01:35 What if, in Dog Day, Sonny wanted to get away with it? Really wanted that. |
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| 00:01:42 Now this is the tricky part. What if he started killing hostages right away? |
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| 00:01:46 No mercy, no quarter. |
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| 00:01:49 "Meet our demands or the pretty blond gets it in the head. "Bam, splat. |
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| 00:01:54 What, still no bus? Come on. |
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| 00:01:57 How many innocent victims would it take for the city... |
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| 00:02:01 ...to reverse its policy on hostages? |
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| 00:02:03 And this is 1976. There's no CNN. There's no CNBC. There's no Internet. |
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| 00:02:10 Fast-forward to today. Present time, same situation. |
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| 00:02:14 How quickly would the media make a frenzy? In hours. |
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| 00:02:18 It would be the biggest story from Boston to Budapest. |
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| 00:02:23 Ten hostages die. |
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| 00:02:25 Twenty, thirty. |
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| 00:02:27 Relentless. Bam, bim. One after another. |
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| 00:02:31 All on hi-def, computer-enhanced. You can almost taste the brain matter. |
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| 00:02:37 All for what? A bus, a plane? |
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| 00:02:40 A couple million dollars that's federally insured? |
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