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Miami Vice might not be “top tier” Michael Mann but I’ve always felt that this sequence here- the D.E.A. Raid- is one of the strongest sequences of Mann’s career & just utterly captivating filmmaking. No one shoots nighttime like Mann & no one uses sound like Mann when it...

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Heat is one of the best films ever. Directed by Michael Mann, the 1995 crime classic has a truly “one-of-a-kind” moment: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in the same scene for the first time. To make it happen, Mann actually created the *same film* twice. It’s an awesome story of creative dedication… …that begins in the mid-1970s, when Mann met a Chicago police detective named Chuck Adamson. Adamson was retired and consulting on Hollywood projects. He told Mann about his years chasing a bank robber named Neil McCauley, including a time they shared a coffee at a diner. In 1979, Mann wrote a 180-page script called “Heat” about Adamson and McCauley. After success producing the TV show “Miami Vice”, Mann was given an opportunity to make his script. However, it ended up as a low budget direct-to-TV film called “LA Takedown”. The film took ~3 weeks to make and — while reviews were OK — Mann’s vision was unfulfilled. After directing the critical and commercial hit “The Last of the Mohicans” in 1992, Mann could basically do any new project he wanted. And he chose to redo “LA Takedown”, but this time with a $60m budget and the biggest stars (Pacino, De Niro, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight). After six months of filming, “Heat” came out in 1995. At 165 minutes, it was twice the length of “LA Takedown” (Mann layered on lots of narrative left out of the original). It was an instant classic and made ~$190m at the box office. Meanwhile, the much-anticipated coffee diner scene with Pacino and De Niro delivered the goods (compare it to the original below). After 2 decades and 2 films, Mann finally saw his vision through. The unwavering commitment to his original idea created a true masterpiece.

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