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Mannhunting - Heat

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4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

It's finally time, the Mannhunters have reached what is often cited as one of Mann's greatest films, Heat! But does it live up to the hype, or is a stacked cast the reason it's so popular? Join Nextlander's Alex Navarro, Waypoint contributor Dia Lacina, and Waypoint's own Rob Zacny as they beat the summer heat by watching Heat, and admit that maybe Moby was right choice this ONE time.

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0:00.0

If the action is the juice for you, you've come to the right podcast.

0:29.5

Welcome to Man Hunting. I'm your host Rob Zachini here with Nextlanders Alex Navarro and Phil Adelfi

0:35.4

his own D. Allotz and that a continue our journey through the career of director, writer

0:40.2

and producer Michael Mann to examine his timeless themes of craft, labor, capital and dudes

0:46.2

rocking. So I think something we've realized as we've gone through man's body of work

0:52.8

today, especially Alex and I is that he recycles scenes and ideas constantly and awful lot

0:59.2

of iconic moments from his 1995 crime opus heat. Crops up in bits and pieces throughout the rest

1:08.2

of his career and you haven't seen the last of it in later movies, you will see these things crop

1:13.5

up as well. But by the time we hit heat in this journey, I now feel like I've seen constituent parts

1:20.7

of heat like almost like stitched together body parts sort of out of place and other works.

1:27.2

I know that from heat first and foremost, you know, they there was a bit of this in, you know,

1:34.4

in Miami vice, some of the themes of the thief come through this. There were some scenes lifted

1:39.6

directly when you're talking about crime story. And yet he doesn't get a reputation for being a

1:47.3

pastiche of man's own ideas or fixations or quirks. In part because it is far and away the best known

1:57.3

of man's crime film is the one that broke through to why to claim and classic status. And I think

2:03.2

that's kind of where I want to have this conversation framed. He eats a movie a lot of people

2:10.4

know really well. I don't mean to do it through it in like it's a very long movie too. So I don't

2:15.3

mean to go through it like really intense point by point detail. We also did that already last

2:21.2

time. We went through the entire plot of heat because the heat already made this whole damn movie

2:25.4

at least once. Right. Well, we saw the we saw the rough walk through. He just happened to film

2:32.7

for for a network of of heat. If you really want to see people going down the manhole all the way

2:42.8

over heat, check out one heat minute a podcast where the conceit was to do a podcast episode analyzing one

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