Editing Dog Day Afternoon (section)

== Legacy ==
Analysis in the 21st century of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' has interpreted it as an "[[Anti-authoritarianism|anti-authoritarian]] film" that "defied the establishment," particularly with the emphasis on the Attica Prison riot and the character's resentment toward the police.{{sfn|Blake, Richard Aloysius|2005|p=70}}{{sfn|Blake, Richard Aloysius|2005|p=71}}{{sfn|Wood, Robin|2003|p=209}} Commentators also mentioned its contemporaneity with the aftermath of the [[Vietnam War]] and the [[Watergate scandal]].{{sfn|Erickson, Hal|p=37|2017}} It became one of the first motion pictures to portray a bisexual male character as the protagonist.{{sfn|Cullen, Jim|2013|p=84}}{{sfn|Russo, Vito|1981|p=230}} In 2009, ''Dog Day Afternoon'' was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]], and it was selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]].{{sfn|Library of Congress staff|2010|p=13}}

On November 11, 1979, a censored and shortened version was broadcast on [[NBC Sunday Night Movie|NBC's Sunday Night Big Event]], which marked the film's television premiere.{{sfn|Cercone, Francesca|1979|p=22}} It was released on [[VHS]] in 1985.{{sfn|R.R. Bowker|2000|p=438}} In 2006, [[Warner Home Video]] released ''Dog Day Afternoon'' on a double-disc [[DVD]].{{sfn|Schulman, Michael|2016|p=149}} For the film's fortieth anniversary, a two-disc [[blu-ray]] was released in 2015.{{sfn|Hoberman, J.|2015}} {{Metacritic film prose|86|15|ref=yes|access-date=August 1, 2023}} Meanwhile, {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|''Dog Day Afternoon'' offers a finely detailed snapshot of people in crisis with tension-soaked drama shaded in black humor.|ref=yes|access-date=August 1, 2023}}

[[AllMovie]] gave the movie five stars out of five. The review defined it as "a quintessential 1970s story", and focused on the film's "contemporary tensions over law, media, and sexuality".{{sfn|Bozzola, Lucia|2012}} [[Christopher Null]] wrote in 2006 that the film "captures perfectly the [[zeitgeist]] of the early 1970s, a time when optimism was scraping rock bottom and John Wojtowicz was as good a hero as we could come up with".{{sfn|Null, Christopher|2006}} During the 2011 [[San Francisco International Film Festival]], the film was included as a tribute to Pierson for his recent death. The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reflected on the time of its release, and the reviewer felt that "it seemed as if the great movies would never stop, when the extraordinary creative burst we'd been seeing in the 1970s looked as though it might go on forever".{{sfn|LaSalle, Mike|2011}} ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' called it a "frank social melodrama that's also a celebration of quotidian bravery", while it praised the cinematography by Kemper that "captures the joy as well as the decay of a crowded city".{{sfn|Bowen, Chuck|2015}} ''[[IGN]]'' delivered a good review, and considered Pacino's performance to be "spectacular, and achieves a kind of nuance and complexity that few actors from his or any other generation have before or since achieved". Meanwhile, the reviewer considered that the movie displayed the reason Cazale was "one of the great character actors of all time".{{sfn|Gilchrist, Todd|2018}}

=== In popular culture ===
The 1977 Italian film ''Operazione Kappa: sparate a vista'' was loosely based on ''Dog Day Afternoon''.{{sfn|Curti, Roberto|2013|p=213}} The 1987 [[Hong Kong action cinema|Hong Kong action film]] ''Yan man ying hung'' (''People's Hero'') was a remake of the film.{{sfn|Charles, John|2015|p=244}} For his audition on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', actor [[Hank Azaria]] used an imitation voice based on Pacino's ''Dog Day Afternoon'' character. It was the basis for the final voice of [[Moe Szyslak]].{{sfn|Gross, Terry|2004}} A bank robbery featuring Sonny and Sal was featured on ''The Simpsons''' episode "[[I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]".{{sfn|The Simpsons staff|2017}} In 2006, [[Marcia Jean Kurtz]] and Lionel Pina reprised their ''Dog Day Afternoon'' roles as Miriam Douglas and a pizza delivery man in the [[Heist film|heist]] [[thriller film]] ''[[Inside Man]]''.{{sfn|Jagernauth, Kevin|2017}}

The names of several television series episodes referenced the film, including ''[[All in the Family]]'',{{sfn|Adler, Richard|1979|p=306}} ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'',{{sfn|Eisner|Krinsky|1984|p=772}} ''[[Alice (American TV series)|Alice]]'',{{sfn|Evermann, Jovan|1999|p=322}} ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'',{{sfn|Paul, Louis|2014|p=15}} ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]'',{{sfn|Evermann, Jovan|1999|p=13}} ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'',{{sfn|Saferstein Barry|1991|p=597}} ''[[Perfect Strangers (TV series)|Perfect Strangers]]'',{{sfn|Riggs, Thomas|2007|p=338}} ''[[The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'',{{sfn|Atkison|Zippan|1995|p=166}} ''[[The New Lassie]]'',{{sfn|Evermann, Jovan|1999|p=492}} ''[[Kenan & Kel]]'',{{sfn|Evermann, Jovan|1999|p=410}} ''[[King of the Hill]]'',{{sfn|Tahmahkera, Dustin|2014|p=198}} ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'',{{sfn|Kaiser, Rowan|2012}} ''[[Supernatural (American TV series)|Supernatural]]'',{{sfn|Entertainment Weekly Staff|2017|p=91}} and ''[[2 Broke Girls]]''.{{sfn|Allmovie staff|2017}} The shout "Attica! Attica!" was also reproduced in multiple films and television series.{{sfn|Martin, Ray|2011|p=288}}