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For car fans out there.....

posted 12 years ago by STANCEworks
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Firstly I must say that heat is one of my favourite movies of time. I'm a fairly new fan of Michael Mann's work ever since I seen collateral.

I'd seen Heat years before when I was child but it went over my head back then and revisiting it years later gave me a new appreciation.

I'd also heard about "thief" and finally got to enjoy it last night. It's a great movie with superb performances from James Caan especially. I realised how talented he is after watching this movie.

Anyway the point of this thread is to highlight the possible trivia item that, in the movie Heat, De Niro drives a Cadillac en route to the airport and Kilmer drives a Corvette notably after his argument with Ashley Judd.

In the movie Thief, James Caan drives a Cadillac eldorado while his crew member and friend James Belushi drives a Corvette.

Yes I know this could be a coincidental point but as I'm realising there are few coincidences in Michael Mann's movies.

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[–] hecantune 12 years ago

Pretty cool. I hadn't made that connection. I agree that it's most likely not a coincidence.

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[–] rogueforte 12 years ago

I wonder if this is more of a product placement thing. GM supplies the cars, so they want the main character driving a new Caddy, and a secondary character with a new 'Vette.