written and directed by Michael Mann. It stars Al Pacino
, Robert De Niro
, and Val Kilmer
.
De Niro plays Neil McCauley, a professional thief, while Pacino plays Lt. Vincent Hanna, veteran LAPD
homicide detective tracking down McCauley's crew. The central conflict was based on the experiences of former Chicago
police officer Chuck Adamson
and his pursuit in the 1960s of a criminal named McCauley, after whom De Niro's character is named.
The film is technically a remake of L.A. Takedown
, a 1989 made-for-television film
which was also written and directed by Mann; the director had been trying to get Heat made for over a decade, and created L.A Takedown as a simplified version after his efforts were unsuccessful.
'Cause she's got a... GREAT ASS! And you've got your head... ALL THE WAY UP IT!...Ferocious, aren't I?! See when I think of asses—a woman's ass—something comes out of me!
I say what I mean, and I do what I say.
Once it escalated into a murder one beef for all of 'em after they killed the first two guards, they didn't hesitate. Popped guard number three because... what difference does it make? Why leave a living witness?
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!
I gotta hold on to my angst. I preserve it because I need it. It keeps me sharp (snaps fingers), on the edge (snaps fingers), where I gotta be.
Who? Who? What are you, a fucking owl?
When these guys walk out the door of whatever score they're gonna take next, they're gonna have the surprise of a lifetime.
It's like you said. All I am is what I'm going after.
I've got three dead bodies on a sidewalk off Venice boulevard, Justine, I'm sorry if the goddamn...chicken...got overcooked.
Don't waste my MOTHERFUCKING TIME!