It’s nearly the end of August, aka the “Dog Days of August”. What better way to celebrate than to honor “Dog Day Afternoon”, the movie that garnered six Academy Award nominations including one for Al Pacino who plays wanna-be bank robber Sonny Wortzik. The movie is based on a real-life bank robbery in Brooklyn, NY in 1972.

The attempted hold-up devolved into a hostage situation, where Pacino is faced negotiating against a phalanx of police with SWAT teams with guns aimed directly at him. The movie portrays his transformation from anti-hero to hero. In today’s scene, he leads the crowd of on-lookers in chants and cheers, by invoking the name of a prison uprising that had occurred in upstate New York just a year before.

Just remember this chant the next time you want to rally a protest against anyone trying to hold you back from your dreams.