My favorite final shot of any film is Michael Mann’s “Heat.” Three hours of a cops and robbers game across Los Angeles between Detective Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) and thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) culminates in a lone shoot-out on the outskirts of the Lax airport.
In the end, Hanna lethally gets his man, but it’s a tragedy.
McCauley is the only man Hanna’s been able to find mutual understanding with during the film, and now the man lies dying at Hanna’s own hand.Even in their last moments, they say little to each other — McCauley gasps out that he won’t…The post The Story Of Heat All Started With That Famous Final Scene appeared first on /Film.
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