Episode 88: Heat

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses Heat's surprisingly quiet midpoint dialogue scene, the film's incredible iconic shootout, and how both central characters' arcs engage the themes of family, loyalty, and crime.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.8	The podcast for each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:13.8	Today we are talking about Heat, the 1995 film written and directed by Michael Mann.
0:19.8	I'm joined today by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:22.8	Hello, everyone.
0:23.9	Brian Bittner.
0:24.8	Hello, hello.
0:25.7	And Alex Cayetos.
0:27.1	Hi.
0:27.8	Straight out the gate.
0:28.7	Question for Spotify listeners is what is your favorite L.A. movie, like a movie where L.A. is like a character in the movie.
0:37.4	L.A. plays a role in this movie for L.A. is like a character in the movie.
0:39.5	L.A. plays a role in this movie for sure.
0:41.8	Yeah, so let us know if you're listening in the Spotify app.
0:47.0	Also, we're talking about Heat because our Patreon vote for this month is about heist movies, and there's a lot of heisting in this film.
0:51.3	So we've got to be fun to then throw the vote over to the patrons to see what other,
0:56.5	what other movies and the heist genre they want to talk about.
0:59.6	So there's the Sting, Italian job, Inside Man, the town, baby driver, the fight is happening.
1:05.1	So if you want to vote, the link to our Beyond Screenplay Patreon is in the show notes.
1:12.3	Let's talk about heat.
1:13.1	Okay.
1:23.4	Okay. So I have a kind of a history with this movie a little bit where I was really obsessed with it for a while.
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