Remind him that they were so marginalized...Pacino's character (Al Frickin' Pacino!) in Dog Day Afternoon had a tranny boyfriend who got a cutadickoffme operation and, according to the narrator at the end of the movie, was living in Brooklyn as a woman.
That movie came out in nineteen frickin' seventy-five, based on a real-life event from…
Remind him that they were so marginalized...Pacino's character (Al Frickin' Pacino!) in Dog Day Afternoon had a tranny boyfriend who got a cutadickoffme operation and, according to the narrator at the end of the movie, was living in Brooklyn as a woman.
That movie came out in nineteen frickin' seventy-five, based on a real-life event from three years earlier.
They made a frickin' movie about it, or at least with that as a central point, a half-century ago.
Plot synopsis excerpt in case anyone cares:
"Based upon a real-life incident which occurred in August 1972 in which a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, was held siege by Sonny, a Vietnam veteran turned bank robber determined to steal enough money ($2500) for his wife (Leon, a trans woman; the two, were, according to an onscreen TV news report, married in a church by a priest who was defrocked shortly after, although Leon says to the police that Sal is "married and has children") to undergo a sex change operation. (The real life character upon whom Leon is based did, in fact, get the operation.)"
Remind him that they were so marginalized...Pacino's character (Al Frickin' Pacino!) in Dog Day Afternoon had a tranny boyfriend who got a cutadickoffme operation and, according to the narrator at the end of the movie, was living in Brooklyn as a woman.
That movie came out in nineteen frickin' seventy-five, based on a real-life event from three years earlier.
They made a frickin' movie about it, or at least with that as a central point, a half-century ago.
Plot synopsis excerpt in case anyone cares:
"Based upon a real-life incident which occurred in August 1972 in which a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, was held siege by Sonny, a Vietnam veteran turned bank robber determined to steal enough money ($2500) for his wife (Leon, a trans woman; the two, were, according to an onscreen TV news report, married in a church by a priest who was defrocked shortly after, although Leon says to the police that Sal is "married and has children") to undergo a sex change operation. (The real life character upon whom Leon is based did, in fact, get the operation.)"
Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said hey babe, takena walk on the wild side.
"Do do do, do do do do do, do, do do, do do do do do."
I met her in a club down in old SoHo...
Wow! Never even occurred to me that was what it was about!