‘Heat’ marked the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro ever shared the screen—and those few moments in the coffee shop have only grown richer with time.
sharing the screen together for the very first time. In just a few minutes, they would make film history.Mann’s meticulously crafted 1995 crime drama about a detective who chases an elusive criminal all over Los Angeles. Lt. Vincent Hanna , based on the real detectiveis a coked-up cop who lives for the hunt, close on the heels of Neil McCauley , a cool career criminal who raises theft into an art form.
In the scene, Hanna asks McCauley to coffee. McCauley agrees. They sit down at a busy restaurant, each using the meeting as a chance to psychoanalyze the other. They swap ideologies. “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner,” McCauley says, repeating the credo that’s kept him alive. Both men wear dark suits, their hair slicked back, arms gently outstretched on the table. They mirror each other.
There’s a temptation to pounce—and many have—on the symbolism of the coffee shop scene, the rarity of Pacino and De Niro acting together; two parallel stars whose careers both represent a propulsive, oft-imitated acting style and an era of auteur-rich filmmaking. There are a handful of actors who still work in this mode;’s muse, orBut their careers cannot exist without comparison to Pacino and De Niro, titans of the craft.
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