New version of "Heat"

Martine 2022-01-25 08:03:52

In a word: If you like to watch Heat, you can't miss The Town.

I really like Heat, first of all because of the texture of the street shootout inside. The look of the police car being filled with bullet holes is super enjoyable. Secondly, because of the portrayal of the characters. The characters inside are too impressive. Finally, what I like is the delicate feelings between men and women. Although it was not the love at first sight of handsome men and beauties like Titanic, it was also a life-and-death parting that was hard to give up later.

These three points are once again fully reflected in The Town.

Let’s talk about the shootout first. There were a total of two large-scale gun battles, which lasted very long. The sound effect is very shocking, and the bullet is full of texture, sonorous and powerful, which touches the heartstrings. Compared with Heat, it is worse than Heat.

Let's talk about the portrayal of characters. The one I admire the most is Jeremy Renner. He is really full of aura. Very intense, like a dynamite bag from beginning to end. This role is the most memorable in many movies I have seen. Ben Affleck changed his past custard's face, and he was a complete Boston Irish bastard in his words and deeds. Several young guys of Irish descent in our company are all very high-spirited after watching the film, and they want to wear a "I Love Boston" T-shirt to work. The FBI policeman, like Al Pacino on the Heat facade, is very aggressive, very birdy, and very smart and very experienced at the same time. The image of this old truncheon portrayed a three-pointer. Generally speaking, the pros and cons are both pros and cons, and there are pros and cons in the opposite, and they are mixed together.

Finally, the relationship between men and women is also very similar to the relationship between Robert De Niro and the girl in Heat. It was dull at first, but then I found out that the other person was the one I wanted to be with. In the end, the episode where the heroine called Ben Affleck under FBI monitoring was also the same as the episode where Ashley Judd called in Heat, haha.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable film, of course, provided that you like Heat. If you don't like Heat, you probably won't like The Town. (But I can't imagine why I don't like Heat, ha ha).

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Extended Reading
  • Chauncey 2021-10-20 19:01:18

    As a director’s booklet, it’s so charming. Tension is something he has handicrafted at his fingertips. It’s just that Miss Hall’s role is too non-existent.

  • Cary 2021-10-20 19:01:19

    "it was just like one of my sunny days"!

The Town quotes

  • Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: Cash is brought out and stacked fifteen minutes before the van does the pick up. That is when you hit. On Monday morning, before game stands in New York, sixty thousand beers, food, merchandise. Total call; three and a half million. Taking down the cathedral of Boston? Priceless.

  • [as Doug, Dez, Coughlin, and Gloansy have a small gathering, Frawley and Dino take photos of them from their car with a long-range camera]

    Dino Ciampa: [voice-over] Desmond Elden. Systems tech at Vericom. 22 years old.

    [Cuts to Frawley and Dino briefing their agents. They bring up Gloansy's images on the projector]

    Dino Ciampa: Albert Magloan. Only in Boston is a guy named "Albert Magloan".

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Mr. Magloan never met a car he couldn't boost. The kind of talented individual who can start your Cherokee for you while you're still looking for your keys.

    [as he says that, a black-and-white flashback is shown of Gloansy breaking into a car. Coughlin's mugshot comes up on the projector]

    Dino Ciampa: James Coughlin. Father was killed in prison. Mother died HIV. Shot Brendan Leahey by the cemetery behind Mishawum when he was eighteen years old. Bled it out. When the judge asked him why he did it, he said, "I didn't like the kid." Served nine years for manslaughter.

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: These guys plan and execute with sophistication and discipline, and that is not our boy Coughlin.

    [produces photos of Doug]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: We think the architect is this guy: Coughlin's best friend, Doug MacRay.

    Dino Ciampa: He lives in the same house, dated Coughlin's sister, who most likely mules to the Florist, who used to employ MacRay's father. You need a fucking venn diagram for these people.

    [Stifled chuckles come from the agents]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Mac, Senior got life for the Nashwood job which most of you should remember. Hijacked a bread truck up to New Hampshire. One guard saw his face, so, they executed both of them with their own weapons. I think Mac's legacy is now no A-car driver's allowed to leave the cab, even if there's a gun to his partner's head.

    Dino Ciampa: Young MacRay did eight months easy for going over the counter of a Bay Bank with a nail gun after he washed out from pro hockey.

    Agent Quinlan: Pro hockey?

    Dino Ciampa: Yeah. He was a big deal for a minute. Got drafted, went to camp but here's the shocker: he started makin' trouble, fightin' with guys.

    Agent Quinlan: Don't they pay you to fight in hockey?

    Dino Ciampa: Not the guys on your own team.

    [the other FBI agents laugh]

    FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: MacRay came home. Got into the family business. Same song: got into Oxycon. Hockey ship sailed with the narcotics. Now, we're a long way away from a grand jury here. And we'll never get 24 hour surveillance unless one of these idiots converts to Islam. So we build the case. All right, let's get to work.