What I like is when Val Kilmer take cover behind the car plated "2LUP382" the reload was so smooth, and it surprise me when footage of him reloading the rifle has been shown to American Special Forces trainees. And the car itself is an in-joke, LUP is British Army terminology for Lying Up Position, indicates that the "2LUP" is the second location in which Kilmer has paused to take cover during the shootout
I remember watching this in the theater and the shootout scene just blew my hair back: no soundtrack but the sound of the gunfire reverberating against the buildings... I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
Completely agree. The only other challengers also happen to be from Michael Mann movies. The Miami vice movie also has great audio in the brief shootout scene
Lol, his quote, “You tell those Marines if they can’t change a clip as fast as that then get the fuck out of my army.” That was so many ways fucked up I laughed for a good five mins.
Two things, Michael Mann captured the real audio of the blanks in the scene - not added fake gunshot sounds in post production. Hence why you get the awesome feel, especially if you watch it on a proper home theater system. Props to Danny Trejo, the man literally had no acting skills and was selecting for his looks originally. He actually served time in San Quentin. He turned out to be a pretty damn good actor. Hard to believe he is 72.
Everyone has to start somewhere. Sometimes, a chance is all that someone needs so don't be stingy about giving those chances to people with bad reps and history. Most of the time, they did what they had to do and want to do something, anything, else.
+Sodiumreactor ^5 Reactor. Collateral is one that I enjoy more the more I watch it. Mann's movies are like that since they are character driven and deep thinking. He also lets good characters that people like end up dead, unfortunately just like real life.
+Jonno2summit Totally agree. Heat is such a great movie .A masterpiece by Director Michael Mann. Movies of this calibre are in such short supply these days !
During the shootout, I thought Kilmer, Pacino, DeNiro, and Sizemore handled their weapons wayyyyy too good for Hollywood actors. I mean, they all looked ex-military/swat. I had never seen this little clip before, so now it all makes sense.
It doesn't say but Andy McNab was former SAS and also did Undercover work with the Special Reconnaissance Unit of British Army Intelligence and they all got training from Police by the sounds of it.
I love love love the fact that that was all production audio. I remember when I saw the shootout for the first time I said that sound is unlike any other gunfight I have heard in movies. I knew it sounded too genuine to be post production.
Michael Mann: "Okay Bobby, Val, Tom - in the movie, you guys are going to rob a bank and kill LAPD officers, so in preparation, i want you to spend 3 months learning how to do these things in real life." Now THAT is a dedicated director, and I won't have anyone tell me otherwise.
Imagine being a bank manager and you learn that a few days ago a heap of famous actors and movie producers cased your bank for a robbery. Then you learn they are gonna rob it for a movie. 🤣
Andy McNab said, "It is a very difficult thing to advance TOWARD the enemy during a firefight. Your initial natural human reaction is to want to hide in a hole, curl up and then start praying for it all to be over soon. To learn how to move toward the enemy while laying down suppressive fire while you yourself are being shot at is something that can only be achieved through loads of rigorous, realistic, live-fire training, which is something we in the SAS are quite good at and really pride ourselves on being able to accomplish with great proficiency."
TorgoFraNorgo I disagree. The brilliant direction, cinematography, storytelling, and originality from Mann combined with the intensity of the themes combined with Pacino and deniros performances could easily put this movie top ten oat
I always wondered about this scene. When this movie first came out, I thought wow that gun scene sounded so different from other shooting scenes in movies. It was extra loud, it sounded more pronounced, clear, distinct, and very realistic. Now many many years later I see this video and I understand why it sounded the way it did.
Love this movie, awesome cast, with solid performances, and has a very authentic look all around, this is the heist movie to beat as far as I'm concerned, The Town is the only one to come close.
Michael Mann what a filmmaker.you will know his work even before you are aware it's his . His film's have a visual and audio quality all of thier own that you won't find anywhere else in my opinion.
He did Miami vice too didn't he? I noticed the gun work and the sound was top notch on it too. True full auto fire you don't hear the individual shots usually it's the first shot and the last shot with just....its hard to explain.."noise" in the middle, depending on cyclic rate of course. Slower cycling guns my the m2 50 cal...that one you tend to hear each thump. The more chest thumping sound used in Miami vice was more realistic but that was on dirt. I think they got the sound right for a "hard surfaces" environment on heat too. Just stellar gun play. It's too bad so many of these people are gun grabbing weenies while using guns to make their very living.
Love his cop robber dramas but he also shot Ali, haven’t seen it but will smith is a scum bag and that’s even before he slapped Chris rock, I hate that thst to the core.
I really don't understand why more films don't approach mass firing scenes with this approach. It's something I wish they would have done in the John Wick films since Keanu actually did go through strenuous weapons training and tactics IRL. Can't imagine how incredible that tunnel scene in the second film would have sounded using blanks. Talk about blowing out your eardrums.
You can't fire blanks that close toward someone. They will get burned, have wadding embedded in their skin, and if too close, the expanding gas is enough to knock a hole in a skull and kill a person with their own bone fragments. Additionally, they would all have to wear earplugs, not wear contact lenses, etc. Now, if the foley team could've taken blanks into the tunnel minus the cast and most crew, they could've gotten some incredible location sound, yeah.
They just put in CGI and so today's action movies feel like you're just watching a fancy realistic cartoon. I remember seeing this scene in a theater with a high grade sound system and when the scene ends the entire audience was in total silence and awe like they actually lived the shocking scenario.
If there's a modern bank heist film that takes the cake, it's Heat. And there have been A lot poser films out there that have tried to copy Heat or try to make a better heist film. All of them failed miserably. Honestly i highly doubt there will ever be a bank heist film that will be better than Heat. Michael Mann and level of detail he took it too was on point.
Absolutely no denying it's a brilliantly shot gunfight ever.. I would like to congratulate the film editors who so wonderfully edited the whole sequence. The sound of gunshots.. aah..It is terrific!
I think that the choice to use the real sounds from the location is absolutely brilliant, and because of the sound and the amazing shootout this is one of the best shootout scenes in a movie ever when it comes to realism.
What a perfect music, what perfect scenes, what perfect actors, the movie is brilliant. I saw them the first time when i was 13-14 and after that every month few times, than after year, after year, i must see the movie again, i dind't watch the movie more than 5 years. I love this movie so much. Thank you for the upload.
I met Danny in an airport while transferring from one army base to another he was so cool and asked me more questions than I did him! He asked me what I thought his best role was and I said heat. After watching this I can see why he reacted the way he did because this film Must be a huge part of his professional life.
The best thing about the shootout scene is that it isn’t meant to be cool or exhilarating, it’s just terrifying and dramatic. Which makes the drama at the end of the film all that more meaningful
Awesome flick!! This shootout is tremendously fantastic, passing the barriers of The Wild Bunch and Hard Boiled, two other classics featuring memorable shootouts.
bboymummy , totally agree with you, kudos to everyone involved in this film. I don't believe it's possible to make films of this..... "caliber"....... (little finger into corner of the mouth, Dr Evil style) today, it's different times now, this was a proper proper film
Wyatt Smothers its a magazine and was really realistic, the way Val Kilmer changes his magazine is taught in real life to military to show them how to unload and reload quickly in deadly situation
I've seen Heat and this behind the scenes clip more times then I can count, and have the usual gushing praise and amazement at how good everyone in the crew did, but something else I never really thought about just struck me. So we all know that the reason this shootout was so terrifying and realistic was from the sound of the gunfire, and know that the actual audio from the set was used in place of the normal audio process the foley artists do where they replace the stock sounds with their final sound effects. So I haven't ever been on a movie set during filming obviously, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the sound effects that are recorded and intended to replace the raw sound are recorded with high quality microphones, and edited and mixed together by the best of the best audio engineers before you ever hear them in the finished product. So assuming that is true, would it also be reasonable to assume that the camera microphones they used on set during the filming of the shootout were nowhere near as high quality as the ones the sound effects are recorded on? So if thats the case, its really amazing how good the gunfire ended up sounding for an effect that wasn't recorded professionally after the fact... Either the camera microphones used on set are WAY better then I am giving them credit for, or I have absolutely no idea how they pulled it off so well. I mean, how do you even mix raw audio like that from the set? Its all just a single audio track, so its not like the foley artists can individually work on mixing the dialogue, ambient noise, and sound effects. Only other possibility I can think of is that they used the raw audio exclusively for the gunfire, and all the other sounds we hear that aren't gunfire were added in post production. I can't think of any other explanation, because mixing multiple different types of sound into a single audio clip that works is fucking impossible. Sorry for the rant there guys, this scene never fails to impress me! Michael Mann consistently has the best sounding gunshot effects in his movies out of every other director I can think of. His effects are always have a ridiculous level of "Oomph" and bass to them that you really don't see with any other director.
With all the mention of quality into the production in terms of the level of technical gunfighting bestowed upon Bobby DeNiro, Val Kilmer etc and company, people seem surprised. Michael Mann probably spent a lifetime figuring out what he wanted with this movie from his days producing Miami Vice. The way Don Johnson wields his Bren Ten on that show was one early indication. A truly impressive effort and a fitting legacy in a line of great work. On my top 5 all time greatest crime films, and way up there in the general category too.
I watched this being filmed as I used to work on Hope street in DTLA. When I first heard the shots, I thought it was WWlll. Greatest shoot out scene ever.
I believe both Robert De Niro and Michael Mann really enjoyed working with each other because De Niro is a method actor and goes sometimes goes extreme lenghts in terms of preparation In my opinion De Niro's dedication for this role affected other actors as well.During filming they say in trivias that Val Kilmer used to come to set to see De Niro's craft.Absolutely fantastic cast and movie.Everybody did their job so well.
Wow, they sent them in to case the bank in real time, just for a few seconds of camera time before they strike........ saw this with my dad in the theaters in the 90s, loved it
this is the best shootout i have EVER seen. now that i've seen this, its become only better. they were so right keeping the original sounds. this is the only shootout i've seen that actually scared me when i first saw (and heard) it.. damn...
Wow! I did not realize that they got the most famous SAS soldier, Andy McNab, to train these guys. Now you have to give Michael Mann and the producers major respect for wanting this caliber of training for their actors, so as to add real authenticity to the film. You can't ask for more than getting one the most esteemed special forces soldiers, from one of the most legendary special forces units in the world - the SAS.
Yep!No bullshit!Their training was better than a regular Infantry squad or fire team.When I saw this movie I was completely blown away on how they changed magazines and covered their sectors of fire.In a real fire fight in Down Town Panama or my 2 tours in Iraq especially Sadr City its slow motion compared to the movie.Urban street combat was slow and deliberate.I spent more time moving my guys than shooting.making hits and not getting hit was my priority.The SAS are masters at urban combat.
I actually got to see this in the theatre. I remember when the gunfight scene came to a close, there was a collective intake of breath from the audience, and then dozens of variations of 'HOLY SHIT, THAT WAS AWESOME'. Only time I've ever had an audience respond similarly was the first time seeing the Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.
I saw this in cinema in 1996. I was 11. When shootout started I literally stand up because it was scared and amazed at the same time. I already knew I see the best movie in my life.
I don´t understand why with today´s technology, most movies still replace the original gun sounds, especially in interior shots. I remember seeing some old 1950 war films and even in exteriors they kept the original gun shots. So far I can remember only The Way of the Gun (2000) and The Veteran (2011) keeping real sounds. Other such recent movies I would add The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises or Inception, where in some scenes the actors are actually mimicking shooting with stunt and air soft guns, but the post production added sounds are actually recorded real gun shots.
***** i think it's cause of actor safety. real guns are still weapons, even blanks are rather dangerous if they hit you up close, (or hit you in the balls).
Justice Hunter Yeah, but I was talking about gun sounds in movies. Even if you add them in post-production, there is a technology to make them sound more real. The ones you hear in movies sounds anything but the real gun shot.
This explains well how they looked so professional while firing those guns. And yes, the sound of the shootout is indeed haunting still after all those years!
The first movie where Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino were on screen together. 1995. Think about that. The Godfather movies (1972-1974) mess with your head about their on screen appearances. This was really the first movie where they were on screen together. Their meeting in the restaurant. An amazing film. It’s ~25 years old ...and that makes me feel very old.
it would probably be my fav perk as an actor to receive free training from top professionals in their field for a movie role. they learn and gain experience in a condensed time and it gives them the confidence that they actually earned those skills. tom cruise basically gets to learn and do a bunch of cool shit for movies. skydiving, piloting, motorcycle speeding, rock climbing, weapons training, etc
Pitting Pacino against DeNiro was pure genius and everything else in that movie was as well. I still wanna FN FNC like Pacino used. Do yourselves a favor. If you’ve never watched all of Michael Mann’s films, pick the, all up and give them a good watch. Miami Vice, Collateral, Thief, Heat, Blackhat, etc. Mann is the MAN.
Heat remains an one of its kinds movie because of the realism depicted in the movie. Movies like John Wick, while being so cool and mesmerising in its own way, just don’t have that realism in the plot, the action scenes or the characters. There are so many layers to all of the main characters… they are not just bank robbers and cops… they are like real people with real issues.
I'm a huge fan of the Town, but I think HEAT takes the blue ribbon. Plus the Town used a lot of their ideas, including the hockey goalie masks. Among another few.
Most impressive shootout ever filmed I think. They all look pro. The audio is just wild too.
Any of the scenes in Ronin
What I like is when Val Kilmer take cover behind the car plated "2LUP382" the reload was so smooth, and it surprise me when footage of him reloading the rifle has been shown to American Special Forces trainees. And the car itself is an in-joke, LUP is British Army terminology for Lying Up Position, indicates that the "2LUP" is the second location in which Kilmer has paused to take cover during the shootout
i know. that scene sounds better on blu ray with surround sound or headphones
@@kinked_chrome1438 Not even close to Heat.
The gun fire had an amazing sound. Like I was standing on the street during the shootout
This movie is a benchmark example of how movies should be like.
One the best movies of all time. SUPERB .
best audio shootout scene EVER to this day!!!!
Saving Private Ryan comes close
Yeah man. Even hearing here in the off scenes I was high
I remember watching this in the theater and the shootout scene just blew my hair back: no soundtrack but the sound of the gunfire reverberating against the buildings... I had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
The showdown between Alan Ladd and Jack Palance at the end of Shane....
Completely agree. The only other challengers also happen to be from Michael Mann movies. The Miami vice movie also has great audio in the brief shootout scene
that tactical reload by kilmer is about as smooth as it gets
@James Nuttes I agree 5 seconds for an actor thats fast.
Lol, his quote, “You tell those Marines if they can’t change a clip as fast as that then get the fuck out of my army.” That was so many ways fucked up I laughed for a good five mins.
Check out T Rex arms 1 round on target a reload, then another round on target sub 2 second drill. That is under optimum conditions however.
@Mikael Donoso ruclips.net/video/2Q-QVBQVYTA/видео.html
It has to be after several takes until he did it best
I watched this while it was being filmed one day. It was blocked off a block away, but we could see the actors, and the sound truly was amazing.
that is epic dude
Neat
It's always hard to believe these kind of stories. But they can be true.
@@counterfeit1148 he def cappin
@@sparkymax4290 No. Heat.
Should have won an Oscar for sound.
The very least
Yeh, that sound has never been replicated. It was mental.
@@michaeloneill8452 If i am correct it's because they used real rounds (blanks) and the gunfire was echoing off the buildings. Something like that.
@@PRSouthern yeah they stated they used thousands of blanks per take for the scene
Should have won Oscar for everything.
Heat is one of those films that despite me owning the blu ray, if it's on TV, I have to watch it.
Yup
Lol eeeexactly
I get that. I do the same with some films. But only if I know that the broadcaster won't butcher the film.
Every time.. even if it's on network cable which is like 4 hrs.. lol... I'm in!
actually so true haha
Two things, Michael Mann captured the real audio of the blanks in the scene - not added fake gunshot sounds in post production. Hence why you get the awesome feel, especially if you watch it on a proper home theater system.
Props to Danny Trejo, the man literally had no acting skills and was selecting for his looks originally. He actually served time in San Quentin. He turned out to be a pretty damn good actor. Hard to believe he is 72.
Damn, he's 72? Holy shit
well, he is the Machete,so...:)
Everyone has to start somewhere. Sometimes, a chance is all that someone needs so don't be stingy about giving those chances to people with bad reps and history. Most of the time, they did what they had to do and want to do something, anything, else.
Danny Trejo had already been acting ten years prior to heat 🤦🏼♂️
They weren't blanks perse, Hollywood uses some sort of special weapons and ammo to make it look real
This is one movie that shows Michael Mann to be one of the best directors ever.
+Jonno2summit Don't forget Collateral. "Yo homey, is that my briefcase?"
+Sodiumreactor ^5 Reactor. Collateral is one that I enjoy more the more I watch it. Mann's movies are like that since they are character driven and deep thinking. He also lets good characters that people like end up dead, unfortunately just like real life.
+Jonno2summit Totally agree. Heat is such a great movie .A masterpiece by Director Michael Mann. Movies of this calibre are in such short supply these days !
he truly is an artist
The last of the Mohicans anyone?
Honestly, that gunshot sounds is what I love the most about that scene. Anyone who has fired a gun knows that is what it would sound like.
It makes the sound of dead silence more deafening than the guns!
yeah the gunshots are deafening and the echos its just so good
During the shootout, I thought Kilmer, Pacino, DeNiro, and Sizemore handled their weapons wayyyyy too good for Hollywood actors. I mean, they all looked ex-military/swat. I had never seen this little clip before, so now it all makes sense.
It doesn't say but Andy McNab was former SAS and also did Undercover work with the Special Reconnaissance Unit of British Army Intelligence and they all got training from Police by the sounds of it.
Like when Chris (Kilmer’s character) dropped the clip out of his M-16 and reloaded in less than five seconds. That’s straight out of Special Forces!
I think FBI SWAT must have had a hand in it as well judging by the way DeNiro was firing his assault rifle.
@ROBERT DEAN "It's a pity his name has been outed" He wrote a book under his own name.
@@VanDiemensLander Makes sense. I had a hunch just from looking at him that he was ex-military.
I love love love the fact that that was all production audio. I remember when I saw the shootout for the first time I said that sound is unlike any other gunfight I have heard in movies. I knew it sounded too genuine to be post production.
10/10 movie, a must see for any movielover.
In Arabia the rating is 9/11
Michael Mann: "Okay Bobby, Val, Tom - in the movie, you guys are going to rob a bank and kill LAPD officers, so in preparation, i want you to spend 3 months learning how to do these things in real life." Now THAT is a dedicated director, and I won't have anyone tell me otherwise.
Imagine being a bank manager and you learn that a few days ago a heap of famous actors and movie producers cased your bank for a robbery.
Then you learn they are gonna rob it for a movie. 🤣
Andy McNab said, "It is a very difficult thing to advance TOWARD the enemy during a firefight. Your initial natural human reaction is to want to hide in a hole, curl up and then start praying for it all to be over soon. To learn how to move toward the enemy while laying down suppressive fire while you yourself are being shot at is something that can only be achieved through loads of rigorous, realistic, live-fire training, which is something we in the SAS are quite good at and really pride ourselves on being able to accomplish with great proficiency."
Really??
Still to this day (14/10/19) the single best shootout scene in any film. It is perfect in every way.
and still to this day 27/10/21 the single best shootout scene in any film
best shootout in any movie ever! top 10 movies of all time. damn near flawless!
lacy simpkins agreed
Top 10 action movie, yeah, probably. Not a top 10 movie in general.
TorgoFraNorgo I disagree. The brilliant direction, cinematography, storytelling, and originality from Mann combined with the intensity of the themes combined with Pacino and deniros performances could easily put this movie top ten oat
I always wondered about this scene. When this movie first came out, I thought wow that gun scene sounded so different from other shooting scenes in movies. It was extra loud, it sounded more pronounced, clear, distinct, and very realistic. Now many many years later I see this video and I understand why it sounded the way it did.
GUY WAS MAKING A MOVE
I HAD TO GET IT ON MAN... I HAD TO GET IT ON
+Danny Philipsen anybody wants some pie?
lol
(Gets head slammed into diner table as nosy trucker looks up from his paper)
*Time Sizemore stare of death at the nosy trucker*
Shut up,slick
Love this movie, awesome cast, with solid performances, and has a very authentic look all around, this is the heist movie to beat as far as I'm concerned, The Town is the only one to come close.
Michael Mann what a filmmaker.you will know his work even before you are aware it's his . His film's have a visual and audio quality all of thier own that you won't find anywhere else in my opinion.
Ah well david can't make great films everytime.same as great actors sometimes have terrible roles.
+Mark O'Kane did MM do 'manhunter',cause that film blew 'red dragon' away.
He did Miami vice too didn't he? I noticed the gun work and the sound was top notch on it too. True full auto fire you don't hear the individual shots usually it's the first shot and the last shot with just....its hard to explain.."noise" in the middle, depending on cyclic rate of course. Slower cycling guns my the m2 50 cal...that one you tend to hear each thump. The more chest thumping sound used in Miami vice was more realistic but that was on dirt. I think they got the sound right for a "hard surfaces" environment on heat too. Just stellar gun play. It's too bad so many of these people are gun grabbing weenies while using guns to make their very living.
"Thief"..."Crime Story"...
Love his cop robber dramas but he also shot Ali, haven’t seen it but will smith is a scum bag and that’s even before he slapped Chris rock, I hate that thst to the core.
One of the best shootout between crooks and cops I've ever seen hands down. Classic movie.
Heat and The Town are my favorite bank heist movies
I really don't understand why more films don't approach mass firing scenes with this approach. It's something I wish they would have done in the John Wick films since Keanu actually did go through strenuous weapons training and tactics IRL. Can't imagine how incredible that tunnel scene in the second film would have sounded using blanks. Talk about blowing out your eardrums.
That is honestly my only gripe with the john Wick movies, the gun sounds just aren't "scary" sounding enough
You can't fire blanks that close toward someone. They will get burned, have wadding embedded in their skin, and if too close, the expanding gas is enough to knock a hole in a skull and kill a person with their own bone fragments. Additionally, they would all have to wear earplugs, not wear contact lenses, etc. Now, if the foley team could've taken blanks into the tunnel minus the cast and most crew, they could've gotten some incredible location sound, yeah.
Love that Danny Trejo's character in the movie is named "Danny Trejo".
It's just Trejo.
@@daph0307 Actually the character's name is Gilbert Trejo. Named after Danny's uncle. Who was a bankrobber too.
You won't see such an attention to details in cinema these days
sicario
They just put in CGI and so today's action movies feel like you're just watching a fancy realistic cartoon. I remember seeing this scene in a theater with a high grade sound system and when the scene ends the entire audience was in total silence and awe like they actually lived the shocking scenario.
so true
Have you not seen a transformers movie yet?
it was very rare for movies to pay this much attention to detail before and after this movie.
If there's a modern bank heist film that takes the cake, it's Heat. And there have been A lot poser films out there that have tried to copy Heat or try to make a better heist film. All of them failed miserably. Honestly i highly doubt there will ever be a bank heist film that will be better than Heat. Michael Mann and level of detail he took it too was on point.
I remember watching this in the theater and that bank shootout just kept going and going. It was awesome and you didn't want it to end..
So incredible, you don't see this dedication anymore in movies
John wick 3
@@josephp6990 Was just about to say john Wick haha I can't think of much else that comes close though
@@Phantom_Aspekt I'm personally sick of the saturation of superhero movies in today's cinema. There needs to be more movies like Heat and John Wick.
@@LordMalice6d9 Hear, hear!
Sicario
Absolutely no denying it's a brilliantly shot gunfight ever.. I would like to congratulate the film editors who so wonderfully edited the whole sequence. The sound of gunshots.. aah..It is terrific!
I think that the choice to use the real sounds from the location is absolutely brilliant, and because of the sound and the amazing shootout this is one of the best shootout scenes in a movie ever when it comes to realism.
What a perfect music, what perfect scenes, what perfect actors, the movie is brilliant. I saw them the first time when i was 13-14 and after that every month few times, than after year, after year, i must see the movie again, i dind't watch the movie more than 5 years. I love this movie so much. Thank you for the upload.
One of the few movie shootouts that bothers to have realistic gunshot echoes.
Hands down my favorite part of that scene
I think the Director heard the gunshot "overdub", hated it, asked for the real time gunshot sound and was impressed so they used it.
Tom Chippie It is said in this video the gunshot sounds were not "live", isn't it?
Nikined18 the director used the sounds from the live taping of the scene, not the reconstructed sound that was made to be used.
4:55 But he says this is production sound
I met Danny in an airport while transferring from one army base to another he was so cool and asked me more questions than I did him! He asked me what I thought his best role was and I said heat. After watching this I can see why he reacted the way he did because this film Must be a huge part of his professional life.
Michael Mann is THE Man when it comes to Authentic movie scenes.
Val Kilmer shines in this movie!
One of my favorite movies of all time!
The sound was one of the key things that made the scene. Each round, you felt.
Method actors at work.
you nailed it man....unreal
andy mcnab british SAS special forces ...trained these actors with live ammo
I love everything Michael Mann has done. Heat will always be in my top five. Great music too.
The best thing about the shootout scene is that it isn’t meant to be cool or exhilarating, it’s just terrifying and dramatic. Which makes the drama at the end of the film all that more meaningful
No one is better at depicting realism than Michael Mann. My favorite all-time film. It's got everything.
"If you can't change a clip as fast as this actor then get out of my Army!"-Val Kilmer
LMAO
Firearms trainers are on point. In the Marines we were in training on the range before a week before we had a live fire exercise.
Awesome flick!! This shootout is tremendously fantastic, passing the barriers of The Wild Bunch and Hard Boiled, two other classics featuring memorable shootouts.
The sound alone in this scene makes this the greatest movie shoot out
A classic crime movie. Totally awesome.
Best movie ever! I've watched it 50 times!
SAS Boys bringing the authenticity to the actors delivery on film!
that's by far the most realistic and intense shooting scene I have EVER seen, unmatchable even today!
bboymummy , totally agree with you, kudos to everyone involved in this film. I don't believe it's possible to make films of this..... "caliber"....... (little finger into corner of the mouth, Dr Evil style) today, it's different times now, this was a proper proper film
One of my favorite movies of all time. I remember seeing this log ass movie in the theater as a kid. The shootout scene made it all worth it.
He changed the clip within 4 to 5 seconds that's pretty good
Magazine.
damn magazine nazi's, the both of you
Wyatt Smothers
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alaskanhybrid lol
Wyatt Smothers its a magazine and was really realistic, the way Val Kilmer changes his magazine is taught in real life to military to show them how to unload and reload quickly in deadly situation
You know they took the shootout scene seriously when the one of the tactical trainers needs to remain anonymous.
Andy McNab? No wonder this is the best shootout ever filmed. Wish every movie had an SAS consultant.
Exceptional movie. The sound in the gun fight scene is so raw!!
Never will there be a better scene in any movie!!my top #1 movies of all time👍🏼👍🏼
I've seen Heat and this behind the scenes clip more times then I can count, and have the usual gushing praise and amazement at how good everyone in the crew did, but something else I never really thought about just struck me. So we all know that the reason this shootout was so terrifying and realistic was from the sound of the gunfire, and know that the actual audio from the set was used in place of the normal audio process the foley artists do where they replace the stock sounds with their final sound effects. So I haven't ever been on a movie set during filming obviously, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the sound effects that are recorded and intended to replace the raw sound are recorded with high quality microphones, and edited and mixed together by the best of the best audio engineers before you ever hear them in the finished product. So assuming that is true, would it also be reasonable to assume that the camera microphones they used on set during the filming of the shootout were nowhere near as high quality as the ones the sound effects are recorded on? So if thats the case, its really amazing how good the gunfire ended up sounding for an effect that wasn't recorded professionally after the fact... Either the camera microphones used on set are WAY better then I am giving them credit for, or I have absolutely no idea how they pulled it off so well. I mean, how do you even mix raw audio like that from the set? Its all just a single audio track, so its not like the foley artists can individually work on mixing the dialogue, ambient noise, and sound effects. Only other possibility I can think of is that they used the raw audio exclusively for the gunfire, and all the other sounds we hear that aren't gunfire were added in post production. I can't think of any other explanation, because mixing multiple different types of sound into a single audio clip that works is fucking impossible. Sorry for the rant there guys, this scene never fails to impress me! Michael Mann consistently has the best sounding gunshot effects in his movies out of every other director I can think of. His effects are always have a ridiculous level of "Oomph" and bass to them that you really don't see with any other director.
It's from the 2-disc special edition DVD that came out in 2005.
Most impressive 🎥 ever top five easy 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🙏🏾✌🏾
Kilmer is toooo slick in that whole scene!
Tom sizemore got the privilege of being part of the greatest films heat and saving Private Ryan
Best picture of Michael Mann! Pacino & De Niro best duo of all times films!
With all the mention of quality into the production in terms of the level of technical gunfighting bestowed upon Bobby DeNiro, Val Kilmer etc and company, people seem surprised. Michael Mann probably spent a lifetime figuring out what he wanted with this movie from his days producing Miami Vice. The way Don Johnson wields his Bren Ten on that show was one early indication. A truly impressive effort and a fitting legacy in a line of great work. On my top 5 all time greatest crime films, and way up there in the general category too.
I watched this being filmed as I used to work on Hope street in DTLA. When I first heard the shots, I thought it was WWlll. Greatest shoot out scene ever.
The pure sound of those weapons was impressive. Wish I had seen it in theaters
i did along with my buddies. Our mouths were left open and we could just not believe what we had seen!!
best hollywood movie shootout evER!!
jasonjinx This film looks and feels better than most films NOW - it's amazing - the WHOLE film :)
I believe both Robert De Niro and Michael Mann really enjoyed working with each other because De Niro is a method actor and goes sometimes goes extreme lenghts in terms of preparation
In my opinion De Niro's dedication for this role affected other actors as well.During filming they say in trivias that Val Kilmer used to come to set to see De Niro's craft.Absolutely fantastic cast and movie.Everybody did their job so well.
I dislike how you type.
Wow, they sent them in to case the bank in real time, just for a few seconds of camera time before they strike........ saw this with my dad in the theaters in the 90s, loved it
Me too I was 15
this is the best shootout i have EVER seen. now that i've seen this, its become only better. they were so right keeping the original sounds. this is the only shootout i've seen that actually scared me when i first saw (and heard) it.. damn...
This gives you great insight on how they made that awesome shootout scene,what an amazing movie.
Kilmer's reload though.... even payday 2 gave homage :)
Wow! I did not realize that they got the most famous SAS soldier, Andy McNab, to train these guys. Now you have to give Michael Mann and the producers major respect for wanting this caliber of training for their actors, so as to add real authenticity to the film. You can't ask for more than getting one the most esteemed special forces soldiers, from one of the most legendary special forces units in the world - the SAS.
Yep!No bullshit!Their training was better than a regular Infantry squad or fire team.When I saw this movie I was completely blown away on how they changed magazines and covered their sectors of fire.In a real fire fight in Down Town Panama or my 2 tours in Iraq especially Sadr City its slow motion compared to the movie.Urban street combat was slow and deliberate.I spent more time moving my guys than shooting.making hits and not getting hit was my priority.The SAS are masters at urban combat.
I actually got to see this in the theatre. I remember when the gunfight scene came to a close, there was a collective intake of breath from the audience, and then dozens of variations of 'HOLY SHIT, THAT WAS AWESOME'. Only time I've ever had an audience respond similarly was the first time seeing the Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan.
to this day, I haven't re-watched "Saving Private Ryan" because of that opening scene. it's remarkable
I remember it too - there was a buzz surrounding Heat because never before had a shootout/"guns" been portrayed in such a raw fashion before.
I saw this in cinema in 1996. I was 11. When shootout started I literally stand up because it was scared and amazed at the same time. I already knew I see the best movie in my life.
One of the few movies I advise wearing ear protection for. It's amazing.
I don´t understand why with today´s technology, most movies still replace the original gun sounds, especially in interior shots. I remember seeing some old 1950 war films and even in exteriors they kept the original gun shots. So far I can remember only The Way of the Gun (2000) and The Veteran (2011) keeping real sounds. Other such recent movies I would add The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises or Inception, where in some scenes the actors are actually mimicking shooting with stunt and air soft guns, but the post production added sounds are actually recorded real gun shots.
It's not that technology can't do it, it's just cost a shit ton of money.
***** i think it's cause of actor safety. real guns are still weapons, even blanks are rather dangerous if they hit you up close, (or hit you in the balls).
Justice Hunter Yeah, but I was talking about gun sounds in movies. Even if you add them in post-production, there is a technology to make them sound more real. The ones you hear in movies sounds anything but the real gun shot.
***** A lot of old movies did it too.
Collateral
This explains well how they looked so professional while firing those guns.
And yes, the sound of the shootout is indeed haunting still after all those years!
The first movie where Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino were on screen together. 1995. Think about that. The Godfather movies (1972-1974) mess with your head about their on screen appearances. This was really the first movie where they were on screen together. Their meeting in the restaurant. An amazing film.
It’s ~25 years old ...and that makes me feel very old.
Michael Mann is so authentic. Brilliant filmmaker.
Im from La.How I wish that I could have witnessed this in person.
This is the best gun battle scene of all time!!!
it would probably be my fav perk as an actor to receive free training from top professionals in their field for a movie role. they learn and gain experience in a condensed time and it gives them the confidence that they actually earned those skills. tom cruise basically gets to learn and do a bunch of cool shit for movies. skydiving, piloting, motorcycle speeding, rock climbing, weapons training, etc
2:10 When I watched his mag swap I knew he must have had prior training. It was textbook perfect.
Best heist movie ever. Best shootout scene ever. Most realistic clip ever.
...so now after seeing this I'm typing heat bank heist on youtube...this scene is so awesome
val kilmars performance in the shootout was incredible
Such a great movie. What a cast! Never see a lineup like that again, from Natalie Portman and Danny Trejo to Bobby D and Al! LMFAO AMAZING
Shootout was straight sick/ the background music was spot on
Man! They should release this movie again in theaters ..theater experience would be next level
Pitting Pacino against DeNiro was pure genius and everything else in that movie was as well. I still wanna FN FNC like Pacino used. Do yourselves a favor. If you’ve never watched all of Michael Mann’s films, pick the, all up and give them a good watch. Miami Vice, Collateral, Thief, Heat, Blackhat, etc. Mann is the MAN.
They did this for The Matrix too. The extra effort put into making things look real definitely pays off on screen.
de ja vu, i just watched this movie for the first time, just got on my computer and saw this! :D
Heat remains an one of its kinds movie because of the realism depicted in the movie. Movies like John Wick, while being so cool and mesmerising in its own way, just don’t have that realism in the plot, the action scenes or the characters. There are so many layers to all of the main characters… they are not just bank robbers and cops… they are like real people with real issues.
Quite correct there brother!!I forget which Battle Drill it was right now from the FM 7-8.
Best shootout scene and best sound effects, if you've got a decent sound system this one will really test it out!
It’s true, while in boot camp our DI’s during a knowledge class showed our company the clip of Val changing mags and they did say that lmfaooo
1:16 Trejo already knew the feeling 😂😂
I'm a huge fan of the Town, but I think HEAT takes the blue ribbon. Plus the Town used a lot of their ideas, including the hockey goalie masks. Among another few.
One of the best shootouts ever!
Yeah, for me it was always the sound that really helped make this scene so great.