Inside Man on Arte: Stop at 45 minutes and 34 seconds and take a good look at this pizza box!

Four burglars disguised as house painters break into Manhattan Trust and take all the customers and employees hostage, forcing them to wear the same overalls as themselves. Inspector Fraser and his partner will be dispatched immediately to negotiate.

Unable to distinguish the criminals from the victims and baffled by the demands of the operation’s planner, the policeman also sees the arrival of Madeleine White, a private middleman, whom the bank’s boss, Arthur Case, has tasked him with bringing back. Contents from its stem…

Spike Lee looks brilliant in a heist movie

Twisted script, meticulous direction, top-notch casting (Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster, Clive Owen…): Spike Lee looks brilliant in the heist movie Inside Man, airing tonight on Arte.

The movie has a nice hidden clue. And double actually! If you pause the shot at 45 minutes and 34 seconds into the film, you can read the name “SAL” on the pizza box that the police are about to deliver to the hostages; Or the pizzeria behind its production.

This is the same pizzeria as the one in Spike Lee’s 1989 movie Do The Right Thing! Proof in pictures:

But there is more! Take a second pause at 45 minutes and 52 seconds: Does this policeman’s face look familiar?

You have to be quite a physiognomist for that, and even then! Imagine this actor 30 years from now being the same guy who delivered pizza in Al Pacino’s Dog Day.

Here’s the pizza delivery sequence in Lumet’s film…

Easter eggs were confirmed by the director

It’s 2017, quite a few years after its releaseInside the manThat Spike Lee spilled the beans in an interview on the Vulture websiteWhere she was pitching her series Nola Darling Does As She Wants, produced for Netflix.

Except he explained that he actually staged the showdog afternoon Before filming for her cast, In honor of Sidney Lumet, he reminded us that “Sal” is also the first name of the character played by the late John Cazale in the 1976 film.