Swordfish - John Travolta

Amazing piece of monologue about the movie business -

You know the problem with Hollywood is?
They make shit
Unbelievable, unremarkable shit
I'm not some grungy wannabe filmmaker
That's searching for existentials in a haze of bong smoke or something
It's easy to pick apart bad acting, short sighted directing
In a purely moronic stream to get our words that many of the studios term as pros.
No, I'm talking about the lack of realism....Realism...
Not a pervasive element in today's moderm American cinematic vision
Take Dog Day Afternoon for example
Arguably between them, the best one, short of Scarface and Godfather Part I, of course
Masterpiece of directing, easily limits best
Cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top notch, but
They didn't push the envelope...

Now what if in Dog Day, Sonny really wanted to get away with it?
What if, now here's the tricky part, what if he started killing hostages right away?
No mercy, no courtier
Meet our demands or the pretty blond in the bell bottoms gets it in the back of the head BAM, SPLAT
What, still no bus? Come on.
How many innocent victims splattered across a window would it take to have the city reverse its policies on a hostage situation
And this is 1976.
There is no CNN, no CNBC, there's no internet
Now fast-forward to today present time, same situation
How quickly would the modern media make a frenzy over this
In a matter of hours it would be the biggest story from Boston to Budapest
10 hostages die, 20, 30, relentless BAM BAM one after the other
All caught in high def, computer enhanced, color corrected
You could practically taste the brain matter
All for what, a bus, a plane, a couple of million dollars that's federally insured?
I don't think so
Just a thought
I mean it's not in the realm of conventional cinema
What if...