THE HEAT IS ON: MEG GARDINER TALKS ABOUT HEAT 2

Heat is one of the great heist movies of all time. It brings with it most of the elements of the classics: the precise preparation, the recruiting of the crew, the betrayal, the execution of the heist and of course the inevitable cruel twists of indifferent fate that define the noir genre. But Michael Mann built Heat adding his own takes. Mann’s films define themselves by professionalism, his characters are men who define themselves by what they do. And there are often parallels: in Manhunter, for example, Will Graham and Hannibal Lektor are defined by the ways they act on…