FILMMAKER MOVIE REACTION!! Heat (1995) FIRST TIME REACTION!!
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Manhunter is another one
Like you said gta 5 mission they literally copied the scene from the movie into the game
James VS Cinema Yo if you liked heat you should check out Michael manns first film thief. It’s a heist film like heat but even more realistic. By the way heat is based on a semi true story. Michael Mann had a friend that was a cop in Chicago and he was after this thief and he had admiration for his skill and they did actually go get coffee together and have a similar conversation like in the movie. He ended up killing the guy in a robbery gone bad. Also you should watch the movie the room directed by tommy wisaeu lol
One of my favorite movies
They weren't doing GTA 5 stuff, GTA 5 was doing HEAT stuff.
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Nope. *GTA IV* was doing heat stuff th-cam.com/video/A6RnychK33s/w-d-xo.html
@@slowerthinker umm they both were? lol
Its heat and scar face and a few other are pretty much the gta prototypes.1
Heat is from 1995.
True Fact: Heat was the first time that De Niro and Pacino shared scenes together in a film
Correct they were both in Godfather Part II but never shared a scene.
Not so fun fact: this was followed up by Righteous Kill.
(adding to that), which is why Heat was so highly anticipated when it was marketed. The years and years without them doing movies together seemed like a mistake
Correction: Deniro and Pacino never met face to face at all in this film, which is why every scene they are in together you never see both faces on screen at once. even the diner conversation they had. each was talking to a double. Deniro and Pacino never appeared in the same shot together until righteous kill(which was kinda ass). you can google this fact but I found out thru the commentary on the DVD when I was a kid
@@terreldaniels1927 This is nearly true, it was Pacino and Jon Voight who hadn’t met during filming and not De Niro. I was curious to find out the story after you left your comment, quite the interesting fact!
one of, if not the greatest, shootouts in film history.
the sound design alone is near unparalleled in film. It actually sounds like a firefight.
The shootout was so epic, it inspired very similar events down in Southern Cal. The police were SO outgunned when that happened, they had to go back and rethink how to approach similar situations going forward.
It was artistically done in every way possible and I loved it!
@@Kerosian1 The gunshots are all from on-set mics. No overdubs or anything.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t that makes sense. You can hear the natural reverb from the buildings in the gunshots. That long trailing off to the sound as it carries away through the area. Really wish more movies would/could do that, it really adds to the immersion for people with actual firearms experience.
Liked before watching just because it's HEAT.
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Best Comment. No other comment is worth reading after this☝️
“They’re about to do some GTA 5 sh*t right here!”
Hahahaha 😂😂
Heat: The ORIGINAL GTA
For real! Hahaha
@@JamesVSCinema Honeslty, much of one particular mission in GTA IV and GTA V's overall theme is based off this movie.
Another great game series that heavily takes from this is Payday
@@Grenn1471 Pretty sure Michael is based off Neil. You start out the game with a suit just like the grey one Neil wears. If you go to the barber and get a goatee, put that suit on with some dark sunglasses, he looks exactly like Neil. They also gave Michael a mole on his cheek like De Niro has even tho the actor Michael is modeled after doesn't have a mole there.
1995 was the year of great crime films: Heat, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, etc...
and casino !
@@sidasloth5970 "etc..."
@@jp3813 Crimson Tide I believe. Movies & music.......maaaaan the 1990s .....
Broo all are overrated as hell seves is the best of this 3, usual suspects is not as bad but predictabke, eveyone knew he would be the villain in the end, it was obvious, also, heat has a lot of plot holes, a lot of dumb arc and decisions and some scenes dont make any sense it isnt a bad movie but plot holes kinda ruin the movie
@@leonardoteles9236 XD
This movie and Collateral give me that feeling of being in the streets of LA as night falls. That feeling of being completely apart from people while being surrounded by them. The air hot and blowing. It's nostalgia for a world you never experienced but it's so powerful your chest hurts.
couldn't have put it any better. Drive is another movie that invokes that feeling in me. Nightcrawler too.
@@Luemm3l Absolutely, they all feel cut from the same cloth.
Heavily agree with this but friend!!
Collateral came out in my mid twenties when I started to lose all sense of direction in my life. Driving through L.A. at night, all alone with your shattered dreams, while surrounded by millions, was exactly the right mood to describe how my life felt at that time.
Then better years came, but now, 20 years later in the midst of the pandemic this feeling slowly comes back. Only this time I'm relatively made, as opposed to the student with no clue what to do I was back then. Yet still I ask myself what all this is for. And that reminds me of the coyote crossing the street in Collateral.
I get that same feeling with Taxi Driver and Nightcrawler
The part in 23:25 where Val Kilmer reloads his gun has been watched at US Marine boot camps to show them the proper way of rapid reloading. There's also a documentary (forgot the title) that shows a drill instructor telling to his recruits, "If you maggots can't reload as fast as this actor, then get out of my army!"
The guy who choreographed this scene was in fact a member of the British SAS known as Andy McNabb (not his real name) story goes Robert De Niro was reading his book "Bravo Two Zero" about his operation during the first gulf war where his patrol was captured and said "this is your guy"
I have no idea if the last part is true, but Andy McNabb doing the scene definitely was, I read an interview with him and he was present when the film was shown to the 101st Airborne he said the room erupted in cheering when he did the reload
The entire scene is classic fire and manoeuvre drills, one foot on the ground giving cover, others moving, communication, cover on re-load, et
@@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle Also no music. Thats something a lot of people forget isnt there, it adds so much to the soundscape as well. Love this scene.
@@wilksta156 Patrol Bravo Two Zero was detected, cornered, and chased. Overall, the book is fascinating (as is the controversy around it) as are all the parallel yet contradictory tellings of the story.
However, one of the few universal aspects is that they were never captured, despite their harrowing 'adventures behind enemy lines.
@@AngeloBarovierSD They were captured, that was the whole point of the book, half of it was about the treatment they endured as a prisoner of war. The only one to not be captured was Chris Ryan (who wrote the book "The one that got away") and the two that perished
Yes there has been some contradictory tellings, the most famous of which was by someone who wasn't even there, but its all wrapped up into interpretation, one of the main sticking points is the size of the hunting force and number of Iraqi casualties that McNabb claims, this was refuted by a follow up investigation that claimed there was no-where near that number, but heres the thing, McNabb never claimed the numbers in the book, they were told to him by his interrogators , they probably inflated the numbers to scare him into thinking they were going to level some revenge against him. All he says was it was dark and there was a firefight
@@wilksta156 Well, it's been a long time since I read it then, because I don't remember them being captured.
The bank robbery is the best movie shootout of all time without a question
If one enjoys a good, extremely well choreographed shootout... go watch the shootout in *"Open Range"*
The two L.A. bank robbers thoughts so too
@@mpireone you mean the North Hollywood bank robbers?
Fun fact: For the shootout they wanted to dub the gun sounds with something more dramatic. But then they realized, that the actual sound on scene was already as intense and realistic as it could get. So they stuck to it. It's all real - no overdubs.
Saying there is no over-dub is technically incorrect. The scene is heavily edited with lots of cuts have the same shooting audio in several shots. Its not one single audio sequence but a heavily edited. In some cases, muzzle flashes do not correspond to audio reports in several cuts. The sound remains constant through several shots. I’ve heard experts deny the claims made in the DVD commentary. It is overdubbed, it just is not overdubbed with post-production audio, but probably with audio from filming (which is rare in modern hollywood movies).
@@Alderak1 Even Mann said it and one of the audio engineers I think commented underneath a video that it's not the raw uncut sound, but after the whole overdub was done everyone agreed that it was missing something. That something turned out to be the harrowing live sound echoing from the tall buildings. So they dubbed it with the live action sounds and cut it to fit. In the end I think it is very very convincing. Even I as 12 year old first time seeing the movie thought "Wait a second, why is that scene so different?"
I've read that when they were filming this, people blocks away, who were unaware of a movie being filmed, were calling 911 reporting a shootout.
That Ashley Judd scene with "the signal" is the one that gets me every time
Funny thing is that when I saw this back in '96, I hated that Chris got away because he's a scumbag. Then I saw it years later and thought "No, that cop is a scumbag threatening her kid with the same life she had. So fuck that guy, glad Chris got away."
@@Theomite That's one thing that makes this movie so great. You can root for both sides and have a point, because all of the characters are realistic and nuanced.
Incredible scene
You can absolutely feel her Heart Break! She's saving her husband - Val Kilmer - but she is betraying her son, who will be taken away from her.
This film a big inspiration on Christopher Nolan, especially on the film Dark Knight.
That opening heist with the Joker is heavily influenced by Heat
@@ConnorMcMatthews, Roger Van Zant's character from this movie is played by William Fichtner, who also plays the bank manager in the opening heist of the (drum roll) Dark Knight :)
Nolan did a bettwr job at least
@@leonardoteles9236 no
@@leonardoteles9236 haha. What!? 😂😂😂
"Last of the Mohicans" definitely needs to be a priority. Amazing music.
😲Ohhhhhhhhh a Classic!💖👍 good choice!👌
PERIODT 😍🎶
God, yes!
One of my faves.
Just a whole dang ole Daniel Day Lewis December Weekend Extravaganza
The scene of Chris getting let go after trying to see his wife really stuck out to me as a defining moment; the very definition of bittersweet. He gets away, she avoids any repurcussions but at the same time Chris must be on the run for the rest of his life and the two can never see each other again.
Yep. But at least Chris knows that his wife didn’t betray him.
She could have let him walk in and be arrested. But when the chips were down she was down for him.
Heat 2 the book just dropped. his story is not over
@@j.aghorbani5197 Yeah, I heard about that. Mann wants to do flashbacks in addition to evens after the first film, according to the article. Fun fact: The detective that Chris kills at the beginning of the heist; Mike Bosko, is played by actor Ted Levine. Who four years prior to Heat was Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. It's really interesting to me how his complexion shifted so much in such short time. I've only seen Ted in much smaller roles since, like doing Rusty Nail's voice in Joy Ride.
@@digidv85 yup I did notice that...also the original film "LA take down" filmed by mann features some of the actors in heat....ex the beta male that Al pacino's wife cheats on him with....he is the Waingro character in LA takedown.. th-cam.com/video/67GQrmY59rg/w-d-xo.html
@@digidv85 Ted Levine was also one of the villains in the Jean Claude Van Damme action thriller Nowhere to Run in 1993. He was originally picked for the role of Waingro but wanted to a good guy and asked to play Bosko as was wanting to get out of being type cast as villains and he said people remember him most as sadistic serial killer Buffalo Bill In Silence Of The Lambs.
I simply don’t understand how this did not get a single Oscar Nomination.
Picture
Writing
Sound
Director
Cinematography
Best Gun Audio Ever!
That blows my mind! What was the competition that year??
@@JamesVSCinema best picture nominees
Babe
Apollo 13
Braveheart - which I do love
Sense and Sensibility
So Heat, usual suspects , Se7en and casino no best picture nomination. Crazy stuff.
@@grantterlecky1248 Se7en and this had to get noms, that's absurd.
@@practiceyourart se7en got an editing nomination I think. But no writing?
It’s such a one of a kind story. Weird year for the Oscars
@Move_I_Got_This Heat going up against Braveheart - different epics, different genres. But the Academy usually goes for the grand historical types of movies over something like this, I agree.
HUGE influence for The Dark Knight, Nolan has endlessly praised this film and his love for Mann
Nolan is overrated. Dunkirk movie sucked!
@@DjJokerr okay
@@DjJokerrTarantino would disagree with you.
@@stevevallance606 I could care less what that feet fetish weirdo thinks. He's another overrated director.
The music over the end credits is 'God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters' by Moby 👍🏻
One of the best uses of a song not specifically made for a movie that ever exists.
Moby released an album of his music used in movies called I like to score. Two of them are from heat.
New Dawn Fades from this is sensational.
another good Michael Mann movie: Manhunter
I still prefer RED DRAGON. I just don't dig on Mann's production design and music design for that movie. He got the characters right, just not everything else.
What a great movie.
Yes, THIS
Red Dragon did SOME things better than Manhunter (for one, it is more accurate) but I still think Manhunter is the better film overall…
As much a romantic tragedy as it is a crime film. Hall of fame soundtrack.
Agreed!
THIS ONE IS IN MY TOP 3 OF THE 90s FILMS. PERFECTION.
What’s the others?
Casino and T2?
@@grantterlecky1248 Could be a lot of stuff.
Goodfellas, Shawshank, Silence of the Lambs, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Leon, Scream, Gattaca, American History X, American Beauty, Fight Club, Trainspotting, etcetc.
Love the reaction, check out michael manns first movie thief, it's another classic heist movie
@@BrokenGodEnt wow...just seeing that list brings memories back! The 90s was a great decade for film for sure!
Please bri, telm me how you think this movie is this great, i mean till half of the movie it was perfect, after that it kinda gets boring and full of plot holes, like full, carachtwrs decide do do stuff like if they have a radar or they saw the movie and etc
This is one of those movies where I root for the bad guys. 🖤
Masterpiece! If you count when Deniro sees Pacino coming after him it is exactly 30 seconds when he turns his back on Eady!
Now do “The Last Of The Mohicans”. 🙏
Absolutely one of the best films ever made.
AGREED
He will absolutely lose it once he watches that, I GUAR-AN-TEE! I feel like he should have started with Heat or LOTM first before he reacted to Collateral cuz I sadly feel like he didn't like Collateral as much. I like all 3 Mann movies as equally to eachother. Heat prolly a little more than the other. Ok, Heats the best by far but Collateral was really good as well. Lol.
THIS
@@saviourself687 Vicarious vampire. Aha. that is so me.
One of the cool things Mann did was give De Nero military style training with firearms handling and manipulation and Pacino a police style of training. It crated a subtle distinction in the way each character behaved. Also I really love the way he capitalized on the natural report of the gunfire bouncing around the buildings in downtown LA. It adds a visceral element to the scene that cannot be simulated on a computer.
De Niro’s character Hanna is ex-Marine Corps and also a graduate of their sniper school. Checkout the rifle that Hanna is carrying. It is different than the AR-15s the other cops are using.
Hanna’s rifle is actually a shorter barrel the type favored by military teams that have to fight in close quarter urban areas. Also due to the smaller barrel it’s easier to maneuver in and out of a car.
When you notice all of those subtle details, that headshot during the hostage situation was a done deal.
Michael Mann really is a masterclass in filmmaking his films always has the best shootouts
He’s incredible with his storytelling with the camera!
@@JamesVSCinema Check out Manhunter.
@@JamesVSCinema And 'Thief', his debut. It completes the trilogy
"The insider" is also great
One of the more forgotten mann movies. This movie is fantastic and the end scene with Christopher Plummer is unbelievable.
I still think about that movie. The soundtrack was exceptional
No it's not. It's fucking excellent.
Mann's best film
Absolute banger of a film
Leon, Heat, The Usual Suspects, Trainspotting, LA confidential and many more, what a decade for filmmaking the 90's were.
Don't forget Seven.
@@percivalfranklin4279 Fight Club too.
Possibly one of the most underappreciated movies of all time.
Al Pacino and Robert de Niro... Best duo of all time! This movie is EPIC!
Your channel, Brandon likes movies, and Cinefix have all shaped the way I watch movies now. I now notice way more in film and television than I did before y’all came along.
I think that’s the greatest compliment you could’ve given us..wow thank you!!
The closing track is "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby, and is actually a modified version for the sound track of HEAT. Also, you are 100% right that HEAT is a work of art.
Former SAS operator choreographed the entire shoot and move under fire scenario.
LOVE THIS!! My best friend and I saw "Heat" at the Theatre when it came out in 1995. I was 19 and he was 17 at the time. He and I could NOT stop talking about it after it was over. To this day, it is my favorite Dramatic cop film, no doubt. There are soo many reasons why I went to see it back then....I'll give you two. 1.) I was supposed to be an extra in the movie. My Agent called and left a message about it. For whatever reason, I couldn't make the shoot. So, when it came out, I wanted to see what it looked like. 2.) Michael Mann's work!! I am a HUGE fan of the TV show "Miami Vice" (also has a great shootout sequence in S2:Ep 1 - "The Prodigal Son"). Michael was the executive producer of what arguably is the show that literally changed television. I wish I could applaud the movie version that he directed in 2006, potato chip crumbs in comparison to the show, BUT...."Miami Vice" has impacted my life as an artist tremendously. It's interesting because director, Christopher Nolan is also a Michael Mann enthusiast...and it's very obvious when you watch his movies, especially the Dark Knight trilogy. There are elements of Mann in those films. I don't know if it's still up, but there was a video called, "Cinema of Michael Mann". Look that up, if you get a chance. It's a fantastic compilation of movies directed by Mann, showing his directing style (cinematography, editing, film composition, etc.).
Here is the shootout from the 2-hour Season 2 "Miami Vice" episode "The Prodigal Son". The episode was not directed by Michael Mann...BUT his imprint on this (him being the executive producer) is quite evident. Episode was actually directed by Paul Michael Glaser (starred on the show "Starsky & Hutch"). I'll preface this by saying it doesn't compare to the shootout in "Heat", but you can definitely see an evolution from one to the other. This episode premiered in 1985, ten years before "Heat". I just hope this scene doesn't get removed from youtube. See scene here : th-cam.com/video/8KpAE_F1nME/w-d-xo.html
Good job man!!
This film is a tragedy as much as it is a crime drama.
The gun fight sequences were supervised by British SAS veteran Andy Mcnab, superb.
This movie is a masterpiece. It goes into their personal lives, and develops each character. The coffee shop scene is amazing. Both realize how they have much more in common, and in another life they could be friends. The final scene where Neil dies, shows the respect they have for one another.
Great job once again James. If it hasn't been mentioned already, the music at the end was by Moby called "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters". It really is the perfect piece for that scene.
Heat is a all timer.
The most amazing thing Mann does in Heat is set up two opposing forces, and imbue each with such humanity that you can't choose a side. He signals one will die, and when the moment comes, you don't want it to be either of them.
Great pick. Very influential film. The visceral shootout is just one tenth of why Heat is so great.
@@walangchahangyelingden8252 Yup, Dark Knight, The Town, Widows, the list is long.
Thanks Lara!!
I loved your commentary, it was so good to listen to your reactions as a neophyte for this movie that I have watched at least once a year since it has been released. This is my single favorite movie ever. I remember seeing it in theaters in my sophomore year in college and absolutely loving it.
Thank you so much for this review! You were able to articulate what I've been feeling about this movie for years. The pacing, the cinematography, the sound design, the screenwriting, the depth of characters--everything. It's one of a handful of "perfect" movies in my opinion. On paper, this is a story that has been told a million times, cops vs robbers. But I can't think of a single movie that makes me feel the way Heat does.
You become truly invested in the heist and each of the characters so when that bank heist finally happens and unfolds that way it does, you are literally on the edge of your seat with your jaw open.
Waiting eagerly for Lock Stock reaction
Man I love your insights. As an author the main reason I watch reaction videos is to get the down low scoop on human behavior and you my friend are a gold mine of intellectual observations. Thank you for your videos and your third eye.
Wow thank you my friend!! That’s really interesting actually!
"GIMMIE ALL YOU GOT!! GIMMIE ALL YOU GOT!!" Lol can never get tired of Pacino going for it haha
To this day one of the best films I have ever seen. I can't even recall how many times I rewatched the final bank robbery scene. You just have to play this on a decent speaker setup, it'll blow your mind.
Have you seen The Score, with Deniro, Edward Norton, and Marlon Brando? One of the best heist movies of all time!
An absolute classic. The coffee scene is iconic
the audio during the firefights is incredible crazy that they actually used blanks must have been a trip being in LA and just hearing automatic fire
Probably one of the greatest films of all time. Really glad you enjoyed it.
I was 14 when this hit theatre. I watched it with my best friend. He thought it was boring and eventually thought Independence Day was a great movie. I don't talk to him anymore, maybe it was because he has terrible taste in movies.
That restaurant conversation is for me one of the best in history considering the screenwriting and the acting
it will become number one for u when u discover they were never face to face. the actors never met during the course of filming. each actor was talking to a double in that scene. its just lovely editing and beautifully written dialogue topped off with subpurb acting
The 90's had some of the greatest movies of all-time!!
Mann is a great director. Period.
His use of panoramic shots are the tops. Love the score in this film as well.
Heat : Lt Vincent Hanna (a "good guy" version of the Joker) vs Neil McCaullah (a "bad guy" version of Bruce Wayne/Batman)........ EPIC Iconic film imo.
🤯 that’s pretty deep
such a great crime drama with one of the best shootouts caught on film. Love Mann.
"Told ya I was never going back..."
The sound effects from the post bank shootout were the actual sound effects they got from firing blanks in the city, the sound reverberating off the buildings, (apparently they shot early on Sunday mornings) Mann said that the noise didn't need any after effects, it was just so loud and so terrifying he kept it as it was
Heat is a great one! I really love mid-career Michael Mann films - recently rewatched The Insider last week.
Not a great one, a pure masterpiece.
They first intended to edit sounds of the shootout in downtown but the they found the raw acoustics of real guns (using blanks) reverberating of off of the buildings much more haunting. From what I read most of the gun sounds are unedited which makes this THE BEST shootout sequence ever in my opinion.
I really like your commentary. This movie is a masterpiece of storytelling. It tells two different sides with equal humanity and without judgement. It's telling the truth of the story, and the truth of each character. You see the cops and criminals as equals and opposing forces. You also see the leaders of those two forces (De Niro & Pacino) as dedicated professionals who recognize the other for being as good as they really are. They have such respect for their opponent who they are both willing to kill to do what they have to do, yet they both don't want to; even though they need to their jobs. Neither one wants to do anything else, nor can they really.
"I don't know how to do anything else."
"Neither do I."
"I don't much want to either:
"Neither do I."
It's the ultimate cops vs robbers movie.
Great to see new people being blown away by this...I always thought this should be shown in film schools. The shots...the atmosphere, attention to detail, the research, the sound design. 'Collateral' is up there too IMO.
The Shootout scene is shown to USMC recruits as an example of a proper and rapid reload. Heat was also acknowledged by the Marines in '02 at MCRD San Diego for accurately conveying how to retreat under fire.
Fun fact: Despite both actors having starred in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part II, the film's split chronology meant that the pair never actually appeared on-screen together, making Heat the first time Pacino and De Niro actually shared a scene. According to director Michael Mann, De Niro suggested that the scene shouldn't be rehearsed so that the sense of unfamiliarity between their respective characters was as real as possible. Despite reports of tensions between the two actors on set, Pacino agreed that it was the right call.
Those reports of "tension" were all BS anyway. Pacino and DeNiro have been friends for decades and were never really rivals. The media created that narrative because they were both contemporaries who acted in similar types of movies. The two actually love each other and have since they met.
Fun fact, this was the second time Michael Mann made Heat. He originally made it for tv in the 80s and it was called LA Takedown. Almost shot for shot the same film. He just had no budget. Once he got budget he decided to make it again, only better.
19:00 Thats the u complete me in The Dark Knight
One of the most realist gunfights, no exergerated car explosion, just clip after clip firing. And the sounds for the guns are awesome.
That ending got me, the almost professionalism they both show. The ending evoked so much emotion.
Always one of my favorite movies, always one of thise films that continually inspires me when I write my screeenplays.
I highly suggest watching the Making Of this movie... btw all of the actors took extensive firearms training if it wasn't obvious.
Wow I haven't seen this in ages! What a great film. I completely forgot Natalie Portman was in this! That shootout was film making history. Also I do remember loving the freeway scene before the coffee meeting was pretty great too especially with Moby's cover of the Joy Division song "New Dawn Fades." One thing that I'd really forgotten that I'm glad you pointed out was the theme of loneliness and isolation even as the film explores the relationships of all the characters. Even in the celebratory moments the camera pulls away and the cuts make you feel like an outsider looking in. Masterful!
At the end: "I don't feel sad." They both lived true to themselves to the very end. That's the best kind of death. What a great mix of score and existing music tracks.
One thing that helped Mann 'storyboard' this movie is that it was, pretty much, a shot for shot remake of his own TV Movie LA Takedown.
Try Manhunter also by Michael Mann
Manhunter is verry underrated and what a great movie.
Manhunter vs. Red Dragon is weird for me as to which one I like more. Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, and Edward Norton are 3 of my favorite actors (Norton is actually my #1), but yet somehow I just like Manhunter a bit more than Red Dragon.
Hey man I think I saw another reactor or commentor say that Mann tried different sound engineering for the heist but couldn't get it right, so he went with the raw actual sound on the shoot!
BTW, I forgot to mention, about "The last of the Mohicans" I just harped about: same director. Mr Mann himself.
I love your interest in cinematography, the soundtracks character building and story lines. You hit everything spot on delving deep onto characters showing your appreciation. One of the best reactors I felt the same throughout the film
Another fantastic pick. Michael Mann has an incredible run of movies from the 1980's through the mid 2000's. If you liked this you'd love Collateral and Last of the Mohicans, both are really great action dramas from Michael Mann as well. Last of the Mohicans especially. Lot's of Oscar noms and Daniel Day Lewis turns in a great performance.
Last of the mohicans is good however I usually watch the vhs version because there's a song he cuts out in the dvd/blu ray version. For some people minor but for me it's that important
Hey dude, I discovered your channel a couple of months ago. I really like your views and opinions.
Heat is my all time favourite movie.
So glad to watch your first viewing of it and your reaction to it.
That coffee shop scene gives me goosebumps every time. First time ever Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared a scene.
And even though this movie is 25 years old, it still has the best shootout scene ever put to screen.
And yet the two were never on set together!
That it came off THAT good, just shows how good they are as actors and how good the direction is :)
@@michaelriddick7116 What do you mean they weren’t on set together?
You mean they shot all the Pacino scenes, then all the De Niro scenes and then finished it off with the few scenes they have together? Something like that?
Agreed!!
@@ConnorMcMatthews Oh wow!!
"The director said the duo were indeed together and shot multiple versions - with most of take 11 making the movie's final cut."
I read, over 20 years ago now (the movie being 25 years old staggers me ... when did I get old? 🤔🤔😂🤣😂), that each portion of the dialogue between them (mainly the diner scene) was filmed with a double in the opposite chair for both.
It’s the greatest crime film ever made, and one of the best American motion pictures of all time. Such a beautiful, engaging, sad, mythic, humanistic, empathetic movie. One of a kind.
The clip where Val Kilmer reloads his weapon behind the car during the street shootout was used in the armed forces. A drill instructor said "this is how I want you to reload."
The sound work in the big shoot out is some of the best in film history.
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Yeah he pronblem of him being alone or lonely in those scenes is pure gold.
As a good friend of mine said, who is a shrink:
You don't have to be alone to be lonely
And well, I totally agree with that.
That was Brian Eno music at end of movie, he does amazing soundtrack stuff.
That was Moby's music "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters"
Eno had a track or two earlier in the film. Mann always impresses me with his scoring choices.
apparently val kilmer's gun handling and reloading speed was so good that drill sergeants would show that clip to recruits and shame them for not being as good as a hollywood actor. also, that whole shootout scene was incredibly accurate in terms of military tactics. the way one person would lay down a base of fire, and the other would advance. plus this is one of the few movies that get the sound of gunfire correct. in a city block like that, the sound of those rifles would echo against the buildings and be incredibly loud. all that is why the shootout scene is legendary and referenced so much
Way of the Gun is a good movie to see real tactics with guns
Extraction (THOR) IS another shootout that was very real the entire movie was life-like
My man, you gotta do DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE.
I went into that one blind and LOVED it.
In an instance of art imitating life, imitating art - just over a year after Heat was in theaters, two men tried to pull off the gun battle with police scene. The two were suspected of a couple of armored car robberies and a couple of bank robberies in the LA area. However on one fateful robbery attempt, they were spotted going into the bank by patrolling officers. When they came out 8 minutes later, there were a dozen or more patrol cars and twice that many officers waiting for them. The one thing the movie actually got wrong was that police at that time didn't carry rifles or high powered weapons. Most of the officers in the real life scenario had 9mm Barretas, with the largest weapon being a 12 gauge shotgun. The real shootout lasted 44 minutes, as the robbers had AK-47 variants, an HK91, and an M16 variant all set for fully automatic fire. They also wore body armor and took quite a few hits from the police small arms fire without stopping. It took quite a while before SWAT arrived with anything matching the assailant's firepower. The other difference between the movie and real shootout, both real assailants ended up dead. One by 26+ bullet wounds, the other by self-inflicted head wound (along with some non-leathal police gunshots).
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This is one of the very few movies that is able to show how deafening and LOUD gunfire is. If you have shot guns IRL you know exactly what I'm talking about.
That final scene really stuck in my memory. Pacinos compassion at the end was so powerful. Name another movie where the protagonist would hold the antagonists hand as they die.
Such a great film. This and Matrix was the first DVD’s I purchased after getting a DVD player and surround sound.
Mine was Blade on DVD. Going back to VHS, it was Top Gun.
Heat is a testament of revisting your ideas. Mann's original film was L.A. Takedown, much shorter w/ little budget. Once he made his name, he offered the studio a more fleshed out version of the original story. Got the budget he needed and BAM!
Fun fact: De Niro insisted he and Pacino not rehearse the diner scene to add authenticity to their conversation.
There are so many great scenes in this movie but the one that always sticks in my mind is the way Al Pacino skips down the stairs in the hospital.
You missed a few good shots with emphasis here, but overall, very nice analysis:
1. The shot where Neil enters his home and places his pistol down and walks over to the window and looks out at the water. Beautiful, beautiful shot.
2. Another is when VanZant looks back up after being told "there is a dead man on the other end of this line". That paralyzed, worried look he gives back to the camera and Mann holds it there for a few seconds. Beautiful filmmaking.
So good. Never thought about the slickness and professionalism of how it’s shot portrays the professionalism of the crew 👌
"That they need each other."
The same way Batman and Joker in The Dark Knight needed each other.
"You complete me."