When director Michael Mann was cutting the iconic downtown LA shootout for his blue-hued 1995 neo-noir masterpiece “Heat,” he initially set the scene to a foley mix of faux gunfire.
But it just wasn’t right.
He swapped out the track for sound captured on location.
“We shot with full-load blanks,” the auteur told Vulture.
“We were in these glass and steel canyons and the gunfire reverberated in a certain real way, so they had an authenticity to the place that really was unique.”Mann has claimed to “reject realism,” but it’s that close attention to detail, merged with his overall expressionistic brilliance, that turned “Heat” into…The post Movies Like Heat That Are Definitely Worth Watching appeared first on /Film.
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