Welcome back to Man Hunting Sports.

I'm your host Rob Zachini here with Nextlanders Alex Navarro and Philly's deal

with Sina to continue our journey through the career of director writer and

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

capital and dudes rocking. So the last film we discussed was last of the

Moheekens a sharp departure from Mann's post-keep career focusing on crime

drama and procedural chronologically the next film he made was not just a

return to his favorite subjects but in many ways a distillation of them into what is

widely regarded as his definitive masterpiece heat starring Robert De Niro and

Al Pacino and supported by a legitimately staggering cast of talent.

However, heat is a remake of an earlier TV pilot turned TV movie that

man made LA Take Down. Now Alex I was not even aware that it existed before we

embarked on this project and we're discussing like how we should do this but one of the early

markers you put down was that we needed to watch LA Take Down. Yes why is LA Take Down an essential

watch? Alright so like you I went through many blissful years loving heat and having no idea

that this thing existed and only in you know just sort of like offhand looking up stuff did I

happen to come across I was like what is this thing it says Hannah is at the cop late he already

made that movie so. Michael man famously wrote the screenplay that would become heat based on a

true life story of a Chicago cop who was tracking down a fairly a fairly notable bank robber you know

heist guy in the Chicago area and the story specifically was about him literally running into

the guy at like a store or a parking lot somewhere in the middle of it and obviously he was not

in a position where he could arrest that guy so it was sort of like a what do I do here kind of

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