Video Essay: HEAT's Iconic Diner Scene, From Script to Screen
Even if you've seen Michael Mann's action thriller Heat a hundred times, there's still something magical about its iconic diner scene in which Robert De Niro and Al Pacino act opposite each other for the first time in film history. And now, thanks to a video essay by Vashi Nedomansky, we can watch that scene side-by-side with an annotated script. It's fascinating to see what subtle changes the actors decided to make to their dialogue from the page, and it's a nice microcosm of the way movies end up being the result of thousands of decisions between collaborators. This makes me want to go back and rewatch the whole movie.
For much more on Heat, including interviews with Mann, De Niro, and Pacino, click here.
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