History Awesome / Heat

--> '''Neil''': There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

** That said, both make sure that neither is in any doubt that the other will use deadly force to shut his opponent down should their goals come into direct confrontation (as they inevitably will).

* Neil's threat to Van Zant is a BadassBoast delivered about as emotionlessly as possible; "I'm talking to an empty phone... because there is a dead man on the other end of this line." (MicDrop)

** Prior to this, we get the setup where Vincent finally manages to bear down on Neil for the first time to have a chat with him. He's hovering over the city in a helo, and arranges to have one of the revolving tail on Neil handover with him. When the pilot lands the chopper, Vincent and the detective smoothly swap vehicles and Vincent speeds off in precise, effortless pursuit over the freeway. Discretely maneuvering between traffic, he only finally switches his red lights on as he pulls up behind Neil. The whole scene is scored by the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic wailing, angsty shredding of Moby's guitars in the cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades"]] and utterly sold by the intense expressions put across by Pacino and De Niro. Neil has his own minor moment, tucking his H&K USP between his legs should they end up in a quick draw standoff, while Vincent holds his own Colt M1991A1 behind his back as he approaches the car on foot. Vincent then breaks the ice by offering to buy Neil a coffee, finally leading into the (...''next!'') classic scene.

** Prior to this, we get the setup where Vincent finally manages to bear down on Neil for the first time to have a chat with him. He's hovering over the city in a helo, and arranges to have one of the revolving tail on Neil handover with him. When the pilot lands the chopper, Vincent and the detective smoothly swap vehicles and Vincent speeds off in precise, effortless pursuit over the freeway. Discretely maneuvering between traffic, he only finally switches his red lights on as he pulls up behind Neil. The whole scene is scored by the [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic wailing, angsty ''shredding'' of Moby's guitars in the cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades"]] and utterly sold by the intense expressions put across by Pacino and De Niro. Neil has his own minor moment, tucking his H&K USP between his legs should they end up in a quick draw standoff, while Vincent holds his own Colt M1991A1 behind his back as he approaches the car on foot. Vincent then breaks the ice by offering to buy Neil a coffee, finally leading into the (...''next!'') classic scene.

--> '''Vincent''': You know, we're sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, '''brother, you are going down'''.

--> '''Vincent''': 'Cause she's got a...GREAT ASS! And you've got your head ''all the way up it!''

--> Vincent: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down.
--> Neil: There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

Being one of the most acclaimed crime films of not just TheNineties, but of all time, and featuring an ensemble cast with a perfectionist and auteur director, you just know that this film is brimming with [[MomentOfAwesome Awesome Moments]].

Being one of the most acclaimed crime films of not just TheNineties, but of all time, and featuring an ensemble cast with a perfectionist and auteur director, you just know that this film is brimming with AwesomeMoments.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICOZ9UnvH5E bank robbery sequence]]. The most believable, most intense cops-and-robbers shootout committed to film. When a ''real'' bank robbery in L.A. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout happened a few years later]], nearby citizenry thought someone was filming a ''Heat'' sequel.
** What really sold the sequence was the audio, which sounds like no other cinematic gunfight. None of the gunshots were added in post. Instead, the sound was captured live during filming with carefully placed microphones.