“I don’t know if this has gotten out much. I might be breaking the law now, but I’ll say it. The character I played is a guy who’s been around, he’s done a lot of stuff, and he also chips cocaine. And I always thought that was a choice we made, but yet not showing it because it would be somewhat…”
http://www.slashfilm.com/al-pacinos-heat-character/
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Friday, 9 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
found this from an MTV interview in 2007:
"I was in a movie once, which will go nameless, and I did a certain thing in this movie: I based my entire character on a scene of me snorting cocaine," he continued. "And no, this isn't 'Scarface.' There was just one little scene of me chipping cocaine, so that's what I did. Well, they cut that scene out of the picture. They had their reasons for it, legitimate reasons I'm sure. But what happened is I based my character on the fact that he chipped cocaine, so my interpretation — my reactions to things — were colored by that. It's like, 'What's that guy so nervous about?' It would be the same as watching 'The Godfather' and never knowing about the gun in the toilet. I assume everybody knows that scene."
― nomar, Friday, 9 September 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
wow huh
― johnny crunch, Friday, 9 September 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Chips is such a specific drug use word
― soma's little yelpers (lion in winter), Friday, 9 September 2016 03:02 (seven years ago) link
man I hope they give that restoration a cinema release
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link
Hoo ha indeed
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 9 September 2016 06:31 (seven years ago) link
they could just dub in some loud sniffs whenever they cut to another person in a conversation scene and pacino is offscreen. or after the line "...GREAT ASS!," just have pacino loop an additional line, "is sound like this because i'm SNORTING COCAINE, see?" when they cut to his partner.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 9 September 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSNgMSvaHZ8
elite unit of cops led by an unorthodox dude chasing after (and making it known to them that he's chasing them) a gang of professional thieves who rip off an armored truck and then risk it all on a huge score. the credits even mention a character named "Bosco."
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
i didn't even notice there appears to be a post-heist street shootout of some sort. wondering if Bosco gets shot in the neck and dies in the street in this one too.
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:46 (six years ago) link
fun fact: this movie sucks and is bad
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
Gerard Butler appears to be letting his badge and his toothpick do the heavy lifting when it comes to acting here.
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
is that movie as HEAT-like as the trailer makes out? because it looks like a remake.
think you're overselling it
it was fucking agony in the cinema, would've walked if i hadn't been with other people
― you shoulda killfiled me last year (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
in the new version, the line is "her ass SUCKS and is BAD"
― mark s, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
the love the subtext of the cops being as bad if not worse than the bad guys is revealed by Gerard Butler holding up his badge and saying 'you're not the bad guys, we are'
― omar little, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
So many good Pacino unnecessarily loud non sequiters in this
― calstars, Saturday, 7 July 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
fun fact: this movie sucks and is bad― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:29 (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
"dead-tech, postmodernistic bullshit house"― N_RQ, Monday, August 1, 2005 2:41 AM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
even as a teenager this line stuck out like a sore thumb and made me lol
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 July 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
"The information's out there - you just gotta know how to catch it" or w/e
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 7 July 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
"This Dead-Tech, Postmodernistic Bullshit House: Noir as Form and Function in Heat"
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 8 July 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
So many good thesis titles in this movie.
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 8 July 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
So many good Pacino unnecessarily loud non sequiters in this― calstars, Saturday, July 7, 2018 7:52 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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probably mentioned upthread, but according to Pacino his character was a cokehead and that informed his performance but Mann cut out all direct references to that.
― circa1916, Sunday, 8 July 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
ohhhh
― calstars, Sunday, 8 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Pacino probably says that about all of his characters.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 July 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
After sitting through the moderated conversation in Paris, Faïd got his hands on a microphone during the audience Q&A. Faïd had recently been released from prison—where he served 10 years for assorted armed robberies and jewel heists—and explained as much to the filmmaker (and audience).“Heat remains the absolute example of organized crime, inspired by life, by people—real facts—he tries to transmit them in his cinema,” Faïd began (via translation). “I personally, I am a former gangster, unfortunately, I do not brag about it. I just spent 10 years in prison. I attacked armored vans. . . . For 20 years, I’ve known Michael Mann. I discovered him with Thief, and, with a bunch of friends, we’ve watched his films a bit as reports, as documentaries, and sometimes even . . . ”Faïd, starstruck as he was, stumbled a bit before regaining his focus.“Recently, journalists asked me, ‘You know, you had a big criminal career, and you did it yourself, you’re self-taught.’ I told them, ‘No, I had a technical adviser, a college teacher, a kind of mentor, and his name is Michael Mann.’”
“Heat remains the absolute example of organized crime, inspired by life, by people—real facts—he tries to transmit them in his cinema,” Faïd began (via translation). “I personally, I am a former gangster, unfortunately, I do not brag about it. I just spent 10 years in prison. I attacked armored vans. . . . For 20 years, I’ve known Michael Mann. I discovered him with Thief, and, with a bunch of friends, we’ve watched his films a bit as reports, as documentaries, and sometimes even . . . ”
Faïd, starstruck as he was, stumbled a bit before regaining his focus.
“Recently, journalists asked me, ‘You know, you had a big criminal career, and you did it yourself, you’re self-taught.’ I told them, ‘No, I had a technical adviser, a college teacher, a kind of mentor, and his name is Michael Mann.’”
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/07/redoine-faid-french-prison-escape-hollywood-michael-mann
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 8 July 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
The scene when he’s chewing gum and driving at night, stops at a light and kicks the TV out of the passenger side door, then tears off through the intersection...the fine Colombian
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 July 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-well-you-know-for-me-the-action-is-the-juice-tom-sizemore-62-24-11.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
I love how Pacino is clearly about to say "big" before he says "GREAT ASS!"
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
have we discussed how the script gave pacino's character a coke habit, which explains all the manic energy and overripe line readings, but mann took that motif out in the edit?
IMO dialogue is central to few of the best moments from this movie.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
this movie is nearly 25 years old btw! i guess it's been an official classic for nearly a decade now. deservedly.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:14 (five years ago) link
fun fact: this movie sucks and is bad― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:29 (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink― Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 7 July 2018 20:37 (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― i want donald duck to scream into my dick (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 7 November 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
the worst moment is
"i'm scots irish. my family emigrated to appalachia in the late 1700s."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Tom Sizemore's diner stare is one of my favorite shots in this.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 9 November 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
everyone in this film has an amazing house, except Waingro who stays in a series of cheap motels until the end when he's earned some cash for being a rat and upgrades to an airport hotel.
― omar little, Friday, 9 November 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
Trejo’s house (stilts not visible from street view) https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/1219-Dodds-Cir-90063/home/6957172
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 November 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
Hey Edie Brickell, what’s the latest?
― calstars, Saturday, 10 November 2018 00:55 (five years ago) link
some great stills in this piece
https://www.lataco.com/where-the-movie-heat-was-shot-in-la/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 05:33 (five years ago) link
Great article, thanks
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
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― a surprise challenge that ended with a gunging (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/yJGV6A5mXd https://t.co/j1PcI3VBTW— robert franco, wandering ronin (@responsiblerob) December 22, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
What’s the Fieri connection to den of thieves?
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
There's a great French movie called Braqueurs (Netflix changed it to the ultra-generic The Crew) that's like Heat condensed to 80 minutes. It's directed by Julien Leclercq; worth finding if you can. Here's an unsubtitled trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jBC7XBVhH8
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
there’s a series called ganglands, same director
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 23 December 2021 09:45 (two years ago) link
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― balsamic vaccinegar of moderna (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 December 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
this is the best gay movie ofalltime
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
I mainly remember the use of Neubauten's Armenia as a theme for one character. Is it Val Kilmer's wife. a snippet crops up each time they appear.wondered if it had anything to di withh Rollins being in the film. He has a large EN symbol on his arm
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I think it reappears a couple of times in the Informant too
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 December 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
I have very little memory of the movie (except Ashley Judd's heartbreakingly poignant warning move). My main association is now the Moby cover of "New Dawn Fades"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynA1dO9Kx8s
That's the version that's on the 24 Hour Party People soundtrack; there's a different version in the film, which is okay but a bit more plodding and lacks the requisite urgency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN5hSvu1dzw
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
Podcast that does a Minute by minute analysis of the moviehttps://open.spotify.com/show/39GMGljDTd8maGzNhK4enI?si=TlQ4F90LTzOE2B6NHAZi_g
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lzmRj7N.png
― calstars, Monday, 18 April 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
That edit has me on the floor! Lol
― calstars, Monday, 23 January 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
Watched this last night, I hadn't seen it since it first came out and my wife had never seen it. When it was over, she said, "If I had known this was the greatest movie ever made, I would have watched it a long time ago." She's now trying to figure out how to see it on a big screen, up to possibly renting out our local indie theater just for that purpose.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 December 2023 17:47 (three months ago) link
Your wife OTM
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:00 (three months ago) link
I saw this on the big screen a year or two ago and was reminded that the bank robbery shootout is LOUD
I’d forgotten so much of it, all the intricate side stories, how generous it is with screen time for even minor characters like poor Dennis Haysbert. An epic! *Pacino voice* SHAKESPEAREAN!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 December 2023 18:14 (three months ago) link
Overlooked / under-used “Pacino on coke” perspective
― calstars, Sunday, 10 December 2023 21:53 (three months ago) link
the way Dennis Haysbert says "the hell are you proud of me for?" kills me every time.
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 06:51 (three months ago) link
such a well-acted scene
― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 06:52 (three months ago) link
We watched this tonight. My wife’s concluding comments were “well that was long”. Smh
Also that was Henry Rollins???!?! Man was made to be a goon!
Poor Ralph
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 12:26 (three months ago) link
A guest host on a movie review podcast just described Heat as “hot men being sad”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 12:57 (three months ago) link
I didn’t think Ralph was that hot
― H.P, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:13 (three months ago) link
But he was sad
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:25 (three months ago) link
how generous it is with screen time for even minor characters like poor Dennis Haysbert
a perfect scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QhttjrOg5A
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 13:45 (three months ago) link
Goddamn that scene!!!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 14:20 (three months ago) link
I'd have to revisit Thief again, but otherwise Heat is probably the one Michael Mann film I'd watch and enjoy again. It's the quintessential Mann film, for better and worse. It's great how even a minor character like Haysbert can feel so tragic, but the film's also marred by things like "I've got three dead bodies on a sidewalk off Venice boulevard, Justine, I'm sorry if the goddamn chicken got overcooked."
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 December 2023 20:05 (three months ago) link
“You ex/husband’s post modern dead tech bullshit house”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:28 (three months ago) link
"marred"
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 23:32 (three months ago) link
Maybe I've missed it, but I'm surprised there hasn't been a scene in a Michael Mann film where two guys sit down and simply go "WOMEN. Am I right??"
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:02 (three months ago) link
His name is Michael Mann for <a reason>
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:12 (three months ago) link
Maybe in “Ferrari”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 12:05 (three months ago) link
lol I forgot Henry Rollins and Tone Lōc were in it
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 March 2024 22:54 (three weeks ago) link