Like all great films, even the dodgiest moments are classics in their own right. In one scene he seduces his girlfriend with the aggressively delivered lines: “It’s a book about metals” and “Lady, why are you so interested in what I’m reading?” She decides to run away with him to New Zealand a few days later. He wears a signature grey double-breasted jacket, talks like he’s just read a self-help book for bank robbers and somehow – somehow - manages to pull off the only goatee beard that has successfully outlasted the Nineties. Apparently he imagined his character Vincent Hanna as a heavy cocaine user, which goes some way to explaining some of his delivery: "Sit dooown Ray!"ĭe Niro’s Neil McCauley is smart, quiet and focused a reserved career criminal who listens, assesses and only speaks when it’s absolutely necessary. Throughout, Pacino is revved up and improvising in several shouty exchanges. They did of course but it shows just how epic this confrontation was to film fans in 1995. ![]() A moment so hyped and analysed that rumours spread that they didn’t even shoot the scene together on set. Then there’s Pacino v De Niro in the coffee shop, which carries its own folklore. The SAS were involved in training the actors and Val Kilmer’s technique is apparently so good that his scenes have been used in US Marine training. When I saw it for the first time, I had goosebumps, partly in anticipation, but mainly because it exceeded already lofty expectations. ![]() At the time it was a cultural moment “have you heard about the shoot-out in Heat?” First up is that street gunfight of course, and rightly so. ![]() Its weirdly passionate fans would say, "yeah I know, isn’t it great?" Some say it’s long, earnest, incredibly Nineties and full of genre clichés.
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