Miami Vice - In The Air Tonight Scene [HD]
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The "In the Air Tonight" Scene is arguably the most memorable and famous scene from the Miami Vice television series, and is regularly cited as one of the greatest, most influential moments in the history of television.
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Original air date September 16, 1984
"In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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This scene is so 80s… even the 80s are jealous.
Damn straight !
Abso-freaking lutely!
The 80s..
Back when people didn't live in a phone..
No Covid..
say it again!
Benchmark 80's
The single most epic car drive in television history.
Amen
FACTS
@@chadk890 they copied this from the opening to ‘American Gigolo’. That film came out in 1980.
Miami vice started in 1984
They copied this from the opening science to ‘American Gigolo’ , which came out in 1980
Yes
One of the coldest, coolest scenes ever shot. And whoever picked this song deserves a raise.
Michael Mann. "Despite never taking a directorial role on the series, Mann went to great lengths to ensure the show was aesthetically appealing and, more importantly, visually unique. His simple instructions to the production team insisted that "no earth tones" be used. Mann personally researched the Miami area for shooting locations and to capture the lifestyle of the city, and many dilapidated Art Deco buildings were restored and repainted to fit the shots he called for. As a result of Mann's intense work (and his sense of neo-noir), Vice shot into the Top 10 in the summer of 1985, during the reruns of its first season. "
NO ONE combines visuals w/soundtrack like MANN
@@nickytommymancinelli8066 absolute facts.
@@roguedravidan2746his films are all distinct in this way too, but I wonder if Miami Vice stands the test of time compared to the 90s hbo shows and the rest of the 21st century greats? I've never seen the show but it's probably more a buddy cop drama than anything?
This scene made me in fascinated in, and fall in love with, Miami.
I know modern Miami is nothing like this, but I just love the atmosphere of this scene. ICONIC.
As a film director, I'm just going to say it. This has to be one of the Top 3 scenes in Television history. The Directing, the Acting, the cinematography, the editing, the storyline, the minimalistic writing to allow the visuals to take center stage, and of course the music...is on a different level. The combination of all those things makes this my favorite TV scene of All-Time
Sadly, enforced diversity, racial division and PC Marxist culture have all eviscerated any chance of ever approximating this era and period of creativity.
I completely agree!
Would you mind sharing your other 2 Top 3 scenes in television history?
@@MultiMichael72 Surely the Marine Biologist scene from Seinfeld is number 2 and number 3 is the chase scene in The Sopranos pilot.
@recline69 the sea was angry that day
@@crazymage9636 ...my friends. like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
younger people of today will never get a sense of what a watershed moment this was in time. Up until this series there was nothing to parallel the fusion of music, coolness and outstanding videography. I have never forgot the day that I saw this particular scene, knowing that I had stumbled upon something special, that was revolutionary for its time.
Well, I was born in 1994. In 2013 I was 18 and finished my high school. Before the University I had 3 months of holidays.
During this 3 months I watched whole Miami Vice serie with mind blown. I felt like alien because my peers were watching bulshit produced by nowadays tv and I stuck with this 80's show. Learning many things, getting to know a lot of wonderful music, simply feeling like time spent with it is not waste of time at all. I remeber being 18 and how much this call to Caroline hit me.
I am from Poland, this show was played here around 1995-1998 propably. Years after it was produced. I was also imaginating how my dad felt while watching Ferrari Testarossa and Sonny making a call while driving - watching it in gray post-communist Poland.
I disagree as a youngster! There are young units like me which love this show and gets emotional because of it!😃
@@hubertka9122 Very nice to know that you enjoyed it so much.
Disagree, there’s better things now if you know where to look
@@hubertka9122 love your comment
Without Miami Vice, most modern day cop shows wouldn’t exist
Remember kids, this was just the pilot episode.
1984 - 1990
It was a Hell of a Ride 😎
Masterpiece movie pilot
They had me when this scene and song came on
@@orlandoaguasvivas6580 , me too. Was a fan from this moment
@@dinkyramirez9866 Was Born In 88. I can only imagine.
Probably one of the best pieces of music to listen to when you're driving your car at night in the neon glow of the city or the moon. Wonderful memories.
And riding a motorcycle too!
You are so right!
Maybe this influenced me to buy my black Camero in the early 90s
It really is.
That neon glow of the moon and city was real wasn’t it???...
I was a kid in the 80s, born in 73... Amazing time to be alive.
Indeed.
Right. Im born in 74
I'm ten years younger, but I think you got the better deal.
@@PerfectHandProductions I left school at 16 in 1990, the 90s were good but if I'm to be honest I wished I'd be born in 63 and left school in 80 so I could of experienced the 80s as an adult. The 80s were phenomenal as a kid though. Bliss
just telling my Wife about this Scene when this song came on Pandora
I remember watching this on Friday night with my dad
As a Kid I remember this scene sending chills down my spine
This scene will forever give me shivers. The phone call Crockett makes with his wife before knowing some heavy shit is about to go down... truly epic
exactly! while the lyrics are timed quite well to it
Sonny just desperate to know that he was part of something good once, that he hasn't been a total fuck up.
Best ever
And if you have been there it’s even more profound.
@@SeanConnoly in Miami?
Love how tubbs knew he was on a one way trip, looked at Crockett and then loaded the shotgun.....chills decades later
@Cookie Monster Are you kidding?! Women LOVED these two. My mom and I used to watch this show. These 2 were the epitome of hot in the 80's, and actualy defined a lot of it.
Tubbs knew that he wasn't gonna be the same. And New York City was out of the picture. From here on, it's him and Crockett
Kimberlee Clemensen That was powerful and orgasmic at the same times
Cookie Monster u need a lot of attention
@Cookie Monster Ha back then my mom was watching Days of Lives during the day and Miami Vice at night. Who are you kidding.
Michael Mann…the innovator & master of nighttime cinematography.
Hes a genius
On point!
40 years later and this is still the reigning champ for a cool bad ass car, cop buddy and music scene...
A lot of commenters have brought up different elements of this scene. Let me put it together for you guys. This is the moment where Crockett and Tubbs become the badass partners we all know. Up to this point Crockett hadn't wanted to believe anyone in his department was crooked...but it was the case. It hurt even more that the dirty cop was his own former partner. A man he had trusted, considered a brother above all else and the fact he would sink so low hurt a lot. Tubbs didn't want to be right...but he was. That slight look he gives Crockett at 0:27 says "I feel your pain, and I'm sorry. So I'll stand by you through this whole mess. I'll watch your back if you watch mine." Neither of them needed to say anything else. The trust was there. And Crockett, so torn up by what his former partner had done, called his ex-wife to see if that was all fake too. Not to mention if he didn't walk away from this alive, he wanted to find some closure and do his job without any further regrets. Crockett lost a lot, but he gained a friend who had his back for five years, and knew Tubbs would walk beside him through hell itself. And this translates to real life people. Even if you only have one friend you trust above all else. Sometimes that's all you need. They are a treasure and should be cherished as such. That's how I see it. Enough Said!
Read your comment and re-watched this video for that look Tubbs gives Crockett. Excellent observations and insight. Tremendous acting! And, a personal comment, loyalty like that is a rare commodity these days...
Well said and articulated.
@@fcmovies True Loyalty is a very rare commodity anymore. If you have at least one truly devoted friend. Then consider yourself extremely lucky. Treasure them.
Exactly
excellent insight pal..
Michael Mann... probably most underrated visionary director ever
Michael Mann was in my graduating class, 1960 Amundsen high school, Chicago. No weren't friends.
When he passes on, there should be a statue of him in Miami Beach. This show revitalized that neighborhood into the upscale neighborhood it is today (before the show, that area was high crime and run down).
The same man who gave us one of the great crime epics of all time:Heat.
Unfortunately he didn't direct any of the TV episodes, only executive produced the show. Would have loved to see him direct a few though.
remove the probably!
Growing up, I never missed a single episode of Miami Vice!! I'm 50, and to this day, not many shows can even come close to this
I was 32 when this show came out. I'm 68 and still love it
I was 17 when this came on in 84 and was hooked
I'm watching the series from the beginning thanks to Tubi. When I was a kid I saw an episode here and there but never got into it. I saw the first episodes and I'm hooked.
As a film director, I'm just going to say it. This has to be one of the Top 3 scenes in Television history. The Directing, the Acting, the cinematography, the editing, the storyline, the minimalistic writing to allow the visuals to take center stage, and of course the music...is on a different level. The combination of all those things makes this my favorite TV scene of All-Time
The 80s were so epic....who wants to go back with me?😎
Do you have the flux capasitor?
I can supply plutonium. We also need a good source for jigawatts
@@MrJwestman that'll do.
Lets go!!!!!!
Ok that's mean all set... If my calculation is right we can back to where it was this night
Tubbs casually loading that shotgun might be the most badass thing I've ever seen.
Stillwater100 Or when Calderone turns around and finds himself nose-to-nose with said shotgun.
It’s the first sound we hear in this sequence. Pure genius
Stillwater100 the fact that the director wanted us to hear the sound of the shells sliding in was amazeballs!
yep..just yep..
100th like
The music, editing, cinematography and mood is on another level. People laugh at the 80s as being the decade of excess but you simply cannot deny that this is pure quality
The 80s was a great decade for a lot of stuff man
@@explodyzno shot
We lost the ability to be campy after the '80s unfortunately
💯
As a film director, I'm just going to say it. This has to be one of the Top 3 scenes in Television history. The Directing, the Acting, the cinematography, the editing, the storyline, the minimalistic writing to allow the visuals to take center stage, and of course the music...is on a different level. The combination of all those things makes this my favorite TV scene of All-Time
This might just be the single greatest scene in television history; if not, almost certainly the most iconic. This was *the* scene which defined a decade--a decade of lavish excess, bright colours, effortless style, and incredible music.
The front corner of the car, the back wheel spinning, hitting the bumps, Crockett thinking just about everything in a few seconds, and Tubbs giving that look and raising up the sawed off click clack....
And I was lucky enough to live through it all.
No argument there. I was watching on NBC in the 80s when it came out the first time. I was blown away by it.
This and "did you see the sunrise".
It was a kick ass decade, and we had people in charge of the country that actually knew what they were doing. Something we haven't had the last 30 years or so.
I can smell the gentle breeze and essence of that summer night...
I like your music
As an Iowan that's always been fascinated by Miami, it almost feels like you can sense the light humidity in this scene.
miami has the worst humidity on the planet
@@SA-hz1rs Lmao. I'm just guessing Crockett and Tubbs look halfway dry because of that convertible. I can't stand Iowa's humidity. There's no way in hell I could get used to Miami's.
@@thezdbailey its worse than Iowa. Miami looks much better on tv than In real life too.
Saw Phil Collins in Miami at the Orange Bowl in 1987 and when this song came on the crowd went fucking wild. The 80s were the best.
Australia... early 80’s Sydney. Went OFF!
Even Magnum PI did something Miami Vice it his last season.
Yeah the combo of American culture plus English music plus Jan Hammer's soundtracks plus Michael Mann's directing is what makes this show a classic. It's a wokes worst nightmare
As a 90s baby, I'm jealous AF! 😫
Yeah. My favourite decade. Miss those good old days.
From the epic music to the telephone booth, the hairstyles, the neon, these four minutes encapsulates the 80s like no other. It’s art in itself, too: tension, perfect pacing, long shots, perfect angles, little talking and big emotions… This defined an era, the entire show in fact.
As a film director, I'm just going to say it. This has to be one of the Top 3 scenes in Television history. The Directing, the Acting, the cinematography, the editing, the storyline, the minimalistic writing to allow the visuals to take center stage, and of course the music...is on a different level. The combination of all those things makes this my favorite TV scene of All-Time
This is why I love the 80's. 😎
i don't think there will ever be a decade like the 80's
90s !
@@user-gc9dy2hp9uwas all down hill from there
90s matched... and bettered imo.. post 9/11 though... things have never been the same.
I find the 80's absolutely superior to the 90's in about every way. Mike Tyson was entering his prime, Michael Jackson and Metallica at their best, Magic and Bird basketball rivalry with a young Michael Jordan beginning to change the game. Arcades, Cartoons, Music, Movies, Nintendo was at its height. SRV and Bill Hicks in their prime and tearing up clubs. The 80's was the last true outlaw decade with the best talent and the perfect balance of innovation without too much intrusion.
80's was the best some 90's but since then it has been downhill
This scene always gives me a lump in my throat.
The music, the show, Crockett calling his ex, the 80's era.
I remember when the Vice came out. My pops would come home from work, beat and tired. He'd shower, grab a Miller light and head to the couch. Mom would be cooking dinner for us. Pop would yell, "babe, it's on". Mom would run in with dad's plate, and sit next to him. I was young, so I'd probably be playing with my toy guns, imitating tv. Or chewing on a chicken drumstick.
I vaguely remember the episodes ,but I was there when they aired the 1st time.
The best times were the simplest times.
Love ya'll guys.
What a great memory for you, I enjoyed reading it! 😍
Slow mo I can match you brother. I was staying in the country with my stepfather. I musta been about 6 or so. It was spring to summer and this episode was on. My stepdad had a beer also. He was watching this and I had no choice but to so I sat next to him and watched. I'll always remember this episode and the one with Phil Collins guest starring. So memorable. Remember those oversized satellite dishes? 🤣. Oh man I can't tell you how happy my stepdad was when he finally took it down a couple years later lol
☹️👍🏼
Best ever
Amen very nice memory this is why I try my best to give my kids a great childhood they can remember
even if you have a Fiat Panda. this song and diving at night you are for 3 minutes in a Ferrari and in Miami. its f-ing magic 80's god we were cool.
Genesis ** I think that diving with your car wouldn't be a smart move
and one sawed off boi
How about multipla?
And when you check your mirror at 2:50, you see Mike Tyson on your backseat playing the drums.
hammerhi99 lmao 🤣 absolutely.
When Phil sings „The last time you‘ll hear from me“ and he hangs up the phone can’t be coincidental
Miami Vice, a TV show with production quality better than most current films.
35 years later and still haven't seen another scene as intense or iconic as this........
1 year later: Second season 3rd episode: "Out where the busses don't run" ending scene. Brothers in Arms , Dire Straits and the whole scene. Goosebumps every time. Here is the scene:
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Watch the sopranos
Breaking Bad, Sopranos....
This is a good scene. Personally like this one too. Miami Vice even by today's standards is still ahead of the curve in terms of cinematic presentation. th-cam.com/video/kee8MS-QK5E/w-d-xo.html
I can’t agree with you more
This show is almost 40 years old (goodness) and a lot cooler than anything on tv today.
Simple, it is because BEAUTY was glorified back then, and now uglyness is. All this trying to change the human soul, how low can those in power go? They won't change me though, forever beautiful, if not outside, at least inside. What reminds me all the beauty that Don Johnson had and how it contrasted with Philip Michael Thomas because, Philip Michael had his beauty in his eyes! We always have to remember to be that who we dream, no matter the wrinkles, if not our looks, then our behaviour. Another good example was Castillo, how tough and rough and yet how sweet he was inside! All of these things tell you how the arts in those days were focused in goodness, no matter how bad things were.
Great way to put it
@Zack Smith Today a 21 year girl who is 50lbs over weight, blue hair, a nose ring, piercings all over her body, dresses like homeless person, just looks unkept and hair looks like a rat nest is viewed as beautiful.
One of the best crime procedural shows on TV showing the gritty side of law enforcement
So true. Most shows today make me turn off TV after some minutes because they are boring and repetitive. 80s and 90s shows like Miami Vice make me watching reruns even 4 o'clock in the morning.
This scene did for Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight. What the Motown Michael Jackson Moonwalk did for Billie Jean. It catapulted the song into a whole different stratosphere.
If you don't get goose bumps during this scene, well, you weren't a fan.
The twin "thumps" of the shells is an iconic moment.
2019. Take me back to 1986 please.
1984
What's the difference?
@@aryaman61 Two years. You must have gone to public school...
@@aryaman61 Ask an Ukranian...
@@akosleoszilagyi2529 What?
this very well may be the most badass scene in tv history..
That is sooooo efffn true.
The scene....the song...Phil Collins hunting voice.....orgasm
Agreed
agreed
Badassery of the highest order
Don Johnson was so friggin cool with his perfect face and his perfect voice and perfect outfits. Never gets old
It was his NAME ***DON JOHNSON***
By..gio..sss..junior..in..by..gio..sss..primo..miami..florida..ciaoo
His daughter has a perfect face and voice too. I hope Dakota gets that perfect role soon too.
One of the greatest, quietly intense scenes in television history.
Yes, it conveys the feeling and the essence of running a high priority mission with your wingman. The intensity is all between the lines, but it's damn near seismic activity. Something IS coming. And you CAN feel it in the air. It's a Red Sprite, and the air is beginning to crackle. Terajoules.
Agreed, I can't think of much that rivals it (but please share examples if you know of any).
@@justinwillis78 One I can think of is Sons of Anarchy, the baby kidnapping scene with Gimme Shelter playiyng. Goosebumps guaranteed. But it's totally different.
How many here saw this on TV the day it aired
Hah I was born 5 year later, and even if I were living in 84' I couldn't watch the show because I was living in the the wrong side of the Iron Curtain...
Friday was pizza and Miami Vice at my house.
Guilty and was 7 at the time. Best cop show ever
A time when families had one t.v. And it was tuned into Miami vice 😂.
Right here! It became the reason for going out later on Fridays!
The ONE scene that would forever redefine television shows and HOW they would be filmed!
The perfect marriage between MUSIC and VISUALS!
So COOL
MTV made this possible
Michael Mann was The Man!
thank you, THOMAS CARTER
Miami Vice - the TV show for the MTV generation.
Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
So true bro
Yep
Late 80s here, but 80s/90s music, tv shows and movies are legendary to me
My dad was a Jazz musician. I once asked him, "What's the definition of the slang term, "cool?" He just show me this clip.
Their silence.... the breeze... the somberness.... such an incredible scene!
The silence!!!!
A fan and fake stock film background
@@richardlacey4923 Come on man...
The best scene in the history of television.
When they found that body in the wall
Lars knows
Thank you, director THOMAS CARTER
Atmospheric
@@vonessiamarshall1758 Yeah, that shit scared me. I was 10 when this show/episode first aired. My Dad and I used to watch it together. I'd love to see a modern production of this show but taking place in the same era.
My childhood rushes back so hard. 47 in 2023. Who else does this bring back sitting on the carpet in front of the console at your grandparents house watching Miami Vice. Best show all time.
People don’t realise how much this single scene changed TV and how we view it today
Truly visionary & revolutionary.
It's been imitated -- but this was the FIRST.
My Dad, God rest his soul, was (I swear to God I am not making this up), a vice cop in Miami back in the 60s and 70s. I was born in 73 and we left Miami when I was around 7. After he retired he had his personal business cards made saying
" William Kennedy
I was Miami Vice
before
Miami Vice was Miami Vice"
That was back when cops were respected. It's sad how 1 or a few badd cops make almost the entire country's law enforcement look badd. I say not to defund the police but reform them. Defund what a stupid idea
I remember when this first aired on TV. "In the Air Tonight" was known, but after this aired it exploded and that's when the era we know as the 1980s really began.
I remember that too, it took it from not well known, to blowing up the airwaves!
The 80s 80s that everyone really thinks of, and is nostalgic for, was only from about 1984-1987. Roughly 4 yrs. I feel like it was kind of over by 1988.
Yeah, and we were treated to Phil Collins everywhere, all the time, until we were barfing him out our a$$.
Yup. 1980 - 83 was basically 70's lite.
@@malvolio01 I would say more 1982-1987, but you are right that most of what people consider "80's nostalgia" happened between 84-87.
One of the most badass moments in cinema history
Everything about this scene was absolutely perfect. Television as an artform peaked during this 4 minutes. From everything but the music and the shotgun loading being silent at the beginning to how steady the camera was at the start and how shaky it got toward to the end to echo their confidence turning to anxiety, this 4 minute scene held more emotion and gravitas than some entire films. Brilliant is a gross understatement.
You know I never caught the camera thing . Holy shit man good eye . Its really shaking the last scene of the hood shot while driving . And now that you pointed it out , well it makes this that much more awesome . And we thought shit was gonna go down and the prick Calderon got away, which actually makes it better . In other words you’re rooting for them but they are let down , just like real life . There’s a video on here from the director and how they came up with the song and the scene , really interesting . And I suppose you could say I was lucky , got to watch it the night it premiered in 1984. This was THE SHOW of the 80s .
@@jjw3956I was 14 when this aired and me and my whole family watched it together. After it was over we sat there in silence until my dad who never really says much about tv or movies literally said “holy s#i+, that was awesome!” Never heard him talk that ever before or since.
NBC is lightyears away from being this cool now.
TV is lightyears away from being this cool now.
@@johnenigma8506 The first season of True Detective was this cool
Except for Hannibal. I can't BELIEVE they got away with that on NBC. CSI: Hellraiser is what they should've called it. It was as good at horror/fucked up as this is as good at being a cop show..
@@nicholasbrown4109 But to be fair that was premium cable, not network TV. And S1 True Detective was the best TV I've ever seen. Nothing has topped before or since.
@@Adino1 Both Hannibal and True Detective [S1] absolute fucking pieces of art.
This scene changed Television forever. So much style, So much story in a 4 minute clip. It was an amazing taste of things to come. The cinematic quality of this scene is unmatched in television history.
By..gio..sss..primo..end..by..gio..sss..junior..miami..florida..ciaoo
I've had a similar experience with this song
Ended up in some run down bar with this one guy I knew, drank a few too many, talked with him about life, and just tried to catch up with everything. He did time in prison and was just set free, I was back in my hometown after many years of working abroad, no family nor friends to talk to. So we were there just talking like, "how is life? yep, haven't seen this place in years either"
After we finished our last drink, we sat in the car, turned the radio on and this song comes on first. We were both just sitting there like these two guys, pure silence and this song blasting on the radio as the car just drives along the empty, lonely freeway. You could feel how broken we were at that point. Crazy, and confusing times those were.
80s was just the pinnacle of everything. The end of the golden era
This scene changed tv forever September 1984
September 16, 1984
Day after my 4th birthday!
@@melissadunn2618 Happy Belated birthday
@@melissadunn2618 I just turned 5!
@@cocoatea56Wow! You have amazing literacy skills for a 5yr old.
When you needed to stop to make a call ☎️
80’s, the greatest decade ever...
Lucky to be growing up as a kid in 80s. No cell phones, texting. When u wanted to talk to someone u actually used a phone.
Truth 👍
@@halharris2317 I mean there were bad elements of the 80s just like every other decade such as the cold war, the crack epidemic tearing major metropolitan areas apart, and so on
Yes, we were lucky. Best decade.
Had to do it
It's the song that paces the scene. Superb show, superb directing, superb acting.
But the perfect song for the perfect scene.
Please give Phil Collins credit for this.
One of the greatest drummers of all time. His style was and is like no other. Unique.
True, and this should be In The Air Tonight’s official video, it’s so perfect, the reflections on the black bonnet, the phone booth stop, the shinny wheels… perfect
One of the most iconic scenes ever shot on television
The timing of pauses between phill colins lyrics and Caroline lines is amazing . Not a single word overlap... Editing of this scene is top notch.
Not only that, but the lyrics interact with and serve as subtext for the dialogue. “Well I remember…” as she thinks back to answer his question. Amazing.
Sorry but the words do overlap
Still great tho
They overlap, but yes, FANTASTIC!!
Nearly three and a half minutes of driving and four lines of dialogue. Those were the times. What an epic scene!
The looks the clothes the car the night the location the music the little talking the neon the drugs the guns the phone its all there
A perfect scene
I'm 53 years old,i cry imediately😢now watching...
Name movie 🎥
I cried for no reason
I wish every kid today, can live in the 80s. No smartphone, no social media, no reality tv. Best life ever!
i was born in the early 2000s, but my mom got to live through the 1980’s. she’s the one who got me into 80’s music, movies, and T.V. shows. I’m jealous of her!
@@hellothisisnotava Same here, with emphasis on rock music and mid-80s TV and movies.
i was born in the early 90s but i still prefer 80s music/movies 😌
ESPECIALLY NO REALITY TV BULLSHIT
I was a teenager in the 80’s. What an absolutely fantastic period to grow up in !!!
No mobile phones, no Facebook or social media, no internet, and everyone spoke and looked each other.
I reminisce all the time about this period in my life.
Miami Vice was a class act. And I wore grandad t-shirts just because of Sonny Crockett. 🙏
Powerful scene...Just found out he had been sold out by a partner he knew for years and had to know if one of the few things he even cared about was real or an illusion as well.
100%
I remember watching this scene when I was a teenager and we all looked forward to watching the weekly episodes of Miami Vice on television. Sonny's calling his ex-wife...Wow. No words. Watching it just now gave me chills all over again.
The 80s was such a cool magical decade! That decade is what real freedom and expression was all about! Whoever didn't experience the 80s MISSED OUT!!!
Michael Mann one of the best directors, He directed one of the best movies ever: Heat
I came here to talk about “Heat.” Thank you!
1981's "Thief" with James Caan also had some great music by Tangerine Dream.
Michael Mann did Manhunter the best movie ever, the precursor to Red Dragon, William Peterson better than Edward Norton. 💯🔱
@@gregthomas1323 love manhunter
The shot of the street lights reflecting off the car bonnet is straight out of Thief, like five years prior
I wouldn't mind if the drive was a at least minute longer. The whole scene is so relaxing as you watch it a couple of times.
ajmo breeee
Yeah, they arrived too early to the boat
@@64siskat96 partraully prophyderling
In the Air Tonight makes me want to drive in a highway at night.
So I was born in 87 and throughout the years I never took the time to watch this series…until today.
When this scene played out….I was absolutely speechless as I let out a loud “OH MY GOD” because I couldn’t believe how fkn cool this was entire part was playing out. Easily the COOLEST scene in television history.
Nothing and I mean NOTHING is more powerful and emotion fueling than a night drive with in the air tonight playing, every time this happens to me my entire life goes on a playback and makes me question everything I’ve done before, this song is something else
Hadn't seen this since I watched the pilot as it aired. I never forgot this scene because of its intensity and the context. They're going after the guy who killed Tubbs' brother, if I recall. Pure suspense, and Sonny's call just adds to it. He's closing things up, just in case.
They're going after a drug kingpin named Calderone. He killed Tubbs' brother, and Crockett's partner. He also worked with a crooked cop who Crockett ended up having to expose in front of his own family.
The iconic 80's. Best decade of all time.
Nemesis Enforcer no way! The 90’s all the way. Forget about it.
I have never seen this show but i saw the movie with jamie fox etc, I thought it could have been a lot better. This Tv series looks good!
@@micklats5584 The 90s has to be the most overrated decade in history
@@micklats5584 lol you're funny...
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That movie had way too much to live up to.
As with much of what Michael Mann has put his fingers on, Miami Vice was an existential masterpiece. There's a soul in there - that isn't in the dialogue, it's not spoken out loud - but it's in the shots, the setup, what's NOT said, and in the look. From this show, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Collateral, and more - Mann always captured something that dug to a deeper level, something that left you with more to consider than you bargained for - even in a cop show. To me, that was what separated Miami Vice from the rest of the pack.
This is the epitome of the 80’s for me in a nutshell! I couldn’t wait for Miami vice to come on as a kid. It was so influential to me at such a young age. Wish I could go back in a Time Machine to those times without a care in the world.
One of the most epic scenes from Miami Vice Season 1. The part where Sonny pulls over to use a phone booth and calls his ex wife Caroline is priceless. He calls her because there is a distinct possibility he may never come out alive with his confrontation with Calderone. And the close-up of the Ferrari Daytona and its chrome wheels spinning as he and Tubbs speed to their confrontation with the drug dealer Calderone is truly epic!
Then Calderon dip off on his plane..Classic
He also called Caroline because he felt betrayed by his former partner and had to make sure that at least what he had with her was real. This show was amazing.
@@ricardorasteiro497 That phone call chilled me. She could tell something was up. He wasnt himself. Deep deep scene.
@@ricardorasteiro497 beat me to it xD
You bet it was
that phone call is heart breaking.
This scene is highly symbolic, the direction, the actors, the music and the overall atmosphere gives a timelessness. It is transcendental, beyond the limits of the series itself.
Phill knocked this song out the park . One of the best songs of the 80’s🔥🔥🔥🔥
This scene defined an entire decade! The music, styles, cars, movies, and fashion of the 1980’s were made manifest from this scene. Thomas Carter, the director of this episode is an underrated GOAT!
Absolutely the coolest scene in TV history!!!!….. No other song could've sufficed!... The night-lights dripping off the black Ferrari Daytona Spyder... The chrome rims... The stone cold faces on Crockett & Tubbs... Time to get Cal'Derrone… LET'S GO!!!
And that’s exactly what we did
Ahhhh No cell phones 😍 Was a damn good time. Miss it
such a powerful scene that is loaded with emotion. yet theres little to no dialogue at all.
Kids will never know how cool the 80s were.
Unfortunately … the freedom, old and new perfectly mixed .
So much stuff you couldn't even show on television any more if you wanted to. :(
Yeah, everything they know was either influenced or ripped off from the eighties.
@@Rico-ow3ysKinda like how everything the 80s offered was ripped from or influenced by previous decades??? Styles live, die, live, repeat all the time.
Thats how that works bud…
I'm one of those kids and I wish I was there...
Miami Vice is its own genre. The show set out to capture the essence of Miami and it succeeded so well that Miami has tried to live up to it ever since.
I love reading everyone’s comments on this scene. This song went perfectly with this scene and the song is musical genius in and of itself. I don’t think I could find another song that would fit the mood of Crockett and Tubbs driving at night, along with the tension that was already created in the storyline. Absolutely brilliant.
Perfect song for the perfect show!!!!!!! I love the 80's!!!!!!!!!!
Michael Mann knows mixing music and video like nobody else.
He really does - and across genres (the last 10 minutes of Last of the Mohicans and the last 10 minutes of Heat for example)
1981's "Thief" with James Caan and music by Tangerine Dream is another great example.
@@jsusna1972 Fucking a right!
I remember watching this as an 11-year old when it first aired and thinking it was literally the coolest thing I’d ever seen. 35 years later and it’s still up there!
Born in 74 I'm onboard with you! The 80s when you could still smoke in a bar and no p.c. culture!
@@OxC-BIRD smoke in a bar??
I remember going to regular ass restaurants here in San Diego that had cigarette machines in the lobby. Different times 😂😂😂
Crocket and Tubbs were top tier gorgeous and this scene will forever have that flare and nostalgia!
How many people have been in their car, and this song comes on, and you see yourself in the video.
You know this song is responsible for quite a few speeding tickets
When she says, "You BET it was."
Shivers.
Coolest scene in television history. Period.
I was living in Miami back then. I was a student at The U. I accidentally found where they were taping one night and I watched all night long. I did it a few more nights before I graduated. It was amazing. I love this show. Love this scene. I'm still watching it on Pluto Tv even though I own the boxed set. It's a part of my life.
I worked for MCA Records and Universal Pictures. I started in the mailroom in 1984 and we had the casting director for Miami Vice (Bonnie Timmerman) on the floor I worked on. I did her a favor 1 day and she gave me 2 Miami Vice jackets that only people who work on the show had. 1 was for me and the other was for whatever girl that was in my life. I still got my jacket but I never wore it. She also did the casting for the movies "Dirty Dancing w/ Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey" and the casting for the movie "Carlitos Way w/ Al Pacino and Sean Penn", she was a really nice woman and we gave much respect to each other !
The most iconic scene of 80's television from the most iconic show of the 80's. This one scene put Miami Vice on the map. It was one of the first shows that showed the good guys in shades of grey. Crocket we learned had lost everything because of his job. We also learned there was nothing that Tubbs wouldn't do to get the killer of his brother. Miami Vice showed the world that at times the good guys have tough choices to make and sometimes they make the wrong one.
Vice was an incredibly dark show for its first few seasons. So many episodes ended on a dark note, flawed characters making flawed, often tragic choices. The early 80s shows were good at that. Hill Street Blues was another good cop show that was super dark, but nothing comes close to Vice imo, not then and not now. Mann was an aesthetic genius.
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Hats off to you for such an appropriate description 👌🏻
Nicely said
This was the first show in 80s prime time I can remember where they actually showed people getting violently blown away. Leading up to this we got happy fun schlock like A-Team where guns are everywhere but nobody ever gets hit.
I can’t help but get a tear in my eye thinking about it all. This scene this show the music the cars Miami, it’s so 80’s and it reminds me of my childhood. Miami Vice was my Dads favorite tv show, I remember when this episode aired, we were living in Tampa at the time and it was some of the best times of my life. And whenever I see this scene with Phil Collins “in the air tonight” playing I just get so emotional in remembering that time. My Dad is gone now and I miss him so much and when I see this I see him sitting next to me on the couch telling me “don’t let your mother I let you watch this”. There will never be another time period with a show like Miami Vice ever again.
Precious memories buddy...
a hug friend.
Thank you for sharing. While they may bittersweet, I am happy for you that you have these memories.
Respect to you and your pops. Miss the 80's.
I feel you
This scene was so epic back then, i came looking for it!
I love the way Philip Michael Thomas was looking at Sonny he knew what was on his mind.. and they were coming... Phil Collins playing in the background makes this scene so epic... My favorite Miami vice scene
💯! Yeah that look!
The most perfect scene ever...feels like its straight out of a movie! This scene will forever live in TV history!
Esta escena,junto con la que muere Zito de sobredosis son brutales.
This is art, they don’t make television like this anymore
Sadly no.
Nope, it gave young men a father figure to look up to, someone strong, moral, upright. We can't have that no mo.
It's cause it's all real.. theirs people living like this 🥸
By..gio.sss.primo..composizione.e..produzione.ciao..by..gio..sss..primo..compani..Milano.. italy..ciao..
ill name 5 shows made in the past 20 years with more creativity and better story telling wym
This scene still holds up today visually. Waaay ahead of it's time in that regard.
Phil Collins is an ICON
Miami vice is an Iconic 80's T.v show
And this song is an Icon as well... one of the best songs ever made! Pure classic ... still listening to it in 2023 . Nothing like the 80's