Dog Day Afternoon

Robin

13 December 2022

55%

Oscar: Best Screen Play 1975

The annual canape evening with different rules. Robin decided that he had enough of canapes' and instead we should each make a buffet dish fit for a King. As usual the competition was intense with marks being awarded for a dish with a royal connection. My favourite connection was Bruce's mushrooms which he purchased from the farm shop at Highgrove House. Robin managed the best score his royal pork belly crumble recipie. Jim was not far behind with an excellent game pie and homemade picalilli. Each dish was paired with a wine. You can imagine that after 11 dishes we were ready for an Oscar winning film - there were numerous sleepers observed!

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does. The film won the Oscar for Best Screen Play and was based on a bank heist that occured in 1972. First time crook Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino) had a plan to steal over $100k so that so that he could pay for his boyfriend's sex change operation. Unfortunately, he mistimed his raid on the bank since most of the available cash had been collected earlier that day. In addition he and his accomplice found themselves trapped and forced them to take the bank staff hostage. Sonny Wortzik was captured and his accomplice was killed. Ironically, Wortzik recieved $7500 for his rights to the story which he used to pay for the surgery for his boyfriend.

The evening scored very well. The film did not score well! I think we had all had too much good food to focus on a film and promptly nodded off.