Examples:
Neil & Vincent both checking the chambers of their handguns in their elevator scenes
Hanna firing his machine gun in single-fire mode instead of full-auto during the public shootout
etc.
Share some of the details that you think make Heat stand out, a fine wine amongst common beer swill.
* The stare Cherrito gives that random guy in the diner to silence him.
* Waingro asking for another refill and leaving before taking it.
* That Neil hesitates slightly longer than 30 seconds if he should leave Eady or not.
* That Neil blows up some BBQ sets during his escape while Hannah was on his tail after the bank heist. You know, because Vincent asked him why Neil didn't settle down and start a normal life and Neil was like "what is that supposed to mean? BBQ and ball games?"
* The napkin Neil wrapped around that glass of water he put on the nightstand next to Eady while she is sleeping. I don't even know why.
* Someone, I think it was Shiherlis, changing magazines during the bank heist shootout even though he was in the background
The napkin thing was a gentlemanly thing to do: it's to protect her table from dripping condensation and creating a ring.
"It doesn't DO anything; that's the beauty of it!"
Yes, no, what I meant is "I don't know even why this is one of my favourite details".
shareAhh...I had to ask someone. See, where I'm from, we just use coasters. But we're not nearly as cool as Deniro.
"It doesn't DO anything; that's the beauty of it!"
I'm sure he did the water/napkin thing for two reasons.
1. To be a gentelman.
2. So he didn't leave fingerprints on the glass.
"If you get in bed with the devil, sooner or later you have to fvck."
Its actually based on the criminal Michael Mann used for Neil in the film. He did the sane thing with his water in prison and Mann used it. On the commentary
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The scene where Chris and Charlene are fighting, Chris throws something across the room which hits a lamp and causes the lamp to light up brighter.
The way Waingro gasps b4 Neil fires the final fatal bullet into his head. (Like he wasn't dead already being shot in the chest 5 times. He gasps like he's going to turn into the hulk or something)
Waingro asks for another refill and the worker goes, "now he want refill"
The bum with the giant TV, which has a powered on (but how and where is it plugged in at????)
Hannah breaks his TV at the bus stop
Hannah's daughter typical teenager daughter losing it while the mother is reading the newspaper and not paying attention.
The way Hannah says to the daughter "No school today?"
When Cheritto and Waingro are riding we see Sega Dreamcast or Sega Saturn pennants in the background
Cherrito using the F-word in deleted scene.
Tom Noonan saying this stuff just flies around.
That was a real bum, and that was really his TV. They explain on the special edition DVD that companies would leave out power cords so he could watch it at night. They discovered him during location scouting and decided to include him in the movie.
shareThe way Waingro gasps b4 Neil fires the final fatal bullet into his head. (Like he wasn't dead already being shot in the chest 5 times. He gasps like he's going to turn into the hulk or something)
And anyway, it's Mann's famous 'Mozambique Drill'-2 rounds to the chest & 1 one to the head. I think it's been used in nearly all of his movies.
Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?
* Cherito gets up and sits on the bar right before Neil comes into the diner, so that Neil can sit wherever he wants in the table.
* In the bank shootout scene you actually see the bullets piercing the car doors. Many films "assume" that bullets don't go through car doors.
* In the De Marquis hotel scene, Neil walks back until his head touches the raised pistol. This is actually one of the real tactics as what to do in that kind of situation.
* (might not be a little detail but) They shotgun the hinges of the door (the logical thing to do) of the informant instead of kicking it like in many movies.
there are many but these are the ones i could remember right now.
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-Neil having no furniture fascinates me to no end.
-Neil in the bookstore absorbed in the book but still notices Eady walking past and steps forward to make room in the aisle.
-Vincent makes a very meta reference to "Scent of a Woman" when all the cops and the wives are out before the dead prostitute is found.
-Waingro is also a prostitute killer, as the cops believe it to be a series. it's just a little detail that gives so much insight.
-Vincent verbally directly tells Neil he won't like having to kill him if he has to. Neil remains very ice cold and distant and stoic, but that smile at the end of the scene shows is his respect, acknowledgement, and how impressed he is with Vincent.
-I have never thought about the ending until recently. Vincent says "all I am is what in going after" and so what does Vincent have now that the ultimate prey is captured? What will happen to him?
-It's the little random moment that changes everything: when Vincent is at the scene of the first robbery and the cop asks him who has jurisdiction, he could've given the case away, but he didnt. Sealing the fate of every character.
-Neil's tragic flaw is that this man who has used logic and remained distant with everything and everyone that isn't work slips up because he lets his emotions get the better of him: tat desire for revenge, and that awesome little evil twisted smile in the tunnel.
-The tunnels lights are bright, he has Eady and the cash and the getaway, but it's just too bright for him. Awesome foreshadowing.
And another one:
Breedan's quote: "I did time for what that motherf:(ker does every day."
This is just sad and unfair and cruel and an interesting commentary on the uphill battle some ex cons face.
-Neil calls the lobby on the internal hotel phone to get Waingro's room number, claiming that room service screwed up the room number for the delivery.
...For your health.
The fire fight outside the bank. Probably the most realistic fire fight I've seen in a film.
Val Kilmer changing magazines in the fire fight.
DeNiro and Pacino meeting in the coffee shop.
And last but not least, the soundtrack. I think its damn near perfect.
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That the car Vincent chases down Neil with before the diner scene is an Infiniti J30...
shareNeil & Vincent chase scene at LAX, the lights added such dramatic effect to the movie. Would have been better had they both simultaneously shot and killed one another...The
END!!!!!
I never quite got it but there seemed to be a rivalry between the regular cops and Vincent Hannah's team.
During Hannah's arrival at the armored truck site the cop starts explaining what happened to Hannah and Bosko immediately takes over as if the cop wasn't even there.
They pretty much ignored him and took his unit off the case immediately.
Her chin blocked the first day of May.
The opening shot, Kronos Quartet's subtle music and the shot of the subway train with all the tracks, wires, and background steam rising up. Wonderfully atmospheric!
Even though its one of the more famous scenes in the film, the blue ocean scene when Neil comes home and looks at the ocean.
The scene when Neil meets Eady for the first time, the camera shoots from behind Neil and has a cold blue color scheme and Neil keeps his guard up when Eady first talks to him. But, once Neil decides to open up and talk to her, the camera suddenly pans to the front of Neil and the color of the film just subtly becomes warmer. Neil now exposes himself like he never has before. He will never be the same again at this point.
The use of the Passengers song when Hannah drives up to the club. There's an edit when a cool guitar riff happens in the song as the camera comes up behind the bodyguard.
The freeway scene. Not meant to be an action scene (other director's would have turned it into an action scene), but Mann makes it incredibly stylish. Moby's cover of Joy Division's New Dawn Fades fits perfectly as it has the right amount of driving momentum with the beat and simple atmospheric guitar riffs. The scene has a cool blue tint too. Not like today's orange and teal overload that people hate. If you look closely at the background of the scene, the sky is awesomely grey while all the street lights are blue! Most freeway lights are orange (like how Mann captured them in Collateral). How'd Mann get that color scheme? It's just the coolest night driving scene!
I love the scene where Neil chases Eady up that hill when she finds out who he really is. William Orbits music is really cool here too.
A few scenes later Neil convinces Eady to stay with him under that tree with a nice view of the city and ocean behind them.
At the hospital, after Hannah's step daughter has the failed suicide attempt, he gets a page while he's with his wife. At first he ignores it (finally, for the first time in the film), but his wife tells him its ok. He leaves and runs down the stairs. There's no sound except for just a subtle piece of music as he leaves her.
Yet another driving scene! When Neil and Eady have pretty much gotten away. Nice freeway shot with the Kronos Quartet music from the opening of the film is replayed here. Then they go into the tunnel and you (and Eady) can read his face that something is eating away inside him. That last loose end that he can't let go. Then he makes that abrupt exit. Its all over for them.
There many more moments that I love that I'm just not thinking of right now.
Et in terra pax
All very nice points, thanks, notice how Neil opens the door with his elbow in the hospital, not to leave any fingerprints?
I think the coolest from the first meeting between Neil and Eadie is that Neil doesn't open up at all. After the meeting Neil knows everything about Eadie but he doesn't tell her anything about himself (only lies), I wish I could talk like that!
That was real? I saw that movie, I thought it was bullsh*t