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The criminal played by Robert De Niro in Heat was a real person! A crime saga built with a thorough focus on authenticity.

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The criminal played by Robert De Niro in Heat was a real person! A crime saga built with a thorough focus on authenticity.

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“Heat” synopsis

Detective Vincent is too tired from work to lead a normal family life. Neil is a cold-hearted crime boss. Those who pursue and those who are chased, negotiations and conflicts between reality and reality. Eventually, the two feel a strange sympathy in their own loneliness. However, a direct confrontation of fate that they cannot avoid awaits them.


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"There are no fake guns at my scene."



Director Michael Mann, who is known as a creator of thorough ``authenticism,'' says this as if it were obvious. `` Heat'' is a legendary crime action masterpiece that he created in 1995, and any movie fan would agree that it is Mann's masterpiece.


``Heat'' became a hot topic because it was the first time that two great actors, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, co-starred together, but even after reviewing it now, more than 20 years after its production, the ``heat'' of the work has not diminished at all. i don't know. It was Mann's directing method that imbued such a work with ``passion'' - an unrelenting sense of realism that showered the actors with an aura of ``authenticity''.



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The main character was a real-life criminal who wreaked havoc in Chicago.



``Heat'' is a story that depicts the confrontation between Neil McCauley, a criminal played by De Niro, and detective Vincent Hanna, played by Pacino, but De Niro's character ``Neil'' is actually based on a real person. Neil McCauley is a legendary criminal who committed many armed robberies in Chicago in the 1960s. Yes, the character De Niro played was based on the name of a real-life criminal.


Director Mann, who grew up in Chicago, wanted to make a film about McCauley's crimes, which he had seen in newspapers when he was a boy. There, he tracked down McCauley and contacted Chuck Adamson, the Chicago police detective who shot and killed him, and thoroughly dug up the episodes surrounding the incident. The 1988 TV movie Made in LA was an adaptation of the true story. ``Made in LA'' was a compact 90-minute film, but Mann liked the theme and decided to remake it as ``Heat,'' an epic saga of criminals that ran nearly three hours. do.



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  4. The criminal played by Robert De Niro in Heat was a real person! A crime saga built with a thorough focus on authenticity.