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Heat

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Heat	label	Heat
Heat	page	Heat
Heat	comment	Heat is the first movie billed almost entirely on featuring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together. It's a 1995 Michael Mann film about the relationship between a cop and the criminal he's investigating. It is a loose Remake of Michael Mann's L.A. Takedown, a 1989 Made-for-TV Movie.In this movie, Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, in the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide division, who is in the pursuit of master thief Neil McCauley (De Niro). Neil lives by one rule: when you feel the heat, you walk away. Never become attached to anything you can't leave behind in 30 seconds.Both men are masters of their professions, but struggle with their personal lives. Hanna wrestles with his family, while Neil is forced to admit (to himself rather than anyone else) he may have feelings for the woman he's been seeing. The tangles of their personal and professional lives become messier as Neil reunites his crew for one last gig, a retirement send-off.Despite the action trappings, and having one of the most memorable and realistic shootouts in movie history, the drama of the film comes from the internal strife of the two characters. On one hand, Vincent is obsessive about his job and oblivious to his failing marriage. On the other, Neil is successful and has nearly everything he wants, but is still painfully lonely. Neither man is happy or fulfilled, and each is looking in all the wrong places to find those missing pieces.This is the film that helped put director Michael Mann (Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies) on the map.In August 2022, Mann released the sequel/prequel novel Heat 2, with the possibility announced that it may get a TV/film adaptation overseen by Mann.Not to be confused with the Burt Reynolds movie of the same name. Or with The Heat.
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Heat / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Heat / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License – Gun Safety: Neil does a brass check in the hotel elevator, on his way to kill Waingro. While checking your pistol to make sure there's a round in the chamber when going into combat is a good idea, Neil does it by putting his whole hand over the barrel to push back the slide. If gone wrong, he could have blown his hand off.note This style of brass check was a mark of 1970s and '80s-era 'Modern Technique' training, and is meant to have the fingers kept below the barrel during the check. It had begun falling out of favor by the 1990s, both for the obvious safety reasons and because it was incompatible with handguns that did not use a reciprocating guide rod in the slide, as like many "modern" handgun techniques it was apparently designed with one specific pre-WWI pistol in mind This is a rare example in a movie that otherwise notably averts much of this trope.
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Heat / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Heat / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Chris spends all of his reward money from their heists gambling in Las Vegas and betting on the Super Bowl. It's why his marriage is falling apart.
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Heat / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Heat / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: By the end of the film, Neil, Breedan, Cheritto, Bosko, Trejo, Van Zant, and Waingro are all dead.
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Heat / int_128e9efd	type	Honor Among Thieves
Heat / int_128e9efd	comment	Honor Among Thieves: Neil's team of robbers are mostly this: despite some bad habits, they mostly watch out for each other. Except for Waingro, who is too inhumane to count. Neil had to know going after Waingro would leave him exposed to the cops chasing him, but he had to make the bastard pay for what happened to Trejo and Trejo's wife. See Revenge Before Reason below.
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Heat / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Heat / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Happens offscreen to Trejo's wife. And to the underage prostitutes that Waingro kills.
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Heat / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Heat / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: During the robbery shootout, a little girl is left alone when Cheritto grabs her to dissuade cops from shooting him for fear of hitting the little girl. Lt. Hanna, who circled around, shoots Cheritto after taking careful aim not to hit the hostage.
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Heat / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Heat / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: Zigzagged. Straight and averted in the bank robbery shootout: When Hanna shoots Cheritto during the robbery shootout, this trope is played. You see Hanna fire his rifle once as soon as Cheritto turns to face him, and then Cheritto falls backwards, but you don't see a bullet hole sprout on his face or any heavy bleeding. Likewise, averted when Bosko is shot in the neck by Shiherlis at the beginning. When Hanna leans down to check Bosko's pulse, he's bleeding very extensively. In the drive-in theater shootout: There isn't much blood seen when the gun-wielding assassin is shot during the ambush at the drive-in theater, other than some streaks of blood that appear on the windshield of the station wagon when Neil runs over him. Averted with the pickup truck driver, as blood splatters heavily when Cheritto empties a shotgun into the truck as it passes by at speed. Averted with the armored car robbery, because when the guards are getting shot, you can only see the bullet hole appear in the first guard, the one that Waingro shoots. And though you don't see blood spurting when the other guards are shot, when Hanna comes to look at the scene, blood has pooled pretty extensively around the bodies of the three guards (we get a very decent look at the corpse of the third guard, the one who was shot three times by Cheritto), which comes as no surprise given that the second and third guards were each shot multiple times (the second one was shot five times with Neil's assault rifle and the third one was shot three times by Cheritto).
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Heat / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
Heat / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Hanna is one from Neil McCauley's POV, since the movie's screen time is evenly divided between Vincent and Neil as a Villain Protagonist.
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Heat / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
Heat / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Trejo's wish to be shot is granted by McCauley. However, we only see a flash of light accompanied by a gunshot from outside the house.
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Heat / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Heat / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The Arc Words.
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Heat / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Heat / int_1ba17583	comment	Lauren's negligent biological father is pretty despicable too, and he never even appears on-screen.
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Heat / int_1d7d1b93	type	Remake Cameo
Heat / int_1d7d1b93	comment	Remake Cameo: Xander Berkeley, who played Waingro in L.A. Takedown, plays Justine's new boyfriend Ralph.
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Heat / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Heat / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: Neil and the crew become these during the armored car robbery when they don hockey goalie masks. However, you can still tell each guy apart based on what they are wearing and their voices: Neil and Shiherlis start in the ambulance and both are wearing paramedic uniforms. To tell them apart, Neil has a white hockey mask and Shiherlis wears a black hockey mask (he's the only one of them to wear a black mask). Cheritto has a visible tactical vest with a pistol on a crossdraw holster. Waingro's mask is shaped differently from those of the other crew members. Also, compared to Neil, Cheritto and Shiherlis, Waingro's hair is disheveled and sticks out from beneath his mask. He's also only armed with a pistol, whereas the rest of the group all have automatic rifles. Trejo is easily distinguishable because he runs across the street laying a spike trap for the cop cars while holding the distinctive-looking AK-47-copy Norinco Type 56 assault rifle, and also works the police scanner, audibly warning the rest of the crew. During the bank robbery, when the gang have their ski masks on, Neil wears a dark black suit, while Shiherlis wears a gray suit (both carry Colt M733 rifles), and his ponytail is not entirely covered by his mask. Cheritto and Shiherlis have suits of the same shade of gray, but Cheritto is carrying a different type of rifle.
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Heat / int_20d965e	type	Gentleman Thief
Heat / int_20d965e	comment	Gentleman Thief: A Deconstructed Character Archetype. Neil has the charm and all the connections, but he's painfully lonely, and won't get close to anyone for fear that the cops will be right around the corner. The one major job he's involved in goes terribly awry, and results in over half of his team being killed by the cops. Neil gets more violent as the film progresses, culminating in his revenge overriding his need to escape. He ends up proving his own adage right when he flees (and leaves his girlfriend) after he sees Hanna pursuing him, and winds up dead at the end of the film.
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Heat / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Heat / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Cheritto realizes seconds too late that he failed to see Hanna take up a position behind him and get enough time to draw a bead on him. Boom.
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Heat / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Heat / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: In the original draft, Hanna was explained to have been a habitual cocaine user, thus enabling him to keep his "edge" at all times. This is never mentioned in the film, but Al Pacino used it in his performance anyway, thus offering some justification for his at times rather hammy performance.
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Heat / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Heat / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Significantly so, especially in regards to the character's personal lives. Shiherlis' gambling addiction and Hanna's troubled stepdaughter are two elements among many that were not present in the original L.A. Takedown film.
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Heat / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Heat / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Told you I'm never going back."
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Heat / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Heat / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: Hanna and Neil were both in the Marines making the already obvious similarities even more apparent. This detail is created from one of Neil's tattoos and the fact that Hanna's normal sidearm is a Colt .45 pistol.
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Heat / int_25afd4a3	type	Good Guns, Bad Guns
Heat / int_25afd4a3	comment	Good Guns, Bad Guns: Currently provides the page image for that trope. The police forces we see generally play this straight, most of them armed with Berettas, M16s and Mossbergs, and Hanna favoring a slightly-customized FNC. The bad guys zig-zag this, however, with the more sympathetic McCauley and Shiherlis making extensive use of shortened AR-15 variants (respectively the 654 and shorter 733 for the armored car, then both using the latter for the bank robbery), while Cheritto, a more stereotypical bad guy, uses a FAL for the armored car where he tries to be the voice of reason for the even more psychotic Waingro, but then carries the AK-like Galil ARM for the bank robbery where he stoops to taking a small child hostage as a shield.
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Heat / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Heat / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: For some reason, none of the citizens on the street bother with the trio of guys carrying large bags and assault rifles nor the ununiformed police detectives, also with assault rifles, chasing after said trio.
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Heat / int_2633c91d	type	SteelEardrums
Heat / int_2633c91d	comment	Steel Eardrums: Averted in the armored car robbery scene. Waingro starts yelling at the guards, "Get back!" but when they don't move, he pistol whips the closest one in frustration (the guards were deafened from Shiherlis blowing open the back doors; and since Waingro was wearing a hockey mask they couldn't even tell he was talking at all). Cheritto turns to him and says, "Hey slick, see that shit comin' outta their ears? They can't fucking hear you! Cool it!" The robbers themselves don't have this problem because Shiherlis shouts "CLEAR!" before he mashes the detonator, giving them plenty of time to plug their ears. Played straight in the bank shootout. The robbers suffer no hearing damage from three automatic assault rifles being fired out of the car. They should not be able to hear each others' yells unless they had hearing aids and earplugs, and two-way radios.
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Heat / int_266b283	type	Crime After Crime
Heat / int_266b283	comment	Crime After Crime: In the opening, the crew has captured an armored car, has blown the back door, and has lined up the guards outside. Waingro (in a mask) is upset becase one of the guards won't follow his instructions, and has to be told that because of the explosion, he can't hear. Waingro ignores explicit instructions not to kill anyone. Vincent, later investigating the robbery explains what happened. "So he pops one of the guards. This has now gone from an armed robbery to murder. Since they're all now eligible for the death penalty, why leave any witnesses? So they kill all the other guards."
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Heat / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Heat / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During the bank robbery shootout, there is a moment where Shiherlis crouches behind a car with the license plate "2LUP382" to reload his Colt M733 assault rifle. Per British Army terminology, this means "Second Lying Up Position", and this happens to be the second time Shiherlis is in this position.
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Heat / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Heat / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Lauren's unseen father is clearly a selfish jerk not interested in her, but she nevertheless yearns to make a connection with him. His failure to bother with her eventually drives her to attempt suicide. Despite his own obsession with his job, Vincent at least tries to compensate and make some time for her, even as he pursues Neil McCauley.
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Heat / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
Heat / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Deconstructed. After the opening robbery scene, it introduces Hanna and Justine via morning love-making. However, this ultimately proves to be an illusion as the movie goes on, with their marriage clearly on the rocks and that despite being on opposite sides of the law, Hanna's personal life isn't much more fulfilling than Neil's.
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Heat / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Heat / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: as Vincent predicts at the scene of the first robbery Neil's gang will "Rock and roll in a heartbeat!" which is exactly what they do when the ambush is sprung, unleashing torrents of automatic fire. In this case it is entirely justified, they know more and more police (including SWAT) will be on their way so either they use maximum firepower to break through the cordon now or they are doomed.
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Heat / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
Heat / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: It is no coincidence that Neil has a natty little goatee while Hanna is clean-shaven. Waingro, who is clearly evil, has the bigger beard.
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Heat / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
Heat / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Driven home in particular by the resolution of each character's relationship with the women in their lives. Vincent saves Justine's daughter from a suicide attempt, which, while still leaving their relationship in limbo, at least gives Justine a chance to understand the kind of man Vincent has to be and the world he lives in. Also, while Vincent doesn't believe he and Justine can work as a couple, he clearly cares very much for her and Lauren and hopes he can still be a part of their lives. Conversely, Neil does exactly what he said he would do if he ever spotted the heat around the corner with Eadie.
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Heat / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Heat / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Waingro. First time by Neil, though he pushed his Berserk Button for killing one of the van's guards. Second time by Roger Van Zant as both shared a common enemy in Neil.
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Heat / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Heat / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Neil is willing to commit murder if he thinks it's necessary, but usually tries to avoid that necessity. Of the three heist attempts we see, one is after midnight at a business with no night shift, while the other two are carefully choreographed plans that rely on intimidation, surprise, and nonlethal violence (with the clear threat of lethal escalation if someone doesn't cooperate) to cow security guards and witnesses. As Hanna points out, the third armored truck guard was murdered because at that point, a third murder would cost them less than a live witness to the first two, and Neil is pissed about those first two. So pissed, in fact, that he and his crew try to kill Waingro for it. Subverted when Cheritto tries to use a little girl as a human shield.
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Heat / int_344a485d	type	Nonviolent Initial Confrontation
Heat / int_344a485d	comment	Non Violent Initial Confrontation: The famous scene with Neil and Vincent at the cafe.
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Heat / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Heat / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: The dialogue in the film has occasional bouts of swearing, but Lt. Hanna's dialogue stands out.
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Heat / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Heat / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: About halfway through, there is a scene where Neil, Shiherlis, Cheritto and Trejo meet up in an intermodal yard, apparently to paint it as their next target, as well as to map out the viable escape routes. The whole time, Hanna's team surveys their activities from hidden vantage points. When Hanna and his team later assemble on the same location to break down Neil's gameplan, they quickly discover the worthlessness of the target location, as well as the absence of any effective escape routes. Hanna then breaks out in smug laughter, realizing now that Neil had wanted his team to get in the open so that he could "make" (i.e. get the lowdown the same way they did on his own team) them, and jokingly makes poses while Neil photographs him.
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Heat / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Heat / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Or resignation, at least, in Roger Van Zant's case.
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Heat / int_39884242	type	KnowWhenToFoldThem
Heat / int_39884242	comment	Know When to Fold Them: Averted, despite McCauley claiming to live by this trope (see page quote). His failure to escape when he has the opportunity gets him killed.
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Heat / int_3ae5bcf1	type	Trojan Ambulance
Heat / int_3ae5bcf1	comment	Trojan Ambulance: Before the first heist, McCauley steals an ambulance and two paramedic's uniforms. He uses the ambulance to block the road, holding up an armoured bank car long enough for Cheritto to ram it off the road with a second vehicle.
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Heat / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Heat / int_3c111ce6	comment	Averted in the armored car robbery scene. Waingro starts yelling at the guards, "Get back!" but when they don't move, he pistol whips the closest one in frustration (the guards were deafened from Shiherlis blowing open the back doors; and since Waingro was wearing a hockey mask they couldn't even tell he was talking at all). Cheritto turns to him and says, "Hey slick, see that shit comin' outta their ears? They can't fucking hear you! Cool it!" The robbers themselves don't have this problem because Shiherlis shouts "CLEAR!" before he mashes the detonator, giving them plenty of time to plug their ears.
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Heat / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Heat / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Despite being overwhelmed by police and flanked on both sides, McCauley and his crew plow their way through the first police blockade, leaving at least a dozen policemen dead or wounded in their wake. Things however deteriorate further for both sides when the shooting resumes.
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Heat / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Heat / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Of Neil's crew only Chris manages to get away clean. (Unless you count Nate) But he still loses everything he's likely worked for years to build for himself, has to abandon his wife and child, loses his closest friends, and is left to an uncertain future. To say nothing of the fact he is still a wanted criminal who must hide his identity from that point forward.
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Heat / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
Heat / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: During his meeting with Vincent, Neil voices his determination to avoid going to prison again at all costs. After being shot at the end, Neil uses his last words to say "Told you I'm never going back."
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Heat / int_405b0c46	type	Armed Blag
Heat / int_405b0c46	comment	Armed Blag: The film opens with Neil and his crew holding up an armored car, shooting all three guards (though they had intended to leave them alive before Waingro needlessly escalated the situation), then escaping.
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Heat / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Heat / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Vincent gets his man...at the expense of Neil's life. Bosko, Cheritto and Breedan are killed during the botched heist. Trejo and his wife are brutally tortured, the latter succumbing to her injuries and the former mercy-killed by Neil. Chris survives but has to abandon his wife and son. Vincent is also very close to a divorce but it's left somewhat ambiguous.
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Heat / int_455341fe	type	Cradling Your Kill
Heat / int_455341fe	comment	Cradling Your Kill: Hanna does something like this to Neil after the short gunfight at the airport; he doesn't exactly cradle him, but he does hold his hand and comfort him as he dies.
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Heat / int_455794d	type	Bang, Bang, BANG
Heat / int_455794d	comment	Bang, Bang, BANG: Averted. All of the shots you hear during the bank robbery shootout use the original on-site recording rather than dubbed in sound effects. That's the reason why the shots sound a bit scratchier compared to other scenes where guns are fired. You also hear shots echoing between the skyscrapers.
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Heat / int_45ce1de7	type	Drive-In Theater
Heat / int_45ce1de7	comment	Drive-In Theater: Neil arranges to meet with Roger Van Zant's drop man in an abandoned drive-in. However, an assassin is hiding in the drop man's pickup truck. Chris Shiherlis covers Neil from the roof of the projection building. The two of them take down the assassin (which Neil has difficulty hitting because he's driving over the humps used to angle the cars to the screen). The pickup truck driver tries to flee, but just as he is about to exit, Michael Cheritto shoots him with a shotgun.
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Heat / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Heat / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Particularly how Vincent feels about Neil, and sometimes Neil about Vincent.
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Heat / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Heat / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: Neil McCauley is a retired marine who has since become the leader of a gang of armed robbers. It's also a parallel to Vincent Hanna, who is also ex-military.
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Heat / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Heat / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Hanna says this when Justine confronts him after he is called away from her at a party to go view one of Waingro's victims:
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Heat / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Heat / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Neil does this twice: at the beginning of the film, he wears a paramedic uniform to steal an ambulance. At the climax, he is able to walk through a hotel swarming with police merely by stealing a security guard's jacket and tie. He makes no other attempt to disguise his appearance. He knows enough that he mostly just needs a Bavarian Fire Drill and act like he belongs. Where he acquired the paramedic uniform might be an interesting Noodle Incident.
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Heat / int_498ddf27	type	Psycho Party Member
Heat / int_498ddf27	comment	Psycho Party Member: Waingro starts the movie as a member of a professional crew of thieves, but becomes such a kill-happy madman that Consummate Professional Neil McCauley risks attempting to execute him in public after their first heist turns into a bloodbath due to Waingro's sadism. After Waingro escapes he allies with Neil's enemies in the underworld and does everything he can to bring Neil down, but then goes above and beyond when he rapes and kills the wife of a member of Neil's crew and beats the crew member to near death when the guy attempts to avenge her, all for no reason other than because Waingro is an uncontrollable nutcase. By this point Neil is so furious with the psycho that despite being the subject of a police manhunt Neil takes time out of his getaway to hunt down Waingro and kill him properly.
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Heat / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Heat / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The streets of L.A. after the shootout.
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Heat / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Heat / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Lauren Gustafson and Eady. Lauren is a teenager driven to depression and to suicide because of her father's neglection over her and Eady gets speechless when Neil leaves her behind as he was been chased by Vincent Hanna.
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Heat / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Heat / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: A minor version - Neil, Chris and Michael discuss their possible escape routes from their next heist right in plain sight where the cops can overhear them (despite being a group of professional thieves). Cue Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team heading down to the scene for additional clues, only for Hanna to realize that it was probably misinformation they were fed, and that the entire meeting was to get the detectives in the open, allowing Neil to counterspy on them and learn their identities. Indeed, we see Neil taking pictures of them from the same vantage point Hanna was using earlier.
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Heat / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Heat / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Waingro certainly seems to think he's badass but, in reality, he has no brains and can't overpower anybody unless he's holding a Star Megastar pistol at a deafened and unarmed guard or bashing in the head of an underage prostitute.
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Heat / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Heat / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Neil says one to Waingro before shooting him
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Heat / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Heat / int_50f66629	comment	Neil is willing to commit murder if he thinks it's necessary, but usually tries to avoid that necessity. Of the three heist attempts we see, one is after midnight at a business with no night shift, while the other two are carefully choreographed plans that rely on intimidation, surprise, and nonlethal violence (with the clear threat of lethal escalation if someone doesn't cooperate) to cow security guards and witnesses. As Hanna points out, the third armored truck guard was murdered because at that point, a third murder would cost them less than a live witness to the first two, and Neil is pissed about those first two. So pissed, in fact, that he and his crew try to kill Waingro for it.
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Heat / int_52fc4d4b	type	Daddy Didn't Show
Heat / int_52fc4d4b	comment	Daddy Didn't Show: Lauren's father was supposed to pick her up for the day but never came, which contributes to her attempted suicide.
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Heat / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Heat / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Neil may be a ruthless bank robber but he's not above polite conversation even with people he says he would murder if he had to, as witnessed by his genial encounter with Vincent. For example, when he takes the bank hostage, he says, "We want to hurt nobody. We're here for the bank's money and not your money. Your money's insured by the federal government, you're not going to lose a dime. Think of your families, don't risk your life, don't try to be a hero." He also tells those who are sick or have heart trouble to line up against the walls.
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Heat / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
Heat / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: After Chris is shot in the shoulder by Det. Casals during the bank robbery shootout, Neil takes him to one of these types of doctors. In a deleted scene, the doctor demands twice the normal fee.
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Heat / int_5730ba86	type	Pop the Tires
Heat / int_5730ba86	comment	Pop the Tires: In the armored car robbery, Neil and his crew have timed the police response to three minutes. They are driving away from the scene just as the first police cruisers hit a spike strip laid down in the middle of the street by Trejo and screech to a halt, with two of them fishtailing. In the bank robbery shootout, Sgt. Drucker shoots the left rear tire of the getaway car. Donald Breedan struggles to control the car, until he is shot in the head by a police round and killed, and the car crashes into the back of an abandoned vehicle.
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Heat / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
Heat / int_58970413	comment	Coincidental Broadcast: This is how Donald Breedan's wife learns of his death in the bank robbery shootout. Somewhat justified in that it's a major breaking news story and he was killed in the midst of a pretty deadly shootout in the middle of downtown Los Angeles in which at least five people were killed (Cheritto, Breedan, a police detective, a patrol officer and a grocery store employee).
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Heat / int_5a5b7e42	type	Improperly Paranoid
Heat / int_5a5b7e42	comment	Improperly Paranoid: Normally after a master criminal promises to kill you for your betrayal, it would be smart to take action to kill him first. What Van Zant doesn't realize is that the police pressure put on Neil has caused him to put vengeance on the back burner. At least until Van Zant hires Waingro in an effort to get Neil and his crew killed, at which point Neil kills him in retribution for the death of his friends.
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Heat / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Heat / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Vincent Hanna and Neil McCauley. The two men are both dedicated to their professions (one is a cop, the other a criminal), but they understand each other very deeply.
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Heat / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Heat / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Neil and his crew are milder cases but still, they don't seem noticeably upset about shooting the guards during the armored car robbery. And during the bank shootout, they don't show much concern for the many innocent bystanders they're endangering (when we see Neil shoot a burst at Hanna in the parking lot, one officer gets shot, and it looks like at least one bystander also gets hit as well, possibly fatally). But they're disgusted with Waingro because he escalated the armored car robbery into a bloodbath and his reckless actions are a liability to them.
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Heat / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Heat / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: The thin line between police and the thieves they pursue. The price of devoting yourself to excelling in a particular vocation on yourself and those around you.
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Heat / int_5fbb8d8e	type	Hollywood Density
Heat / int_5fbb8d8e	comment	Hollywood Density: The bank robbers have to run from the police while carrying big duffel bags that are absolutely packed with paper currency. A full duffle would be able to hold enough stacked and bundled bills to weigh between 150 and 200 pounds. A re-enactment emphasizing how difficult (but not necessarily impossible, but not moving the way the actors do) this would be wound up on an NRA TV show (Media Lab) that got a bit of a Colbert Bump over on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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Heat / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Heat / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Hanna's team has Neil's crew dead to rights without the latter any wiser during the precious minerals repository heist, but a bumbling SWAT officer inadvertently makes a sound while sitting down in their concealed vehicle, spooking Neil and causing him to instruct his men to abort the heist. Hanna is thus forced to let Neil's crew go as a premature arrest would only yield a meager misdemeanor charge.
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Heat / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
Heat / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: Trejo is able to utter some final lines to McCauley before demanding to be shot.
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Heat / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Heat / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: Breedan is the first casualty during the botched heist, which marks the point where things start going downhill for Neil's crew and where the film delves into Anyone Can Die territory.
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Heat / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Heat / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: During the scene at the truck stop diner, Cheritto delivers a very cool one to dissuade fellow diners from noticing Waingro getting beaten up.
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Heat / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Heat / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba: When Richard (the brother of Vincent's snitch) tells Vincent he's just being a good citizen in telling him about stolen merchandise, Vincent retorts, "I'm Donald Duck."
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Heat / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Heat / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: We see a close-up on Hanna when he pulls the trigger to shoot Cheritto. As he pulls the trigger, the camera angle changes very slightly, ostensibly to edit out a cycling malfunction.
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Heat / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Heat / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: Mildly; Neil merely needs to look and sound like he belongs in order not to be challenged by the hotel staff. And also done right at the beginning of the film to steal an ambulance; Neil simply dons a paramedic's uniform and walks through a busy hospital to the ambulance bay in a manner that suggests he should be there while simultaneously not doing anything to attract anyone's attention.
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Heat / int_6378fed9	type	Stay with Me Until I Die
Heat / int_6378fed9	comment	Stay with Me Until I Die: Vincent shoots Neil, then stays with him out of companionship.
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Heat / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Heat / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: Neil and his crew are a tight-knit bunch that care about each other. He lets Chris crash at his place after a fight with his wife, Charlene, then convinces Charlene to give him another chance instead of leaving him for her lover, and advises Cheritto against going on a risky job with him since he's in a financially stable place. Neil ultimately endangers his shot at freedom to get revenge on Waingro for causing the deaths of Cheritto and Trejo, and the near-death of Chris.
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Heat / int_63f492d1	type	Bluff the Eavesdropper
Heat / int_63f492d1	comment	Bluff the Eavesdropper: Neil knows the LAPD is probably onto his next job but needs a way to smoke his tail and turn the tables. So his crew gathers in a shipyard and Neil lays out their target and escape routes for the benefit of the detectives listening in nearby. As Hanna's crew gather in the same spot later, and see a lack of both lucrative targets and viable escape routes, it hits Hanna that they've been successfully bluffed and smoked out.
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Heat / int_65df51a6	type	That Poor Car
Heat / int_65df51a6	comment	That Poor Car: Subverted in the armored car robbery. When Shiherlis sets off a charge to blast open the back doors, the shockwave shatters a row of car windshields, yet we don't hear the standard cacophony of car alarms that would normally happen with this trope. Then again, these cars are in a dealership and their alarms may have been disabled on purpose.
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Heat / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Heat / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Waingro is only ever addressed or mentioned by that name, presumably his surname.
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Heat / int_6779fb0b	type	Shoot the Hostage Taker
Heat / int_6779fb0b	comment	Shoot the Hostage Taker: Hanna takes out Cheritto with a headshot when the latter uses a little girl as a Human Shield after the bank robbery.
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Heat / int_67e53056	type	Gun Porn
Heat / int_67e53056	comment	Gun Porn: Much less typical "Gun Porn" and more like "Proper Firearms Procedure And Close Quarters Battle Porn." The bank robbery shootout is full of it, with the robbers using assault rifles of various kinds and the cops using a variety of pistols, shotguns, and rifles. There is also a pretty exotic variety of rifles and pistols that Neil and his crew use during the armored car robbery.
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Heat / int_680c8fd	type	Outranking Your Job
Heat / int_680c8fd	comment	Outranking Your Job: Robbery Homicide Lieutenant Vincent Hanna acts as lead investigator for every crime in the film, from the climactic bank robbery to the murder of a prostitute. Hanna does have subordinates under his command, but their duties are limited to assisting in the larger cases by running down leads, not handling cases of their own. Though we don't know if those detectives — Detectives Bosko, Casals and Schwartz, and Sergeant Drucker — are on any other active cases.
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Heat / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
Heat / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: Twice, a victim is killed being shot twice in the chest and once in the head — a technique known as the Mozambique Drill which would later be used in the later Michael Mann movie Collateral: Cheritto killing the third guard in the armored car robbery, and Neil killing Waingro at the hotel. During the crime scene investigation into the armored car robbery, Hanna notes this as one of several things that marks them out as serious professionals.
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Heat / int_6a0b03a6	type	One Last Job
Heat / int_6a0b03a6	comment	One Last Job: Robert De Niro once again, planning one last bank heist, before retiring.
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Heat / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Heat / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Lauren (Vincent's stepdaughter) slitting her wrists. Fortunately, Hanna gets there in time.
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Heat / int_6e287af	type	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
Heat / int_6e287af	comment	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: Neil confronts Charlene at the motel where he makes the call to Van Zant's drop man and bluffs his way into her motel room by pushing a janitor's cart to outside her door. No disguise is used.
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Heat / int_6ffe0ae4	type	Wild Goose Chase
Heat / int_6ffe0ae4	comment	Wild Goose Chase: It's implied that Michael Cheritto ditched his police surveillance by putting the transponders on a bus to San Clemente.
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Heat / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Heat / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Waingro's ability to disappear without a noise when Neil, Cheritto, Shiherlis and Trejo are preparing to kill him at the truck stop, but are distracted when a police car appears on the street. Fortunately, the cop suddenly drives off responding to another emergency call, but when Neil, who had his pistol trained on Waingro's head a moment before, looks back to prepare to finish the guy off...Waingro is gone.
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Heat / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Heat / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: For such a smart crook, Neil attacking Waingro in a crowded restaurant, and then trying to execute him in the middle of a parking lot aren't the actions of someone who's trying to keep a low profile. Factoring in his decision to go after his sociopathic partner at the end when he's almost home free, this might just be evidence that Neil isn't as practical and detached as he'd like to believe.
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Heat / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Heat / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked for Cheritto. Neil tells him this decision is his alone, and he has a long pause of consideration. He's probably the most financially established and careful man in the crew. You can see he's weighing up the rewards against the very real risk. He decides to go for it for the thrill more than anything else. At the bank, you can detect fear and desperation in his actions. Then he calms down and chuckles once inside the "safety" of the getaway car... before Hanna's team swoop in to take them down, with Hanna personally shooting Cheritto. To rub more posthumous "salt in the wound", we see his wife suddenly pay attention to the news story. She had no idea what he actually does for a living, and now she's about to lose everything she ever loved about him.
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Heat / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Heat / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: There are no truly good or bad characters. While Neil is ultimately a bad guy (as a career thief), he still has a handful of redeeming qualities. And while Hanna is ultimately a good guy (as a cop), he does have some detracting qualities. The movie exists to show that some cops and criminals are similar - Hanna shares many qualities with Neil and also with Shiherlis. Waingro exists purely to show how much better Neil is in comparison.
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Heat / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Heat / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: Neil. He is a ruthless, violent criminal willing to commit murder when it is necessary, but he takes no pleasure in it and makes every effort to minimize innocent casualties as much as possible. This explains why after the armored car robbery, Neil is pissed at Waingro for shooting the first guard, forcing him to shoot the second guard and Cheritto to shoot the third guard: there was no reason to kill them because all of the attackers were wearing hockey masks to hide their faces. One gets the idea that he'd be a pretty decent guy in a different profession.
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Heat / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Heat / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The quote on top of this page; it's McCauley's credo in regards to his line of work. Disregarding it has disastrous consequences for any who pull it.
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Heat / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
Heat / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Vincent, at the expense of his marriage. And his previous marriage. And the one before that. Neil also, at the expense of any kind of fulfilling personal life whatsoever. It is one of the threads they have in common.
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Heat / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Heat / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Neil's extremly competent and tight-knit crew is brought down by Cherrito's innocuous habit of calling people he dislikes "slick".
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Heat / int_7ab2a0ff	type	One-Handed Shotgun Pump
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Heat / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
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Heat / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Heat / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first time we see Waingro, he demands a free coffee refill from a roadside cafe (where it's hinted he's already made himself a nuisance), then walks away as soon as he sees Cheritto's truck without either waiting for his refilled cup or telling the employees to forget it. He doesn't do much more than introduce himself before assuming he's part of McCauley's crew going forward, then glowers at Cheritto when the latter asks him to be quiet so he can concentrate. Even before his actions at the armored car heist, we already know he's an inconsiderate blowhard with anger issues. Lauren gets one as well. She panics because her deadbeat father's half an hour late, then dissolves in tears when she realizes he's probably not coming. Her overreaction to her father's absence presages her suicide attempt late in the film.
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Heat / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
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Heat / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Heat / int_80d0d980	type	The Generic Guy
Heat / int_80d0d980	comment	The Generic Guy: Hanna's fellow policemen (Bosko, Casals, Drucker and Schwartz) get the short end of the stick as far as personality is concerned, though Drucker gets some development towards the end.
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Heat / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Heat / int_823c6e3e	comment	The Director's Cut edits out Vincent's line, "Ferocious, aren't I?" But Drucker still grins at Vincent, hinting that Vincent is a Large Ham in-universe.
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Heat / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
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Heat / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Heat / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Chris drops out of the movie after his wife warns him the police are onto him at the safe house. Did he get caught by the police later? Did he manage to leave the country, as his boss Neil planned to? Did he retire and wind up going legit, or did he have to return to crime? Your guess is as good as anyone's.
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Heat / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
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Heat / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
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Heat / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Heat / int_8b606a51	comment	There is No Kill Like Overkill: Donald Breedan is shot in the head by Hanna, Casals and Drucker all at once. And Drucker has a shotgun. The thugs at the drive-in; the assassin is sideswiped by Neil, shot by Chris and Neil from both sides, and then run over by Neil, while the driver receives three blasts from a shotgun, courtesy of Cheritto.
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Heat / int_8fd7af48	type	Sir Swears-a-Lot
Heat / int_8fd7af48	comment	Sir Swears-a-Lot: Several of the men swears throughout the movie, but Lt. Hanna stands out.
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Heat / int_9014df71	type	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
Heat / int_9014df71	comment	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Det. Bosko uses, "Bang, bang, bang-bang-bang," at the scene of the armored car robbery to describe the death of the second guard (the one Neil shoots with an automatic rifle as he's trying to draw his service weapon).
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Heat / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
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Heat / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Heat / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Happens to Chris Shiherlis' character. He's the only member of Neil's crew (other than Nate, their fence, who in the original script was supposed to get caught,) who eludes the police, but he only does so because Charlene, whom he had been having vicious marital problems with throughout the film and had been cheating on him with Marciano, warns him about Sgt. Drucker and the other policemen at their house. Chris is able to escape, but is forced to abandon his son and wife (who he just then realizes really still does love him), who were the most important things to him in the world. He is obviously devastated when she signals him that something is up and then again as he drives away from the scene.
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Heat / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
Heat / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: It turns out that the bearer bonds stolen during the opening heist by Neil and his crew belonged to Roger van Zant, a banker who does business for a drug cartel. On realising this, the crew curiously doesn't panic, but instead calmly approach him with what they feel is a reasonable deal — having not known the bonds belonged to him, they offer to sell his bonds back to him at a generous price which, on top of the insurance he'll receive for them anyway, will see him lose out less than he would have had they sold them to a third party. Unfortunately for them, van Zant isn't in the mood to be reasonable and so orders a hit out on them. Interestingly, the hit backfires and Neil, himself now no longer in the mood to be reasonable, promises van Zant he's pretty much going to die painfully. Van Zant is consequently the one who spends most of the movie fretting for his life — until he gets hooked up with Waingro, at which point things go From Bad to Worse for pretty much everyone concerned.
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Heat / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Heat / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: As Neil and Eady drive away from L. A. they go through a brightly lit tunnel that only seems to get brighter until it looks like it's about to Fade to White... until Neil decies he just has to get Waingro after all, and steers the car into a barely-lit highway exit and back into the night.
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Heat / int_91b740a6	type	Karmic Thief
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Heat / int_96251156	type	Deer in the Headlights
Heat / int_96251156	comment	Deer in the Headlights: The little girl Cheritto uses as a human shield while firing on Drucker and Casals gets taken hostage when she stands still, confused, rather than run away like everyone else when Cheritto approaches.
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Heat / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Heat / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Contains an especially famous moment where Hanna pulls over Neil and invites him to have coffee. They both know who each other are but have nothing against each other at that moment.note Pragmatic Hero and Pragmatic Villainy at work: Hanna knows Neil is up to something, but has nothing to show for it; Neil knows Hanna has been tailing his work for a while, but has to avoid confrontation with a big score ahead It also epitomizes the Dueling-Stars Movie as a scene with just Pacino and DeNiro playing off each other, and you're not quite sure if it will turn violent.
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Heat / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Heat / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: Drucker wields a shotgun during the bank robbery shootout. Cherrito uses one in the drive-in shootout. Subverted with Hanna as he tries to use one during his cat-and-mouse chase with Neil towards the end. He expends all shells on Neil but misses and runs out of ammo. Hanna then ditches the shotgun for his pistol instead.
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Heat / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Heat / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Both played straight and subverted in the bank robbery shootout - Donald Breeden is the first of the crooks to die, which happens after bullets fired from Casals and Drucker pierce the windshield and hit him in the head. Sgt. Drucker is one of the cops left standing.
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Heat / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Heat / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: By the near end of the movie, Neil has an opportunity to leave the country with Eady (his girlfriend) and leave behind his life of crime forever. However, he jeopardizes (and ultimately destroys) that opportunity just so he can pay back Waingro for betraying him and killing Trejo (his friend). It goes against his personal code of dropping everything if the "heat" is on. He can't drop the revenge, and it prevents his escape from Los Angeles. Roger van Zant would have collected 100% on the insurance for his stolen bearer bonds and made an extra 40% by buying back the bonds from Neil and his crew at a discount. Instead, he tries to have them killed as a message to the underworld that stealing from him is a bad move. Unfortunately for him, this backfires horribly and Neil not only had survived the assassination attempt, but eventually hunted van Zant down and killed him for his troubles.
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Heat / int_984763bb	type	555
Heat / int_984763bb	comment	555: When Neil is asked for the telephone number he is calling from so they can call him back from a different number, he looks at the payphone, reads a correct area code for Los Angeles County, 818, but the phone number he gives is a seven-digit number beginning with "1". For technical reasons, regular telephone numbers in North America - US, Canada and the Caribbean Countries - cannot start with "1".
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Heat / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Heat / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: When Neil and Vincent sit down at a cafe together and reach this very conclusion. Also implied at the scene where, after surveilling the robbers at a completely unlikely location for a heist, the cops arrive there to try and figure out exactly what they were targeting only for Vincent to eventually realise that the only reason the robbers went there was to lure the cops out so that they could surveil and research them. He mockingly poses for the cameras. Neil, who is the one taking the photos, smiles respectfully once he realises that Vincent's caught on to what's happened. Hanna also shares a lot with Chris Shiherlis in terms that their marriages are falling apart, with both of their wives cheating on them. One scene has the cops go out to dinner with their families at a nice restaurant. Another scene, which comes right after the shootout at the drive-in movie theater, has the criminals go out to dinner with their families. This trope is subverted, however, in one very important way: when all is said and done, Neil is a sociopath, while Vincent is not. Michael Mann is quick to point this out in the director's commentary and behind-the-scenes features on the DVD and Blu-Ray. Note that when Vincent and Neil meet in the coffee shop, Vincent tells Neil point blank that he will kill him if "it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow" while Neil says he'll put Vincent down because "I will not let you get in my way." The difference between them is graphically illustrated during the bank robbery shootout: Vincent does everything he can, at his own risk, to get innocent bystanders out of harm's way; Neil fires into a crowd to cause confusion, and we see at least one bystander go down. Driven home in particular by the resolution of each character's relationship with the women in their lives. Vincent saves Justine's daughter from a suicide attempt, which, while still leaving their relationship in limbo, at least gives Justine a chance to understand the kind of man Vincent has to be and the world he lives in. Also, while Vincent doesn't believe he and Justine can work as a couple, he clearly cares very much for her and Lauren and hopes he can still be a part of their lives. Conversely, Neil does exactly what he said he would do if he ever spotted the heat around the corner with Eadie.
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Heat / int_99fa6bc0	type	Because I'm Good At It
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Heat / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Heat / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: Or having dinner with their families, in this case. And both sides do it. In addition to the scene of the criminals going out to dinner A deleted scene shows Cheritto mixing his criminal and family careers together, by purchasing hockey masks for the armored car robbery while also buying a dollhouse for his daughters, which if retained in the final film would have fallen after the scenes of Neil stealing the ambulance and Shiherlis buying demolition charges. Neil runs into Eady at the bookshop where she works, while purchasing a book on different types of metals (implied to be him planning for hitting the precious metals repository). When Neil finally hunts down van Zant, the cartel banker is... relaxing at home watching a hockey game.
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Heat / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Heat / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Hanna and Neil are dining together the former asks the latter if when Neil sees Hanna is about to come after him, will Neil abandon Eady. Neil responds that he would. True to his word, when Hanna catches Neil in the climax, Neil does abandon Eady to not be caught. A few subtle bits of foreshadowing occur with the hockey masks Neil's crew wear during the armored car heist. Of the four robbers who approach the truck, only Shiherlis's mask is black, while everyone else wears a white mask. He's the only member of the crew to survive the film. Waingro's mask is shaped differently from the others, with a rounded chin making it closer in appearance to a Jason Voorhees mask. He's ultimately revealed to be a serial killer and rapist. Trejo's face is completely (or almost completely) out of frame at any point in the robbery when he is wearing a mask, meaning his face is only seen uncovered. His death is a mercy killing at Neil's hands.
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Heat / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Heat / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: Blood gets on the camera when Donald Breedan is given a Boom, Headshot!.
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Heat / int_9dffef16	type	Colbert Bump
Heat / int_9dffef16	comment	A re-enactment emphasizing how difficult (but not necessarily impossible, but not moving the way the actors do) this would be wound up on an NRA TV show (Media Lab) that got a bit of a Colbert Bump over on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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Heat / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Heat / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Hanna rants at Ralph when he finds out that the latter is having an affair with his wife. Simple, "I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. BUT YOU DO NOT! GET TO WATCH! MY! FUCKING! TELEVISION SET!"
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Heat / int_9ec60b8b	type	White Shirt of Death
Heat / int_9ec60b8b	comment	White Shirt of Death: All of the participants in the armored car robbery at the beginning of the movie except for Chris Shiherlis wear white hockey masks. Chris, who wears a black mask, is the only one of them to still be alive at the end of the movie, while everyone who wore a white mask is dead.
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Heat / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
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Heat / int_a10775b7	type	Mean Boss
Heat / int_a10775b7	comment	Mean Boss: What Breedan deals with as a short-order cook is a boss who treats parolees like shit.
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Heat / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
Heat / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: In the first part of the bank robbery shootout, Chris shoots Det. Bosco. Several other cops are shot by Chris, Cheritto, and Neil later on in the second part of the shootout, but it's never established if they survived or not.
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Heat / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Heat / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: In the opening robbery, Waingro kills a security guard for not following his instructions. Another guard draws a pistol and is also shot. The last guard doesn't resist, but the gang exchange a Meaningful Look and kill him too. As they've already committed multiple homicide, there's no incentive to leave a potential witness alive.
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Heat / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Heat / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: McCauley gives up a chance to make a clean getaway to get revenge on Waingro for the deaths of his crew, and by the time he tries to resume his escape plan, he sees Hanna coming right for him. He's forced to live up to his mantra of not getting attached by abandoning Eady, only to die anyway in a final showdown with Hanna. Neil lingers long enough to face death with dignity, and even Hanna is upset as he holds Neil's hand as he dies.
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Heat / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Heat / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When Cheritto turns around and sees that he's failed to spot-check behind him while firing at Drucker and Casals, as Hanna has drawn a bead on him. Hanna shoots him just as he's beginning to realize. A simultaneous example: Neil does sentry duty when the crew attempts to rob the precious metals repository. The job goes well, until he hears a small clang coming from the Aztec Linen trucks parked in the nearby lot (caused by a SWAT member in Hanna's truck banging his rifle against the wall). Neil freezes staring in the truck's direction while Hanna is wide-eyed, holding his breath watching Neil on the video feed. Neil instinctively realizes that the police are hiding and watching them, and quickly walks in to withdraw Cheritto and Shiherlis.
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Heat / int_ad654ccc	type	Hash House Lingo
Heat / int_ad654ccc	comment	Hash House Lingo: We get bursts of this when McCauley offers Donald Breedan a job as getaway driver. McCauley makes the new order $12 million to go!
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Heat / int_ae3c0b6	type	Bath Suicide
Heat / int_ae3c0b6	comment	Bath Suicide: Lauren tries to do this, after she got seriously distraught that her biodad wouldn't give her the time of day. When he gets home from work Hanna finds her lying in his bathtub with her wrists cut. He immediately ties her arms and legs to stop the bleeding, and rushes her to the nearest ER.
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Heat / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Heat / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: Replete with morally ambiguous characters, dark urban photography, and brutal realism all layered with a thick proverbial coat of style.
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Heat / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Heat / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: The film ends with a fifteen-second shot of Lt. Hanna standing framed in the lights of Los Angeles International Airport holding Neil McCauley's hand as he dies.
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Heat / int_b454d74b	type	Sixth Ranger Traitor
Heat / int_b454d74b	comment	Sixth Ranger Traitor: Waingro, Psycho for Hire whose impulsive ruthlessness ends up botching the armored car heist and nearly gets himself killed by Neil during the diner meeting for his troubles until a momentary distraction caused by a police car patrolling the area allowed Waingro to escape with his life. He would later be hired by Roger Van Zant, who secretly plots the elimination of Neil's team.
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Heat / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: During the armored car robbery, Waingro shoots the first guard in the face at point-blank range with his pistol. Also, the same effect with the third guard when Cheritto uses the Mozambique Drill on him. Cheritto himself also gets shot in the head by Lt. Hanna at the end of the botched bank robbery and Waingro is later the victim when Neil uses the Drill on him.
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Heat / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: The bank job was meant to be the crew's last case, and would have gone without a hitch if not for past mistakes coming to bite them in the ass. Some people read Neil and Chris as probably likely to have taken more scores even after the heist (Trejo doesn't indicate one way or another), but definitely true for Cheritto. Invoked for Cheritto. Neil tells him this decision is his alone, and he has a long pause of consideration. He's probably the most financially established and careful man in the crew. You can see he's weighing up the rewards against the very real risk. He decides to go for it for the thrill more than anything else. At the bank, you can detect fear and desperation in his actions. Then he calms down and chuckles once inside the "safety" of the getaway car... before Hanna's team swoop in to take them down, with Hanna personally shooting Cheritto. To rub more posthumous "salt in the wound", we see his wife suddenly pay attention to the news story. She had no idea what he actually does for a living, and now she's about to lose everything she ever loved about him.
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Heat / int_cbf0028c	comment	Agitated Item Stomping: The poor television set that Hanna did in did NOT deserve it.
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Heat / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Surprisingly, yes, even though the title is about the good guys. Because the focus of the film is evenly divided between Neil and Hanna, people on two opposite sides of the law, the title counts for this. The "heat" is a slang term for the cops, whom Neil needs to outsmart and run from to succeed in the end. It is personified in Hanna (Neil's antagonist), who eventually becomes the 'heat' for which Neil needs to drop everything he is attached to in 30 seconds flat to make his escape.
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Heat / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Neil's downfall can be directly traced back to the moment he tells Hanna about Eady while having coffee with him. After Neil kills Waingro at the hotel, Hanna arrives and picks Eady out in the crowd, a woman who looks to be waiting anxiously for a loved one. Hanna is able to put two and two together and Neil is forced to flee, setting up their final, fatal confrontation. Similarly, Neil and Eady would have successfully made their escape had Neil not decided at the last moment to go back and kill Waingro, attracting a ton of police attention and leaving Eady in a position to be spotted by Hanna. Cheritto opting to stay on the bank job (he didn't need the money at all and was just in it for the "action") didn't really work out for him either, also leading to a final, fatal encounter with Hanna. Donald Breeden agreeing to serve as getaway driver for the bank job, largely out of frustration with the shitty job his parole officer arranged for him.
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Heat / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
Heat / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: Neil consults Nate for intelligence on potential heists and police opponents. Also Kelso, the man who provides Neil and his crew with the intelligence they need for the bank robbery; when Neil asks him where he gets this stuff he replies that it just comes to him through the air (his house is festooned with antennae and located on a hill above Los Angeles).
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Heat / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: It's certainly a bit of a reach that, on the very day the crew's getaway driver has to cancel at the last minute, they just so happen to meet in a diner during the shift of an ex-con they know.
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Heat / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Donald Breedan is introduced in what appears to be a scene completely unrelated to the Hanna vs. Neil plot as he gets a job as a short-order cook at a diner. He doesn't appear again until much later, when we see Neil, Cheritto, and Shiherlis take breakfast at said diner and Neil notices and recognizes Breedan behind the grill, and then recruits him as a last-minute substitute for Trejo.
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Heat / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Heat / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Waingro is easily the most hateful, vile, depraved and despicable character in the entire film. He lacks any kind of Evil Virtues or sympathetic qualities, being a petty, sadistic jerkass who is not particularly smart. And for bonus, he's also a Dirty Coward. His interference also ends up resulting in the deaths of Neil's entire crew, save for Chris, whose life is destroyed. Lauren's negligent biological father is pretty despicable too, and he never even appears on-screen.
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Heat / int_e9784ee6	comment	Epic Movie: Nearly three hours long. Interestingly enough, the legendary coffee scene ends almost perfectly at the midpoint—in the old days, it would've been the perfect lead-in to an Intermission.
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Heat / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Donald Breedan provides a nice, and interesting case. He is a recently paroled ex-con determined to set his life straight with his wife's support. However, when he applies for a job as short-order cook at a diner, the Jerkass manager extorts him and treats him like dirt (and we are given hints that imply he has been known to do this in the past). He cannot resist when Neil comes by and asks him to substitute for Trejo as the getaway driver. Breedan's story arc is a realistic portrayal of a sad truth: a number of people do not want to give ex-cons a chance to start their life anew, often forcing them back into the criminal life they were trying to leave.
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Heat / int_f142aaf5	comment	Diner Brawl: Neil starts to beat up Waingro while still in the booth at a truck stop diner. They follow up on the deed outside, but he's forced to stop the beating when Chris spots a police car nearby. They wait until the police car drives off, by which point Waingro is gone.
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Heat / int_f95baed	type	Not Staying for Breakfast
Heat / int_f95baed	comment	Not Staying for Breakfast: Neil is shown leaving Eady in the night, after making love. Neil is a professional thief, and has vowed to have no attachments as to be able to walk out of his life in thirty seconds if the heat turns up. And then subverted when he gets back together with her a day or two later.
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Heat / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Or "Coffee with McCauley".
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Heat / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Heat / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: This was the film that cemented Mann's reputation as a director who goes above and beyond the call when it comes to accurate usage of firearms and combat tactics. Much attention is paid to firearms handling procedures and small-arms tactics. This is Michael Mann's movie, and he usually insists in putting his stars through combat boot camp if they'll be anywhere near a gun. Examples include: Watch the pistol press check, use of a breaching shotgun, room clearing in Hanna's raid on Hugh Benny's place. Use of cover during the bank shootout. Neil and Chris Shiherlis both use cars as shields when they are raking the police cars, putting the engine blocks between themselves and enemy gunfire from that direction. You'll notice that at one point when Hanna ducks behind a car to reload as Shiherlis fires a burst at him, he's using the engine block to protect himself as well. Aiming through iron sights, even with a shotgun (Hanna, when chasing Neil at the airport. There are at least three or four police officers, Drucker included, firing shotguns during the bank robbery shootout, but these don't count given that you'd risk getting shot trying to get a perfect hit off with a shotgun). Good trigger discipline in general, along with characters reloading weapons frequently during the bank shootout (although only Shiherlis's is given focus, the others can be seen reloading in the background of several shots). In fact, the shot of Shiherlis reloading his Colt M733 during the bank shootout has allegedly been used as instructional footage by U.S. Army trainers, due to how efficiently performed it is. Hanna, Casals, and Bosko each use assault rifles for the bank robbery shootout, just like Neil, Cheritto and Shiherlis are using. The one difference is that the robbers are shooting their guns in automatic mode, but the cops who use assault rifles are firing them as semi-automatics. That's because even when under fire from heavily armed gunmen like Neil, they want to try taking him and the others out without running the risk of endangering bystanders (this seen when Hanna gets pinned down at the parking lot and is unable to shoot back at Neil because of bystanders running amok in his line of fire as Neil opens up). Even a bounding overwatch: when Neil's crew is split in the bank firefight, they provide suppressive fire for each other in an alternating advance up the street. They also lay down lines of fire that overlap. Donald Breedan provides a nice, and interesting case. He is a recently paroled ex-con determined to set his life straight with his wife's support. However, when he applies for a job as short-order cook at a diner, the Jerkass manager extorts him and treats him like dirt (and we are given hints that imply he has been known to do this in the past). He cannot resist when Neil comes by and asks him to substitute for Trejo as the getaway driver. Breedan's story arc is a realistic portrayal of a sad truth: a number of people do not want to give ex-cons a chance to start their life anew, often forcing them back into the criminal life they were trying to leave. When Hanna arrives at the scene of the armored car robbery, Detective Bosko informs him that according to a homeless man who for the most part, witnessed the heist ("Well he was hiding. He heard it mostly"), one of the robbers called a guard "slick". The truth, which only we the audience know, is that when Waingro Pistol Whips the first guard, Cheritto tells him, "Hey, slick! See that shit comin' outta their ears? They can't fucking hear you! Cool it!" It initially looks like a continuity error or a dialogue mistake on Bosko or the script writer's behalf. In truth, eyewitnesses are not 100% reliable and multiple witnesses can give contradictory accounts about events, and this homeless man was stating what he thought he saw and heard. He may or may not have seen Waingro pistol-whipping the guard, and even if he did, they were all wearing hockey goalie masks that hid their mouths, making it harder to tell who was talking to who.
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Heat	hasFeature	Hash House Lingo / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Hollywood Density / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Honor Among Thieves / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Human Shield / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	In Harm's Way / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Instant Emergency Response / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Interrupted Suicide / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Kansas City Shuffle / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Knowledge Broker / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Leave No Witnesses / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Line in the Sand / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Married to the Job / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Never Going Back to Prison / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Never One Murder / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Noble Demon / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Nonviolent Initial Confrontation / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Not Staying for Breakfast / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	One Last Job / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Overt Rendezvous / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Pop the Tires / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Psycho Party Member / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Punk in the Trunk / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Remade and Improved / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Revenge Before Reason / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Robbing the Mob Bank / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Saying Sound Effects Out Loud / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Semper Fi / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Shoot the Hostage Taker / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Stay with Me Until I Die / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Steel Ear Drums / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Sympathy for the Devil / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	The Good, the Bad, and the Evil / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	They Knew the Risks / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Thriller / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Tragic Mistake / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Unnaturally Blue Lighting / int_b36b5c6a
Heat	hasFeature	Wild Goose Chase / int_b36b5c6a

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